{"id":839,"date":"2007-11-28T23:13:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T23:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/british-indie-awards-under-control\/"},"modified":"2015-03-18T17:19:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T17:19:14","slug":"british-indie-awards-under-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"British Independent Film Awards winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Viggo_Mortensen-Eastern-Promises.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5322\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Viggo_Mortensen-Eastern-Promises.jpg\" alt=\"Viggo_Mortensen Eastern Promises\" width=\"636\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Viggo_Mortensen-Eastern-Promises.jpg 636w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Viggo_Mortensen-Eastern-Promises-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>The Joy Division biography &#8220;Control&#8221; was the big winner at the British Independent Film Awards Wednesday night with five prizes including best picture.<\/p>\n<p>Anton Corbijn was honored twice as best director and best first-time director while Sam Riley, who portrayed doomed pop singer Ian Curtis, was named most promising newcomer. Toby Kebbell, who played the band&#8217;s manager Rob Gretton, won the best supporting acting prize.<\/p>\n<p>Riley lost the best actor prize\u00a0to Viggo Mortensen (pictured) as a Russian thug in David Cronenburg&#8217;s crime picture &#8220;Eastern Promises.&#8221; Judi Dench was named best actress for her performance as a menacing teacher in Richard Eyre&#8217;s &#8220;Notes on a Scandal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Marber won the screenplay award for &#8220;Notes&#8221; and Mark Tildesley picked up the award for production design for his work on Danny Boyle&#8217;s sci-fi movie &#8220;Sunshine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other prizes went to Germany&#8217;s Oscar winning &#8220;The Lives of Others,&#8221; directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, for best foreign independent feature; &#8220;Black Gold,&#8221; directed by Marc and Nick Francis, for best achievement in production; and Julien Temple&#8217;s &#8220;Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten&#8221; for best documentary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dog Altogether&#8221; was named best short film; a special jury prize went to Andi Engel, Pamela Engel and Robert Beeson of Artificial Eye; and &#8220;The Inheritance&#8221; won the Raindance Award.<\/p>\n<p>Career awards went to actors Ray Winstone and Daniel Craig.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett The Joy Division biography &#8220;Control&#8221; was the big winner at the British Independent Film Awards Wednesday night with five prizes including best picture. Anton Corbijn was honored twice as best director and best first-time director while Sam &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=839\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[2574,2879,408,2880,1002,1222],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-news","tag-control","tag-anton-corbin","tag-british-independent-film-awards","tag-judi-dencj","tag-ray-winstone","tag-viggo-mortensen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5324,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}