BAFTA Film Awards 2008

Several British films and writers were honoured at the BAFTA Film Awards on 10 February

• Ronald Harwood took the prize for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (based on the book by Jean-Dominique Bauby)

• Atonement, adapted by Christopher Hampton from the book by Ian McEwan, won Best Film

• This Is England, written and directed by Shane Meadows, won Best British Film

• Matt Greenhalgh, who wrote the script for Control, won the Carl Foreman award for Special Achievement in a first feature film

• Writer and director Luis Cook won Best Short Animation for his adaptation of Mick Jackson's The Pearce Sisters

• Best Short Film was won by Dog Altogether, written and directed by Paddy Considine.

The BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay went to Diablo Cody for Juno.

Article published 15.02.08