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Monday, 7 February, 2000, 14:36 GMT
East is East is best
![]() West meets East: ( Stella) Emma Moorhouse and (Tariq) Jimi Mistry
Low budget Asian comedy East is East has been declared Best Film at the 27th Evening Standard British Film Awards.
The tale of a traditional Muslim father forced to review long-held beliefs by his seven children scooped the coveted award at a ceremony in London's Savoy Hotel.
Among the other winners was Jeremy Northam, who won the Best Actor title for his roles in An Ideal Husband and The Winslow Boy, and Samantha Morton, whose performance in Dreaming of Joseph Lees won her the Best Actress accolade. Playwright Tom Stoppard capped a successful year for his multi-Oscar and Bafta-winning Shakespeare in Love - a week after its success at the South Bank Show Awards - winning his third major Best Screenplay prize. Notting Hill cemented its status as the highest-grossing home-grown movie of all time, by winning the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy. And the Special Award for lifetime achievement was handed to acclaimed cinematographer Freddie Francis by double Oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange, who worked with him on Martin Scorsese's 1992 remake of Cape Fear. Debate One of the judges, Evening Standard critic Neil Norman, said: "There were loads of British films made last year, and among those which caused a bit of debate were Notting Hill, The Winslow Boy, The Warzone, Orphans and Ratcatcher," he said.
Last year, its scriptwriter, Ayub Khan-Din, won Best Original Screenplay title at the British Independent Film Awards, and Bassett herself was named Best Actress at the Valladolid International Film Festival, with O'Donnell taking the prestigious Golden Spike. The full list of this year's awards and their winners is as follows:
Judges for this year's awards were Neil Norman, Angie Errigo, of Empire magazine, Evening Standard film critic Alexander Walker, Derek Malcolm, of the Guardian, and journalist and broadcaster Mark Lawson.
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