Andrea Riseborough and Skyfall scoop top prizes at British film awards The award is the latest in a string of accolades for 31-year-old Riseborough, who has been nominated for the Bafta Rising Star this year. She has previously appeared in Made in Dagenham, The Long Walk to Finchley, and Wallis Simpson biopic W.E. She won the best actress award for her appearance in Shadow Dancer, with author Tom Bradby missing out on the prize for best screenplay. It was instead awarded to Malcolm Campbell for What Richard Did. Sally El Hosaini, who wrote and directed My Brother the Devil, won Most Promising Newcomer, with Ben Wheatley taking the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy for Sightseers. Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, of Ali G and Borat fame, achieved special recognition with The Editor's Award, for "making every film an event." Sarah Sands, editor of the London Evening Standard, said: "The London Evening Standard British Film Awards celebrate a sensational year for British film. Thanks in part to the extraordinary success of Skyfall - a truly big British movie, delivered with a panache Hollywood could envy - 2012 also highlighted the creativity, vision and talent of a new generation of British film-makers, actors and actresses.