Edinburgh. Awards.

Anton Corbijn's fantastic Control was a double winner - the director picking up the prestigious Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film and lead actor Sam Riley winning the PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film....

There was a surprise winner for the Standard Life Audience Award, as documentary We Are Together (Thina Simunye) scooped the prize voted for by festival-goers....

Updated through 8/27.

The EIFF began life as a documentary film festival and remains committed to non-fiction film, as signposted by the Sky Movies Best Documentary Award, which was won by Jennifer Venditti's Billy the Kid....

The Skillset New Directors Award went to Lucia Puenzo for the remarkable XXY, a teen drama about a 15-year-old hermaphrodite.... Other winners included The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island by James Griffiths which won the UK Film Council Kodak Award for Best British Short Film. A special mention was given to Paddy Considine's directorial debut Dog Altogether.

At Filmmaker's blog, Nick Dawson comments on the awards.

Updates, 8/27: "What differentiates Control from other biopics of popular musicians such as Taylor Hackford's Ray and James Mangold's Walk the Line is that it's more a portrait of an artist than that of a cultural icon or object of mass adulation," writes Francis Cruz at Not Coming to a Theater Near You.

At Cinematical, Scott Weinberg reports on a "surprise" screening of The Kingdom in Edinburgh.

Posted by dwhudson at August 26, 2007 7:22 AM