The Brits penned down their best wishes and presented it to the films that will be representing them at film festivals and at the upcoming award season.

The comparison, though, isn’t likely to end. Slumdog Millionaire was this year’s Control at the British Independent Film Awards. Danny Boyle bagged the much deserved award for Best Director. The film, which has won more awards than the screens its playing on, took home the award for Best Picture. What most didn’t see coming was the Most Promising Newcomer award that was presented to Dev Patel, that curious kid from TV’s Skins who aged as an award-winning actor overnight after portraying the protagonist in Slumdog Millionaire.

Deserving a sidebar mention is Steve McQueen’s Hunger, which took home the prestigious Douglas Hickox Award. Its main star Michael Fassbender won the Best Actor, as did its technical team for Best Technical Achievement.

Vera Farmiga from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was voted Best Actress.

Happy-Go-Lucky’s supporting actor and actress, Eddie Marsan and Alexis Zegerman won in the Best Supporting Actor and Actress category.

Martin McDonagh was awarded the Best Screenplay for last year’s Sundance opener In Bruges.

And Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir, the animated account of the horror in Lebanon in 1982, which is hailed as this year’s Persepolis walked away with the Best Foreign Independent Film award.