I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach’s drama about a middle-aged carpenter recovering from a heart attack and trying to navigate the benefits system, has taken best British film at the Evening Standard film awards.
The judging panel was made up of film critics from the Evening Standard, the Times, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.
Picking up the awards in Loach’s absence, his longtime producer Rebecca O’Brien said: “Ken will be really pissed off he missed this.”
“It may be true that the Standard still to this day is 16% owed by Satan, but aren’t we all?