Dame Helen crowned queen of film awards

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Mirren, 61, was given a special award for film achievement. Other winners included This Is England, about fascist skinheads, and Red Road, Andrea Arnold's big screen debut which wowed Cannes in May.

Controversial director Ken Loach won the special jury prize while actor Jim Broadbent, most recently on screen as Lord Longford, was given an award for outstanding contribution to British film.

This Is England, set in the Eighties and by British director Shane Meadows, beat The Queen, in which Mirren starred, to be best British independent film. Thomas

Turgoose, who plays the central role of the 12-year-old boy, took the award for most promising newcomer. The Last King of Scotland, about Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, won the prize for best director for Kevin Macdonald and the technical achievement award.

Red Road's Tony Curran was best actor and his co-star and fellow Glaswegian Katie Dickie was best actress. Screen veteran Leslie Phillips, 82, was best supporting actor for Venus, written by Hanif Kureishi.