No quibble with the gongs handed out this week. Not to those honoured at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, where people tend to be nicer than in the film world (Simon Russell Beale, who I met for the first time, is charming), nor to those at the British Independent Film Awards, where a colleague assures me Daniel Craig was far funnier and friendlier than the grouchy image perpetuated by the media (he was great company over dinner at last year's Evening Standard Film Awards, too). Nice to see Craig sticking up for the British film industry in a sensible rather than an emptily patriotic or wishful way, and nice to see the BIFA's offsetting crowd-pleasers (anointing Craig, Judi Dench and Ray Winstone) with a host of awards to the defiantly arty and enigmatic Control. With the kerfuffle of these two heavyweight ceremonies, a lesser known honour might have slipped your attention. Marisa Tomei has, apparently, starred in the 'best' nude scene of 2007 in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, according to the anonymous geltelemen who run a website called Mrskin, apparently an authority in such matters. Tomei beat not only Page Three girl Keeley Hawes in Cashback (must have missed that one...), but also Christina Ricci in Black Snake Moan, Sienna Miller in Factory Girl, and Natalie Portman, whose chaste disrobing in Hotel Chevalier caused a media frenzy. Now, I saw BTDNYD this week and I could tell you it's a shame that a film displying the artful dramatic hand of 82-year-old Sidney Lumet, and featuring a crackling confrontation between Albert Finney and Philip Seymour Hoffman, should first come to attention here thanks to a flash of flesh. But the truth is Tomei is devastatingly sexy in a triptych of bedroom scenes, not least because she was 40 at the time of filming and looks surgically un-enhanced, but also because each scene has a tang of despair to it that strengthens the film's remorseless spiral into tragedy. I've long thought Tomei is a brilliant comedian and a strong dramatic actress, as well as a woman who could make me go weak at the knees just by smiling, but her award-winning sex scenes here aren't good because she makes them look sexy, but because she makes them look real.