Interstellar Wins Best Film, Best Director 20th Jameson Empire Awards

The best films and filmmakers of the past year, as voted for by readers of Empire magazine and film fans around the globe, were honoured this evening at the 20th Jameson Empire Awards.

The big winner of the evening, taking the awards for Best Director, Best Film, was Interstellar(Out on Blu-ray and DVD today), whose director Christopher Nolan was also honoured with the prestigious Empire Inspiration award.

Two further special awards were presented  Empire Hero and Empire Legend. Marking the first time an Empire Award has gone to a TV show, the cast of HBO’s Game of Thrones received the Empire Hero Award in celebration of the popularity of the epic series, about to return to screens for a fifth season and largely shot in Northern Ireland. Last year’s Empire Hero Simon Pegg presented the award to an array of Game of Thrones stars, including Kit Harington, Liam Cunningham, Indira Varma, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Isaac Hempstead Wright. As previously announced, Empire Legend, presented by Jameson Irish Whiskey, went to award-winning actor-director Ralph Fiennes, who received his award from Liam Neeson.

More British actors triumphed in the acting categories, as voted for by Empire readers and film fans, with Andy Serkis picking up Jameson Best Actor for his role as Caesar in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,  Best Actress, went to Gone Girl star Rosamund Pike.The newcomer categories recognised rising British stars, with Karen Gillan collecting Best Female Newcomer and Taron Egerton, star of Kingsman: The Secret Service, named Best Male Newcomer.

THE JAMESON EMPIRE AWARDS 2015 WINNERS IN FULL

[winner in orange]

Best Newcomer — Male
Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood)
Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service) 
Daniel Huttlestone (Into The Woods)
Jack O’Connell (Unbroken)
Dan Stevens (The Guest)

Best Newcomer — Female presented by Max Factor
Sophie Cookson (Kingsman: The Secret Service)
Carrie Coon (Gone Girl)
Essie Davis (The Babadook)
Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy/Oculus)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle)

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy presented by MediCinema
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
X-Men: Days of Future Past 

Best Horror presented by Vue Cinema
Annabelle
The Babadook – [read review]
The Guest
Oculus
Under the Skin

Best Comedy presented by Absolute Radio
22 Jump Street
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Inbetweeners 2
The LEGO® Movie
Paddington [read review]

Best Thriller presented by Corinthia Hotel London
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game – [read review]
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Locke

Best British Film presented by The Hollywood Reporter
The Imitation Game
Kingsman: The Secret Service [read review]
Paddington
The Theory of Everything
Under The Skin

Jameson Best Actor
Richard Armitage (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies)
Bradley Cooper (American Sniper)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
Andy Serkis (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

Best Actress presented by Max Factor
Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow)
Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) 
Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)

Best Director presented by Air New Zealand
Peter Jackson (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies)
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
Christopher Nolan (Interstellar)
Matt Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)
Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)

Best Film presented by Viber
Boyhood
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Imitation Game
Interstellar [read review]

Done In 60 Seconds

UK: Ghostbusters- Oliver Jones & Robert Kenyon 
Russia: The Grand Budapest Limited – Olga Goldfarb & Daria Mikhailova
Bulgaria: Braveheart – Dimitar Kostadinov & Nataliya Petkova
Armenia: Harry Potter – Mkhitar Danielyan & Aram Hayrapetyan

WINNER Empire Hero

Game of Thrones

WINNER Empire Inspiration

Christopher Nolan

WINNER Empire Legend presented by Jameson Irish Whiskey

Ralph Fiennes

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