Jameson Empire Awards: The Red Carpet

This post marks the end of awards season for another year (sob). Here are a couple of pictures from the Awards which have literally just ended over in London. Stay tuned, there's more to come!

The ever dapper Tom Hiddleston 

Looks like Martin Freeman may have retained some of Bilbo's knit wear...

Daniel Radcliffe - Hero

Sam Claflin 

Sir Ian McKellen 

Samantha Barks 

Reunited: Sam Mendes and Kevin Spacey 

Jameson Empire Awards: The Winners

Best Male Newcomer 

Domhnall Gleeson (Anna Karenina)

Rafe Spall (Life Of Pi)

Steve Oram (Sightseers)

Suraj Sharma (Life Of Pi)

WINNER Tom Holland (The Impossible)

Extremely worthy winner, I had voted for him after the short list was released in that post.

Best Female Newcomer

Alice Lowe (Sightseers)

Alicia Vikander (Anna Karenina)

Holliday Grainger (Great Expectations)

Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts Of The Southern Wild)

WINNER Samantha Barks (Les Miserables)

Two out of two so far, as predicted!

Best Comedy 

21 Jump Street

Moonrise Kingdom 

WINNER Ted

The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists 

Silver Linings Playbook 

There's no disputing Ted was hilarious. Maybe 21 Jump Street was funnier...

Best Horror 

WINNER The Woman In Black 

The Cabin In The Woods 

Sinister 

Sightseers 

Dark Shadows

Happy this won, this was my pick for the category 

Best Thriller

Argo 

Skyfall

Zero Dark Thirty 

The Raid 

WINNER Jo Nesbo's Headhunters

Definitely a tough category, I had chosen Argo for this - Headhunters definitely bucks the previous award season trend.

Best Sci-FI/Fantasy 

Prometheus 

Looper 

Avengers Assemble 

Dredd 3D 

WINNER The Hobbit

I had chosen Avengers for this nod, but The Hobbit makes for a very worthy winner 

The Art Of 3D

Avengers Assemble 

WINNER Dredd 3D

Life Of Pi

Prometheus 

The Hobbit

Had predicted the Hobbit, but there wasn't much in it 

Jameson Best Actor

Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Daniel Craig (Skyfall)

Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln)

WINNER Martin Freeman (The Hobbit)

Robert Downey Jr. (Avengers Assemble)

I threatened to eat my hat if Daniel Day-Lewis didn't win. I'll let you know how it tastes...

Best Actress

Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises)

Naomi Watts (The Impossible)

Dame Judi Dench (Skyfall)

Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

WINNER Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games)

Thought Watts deserved this, but happy to see J-Law's winning streak continue. 

Best Director 

Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises)

Joss Whedon (Avengers Assemble)

WINNING Sam Mendes (Skyfall)

Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Peter Jackson (The Hobbit)

Unsurprisingly I had wanted this one to go to Nolan, but Mendes is definitely a hugely talented director, no qualms here.

Best British Film 

Dredd 3D

Les Miserables 

WINNER Sightseers 

Skyfall 

The Woman In Black

Bit of a curve ball don't you think? Over Les Mis and Skyfall though, really?!

Best Film 

Django Unchained

Avengers Assemble

WINNER Skyfall

The Dark Knight Rises

The Hobbit 

I wanted The Dark Knight Rises, but it sort of had to be Skyfall didn't it?

Check out Amateur Review's prediction post and also the Red Carpet post still to come. 

Jameson Empire Awards Shortlist

Jameson Empire Awards Shortlist

Best Male Newcomer 

Domhnall Gleeson (Anna Karenina)

Rafe Spall (Life Of Pi)

Steve Oram (Sightseers)

Suraj Sharma (Life Of Pi)

Tom Holland (The Impossible)

Tough category but the Amateur Review vote goes to Tom definitely.

Best Female Newcomer

Alice Lowe (Sightseers)

Alicia Vikander (Anna Karenina)

Holliday Grainger (Great Expectations)

Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts Of The Southern Wild)

Samantha Barks (Les Miserables)

Samantha Barks seems to be the best shout for this title.

Best Comedy 

21 Jump Street

Moonrise Kingdom 

Ted

The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists 

Silver Linings Playbook 

Where was American Pie Reunion!? In that case it must have to be 21 Jump Street because Silver Linings Playbook seems to be more dramatic.

Best Horror 

The Woman In Black 

The Cabin In The Woods 

Sinister 

Sightseers 

Dark Shadows

The Woman In Black, I'm not the biggest fan of horror films and basically this is the least scary.

Best Thriller

Argo 

Skyfall

Zero Dark Thirty 

The Raid 

Jo Nesbo's Headhunters

ARGO for the win!

Best Sci-FI/Fantasy 

Prometheus 

Looper 

Avengers Assemble 

Dredd 3D 

The Hobbit

Opting for Avengers purely for the whole scale of it

The Art Of 3D

Avengers Assemble 

Dredd 3D

Life Of Pi

Prometheus 

The Hobbit

All beautifully done but probably The Hobbit 

Jameson Best Actor

Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Daniel Craig (Skyfall)

Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln)

Martin Freeman (The Hobbit)

Robert Downey Jr. (Avengers Assemble)

Oh Captain, My Captain! If Abe Lincoln loses this one I will eat my hat.

Best Actress

Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises)

Naomi Watts (The Impossible)

Dame Judi Dench (Skyfall)

Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games)

Before watching The Impossible yesterday I would have said Jessica Chastain, however Naomi Watts was incredible.

Best Director 

Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises)

Joss Whedon (Avengers Assemble)

Sam Mendes (Skyfall)

Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Peter Jackson (The Hobbit)

No surprises here, Christopher Nolan.

Best British Film 

Dredd 3D

Les Miserables 

Sightseers 

Skyfall 

The Woman In Black

Was absolutely astounded by Les Miserables, singing, acting, cinematography was all stunning.

Best Film 

Django Unchained

Avengers Assemble

Skyfall

The Dark Knight Rises

The Hobbit 

Again, this will come as no surprise, but The Dark Knight Rises was my vote here too.

Jameson Empire Awards 2013

Today marks the preliminary round of voting for the 2013 Empire Film Awards. The best thing about these awards is that it’s all down to the real movie fans of this world, not in the hands of an Academy. Obviously there are going to be a great many more films that will be released before voting closes, so this is our opinion as it stands. It would be premature to list The Hobbit and Life of Pi already given the fact their worthiness still hangs in the balance! Similarly, the typically award-like films are being with held for later in the award season. Therefore, a lot could change between this vote now and the Jameson Empire Awards!

 

Follow this link to vote for the Awards!

 

 

BEST MALE NEWCOMER

Dane DeHaan

From his explosive debut in Chronicle to his supporting role in Lawless, this young actor is showing that he's far from being type-cast. This is going to be a tough category this year, we also considered Craig Roberts (Submarine, Red Lights, Jane Eyre) but Dane just pips him to the post!

 

BEST FEMALE NEWCOMER

Elizabeth Olsen

Feel free to disagree with our labelling as 'new'. Although Martha Marcy May Marlene was released last year, it seems like 2013 has really been Elizabeth's year. Despite having few films under her belt, it already felt like her character in Redlights (alongside Cillian Murphy) was too small for her!

 

BEST SCI/FANTASY

Chronicle

Would not like to be fighting it out in this category this year. With films like The Avengers, Prometheus and Looper it was very hard to pick - but Chronicle was a refreshing take on super powers because the kids become the opposite of super heroes.

 

BEST COMEDY

American Reunion

Perhaps you have to be a long time American Pie fan to appreciate the sheer nostalgia of this beauty, but it packs many a laugh no matter what. Fingers crossed for many more reunions for Stifler and the gang...

 

BEST HORROR

The Woman In Black

If anyone votes for the Devil Inside they will get a virtual tap on the wrist... The Woman In Black, however, was a classy remake of a classic play and novel. Plus who doesn't love Daniel Radcliffe?

 

BEST THRILLER

Contagion

As if the outstanding cast wasn't enough, Steven Soderbergh's disaster movie was laced with doom and anyone who didn't feel scared to touch a door handle after watching Contagion is a very brave person...

 

JAMESON BEST ACTOR

Tom Hardy

No surprises here then! Just look at Lawless, This Means War, The Dark Knight Rises... This man can act anything! Close contenders for the title were Michael Fassbender (Prometheus, Haywire) and Javier Bardem (Skyfall).

 

BEST ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain

Gracious and believable in the majority of her films, especially Lawless and Corialanus.

 

BEST DIRECTOR

Christopher Nolan

Making people choose between Sam Mendes and Christopher Nolan hardly seems far, but any man who managed to round off the Batman Trilogy after the dizzying expectations set by its predecessor deserves the award. Well done Mr Nolan.

 

BEST BRITISH FILM

Skyfall

How can it not be Skyfall?

 

BEST FILM

The Dark Knight Rises

With a plot twist to rival all Nolan plot twists and a stellar cast, it's hard not to be excited by this film. Absolute class.

 

THE ART OF 3D

Avengers Assemble

Outstanding use of 3D by director Joss Whedon, managed to avoid the issues which have plagued 3D in the past. Dark and lacking in detail are not phrases you would use to describe The Avengers


Follow this link to read the review of Skyfall

The Dark Knight Rises Review

Prometheus Review

Avengers Assemble Review

The Woman In Black Review

Chronicle Review