Mad Max Leads The Way At The 2016 Empire Awards Picking Up 10 Nominations

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Following the BAFTAs and Oscars, there’s only one award ceremony left to care about and that’s the 21st annual Jameson Empire awards, a British middle finger to the mainstream film awards, are coming and what makes these awards special is the nominations were all voted by the readers.

Mad Max: Fury Road is leading the way with 10 nominations including Best Film, Best Director for George Miller, and Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron received acting noms. Not (in a galaxy far) far behind was Star Wars: The Force Awakens with nine nominations including Best Newcomer nods to two of the film’s breakout stars, John Boyega and Daisy Ridley.

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What makes the Empire awards so special is that they recognise the great films and actors overlooked in the mainstream awards ceremonies. They include Creed’s Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler, who were both snubbed by the Oscars, are nominated for Best Actor and Best Director, while Room’s incredible, and possibly one of the greatest performances by child ever, Jacob Tremblay picks up a Best Newcomer nom.

The Best Newcomer awards could be close and hotly contested with Bel Powley, who missed out on the BAFTA Rising Star award, is nominated for The Diary Of A Teenage Girl as are Beasts Of No Nation’s Abraham Attah and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation’s Rebecca Ferguson.

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These awards also recegnise genres ignored by others with the likes of It Follows and The Hallow involved in Best Horror and Me, Earl and the Dying Girl, Inside Out and Spy all up for Best Comedy. 

Empire have also add new categories including Best TV Series (Marvel’s Daredevil and Jessica Jones got nominated as well as Game of Thrones, but no Flash? Come on, it’s a brilliant show!) and Best Game (Batman: Arkham Knight and Fallout 4).

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The 21st Jameson Empire Awards take place on March 20^th, with David Walliams as master of ceremonies.

Full list of nominations:

BEST MALE NEWCOMER
Abraham Attah (Beasts Of No Nation)
John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Thomas Mann (Me And Earl And The Dying Girl)
Jason Mitchell (Straight Outta Compton)
Jacob Tremblay (Room) 

BEST FEMALE NEWCOMER
Olivia Cooke (Me And Earl And The Dying Girl)
Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation)
Maika Monroe (It Follows)
Bel Powley (The Diary Of A Teenage Girl)
Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) 

BEST SCI-FI/FANTASY
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
 
BEST COMEDY presented by Absolute Radio 
Ant-Man
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl
Spy
Trainwreck
Inside Out
 
BEST HORROR
Crimson Peak
The Hallow
Insidious: Chapter 3
It Follows
Krampus
 
BEST THRILLER presented by Corinthia Hotel London 
Bridge Of Spies
The Gift
Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation
Sicario
Spectre
 
BEST BRITISH FILM presented by The Hollywood Reporter
45 Years
Legend
Macbeth
Spectre
Suffragette
 
JAMESON BEST ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)
Matt Damon (The Martian)
Michael Fassbender (Macbeth/Steve Jobs)
Tom Hardy (Legend/Mad Max: Fury Road)
Michael B. Jordan (Creed) 

BEST ACTRESS
Emily Blunt (Sicario)
Brie Larson (Room)
Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2)
Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)

BEST DIRECTOR
J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Ryan Coogler (Creed)
Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant)
George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Ridley Scott (The Martian) 

BEST FILM presented by Sky Movies 
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
 
BEST TV SERIES
Marvel’s Daredevil
Fargo
Game Of Thrones
Marvel’s Jessica Jones
This Is England ’90
 
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Big Short — Adam McKay, Charles Randolph
The Hateful Eight – Quentin Tarantino
Spotlight — Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer
Steve Jobs – Aaron Sorkin
Trainwreck — Amy Schumer

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Inside Out
Minions
Shaun The Sheep The Movie
Song Of The Sea
The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya
 
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Amy
Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief
He Named Me Malala
The Jinx: The Life And Deaths Of Robert Durst
Making A Murderer
 
BEST SOUNDTRACK The Hateful Eight Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian Sicario Straight Outta Compton
 
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Carol
Cinderella
Crimson Peak
Mad Max: Fury Road
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
 
BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING
Crimson Peak
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
 
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Ant-Man
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
 
BEST SHORT FILM presented by Jameson Irish Whiskey
Kung Fury
Lava
Sanjay’s Super Team
Stutterer
World Of Tomorrow
 
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Crimson Peak
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
 
BEST GAME
Batman: Arkham Knight
Bloodborne
Fallout 4
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt