Interstellar Takes Top Empire Honors
Monday, March 30, 2015 at 10:30AM Manuel here bringing you more awards from this past weekend; Nathaniel wasn't the only one still handing out awards for the 2014 film year. The Jameson Empire Awards were handed out this past weekend (as were Nickelodeon's Kid's Choice Awards which were gaga for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1). Unsurprisingly, it was Christopher Nolan's divisive Interstellar which nabbed its two top prizes.
Nolan was also on hand to receive the Empire Inspiration Award, which I guess was as good an excuse as any to see Jessica Chastain looking fabulous (she presented the award to her Interstellar director).
Check out the full winners list below.
NEWCOMER — MALE
Ellar Coltrane Boyhood
Taron Egerton Kingsman: The Secret Service
Daniel Huttlestone Into the Woods
Jack O’Connell Unbroken
Dan Stevens The Guest
NEWCOMER — FEMALE
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
SCI-FI/FANTASY
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
Davis may have missed her two nominations, but the film picked up Best Horror, which: accurate!
HORROR
Annabelle
The Babadook
The Guest
Oculus
Under the Skin
COMEDY
22 Jump Street
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Inbetweeners 2
The LEGO Movie
Paddington
THRILLER
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Locke
I mean, I guess it's a thriller?
BRITISH FILM
The Imitation Game
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Paddington
The Theory of Everything
Under the Skin
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
ACTRESS
Emily Blunt Edge of Tomorrow
Felicity Jones The Theory of Everything
Keira Knightley The Imitation Game
Rosamund Pike Gone Girl
Alicia Vikander Ex Machina
Amazing Amy for the win!
DIRECTOR
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
FILM
Boyhood
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
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
EMPIRE HERO
Game of Thrones
EMPIRE INSPIRATION
Christopher Nolan
EMPIRE LEGEND
Ralph Fiennes
Does this mean 2014 is finally over and we must begin obsessing with films out this year?
Reader Comments (3)
Do the readers of Empire really dislike Birdman? Or does it not fit the awards' criteria?
It's great to see Interstellar get some love. Very underrated film.
it figures in a way though. since when is there a year with a Nolan movie that it isn't beloved somewhere?
Like, ugh. Interstellar is on my "worst" list of the year. And certainly in the most stupidly pretetious films of all time, not far away from "Prometheus"...
If they wanted to award a truly orginal, audacious and deep film, there were chances to give the award to Snowpiercer or The Lego Movie, wich really defied all expectations and resist any thoughtful analysis, when taken seriously.