Empire Awards 2016: Winners in full as Star Wars and Mad Max: Fury Road dominate
The Revenant took home best film
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Your support makes all the difference.Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Mad Max: Fury road dominated at the Empire Awards, taking home five and four gongs home respectively.
Star Wars won Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film and Best Visual Effects while stars John Boyega and Daisy Ridley took home best male and female newcomers. JJ Abrams was awarded Best Director.
Meanwhile, Mad Max managed to take home Best Soundtrack, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design and Best Make-Up & Hairstyling.
Unsurprisingly, best overall film was The Revenant, with Spectre winning both Best Thriller and Best British Film. Jameson Empire Awards are voted for by the public while the show itself was hosted by Little Britain’s David Walliams.
BEST MALE NEWCOMER
John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Abraham Attah (Beasts Of No Nation)
Thomas Mann (Me And Earl And The Dying Girl)
Jason Mitchell (Straight Outta Compton)
Jacob Tremblay (Room)
BEST FEMALE NEWCOMER
Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
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)
BEST SCI-FI/FANTASY
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
BEST COMEDY
Spy
Ant-Man
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl
Trainwreck
Inside Out
BEST HORROR
The Hallow
Crimson Peak
Insidious: Chapter 3
It Follows
Krampus
BEST THRILLER
Spectre
Bridge Of Spies
The Gift
Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation
Sicario
BEST BRITISH FILM
Spectre
45 Years
Legend
Macbeth
Suffragette
JAMESON BEST ACTOR
Matt Damon (The Martian)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)
Michael Fassbender (Macbeth/Steve Jobs)
Tom Hardy (Legend/Mad Max: Fury Road)
Michael B. Jordan (Creed)
BEST ACTRESS
Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)
Emily Blunt (Sicario)
Brie Larson (Room)
Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2)
Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road)
BEST DIRECTOR
JJ 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
The Revenant
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
BEST TV SERIES
This Is England '90
Marvel's Daredevil
Fargo
Game Of Thrones
Marvel's Jessica Jones
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
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Hateful Eight
The Martian
Sicario
Straight Outta Compton
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Mad Max: Fury Road
Carol
Cinderella
Crimson Peak
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING
Mad Max: Fury Road
Crimson Peak
The Danish Girl
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Ant-Man
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
BEST SHORT FILM
World Of Tomorrow
Kung Fury
Lava
Sanjay's Super Team
Stutterer
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Mad Max: Fury Road
Crimson Peak
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2
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
EMPIRE INSPIRATION
Paddy Considine
EMPIRE LEGEND
Alan Rickman
EMPIRE HERO
Stanley Tucci
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