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Empire Awards 2016: Winners in full as Star Wars and Mad Max: Fury Road dominate

The Revenant took home best film

Jack Shepherd
Monday 21 March 2016 13:33 GMT
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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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