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Jameson Empire Awards 2012 review.

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:35:33 -0600

[…] The big winner of the night was Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which took home Best Thriller, Best Actor (for Gary Oldman) and Best British Film.

[…] The Americans got a look-in for Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy with Thor (although even that has a British director in Kenneth Branagh).

Thor’s wayward brother Loki, or at least alter-ego Tom Hiddleston, took Best Male Newcomer.

Best Male Newcomer
John Boyega (Attack The Block)
Asa Butterfield (Hugo)
Sam Claflin (Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides)
Tom Hiddleston (Thor)
Jeremy Irvine (War Horse)
Craig Roberts (Submarine)

Best Thriller Presented by Café de Paris
Drive
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Hanna
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Captain America: The First Avenger
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Super 8
Thor
X-Men: First Class

Jameson Best Actor
Daniel Craig (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)
Ryan Gosling (Drive)
Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows — Part 2)
Andy Serkis (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes)

Best British Film
Attack The Block
The Inbetweeners Movie
Submarine
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Benedict Cumberbatch - partial winner on these -

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:29:49 -0600

BEST THRILLER

Another eclectic collection of nominees contains everything from Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows to Drive to the much more sober Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Can David Fincher’s Girl With The Dragon Tattoo do as well as the Swedish version did at these awards previously? Rising Brit stars MyAnna Buring (she of Kill List and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn) and Sam Claflin (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and soon Snow White And The Huntsman) are presenting this one, and looking good doing it.

And the winner is: TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Peter Straughan, Mark Strong and Gary Oldman collect the prize.
Straughan: “I think it’s lovely that we won Best Thriller for a film where the most nail-biting scene is someone stealing a file from a library.”

Best British Film

To be honest, Team Blighty’s been doing well on home turf at these awards so far – a good omen for the Olympics? – but now it’s time to stack the decks with a category that excludes everyone else with Best British Film. It’s a heck of a line-up this year: the impeccable class of Tinker Tailor up against the rowdy “yoot” of Attack The Block; the unforgettable Tyrannosaur; the very different teenage stories of Submarine and The Inbetweeners Movie. But who will be singing God Save The Queen when the envelope is opened? Appropriately enough, actual Olympic athletes and members of Team GB, triple-jumper Phillips Idowu and 400-m hurdler Perri Shakes-Drayton are presenting.

Idowu: “This is the best award we’ve ever presenting; hopefully we’ll be doing the nation proud this summer. So it’s great to be giving out this award: come on, GB!”

And the winner is: TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Straughan delivers a few words from director Tomas Alfredson, which we recommend watching in the video that will shortly be below. Alfredson sent a story involving a 75 year-old hunchback, so it’s worth watching.

- Jameson Empire Awards 2012: Live Blog

Tom Hiddleston winner of the 2012 Best Male Newcomer

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:20:00 -0600

Next up is Best Male Newcomer, to acknowledge the actors that exploded into our collective film consciousness this year (not a euphemism). As Chris notes, there were so many great newcomers this year that we had to split the category in two, with male and female actors separately nominated. And as Laverne notes, it’s unusual that so many of the nominees are actual newcomers.

As the clip reel demonstrates, this is a seriously varied selection of nominees. You’ve got Jeremy Irvine and Asa Butterfield, up after working with Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese respectively. They’re up against everyone’s favourite bad guy, Tom Hiddleston (actually a very nice man; that’s a reference to Loki, honest); everyone’s favourite mermaid-loving missionary Sam Claflin; everyone’s favourite Welsh teen Craig Roberts and everyone’s favourite alien-fighting hoodie, John Boyega. And they’re all local boys too! Didn’t they do well? Hayley Atwell has taken a break from setting Captain America’s heart a-flutter in order to present this one (She’ll next be seen “breaking down doors and screaming ‘SARGE!’ in The Sweeney” explains Laverne).

“It’s been a very good year for hot males,” says Atwell. “Let’s see who I get to take home this evening.”

And the winner is: TOM HIDDLESTON
“My congratulations and apologies to my fellow nominees; you are all exceptional actors. I do feel, at 31 years old, like the granddad of the group, but I guess you should be consoled at the thought that it’s taken you a lot less time to find your mojo than it has me [‘Thank you!’ comes a shout from the back of the room; from John Boyega we suspect] I still feel like the people in this room are my inspiration, and that Empire magazine has always fuelled my passion.”

How lovely! Our collective crush has become more crippling.

- Jameson Empire Awards 2012: Live Blog

Hiddles at the Jameson Empire Awards!

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:55:00 -0600

Hiddles at the Jameson Empire Awards!

Congratulations to our guys!

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:33:42 -0600

Tom Hiddleston has just won the ‘Best Newcomer’ Award on the Jameson Empire Awards. Plus, Thor also won ‘Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy Movie’.

Our Benedict can be also happy, since fellow actor, Gary Oldman, won on the ‘Best Actor’ category for his performance on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and TTSS movie itself also won ‘Best Thriller’ and ‘Best British Film’!

~~We’ll soon publish some pictures!~~

Just starting… JustCuddles

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:44:58 -0600

Just starting… JustCuddles