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30 March 2009
Jameson Empire Award Winners!
Dark Knight, Rambow & Solace among them

Jameson Empire Award Winners!

This year's Jameson Empire Awards took place tonight in London, at a rather glamorous evening of drinking, carousing and celebration for the stars. The readers of Empire voted in their droves, and the big winner of the night was The Dark Knight, which took home Best Film, Best Director for Christopher Nolan and Best Actor for Christian Bale.

But it wasn't just a Batman evening. Quantum of Solace won Best Thriller, and Bond girl Gemma Arterton took home Best Newcomer for her turn in that film as well as RocknRolla. Homegrown talent also did well in other areas, with the excellent Son of Rambow taking Best Comedy and Eden Lake going home with Best Horror.

James McAvoy was on hand to collect Best Sci-Fi / Superhero movie for Wanted, while Best British Film went to Guy Ritchie and the RocknRolla crew. Helena Bonham-Carter took Best Actress for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with partner Tim Burton picking up on her behalf, and Best Soundtrack went to Mamma Mia! and the guys from ABBA.

The special awards saw an Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema prize awarded to Danny Boyle (whose Slumdog Millionaire didn't come out in the nominations period, for those of you wondering where it is). There was also a tribute to the late Heath Ledger, whose work played such a big part in the stunning succes of The Dark Knight.

The Actor Of Our Lifetime award, a special prize to celebrate Empire's 20th anniversary this year, went to Russell Crowe, while the Empire Icon award this year went to the disgustingly multitalented Viggo Mortensen, who speaks more languages than God, paints, writes poetry and still finds time to do a bit of acting. His speech was also highly entertaining, so check that out in the minute-by-minute blog of the Awards.

Check back throughout tonight and tomorrow morning for more updates, photos, videos and all the news that's fit to print from this year's Jameson Empire Awards.

Helen O'Hara

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What about In Bruges?????????
Y the fuk didnt In bruges win anything ?????? it is the best film ever to my opion fuk rock n rolla its alrite but nothing to In bruges sort ur self out people ... Read More

jack K About me

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What about In Bruges?????????
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If Russell Crowe is the actor of my lifetime, I want a time machine. ... Read More

Hengist About me

09:52, 31 March 2009 | Report This Post
RE: Oh Come On!!!!
I will overlook the fact that an Abba tribute album won best soundtrack, and concentrate my vitriol on the most fucked up award of all: Wanted winning best Superhero/Sci-fi. In the same year that we were treated to Iron Man, Hell Boy II, The Dark Knight, The Hulk and a myriad of straight-to-dvd science fiction and comic book films that didn't even make it to the cinema, how is it that the worst, most vacuous, pointless and socially disturbing film of last year even made it to cinemas, let ... Read More

montimer About me

02:27, 31 March 2009 | Report This Post
RE: Oh Come On!!!!
Glad to see Son of Rambow won best comedy, its a lovely film. ... Read More

DouglasG About me

20:00, 30 March 2009 | Report This Post
Oh Come On!!!!
OK... I think there is an AWFUL lot to be said for Empire no longer putting the votes to its readers. QOS was probably the worst Bond film in 25 years, and that's saying something, so to call it Best Thriller is a Joke. Christian Bale as best actor? I mean, c'mon. We all loved The Dark Knight... But even in that film alone Caine, Ledger, Oldman and Eckhart were all better actors than him. How did Dark Knight or Ironman not win best Sci-fi/Superhero? I mean, are we being really strict wi... Read More

Barry About me

18:29, 30 March 2009 | Report This Post
Some good, some Bad
Dark Knight deserves every award it gets and more so no problems there. Quantam of solace was a load of crap and so was Wanted. Glad to see Rock n Rolla get a bit of recognition as it was a really entertaining film. So a bit of a mixed bag... ... Read More

TheHazman About me

16:37, 30 March 2009 | Report This Post
RE: RE:
L: fiercehairdo L: Ace Rothstein Quantum Of Solace is an abysmal film, how did that win best thriller? An already muddled and confused plot obfuscated by poorly edited, often superfluous and badly executed action sequences. I used to like the Empire awards when I was 14( Star Wars gets awards recognition!). But now I see them for what they are- juvenile and dominated by mainstream fare( yes, The Dark Knight is a good film but where is the appetite for indepedent cinema such as the art... Read More

waltham1979 About me

15:36, 30 March 2009 | Report This Post
What an utter mess!!!
Best British film - RocknRolla??? Best Thriller - Quantum of Solace??? Best Sci-Fi - Wanted??? And of course, complete over flagulation of The Dark Knight. Oh, and what the hell is Russell Crowe on at the moment? ... Read More

craig.maclellan About me

15:32, 30 March 2009 | Report This Post
Great Chocies!
Wow! What a star-filled night! I am happy with the results and glad that RocknRolla won Best Brittish Film (just nearly finished it on Blu-Ray and loving every second of it!) Brilliant news for the Dark Knight and Qutuam of Solace, lots of hotties around like James Mcavoy, Christian Bale and even Gerard Butler! Ah, need to see the show on tv when it comes on! ... Read More

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