Skyfall Wins The Jameson Empire Awards

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Sam Mendes, Kevin Spacey

by Helen O'Hara |
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The name's Winner, Big Winner. Skyfall picked up Best Film at the Jameson Empire Award tonight in London, with director Sam Mendes also winning Best Director and a special Empire Inspiration award for good measure. The awards, voted for by the most enthusiastic film fans and most discerning cineastes in the world (that'd be you, Empire readers), also saw The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey take Best SCi-Fi/Fantasy and Best Actor for Martin Freeman, while Jennifer Lawrence was voted Best Actress for The Hunger Games.

Elsewhere, Sightseers won Best British Film and Headhunters took Best Thriller, while Best Comedy went to Ted. Hammer's The Woman In Black was Best Horror, and its star Daniel Radcliffe won an Empire Hero prize. Best Male Newcomer was The Impossible's Tom Holland, while Samantha Barks was Best Female Newcomer following her turn in Les Miserables.

Danny Boyle took our Outstanding Contribution award with typical modesty, saying that the biggest contribution he made was with that Bond-starring "Skyfall trailer" at the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Helen Mirren, meanwhile, was dubbed an Empire Legend, while laughing that she was "more of a leg-over".

The full list of winners is below - and you can read a blow-by-blow account of the awards right over here. Check back tomorrow morning for video and more pics from the night.

Here are this year's Jameson Empire Award nominees and winners.

BEST MALE NEWCOMER (presented by Entertainment Tonight)

Tom Holland (The Impossible)

Domnhal Gleeson (Anna Karenina)

Suraj Sharma (Life Of Pi)

Rafe Spall (Life Of Pi)

Steve Oram (Sightseers)

BEST FEMALE NEWCOMER

Samantha Barks (Les Miserables)

Alicia Vikander (Anna Karenina)

Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts Of The Southern Wild)

Alice Lowe (Sightseers)

Holliday Grainger (Great Expectations)

BEST COMEDY (presented by Magic 105.4)

Ted

Moonrise Kingdom

21 Jump Street

Silver Linings Playbook

Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

BEST SCIENCE-FICTION / FANTASY

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Looper

Avengers Assemble

Prometheus

Dredd 3D

BEST THRILLER

Headhunters

Skyfall

Argo

The Raid

Zero Dark Thirty

BEST HORROR (presented by Cafe de Paris)

The Woman In Black

Sightseers

Sinister

Dark Shadows

The Cabin In The Woods

BEST 3D (presented by RealD)

Dredd 3D

Life Of Pi

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Avengers Assemble

Prometheus

BEST BRITISH FILM

Sightseers

Dredd 3D

The Woman In Black

Les Miserables

Skyfall

BEST DIRECTOR

Sam Mendes (Skyfall)

Joss Whedon (Avengers Assemble)

Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises)

Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Peter Jackson (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Jameson BEST ACTOR

Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

Daniel Craig (Skyfall)

Robert Downey Jr. (Avengers Assemble)

BEST ACTRESS (presented by Citroen)

Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games)

Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises)

Judi Dench (Skyfall)

Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

Naomi Watts (The Impossible)

BEST FILM (presented by Sky Movies)

Skyfall

Django Unchained

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Dark Knight Rises

The Avengers Assemble

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