Empire Awards 2010

Films
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The Empire awards have been announced. Nice to see In the Loop win something. Not sure I agree with Avatar winning so many awards though.

Best Film
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek

Best Actor
Michael Caine - Harry Brown
Robert Downey Jr - Sherlock Holmes
Robert Pattinson - The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Sam Worthington - Avatar

Best Actress
Emily Blunt - The Young Victoria
Anne-Marie Duff - Nowhere Boy
Mélanie Laurent - Inglourious Basterds
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Zoe Saldana - Avatar

Best Director
J. J. Abrams - Star Trek
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Neill Blomkamp - District 9
James Cameron - Avatar
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

Best British Film
An Education
Harry Brown
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
In the Loop
Nowhere Boy

Best Comedy
The Hangover
In the Loop
The Men Who Stare At Goats
A Serious Man
Up In the Air

Best Horror
Drag Me to Hell
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)
Paranormal Activity
Thirst
Zombieland

Best Sci-Fi
Avatar
District 9
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Moon
Star Trek

Best Thriller
Harry Brown
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Public Enemies
Sherlock Holmes

Best Newcomer
Sharlto Copley - District 9
Katie Jarvis - Fish Tank
Aaron Johnson - Nowhere Boy
Anna Kendrick - Up In the Air/The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Carey Mulligan - An Education

Empire Hero Award
Jude Law

Empire Inspiration Award
Andy Serkis

Outstanding Contribution To British Film Award
Ray Winstone

Empire Icon Award
Ian McKellen

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Zoe Saldana? Seriously? What a travesty.

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Were these voted for by Empire readers?

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The polls were held on the Empire web site, so of sorts yes. I voted.

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Best horror: Let the right one in

What?? WHAT??? Scarier than Paranormal Activity??? It wasn’t even a horror!!! (Well, not that I remember anyways - just a story about being accepted or something like that…) :shock: :shock: :shock:

:?

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Agreed - CGI isn’t really acting - sure it’s based on what you do, but they can change everything on the computer, so the acting really doens’t have to be all that :?

[quote=“bsuije”]Best horror: Let the right one in

What?? WHAT??? Scarier than Paranormal Activity??? It wasn’t even a horror!!! (Well, not that I remember anyways - just a story about being accepted or something like that…) :shock: :shock: :shock:

:? [/quote]

It’s undoubtedly the better film though, but yes, I do question its presence in that field… I think that I plumped for a certain Antichrist… not really a horror either, yet truly horrific :evil:

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At least Antichrist was a bit more of a horror film than Let the Right One In. I guess the problem is that people were voting for their favourite film in the horror genre (even if it’s fairly loosely linked to the genre) instead of the film that does horror best.

Strangely enough they didn’t do that for the Sci-Fi section where Star Trek beat Avatar. :?