Sam Smith to sing for Spectre, first Bourne 5 shot and Christopher Nolan’s latest announced

Widely hailed as the most celebrated director of this century, Christopher Nolan nine stunning feature films include acclaimed masterpieces including Interstellar, Inception, Memento and The Dark Knight. Since 2006, Nolan has consistently produced a new film every two years but his newly announced upcoming project will leave a three year gap as it has confirmed that his new film will land in July 2017.

So far literally no announcements or rumours have been made regarding plot, genre or cast but we do know that Warner Bros are behind it and it’s competition on that weekend includes Luc Besson sci-fi Valerian (Cara Delevingne, Dane DeHaan, Clive Owen) and comedy musical sequel Pitch Perfect 2 (Anna Kendrick, Hailee Steinfeld, Rebel Wilson). The blockbuster friendly July release date suggests that we won’t be expected a low key noir thriller/drama such as Memento, Insomnia, Following or The Prestige.

Having visited superheroes three times already in The Dark Knight trilogy we can rule that genre out. It seems unlikely that WB would put another sci-fi film to compete with Valerian so we reckon Nolan is moving into a genre he’s yet to mine. Fantasy adventure? Historical epic? Horror? Either way, its almost certain that six-time collaborator Michael Caine will almost certainly star.

Meanwhile, it was also announced that British singer Sam Smith – Stay With Me, Money on My Mind, Lay Me Down – will be singing the theme song for the upcoming James Bond sequel Spectre (succeeding the likes of Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Duran Duran, Paul McCartney, Jack White, Louie Armstrong and Adele). The track is titled Writing’s on the Wall. The reveal was mildly surprising after strong rumours that the job would go to Ellie Goulding or Radiohead. Our own pick would be Florence and the Machine.

Spectre is directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road Perdition) and stars Daniel Craig (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), Monica Bellucci (Irreversible), Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained), Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Lea Seydoux (Blue is the Warmest Colour), Ben Whishaw (Cloud Atlas), Naomie Harris (28 Days Later), Rory Kinnear (The Imitation Game), Andrew Scott (Sherlock) and Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy).

Spectre – October 26th

Nolan 10 – July 21st 2017

Interstellar and Kingsman win big at the Empire Awards

BAFTA chose Boyhood, Golden Globes elected the latter and The Grand Budapest Hotel, Oscars voted for Birdman while our own pick was Guardians of the Galaxy. Empire, a ceremony that brilliantly mashes together the arthouse and the mainstream, has just revealed its recipients. Previous winners of Best Film have included Seven, The Matrix, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Dark Knight, Avatar, Inception, Skyfall and Gravity. For a bit of background on the honorary awards, Hero marks a current contribution to cinema (Simon Pegg, Daniel Radcliffe, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Jude Law), the Icon/Legend celebrates a lifespan of great work (Brian Cox, Ewan MacGregor, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Gary Oldman, Hugh Jackman) and Inspiration is for a modern master filmmaker (Monty Python, Aardman, Pixar, Michael Mann, Ray Harreyhausen, Guillermo Del Toro, Sam Mendes, Ron Howard, Kenneth Branagh, Edgar Wright, Stephen Frears, Spike Lee, Paul Greengrass).

Best Film:

Interstellar
Boyhood
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Imitation Game

Best British Film:

Kingsman: The Secret Service
Paddington
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Under the Skin

Best Director:

Christopher Nolan – Interstellar
Matt Reeves – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game
Peter Jackson – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Best Actor:

Andy Serkis – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
Bradley Cooper – American Sniper
Eddie Redmanye – The Theory of Everything
Richard Armitage – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Best Actress:

Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina
Emily Blunt – Edge of Tomorrow
Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game

Best Male Newcomer:

Taron Egerton – Kingsman: The Secret Service
Dan Stevens – The Guest
Daniel Huttlestone – Into the Woods
Ellar Coltrane – Boyhood
Jack O’Connell – Unbroken

Best Female Newcomer:

Karen Gillan – Oculus and Guardians of the Galaxy
Carrie Coon – Gone Girl
Essie Davis – The Babadook
Gugu Mbatha Raw – Belle
Sophie Cookson – Kingsman: The Secret Service

Best Comedy:

Paddington
22 Jump Street
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Inbetweeners 2
The Lego Movie

Best Horror:

The Babadook
Annabelle
Oculus
The Guest
Under the Skin

Best Sci-fi/Fantasy:

X-Men: Days of Future Past
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Best Thriller:

The Imitation Game
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Gone Girl
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Locke

Empire Legend:

Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Schindler’s List, Skyfall)

Empire Hero:

Game of Thrones (Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harrington, Lena Headey, Charles Dance, Natalie Dormer, Sean Bean)

Empire Inspiration:

Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight trilogy, The Following, Inception, Insomnia, Interstellar, Memento, The Prestige)

Here’s a few images from the night itself, hosted by James Nesbitt. Guests include: Henry Cavill (Man of Steel), Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace), Jessica Chastain (The Help), Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead), James McAvoy (Atonement), Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Reece Shearsmith (A Field in England) and Matt Berry (The IT Crowd).

James Bond returns in the first trailer for Spectre

007 makes his return hunting down a mysterious organisation that is somehow linked to his past in Spectre. The very first trailer has just confirmed some of our many speculative suspicions. The first trailer has now been released and our preview of it is below. What we’ve drawn from the trailer may be wrong but it may also turn out to be a minor spoiler for the film so be warned.

The opening shot shows the rubble of the MI6 headquarters that Javier Bardem’s Silva destroyed back in 2012’s Skyfall. This shows that the events of the previous film are having a lasting effect and that MI6 is still in turmoil from the disaster that M (Judi Dench) left. The rumour is that the head of MI5 (Andrew Scott) is merging the two but this may be Spectre’s ploy to infiltrate MI6. Bond is then seen in possession of some mysterious documents. Look closely and you’ll see it shows that following his parents death, James’ guardians were in fact the Oberhauser family, one of whom is Christoph Waltz’ character – making him a childhood friend of James’. The burnt out face on the photograph is almost certainly him.

Bond is then seen sailing towards the a mountainous chalet. Following shots of the new Bond girl and new sleeker Aston Martin, we discover this is the dishevelled residence of the equally decrepit Mr White (a recurring villain in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace and a lead kingpin of Quantum, what we suspect to be the sister organisation of Spectre).

Finally there’s a glimpse at Spectre’s shadowy meeting room, featuring their twenty one key chiefs and Hans Oberhauser himself. Rumours keep on persisting about this character in fact being the infamous Ernst Stravo Blofeld, the most iconic villain of all of Bond’s history. Honestly, we hope this isn’t true as it’d be even more obvious than the disappointing Moneypenny reveal in Skyfall. The very final (gun)shot, we reckon, is almost identical to the cracked car windscreen glass from the finale of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. There are a couple of disappointing omissions from the trailer such as Q, M and the new henchman Mr Hinx but overall it’s a massively exciting teaser.

Sam Mendes (Road to Perdition, Revolutionary Road, American Beauty) directs the ensemble of Daniel Craig (Layer Cake, Munich), Monica Bellucci (Irreversible, The Matrix), Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Schindler’s List), Lea Seydoux (Blue is the Warmest Colour, Midnight in Paris), Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy, Riddick), Naomie Harris (28 Days Later, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom), Ben Whishaw (Cloud Atlas, Paddington), Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Pride), Rory Kinnear (The Imitation Game, Southcliffe), Jesper Christensen (Melancholia, The Young Victoria) and Christoph Waltz (Inglorious, Django Unchained).

Spectre – October 23rd

Michael Fassbender and Seth Rogen star in the first look at Steve Jobs and new Spectre poster

We thought we might never get to see this photo but we have the first look at the technology pioneer Steve Jobs biopic. The script, from acclaimed scribe Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, Moneyball, Charlie Wilson’s War, A Few Good Men, The West Wing, The Newsroom), has been in development for years. David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club, Gone Girl) entered and then quit as director while actors being run through the casting mill included Christian Bale (The Dark Knight), Leonardo Di Caprio (The Wolf of Wall Street), Matt Damon (The Bourne Identity), Ben Affleck (Argo), Bradley Cooper (American Sniper), Jessica Chastain (Interstellar), Natalie Portman (Black Swan) and Scarlett Johansson (The Avengers).

With Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Shallow Grace, 28 Days Later, 127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire) at the helm, the film has moved into production with the very first images being revealed. The Oscar favourite will star Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave, Prometheus), Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, The Interview), Katharine Waterston (Inherent Vice), Jeff Daniels (The Purple Rose of Cairo, Looper), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man, Hugo) and Kate Winslet (Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).

The upcoming Bond film Spectre is yet to have finished all of its production but the release of this poster means that we’re closer to seeing a trailer than we though. The shot seems to show Craig’s 007 looking more similar to Sean Connery. Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty, Road to Perdition) directs the cast of Daniel Craig (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), Lea Seydoux (Blue is the Warmest Colour), Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained), Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Naomie Harris (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom), Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), Monica Bellucci (Irreversible), Andrew Scott (Pride), Rory Kinnear (The Imitation Game) and Ben Whishaw (Cloud Atlas) as Q.

Spectre – October 23rd

Steve Jobs – November 13th

Who were the real winners of the awards season? Birdman? Boyhood? Interstellar? Ida?

The losers of the 2015 awards season were evident. American Sniper, The Imitation Game, Foxcatcher, Nightcrawler, Into the Woods and Gone Girl all received plenty of nominations but failed to convey them as wins. For this list we’re compiling a top ten based on their wins in the Oscars, Golden Globes and BAFTAs (what we consider the the three key ceremonies) as well as the commercial and critical effect the awards have had. Here they are:

10) Selma

Director: Ava DuVernay
Starring: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson, Giovanni Ribisi, Oprah Winfrey
Wins: 2 – Best Original Song
Nominations: 6 – Best Picture
IMDb Rating: 7.6
Box-office: $57 million

9) Interstellar

Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Matthew MacConaughey, Mackenzie Foy, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine
Wins: 2 – Best Special Effects
Nominations: 10 – Best Original Score, Best Cinematography
IMDb Rating: 8.8
Box-office: $672 million

8) Ida

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzenuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik
Wins: 2 – Best Foreign Language Film
Nominations: 5 – Best Cinematography
IMDb Rating: 7.5
Box-office: $10 million

7) Citizenfour

Director: Laura Poitras
Starring: Edward Snowden
Wins: 2 – Best Documentary
Nominations: 2
IMDb Rating: 8.3
Box-office: $2 million

6) Still Alice

Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Starring: Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth
Wins: 3 – Best Leading Actress (Moore)
Nominations: 3
IMDb Rating: 7.5
Box-office: $15 million

5) The Theory of Everything

Director: James Marsh
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, David Thewlis, Charlie Cox, Simon McBurney
Wins: 6 – Best Leading Actor (Redmayne), Best British Film
Nominations: 19 – Best Picture, Best Leading Actress (Jones)
IMDb Rating: 7.8
Box-office: $110 million

4) Whiplash

Director: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Miles Teller, JK Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell
Wins: 7 – Best Supporting Actor (Simmons), Best Editing
Nominations: 11 – Best Picture, Best Adapted/Original Screenplay
IMDb Rating: 8.6
Box-office: $13 million

3) Boyhood

Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Lorelei Linklater
Wins: 7 – Best Film, Best Supporting Actress (Arquette), Best Director
Nominations: 16 – Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Hawke)
IMDb Rating: 8.2
Box-office: $44 million

2) Birdman

Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Starring: Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Zach Galifianakis, Naomi Watts
Wins: 7 – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography
Nominations: 26 – Best Actor (Keaton), Best Supporting Actress (Stone), Best Supporting Actor (Norton)
IMDb Rating: 8.0
Box-office: $87 million

1) The Grand Budapest Hotel

Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody
Wins: 10 – Best Film Comedy/Musical, Best Original Score, Best Original Screenplay
Nominations: 24 – Best Picture, Best Actor (Fiennes), Best Director, Best Cinematography
IMDb Rating: 8.1
Box-office: $174 million

If you found this post interesting please tell us in the comments as we may be publishing more top tens like this in the future. Bye for now!

First look at Dave Bautista and Lea Seydoux in Spectre plus new look at Ruffalo’s Hulk

Be it Spectre, SPECTRE or S.P.E.C.T.R.E., Bond’s twenty fourth outing is attracting a lot of press attention and Empire has been tracking production from London to Berlin to the Austrian Alps. Their major new unveiling of the film kicks off in this weekend’s issue. As a sneak peak, we now have our first look at two of the film’s villains. Firstly the enforcer Hinx, played by Guardians of the Galaxy’s Dave Bautista, and the mysterious doctor Madeleine Swann (Blue is the Warmest Colour star Lea Seydoux) – pictured with director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Skyfall).

This pair are working for our main villain Oberhauser, two time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained, Carnage). This time round, our Bond is Daniel Craig (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), our Bond girl is Monica Bellucci (Irreversible), Moneypenny is Naomie Harris (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom), Ben Whishaw (Paddington) is Q and Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Harry Potter, Schindler’s List, In Bruges) is M. Rory Kinnear (The Casual Vacancy, The Imitation Game) and Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Pride) also take places on the cast.

Yesterday, we got a suited up Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) in the first character one sheet but Shutter Island, The Kids Are All Right and Foxcatcher star Mark Ruffalo dons his motion capture outfit for his Hulk close up. Banner will be posing a greater danger than ever before as the Scarlet Witch begins her mid games.

Joss Whedon (Firefly) commands the returning cast of Jeremy Renner (American Hustle, The Hurt Locker), Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, The Prestige), Chris Hemsworth (Rush, The Cabin in the Woods), Chris Evans (Snowpiercer), Don Cheadle (Boogie Nights), Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), Stellan Skarsgard (Melancholia), Paul Bettany (Master and Commander) and Samuel L Jackson (The Incredibles) with the newbies Andy Serkis (The Hobbit), Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene), Aaron Taylor Johnson (Godzilla), Thomas Kretschmann (King Kong) and James Spader (The Blacklist).

The Avengers: Age of Ultron – April 23rd

Spectre – October 23rd

Avengers 2 poster, Blomkamp directing new Alien and Boyhood, Kingsman, Interstellar and Imitation Game rule Empire Awards

Neill Blomkamp has been busy giving sci-fi and the South African film industry a good name with the Best Picture nominated District 9, the Matt Damon-starring Elysium and his new thriller Chappie but he was secretly developing ideas for a new Alien film. When the bold concept art was released it showcased a brilliant insight of the project he’d envisioned and the acclaim it received has sparked some level of interest. The Johannesburg-born filmmaker’s Alien instalment has been officially commissioned in addition to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel. Details such as a release date or cast are yet to be confirmed but we might see appearance from Blomkamp regular Sharlto Copley (Maleficent, Powers) or a return for Sigourney Weaver (Avatar, The Cabin in the Woods) AKA Ripley.

Birdman, Boyhood, Still Alice and Whiplash took centre stage at the Oscars, BAFTAs and Golden Globes in the past few months but the Empire Awards are set to amalgamate the mainstream and the arthouse in their public-voted awards. Previous winners include The Bourne Ultimatum, Men in Black Seven, Skyfall, Inception and Gravity. Click here for the voting while you can admire all of the nominees below.

Best Film:

The Imitation Game
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Boyhood

Best Director:

Peter Jackson – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Matt Reeves – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Christopher Nolan – Interstellar
Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game

Best Actress:

Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
Emily Blunt – Edge of Tomorrow
Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina

Jameson Best Actor:

Andy Serkis – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
Bradley Cooper – American Sniper
Richard Armitage – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Best British Film:

The Imitation Game
Paddington
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Under the Skin
The Theory of Everything

Best Thriller:

The Imitation Game
Gone Girl
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Locke

Best Comedy:

The Inbetweeners 2
Paddington
The Lego Movie
22 Jump Street
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Horror:

The Guest
Oculus
The Babadook
Annabelle
Under the Skin

Best Sci-fi/Fantasy:

Guardians of the Galaxy
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Interstellar

Best Female Newcomer:

Carrie Coon (Gone Girl)
Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy)
Essie Davis (The Babadook)
Sophie Cookson (Kingsman: The Secret Service)
Gugu Mbatha Raw (Belle, Beyond the Lights, Jupiter Ascending)

Best Male Newcomer:

Jack O’Connell (Unbroken, ’71, Starred Up)
Dan Stevens (The Guest, A Walk Among the Tombstones)
Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service, Testament of Youth)
Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood)
Daniel Huttlestone (Into the Woods)

Here’s the leaderboard:

The Imitation Game – 6
Dawn of the Planet if the Apes, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Kingsman: The Secret Service – 4
Boyhood, Gone Girl, Interstellar, The Theory of Everything – 3
The Babadook, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Guest, Oculus, Paddington, Under the Skin, X-Men: Days of Future Past – 2

Finally today, we have the first major poster of The Avengers: Age of Ultron, tipped to be the biggest blockbuster of 2015. Joss Whedon (Serenity, Toy Story, The Cabin in the Woods) directs the cast of Robert Downey Jr (The Judge), Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher), Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation), Chris Hemsworth (Rush), Chris Evans (Snowpiercer), Jeremy Renner (American Hustle), Samuel L Jackson (Pulp Fiction), Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), Don Cheadle (Crash), James Spader (The Blacklist), Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene), Aaron Taylor Johnson (Kick-Ass), Thomas Kretschmann (The Pianist), Stellan Skarsgard (Good Will Hunting), Andy Serkis (The Hobbit) and Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind).

The Avengers: Age of Ultron – April 23rd

Alien 5 – 2017?

2015 Academy Awards preview

Tonight, questions will be answered. Will American Sniper gun down competition? Will Birdman take flight? Is Boyhood coming of age? Will The Grand Budapest Hotel cater to its awards dreams? Will Imitation Game crack Hollywood? Is Selma marching for the Academy’s vote? Is a breakthrough in store for The Theory of Everything? Is tonight a diagnosis of Whiplash? Besides all male protagonists, what connects these fine films is their involvement in this year’s Academy Awards.

How I Met Your Mother and Gone Girl star Neil Patrick Harris has the answers and will be revealing them soon but for now we’ll be recapping on the most important awards race of the year as the Oscars kick off.

In Best Picture, eight nominees are challenging and we can divide them into two categories. Firstly, the safer bets: Boyhood, a coming of age tale filmed across twelve years, is our shoe in for victory, having been raved since its summer release and picking up top prize at the BAFTAs and the Golden Globes. The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything are both emotional and excellent but may struggle due to their lack of distinguishing from eachother, both depicting Oxbridge-type geniuses and the difficulties of their personal life. Fellow biopic Selma is missed out on all other major categories so we’d doubt its chances here.

Leading the way in the edgier options is Birdman, a tale centred on an egotistical, washed up actor escaping the demons of the Hollywood superhero he once played. It is still trailing Boyhood despite cleaning up at the Indie Spirit and a Globe Comedy/Musical win. Fact based army thriller American Sniper, is the highest grossing of the eight so it may follow the steps of Gravity by retreating to the technical categories. Whimsical comedy caper The Grand Budapest Hotel is greatly popular but has struggled to pose a serious threat while drumming drama Whiplash actually leads on IMDb rankings and is one of the few prolific entries that wasn’t part of some grand Oscar campaign from is inception.

Best Director is a category overshadowed by the controversial snubbing of Selma’s Ava DuVernay, a major oversight for the Academy. From the five white male contenders, the Mexican Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman) and Richard Linklater (Boyhood) are going head to head; the latter is tipped to win but Inarritu has the backing of the Director’s Guild. Wes Anderson (Grand Budapest) is still set to miss out on winning his first Oscar and it might be a rough evening for Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher) and thirty year old newcomer Damien Chazelle (Whiplash).

Best Actor has four first time candidates. Bradley Cooper (American Sniper) is on his third consecutive nomination after Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle but there’s an alarming lack of hype surrounding his chances. Despicable Me/Anchorman star Steve Carell‘s transformation in Foxcatcher and Sherlock/Benedict Cumberbatch‘s turn in The Imitation Game have so far found the acceptance podium illusive. It’s between Birdman’s comeback king Michael Keaton and Theory of Everything’s mastermind Eddie Redmayne.

In Actress, former winners Marion Cotillard (Two Days One Night) and Reese Witherspoon (Wild) are proving popular but it’ll be fifth time lucky for Still Alice star Julianne Moore. Brits Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) and Felicity Jones (Theory of Everything) might prove to be dark horses however.

Elsewhere, JK Simmons (Whiplash) and Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) are set to surmount competition from veterans Robert Duvall (The Judge) and Meryl Streep (Into the Woods), Hulk actors Edward Norton (Birdman) and Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher) as well as the likes of Ethan Hawke (Boyhood), Laura Dern (Wild), Emma Stone (Birdman) and Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game).

Here’s a few more faces to look out for tonight:

Interstellar – Original Score, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Production Design, Visual Effects

Foxcatcher – Actor in a Leading Role (Steve Carell), Actor in a Supporting Role (Mark Ruffalo), Directing, Original Screenplay, Makeup and Hairstyling

Nightcrawler – Original Screenplay

Into the Woods – Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep), Costume Design, Production Design

Mr Turner – Cinematography, Costume Design, Original Score, Production Design

Unbroken – Cinematography, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing

The 2015 Tuorhoth Awards

The BAFTAs and Golden Globes all favoured Boyhood while other awards have crowned the likes of Birdman, The Imitation Game or The Grand Budapest Hotel. Far more prestigious than any of those however is our own ceremony. Succeeding Hugo, Les Miserables and Captain Phillips is our new winner: Guardians of the Galaxy, a space adventure that took both Marvel and the audience into the reach universe of outer space. Get the full list of winners below.

Best Film:

Guardians of the Galaxy
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
The Lego Movie
Locke
Mr Turner
The Theory of Everything

Best British Film:

Paddington
The Imitation Game
Locke
Mr Turner
The Theory of Everything

Best Director:

Christopher Nolan – Interstellar
Bryan Singer – X-Men: Days of Future Past
Mike Leigh – Mr Turner
Peter Jackson – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Best Actor:

Andy Serkis – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Martin Freeman – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Matthew MacConaughey – Interstellar
Timothy Spall – Mr Turner
Tom Hardy – Locke

Best Actress:

Emily Blunt – Edge of Tomorrow
Anne Hathaway – Interstellar
Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
Zoe Saldana – Guardians of the Galaxy

Best Supporting Actor:

Bradley Cooper – Guardians of the Galaxy
Chris O’Dowd – Calvary
Richard Armitage – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Toby Kebbell – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Tyler Perry – Gone Girl

Best Supporting Actress:

Jessica Chastain – Interstellar
Elizabeth Olsen – Godzilla
Emma Stone – Birdman
Kim Dickens – Gone Girl
Meryl Streep – Into the Woods

Best Original Screenplay:

Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness – The Grand Budapest Hotel
John Michael McDonagh – Calvary
Christopher and Jonathan Nolan – Interstellar
Phil Lord, Chris Miller – The Lego Movie
Steven Knight – Locke

Best Adapted Screenplay:

James Gunn, Nicole Perlman – Guardians of the Galaxy
Christopher McQuarrie, Jez and John Henry Butterworth – Edge of Tomorrow
Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
Mike Leigh – Mr Turner
Paul King, Hamish McColl – Paddington

Best Sci-Fi:

Guardians of the Galaxy
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Edge of Tomorrow
Interstellar
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Best Fantasy:

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Boxtrolls
Godzilla
Into the Woods
Noah

Best Comedy:

The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Boxtrolls
The Lego Movie
Paddington

Best Drama:

The Theory of Everything
Birdman
The Imitation Game
Locke
Mr Turner

Best Thriller:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Before I Go to Sleep
Fury
Gone Girl
The Two Faces of January

Best Animated Film:

The Lego Movie
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2

Best Newcomer:

Dave Bautista
David Gyasi
Tony Revolori

Best Original Score:

Howard Shore – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Henry Jackman – Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Alexandre Desplat – Godzilla
Alexandre Desplat – The Imitation Game
Hans Zimmer – Interstellar

Best Original Song:

Tegan & Sara, The Lonely Island – “Everything is AWESOME!!!” – The Lego Movie
Alicia Keys – “It’s on Again” – The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Billy Boyd – “The Last Goodbye” – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Best Cinematography:

Interstellar
Edge of Tomorrow
Godzilla
Guardians of the Galaxy
Mr Turner

Best Special Effects:

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Paddington

Here’s the winner’s leaderboard.

Guardians of the Galaxy – 5

Interstellar – 3

The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Lego Movie, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – 2

Paddington, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Edge of Tomorrow, The Theory of Everything – 1

Eric Bana joins King Arthur, new Man from UNCLE trailer and first still from Spectre

Idris Elba’s departure caused some issues in casting for the new King Arthur reboot, from Sherlock Holmes/Snatch/Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie, but from there Charlie Hunnam (Pacific Rim, Sons of Anarchy), Astrid Berges Frisbey (I Origins), Djimon Hounsou (Guardians of the Galaxy, Gladiator) and Jude Law (The Aviator, Road to Perdition, Artificial Intelligence) joined. Now Eric Bana (Star Trek, Hanna, Munich) is confirmed to be playing Arthur’s father Uther in the new film, which is setting up a franchise.

On the subject of Guy Ritchie, we have the trailer for his spy thriller The Man From UNCLE. It sees a Russian and American agent in 1963 forced to work together to prevent a nuclear disaster. It stars Henry Cavill (Man of Steel), Armie Hammer (The Social Network, The Lone Ranger), Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, A Royal Affair), Elizabeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby), Jared Harris (A Game of Shadows, Lincoln) and Hugh Grant (Notting Hill, Cloud Atlas).

UNCLE isn’t the only spy movie planned this year with Kingsman: The Secret Service released and Melissa McCarthy’s comedy Spy and Mission: Impossible 5 still to come. The biggest release though is Spectre, the twenty fourth Bond instalment. The very first still has been revealed and shows Bond in action in the Austrian Alps.

Oscar winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, Road to Perdition, Revolutionary Road, Jarhead, American Beauty) directs the cast of Daniel Craig (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Lea Seydoux (Blue is the Warmest Colour), Naomie Harris (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom), Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), Ben Whishaw (Cloud Atlas), Monica Bellucci (The Matrix), Andrew Scott (Sherlock), Rory Kinnear (The Imitation Game) with Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained, Big Eyes) as Oberhauser and Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel, In Bruges) as M.

The Man From UNCLE – August 14th

Spectre – October 23rd

Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur – July 22nd 2016