The 14th Empire Awards (AKA Jameson Empire Awards), honoring the best in film in 2008, were held on March 29, 2009 at the Grosvenor House Hotel^[1] and hosted by Dara Ó Briain.^[2] The shortlisted nominees were revealed on March 2, 2009 and finale voting ended on March 12, 2009.^[3] Beginning with this year the Empire Awards were sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey. Below is a complete list of nominees and winners. Winners are highlighted in bold.

Winners and Nominees[link]

Best Film[link]

The Dark Knight^[4]

• Iron Man^[4]
• No Country For Old Men^[4]
• There Will Be Blood^[4]
• WALL-E^[4]

Best British Film[link]

RocknRolla^[5]

• Eden Lake^[5]
• Hunger^[5]
• In Bruges^[5]
• Son of Rambow^[5]

Best Comedy[link]

Son of Rambow^[6]

• Burn After Reading^[6]
• Ghost Town^[6]
• In Bruges^[6]
• Tropic Thunder^[6]

Best Horror[link]

Eden Lake^[7]

• The Mist^[7]
• The Orphanage^[7]
• The Strangers^[7]
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street^[7]

Best Sci-Fi / Superhero[link]

Wanted^[8]

• The Dark Knight^[8]
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army^[8]
• Iron Man^[8]
• WALL-E^[8]

Best Thriller[link]

Quantum of Solace^[9]

• Changeling^[9]
• Eagle Eye^[9]
• Gone Baby Gone^[9]
• No Country For Old Men^[9]

Best Actor[link]

Christian Bale — The Dark Knight^[10]

• Daniel Craig — Quantum of Solace^[10]
• Daniel Day-Lewis — There Will Be Blood^[10]
• Johnny Depp — Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street^[10]
• Robert Downey, Jr. — Iron Man^[10]

Best Actress[link]

Helena Bonham Carter — Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street^[11]

• Angelina Jolie — Changeling^[11]
• Ellen Page — Juno^[11]
• Olga Kurylenko — Quantum of Solace^[11]
• Sally Hawkins — Happy-Go-Lucky^[11]

Best Director[link]

Christopher Nolan — The Dark Knight^[12]

• Andrew Stanton — WALL-E^[12]
• Ethan Coen & Joel Coen — No Country For Old Men^[12]
• Paul Thomas Anderson — There Will Be Blood^[12]
• Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street^[12]

Best Newcomer[link]

Gemma Arterton — Quantum of Solace^[13]

• Hayley Atwell — The Duchess^[13]
• Jim Sturgess — 21^[13]
• Robert Pattinson — Twilight^[13]
• Toby Kebbell — RocknRolla^[13]

Best Soundtrack[link]

Mamma Mia!^[14]

• Quantum of Solace^[14]
• RocknRolla^[14]
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street^[14]
• There Will Be Blood^[14]

Done In 60 Seconds Award[link]

Jerry Maguire by Stephen Power and Conal O'Meara^[15][16]

• Cloverfield by Ewan Smith^[15][17]
• Pearl Harbour by Mark C. Wong^[15][18]
• Seven by Ewan Warburton^[15][19]
• The Dark Knight by Steven Seller^[15][20]

Highly Commended[link]

This year's entries that didn't make the final shortlist.^[15]

• American Psycho by Mike Doxford^[21]
• Forrest Gump by^[22]
• Requiem For A Dream by Charlie Lyne^[23]
• Reservoir Dogs by Harry Lindley^[24]
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day by Katie Child^[25]
• The Fugitive by Martin Selby and Tom Marshall^[26]
• WALL-E by Melanie Keyzor^[27]

Special Awards[link]

Icon Award[link]

Viggo Mortensen^[28]

Outstanding Contribution To British Film[link]

Danny Boyle^[29]

Actor of our Lifetime[link]

Russell Crowe^[30]

Heath Ledger Tribute[link]

A special tribute award was dedicated to acknowledge the outstanding work of Heath Ledger.^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Jameson Empire Awards 2009 official website
• Empire Awards 2009 - IMDb

Empire Award
17th Empire Awards
220px An Empire award
Awarded for	Excellence in cinematic achievements
Presented by	Empire
Country	United Kingdom
First awarded	1996
Last awarded	March 25, 2012 (2012-03-25)
Official website	2012 Official website

An Empire Award is an accolade bestowed by Empire, Britain's biggest selling film magazine, to recognize excellence of professionals in the local and global film industry. The awards are voted for by readers of the magazine and in an annual ceremony, the Empire Awards, the winners are presented with the award which is covered by Empire and sometimes also televised. They were sponsored by Sony Ericsson^[1] between the 8th and the 13th Empire Awards with the exception of the 12th which was without a ceremony,^[2] and since the 14th Empire Awards are sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey.^[3]

The first Empire Awards ceremony was held on 1996, to honour outstanding film achievements of the 1995 film season. The most recent ceremony, honouring films in 2011, was held at Grosvenor House Hotel on March 25, 2012.

Empire Awards categories[link]

Award categories as of 2012[link]

• Best Actor: 1996 to present
• Best Actress: 1996 to present
• Best British Film: 1996 to present; In 2002 it was known as "Sky Movies Best British Film"
• Best Comedy: 2006 to present
• Best Director: 1996 to present
• Best Film: 1996 to present
• Best Horror: 2006 to present
• Best Newcomer: 1996 to present; It was known as "Best Debut" from 1996 to 2002; in 2007 it was split to "Best Male Newcomer" and "Best Female Newcomer"
• Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy: 2006 to present; In 2009 it was known as "Best Sci-Fi/Superhero"
• Best Thriller: 2006 to present
• Done In 60 Seconds Award: 2008 to present

Retired awards[link]

• Best British Actor: 1996 to 2005
• Best British Actress: 1996 to 2005
• Best British Director: 1997 to 2001; 2005
• Sony Ericsson Scene of the Year: 2003 to 2007; In 2007 it was known as "Scene Of The Year"
• Sony Ericsson Soundtrack Award: to 2008 - 2009; In 2009 it was known as "Best Soundtrack"

Special Empire Awards[link]

Current special awards[link]

• Empire Hero Award: 2010 to present
• Empire Inspiration Award: 1997; 1999 to 2002; 2004 to 2006; 2008; 2010 to present
• Icon Award: 2006; 2008 to present

Retired special awards[link]

• Actor Of Our Lifetime: 2009 only
• Contribution to Cinema: 2000 only; Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema: 2005 to 2006; Outstanding Contribution To British Film from 2008 to 2010
• Empire Career Achievement Award: 2004 only
• Empire Independent Spirit Award: 2002 to 2005
• Empire Lifetime Achievement Award: 1996 to 2004; 2006;
• Empire Movie Masterpiece: 1999 to 2000
• Heath Ledger Tribute: 2009 only
• Icon of the Decade: 2005 only

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Jameson Empire Awards 2012 official website (current ceremony)
• Empire Awards at IMDb

Samuel George "Sam" Claflin (born 27 June 1986) is an English actor, best known for his role in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides And playing Prince William in Snow White and the Huntsman.

Claflin was born in Ipswich, Suffolk. His father is an accountant/financial manager and his mother is a classroom assistant at Ormiston Victory Academy.^[1] In 2010, Claflin appeared on the television series The Pillars of the Earth and Any Human Heart. In April 2010, he was cast as Phillip Swift in the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, titled Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides which was released on 20 May 2011.^[2] In March 2011, he was cast as Thomas in The Seventh Son, a film adaptation of The Spook's Apprentice,^[3] but dropped out for unknown reasons and was replaced by Ben Barnes.^[4] In April 2011, he portrayed the role of footballer Duncan Edwards in the BBC TV drama United, which was centred around the events of the 1958 Munich air disaster, in which Edwards was fatally injured.^[5]

In March 2011, it was confirmed that Claflin would be playing a supporting role in the film Snow White and the Huntsman, which was released in the summer of 2012.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sam Claflin at the Internet Movie Database
• Sam Claflin Profile at TV Lives

Anupama Chopra
Anupama Chopra at the launch of her book King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema
Born	Anupama Chandra (1962-10-31) October 31, 1962 (age 49) Calcutta, India
Occupation	Author, Journalist, Film critic
Spouse	Vidhu Vinod Chopra (1990 – present)

Anupama Chopra (born February 23, 1967) is an author, journalist and film critic. She has written several books on Indian cinema and has been a movie reviewer with NDTV and India Today.^[1] She is the film critic for the Hindustan Times.^[2]

Early life[link]

Anupama Chopra was born as Anupama Chandra in Calcutta, India. Her father was an executive with Union Carbide and her mother Kamna Chandra was a scriptwriter who penned dialogues for films like Prem Rog and Chandni. Chopra grew up in Mumbai where her family lived in Nepean Sea Road and then in Cuffe Parade. She also lived in Hong Kong for several years as a teenager. In 1987, she graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai with a BA in English Literature. At the advice of her teacher she decided to become a film journalist and earned her MA in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She won the Harrington Award for magazine journalism while at Medill. She later said, "Film journalism was untouchable at the time. Everybody was ashamed and nobody wanted to admit that I worked for Movie."^[3]

Career[link]

Anupama Chopra has written several books. Her first book Sholay: The Making of a Classic (2000) won the 2001 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema. Her next book Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (The Bravehearted Will Take The Bride), was published by the British Film Institute in 2002, as part of their Modern Classics Series. Her book, King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema, was featured on the Editor's Choice list of the New York Times Book Review.

Her new book First Day First Show: Writings from the Bollywood Trenches, is a compilation of her articles on Hindi cinema over two decades, published by Penguin India.

Chopra's work has been published in India Today, India’s largest English language magazine. She has also written about Bollywood for various international publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Variety and Sight & Sound. Chopra presents and scripts a weekly film review show called Picture This on NDTV 24x7.^[4]

Personal life[link]

Chopra is married to Bollywood filmmaker and director Vidhu Vinod Chopra. She is the sister of Bollywood director and screenwriter Tanuja Chandra and writer Vikram Chandra.^[3]

Bibliography[link]

• A truly motivational book, One Book for Life Success
• Sholay: The Making of a Classic
• King of Bollywood : Shah Rukh Khan and the seductive world of Indian cinema
• Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Book)
• First Day First Show: Writings from the Bollywood Trenches

References[link]

External links[link]

• Anupama Chopra website

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Helena Bonham Carter CBE
Helena Bonham Carter at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards 2011
Born	(1966-05-26) 26 May 1966 (age 46) Golders Green, London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1983–present
Partner	Tim Burton (2001–present)
Children	2
Parents	Raymond Bonham Carter (deceased) Elena (née Propper de Callejón)

Helena Bonham Carter, CBE (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane. She is known for her roles in films such as A Room with a View, Fight Club, and playing the villainess Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series, as well as for frequently collaborating with director and domestic partner Tim Burton in films such as Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows.

A two-time Academy Award nominee for her performances in The Wings of the Dove and The King's Speech, Bonham Carter's acting has been further recognised with six Golden Globe nominations, an International Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to drama,^[1][2] and received the award from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 22 February 2012.^[3]

Early life and family background[link]

Bonham Carter was born in Golders Green, London. Her mother, Elena (née Propper de Callejón), is a psychotherapist.^[4] Her father, Raymond Bonham Carter, was a merchant banker, and served as the alternative British director representing the Bank of England at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. during the 1960s.^[4][5][6] He came from a prominent British political family, being the son of British Liberal politician Sir Maurice Bonham Carter and renowned politician and orator Violet Bonham Carter. Helena's paternal great-grandfather was Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Prime Minister of Britain from 1908–1916. She is the grand-niece of Asquith's son, Anthony Asquith, legendary English director of such classics as Carrington V.C. and The Importance of Being Earnest. Helena's maternal grandfather, Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón, saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during World War II, for which he was recognised as Righteous among the Nations (his own father had been Jewish).^[7] He later served as Minister-Counselor at the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C.^[8]

Helena's maternal grandmother, Hélène Fould-Springer, was from an upper class Jewish family; she was the daughter of Baron Eugène Fould-Springer (a French banker, who was descended from the Ephrussi family and the Fould dynasty) and Marie Cecile von Springer (whose father was Austrian-born industrialist Baron Gustav von Springer, and whose mother was from the de Koenigswarter family).^[4][9][10] Hélène Fould-Springer converted to Catholicism after World War II.^[11][12] Hélène's sister was the French philanthropist Liliane de Rothschild (1916–2003), the wife of Baron Élie de Rothschild, of the prominent Rothschild family (who had also married within the von Springer family in the 19th century);^[13] her other sister, Therese Fould-Springer, was the mother of British writer David Pryce-Jones.^[9]

Bonham Carter has two brothers, Edward and Thomas, and is a distant cousin of fellow actor Crispin Bonham-Carter, who played Mr. Bingley in the 1995 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice, and politician Jane Bonham Carter. Bonham Carter is also distantly related (through marriage) to Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, and pioneering English nurse Florence Nightingale.^[14] Other prominent distant relatives include Lothian Bonham Carter, who played first-class cricket for Hampshire, and his son, Vice Admiral Stuart Bonham Carter, who served in the Royal Navy in both of the 20th century's world wars.

She was educated at South Hampstead High School, an independent girls' school in Hampstead, London, and later at Westminster School, a co-educational independent school near the Palace of Westminster. Bonham Carter was denied admission to King's College, Cambridge, not because of her grades and her test scores but because school officials were afraid that she would leave mid-term to pursue her acting career.^[15]

When Bonham Carter was five, her mother had a serious nervous breakdown, from which it took her three years to recover. Upon her recovery, her experience in therapy led her to become a psychotherapist herself – Bonham Carter now pays her to read her scripts and deliver her opinion of the characters' psychological motivations.^[16] Five years after her mother's recovery, her father was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma. He suffered complications during an operation to remove the tumour which led to a stroke that left him half-paralysed and using a wheelchair.^[17] With her two older brothers at college, Bonham Carter was left to help her mother cope. She would later study her father's movements and mannerisms for her role in The Theory of Flight,^[18] before his death in January 2004.

Career[link]

Bonham Carter and Colin Firth in the 2010 film The King's Speech

Bonham Carter has not received any formal training in acting.^[19] In 1979, she won a national writing contest and used the money to pay for her entry into the actors directory Spotlight. She made her professional acting début at the age of 16 in a television commercial. She also had a part in a minor TV film A Pattern of Roses.

Her first starring film role was as Lady Jane Grey in Lady Jane (1986), which was given mixed reviews by critics. Her breakthrough role was Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View, which was filmed after Lady Jane, but released beforehand. Bonham Carter also appeared in episodes of Miami Vice as Don Johnson's love interest during the 1986–87 season and then, in 1987 opposite Dirk Bogarde in The Vision and Stewart Granger in A Hazard of Hearts. Bonham Carter was originally cast in the role of Bess McNeill in Breaking the Waves, but backed out during production due to, "...the character's painful psychic and physical exposure," according to Roger Ebert.^[20] The role went to Emily Watson, who was nominated for an Academy Award for the role.^[21] In 1994, Bonham Carter appeared in a dream sequence during the second season of the British comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, playing Edina Monsoon's daughter Saffron. Throughout the series, references to physical similarities between Bonham Carter and the character of Saffron had been made.

These early films led to her to being typecast as a "corset queen," and "English rose," playing pre- and early 20th century characters, particularly in Merchant-Ivory films. She played Olivia in Trevor Nunn's film version of Twelfth Night in 1996. One of the high points of her early career was her performance as the scheming Kate Croy in the 1997 film adaption of Wings of the Dove which was highly acclaimed internationally and it netted her first Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. She has since expanded her range,^[19] with her more recent films being Fight Club, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Big Fish, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Alice in Wonderland.

Helena Bonham Carter at 26th Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2011.

Bonham Carter speaks French fluently, starring in a 1996 French film Portraits chinois. In August 2001, she was featured in Maxim. She played her second Queen of England when she was cast as Anne Boleyn in the ITV1 mini-series Henry VIII; however her role was restricted, as she was pregnant with her first child at the time of filming.^[22] Bonham Carter was a member of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival jury that unanimously selected The Wind That Shakes the Barley as best film.^[23]

Bonham Carter played Bellatrix Lestrange in 2007's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2009's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2010's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, and 2011's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. While filming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, she accidentally ruptured Matthew Lewis's eardrum when her character stuck her wand in his character Neville Longbottom's ear. Bonham Carter received positive reviews as Lestrange, described as a "shining but underused talent".^[24][25] She then played Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd's (Johnny Depp) amorous accomplice in the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The film was released on 21 December 2007 in the US and 25 January 2008 in the UK.^[26] Directed by Tim Burton, Bonham Carter received a nomination for the Golden Globe for Best Actress for her performance. She won the Best Actress award in the 2007 Evening Standard British Film Awards for her performances in Sweeney Todd and Conversations With Other Women, along with another Best Actress award at the 2009 Empire Awards. Bonham Carter also appeared in the fourth Terminator film entitled Terminator Salvation, playing a small but pivotal role.^[27]

In May 2006, Bonham Carter launched her own fashion line, "The Pantaloonies," with swimwear designer Samantha Sage. Their first collection, called Bloomin' Bloomers, is a Victorian style selection of camisoles, mop caps and bloomers. The duo are now working on Pantaloonies customised jeans, which Bonham Carter describes as "a kind of scrapbook on the bum."^[28]

Bonham Carter joined the cast of partner Tim Burton's 2010 film, Alice in Wonderland as The Red Queen.^[29] Bonham Carter appears alongside Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Christopher Lee and Alan Rickman. Bonham Carter's role was an amalgamation of two roles, The Queen of Hearts, and The Red Queen.^[30][31][32] In early 2009, Bonham Carter was named one of The Times newspaper's top 10 British Actresses of all time. Bonham Carter appeared on the list with fellow actresses Julie Andrews, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Audrey Hepburn.^[33]

In 2010, Bonham Carter played Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in the film The King's Speech. As of January 2011, Bonham Carter had received numerous plaudits for her performance, including nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.^[34][35] Bonham Carter won her first BAFTA Award, but lost the Academy Award to Melissa Leo for The Fighter.

Bonham Carter signed to play author Enid Blyton in the BBC Four television biopic, Enid. It was the first depiction of Blyton's life on the screen, and Bonham Carter starred with Matthew Macfadyen and Denis Lawson.^[36] Bonham Carter also received her first Television BAFTA Nomination for Best Actress, for Enid. In 2010, she starred with Freddie Highmore in the Nigel Slater biopic Toast, which was filmed in the West Midlands^[37] and received a gala at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival.^[38][39] She has now been confirmed to be taking on the role of Miss Havisham in Mike Newell's adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations.^[40] She received the Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year from BAFTA LA in November 2011.^[41]

In mid-2011, Bonham Carter was reported to be in negotiations to star in a film adaptation of the musical Les Misérables, playing the role of Madame Thénardier. Her role was later confirmed on 8 September 2011.^[42] In April 2012, Bonham Carter appeared in Rufus Wainwright's music video for his single "Out of the Game," featured on the album of the same name.^[43]

On 17 May 2012, it was announced that Bonham Carter will be appearing in an adaptation of Reif Larsen's book The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, entitled The Young and Prodigious Spivet.^[44] Her casting was announced alongside that of Kathy Bates, Kyle Catlett and Callum Keith Rennie, with Jean-Pierre Jeunet directing.^[45] She also appeared in a short film directed by Roman Polanski for the clothing brand Prada. The short was entitled A Therapy and she appeared as a therapy patient to Ben Kingsley's therapist.^[46]

Personal life[link]

Bonham Carter at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, promoting Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

In 2001, Bonham Carter began her current relationship with director Tim Burton, whom she met while filming Planet of the Apes. Burton has taken to casting Bonham Carter in his films, including Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows. They live in Belsize Park, London.^[47] Bonham Carter owned one of the houses, Burton later purchased the other and they then connected the two. She also lives in Sutton Courtenay, England.^[48]

Their son Billy Raymond Burton was born on 4 October 2003.^[49] At age 41, she gave birth to her second child, a daughter named Nell Burton, on 15 December 2007 in Central London.^[50] She says she named her daughter Nell after all the "Helens" in her family.^[50][51]

In August 2008, four of her relatives were killed in a safari bus crash in South Africa,^[47] and she was given indefinite leave from filming Terminator Salvation, returning later to complete filming.^[52]

In 2008, Bonham Carter and Burton sold their American flats for $8.75 million.^[53] In early October 2008, it was reported that Bonham Carter had become a patron of the charity Action Duchenne, the national charity established to support parents and sufferers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.^[54]

Bonham Carter is known for her unconventional sense of fashion,^[55][56] which has been described as "shabby chic".^[57] Despite her often controversial fashion choices, Vanity Fair named her on its 2010 Best-Dressed List^[58] and she was selected by Marc Jacobs to be the face of his autumn/winter 2011 advertising campaign.^[59] She cites Vivienne Westwood and Marie Antoinette as her main style influences.^[58]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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