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Star Wars: The Last Jedi leads Empire Awards pack with nine nods

Director Rian Johnson and stars John Boyega and Daisy Ridley could all be in line for prizes.
Director Rian Johnson and stars John Boyega and Daisy Ridley could all be in line for prizes. Director Rian Johnson and stars John Boyega and Daisy Ridley could all be in line for prizes.

The latest film in the Star Wars franchise, The Last Jedi, leads the pack for the Empire Awards with nine nominations.

The box office smash, directed by Rian Johnson, is shortlisted for the coveted best film award where it will do battle with horror film Get Out, Oscar-tipped Call Me By Your Name, as well as Thor: Ragnarok and Wonder Woman.

Johnson is up for best director while The Last Jedi’s lead stars, John Boyega and Daisy Ridley, both earn nods in the best actor and best actress categories respectively.

John Boyega and Daisy Ridley with Mark Hamill (Ian West/PA)
John Boyega and Daisy Ridley with Mark Hamill (Ian West/PA) John Boyega and Daisy Ridley with Mark Hamill (Ian West/PA)

Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri star Frances McDormand, Beauty And The Beast’s Emma Watson and Girls Trip’s Tiffany Haddish join Ridley on the best actress shortlist.

Gary Oldman, who collected a Golden Globe earlier this month for his starring role as Winston Churchill in wartime drama Darkest Hour, will compete with Boyega alongside Logan actor Hugh Jackman, War For The Planet Of The Apes star Andy Serkis and Call Me By Your Name’s Armie Hammer.

Edgar Wright’s critically acclaimed thriller Baby Driver – which stars disgraced actor Kevin Spacey – earns five nominations including best director, best thriller and best soundtrack.

The film’s lead, Ansel Elgort, is up for best male newcomer where he is joined by Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya and Call Me By Your Name’s Timothee Chalamet.

Alongside Wright and Johnson in the best director category is Wonder Woman mastermind Patty Jenkins, Thor: Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi and Get Out creator Jordan Peele.

The television categories see nominations for The Crown’s Claire Foy for the best actress prize where she is joined by Big Little Lies stars Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, The Handmaid’s Tale’s Elisabeth Moss and Stranger Things 2’s Millie Bobby Brown.

The four shows are also represented in the best TV series category alongside Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series.

In the male category, Big Little Lies’ Alexander Skarsgard and The Crown’s Matt Smith will compete with Twin Peaks’ Kyle MacLachlan, Star Trek’s Jason Isaacs and Legion actor Dan Stevens.

The full list of nominations are:

Best Film


Get Out


Star Wars: The Last Jedi


Call Me By Your Name


Thor: Ragnarok


Wonder Woman

Best Director


Rian Johnson – Star Wars: The Last Jedi


Edgar Wright – Baby Driver


Jordan Peele – Get Out


Patty Jenkins – Wonder Woman


Taika Waititi – Thor: Ragnarok

Best Male Newcomer


Josh O’Connor — God’s Own Country


Fionn Whitehead – Dunkirk


Ansel Elgort – Baby Driver


Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out


Timothee Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name

Best Female Newcomer


Dafne Keen – Logan


Emily Beecham – Daphne


Florence Pugh – Lady Macbeth


Tessa Thompson – Thor: Ragnarok


Kelly Marie Tran – Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Actress


Gal Gadot – Wonder Woman


Daisy Ridley – Star Wars: The Last Jedi


Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri


Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip


Emma Watson – Beauty And The Beast

Best Actor


John Boyega – Star Wars: The Last Jedi


Hugh Jackman – Logan


Andy Serkis — War For The Planet Of The Apes


Armie Hammer – Call Me By Your Name


Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour

Best Screenplay


God’s Own Country


Call Me By Your Name


The Death Of Stalin


Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri


Get Out

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy


Logan


Star Wars: The Last Jedi


Wonder Woman


Thor: Ragnarok


Blade Runner 2049

Best British Film


God’s Own Country


The Death Of Stalin


Dunkirk


The Darkest Hour


Paddington 2

Best Horror


Mother!


The Autopsy Of Jane Doe


Get Out


It


Split

Best Documentary


I Called Him Morgan


City Of Ghosts


An Inconvenient Sequel


Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond


I Am Not Your Negro

Best Comedy


Toni Erdmann


The Death Of Stalin


The Big Sick


The Disaster Artist


Girls Trip

Best Thriller


Baby Driver


John Wick: Chapter 2


Kingsman: The Golden Circle


The Handmaiden


Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Animated Film


The Lego Batman Movie


My Life As A Courgette


The Red Turtle


Coco


Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

Best Soundtrack


Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2


Baby Driver


Logan Lucky


Beauty And The Beast


Call Me By Your Name

Best Costume Design


The Greatest Showman


The Death Of Stalin


Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2


Thor: Ragnarok


Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Production Design


Baby Driver


Dunkirk


Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2


Thor: Ragnarok


Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Visual Effects


Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2


War For The Planet Of The Apes


Thor: Ragnarok


Star Wars: The Last Jedi


Ghost In The Shell

Best Make-up And Hairstyling


Murder On The Orient Express


The Greatest Showman


Beauty And The Beast


Thor: Ragnarok


Ghost In The Shell

Best TV Series


The Handmaid’s Tale


Big Little Lies


Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series


The Crown


Stranger Things 2

Best TV Actress


Claire Foy (The Crown)


Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies)


Reese Witherspoon (Big Little Lies)


Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale)


Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things 2)

Best TV Actor


Alexander Skarsgard (Big Little Lies)


Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series)


Matt Smith (The Crown)


Jason Isaacs (Star Trek: Discovery)


Dan Stevens (Legion)