The Empire Awards nominations have been announced for the annual celebration hosted by the UK’s leading film magazine. This year  World War Two thriller The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cuberbatch leads the field with six nominations. Kingsman: Secret Service, Dawn of The Planet of The Apes and The Hobbit Battle of The Five Armies were among other films receiving numerous nominations across may competitive categories. Full list of this year’s 2015 nominations below, with winners to be announced at the tar studded London ceremony on 29th March. 

Best Newcomer – Male

•Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood)

•Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service)

•Daniel Huttlestone (Into The Woods)

•Jack O’Connell (Unbroken)

•Dan Stevens (The Guest)

Best Newcomer – Female

•Sophie Cookson (Kingsman: The Secret Service)

•Carrie Coon (Gone Girl)

•Essie Davis (The Babadook)

•Karen Gillan (Guardians Of The Galaxy/Oculus)

•Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle)

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy

•Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

•Guardians Of The Galaxy

•The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies

•Interstellar

•X-Men: Days Of Future Past

Best Horror

•Annabelle

•The Babadook

•The Guest

•Oculus

•Under The Skin

Best Comedy

•22 Jump Street

•The Grand Budapest Hotel

•The Inbetweeners 2

•The Lego Movie

•Paddington

Best Thriller

•Captain America: The Winter Soldier

•Gone Girl

•The Imitation Game

•Kingsman: The Secret Service

•Locke

Best British Film

•The Imitation Game

•Kingsman: The Secret Service

•Paddington

•The Theory Of Everything

•Under The Skin

Best Actor

•Richard Armitage (The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies)

•Bradley Cooper (American Sniper)

•Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)

•Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything)

•Andy Serkis (Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes)

Best Actress

•Emily Blunt (Edge Of Tomorrow)

•Felicity Jones (The Theory Of Everything)

•Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)

•Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)

•Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)

Best Director

•Peter Jackson (The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies)

•Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

•Christopher Nolan (Interstellar)

•Matt Reeves (Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes)

•Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)

Best Film

•Boyhood

•Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

•The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies

•The Imitation Game

•Interstellar