Aidan Turner and Michael Fassbender nominated for Empire Awards
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Aidan Turner and Michael Fassbender nominated for Empire Awards

IRISH actor Aidan Turner has been nominated for a Jameson Empire Awards, as chosen by the readers of the popular movie mag.

Turner, who starred in The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, is up for Best Male Newcomer.

The 30-year-old Dublin actor from Clondalkin first sprang to fame in RTÉ medical drama, The Clinic before going to star in Being Human for the BBC, and has seen his stock rise following the two Hobbit movies to date.

His fellow Irishman Michael Fassbender is up for Best Supporting actor for his role in 12 Years A Slave, a category which he will also contest at the Sunday’s Oscar awards.

Here are this year's Jameson Empire Award nominees.

BEST MALE NEWCOMER (presented by Tresor Paris)
Aidan Turner (The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug)
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
George MacKay (Sunshine On Leith)
Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Tye Sheridan (Mud)
Will Poulter (We’re The Millers)

BEST FEMALE NEWCOMER
Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is The Warmest Colour)
Antonia Thomas (Sunshine On Leith)
Elizabeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby)
Freya Mavor (Sunshine On Leith)
Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years A Slave)
Margot Robbie (The Wolf Of Wall Street)

BEST HORROR
A Field In Englanf
The Conjuring
Evil Dead
World War Z
You’re Next

BEST COMEDY (presented by Magic 105.4)
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
This Is 40
This Is The End
The World’s End

BEST THRILLER
Captain Phillips
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Now You See Me
Prisoners
Trance

BEST SCI-FI/FANTASY (presented by MediCinema)
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Pacific Rim
Star Trek Into Darkness

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Daniel Brühl (Rush)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years A Slave)
Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)
Richard Armitage (The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug)
Tom Hiddleston (Thor: The Dark World)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Evangeline Lilly (The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years A Slave)
Mia Wasikowska (Stoker)
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)

BEST BRITISH FILM
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Filth
Rush
Sunshine On Leith
The World’s End

BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)
Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

Jameson BEST ACTOR
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave)
James McAvoy (Filth)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf Of Wall Street)
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug)
Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips)

BEST DIRECTOR (presented by Air New Zealand)
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
Edgar Wright (The World’s End)
Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips)
Peter Jackson (The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug)
Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave)

BEST FILM (presented by Sky Movies)
12 Years A Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire