It was a successful launch for the 1st annual National Film Awards UK in London as the awards show kicked off with an opening speech from Prince Harry.\u00a0Idris Elba, Benedict Cumberbatch,Harley Sylvester, Gemma Jones,\u00a0Gugu Mbatha-Raw ,Sameena Jabeen Ahmed,\u00a0<\/strong>The Theory of Everything, Belle, The Guvnors,\u00a0What we did on our holiday, and Black Sea<\/strong>\u00a0were amongst some of the winners at the\u00a01st annual National Film Awards UK.\u00a0<\/strong>The successful awards evening took place last night\u00a0(Tuesday, March 31^{st<\/sup>\u00a0)<\/em><\/strong>in London. The National Film Academy brought together celebrities from the \u00a0film , music and television industries together to celebrate the best talent on and off screen. The National Film Awards is one of the only motion picture awards ceremony whose nominations and voting \u00a0are fully determined by movie fans.<\/p>\n}

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On the 20th of November, the call out for nominations was marketed across over 2.5\u00a0million TV fans on the NRTA voting database and 155,240 academy\u00a0members . Nominations for the National Film Awards were submitted by the public between the 1st of December till the 19th of December .\u00a0Over 756,000 movie fans took to the National Film Awards website to cast their\u00a0submissions in the 15 categories. Voting officially commenced on the 12th of January 2015 and the deadline for all voting is the 13th of March 2015 and with over 1.8 million votes\u00a0received. The attendees found out the winners last night and you can find our full list of winners revealed today.<\/div>\n
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TV Presenter,\u00a0Louise Gookey<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>was fantastic at hosting duties joined by guest presenters\u00a0Simon Homent, Linda Robson, Tulisa, Keith Chegwin, Caprice, Michel Bracke, Tanya Franks, Danny John Jules, Ben Hanlin, the cast of Good Girls Club,<\/strong>\u00a0who announced the winners of the\u00a0National Film Awards<\/strong>\u00a0in the UK during the glamorous event. Classical music impresario,\u00a0Mark Llewellyn Evans\u00a0<\/strong>aka\u00a0\u2018<\/strong>The Barritone\u2019 put a note worthy performance classed as one of the major highlights of the event.<\/div>\n
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Idris Elba<\/strong>\u00a0recieved the Outstanding Contribution for Motion Picture and he commented \u201cThe National Film Awards is gearing to become one of the iconic driving force in the motion picture industry and it is fantastic that the driving force behind the award are the movie fans whom without them, there will be no movie industry. I would like to thank the National Film Academy for this great honour\u201d.<\/div>\n
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British Actress,\u00a0Gemma Jones<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>also received the 2015 \u00a0Global Contribution to Motion Picture award.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Gemma Jones is one of Britain\u2019s most\u00a0acclaimed actresses. Best known for her roles as Bridget\u2019s mother in Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary , and has starred in Harry Porter, Fragile, Forget me Not, Madam Poppy Pomfrey, The Theory of Flight, Captain Jack and a host of other great films in her inspirational career.<\/div>\n
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