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Kiwis Over the Moon About ‘Gravity’ In Awards

MEDIA RELEASE – EMBARGOED UNTIL 6am Thursday January 16

Kiwis Over the Moon About ‘Gravity’ In People’s Choice Movie Awards

After a month of voting in which thousands of Kiwis took part, the people have spoken, naming orbital thriller GRAVITY the Best Movie of 2013. A huge success at the NZ Box Office last year, GRAVITY was also chosen as New Zealand’s Thriller of the Year.

Its star Sandra Bullock didn’t quite have the votes to overcome the sheer popularity of Jennifer Lawrence, however, who was voted Best Actress for her performance inSILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK and Hero of the Year for THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE. The love for Lawrence didn’t stop there – as one half of the duo at the heart of SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (alongside Bradley Cooper) she helped the pair score Best Couple and may have also had something to do with THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE taking out the Best Sci-Fi category.

A trio of films with special relevance to Kiwis also won awards. Andrew Adamson’s MR. PIP won Best NZ Movie; BEYOND THE EDGE, recreating Sir Edmund Hillary’s conquest of Mt Everest, was voted Best Documentary; and Sir Peter Jackson’s box office behemoth THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG was judged Best Fantasy.

Elsewhere amongst the twenty publicly voted categories New Zealanders showed their love for a diverse range of films including ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES, DJANGO UNCHAINED, ONLY GOD FORGIVES, THE CONJURING,DESPICABLE ME 2, THE GREAT GATSBY, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS and LIFE OF PI.

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That’s not to overlook IRON MAN 3, which IGLOO General Manager David Joyce had previously stated was his pick of the Best Action category. “It’s great to see that so many people love movies and got involved in voting for their favourites!” David said upon seeing the results. “I’m particularly happy to see that IRON MAN 3 took out theBest Action category. For all of you that voted and whose movie didn’t make the cut don’t take it to heart, you can console yourself by watching it (and heaps more) on IGLOO for $1 for the remainder of January.”

Flicks.co.nz Editor Steve Newall echoed David’s sentiments: “Thanks to all the people who voted and shared their strongly-held opinions about their favourite films. I’m pleased to see several of my own opinions confirmed, not least of which is the long-awaited acknowledgement of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Biggest Bastard status. With an awesome year of films to look forward to during 2014 I’m already curious to see how next year’s winners will shape up.”

The winner of the Full HD TV graciously provided by Sony as a prize for voters will be drawn and contacted early next week, as well as the winner of the huge Madman documentary pack and consolation prizes of Hoyts double passes.

The full list of winners follows, and will be online from Thursday January 16th with more information about each of the films at www.flicks.co.nz/awards.

THE IGLOO® FLICKS.CO.NZ 2014 PEOPLE’S CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS WINNERS

MOVIE OF THE YEAR – GRAVITY
BEST NZ MOVIE – MR. PIP
BEST COMEDY sponsored by RADIO HAURAKI– ANCHORMAN 2
BEST DRAMA – DJANGO UNCHAINED
BEST ACTION sponsored by IGLOO® – IRON MAN 3
BEST THRILLER – GRAVITY
BEST ARTHOUSE sponsored by METRO – ONLY GOD FORGIVES
BEST DOCO sponsored by MADMAN – BEYOND THE EDGE
BEST HORROR – THE CONJURING
BEST SCI-FI – THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE
BEST FANTASY sponsored by HOYTS – THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG
BEST ANIMATED sponsored by SUNDAY NEWS – DESPICABLE ME 2
BEST MUSIC sponsored by UNDERTHERADAR.CO.NZ – THE GREAT GATSBY
BEST ACTRESS – JENNIFER LAWRENCE, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
BEST ACTOR – TOM HANKS, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
HERO OF THE YEAR – JENNIFER LAWRENCE, THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE
BIGGEST BASTARD sponsored by GEORGE FM – LEONARDO DICAPRIO, DJANGO UNCHAINED
FUNNNIEST PERFORMANCE – WILL FERRELL, ANCHORMAN 2
BEST NEWCOMER sponsored by SONY – SURAJ SHARMA, LIFE OF PI
BEST COUPLE – BRADLEY COOPER & JENNIFER LAWRENCE, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

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