The Total Film Hotlist awards needs you!

Total Film readers, movie lovers, film fanatics, it’s time to stand up and be counted.

The Total Film Hotlist awards – the movie awards voted for by you – is now open for business and waiting for your say.

Screw the Oscars, scrap the BAFTAs and gob on the Golden Globes, the Total Film Hotlist is the only awards event taking the temperature of what's happening in film right now, celebrating the top movies and great performances you've loved, while looking ahead to the cinema events we're gagging for.

Head to the Hotlist and vote for your favourite actors, directors, newcomers, writers and films in Total Film ’s poll. Peruse the 12 categories, pick your favourites, share your choices with friends and fight about who should take the top spot.

You could even win a brand spanking new iPad if you enter our free prize draw.

Thought The Avengers smashed The Artist ? Have a thing for Gosling? Take Noomi over Rooney any day of the week? Here’s your chance to set the record straight.

Head on over and vote now!

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