Lancashire won this face-off at the RTS awards but my vote would be for Hawes, who played the embattled Lindsay Denton in Jed Mercurio's astonishing police thriller Line of Duty.
For much of its first hour, Mad Dogs US seems overly preoccupied with underlining the tension between its leads in thick marker pen, making it seem less like a high-octane thriller and more like a sulky stag night.
The south-eastern oasis town of Ouarzazate (pronounced 'Waa-za-zat') is to take to the silver screen once more in Ridley Scott's thriller Body of Lies, due for release on 21 November.
At MGM, she played the loyal wife of disillusioned cop Barry Sullivan in the chase thriller Cry of the Hunted (1953), but did little more than look pretty in the western Escape from Fort Bravo and the rodeo drama Arena (both 1953).
One of her early breakthrough film roles was as Victoria, Bob Hoskins's girlfriend, in the violent and highly rated 1980 London gangster thriller The Long Good Friday.
Related: Dheepan review - Tamil Tiger loose in the urban jungle makes powerful thriller Yorgos Lanthimos's The Lobster got the jury prize: a movie about which I was agnostic: a brilliant absurdist comedy in its first half with some dazzling satire about modern society's reverence for relationships and coupledom.
Anthony Minghella's film of Patricia Highsmith's thriller, The Talented Mr Ripley, has four nominations, and the three British directors have also been nominated for the David Lean director award.
Firstly Sandra Bullock explained to your mum how the world wide web worked in hit thriller The Net, and then Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie hoped to appeal to the yoof crowd with the aggressively over-styled Hackers.
It's always a thriller, always a marathon".
It could be argued that the focus is less on romance and more on something massive smashing into something even more massive but then, was sub-Hitchockian thriller Unknown really about developing the relationship between Liam Neeson and his wife, played by 25 years younger January Jones?
Cat People Bizarre 80s thriller with Bowie-penned theme song.
