11th Empire Awards

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11th Empire Awards
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The logo for the 11th Empire Awards
Date13 March 2006 (2006-03-13) [1]
Site Hilton London Metropole Hotel, London, England [1]
Hosted by Bill Bailey [2]
Highlights
Best Film King Kong
Best British Film Pride & Prejudice
Most awards Pride & Prejudice and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2)
Most nominations King Kong (5)

The 11th Empire Awards ceremony (officially known as the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards), presented by the British film magazine Empire, honored the best films of 2005 and took place on 13 March 2006 at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel in London, England. [1] [2] [3] During the ceremony, Empire presented Empire Awards in 11 categories as well as four honorary awards. The awards for Best Comedy, Best Horror, Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Best Thriller as well as the honorary Empire Icon Award were first introduced this year. Other changes include Best Film and Best British Film being renamed this year only to "Best Movie" and "Best British Movie" respectively. The honorary Lifetime Achievement Award was presented for the last time. English actor Bill Bailey hosted the show for the second time, having previously hosted the 9th ceremony held in 2004. [2] [3] The awards were sponsored by Sony Ericsson for the fourth consecutive year. [1] [3]

Contents

Pride & Prejudice won two awards including Best British Movie. Other winners included Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith also with two awards and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , Crash , King Kong , Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , Mrs Henderson Presents , Team America: World Police , The Descent , and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit with one. Brian Cox received the Empire Icon Award, Stephen Frears received the Empire Inspiration Award, Tony Curtis received the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Harry Potter films received the Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema Award.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. [4] [5]

Honorary Awards

Multiple awards

The following two films received multiple awards:

AwardsFilm
2 Pride & Prejudice
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

Multiple nominations

The following 16 films received multiple nominations:

NominationsFilm
5 King Kong
4 Crash
Pride & Prejudice
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
3 Batman Begins
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Descent
War of the Worlds
2 A History of Violence
Cinderella Man
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Serenity
Sin City
Stoned
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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  13. ↑ "Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy". Empireonline.com . Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
  14. ↑ "Best Thriller". Empireonline.com . Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
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