18th Empire Awards

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18th Empire Awards
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The logo for the 18th Empire Awards
Date24 March 2013 (2013-03-24) [1]
Site Grosvenor House Hotel, London, England [2]
Hosted by Ed Byrne [3]
Highlights
Best Film Skyfall
Best British Film Sightseers
Most awards Skyfall and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2)
Most nominations Skyfall (6)
Television coverage
Channel Sky Movies [4]

The 18th Empire Awards ceremony (officially known as the Jameson Empire Awards), presented by the British film magazine Empire, honored the best films of 2012 and took place on 24 March 2013 [1] at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, England. [2] [5] [6] During the ceremony, Empire presented Empire Awards in 13 categories as well as four honorary awards. The honorary Outstanding Contribution to British Film Award was renamed Outstanding Contribution. The Art of 3D Award as well as the honorary Empire Legend Award and Outstanding Contribution Award were presented for the last time. The ceremony was televised in the United Kingdom by Sky Movies on March 30. [4] Irish comedian Ed Byrne hosted the show for the first time. [3] The awards were sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey for the fifth consecutive year. [5]

Contents

In related events, Empire and Jameson Irish Whiskey held the 4th Done In 60 Seconds Competition Global Final on March 22, 2013 [5] [7] [8] at the Google Campus, London, England. [7] The team of judges consisted of Empire editor-in-chief Mark Dinning, [7] [8] Bauer Media CEO Paul Keenan, [5] Sky Movies Premiere, English presenter Alex Zane, [7] Scottish radio DJ Edith Bowman [7] [8] and English actors Joanne Froggatt [5] and Tom Hiddleston, [5] [8] which selected from a shortlist of 23 nominees [7] the five Done In 60 Seconds Award finalists that were invited to the Empire Awards where the winner was announced. [5] [7] [8]

Skyfall won two awards including Best Film and Best Director for Sam Mendes. Other winners included The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey also with two awards and Dredd , Headhunters , Les Misérables , Sightseers , Ted , The Hunger Games , The Impossible and The Woman in Black with one. Daniel Radcliffe received the Empire Hero Award, Sam Mendes received the Empire Inspiration Award, Helen Mirren received the Empire Legend Award and Danny Boyle received the Outstanding Contribution Award. Philip Askins from the United Kingdom won the Done In 60 Seconds Award for his 60-second film version of Blade Runner .

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Finalists: [26]

The other shortlisted films: [27]

Honorary Awards

Multiple awards

The following two films received multiple awards:

AwardsFilm
2 Skyfall
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Multiple nominations

The following 14 films received multiple nominations:

NominationsFilm
6 Skyfall
5 The Avengers
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
4 Sightseers
3 Django Unchained
Dredd
Life of Pi
The Dark Knight Rises
2 Anna Karenina
Les Misérables
Prometheus
The Impossible
The Woman in Black
Zero Dark Thirty

Done In 60 Seconds films

  1. Done In 60 Seconds: Blade Runner by Philip Askins on YouTube
  2. Done In 60 Seconds: Twilight by Sergey Litovchenko on YouTube
  3. Done In 60 Seconds: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Olga Goldfarb on YouTube
  4. Done In 60 Seconds: Red H. (Memento) by Andrei Dzhunkovsky on YouTube
  5. Done In 60 Seconds: Argo by Mark Hampton & Mark Wong on YouTube
  6. Done In 60 Seconds: Reservoir Dogs by Naomi Nemoto on YouTube
  7. Done In 60 Seconds: Skyfall by Razvan Mera on YouTube
  8. Done In 60 Seconds: RoboCop by Michael Hall on YouTube
  9. Done In 60 Seconds: The Italian Job by Oliver Graves & Matthew Brackenbury on YouTube
  10. Done In 60 Seconds: You Only Live Twice by Charlie Hall on YouTube
  11. Done In 60 Seconds: Amadeus by Tsakoumi Aliki, Margaritidou Dimitra & Arapis Menippos on YouTube
  12. Done In 60 Seconds: Atlas Cloud by Irina Kolotova on YouTube
  13. Done In 60 Seconds: Broccoliman by Svetlana Gubanova on YouTube
  14. Done In 60 Seconds: Forrest Gulp by Curro Guerrero on YouTube
  15. Done In 60 Seconds: Inception by Ben Oringer on YouTube
  16. Done In 60 Seconds: Jaws by Elisabeth Wanzenböck on YouTube
  17. Done In 60 Seconds: Mad Max by Esmir Prlja & Damir Ruvić on YouTube
  18. Done In 60 Seconds: Scream by Petr Černý on YouTube
  19. Done In 60 Seconds: Ted by Nikolay Ivanov on YouTube
  20. Done In 60 Seconds: The Expendables by Oleksandr Shevchenko on YouTube
  21. Done In 60 Seconds: The Usual Suspects by Milos Ljubomirović on YouTube
  22. Done In 60 Seconds: Untouchable by Eugene Zhukov on YouTube
  23. Done In 60 Seconds: xXx by João Alves on YouTube

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