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 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, England. 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. Irish comedian Ed Byrne hosted the show for the first time. The awards were sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey for the fifth consecutive year.
In related events, Empire and Jameson Irish Whiskey held the 4th Done In 60 Seconds Competition Global Final on 22 March 2013 at the Google Campus, London, England. The team of judges consisted of Empire editor-in-chief Mark Dinning, Bauer Media CEO Paul Keenan, Sky Movies Premiere, English presenter Alex Zane, Scottish radio DJ Edith Bowman and English actors Joanne Froggatt and Tom Hiddleston, which selected from a shortlist of 23 nominees the five Done In 60 Seconds Award finalists that were invited to the Empire Awards where the winner was announced.
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.
Skyfall Django Unchained The Avengers The Dark Knight Rises The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Sightseers Dredd Les Misérables Skyfall The Woman in Black Sam Mendes — Skyfall Christopher Nolan — The Dark Knight Rises Joss Whedon — The Avengers Peter Jackson — The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Quentin Tarantino — Django Unchained Martin Freeman — The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Christoph Waltz — Django Unchained Daniel Craig — Skyfall Daniel Day-Lewis — Lincoln Robert Downey Jr. — The Avengers Jennifer Lawrence — The Hunger Games Anne Hathaway — The Dark Knight Rises Jessica Chastain — Zero Dark Thirty Judi Dench — Skyfall Naomi Watts — The Impossible Tom Holland — The Impossible Domhnall Gleeson — Anna Karenina Rafe Spall — Life of Pi Steve Oram — Sightseers Suraj Sharma — Life of Pi Samantha Barks — Les Misérables Alice Lowe — Sightseers Alicia Vikander — Anna Karenina Holliday Grainger — Great Expectations Quvenzhané Wallis — Beasts of the Southern Wild Ted 21 Jump Street Moonrise Kingdom Silver Linings Playbook The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! The Woman in Black Dark Shadows Sightseers Sinister The Cabin in the Woods The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Dredd Looper Prometheus The Avengers Headhunters Argo Skyfall The Raid Zero Dark Thirty Dredd Life of Pi Prometheus The Avengers The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey United Kingdom: Blade Runner by Philip Askins Finalists: Kazakhstan: Twilight by Sergey Litovchenko Russia: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Olga Goldfarb Russia: Red H. (Memento) by Andrei Dzhunkovsky United Kingdom: Argo by Mark Hampton & Mark Wong The other shortlisted films: Japan: Reservoir Dogs by Naomi Nemoto Romania: Skyfall by Razvan Mera United Kingdom: RoboCop by Michael Hall United Kingdom: The Italian Job by Oliver Graves & Matthew Brackenbury United Kingdom: You Only Live Twice by Charlie Hall Unknown: Amadeus by Tsakoumi Aliki, Margaritidou Dimitra & Arapis Menippos Unknown: Atlas Cloud (Cloud Atlas) by Irina Kolotova Unknown: Broccoliman by Svetlana Gubanova Unknown: Forrest Gulp (Forrest Gump) by Curro Guerrero Unknown: Inception by Ben Oringer Unknown: Jaws by Elisabeth Wanzenböck Unknown: Mad Max by Esmir Prlja & Damir Ruvić Unknown: Scream by Petr Černý Unknown: Ted by Nikolay Ivanov Unknown: The Expendables by Oleksandr Shevchenko Unknown: The Usual Suspects by Milos Ljubomirović Unknown: Untouchable (The Intouchables) by Eugene Zhukov Unknown: xXx by João Alves Empire Hero Award: Daniel Radcliffe Empire Inspiration Award: Sam Mendes Empire Legend Award: Helen Mirren Outstanding Contribution Award: Danny Boyle
Multiple awards The following two films received multiple awards:
Awards Film 2 Skyfall The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Multiple nominations The following 14 films received multiple nominations:
Nominations Film 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
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Live blog at Empire Online