18th Empire Awards


The 18th Empire Awards ceremony, 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 March 22, 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 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.

  • Sightseers
  • * Dredd
  • * Les Misérables
  • * Skyfall
  • * The Woman in Black
  • Sam Mendes — Skyfall
  • * Christopher Nolan — The Dark Knight Rises
  • * Joss Whedon — The Avengers
  • * Peter Jackson — '
  • * Quentin Tarantino — Django Unchained
  • Martin Freeman —
  • * 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
  • * Dredd
  • * Looper
  • * Prometheus
  • * The Avengers
  • Headhunters
  • * Argo
  • * Skyfall
  • * '
  • * Zero Dark Thirty
  • Dredd
  • * Life of Pi
  • * Prometheus
  • * The Avengers
  • * '
  • United Kingdom: Blade Runner by Philip Askins
    • Finalists:
    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 by Irina Kolotova
    • * Unknown: Broccoliman by Svetlana Gubanova
    • * Unknown: Forrest Gulp 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 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
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    Multiple awards

    The following two films received multiple awards:
    AwardsFilm
    2Skyfall
    2

    Multiple nominations

    The following 14 films received multiple nominations:
    NominationsFilm
    6Skyfall
    5The Avengers
    5
    4Sightseers
    3Django Unchained
    3Dredd
    3Life of Pi
    3The Dark Knight Rises
    2Anna Karenina
    2Les Misérables
    2Prometheus
    2The Impossible
    2The Woman in Black
    2Zero Dark Thirty

    Done In 60 Seconds films