16th Empire Awards

16th Empire Awards

The logo for the 16th Empire Awards
Date March 27, 2011[1]
Site Grosvenor House Hotel, London, England[1]
Host Dara Ó Briain[1]
Highlights
Best Film Inception
Best British Film Kick-Ass
Most awards Kick-Ass and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2)
Most nominations Kick-Ass (6)
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The 16th Empire Awards ceremony (officially known as the Jameson Empire Awards), presented by the British film magazine Empire, honored the best films of 2010 and took place on March 27, 2011 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, England.[1][2] During the ceremony, Empire presented Empire Awards in 11 categories as well as three honorary awards. Irish comedian Dara Ó Briain hosted the show for the third consecutive year.[1][3] The awards were sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey for the third consecutive year.[1]

In related events, Empire and Jameson Irish Whiskey held the 2nd Done In 60 Seconds Competition Global Final on March 25, 2011[4] at the London Film Museum, London, England.[4] The team of judges consisted of Empire editor-in-chief Mark Dinning,[4] Irish actor and comedian Chris O'Dowd[4] and English director Neil Marshall,[4] which selected from a shortlist of 24 nominees[4] the five Done In 60 Seconds Award finalists that were invited to the Empire Awards where the winner was announced.[4][5]

Kick-Ass won two awards including Best British Film. Other winners included The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo also with two awards and Four Lions, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Inception, Let Me In, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The King's Speech and The Last Exorcism with one. Keira Knightley received the Empire Hero Award, Gary Oldman received the Empire Icon Award and Edgar Wright received the Empire Inspiration Award. Maeve Stam from the Netherlands won the Done In 60 Seconds Award for her 60 second film version of 127 Hours.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[2][6]

Best Film[7] Best British Film[8]
Best Director[9]
Best Actor[10] Best Actress[11]
Best Comedy[12] Best Horror[13]
Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy[14] Best Thriller[15]
Best Newcomer[16] Done In 60 Seconds Award[17]

Finalists:[18]

The other shortlisted films:[18]

Honorary Awards

Multiple awards

The following two films received multiple awards:

Awards Film
2 Kick-Ass
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Multiple nominations

The following 13 films received multiple nominations:

Nominations Film
6 Kick-Ass
5 The King's Speech
4 Inception
3 127 Hours
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Social Network
2 Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Four Lions
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
Let Me In
Monsters
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Done In 60 Seconds films

  1. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: 127 Hours by Maeve Stam on YouTube
  2. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Avatar by Valentina Kurochkina & Sergey Potapov on YouTube
  3. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Indiana Jones by Samuel Heiligers, Frej Bengtsson & Stefan Lundaahl on YouTube
  4. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: The Exorcist by Lee Hardcastle on YouTube
  5. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: The Lion King by Michael Whaite on YouTube
  6. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Valkyrie by Marian Georgiev on YouTube
  7. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Aliens by Rodrigo Reyes Santander on YouTube
  8. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Léon: The Professional by Negian Haddad Kaveh on YouTube
  9. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: The Expendables by Chris Lodge on YouTube
  10. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Shadow of the Vampire by Kevin De La Isla on YouTube
  11. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: The Dark Knight by Andrey Manuilov on YouTube
  12. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: James Bond by Michael Mank & Jacek Wlodarczyk on YouTube
  13. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Inception by Petr Lisovisky & Artur Ostapenko on YouTube
  14. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Jaws by Dmitry Vasiyev & Zhanna Boyarintseva on YouTube
  15. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Transformers Grindhouse by Olga Busorgina & Andrey Kilin on YouTube
  16. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Charlie Chaplin by Vadi Talanov & Dmitry Korobeynikov on YouTube
  17. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Psycho by Joshua Petsonk & Hanni Serag on YouTube
  18. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Dr. Strangelove by Çagil Ivak on YouTube
  19. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: 12 Angry Men by Esat Can on YouTube
  20. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: 2001: A Space Odyssey by Mykhailo Orlov on YouTube
  21. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: The Social Network by Jack Kendall on YouTube
  22. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: 300 by Simon Jago, Ryan Casey & Clark Brady on YouTube
  23. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Predator by Gareth Soens Hughes on YouTube

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Jameson Empire Awards Announce 2011 Nominees" (Press release). Bauer Consumer Media. February 24, 2011. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Reynolds, Simon (February 24, 2011). "In Full: Empire Awards 2011 nominees". Digital Spy (Hearst Magazines UK). Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  3. ↑ O'Hara, Helen (March 28, 2011). "Jameson Empire Award Winners 2011. And a rundown of the show as it happened". Empireonline.com (Bauer Consumer Media). Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 "The Jameson Empire Awards 2011" (Press release). Synergy Sponsorship. April 20, 2011. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  5. ↑ Grobler, Craig (December 16, 2010). "The Establishing Shot: Jameson Done in 60 Seconds short film-making competition is back". Theestablishingshot.com. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
  6. ↑ "2011 Awards Winners". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2013. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Best Film". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Best British Film". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Best Director". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Best Actor". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 13, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Best Actress". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
  13. ↑ "Best Horror". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
  14. ↑ "Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
  15. ↑ "Best Thriller". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
  16. ↑ "Best Newcomer". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
  17. ↑ "Done In 60 Seconds Award". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Done In 60 Seconds (Shortlisted and Finalists)". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
  19. ↑ "Empire Hero Award". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
  20. ↑ "Empire Icon Award". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
  21. ↑ "Empire Inspiration Award". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.

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