11th Empire Awards

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]

11th Empire Awards
The logo for the 11th Empire Awards
Date	13 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)
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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]

Best Movie[6] King Kong Crash Sin City Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith War of the Worlds	Best British Movie[7] Pride & Prejudice Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Stoned The Descent The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Best Director[8] Nick Park and Steve Box — Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Christopher Nolan — Batman Begins Joe Wright — Pride & Prejudice Peter Jackson — King Kong Ron Howard — Cinderella Man Steven Spielberg — War of the Worlds
Best Actor[9] Johnny Depp — Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Andy Serkis — King Kong Christian Bale — Batman Begins Matt Dillon — Crash Viggo Mortensen — A History of Violence	Best Actress[10] Thandie Newton — Crash Hilary Swank — Million Dollar Baby Keira Knightley — Pride & Prejudice Naomi Watts — King Kong Renée Zellweger – Cinderella Man
Best Comedy[11] Team America: World Police The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Wedding Crashers	Best Horror[12] The Descent Land of the Dead The Skeleton Key Wolf Creek
Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy[13] Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire King Kong Serenity The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Best Thriller[14] Kiss Kiss Bang Bang A History of Violence Batman Begins Sin City The Constant Gardener
Best Newcomer[15] Kelly Reilly — Mrs Henderson Presents and Pride & Prejudice Georgie Henley — The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe James McAvoy — The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Leo Gregory — Stoned Nathan Fillion — Serenity	Sony Ericsson Scene of the Year[16] Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith: The birth of Vader Crash: The car rescue The Descent: The attack of the crawlers Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: The dogfight War of the Worlds: The arrival
Honorary Awards Empire Icon Award: Brian Cox[17] Empire Inspiration Award: Stephen Frears[18] Lifetime Achievement Award: Tony Curtis[19] Outstanding Contribution To British Cinema: The Harry Potter films.[20]

Multiple awards

The following two films received multiple awards:

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

Multiple nominations

The following 16 films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
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

References

1. Parker, Robin (3 February 2006). "Sony Ericsson sponsors Empire film awards for fourth year". Mediaweek.co.uk. Haymarket Media Group. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
2. "Empire Awards Shortlist Announced. King Kong leads the pack". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 1 March 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
3. "Awards Blog". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013.
4. "2006 Awards Winners Announced! The Sony Ericsson Empire Awards in full". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 13 March 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
5. "2006 Awards Winners". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
6. "Best Movie". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
7. "Best British Movie". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
8. "Best Director". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
9. "Best Actor". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 13 June 2013.
10. "Best Actress". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
11. "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
12. "Best Horror". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
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.
15. "Best Newcomer". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
16. "Sony Ericsson Scene of the Year". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
17. "Empire Icon Award". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
18. "Empire Inspiration Award". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
19. "The Lifetime Achievement Award". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
20. "Outstanding Contribution To British Cinema". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.

External links

• "The 11th Sony Ericsson Empire Awards official website". Archived from the original on June 16, 2013. Retrieved 2006-04-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• 11th Empire Awards at IMDb