15th Empire Awards

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15th Empire Awards
15th Empire Awards logo.gif
The logo for the 15th Empire Awards
Date March 28, 2010 (2010-03-28)[1]
Site Grosvenor House Hotel, London, England[1]
Host Dara Ó Briain[1]
Highlights
Best Film Avatar
Best British Film Harry Brown
Most awards Avatar (3)
Most nominations Avatar and Inglourious Basterds (5)

The 15th Empire Awards ceremony (officially known as the Jameson Empire Awards), presented by the British film magazine Empire, honored the best films of 2009 and took place on March 28, 2010 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, England.[1] During the ceremony, Empire presented Empire Awards in 11 categories as well as four honorary awards. The Done In 60 Seconds competition was opened for the first time to international entries from this year.[2] Irish comedian Dara Ó Briain hosted the show for the second consecutive year.[1] The awards were sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey for the second consecutive year.[1][3]

In related events, Empire and Jameson Irish Whiskey held the 1st Done In 60 Seconds Competition Global Final[2] on March 26, 2010[4] at 24 Club, London, England.[5] The team of judges consisted of Empire editor-in-chief Mark Dinning,[6] English actor Jason Issacs[6] and English film director and television director Edgar Wright,[6] which selected from a shortlist of 20 nominees[4][5] the five Done In 60 Seconds Award finalists that were invited to the Empire Awards where the winner was announced.[4][5][6][7]

Avatar won the most awards with three including Best Film and Best Director for James Cameron. Other winners included Harry Brown, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Let the Right One In, Nowhere Boy, Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek with one. Jude Law received the Empire Hero Award, Ian McKellen received the Empire Icon Award, Andy Serkis received the Empire Inspiration Award and Ray Winstone received the Outstanding Contribution to British Film award. Mark Wong from the United Kingdom won the Done In 60 Seconds Award for his 60-second film version of Top Gun.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[8]

Finalists:[5][lower-alpha 1]
Honorary Awards

Notes

  1. ↑ The official website for the 15th Empire Awards only lists the United Kingdom nominees and finalists and not the global finalist list. The global finalist list was taken from an independent source.[5]

Multiple awards

The following film received multiple awards:

Awards Film
3 Avatar

Multiple nominations

The following 13 films received multiple nominations:

Nominations Film
5 Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
4 District 9
3 An Education
Harry Brown
Nowhere Boy
Star Trek
The Hurt Locker
2 In the Loop
Sherlock Holmes
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Up in the Air

Done In 60 Seconds films

  1. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Top Gun by Mark Wong on YouTube
  2. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: There Will Be Blood by Tom Rowley on YouTube
  3. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: True Lies by Andrew Akulina on YouTube
  4. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: The Evil Dead by Lee Hardcastle on YouTube
  5. ↑ Done In 60 Seconds: Who Framed Roger Rabbit by Michael Whaite on YouTube

References

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