The 17th Empire Awards (AKA Jameson Empire Awards), honoring the best in film in 2011, were held on March 25, 2012 and hosted by Lauren Laverne and Chris Hewitt. Below is a complete list of nominees and winners. Winners are highlighted in bold.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Inbetweeners Movie

Kill List

Thor

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Gary Oldman — Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Olivia Colman — Tyrannosaur

David Yates — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn

Tom Hiddleston — Thor

Felicity Jones — Like Crazy

Black Swan by Indira Suleimenova (Kazakhstan)

Michael Fassbender

Ron Howard

Tim Burton

An Empire Award is an accolade bestowed by Empire, Britain's biggest selling film magazine, to recognize excellence of professionals in the local and global film industry. The awards are voted for by readers of the magazine and in an annual ceremony, the Empire Awards, the winners are presented with the award which is covered by Empire and sometimes also televised. They were sponsored by Sony Ericsson between the 8th and the 13th Empire Awards with the exception of the 12th which was without a ceremony, and since the 14th Empire Awards are sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey.

The first Empire Awards ceremony was held on 1996, to honour outstanding film achievements of the 1995 film season. The most recent ceremony, honouring films in 2011, was held at Grosvenor House Hotel on March 25, 2012.

Simon Oakes is the CEO and President of Hammer Films and is the vice-chairman of Exclusive Media.

He was appointed chairman on May 2007 when the company was revived. The Hammer Films is a company known for its popular horror films during the 1950s-70s.

Since then he has worked on many Hammer projects, such as The Resident, The Woman in Black and the upcoming Mystery Thriller Winchester Mystery House, which will run 2013 with an PG 13 rating.

Simon Oakes at the Internet Movie Database

Vikramaditya Motwane (born 12 June 1976) is an Indian film director, and screenwriter of films like Dev.D (2009) and Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007). His directorial debut film, Udaan (2010) was selected to compete in the 'Un Certain Regard’ category at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. His latest effort is Lootera, a big-budget Bollywood period romance, due for release in October 2012.

Motwane was a long-time assistant of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and collaborated with Bhansali on the films Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002). He directed the song sequences in Anurag Kashyap's film Paanch (2003) and was Choreographer on Deepa Mehta's Academy Award-nominated film Water (2005).

Motwane released his debut feature film, entitled Udaan (2010), for Anurag Kashyap's production house, Anurag Kashyap Films, on July 16, 2010., and subsequently won him the Best Director Award at the 2011 Star Screen Awards.

Motwane's second film, a period romance called Lootera, is slated for release in October 2012.

Anupama Chopra (born February 23, 1967) is an author, journalist and film critic. She has written several books on Indian cinema and has been a movie reviewer with NDTV and India Today. She is the film critic for the Hindustan Times.

Anupama Chopra was born as Anupama Chandra in Calcutta, India. Her father was an executive with Union Carbide and her mother Kamna Chandra was a scriptwriter who penned dialogues for films like Prem Rog and Chandni. Chopra grew up in Mumbai where her family lived in Nepean Sea Road and then in Cuffe Parade. She also lived in Hong Kong for several years as a teenager. In 1987, she graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai with a BA in English Literature. At the advice of her teacher she decided to become a film journalist and earned her MA in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She won the Harrington Award for magazine journalism while at Medill. She later said, "Film journalism was untouchable at the time. Everybody was ashamed and nobody wanted to admit that I worked for Movie."