Empire Hero Award Explained

The Empire Hero Award is an honorary Empire Award presented by the British film magazine Empire. The Empire Hero Award was first introduced at the 15th Empire Awards ceremony in 2010 with Jude Law receiving the award. Actor Tom Hiddleston is the most recent winner in this category. Empire now presents three honorary awards: Empire Hero Award, Empire Inspiration Award and Empire Legend Award.

Winners

In the list below, winners are listed first in boldface. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article (if any) on that ceremony.

2010s

Year	Winner
2010 (15th)	Jude Law	^[1]
2011 (16th)	Keira Knightley	^[2]
2012 (17th)	Michael Fassbender	^[3]
2013 (18th)	Daniel Radcliffe	^[4]
2014 (19th)	Simon Pegg	^[5]
2015 (20th)	The cast of Game of Thrones	^[6]
2016 (21st)	Stanley Tucci	^[7]
2017 (22nd)	Tom Hiddleston	^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Jameson Empire Awards 2010 - Empire Hero Award . . . 2010 . September 15, 2014 .
2. Web site: Previous winners - 2011 . . . 2012 . September 15, 2014.
3. Web site: The Jameson Empire Awards 2012 - Empire Hero Award . . . 2012 . September 15, 2014.
4. Web site: The Jameson Empire Awards 2013 - Empire Hero Award . . . 2013 . September 15, 2014.
5. Web site: The Jameson Empire Awards 2014 - Empire Hero Award . . . 2014 . September 15, 2014.
6. Web site: The Jameson Empire Awards 2015 - Empire Hero Award . . . 2015 . April 1, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150714065122/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2015/winners/hero.asp . July 14, 2015 .
7. News: Daisy Ridley and John Boyega triumph at Empire Film Awards. 2016-03-20. Evening Standard. 2017-03-19. en-GB.
8. Web site: Three Empire Awards 2017 Live Blog. Nugent. John. Empire. en. 2017-03-19.