Skyfall is leading the pack at this year’s Empire Awards with six nominations for the Bond film, including best actor for Daniel Craig and best actress for Dame Judi Dench.

Dench faces competition from Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Lawrence who are both nominated in the same category, but not for the roles that won them Academy Awards last month.

Hathaway is nominated for The Dark Knight Rises, while Lawrence got a nod for The Hunger Games.

The shortlist for best actor includes two more winners from this year’s Oscars – Daniel Day-Lewis and Christoph Waltz. Other contenders for best actor include Robert Downey Jr and Martin Freeman, while Golden Globe winner Jessica Chastain and Naomi Watts complete the line-up for best actress.

Skyfall also picked up nomin-ations for best thriller, best British film, best director and best film at the awards, which are voted for by film fans.

This year’s event, formally known as the Jameson Empire Awards 2013, also sees five nomin-ations for Joss Whedon’s Avengers Assemble and Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Skyfall director Sam Mendes is shortlisted with Whedon, Jackson, Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino for best director.

The awards will be handed out on March 24.

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