Stone turned down a role in the action comedy film "21 Jump Street" after signing on to Marc Webb's 2012 film "The Amazing Spider-Man", a reboot of Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" series. She portrayed Gwen Stacy, the love interest of the title character (played by Andrew Garfield). Stone returned to her natural blond hair color for the role, having dyed it red previously. She admitted to having never read the comics, and therefore felt responsible to educate herself about Spider-Man: "My experience was with the Sam Raimi movies ... I always assumed that Mary Jane was his first love", adding that she was only familiar with Stacy's character as portrayed by Bryce Dallas Howard in "Spider-Man 3". "The Amazing Spider-Man" was a commercial success and was the seventh highest-grossing film of 2012 with global revenues of $757.9 million. "Entertainment Weekly"s Lisa Schwarzbaum found Stone to be "irresistible", and Ian Freer of "Empire" was particularly impressed with Stone's and Garfield's performances. At the annual People's Choice Awards ceremony, she was nominated for three awards, including Favorite Movie Actress. Later that year, Stone voiced a role in the crime-based video game, "Sleeping Dogs", which earned her a Spike Video Game Award for Best Performance by a Human Female.