Empire Award for Best British Film

Empire Award for Best British Film
Awarded for	Best British film of the year
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	Empire magazine
First awarded	1996
Currently held by	Spectre (2016)

The Empire Award for Best British Film is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honor the best British film of the previous year. The Empire Award for Best British Film is one of five ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 1st Empire Awards ceremony in 1996 (the others being Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Film) with Shallow Grave receiving the award. Kingsman: The Secret Service is the most recent winner in this category. Winners are voted by the readers of Empire magazine.

Winners and nominees

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

1990s

Year	Film	Ref.
1996 (1st)	Shallow Grave	[1]
1997 (2nd)	Trainspotting	[2]
1998 (3rd)	The Full Monty	[3]
1999 (4th)	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	[4]
	Elizabeth
	My Name Is Joe
	Sliding Doors
	Twenty Four Seven

2000s

Year	Film	Ref.
2000 (5th)	Notting Hill	[5]
	East Is East
	Human Traffic
	Little Voice
	Shakespeare in Love
2001 (6th)	Billy Elliot	[6]
	Angela’s Ashes
	Chicken Run
	Snatch
	Topsy-Turvy
2002 (7th)	Bridget Jones's Diary	[7]
	Enigma
	Lucky Break
	Mike Bassett: England Manager
	The Parole Officer
2003 (8th)	28 Days Later	[lower-alpha 1][8]
	24 Hour Party People
	About a Boy
	Bend It Like Beckham
	The Guru
2004 (9th)	Love Actually	[9]
	Bright Young Things
	Calendar Girls
	Johnny English
	Young Adam
2005 (10th)	Shaun of the Dead	[10]
	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
	Dead Man's Shoes
	Enduring Love
	Layer Cake
2006 (11th)	Pride & Prejudice	[lower-alpha 2][11]
	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
	Stoned
	The Descent
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2007 (12th)	United 93	[12]
	A Cock and Bull Story
	Confetti
	Starter for 10
	The Queen
2008 (13th)	Atonement	[13]
	Control
	Hot Fuzz
	Sunshine
	This Is England
2009 (14th)	RocknRolla	[14]
	Eden Lake
	Hunger
	In Bruges
	Son of Rambow

2010s

Year	Film	Ref.
2010 (15th)	Harry Brown	[15][16]
	An Education
	In the Loop
	Nowhere Boy
	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2011 (16th)	Kick-Ass	[17]
	127 Hours
	Four Lions
	Monsters
	The King's Speech
2012 (17th)	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	[18]
	Attack the Block
	Submarine
	The Inbetweeners Movie
	Tyrannosaur
2013 (18th)	Sightseers	[19]
	Dredd
	Les Misérables
	Skyfall
	The Woman in Black
2014 (19th)	The World's End	[20]
	Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
	Filth
	Rush
	Sunshine on Leith
2015 (20th)	Kingsman: The Secret Service	[21][22]
	Paddington
	The Imitation Game
	The Theory of Everything
	Under the Skin
2016 (21st)	Spectre	[23]
	45 Years
	Legend
	Macbeth
	Suffragette

Notes

1. The official name of the award at the 8th Empire Awards in 2003 was "Sky Movies Best British Film".
2. The 11th Empire Awards in 2006 had six nominees (instead of the usual five) for Best British Film.

References

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16. Reynolds, Simon (February 25, 2010). "In Full: Empire Awards 2010 nominees". digitalspy.co.uk. Digital Spy. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
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18. "Best British Film". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2012. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
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20. "Best British Film". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
21. "Best British Film". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
22. Barraclough, Leo (March 30, 2015). "'Interstellar' wins Film, Director at Empire Awards". Variety.com. Penske Business Media. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
23. Jameson Empire Awards 2016: Star Wars and Mad Max lead the nominations

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