Empire Award for Best Film

Empire Award for Best Film
Awarded for	Best Film of the Year
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	Empire magazine
First awarded	1996
Currently held by	The Revenant (2016)

The Empire Award for Best Film is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honor the best film of the previous year. The Empire Award for Best 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 British Film) with Braveheart receiving the award. The Revenant 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)	Braveheart	[1]
1997 (2nd)	Seven	[2]
1998 (3rd)	Men in Black	[3]
1999 (4th)	Titanic	[4]
	Good Will Hunting
	Saving Private Ryan
	The Big Lebowski
	The Truman Show

2000s

Year	Film	Ref.
2000 (5th)	The Matrix	[5]
	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
	Fight Club
	Notting Hill
	The Sixth Sense
2001 (6th)	Gladiator	[6]
	American Beauty
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
	High Fidelity
	Magnolia
2002 (7th)	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	[7]
	A.I. Artificial Intelligence
	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
	Moulin Rouge!
	The Others
2003 (8th)	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	[8]
	Die Another Day
	Minority Report
	Road to Perdition
	Spider-Man
2004 (9th)	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	[9]
	Cold Mountain
	Kill Bill: Volume 1
	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
	X2
2005 (10th)	The Bourne Supremacy	[10]
	Collateral
	Kill Bill: Volume 2
	Spider-Man 2
	The Incredibles
2006 (11th)	King Kong	[11]
	Crash
	Sin City
	Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
	War of the Worlds
2007 (12th)	Casino Royale	[12]
	Pan's Labyrinth
	Superman Returns
	The Departed
	United 93
2008 (13th)	The Bourne Ultimatum	[13]
	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
	Ratatouille
	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
	Zodiac
2009 (14th)	The Dark Knight	[14]
	Iron Man
	No Country For Old Men
	There Will Be Blood
	WALL-E

2010s

Year	Film	Ref.
2010 (15th)	Avatar	[15][16]
	District 9
	Inglourious Basterds
	Star Trek
	The Hurt Locker
2011 (16th)	Inception	[17]
	Kick-Ass
	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
	The King's Speech
	The Social Network
2012 (17th)	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	[18]
	Drive
	Rise of the Planet of the Apes
	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2013 (18th)	Skyfall	[19]
	Django Unchained
	The Avengers
	The Dark Knight Rises
	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2014 (19th)	Gravity	[20]
	12 Years a Slave
	Captain Phillips
	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2015 (20th)	Interstellar	[21][22]
	Boyhood
	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
	The Imitation Game
2016 (21st)	The Revenant	[23][24]
	The Hateful Eight
	Mad Max: Fury Road
	The Martian
	Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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24. Jameson Empire Awards 2016: Star Wars and Mad Max lead the nominations

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