Empire Award for Best Comedy
Empire Award for Best Comedy | ||||
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Awarded for | Best comedy film of the year | |||
Country | United Kingdom | |||
Presented by | Empire magazine | |||
First awarded | 2006 | |||
Currently held by | The Death of Stalin (2018) | |||
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The Empire Award for Best Comedy is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honor the best comedy film of the previous year. The Empire Award for Best Comedy is one of four new Best Film ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 11th Empire Awards ceremony in 2006 (along with Best Horror, Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Best Thriller) with Team America: World Police receiving the award. The Death of Stalin 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.
2000s
Year | Film | Ref. |
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2006 (11th) | Team America: World Police | [1] |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | ||
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | ||
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | ||
Wedding Crashers | ||
2007 (12th) | Little Miss Sunshine | [2] |
A Cock and Bull Story | ||
Borat | ||
Clerks II | ||
Nacho Libre | ||
2008 (13th) | Hot Fuzz | [3] |
Knocked Up | ||
Ratatouille | ||
Run Fatboy Run | ||
Superbad | ||
2009 (14th) | Son of Rambow | [4] |
Burn After Reading | ||
Ghost Town | ||
In Bruges | ||
Tropic Thunder |
2010s
Year | Film | Ref. |
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2010 (15th) | In the Loop | [5][6] |
A Serious Man | ||
The Hangover | ||
The Men Who Stare at Goats | ||
Up in the Air | ||
2011 (16th) | Four Lions | [7] |
Easy A | ||
Get Him to the Greek | ||
The Other Guys | ||
Toy Story 3 | ||
2012 (17th) | The Inbetweeners Movie | [8] |
Attack the Block | ||
Bridesmaids | ||
Crazy, Stupid, Love | ||
Midnight in Paris | ||
2013 (18th) | Ted | [9] |
21 Jump Street | ||
Moonrise Kingdom | ||
Silver Linings Playbook | ||
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | ||
2014 (19th) | Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | [10] |
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues | ||
The World's End | ||
This Is 40 | ||
This Is the End | ||
2015 (20th) | Paddington | [11][12] |
22 Jump Street | ||
The Grand Budapest Hotel | ||
The Inbetweeners 2 | ||
The Lego Movie | ||
2016 (21st) | Spy | [13] |
Ant-Man | ||
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | ||
Trainwreck | ||
Inside Out | ||
2017 (22nd) | The Greasy Strangler | [14] |
Deadpool | ||
The Nice Guys | ||
Hunt for the Wilderpeople | ||
Ghostbusters | ||
2018 (23rd) | The Death of Stalin | [15] |
Toni Erdmann | ||
The Big Sick | ||
The Disaster Artist | ||
Girls Trip |
Last awarded was at 18 March 2018.
References
- ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2007. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2008. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2009. Archived from the original on August 14, 2011. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2010. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ Reynolds, Simon (February 25, 2010). "In Full: Empire Awards 2010 nominees". digitalspy.co.uk. Digital Spy. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
- ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2012. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
- ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2013. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
- ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2014. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
- ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2015. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Barraclough, Leo (March 30, 2015). "'Interstellar' wins Film, Director at Empire Awards". Variety.com. Penske Business Media. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
- ^ John Nugent (February 18, 2016). "Jameson Empire Awards 2016: Star Wars and Mad Max lead the nominations". Empire.
- ^ Nugent, John (March 19, 2017). "Three Empire Awards 2017: Rogue One, Tom Hiddleston And Patrick Stewart Win Big". Empire. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
- ^ Ben Travis (January 18, 2018). "Star Wars The Last Jedi and Thor Ragnarok Lead Empire Awards 2018 Nominations". Empireonline.com.
External links
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- Team America: World Police (2006)
- Little Miss Sunshine (2007)
- Hot Fuzz (2008)
- Son of Rambow (2009)
- In the Loop (2010)
- Four Lions (2011)
- The Inbetweeners Movie (2012)
- Ted (2013)
- Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2014)
- Paddington (2015)
- Spy (2016)
- The Greasy Strangler (2017)
- The Death of Stalin (2018)