The Empire Award for Best British Film was an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honour the best British film of the previous year. The Empire Award for Best British Film was 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. God's Own Country was the most recent winner in this category. Winners were chosen 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 1996 Shallow Grave 1997 Trainspotting 1998 The Full Monty 1999 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Elizabeth My Name Is Joe Sliding Doors Twenty Four Seven
2000s Year Film 2000 Notting Hill East Is East Human Traffic Little Voice Shakespeare in Love 2001 Billy Elliot Angela’s Ashes Chicken Run Snatch Topsy-Turvy 2002 Bridget Jones's Diary Enigma Lucky Break Mike Bassett: England Manager The Parole Officer 2003 28 Days Later 24 Hour Party People About a Boy Bend It Like Beckham The Guru 2004 Love Actually Bright Young Things Calendar Girls Johnny English Young Adam 2005 Shaun of the Dead Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Dead Man's Shoes Enduring Love Layer Cake 2006 Pride & Prejudice 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 United 93 A Cock and Bull Story Confetti Starter for 10 The Queen 2008 Atonement Control Hot Fuzz Sunshine This Is England 2009 RocknRolla Eden Lake Hunger In Bruges Son of Rambow
2010s Year Film 2010 Harry Brown An Education In the Loop Nowhere Boy The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 2011 Kick-Ass 127 Hours Four Lions Monsters The King's Speech 2012 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Attack the Block Submarine The Inbetweeners Movie Tyrannosaur 2013 Sightseers Dredd Les Misérables Skyfall The Woman in Black 2014 The World's End Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa Filth Rush Sunshine on Leith 2015 Kingsman: The Secret Service Paddington The Imitation Game The Theory of Everything Under the Skin 2016 SpectreJameson Empire Awards 2016: Star Wars and Mad Max lead the nominations 45 Years Legend Macbeth Suffragette 2017 I, Daniel Blake Eddie the Eagle Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them High-Rise The Girl with All the Gifts 2018 God's Own CountryEmpireonline.com. Star Wars The Last Jedi and Thor Ragnarok Lead Empire Awards 2018 Nominations The Death of Stalin Dunkirk Darkest Hour Paddington 2
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