The Empire Inspiration Award is an honorary Empire Award presented by the British film magazine Empire. The Empire Inspiration Award was first introduced at the 2nd Empire Awards ceremony in 1997 with the Monty Python team receiving the award. The award was absent from the 3rd, 8th, 12th and 14th Empire Awards ceremonies. Luc Besson is the most recent winner in this category. At the most recent awards ceremony three honorary awards were presented: Empire Hero Award, Empire Inspiration Award and Empire Legend Award.
Winners In the list below, winners are listed first in boldface. 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 Winner 1997 (2nd) The Monty Python team 1999 (4th) Spike Lee
2000s Year Winner 2000 (5th) Kenneth Branagh 2001 (6th) Aardman Animations 2002 (7th) Michael Mann 2004 (9th) Ray Harryhausen 2005 (10th) Pixar 2006 (11th) Stephen Frears 2008 (13th) Guillermo del Toro
2010s Year Winner 2010 (15th) Andy Serkis 2011 (16th) Edgar Wright 2012 (17th) Ron Howard 2013 (18th) Sam Mendes 2014 (19th) Paul Greengrass 2015 (20th) Christopher Nolan 2016 (21st) Paddy Considine 2017 (22nd) Luc Besson
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