Empire Award for Best Comedy

Empire Award for Best Comedy
Awarded for	Best comedy film of the year
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	Empire magazine
First awarded	2006
Currently held by	Spy (2016)

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. Paddington 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.
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.
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

References

1. "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
2. "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2007. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
3. "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2008. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
4. "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2009. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
5. "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2010. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
6. Reynolds, Simon (February 25, 2010). "In Full: Empire Awards 2010 nominees". digitalspy.co.uk. Digital Spy. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
7. "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
8. "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2012. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
9. "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2013. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
10. "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
11. "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
12. Barraclough, Leo (March 30, 2015). "‘Interstellar’ wins Film, Director at Empire Awards". Variety.com (Penske Business Media). Retrieved March 30, 2015.
13. Jameson Empire Awards 2016: Star Wars and Mad Max lead the nominations

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