Empire Award for Best Thriller

Empire Award for Best Thriller
Awarded for	Best thriller film of the year
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	Empire magazine
First awarded	2006
Currently held by	Spectre (2016)

The Empire Award for Best Thriller is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honor the best thriller film of the previous year. The Empire Award for Best Thriller is one of four new Best Film ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 11th Empire Awards ceremony in 2006 (along with Best Comedy, Best Horror and Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy) with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang receiving the award. The Imitation Game 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)	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	[1]
	A History of Violence
	Batman Begins
	Sin City
	The Constant Gardener
2007 (12th)	The Departed	[2]
	Caché
	Inside Man
	Mission: Impossible III
	Munich
2008 (13th)	American Gangster	[3]
	Disturbia
	Eastern Promises
	The Bourne Ultimatum
	Zodiac
2009 (14th)	Quantum of Solace	[4]
	Changeling
	Eagle Eye
	Gone Baby Gone
	No Country for Old Men

2010s

Year	Film	Ref.
2010 (15th)	Sherlock Holmes	[5][6]
	Harry Brown
	Inglourious Basterds
	Public Enemies
	The Hurt Locker
2011 (16th)	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	[7]
	127 Hours
	Black Swan
	Shutter Island
	The Town
2012 (17th)	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	[8]
	Drive
	Hanna
	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2013 (18th)	Headhunters	[9]
	Argo
	Skyfall
	The Raid
	Zero Dark Thirty
2014 (19th)	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	[10]
	Captain Phillips
	Now You See Me
	Prisoners
	Trance
2015 (20th)	The Imitation Game	[11][12]
	Captain America: The Winter Soldier
	Gone Girl
	Kingsman: The Secret Service
	Locke
2016 (21st)	Spectre	[13]
	Bridge of Spies
	The Gift
	Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
	Sicario

References

1. "Best Thriller". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
2. "Best Thriller". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2007. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
3. "Best Thriller". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2008. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
4. "Best Thriller". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2009. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
5. "Best Thriller". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2010. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
6. Reynolds, Simon (February 25, 2010). "In Full: Empire Awards 2010 nominees". digitalspy.co.uk. Digital Spy. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
7. "Best Thriller". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
8. "Best Thriller". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2012. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
9. "Best Thriller". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2013. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
10. "Best Thriller". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
11. "Best Thriller". 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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