Empire Award for Best British Director explained

Empire Award for British Best Director
Awarded For:	Best film direction by a British director
Presenter:	Empire magazine
Country:	United Kingdom
Year:	1996
Year2:	2005
Holder:	Matthew Vaughn - Layer Cake (2005)
Main:	Empire Awards

The Empire Award for Best British Director was an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honor a British director working within the film industry. The Empire Award for Best British Director was first introduced at the 2nd Empire Awards ceremony in 1997 with Danny Boyle receiving the award for his direction of Trainspotting and last presented as an annual award at the 6th Empire Awards ceremony in 2001 with it returning for a final time at the 10th Empire Awards ceremony in 2005. It was one of three Best British awards retired that year (the others being Best British Actor and Best British Actress). Winners were voted by the readers of Empire magazine.

Since its inception, the award has been given to six directors. Guy Ritchie, Roger Michell and Shane Meadows were nominated on two occasions each, more than any other director. Matthew Vaughn was the last winner in this category for his role in Layer Cake.

Winners and nominees

In the list below, winners are listed first in bold, 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	Director	Film
1997	Danny Boyle	Trainspotting	^[1]
1998	Anthony Minghella	The English Patient	^[2]
1999	Peter Howitt	Sliding Doors	^[3]
	Guy Ritchie	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
	Ken Loach	My Name Is Joe
	Nick Hamm	Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence
	Shane Meadows	Twenty Four Seven

2000s

Year	Director	Film
2000	Roger Michell	Notting Hill	^[4]
	Damien O'Donnell	East Is East
	John Madden	Shakespeare in Love
	Justin Kerrigan	Human Traffic
	Mark Herman	Little Voice
2001	Guy Ritchie	Snatch	^[5]
	Nick Park and Peter Lord	Chicken Run
	Ridley Scott	Gladiator
	Sam Mendes	American Beauty
	Stephen Daldry	Billy Elliot
2005	Matthew Vaughn	Layer Cake	^[6]
	Edgar Wright	Shaun of the Dead
	Paul Greengrass	The Bourne Supremacy
	Roger Michell	Enduring Love
	Shane Meadows	Dead Man's Shoes

Multiple awards and nominations

No individual received more than one Best British Director award.

Multiple nominations

The following individuals received two or more Best British Director nominations:

Nominations	Film
2	Guy Ritchie
	Roger Michell
	Shane Meadows

Notes and References

1. Web site: Past Winners - 1997 . . . 2003 . October 11, 2011 .
2. Web site: Past Winners - 1998 . . . 2003 . October 11, 2011 .
3. Web site: Past Winners - 1999 . . . 2003 . October 11, 2011 .
4. Web site: Past Winners - 2000 . . . 2003 . October 11, 2011 .
5. Web site: Empire Awards 2001 . . October 11, 2011 .
6. Web site: Best British Director . . . 2005 . October 11, 2011 .