Empire Award for Best Comedy explained

Empire Award for Best Comedy
Awarded For:	Best comedy film of the year
Presenter:	Empire magazine
Country:	United Kingdom
Year:	2006
Holder:	The Death of Stalin (2018)
Main:	Empire Awards

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 receiving the award. The Death of Stalin 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
2006		^[1]
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
	The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

	Wedding Crashers
2007	*Little Miss Sunshine*	^[2]
	A Cock and Bull Story
	Borat
	Clerks II
	Nacho Libre
2008	*Hot Fuzz*	^[3]
	Knocked Up
	Ratatouille
	Run Fatboy Run
	Superbad
2009	*Son of Rambow*	^[4]
	Burn After Reading
	Ghost Town
	In Bruges
	Tropic Thunder

2010s

Year	Film
2010	*In the Loop*	^[5] ^[6]
	A Serious Man
	The Hangover
	The Men Who Stare at Goats
	Up in the Air
2011	*Four Lions*	^[7]
	Easy A
	Get Him to the Greek
	The Other Guys
	Toy Story 3
2012	*The Inbetweeners Movie*	^[8]
	Attack the Block
	Bridesmaids
	Crazy, Stupid, Love
	Midnight in Paris
2013	*Ted*	^[9]
	21 Jump Street
	Moonrise Kingdom
	Silver Linings Playbook
	The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
2014		^[10]

	The World's End
	This Is 40
	This Is the End
2015	*Paddington*	^[11] ^[12]
	22 Jump Street
	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	The Inbetweeners 2
	The Lego Movie
2016	*Spy*	^[13]
	Ant-Man
	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
	Trainwreck
	Inside Out
2017	*The Greasy Strangler*	^[14]
	Deadpool
	The Nice Guys
	Hunt for the Wilderpeople
	Ghostbusters
2018	*The Death of Stalin*	^[15]
	Toni Erdmann
	The Big Sick
	The Disaster Artist
	Girls Trip

Last awarded was at 18 March 2018.

Notes and References

Web site: Best Comedy . . . 2006 . October 15, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130616195518/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2006/winners/comedy.asp . June 16, 2013 . mdy .
Web site: Best Comedy . . . 2007 . October 15, 2011 . March 8, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120308142759/http://www.empireonline.com/awards/comedy.asp . dead .
Web site: Best Comedy . . . 2008 . October 15, 2011 . October 20, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121020232517/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2008/winners/comedy.asp . dead .
Web site: Best Comedy . . . 2009 . October 15, 2011 . August 14, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110814103102/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2009/winners/comedy.asp . dead .
Web site: Best Comedy . . . 2010 . October 15, 2011 . October 21, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121021081040/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2010/winners/best-comedy/ . dead .
Web site: In Full: Empire Awards 2010 nominees . Reynolds . Simon . February 25, 2010 . digitalspy.co.uk . . August 12, 2020 .
Web site: Best Comedy . . . 2011 . October 15, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130614203955/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2011/winners/best-comedy/ . June 14, 2013 . mdy .
Web site: Best Comedy . . . 2012 . 2014-08-18 . October 6, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006084639/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2012/winners/comedy.asp . dead .
Web site: Best Comedy . . . 2013 . 2014-08-18 . October 6, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006113001/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2013/winners/bestcomedy.asp . dead .
Web site: Best Comedy . . . 2014 . 2014-08-18 . August 19, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140819085115/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2014/winners/best-comedy.asp . dead .
Web site: Best Comedy . . . 2015 . April 1, 2015 . April 2, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122820/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2015/winners/best-comedy.asp . dead .
News: Barraclough . Leo . 'Interstellar' wins Film, Director at Empire Awards . . . March 30, 2015 . March 30, 2015 .
Web site: 18 Feb 2016 . John Nugent . Jameson Empire Awards 2016: Star Wars and Mad Max lead the nominations . .
Web site: Three Empire Awards 2017: Rogue One, Tom Hiddleston And Patrick Stewart Win Big . Nugent . John . . 19 March 2017 . 19 March 2017 . November 7, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171107031609/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/three-empire-awards-2017-rogue-one-tom-hiddleston-patrick-stewart-win-big/ . dead .
Web site: 18 January 2018 . Ben Travis . Star Wars The Last Jedi and Thor Ragnarok Lead Empire Awards 2018 Nominations . Empireonline.com .