| Empire Award for Scene of the Year | |
| Awarded For: | Best film scene |
| Presenter: | Empire magazine |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Year2: | 2007 |
| Holder: | "The bridge attack" from (2007) |
| Main: | Empire Awards |
The Empire Award for Scene of the Year was an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honor the best film scene of the previous year. The Empire Award for Scene of the Year was first introduced at the 8th Empire Awards ceremony in 2003 with "Yoda's duel" from receiving the award and last presented at the 12th Empire Awards ceremony in 2007 with "The bridge attack" from receiving the award. Winners were voted by the readers of Empire magazine.
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.
| Year | Film | Scene | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Yoda's duel | [1] | |
| Austin Powers in Goldmember | The opening sequence | ||
| Die Another Day | The sword fight | ||
| Minority Report | The spyders | ||
| Gollum's debate | |||
| 2004 | The Ride of the Rohirrim | [2] | |
| Gangs of New York | The flag speech | ||
| The House of the Blue Leaves | |||
| The opening battle | |||
| The rum scene | |||
| 2005 | Enduring Love | The balloon sequence | [3] |
| "The Bride" versus "Elle" sequence | |||
| Shaun of the Dead | The records and zombies scene | ||
| Spider-Man 2 | Spider-Man battles Dr. Octopus on the train | ||
| The Bourne Supremacy | The Moscow car chase sequence | ||
| 2006 | The birth of Vader | [4] | |
| Crash | The car rescue | ||
| The Descent | The attack of the crawlers | ||
| The dogfight | |||
| War of the Worlds | The arrival | ||
| 2007 | The bridge attack | [5] [6] | |
| Borat | Borat's naked scrap with Azamat | ||
| Brick | The foot chase | ||
| Casino Royale | The parkour chase | ||
| Children of Men | Attack on the car | ||
| Little Miss Sunshine | Olive's dance routine | ||
| The waterwheel swordfight | |||
| Superman Returns | The Space Shuttle rescue | ||
| The Departed | Frank and Mr. French interrogate Costigan | ||
| The Phoenix and Professor X showdown |