Empire Award for Best Comedy

Awarded for| Best comedy film of the year
Country| United Kingdom
Presented by| Empire magazine
First award| 2006
Currently held by| The Death of Stalin (2018)
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The Empire Award for Best Comedy is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honour 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. The Death of Stalin is the most recent winner in this category. Winners are voted by the readers of Empire magazine.

## Winners and nominees

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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

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Year  | Film  | Ref.

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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

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Year  | Film  | Ref.

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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
2017
(22nd) | The Greasy Strangler | [14]
Deadpool
The Nice Guys
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Ghostbusters
2018
(23rd) | The Death of Stalin | [15]
Toni Erdmann
The Big Sick
The Disaster Artist
Girls Trip

Last awarded was at 18 March 2018.

## References

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1. ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
2. ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2007. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
3. ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2008. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
4. ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2009. Archived from the original on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
5. ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2010. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
6. ^ Reynolds, Simon (25 February 2010). "In Full: Empire Awards 2010 nominees". digitalspy.co.uk. Digital Spy. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
7. ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2011. Archived from the original on 14 June 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
8. ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2012. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
9. ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2013. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
10. ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2014. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
11. ^ "Best Comedy". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
12. ^ Barraclough, Leo (30 March 2015). "'Interstellar' wins Film, Director at Empire Awards". Variety.com. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
13. ^ John Nugent (18 February 2016). "Jameson Empire Awards 2016: Star Wars and Mad Max lead the nominations". Empire.
14. ^ Nugent, John (19 March 2017). "Three Empire Awards 2017: Rogue One, Tom Hiddleston And Patrick Stewart Win Big". Empire. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
15. ^ Ben Travis (18 January 2018). "Star Wars The Last Jedi and Thor Ragnarok Lead Empire Awards 2018 Nominations". Empireonline.com.

## External links

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Empire Award for Best Comedy

* Team America: World Police (2006)
* Little Miss Sunshine (2007)
* Hot Fuzz (2008)
* Son of Rambow (2009)
* In the Loop (2010)
* Four Lions (2011)
* The Inbetweeners Movie (2012)
* Ted (2013)
* Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2014)
* Paddington (2015)
* Spy (2016)
* The Greasy Strangler (2017)
* The Death of Stalin (2018)

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* Best Male Newcomer
* Best Female Newcomer
* Best Film
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* Best Comedy
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* Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy
* Best Thriller
* Best Soundtrack

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* Empire Hero Award
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* Best British Actor
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* Best Supporting Actor
* Best Supporting Actress
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* Done In 60 Seconds

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