Empire Award for Best Comedy

{{Infobox award

| name = 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 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

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=

width="10%" \| Year ! width="50%" \| Film ! width="2%" \| {{Abbr\|Ref.\|Reference}}
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rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 2006 {{Small\|(11th)}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| *Team America: World Police* \| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \|{{cite web \|url=http://www.empireonline.com/awards2006/winners/comedy.asp \|title=Best Comedy \|work=Empireonline.com \|publisher=Bauer Consumer Media \|year=2006 \|access-date=15 October 2011 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616195518/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2006/winners/comedy.asp \|archive-date=16 June 2013 }}
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wedding Crashers
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 2007 {{Small\|(12th)}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| *Little Miss Sunshine* \| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \|{{cite web \|url=http://www.empireonline.com/awards/comedy.asp \|title=Best Comedy \|work=Empireonline.com \|publisher=Bauer Consumer Media \|year=2007 \|access-date=15 October 2011 \|archive-date=8 March 2012 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308142759/http://www.empireonline.com/awards/comedy.asp \|url-status=dead }}
A Cock and Bull Story
Borat
Clerks II
Nacho Libre
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 2008 {{Small\|(13th)}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| *Hot Fuzz* \| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \|{{cite web \|url=http://www.empireonline.com/awards2008/winners/comedy.asp \|title=Best Comedy \|work=Empireonline.com \|publisher=Bauer Consumer Media \|year=2008 \|access-date=15 October 2011 \|archive-date=20 October 2012 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020232517/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2008/winners/comedy.asp \|url-status=dead }}
Knocked Up
Ratatouille
Run Fatboy Run
Superbad
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 2009 {{Small\|(14th)}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| *Son of Rambow* \| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \|{{cite web \|url=http://www.empireonline.com/awards2009/winners/comedy.asp \|title=Best Comedy \|work=Empireonline.com \|publisher=Bauer Consumer Media \|year=2009 \|access-date=15 October 2011 \|archive-date=14 August 2011 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814103102/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2009/winners/comedy.asp \|url-status=dead }}
Burn After Reading
Ghost Town
In Bruges
Tropic Thunder

=2010s=

width="10%" \| Year ! width="50%" \| Film ! width="2%" \| {{Abbr\|Ref.\|Reference}}
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rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 2010 {{Small\|(15th)}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| *In the Loop* \| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \|{{cite web \|url=http://www.empireonline.com/awards2010/winners/best-comedy/ \|title=Best Comedy \|work=Empireonline.com \|publisher=Bauer Consumer Media \|year=2010 \|access-date=15 October 2011 \|archive-date=21 October 2012 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021081040/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2010/winners/best-comedy/ \|url-status=dead }}{{cite web \|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a205232/in-full-empire-awards-2010-nominees.html \|title=In Full: Empire Awards 2010 nominees \|last=Reynolds \|first= Simon \|date=25 February 2010 \|work=digitalspy.co.uk \|publisher=Digital Spy \|access-date=12 August 2020 }}
A Serious Man
The Hangover
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Up in the Air
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 2011 {{Small\|(16th)}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| *Four Lions* \| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \|{{cite web\|url=http://www.empireonline.com/awards2011/winners/best-comedy/ \|title=Best Comedy \|work=Empireonline.com \|publisher=Bauer Consumer Media \|year=2011 \|access-date=15 October 2011 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614203955/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2011/winners/best-comedy/ \|archive-date=14 June 2013 }}
Easy A
Get Him to the Greek
The Other Guys
Toy Story 3
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 2012 {{Small\|(17th)}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| *The Inbetweeners Movie* \| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \|{{cite web \|url=http://www.empireonline.com/awards2012/winners/comedy.asp \|title=Best Comedy \|work=Empireonline.com \|publisher=Bauer Consumer Media \|date=2012 \|access-date=2014-08-18 \|archive-date=6 October 2014 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006084639/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2012/winners/comedy.asp \|url-status=dead }}
Attack the Block
Bridesmaids
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Midnight in Paris
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 2013 {{Small\|(18th)}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| *Ted* \| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \|{{cite web \|url=http://www.empireonline.com/awards2013/winners/bestcomedy.asp \|title=Best Comedy \|work=Empireonline.com \|publisher=Bauer Consumer Media \|date=2013 \|access-date=2014-08-18 \|archive-date=6 October 2014 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006113001/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2013/winners/bestcomedy.asp \|url-status=dead }}
21 Jump Street
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 2014 {{Small\|(19th)}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| *Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa* \| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \|{{cite web \|url=http://www.empireonline.com/awards2014/winners/best-comedy.asp \|title=Best Comedy \|work=Empireonline.com \|publisher=Bauer Consumer Media \|date=2014 \|access-date=2014-08-18 \|archive-date=19 August 2014 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819085115/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2014/winners/best-comedy.asp \|url-status=dead }}
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
The World's End
This Is 40
This Is the End
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 2015 {{Small\|(20th)}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| *Paddington* \| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \|{{cite web \|url=http://www.empireonline.com/awards2015/winners/best-comedy.asp \|title=Best Comedy \|work=Empireonline.com \|publisher=Bauer Consumer Media \|date=2015 \|access-date=1 April 2015 \|archive-date=2 April 2015 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122820/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2015/winners/best-comedy.asp \|url-status=dead }}{{cite news \|last=Barraclough \|first=Leo \|title='Interstellar' wins Film, Director at Empire Awards \|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/global/interstellar-wins-film-director-at-empire-awards-1201462423/ \|work=Variety.com \|publisher=Penske Business Media \|date=30 March 2015 \|access-date=30 March 2015 }}
22 Jump Street
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Inbetweeners 2
The Lego Movie
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 2016 {{Small\|(21st)}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| *Spy* \| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \|{{cite web \|date=18 February 2016 \|author=John Nugent \|title=Jameson Empire Awards 2016: Star Wars and Mad Max lead the nominations \|url=http://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/star-wars-mad-max-empire-awards-2016-nominations-2/ \|website=Empire }}
Ant-Man
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Trainwreck
Inside Out
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 2017 {{Small\|(22nd)}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| *The Greasy Strangler* \| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \|{{Cite web \|url=http://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/three-empire-awards-2017-rogue-one-tom-hiddleston-patrick-stewart-win-big/ \|title=Three Empire Awards 2017: Rogue One, Tom Hiddleston And Patrick Stewart Win Big \|last=Nugent \|first=John \|work=Empire \|date=19 March 2017 \|access-date=19 March 2017 \|archive-date=7 November 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107031609/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/three-empire-awards-2017-rogue-one-tom-hiddleston-patrick-stewart-win-big/ \|url-status=dead }}
Deadpool
The Nice Guys
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Ghostbusters
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 2018 {{Small\|(23rd)}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| *The Death of Stalin* \| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \|{{cite web \|date=18 January 2018 \|author= Ben Travis \|title=Star Wars The Last Jedi and Thor Ragnarok Lead Empire Awards 2018 Nominations \|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/star-wars-last-jedi-thor-ragnarok-lead-empire-awards-2018-nominations/ \|website=Empireonline.com }}
Toni Erdmann
The Big Sick
The Disaster Artist
Girls Trip

Last awarded was at 18 March 2018.

References

External links

Comedy

Category:Awards for best film