Empire Award for Best Film Empire Award for Best Film The Empire Award for Best Film is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine "Empire" to honor the best film of the previous year. The Empire Award for Best Film is one of five ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 1st Empire Awards ceremony in 1996 (the others being Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best British Film) with "Braveheart" receiving the award. "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" is the most recent winner in this category. Winners are voted by the readers of "Empire" magazine. In the list
Citra Award for Best Director a nomination system in which a committee selected the Citra Award recipients from a shortlist of four to six films. Since 1986 the shortlist has remained at five selections. The Citra Awards, then known as the Indonesian Film Festival Awards, were first given at the IFF in early 1955; that year, Lilik Sudjio won Best Director for his film "Tarmina". The festival was then held intermittently, in 1960 and 1967. In 1973 the festival began to be held annually. This continued uninterrupted until after the 1992 IFF, when a sharp decline in film production led the festival to be discontinued.