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
Academy Award for Best Picture that have received few or no nominations or awards. Only three animated films have been nominated - "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), "Up" (2009) and "Toy Story 3" (2010), the latter two having been nominated after the Academy expanded the number of nominees—but none have won. No science fiction film or superhero film has won (none of the latter has been nominated); only two fantasy films have won — "" (2003) and "The Shape of Water" (2017). "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) is the only horror film to win Best Picture, and only five other have been nominated for