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 did contain some color sequences). No Best Picture winner has been lost, though a few such as "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Lawrence of Arabia" exist only in a form altered from their original, award-winning release form. This has usually been due to editing for reissue (and subsequently partly restored by archivists). Other winners and nominees, such as "Tom Jones" and "Star Wars," are widely available only in subsequently altered versions. "The Broadway Melody" originally had some sequences photographed in two-color Technicolor. This footage survives only in black and white. The 1928 film "The Patriot" is the only