Empire Award for Best Horror | |
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Awarded for | Best horror film of the year |
Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | Empire magazine |
First awarded | 2006 |
Currently held by | The Hallow (2016) |
The Empire Award for Best Horror is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honor the best horror film of the previous year. The Empire Award for Best Horror is one of four new Best Film ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 11th Empire Awards ceremony in 2006 (along with Best Comedy, Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Best Thriller) with The Descent receiving the award. The Hallow is the most recent winner in this category. Winners are voted by the readers of Empire magazine.
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.