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Empire Award for Best Soundtrack

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Empire Award for Best Soundtrack
Awarded forBest film soundtrack
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byEmpire magazine
First awarded2008
Currently held byBaby Driver (2018)
Empire Awards

The Empire Award for Best Soundtrack was an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honor the best film soundtrack of the previous year. The Empire Award for Best Soundtrack was first introduced at the 13th Empire Awards ceremony in 2008 with the soundtrack from Control receiving the award and last presented at the 14th Empire Awards ceremony in 2009 with the soundtrack from Mamma Mia! receiving the award. The category was revived in 2016 when the Mad Max: Fury Road soundtrack received the award. The current winner of the award is the soundtrack from Baby Driver. Winners were voted by the readers of Empire magazine.

Winners and nominees

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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

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Year Film Ref.
2008
(13th)
Control [1]
Atonement
Hairspray
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Once
2009
(14th)
Mamma Mia! [2]
Quantum of Solace
RocknRolla
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood

2010s

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Year Film Ref.
2016
(21st)
Mad Max: Fury Road [3][4]
The Hateful Eight
The Martian
Sicario
Straight Outta Compton
2017
(22nd)
La La Land [5]
Arrival
The Greasy Strangler
Moana
Sing Street
2018
(23rd)
Baby Driver [6]
Beauty and the Beast
Call Me by Your Name
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Logan Lucky

References

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  1. ^ "Sony Ericsson Soundtrack Award". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2008. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
  2. ^ "Best Soundtrack". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2009. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
  3. ^ Nugent, John (February 18, 2016). "Jameson Empire Awards 2016: Star Wars and Mad Max lead the nominations". Empire. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  4. ^ Metro.co.uk, Rebecca Lewis for (February 18, 2016). "Mad Max: Fury Road leads the pack at the 2016 Jameson Empire Awards". Metro. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  5. ^ "2017 Three Empire Awards Nominations Announced". July 2, 2017.
  6. ^ Travis, Ben (March 19, 2018). "Star Wars: The Last Jedi Wins Big at Rakuten TV Empire Awards 2018". Empire. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
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