Best Sports Movie ESPY Award

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The Best Sports Movie ESPY Award was an annual award honoring the achievements of an individual from the world of sports film making. It was first awarded as part of the ESPY Awards in 2002, and was discontinued nine years later.[1] The Best Sports Movie ESPY Award trophy, designed by sculptor Lawrence Nowlan,[2] was bestowed annually to the sports film adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year.[1] From 2004 onward, the winner was chosen by online voting through choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.[3] Before that, determination of the winners was made by an panel of experts.[4] Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in July and reflect performance from the June previous.[a][5]

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Best Sports Movie ESPY Award
Awarded forbest sports film
LocationLos Angeles (2011)
Presented byESPN
First award2002
Final award2011
Currently held byThe Fighter (USA)
Websitewww.espn.co.uk/espys/
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The inaugural winner of the Best Sports Movie ESPY Award in 2002 was the baseball themed film The Rookie released the same year. It is based on the true story of Jim Morris' minor but notable Major League Baseball career.[6] Films that predominantly feature American football have received the award more than any other sport, with three wins and six further nominations, followed by baseball and basketball with two victories apiece, and were nominated twice. John Lee Hancock is the director who holds more victories than any one else, one for The Rookie, and a second for The Blind Side (2010).[7] The two sports with the most nominations that did not win the award are golf and horse racing, with three each.[7][8] The final winner of the Best Sports Movie ESPY Award in 2011 was the Boxing film The Fighter, which centers on the lives of former professional boxers Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund, and the issues they are confronted with in both their personal and professional lives.[9][10]

Winners

Gurinder Chadha's film Bend It Like Beckham was the only soccer film to win the award in 2003.
In 2011, The Fighter, directed by David O. Russell, was the final film to be voted the winner of the award.
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Best Sports Movie ESPY Award winners and nominees
Year Film Director Sport featured Nominees Refs
2002 The Rookie John Lee Hancock Baseball 61* Baseball
Ali Boxing
Joe and Max Boxing
Monday Night Mayhem American football
[6][7]
2003 Bend It Like Beckham Gurinder Chadha Association football (soccer) A Gentleman's Game Golf
Like Mike Basketball
Poolhall Junkies Pool
The Junction Boys College football
[7][11]
2004 Miracle Gavin O'Connor Ice hockey Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius Golf
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story Dodgeball
Radio American football
Seabiscuit Horse racing
[7][12]
2005 Friday Night Lights Peter Berg American football Cinderella Man Boxing
Coach Carter Basketball
Million Dollar Baby Boxing
[13][14]
2006 Glory Road James Gartner Basketball Dreamer Horse racing
Four Minutes Track and field
The Greatest Game Ever Played Golf
[7][15]
2007 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Adam McKay Stock car racing Invincible   American football
Pride Swimming
We Are Marshall American football
[7][16]
2008 Semi-Pro Kent Alterman Basketball The Game Plan American football
Leatherheads American football
Resurrecting the Champ Boxing
[17][18]
2009 The Express: The Ernie Davis Story Gary Fleder American football Sugar Baseball
The Wrestler Pro Wrestling
[7][19]
2010 The Blind Side John Lee Hancock American football Big Fan American Football
The Damned United Soccer
Invictus Rugby union
The Karate Kid Martial arts
[20][21]
2011 The Fighter David O. Russell Boxing Secretariat Horse racing
Soul Surfer Surfing
Win Win Wrestling
[8][9]
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