Best Sports Movie ESPY Award
List of winners

Best Sports Movie ESPY Award

Section Title: List of winners
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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

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

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

2005	Friday Night Lights	Peter Berg	American football	Cinderella Man – Boxing Coach Carter – Basketball Million Dollar Baby – Boxing

2006	Glory Road	James Gartner	Basketball	Dreamer – Horse racing Four Minutes – Track and field The Greatest Game Ever Played – Golf

2007	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby	Adam McKay	Stock car racing	Invincible American football Pride – Swimming We Are Marshall – American football

2008	Semi-Pro	Kent Alterman	Basketball	The Game Plan – American football Leatherheads – American football Resurrecting the Champ – Boxing

2009	The Express: The Ernie Davis Story	Gary Fleder	American football	Sugar – Baseball The Wrestler – Pro Wrestling

2010	The Blind Side	John Lee Hancock	American football	Big Fan – Baseball The Damned United – Soccer Invictus – Rugby union The Karate Kid – Martial arts

2011	The Fighter	David O. Russell	Boxing	Secretariat – Horse racing Soul Surfer – Surfing Win Win – Wrestling

Sentence(s)

John Lee Hancock is the director who holds more victories than anyone else, one for The Rookie, and a second for The Blind Side in 2010.

final_sentence: John Lee Hancock is the director who holds more victories than anyone else, one for The Rookie, and a second for The Blind Side in 2010.