Best Sports Movie ESPY Award
List of winners

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
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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
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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
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2005
Friday Night Lights
Peter Berg
American football
Cinderella Man – Boxing Coach Carter – Basketball Million Dollar Baby – Boxing
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2006
Glory Road
James Gartner
Basketball
Dreamer – Horse racing Four Minutes – Track and field The Greatest Game Ever Played – Golf
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2007
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Adam McKay
Stock car racing
Invincible American football Pride – Swimming We Are Marshall – American football
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2008
Semi-Pro
Kent Alterman
Basketball
The Game Plan – American football Leatherheads – American football Resurrecting the Champ – Boxing
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2009
The Express: The Ernie Davis Story
Gary Fleder
American football
Sugar – Baseball The Wrestler – Pro Wrestling
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2010
The Blind Side
John Lee Hancock
American football
Big Fan – Baseball The Damned United – Soccer Invictus – Rugby union The Karate Kid – Martial arts
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2011
The Fighter
David O. Russell
Boxing
Secretariat – Horse racing Soul Surfer – Surfing Win Win – Wrestling
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Question: Who holds the most Best Sports Movie ESPY Awards?
Answer: John Lee Hancock is the director who holds more Best Sports Movie ESPY Awards than anyone else: one for The Rookie in 2002, and a second for The Blind Side in 2010.