Best Sports Movie ESPY Award

[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] 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.

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][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.

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.