Which ESPY award-winning sports movie is your personal favorite?

The 19th Annual ESPY Awards were held Wednesday of last week at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, and of all 33 categories, there was one that I was especially interested in, that is, the Best Sports Movie ESPY Award.

The ESPYs, short for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award, haven’t been around for that long, and the ESPY for Best Sports Movie has been around for an even shorter amount of time. The first ESPYs were given in 1993, and the first Best Sports Movie ESPY was awarded in 2002.

This year’s winner was “The Fighter,” a boxing movie directed by David O. Russell and starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale. If you like movies, especially sports movies, you’ve probably seen this one or have at least heard about it. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture this year too, coming up short against “The King’s Speech.”

In any event, “The Fighter” joins a long list of great sports movies to have received an ESPY over the years. What follows is a complete list of the all-time winners.

2011 – The Fighter (boxing): Directed by David O. Russell and starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale.

2010 – The Blind Side (football): Directed by John Lee Hancock and starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw and Kathy Bates.

2009 – The Express: The Ernie Davis Story (football): Directed by Gary Fleder and starring Dennis Quaid, Rob Brown and Charles S. Dutton.

2008 – Semi-Pro (basketball): Directed by Kent Alterman and starring Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Will Arnett and Andy Richter.

2007 – Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (stock car racing): Directed by Adam McKay and starring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen and Michael Clarke Duncan.

2006 – Glory Road (basketball): Directed by James Gartner and starring Josh Lucas, Derek Luke and Jon Voight.

2005 – Friday Night Lights (football): Directed by Peter Berg and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Tim McGraw and Derek Luke.

2004 – Miracle (hockey): Directed by Gavin O’Connor and starring Kurt Russell.

2003 – Bend It Like Beckham (soccer): Directed by Gurinder Chadha and starring Parminder Nagra, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Keira Knightley.

2002 – The Rookie (baseball): Directed by John Lee Hancock and starring Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez and Brian Cox.

In the end, which of the movies mentioned above is your personal favorite and why? Which did you like or dislike and why? Which would you recommend and why? Let us know in the comments section below.