IAWTV Award Nominations 2011 (as a list)
Because I am not really happy with the presentation of the categories on the IAWTV homepage (it’s not handy if you wanna have an overview), I made a simple list for you with all the categories and all the nominations on it.
Read it now, thank me later. :)
Best Comedy Web Series
Gigi: Almost American
PRETTY
The Guild
The Jeff Lewis 5-minute Comedy Hour
Video Game Reunion
Best Hosted (Taped) Web Series
A Comicbook Orange
ETC
Immersion
NextMovie Daily
The Web.Files
Best Drama Web Series
AIDAN 5
Anyone But Me
CELL: The Web Series
Pioneer One
RCVR/Web Series
Best Hosted (Live) Web Series
Geek Beat Live
Indie Intertube
Kevin Pollack’s Chat Show
Stupid For Movies
What’s Trending with Shira Lazar
Best Animated Web Series
CliffsNotes Films
Dick Figures
Red vs. Blue
Sketch 22
The World of Bruce McCall
Best Documentary Web Series
Beyond the Gallery
Deja View
DON’T ASK DON’T TELL
The Founders
White Collar Brawler
Best Variety Series
Fanboy Funhouse
Kids React
Mark Malkoff
Stripped Down Live
Team Unicorn
Best News Web Series
Breakout
Daily Ticker
Tech News Today
The Philip Defranco Show
The Woodward Report
Best Educational Web Series
DadLabs
Engineer Your Space
Financially Fit
The Great Camera Shootout 2011
What You Can Do
Best Writing (Drama)
Vidas Barzdukas - AIDAN 5
Susan Miller & Tina Cesa Ward - Anyone But Me
Mark Gardner - CELL: The Web Series
David Nett Rick Robinson & Andrew R. Deutsch - Night of the Zombie King
David Van Eyssen & Brian Horiuchi - RCVR/Web Series
Best Writing (Comedy)
Jessica Mills - Awkward Embraces
Steve Silverman - PRETTY
Marilyn Anne Michaels & Dominic Conti - The Best Friend
Felicia Day - The Guild
Jeff Lewis - The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
Best Writing (Non-Fiction)
Rudy Jahchan - A Comicbook Orange
Grace Helbig - Daily Grace
Benny Fine & Rafi Fine - Kids React
Nar Williams - NextMovie Daily
Scott Lynch - The Great Camera Shootout 2011
Best Directing (Drama)
Ben Bays - AIDAN 5
Tina Cesa Ward - Anyone But Me
David Nett - Night of the Zombie King
David Van Eyssen - RCVR/Web Series
Chris Preksta - The Mercury Men
Best Directing (Comedy)
Sandeep Parikh - Legend of Neil
Steve Silverman - PRETTY
Frederick Snyder - SOLO: The Series
Sean Becker - The Guild
Sean Becker - The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
Best Directing (Non-Fiction)
Danny Cameron - DadLabs
Mike Rotman - Kevin Pollack’s Chat Show
Benny Fine & Rafi Fine - Kids React
Sandra J. Payne - The Web.Files
Brett Register - What’s Trending with Shira Lazar
Best Male Performance (Comedy)
Yuri Baranovsky - Leap Year
Jonathan Nail - SOLO: The Series
Jeff Lewis - The Guild
Sandeep Parikh - The Guild
Jeff Lewis - The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
Best Male Performance (Drama)
Bryan Michael Block - AIDAN 5
Dingani Beza - Asylum
Kevin McCarthy - CELL: The Web Series
Maxwell Glick - Night of the Zombie King
Daniel Bonjour - RCVR/Web Series
Best Female Performance (Comedy)
Emma Caulfield - Bandwagon The Series
Hillary B. Smith - Fumbling thru the Pieces
Alexis Boozer - Leap Year
Felicia Day - The Guild
Julie Ann Emery - Then we got HELP!
Best Female Performance (Drama)
Maya Sayre - AIDAN 5
Rachael Hip-Flores - Anyone But Me
Taryn Southern - BlackBoxTV: The Series
Jourdan Gibson - CELL: The Web Series
Jery Ryan - Mortal Kombat: Legacy
Best Host (Taped)
Casey McKinnon - A Comicbook Orange
Brad Powell - ETC (Entertainment, Technology, Culture)
Khail Anomymous - Immersion
Burnie Burns - NextMovie Daily
Kristyn Burtt - The Web.Files
Best Host (Live)
April Grant & Amanda Shockley - Indie Intertube
Kevin Pollack - Kevin Pollack’s Chat Show
Curt Smith - Stripped Down Live
Mark Keizer & Wade Major - Stupid For Movies
Shira Lazar - What’s Trending with Shira Lazar
Best Cinematography
Iskra Valtcheva & Michael Morlan - CELL: The Web Series
C. Kim Miles - Mortal Kombat: Legacy
Andrew R. Deutsch - Night of the Zombie King
Joost Van Starrenburg - RCVR/Web Series
Christopher Charles Kempinski - Riese: Kingdom Falling
Best Design (Art Direction/Production)
Ben Brown & Jason Mowry - AIDAN 5
Eric Whitney - Continuum
Greg Aronowitz - Dragon Age: Redemption
Kelly Wasserman - RCVR/Web Series
Jonathan Nail & Michael Levine- SOLO: The Series
Best Costume Design
Shawna Trpcic - Dragon Age: Redemption
Katie Broad - Fallout: Nuka Break
Megan Leson - Riese: Kingdom Falling
Kristin Ingram - The Guild
Jenny Green Dan Crawley & Thais Yuki - Video Game Reunion
Best Makeup/Special Effects
Jamie Register - A Good Knight’s Quest
Greg Aronowitz & Kimberly Graczyk - Dragon Age: Redemption
Ralis Kahn Bianca Appice & Shintaro Kakioka - Fallout: Nuka Break
Michael Del Rossa - RCVR/Web Series
Kimberly Graczyk - The Guild
Best Visual Effects (Digital)
Shawn Likely - AIDAN 5
Chad Briggs - Continuum
Keegan Douglas - Mortal Kombat: Legacy
Lawson Demming Rocket Studios & Tunnel Post - RCVR/Web Series
Chris Preksta - The Mercury Men
Best Editing
Tony E. Valenzuela - BlackBoxTV: The Series
Fawaz Al-Matrouk - Goldilocks
Jeff Cowan - RCVR/Web Series
Matthew Lyons & Kirby Jinnah - Riese: Kingdom Falling
Chris Preksta & Tyson VanSkiver- The Mercury Men
Best Original Music
Mike Jackson - AIDAN 5
Brian Satterwhite - CELL: The Web Series
Peace Nistades - Dragon Age: Redemption
Rob Gokee - Night of the Zombie King
Rob Gokee - SOLO: The Series
Best Web Site Design
AIDAN 5
Engineer Your Space
RCVR/Web Series
Ruby Skye PI
The Guild
Best Interactive/Social Media Experience
CliffsNotes Films
Kids React
RCVR/Web Series
Stupid For Movies
What’s Trending with Shira Lazar
Best Supplemental Content
Kids React
RCVR/Web Series
The Further Adventures of Cupid and Eros
The Mercury Men
Vampire Zombie Werewolf
Best Distribution Platform
blip.tv
Crackle
DailyMotion
Hulu
Joost.com
So much done - so less time left
Time is running fast and in less than 24 hours I will be up in the air (except this volcano ash cloud gets in the way) flying back to Zürich.
But here a short recap of the last four days. Thursday lunch with Elias Benavidez (@hllywdEMB) the creator of A Boys Life. I am the Executive Producer of this short film. It will be out in June. Also at the lunch was Kristyn Burtt (@KristynBurtt), Allison Vanore (@alliecine) and Rob Gokee (@robgokee). We were at The Spanish Kitchen and except for Kristyn we all had Tacos. I learned that Tacos are never made with bell peppers, since then I’m in love with them (I have a major bell pepper intolerance).
The evening was booked with my first ever @IAWTV meeting taking place at the blip.tv LA headquarters (@bliptv). Lots of great things are going on within the academy and I can’t wait to see how it all turns out. Again, there were a lot of people I haven’t met before, like Greg Storm (@gregstorm) and Casey McKinnon (@CaseyMcKinnon).
Friday nothing more than Laurie Records (@laurierecords) birthday party at The Hungry Cat (@thehungrycat). I met Fawnda McMahan (@fawndarella), think of the squeeing Geiko piggy, Sheila Daley (@shedaley) and a bunch of Lauries best friends. It was great to see Stephanie Thorpe (@thestephthorpe), Allison Vanore, Sandra Payne and Kristyn Burtt again this evening.
Saturday was the @IAWTV writers group with Bernie Su (@BernieSu). It was three hours of fun and there were awesome new scripts for features and WebSeries. In the evening there was a hammer don’t hurt em’ improv show (@hammerimprov) going on, but I decided not to go there, because I was really exhausted.
Today I had a breakfast with Laurie Records and Sandra Payne. It was a great time, the only thing that was not so fun was me hurting my second toe at the table while sitting down. The toe hurts pretty hard and is all blue. Only thing I can do is cool it and hope that the pain goes away soon. Someday all my toes will have been broken at least once. I am that clumsy.
In the afternoon I went to the Cafe Solar de Cahuenga, I nice meeting place at the outskirts of Hollywood. Well, not really outskirts. Just kidding. ;) I met there with Paula Rhodes (@paula_rhodes) and her fiance Charlie Bodin (@charliebodin), she is besides Stephanie Thorpe the creator of the Elfquest fantrailer. I contributed to the film and was therefore part of a drawing of prices and I won a pair of Elfquest ears specially made for the fantrailer. I’m a bit biased, wether I should keep them as a unique prop from set or should wear day them over my ears from now on (I always wanted to have pointy elf ears). But I rather not wear them. They are to precious.
Right when we were ready to leave Solar we ran into Bernie Su again. He went there to write some more awesome stuff (Solar is the place where a lot of WebSeries ideas were born).
And because my day wasn’t packed enough and didn’t hurt enough, I went to the movies afterwards. First I saw Bridesmaids at the Arclight Hollywood on Sunset and Vine. Then I saw Pirates of the Caribbean 4 at the El Capitan on Hollywood and Highland. There were a lot of cosplayers at the Pirates 4 screening, but the movie itself was very boring. And I didn’t really like it as soon as I saw that Penelope Cruz is in the movie. I have never liked this women and I guess I will never like her and she spoils every movie for me she’s in. I don’t understand why she even gets casted at all. Bridesmaids on the other hand was a fun film. Not a big revelation, but it’s worth the time to watch and you get a good amount of laughs out of it. Although some scenes are kinda gross and awkward.
Tomorrow a last lunch with Kenny (@geekyfanboy) in Santa Monica after which I will be off to the airport. Returning my rental, checking in and waiting for my flight to take off.
Except for the hurting toe in the end, this “vacation” in LA was a great time for me. I’m sad that I have to fly back, but I will return in less than 2 months for San Diego Comic-Con with a week and a half in LA after Comic-Con. I can’t wait for this to happen.
