The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences announced the winners of its 16th Annual Webby Awards early Tuesday morning. The Academy (comprised of the likes of high-profile internet savvy individuals like Twitter co-Founder Biz Stone and The Huffington Post’s namesake Arianna Huffington) bestowed its highest honor of Webby Person of the Year upon Louis C.K., who recently made headlines and a lot of cash by self-distributing a video of his comedy special Live at the Beacon Theater (which soon inspired other comedians like Aziz Ansari to adopt a similar distribution tactic).
Louis is accompanied by Juliette Lewis and Graydon Sheppard. The pair will take one of the other special IADAS awards of Webby Actresses of the Year for their role in the original Sh*t Girls Say video (despite, or perhaps because of the fact Sheppard is a dude in drag.) And the three of them are accompanied by a few dozen individuals, networks, studios, and programs who received regular old Webby Awards as decided by judges and/or the People’s Voice. A select few of those winners include:
That’s just a sampling of some of the winners of the Webby Awards 16th installment. To see all the nominees and recipients of judge’s choices and People’s Voice awards, click on over to WebbyAwards.com. And to see some of the above collect their Webbys in person, tune into the live stream of the ceremony hosted by comedian extraordinaire Patton Oswalt on Monday, May 21st and 5:30PM EST.
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