The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences is one step closer to presenting the 19th annual Webby Awards. The organization has announced the nominees for the 2015 Awards show, including some of today’s top digital video celebrities like Michelle Phan and Tyler Oakley.
This year’s Webby Awards received over 13,000 entries from all U.S. states, as well as from more than 60 countries across the world. From these submissions, the online video realm received some solid recognition. Phan and Oakley were nominated for their work on their YouTube channels, while the Fine Bros. were nominated for their Kids React web series. Sites like CollegeHumor and Funny or Die received multiple nominations for individual video productions, like Zach Galifianakis’s interview with President Obama on Between Two Ferns.
The 19th annual Webby Awards boasts an impressive roster of judges from the Academy. Comedian Conan O’Brien, Video Game High School creator Freddie Wong, The Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, Tumblr founder David Karp, inventor Vint Cerf, and DoSomething.org founder Nancy Lublin will select this year’s Webby winners. Internet users can also vote for their favorite nominees for the Webby People’s Voice Awards. Voting is open at pv.webbyawards.com until April 23, 2015 at 11:59 PM PST/2:59 AM EST.
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“This year’s Nominees are moving Internet culture – and society – forward through their sophisticated technology, sleek user design, and social influence,” said David-Michel Davies, Executive Director of The Webby Awards, in a release. “Each of this year’s Nominees are raising the bar in their respective categories and we are excited for the public to weigh in with their votes for this year’s Webby People’s Voice Winners.”
Winners of the 2015 Webby Awards will be announced on April 27, followed by a ceremony on May 18 hosted by actor Hannibal Buress. You’ll be able to watch the Awards on demand on May 19 via the event’s official website, and highlights will be featured on the Webby Awards YouTube channel.
Here’s a full list of all video-related nominees, courtesy of The Video Ink. You can check out more nominees for all other categories on the Webby Awards website.
Variety
“Improv Imagination” – Condé Nast Entertainment
“Talking Dead” – AMC
“Park Bench” – AOL
“Hitrecord” – Pivot, Participant Media
“Amoeba Music’s What’s in My Bag?” – Amoeba Music
Video Remixes/Mashups
“Apehood (Boyhood & Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Trailer Mashup)” – Bridgework Pictures
“Turn Down for What Without Music” – CollegeHumor
“Melodysheep – Seize the Day (Robin Williams Remix)” – Melodysheep
“Do You Want to Build a Meth Lab?” – Animeme
“Honest Trailers” – Defy Media
Viral
“Most Shocking Second a Day” – Don’t Panic
“Halloween Candy Prank” – Jimmy Kimmel Live!
“We Got 20 Strangers Who Aren’t Models to Kiss Each Other” – Vice Media
“Tiny Hamsters Eating Tiny Burritos” – Denizen
“3 Seconds Cooking Shrimp Frying Cannon” – Tokyu Agency
Best Editing
“High Maintenance” – Vimeo
“Honda ‘The Other Side’” – Wieden + Kennedy
“Too Many Cooks” – Adult Swim
“Overwatch Announcement Cinematic” – Blizzard Entertainment
“The Game Before the Game” – R/GA
Best Individual Performance
“Foil” – CollegeHumor
“If Google Was a Guy” – CollegeHumor
“Lewis Black Says F#%! Voter Suppression” – ACLU
“Marry Poppins Quits with Kristen Bell” – Funny or Die
“If We Won” – Droga5
Best Use of Interactive Video
“The Seven Digital Deadly Sins” – The Guardian
“Coldplay ‘Ink’” – Blind
“Honda ‘The Other Side’” – Wieden + Kennedy
“Five Minutes” – Unit9
“Ikea: Where Good Days Start” – MediaMonks
Best Web Personality/Host
Kid President – SoulPancake
Emily Graslie – The Field Museum
Eddie Huang – Vice Media
Adam Savage from “Inside Adam’s Cave” – Whalerock Industries
“If Our Bodies Could Talk” – The Atlantic
Best Writing
“If Google Was a Guy” – CollegeHumor
“Adam Ruins Everything” – CollegeHumor
“The Britishes” – CollegeHumor
“High Maintenance” – Vimeo
“10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Man” – Funny or Die
Entertainment
“Grantland” – ESPN Films
“Nowness” – Nowness
“The Tonight Show” – NBC
“The Voice YouTube” – NBC
“HuffPost Live” – HuffPost Live/The Huffington Post
First Person
“Good Mythical Morning” – Rhett & Link, Inc.
“ItsGrace” – Bleecker Street
“Mental Floss” – John Green – The Week/Mental Floss
“Tyler Oakley” – Persona PR
“The Village Way: Food” – NPR
How-to & DIY
Michelle Phan – Endemol Beyond USA
Craftsy – Craftsy
Threadbanger – Threadbanger
Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube – Fresh One Productions
How-To – Vice Media
News & Information
“Rise Up” – Fusion Network
“The Young Turks” – The Young Turks Network
“AJ+” – AJ+
“HuffPost Live” – HuffPost Live/ The Huffington Post
“Reuters TV” – Reuters TV
Public Service & Activism
“What You Can Do” – On the Leesh Productions
“Teach for America” – Teach for America
“Rise Up” – Fusion Network
“MTV Braless” – MTV
“Our UNICEF YouTube Channel” – UNICEF
Science & Education Channels
PBS Digital Studios – PBS
American Museum of Natural History – American Museum of Natural History
MinutePhysics – MinutePhysics
Vsauce Channels – Vsauce Networks
TED-Ed – TED
Variety Channels
Good Mythical Morning – Rhett & Link, Inc.
Barely Political – YouTube, Barely Political
SoulPancake – SoulPancake
PBS Online Film Festival – PBS
Red Bull YouTube Channel – Red Bull Media House
Best Use of Video
GoPro – GoPro
“Every 6 Seconds” – M&C Saatchi Group
#LikeAGirl – Leo Burnett, Toronto
“Taco Bell: Snapchat Movie” – Deutsch
Vine – Vine
Mobile Sites & Apps: Best Streaming Video
Hulu Plus – Hulu
PBS Kids Video App – PBS Kids Digital
HBO Go (Android handled and tablet, iOS) – HBO Digital Products
Comedy Central App – Isobar
Vine, iPhone – Vine
