For the sixth time, the Streamy Awards will honor the best content the online video industry has to offer. Tubefilter and Dick Clark Productions’ annual awards show has announced its 2016 nominees, and the field is led by perennial winner Epic Rap Battles of History and newcomer Oscar’s Hotel For Fantastical Creatures, both of which earned four nominations.
The revealed nominees span 42 categories. Beyond ERB, other previous Streamy winners to score at least three nominations this year include FouseyTUBE and Grace Helbig. At the same time, the 2016 selection is the first field in Streamy Award history to include multiple nominees from paywalled platforms like YouTube Red and Vimeo On Demand, which have spent the past 12 months funding high-value shows from digital media stars. Standouts from up-and-coming video platforms were also recognized, particularly in the new Live category, where the nominees include the stars of streaming apps YouNow and Live.me.
The nominees were announced during a ceremony hosted by YouTube star GloZell Green and presented by OWNZONES. Now that the contenders have been determined, the Streamys’ Blue Ribbon Panel, which set this year’s field (and of which, full disclosure, I am a member), will select the winners. Those victors will be honored during the Streamy Awards broadcast on October 4th.
“This year’s Streamy Nominees represent the most diverse range of creators the Streamy Awards have ever seen, with stars on new and emerging platforms,” said Streamy Awards founder Drew Baldwin in a press release. “Creators have reached new heights in how they captivate, inspire, educate, and entertain us—with new technologies, new formats and new ways to engage with their communities. We’re honored to be celebrating these achievements with such a brilliant class of creative people.”
The nominees in the two fan-voted categories, Entertainer of the Year and Show of the Year, will be announced in the coming weeks. In the meantime, here are the nominees in the other 41 categories:
NOMINEES FOR THE 6th ANNUAL STREAMY AWARDS
OVERALL AWARDS FOR CHANNELS, SERIES OR SHOWS
VIRTUAL REALITY AND 360° VIDEO (NEW CATEGORY)
- Discovery VR
- Five Nights at Freddy’s in Real Life (Devin Super Tramp)
- MatPat’s Game Lab
- National Geographic
- Reggie Watts Live in Virtual Reality
ANIMATED
BREAKOUT CREATOR
COMEDY
DRAMA
FEATURE (NEW CATEGORY)
FIRST PERSON
INDIE
INTERNATIONAL
NON-FICTION
SUBJECT AWARDS
ACTION OR SCI-FI
BEAUTY
DOCUMENTARY OR INVESTIGATIVE
FASHION
FOOD
GAMING
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
KIDS AND FAMILY
LIFESTYLE
NEWS AND CULTURE
PRANKS
SCIENCE OR EDUCATION
SPORTS
PERFORMANCE AWARDS
ACTOR
- Chris Kendall, Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures
- Dean Dobbs, Jack & Dean of All Trades
- Jesse Ridgway, McJuggerNuggets’ Psycho Series
- Kian Lawley, The Chosen
- Preston Jones, Sing It!
ACTRESS
- Anna Akana, Miss 2059
- Grace Helbig, Electra Woman & Dyna Girl
- Hannah Hart, Electra Woman & Dyna Girl
- Jenn McAllister, Foursome
- Lauren Giraldo, Camp Unplug
COLLABORATION
- Casey Neistat and Jesse Wellens, PrankvsPrank (Aladdin Magic Carpet Prank)
- Nice Peter, EpicLLOYD, Meghan Tonjes, Mike Betette and Zach Sherwin, Epic Rap Battles of History (Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible)
- Roman Atwood and Yousef Erakat, fouseyTUBE (Caught Naked In Shower Prank!!)
- Various Creators, Jimmy Kimmel Live (Mean Tweets – Creator Edition)
- Various Creators, Paint (YouTube Culture: A Song)
DANCE
- Artist Request – The New Music Video
- BluPrint
- Dominic “D-trix” Sandoval
- Making Moves
- Matt Steffanina
ENSEMBLE CAST
MUSIC AWARDS
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST
COVER SONG
- Alex Aiono, One Dance and Hasta el Almanecer (Drake and Nicky Jam)
- Boyce Avenue, Photograph (Ed Sheeran)
- Kurt Hugo Schneider, Send My Love (Adele)
- Lindsey Stirling, Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
- Pentatonix, No (Meghan Trainor)
ORIGINAL SONG
- Boombox, Laura Marano
- Gold, Kiiara
- i hate u, i love u, Gnash, featuring Olivia O’Brien
- $ave Dat Money, Lil Dicky, featuring Fetty Wap and Rich Homie Quan
- Way Down We Go, Kaleo
CRAFT AWARDS
CINEMATOGRAPHY
- Boxed, Pablo Espada
- Devin Super Tramp, Devin Graham
- Lost in Greece, Brandon Li
- MysteryGuitarMan, Joe Penna
- The Slow Mo Guys, Gavin Free and Daniel Gruchy
COSTUME DESIGN
- Epic Rap Battles of History, Sulai Lopez
- Escape the Night, Olivia Hines
- Miss 2059, Jennifer Newman
- Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures, Gypsy Taylor
- The Sorry Girls, Kelsey MacDermaid and Becky Wright
DIRECTING
- AVbyte, Antonius and Vijay Nazareth
- The Fourth Door, Tony Valenzuela
- Jack & Dean of All Trades, Jack Howard and Matt Holt
- Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures, PJ Ligouri
- The Parallax Theory, Sawyer Hartman
EDITING
- Casey Neistat, Casey Neistat
- Double Digits: The Story of a Neighborhood Movie Star, Justin Johnson
- Epic Rap Battles of History, Andrew Sherman
- Kids React, Daniel Seibert, Jordan Towles, Alyssa Salter, Cara Bomer, Luke Bruan, Benny Fine and Rafi Fine
- RocketJump, Eric Willets, Nathan Koepp and Dominic Rolandelli
VISUAL AND SPECIAL EFFECTS
- Action Movie Kid, Daniel Hashimoto
- Corridor Digital, Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer
- RocketJump, Eli Cuevas and Clinton Jones
- SoKrispyMedia, Sam Wickert
- Super Power Beat Down, Nikolay Zamkovoy
WRITING
- Bad Internet, Pat Cassels, Ben Joseph, Zac Oyama, Melinda Taub, Mike Trapp and Siobhan Thompson
- Epic Rap Battles of History, EpicLLOYD, Nice Peter and Zach Sherwin
- Good Mythical Morning, Drew Champion, Edward Coleman, Lizzie Bassett, Kevin Kostelnik, Daniela Hamilton and Chase Hilt
- Honest Trailers, Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr, Dan Murrell and Andy Signore
- Pound House, Brent Weinbach and Doug Lussenhop
SOCIAL VIDEO AWARDS
LIVE (NEW CATEGORY)
SNAPCHAT STORYTELLER
- Cameron Dallas (camerondallas)
- DJ Khaled (djkhaled305)
- Julieanna Goddard (yesjulz)
- Pretty Little Liars (pll)
- Shaun “Shonduras” McBride (shonduras)
VINER
CAMPAIGN AWARDS
BRAND CAMPAIGN
- Calvin Klein Jeans Spring 2016, Cameron Dallas (Calvin Klein)
- Make My Monday, Shaun “Shonduras” McBride (AT&T)
- Now Add A Dancer, Dominic “D-trix” Sandoval (Mountain Dew)
- Royal Crush, AwesomenessTV (Royal Caribbean)
- Writing With Grace, Grace Helbig (AT&T)
SOCIAL GOOD CAMPAIGN
- Lilly Singh’s #GirlLove Challenge
- Matt Damon Pranks People with Surprise Bourne Spy Mission, Omaze for Water.org
- #OwnYourVoice: Standing Up for Gender Equality, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Action Campaign
- Prank It FWD
- #ProudToBe: Coming Together to Celebrate Identity
Full disclosure: The Streamy Awards are co-produced by Drew Baldwin and Joshua Cohen, who are also the co-founders of Tubefilter.
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