Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

Awards for horror and thriller films and television
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
CountryUnited States
Presented byFangoria
First awarded1992
Websitewww.fangoria.com/chainsaw-awards

The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards is an award ceremony focused on horror and thriller films. Beginning in 1992, the awards were expanded and an annual ceremony was inaugurated to give out the awards.[1] As of 2015, Fangoria also delivers awards to television series.

Categories

Film

  • Best Wide Release Film
  • Best Limited Release Film
  • Best Streaming Premiere Film
  • Best Foreign Language Film
  • Best First Feature
  • Best Director
  • Best Actor
  • Best Actress
  • Best Lead Performance
  • Best Supporting Performance
  • Best Supporting Actor
  • Best Supporting Actress
  • Best Screenplay
  • Best Score
  • Best Makeup FX
  • Best Creature FX
  • Best Kill
  • Worst Film

Television

  • Best TV Series
  • Best TV Actor
  • Best TV Actress
  • Best TV Supporting Actor
  • Best TV Supporting Actress
  • Best TV SFX

Special awards

  • Fangoria Horror Hall of Fame
  • Fangoria Lifetime Achievement Award
  • The Editor's Eyeball Award

Ceremonies

  • 1992 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 1993 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 1994 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 1995 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 1996 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 1997 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 1998 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 1999 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 2001 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 2002 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 2017 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 2018 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 2019 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 2020 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 2021 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 2022 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
  • 2023 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

Winners and nominees

2023

BEST WIDE RELEASE BEST LIMITED RELEASE
  • Barbarian
  • The Black Phone
  • Nope
  • Pearl
  • X
BEST FIRST FEATURE BEST STREAMING PREMIERE
BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIE BEST SERIES
  • Hatching
  • The Innocents
  • Piggy
  • Saloum
  • Speak No Evil
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
  • The Found Footage Phenomenon
  • In Search of Darkness: Part III
  • Living with Chucky
  • Pennywise: The Story of IT
  • This is Gwar
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE BEST DIRECTOR
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY BEST SCREENPLAY
BEST SCORE BEST MAKEUP FX
BEST COSTUME DESIGN BEST CREATURE FX
  • Alex Bovaird, Nope
  • Stephanie Porter, Prey
  • András Dániel Tóth and Godena-Juhász Attila, The Munsters
  • Mayou Trikerioti, Crimes of the Future
  • Malgosia Turzanska, Pearl
BEST NON-FICTION SERIES OR MINISERIES BEST SHORT
  • 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time
  • Cursed Films II
  • The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans
  • Joe Bob’s Ghoultide Get-Together
  • Queer for Fear
  • Blink
  • Close Your Eyes
  • Guts
  • Meat Friend
  • O, Glory
BEST AMITYVILLE BEST KILL
  • Amityville Christmas Vacation
  • Amityville In Space
  • Amityville Karen
  • Amityville Scarecrow II
  • Amityville Uprising
fan-submission category

Killing Allie, Terrifier 2

EDITOR'S EYEBALL ON THE FUTURE AWARD
Awarded new in 2023, winners were selected by the Fangoria editorial team in the spirit of looking ahead in horror. This award recognizes emerging talent in the horror space who made a significant impact in the horror industry in the last year.
INAUGURAL WINNERS

Lauren Lavera - Sienna, Terrifier 2

Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks - Alone with You

Mason Thames - Finney, The Black Phone

  • List of winners: [2]
  • List of nominees: [3][4]
  • Announced on: January 27, 2023[5]
  • Presented on: May 21, 2023[6]

2022

[7][8]

Best Wide Release Best Limited Release
Best Streaming Premiere Best Foreign Film
Best First Feature Best Director
Best Lead Performance Best Supporting Performance
Best Screenplay Best Score
Best Makeup FX Best Creature FX
  • MastersFX, Steven Kostanski – PG: Psycho Goreman
Best Costume Design
Best Series Best Kill (write-in category)
  • The Bread Slicer – Fear Street Part One: 1994
Achievement In Non-Fiction Best Documentary
  • Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched
    • Mail Order Murder
    • Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story

2021

2020

2019

2016

[9]

Best Wide-Release Film

Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film

Best Foreign-Language Film

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Screenplay

Best Score

Best Makeup/Creature FX

Best TV Series

Best TV Actor

Best TV Actress

Best TV Supporting Actor

Best TV Supporting Actress

Best TV Makeup/Creature FX

2015

[10]

Best Wide-Release Film

Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film

Best Foreign-Language Film

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Screenplay

Best Score

Best Makeup/Creature FX

Worst Film

Best TV Series

  • The Walking Dead
  • American Horror Story: Freak Show
  • Hannibal
  • Penny Dreadful
  • True Detective

Best TV Actor

Best TV Actress

Best TV Supporting Actor

Best TV Supporting Actress

Best TV Makeup/Creature FX

2014

[11]

Best Wide-Release Film

Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film

Best Foreign-Language Film

  • Here Comes the Devil – Adrián García Bogliano
  • The Condemned – Roberto Busó-García
  • Tormented (2011 film)Takashi Shimizu
  • Wither – Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund
  • Horror StoriesMin Kyu-dong, Im Dae-woong, Jung Bum-sik, Hong Ji-young, Kim Gok, Kim Sun

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Screenplay

Best Score

  • ManiacRob
  • You're Next – Jasper Justice Lee, Kyle Mckinnon, Mads Heldtberg and Adam Wingard
  • Berberian Sound Studio – Broadcast
  • Byzantium – Javier Navarrete
  • We Are What We Are – Philip Mossman, Darren Morris and Jeff Grace

Best Makeup/Creature FX

  • Evil Dead – Roger Murray and Jane O’Kane
  • Frankenstein's Army – Rogier Samuels
  • Bad Milo! – Justin Raleigh
  • Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters – Mike Elizalde, Tamar Aviv and Jörn Seifert
  • Grabbers – Paddy Eason and Shaune Harrison

2006

[12][13]

2002

The 11th Annual Fangoria Chainsaw Awards:[14]

Best Wide-Release Film

  • Jeepers Creepers
  • The Others

Best Limited-Release Film/Direct-to-Video Film

  • Ginger Snaps
  • The Convent

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Screenplay

Best Score

Best Makeup/Creature FX

Worst Film

Fangoria Hall of Fame

References

  1. ^ Ken Williams, "Scary Films--and Fans--in Focus" Archived 2016-01-08 at the Wayback Machine, Los Angeles Times, May 14, 1992.
  2. ^ Melanson, Angel (May 22, 2023). "FANGORIA 2023 Chainsaw Awards Winners!". Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. Archived from the original on October 1, 2023. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  3. ^ Melanson, Angel (January 27, 2023). "2023 FANGORIA Chainsaw Award Nominees". Fangoria. Archived from the original on April 24, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  4. ^ "Nominees". Fangoria. Archived from the original on April 24, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  5. ^ Gilchrist, Todd (January 27, 2023). "Jordan Peele's 'Nope,' Ti West's 'Pearl' Lead Fangoria's Chainsaw Award Nominations". Variety. Archived from the original on April 24, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  6. ^ "Fangoria 2023 Chainsaw Awards Only On SHUDDER". chainsawawards.org. Archived from the original on April 24, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  7. ^ "A Full List Of The 2022 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards Winners!". FANGORIA. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  8. ^ "Watch Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2022 on Shudder". SHUDDER. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  9. ^ "The 2016 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards Winners and Full Results!". Fangoria. May 10, 2016. Archived from the original on May 18, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  10. ^ "The 2015 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards Winners and Full Results!". Fangoria. June 1, 2015. Archived from the original on May 3, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  11. ^ "The 2014 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards Results!". FANGORIA®. Archived from the original on March 25, 2015. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  12. ^ "fuse and Fangoria Entertainment Announce Nominations for the Chainsaw Awards; First Televised Music and Horror Themed Awards Spectacular to Take Place October 15th at LA's Orpheum Theater; Premieres Exclusively on fuse Sunday, October 22nd". www.businesswire.com. August 24, 2006. Archived from the original on April 17, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  13. ^ "fuse Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Winners Announced". October 16, 2006. Archived from the original on May 17, 2017. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  14. ^ Gingold, Michael (July 2002). "The 11th Annual Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Winners!". Fangoria. No. 214. p. 11. Retrieved June 9, 2020 – via Internet Archive.
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