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Horror Awards Season

It’s award season time in the world of online horror and the result of the Cyber Horror Awards and the more famous Rondo Hatton Awards have been released. If your looking for more horror in your life then these awards are a great way of knowing what you should be looking for.

The Rondo Hatton awards are currently in their ninth year. Nominees for the Rondo are selected from suggestions by horror fans, pros and enthusiasts offered all year at the Classic Horror Film Boards.

Best Film of 2010

• THE BLACK SWAN
• Runners-up: INCEPTION; THE WOLFMAN
• Honorable mention: LET ME IN

Best TV Presentation

• THE WALKING DEAD: Days Gone Bye
• Runner-up: DOCTOR WHO
• Honorable mentions: SHERLOCK; TRUE BLOOD

Best Classic DVD

• THE COMPLETE METROPOLIS
• Runners-up: KING KONG 1933 (Blu-Ray); THE WOLF MAN SPECIAL EDITION
• Honorable mentions: VAMPIRE CIRCUS; NIGHT OF THE HUNTER

Best Classic Horror Collection

• THRILLER: THE COMPLETE SERIES
• Runner-up: TWILIGHT ZONE (Seasons One and Two; Blu-Ray)
• Honorable mentions: HAMMER FILMS: ICONS OF SUSPENSE; LON CHANEY SIX-FILM COLLECTION

Best Restoration

• THE COMPLETE METROPOLIS
• Runner-up: PSYCHO: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
• Honorable mentions: DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW; BBC SHERLOCK HOLMES

Best Short Film

• UNITED MONSTER TALENT AGENCY (Greg Nicotero)
• Runner-up: DREADFUL HALLOWGREEN SPECIAL
• Honorable mentions: THE DEVIL AT LOST CREEK; VOLKODLAK

Book of the Year

• THE ART OF HAMMER:Posters from the Archives of Hammer Films, by Marcus Hearn
• Runner-up: CONFESSIONS OF A SCREAM QUEEN, by Matt Beckoff
• Honorable mentions: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: Behind the Scenes of the Most Terrifying Zombie Movie Ever, by Joe Kane, RAY HARRYHAUSEN: Master of the Majicks, Vol. 3, by Mike Hankin, FORRY: The Life of Forrest J Ackerman, by Debbie Painter, HOUSE OF ACKERMAN: A Photographic Tour of the Legendary Ackermansion, by Al Astrella, James Greene

Best Website

• DREAD CENTRAL
• Runners-up: Trailers from Hell; Fearnet.com; Universal Monster Army
• Honorable mentions: Dr. Gangrene’s Chiller Cinema; Count Gore de Vol’s Creature Features; Horrorhost Graveyard

Best Blog

• FRANKENSTEINIA
• Runners-up: The Drunken Severed Head;
• Terror from Beyond the Daves; Video Watchblog
• Honorable mentions: The Good, the Bad, and Godzilla; Final Girl; Cinema Suicide; Monster Magazine World

Best Horror Comic Book

• THE WALKING DEAD, by Robert Kirkman and Charles Adlard
• Runner-up: BELA LUGOSI’S TALES FROM THE GRAVE (Monsterverse)
• Honorable mentions: VINCENT PRICE PRESENTS; HELLBOY: DOUBLE FEATURE OF EVIL; AMERICAN VAMPIRE; THE GOON

Best Toy, Model or Collectible

• Creature and Julie (Diamond Select)
• Runner-up: Karloff bust series (Ray Santoleri)
• Honorable mentions: Elvira (Amok Time); Zacherley (Executive Replicas); Psycho Bates Mansion, mother in window included (Round 2/Polar Lights); Twilight Zone Gremlin Bobblehead (Bif!Bang!Pow!)

Cyber Horror Awards 2010

The third annual Cyber Horror Awards are horror film awards decided by the online horror-blogging/writing community. Check out the nominees and WINNERS in each category.

Val Lewton Award for Best Film

• WINNER: Black Swan, Fox Searchlight Pictures
• Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, Agnes b. Productions
• Let Me In, Hammer Films
• Survival of the Dead, Blank of the Dead Productions
• Piranha 3-D, Dimension Films

David Cronenberg Award for Best Director

• WINNER:Darren Aronofksy, Black Swan
• John Dowdle, Devil
• Breck Eisner, The Crazies
• Matt Reeves, Let Me In
• Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island

Vincent Price Award for Best Actor

• Timothy Olyphant, The Crazies
• Benicio Del Toro, The Wolfman
• Dieter Laser, The Human Centipede
• Onni Tommila, Rare Exports
• WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island

Jamie Lee Curtis Award for Best Actress

• WINNER: Natalie Portman, Black Swan
• Chloe Moretz, Let Me In
• Emily Blunt, The Wolfman
• Sarah Butler, I Spit on Your Grave
• Radha Mitchell, The Crazies

Dwight Frye Award for Best Supporting Actor

• Ben Kingsley, Shutter Island
• Kenneth Welsh, Survival of the Dead
• Jorma Tommila, Rare Exports
• Akihiro Kitamura, The Human Centipede
• WINNER: Vincent Cassel, Black Swan

Linnea Quigley Award for Best Supporting Actress

• Geraldine Chaplin, The Wolfman
• WINNER: Delphine Chaneac, Splice
• Mila Kunis, Black Swan
• Winona Ryder, Black Swan
• Danielle Panabaker, The Crazies

Curt Siodmak Award for Best Screenplay

• Brian Nelson, Devil
• Jalmari Helander, Petri Jokiranta & Sami Parkkinen, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
• Scott Kosar, The Crazies
• Matt Reeves, Let Me In
• WINNER: Mark Heyman, Black Swan

Molly Arbuthnot Award for Best Costume Design

• Amy Westcott, Black Swan
• WINNER: Milena Canonero, The Wolfman
• Sandy Powell, Shutter Island

Tom Savini Award for Best Makeup

• Manlio Roccheti, Shutter Island
• David Ambit, Santiago, Gijon Jiminez, Juan Almo & Paulo Requena, [REC]2
• WINNER: Rick Baker, The Wolfman

Ray Harryhausen Award for Best Visual Effects

• Shutter Island
• WINNER: Black Swan
• Wolfman

Albert S. D’Agostino Award for Best Production Design

• WINNER: Shutter Island, Dante Ferretti
• Black Swan, Therese DePrez
• The Wolfman, Rick Heinrichs

Bernard Herrmann Award for Best Score

• Bill Abbot, The Wolfman
• WINNER: Clint Mansell, Black Swan
• Christoph Bauschtinger, Devil

Karl Freund Award for Best Cinematography

• Tak Fujimoto, Devil
• Robert Richardson, Shutter Island
• Neil Lisk, I Spit on Your Grave
• Shelly Johnson, The Wolfman
• WINNER: Matthew Libatique, Black Swan