The 1st Annual Streamy Awards was the first ever awards ceremony dedicated entirely to web series and the first installment of the Streamy Awards. The awards were held on March 28, 2009, at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The event had over 1,300 audience members in attendance and was simultaneously broadcast live online. The Official Red Carpet Pre-Show was hosted by Shira Lazar and the award show was co-hosted by Tubefilter, NewTeeVee and Tilzy.TV. The web series The Guild and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog were the biggest winners of the night, winning four and six awards, respectively, out of the 25 award categories. The show was met by positive reception by celebrities in attendance and the media.
Winners and nominees
The nominees were announced on March 13, 2009 and the finalists for the Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series were announced on March 17. The Streamy Craft Award winners were announced in a ceremony held on March 26, 2009. The remaining award categories were announced during the main ceremony at the Wadsworth Theatre on March 28. Winners of the categories were selected by the International Academy of Web Television except for the Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series which was put to a public vote.
Winners are listed first, in bold. OVERALL Best Comedy Web Series Best Dramatic Web SeriesThe Guild (MSN Video)Childrens Hospital (TheWB.com) Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Onion News Network You Suck at Photoshop | valign="top" |Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (SciFi.com)2009: A True Story After Judgment Gemini Division (NBC – SciFi.com) Sorority Forever |- ! Best Hosted Web Series ! Best Reality Web Series |- | valign="top" |EPIC FU (Revision3)Boing Boing TV Diggnation (Revision3) Project Lore Wine Library TV | valign="top" |The Shatner Project Amtrekker Lo-Fi St. Louis The Mortified Shoebox Show Penn Says Best News or Politics Web Series Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series Alive in Baghdad MobLogic Monkey News Source Rocketboom Talking Points Memo TV | valign="top" |The Guild (MSN Video)After Judgment Dorm Life Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog The Hayley Project The Legend of Neil (Atom.com) Project Lore The Shatner Project Tiki Bar TV The Wingmen |- ! colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" | DIRECTING|- ! Best Directing for a Comedy Web Series ! Best Directing for a Dramatic Web Series |- | valign="top" |Joss Whedon for directing Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Casanovas The Guild Sandeep Parikh for directing The Legend of Neil Overkill: A Love Story | valign="top" |Blake Calhoun for directing Pink After Judgment Heathens Sorority Forever With the Angels |- ! colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" | WRITING|- ! Best Writing for a Comedy Web Series ! Best Writing for a Dramatic Web Series |- | valign="top" |Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Joss Whedon, and Zack Whedon for writing Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Break a Leg Rob Corddry, Jonathan Stern, and David Wain for writing Childrens Hospital Felicia Day for writing The Guild You Suck at Photoshop | valign="top" |Jane Espenson, Seamus Kevin Fahey, and Ronald D. Moore for writing Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy After Judgment Gemini Division Sorority Forever With the Angels |- ! colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" | PERFORMANCE|- ! Best Male Actor in a Comedy Web Series ! Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series |- | valign="top" |Neil Patrick Harris – (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog) Amir Blumenfeld – (Jake and Amir) Rob Corddry – (Childrens Hospital) Nathan Fillion – (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog) Sandeep Parikh – (The Guild) | valign="top" |Felicia Day – (The Guild) Lisa Kudrow – (Web Therapy) Megan Mullally – (Childrens Hospital) Kristen Schaal – (Horrible People) Taryn Southern – (Private High Musicale) |- ! Best Male Actor in a Dramatic Web Series ! Best Female Actor in a Dramatic Web Series |- | valign="top" |Alessandro Juliani – (Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy) Joel Bryant – (After Judgment) Justin Hartley – (Gemini Division) Seth Mendelson – (Take Me Back) Christopher Stapleton – (30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust) | valign="top" |Rosario Dawson – (Gemini Division) Taryn O'Neill – (After Judgment) Rachel Risen – (The Hayley Project) Jessica Rose – (Sorority Forever) Tara Rushton – (KateModern) |- ! Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series ! Best Guest Star in a Web Series |- | valign="top" |The Guild All's Faire Childrens Hospital Dorm Life Horrible People | valign="top" |Paul Rudd – (Wainy Days) Fernando Chien – (The Guild) Felicia Day – (The Legend of Neil) Eva Longoria Parker – (Childrens Hospital) Tay Zonday – (Nite Fite) |- ! Best Web Series Host ! |- | valign="top" |Alex Albrecht – (Project Lore) Zadi Diaz – (EPIC FU) Xeni Jardin – (Boing Boing TV) Kevin Rose – (Diggnation) Gary Vaynerchuk – (Wine Library TV) | valign="top" | |- ! colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" | CRAFT AWARDS|- ! Best Editing ! Best Cinematography |- | valign="top" |Lisa Lassek for editing Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Erik Beck for editing Backyard FX The Guild Jake and Amir Tiki Bar TV | valign="top" |Ryan Green for cinematography in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog The All-for-Nots Captain Blasto The Legend of Neil Pink |- ! Best Art Direction ! Best Original Music |- | valign="top" |Kim Bailey for art direction in Tiki Bar TV Captain Blasto Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show The Guild | valign="top" |Jed Whedon for Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog The All-For-Nots All’s Faire Bear McCreary for Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy The Guild |- ! Best Animation ! Best Visual Effects |- | valign="top" |Dan Meth for animation in The Meth Minute 39 Happy Tree Friends Mike Chapman and Matt Chapman for animation in Homestar Runner Stickman Exodus Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw for animation in Zero Punctuation | valign="top" |Erik Beck for visual effects in Backyard FX Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog The Guild Kirill The Pop |- ! Best Ad Integration in a Web Series ! Best Artistic Concept in a Web Series |- | valign="top" |Back on Topps – (Skype) The All-for-Nots Blah Girls Gemini Division – (Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, UPS) Whatever HollywoodYou Suck at Photoshop Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction Stephen King’s N The Ten Commandments Wreck & Salvage
Web series with multiple nominations and awards
+Web series that received multiple nominationsNominationsWeb Series12The Guild11Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog 6After JudgmentChildrens Hospital5Gemini Division4Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy The Legend of NeilSorority Forever3The All-for-NotsProject LoreTiki Bar TVYou Suck at Photoshop2Backyard FXBoing Boing TVCaptain BlastoDiggnationDorm LifeEPIC FUThe Hayley ProjectHorrible PeopleJake and AmirPinkThe Shatner ProjectWine Library TVWith the Angels
+Web series that received multiple awardsAwardsWeb series6Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog 4The Guild3Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy
Reception The New York Times Magazine columnist Virginia Heffernan called the show "a goofy and a powerful experience." Heffernan, alongside Alexia Tsotsis writing for LA Weekly, were impressed by the celebrity presence at the show, with Tsotsis calling it "an Emmys for Web TV." Maria Russo, writing for TheWrap, and Patrick Orndorff, writing for Wired, praised the quality of the nominees. Russo opined of the show that although "[in] the big scheme of things it all feels very fledgling", the existence of the awards felt "like a cool glimpse into the future". Heffernan, Tsotsis, and Jill Weinberger of Gigaom, singled out the speeches of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog writer Joss Whedon and The Guild star Felicia Day as particularly memorable with Whedon praising the online content creators in attendance and Day saying of her awards "this is for everyone who ever said no to me." YouTuber and singer Tay Zonday was enthusiastic about the awards saying that they show "that people don't have to play the system to have their art acknowledged," and actor David Faustino said of the show "we're at a baby stage of something that's going to be amazingly giant and I'm excited to be on ground floor." Brian Lowry writing for Variety called the Streamys the "Worst Award Name Ever".
See also List of Streamy Award winners
References
External links Streamy Awards website