The 2024 BOBI Awards were announced on Friday, May 17th at 4:30 pm. The Viewers’ Choice Awards were announced on May 22nd. You can find the winners, nominees and honourable mentions below.

INDUSTRY AWARDS

Best Cinematography

WINNER  - Anthony Duz for Northern Escape

NOMINEES - Juanjo Avi for Turno De Noche: The Wrong Place & Nils Eilif Bremdal Vinell for From Darkness

Best Original Score

WINNER  - Purgatory Jack

NOMINEES - The Castle of Baron Finch & Voices Carry

Best Special Effects

WINNER  - The Skin She's In

NOMINEES - Have a Good Day & The Old Man in the Rocking Chair

Best Performance from an Actor in a Non-Human Role

WINNER  - Alice Lapyko for The Skin She's In

NOMINEES - John Migliore for Massacre at Femur Creek & Zonia Ibeth for Wheeze

Best Beast

WINNER  - Doug Roos for Bakemono

NOMINEES - Andrea Ortega Botello (Animation Director) and Erick Martinez Segura (Claymation Director) for Fermento & Angie Mills and Jude Bacon (Beast Special Effects) for Have a Good Day

Filmmaker to Watch

WINNER  - Esabella Anna Karena Strickland (Dir. of MINE)

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Amy Arnold (Dir. of Here Lies the Truth), Max Charlebois (Dir. of Nexus Infection), Braedan Thomson (Dir. of Danny: Volume III)

Best Supporting Performance

WINNER  - Boris Wolffgardt for Thalia's Nightmare

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Daisy Lankstead for #BOSSBABE & Saleh Shabazi for Zero Coordinates

Best Leading Performance

WINNER  - Lucy Sanci & Alexis Korotash for Northern Escape

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - José Casas for Turno De Noche: The Wrong Place; Leslie Augustine for Beneath the Surface; Katelyn Doyle for #BOSSBABE; and Sean Finnerty for Here Lies the Truth

Best Short Film

WINNER  - Thalia's Nightmare

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - The Old Man In the Rocking Chair & Have a Good Day

Best Micro Film

WINNER  - Here Lies the Truth

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Birthday Girl & Fermento

Best Student/Emerging Film

WINNER  - FOWL

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - La Soglia & Sherwood Book

Best Animated Film

WINNER  - Fermento

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Deadline & No. 8 Reporting

Best Feature

WINNER  - Purgatory Jack

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - From Darkness & Voices Carry

JURORS’ CHOICE AWARDS

Grossest Gag

WINNER  - FOWL

Although not the goriest film in this year's festival, the feast scene made us gag the most.

The Bram Stoker Award

WINNER  - The Old Man in the Rocking Chair

Without a doubt this film had the most blood.

The Mary Shelley Award

WINNER  - Sincopat

Perhaps most in line with Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, this film is a cautionary tale about the potential dangers of rushing new technology.

The Edgar Allan Poe Award

WINNER  - From Darkness

From beginning to end this film created an eerie atmosphere that chilled us to the bone.

VIEWERS’ CHOICE AWARDS

Viewers’ Choice Award

WINNER  - Sherwood Book

Favourite Non-Human

WINNER  - Roselie Gauthier & Fawn Adair for Sherwood Book

Favourite Beast

WINNER  - The Executioner in The Executioner

Best Kill (3-way Tie)

WINNER  - Isabel in FOWL

WINNER  - Ezmerelda in Scrubby Don’t

WINNER  - Gosling in The Devil

Best Death (4-way Tie)

WINNER - Piñata in Birthday Girl

WINNER - Simon Fletcher in Danny: Volume III

WINNER - Isaac in FOWL

WINNER - Beth Anne Jones in The Devil