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 Jade 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