Rondo Award Nominations

We wanted to share with you all the winners.  Everyone did an amazing job!  For more info visit David’s site.

http://www.rondoaward.com/rondo/rondos.html

Here is a category-by-category breakdown of who won.
(Includes winners, runners-up; also honorable mentions who scored well.)

 

 

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 COMMENTARY RAY HARRYHAUSEN, TONY DALTON (Jason and the Argonauts Blu-Ray) Runners-up: Frank DeFelitta, J.D. Feigelson (DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW); Tim Lucas, David Schow, Ernest Dickerson (THRILLER, ‘The Grim Reaper’) Honorable mention: Marc Scott Zicree (Twilight Zone, ‘Time Enough at Last’)
BEST DVD EXTRA THE WOLF MAN SPECIAL EDITION: ‘Pure in Heart’ documentary Runner-up: MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000 VOL. XVIII: ’Making of Beast of Yucca Flats.’ Honorable mention: AURORA MONSTERS: ‘Zacherley Behind the Scenes’
BEST INDEPENDENT FILM OR DOCUMENTARY Two winners: – AURORA MONSTERS – LOST SKELETON RETURNS AGAIN/DARK AND STORMY NIGHT Runners-up: THE DEAD MATTER; TRAILERS FROM HELL VOL. 1 Honorable mentions: ATOMIC BRAIN INVASION; SHADOWLAND
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 Archive 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 MAGAZINE (mass market) RUE MORGUE Runner-up:  HORROR HOUND Honorable mentions: FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND; SCARY MONSTERS; FANGORIA; VIDEO WATCHDOG
BEST MAGAZINE (fan market) MONSTERS FROM THE VAULT Runners-up: LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS; MIDNIGHT MARQUEE; LATARNIA FANTASTIQUE INTERNATIONAL; SCARLET; MONSTER BASH
BEST ARTICLE ‘THE WOLF MAN: 69 YEARS OF TERROR,’ by Robert Aragon. HORROR HOUND #21. Runners-up: ‘The Creature Incarnate (Paul Naschy),’ by Mirek Lipinski, Shade Rupe and Gore-Met. RUE MORGUE #98. ‘Video Invasion: ‘Remembering the VHS Boom,’ by Matt Moore, HORRORHOUND #21-26 Honorable mentions:’The First Frankenstein: 100 Years of Fear,’ by Phil Hall. VIDEOSCOPE #76. ‘The Making of Blood on Satan’s Claw,’ by Bruce G. Hallenbeck. LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS #25
BEST INTERVIEW (Award goes to interviewer) James Burrell interviews Christopher Lee, RUE MORGUE #100 FILMLAND #251 by Basil Gogos Runners-up: Michael Monahan and Sandy Clark interview Vampira (2004), HORROR HOUND Convention Special. Mark Redfield interviews Veronica Carlson, FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #252;Terry and Tiffany DuFoe interview Allan Arkush. VIDEOSCOPE #75
BEST COVER FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #251 by Basil Gogos Runners-up: RUE MORGUE #105 by Gary Pullin; SCREEM #20 by Daniel Horne; FAMOUS MONSTERS #253 by Kerry Gammill Honorable mentions: SCARLET #5 by Michael Wilk; FAMOUS MONSTERS # #252 by William Stout; LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS #25 by Adrian Salmon
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 CONVENTION HORROR HOUND WEEKEND (Indianapolis, featuring horror host salute to Vampira) Runners-up: Rue Morgue’s Festival of Fear; Monster Bash; Monsterpalooza; WonderFest Honorable mentions: WonderFest; Chiller; Dragon Con
BEST FAN EVENT FEBRUARY AS WOMEN IN HORROR MONTH (conceived by Hannah Neurotica of Ax Wound Magazine) Runner-up: Tribute to Vampira at HorrorHound Weekend Honorable mentions: Blob panic re-enactment at Blobfest; Night of the Living Dead reunion at FM Con; Dr. Gangrene calls Bob Burns at WonderFest
FAVORITE HORROR HOST Penny Dreadful Runners-up: Dr. Gangrene; Svengoolie; Wolfman Mac Honorable mentions: Count Gore de Vol; Karlos Borloff; Mr. Lobo; Ghoul a G-Go
BEST HORROR AUDIO SITE RUE MORGUE RADIO Runner-up: Old-Time Radio Mystery/Horror; Deadpit Honorable mentions: Cult Radio A-Go-Go!; B-Movie Cast; Mail Order Zombie; Bloody Pit of Rod; Bloody Good Horror
BEST CD DARK SHADOWS: The Night Whispers (Big Finish Productions); Jonathan Frid returns. Runner-up: BATMAN 1966 (La-La Land) Honorable mentions: THEY WON’T STAY DEAD! Music from the Soundtrack of Night of the Living Dead; LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES; SPOOKY SONGS FOR CREEPY KIDS, by Voltaire
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!)
RONDO AWARD SPECIAL RECOGNITION ‘The Tutor’ project Filmmakers Terrance Zdunich and Shem Andre Byron enlisted students online to collaborate on a multi-part horror film, resulting in a creatively viral learning experience about art, film, death — and life.
FILM MOST IN NEED OF DVD RELEASE OR RESTORATION ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932) (For a six time, the chorus is unending — monster fans wantb this film released!) Runner-up: DRACULA; sBRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN Honorable mention: THE UNINVITED
WRITER OF THE YEAR BRUCE G. HALLENBECK (chronicler of the Hammer heritage) Runners-up: Tom Weaver, Tim Lucas, Greg Mank, Nathan Hannemann, Bill Adcock
ARTIST OF THE YEAR DANIEL HORNE Runners-up: Basil Gogos, Kerry Gammill Honorable mentions: Frank Dietz, Mike Hill, Wendy Pini, Bob Eggleton, Jeff Carlson
LINDA MILLER AWARD FOR FAN ARTIST OF THE YEAR (In memory of the late Linda Miller) SHANA BILBREY (Belle Dee) Runners-up: Roger Koch, Jerrod Brown, E.M. Gist, Brian Maze, Markchro, April A. Taylor, Megan the Stay Puft Costumer
DVD REVIEWER OF THE YEAR KIM NEWMAN Runners-up: Bill Cooke, Tim Lucas, Glenn Erickson, ’The Phantom of the Movies,’George Reis
MONSTER KIDS  OF THE YEAR Gary Gerani and Marc Scott Zicree A lifetime of devotion to fantastic television culminated in 2010 with two spectacular sets of audio commentaries for the THRILLER and TWILIGHT ZONE collections. Gary Gerani, author of the pioneering FANTASTIC TELEVISION in the 1970s and this year’s TOP 100 HORROR MOVIES helped spearhead (with Steve Mitchell), the astounding assemblage of THRILLER commentaries. He also appears on the TWILIGHT ZONE Blu-Ray collection, adding the wisdom of a true monster kid to every project he touches.. Marc Scott Zicree knows every signpost of Rod Serling’s surreal sci-fi kingdom. A veteran TV writer and author of THE TWLIGHT ZONE COMPANION, Marc’s spirit inhabits the Twilight Zone Blu-Rays in commentaries full of production details and insights that come from a lifetime in a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. The efforts of both, this year and for decades, earn each the award of Monster Kid of 2010.
MONSTER KID HALL OF FAME  The six newest inductees are:
TIM and DONNA LUCAS  Watchdogs of film history No one has won more Rondos than Tim Lucas, not only for his writings but also for his wonderful journal of cinema history, Video Watchdog. And it is Donna’s perfect sense of design and balance that keeps VW such a permanent part of movie appreciation. As a couple, the mind boggles.
WILLIAM STOUT  Keeper of our fantasies From Disney to dinosaurs, Wizards to Xenozoic Tales and Death Rattle, William Stout has been leading the way into new worlds of graphic imagination since the 1960s. His fine lines and powerful imagery now graces Famous Monsters, closing a fantastic circle for all of us.
RON BORST  Legacy of graven images Ron Borst started collecting vintage horror posters long before it was fashionable, or thought of as high end decor. His gorgeous coffee table book of horror posters, Graven Images, is an essential for any fan’s bookshelf. But more, his deep knowledge of the beginnings of ballyhoo is a rich source for all those wondering how the monster films began.
GEORGE A. ROMERO  Changing the horror equation George Romero’s revolutionary embrace of zombie noir in Night of the Living Dead is often viewed as the dividing line between classic horror and the grislier shocks to come. But what Romero really taught is that the horror is not about who is chasing us, but how we react to being chased. And has there ever been a director friendlier with fans?
TOM WEAVER  King of the monster hunters Tom Weaver has been interviewing every star, director, writer, bit player and crew member behind some of the most beloved, and sometimes forgettable films in movie history.  His humor, frankness and ultimate humanity brings dignity even to the most lowly bit player, and illuminates a Hollywood that may soon be forgotten — except for his detailed books of memories.
VERNE LANGDON (1941-2011)  Hollywood‘s biggest fan Far more than just a Mask Man, Verne Langdon’s work with the Don Post Studio in the 1960s helped scare the wits out of parents and Monster Kids alike. A musician, a wrestler, a producer and a gentle friend of stars and would-be stars, Langdon’s influence will be felt long after the masks he helped create are too delicate to wear. Verne Langdon will be remembered most for his enthusiasm to create things anew.

There they are, the winners and the legends who helped make the classic horror world just a little bit better in 2010.  Thanks to all who voted. We look forward to RONDO X in 2012.

And join us in Louisville at the WonderFest convention on May 14, 2011, for this year’s Rondo Awards Ceremony.