The Cyber-Horror Awards

It's Almost That Time Again... The 4th Annual CHAs Are Coming!

2011-12-19T20:02:00.001-08:00

Unwrapping presents...taking stock of where we've been and where we're going...spending time with those we love. These are the things we enjoy doing come the end of the year. Another thing we seem to all enjoy is endlessly compiling our picks for the best of everything in the past year. And so... it is with great pride that I remind you all that the 4th Annual Cyber-Horror Awards are on the way!

That's right, the one and only original horror film awards voted on exclusively by the online horror blogging community are on their way back, and I for one can't wait to see who and what gets voted as the best in horror films for 2011. Previous winners have included the likes of Let the Right One In (2008), Trick 'r Treat (2009) and Black Swan (2010). What will this year's awards hold in store, after a 2011 that gave us the likes of Insidious, Red State, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Priest, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, A Serbian Film and so many more?

I'm in the process of getting together some stellar judges to help me compile a list of nominees next month. Once that's done, ballots will be going out to horror bloggers/online writers far and wide in February, with the winners being announced in March. So sit tight, and get ready for those annoying bloggers to once again have their voices heard!

The Vault of Horror Presents the 2010 Cyber Horror Awards

2011-03-23T21:49:00.000-07:00

Ray Harryhausen Award
Best Visual Effects
Black Swan
This powerful film was rendered even more powerful by the striking visual effects work of NY/LA company Look FX, in addition to many other fine artists who were able to bring Darren Aronofsky's startling vision to life on the silver screen.

Albert S. D'Agostino Award
Best Production Design
Dante Ferretti,
Shutter Island
One of the most brilliant production designers in the business, Ferretti has been Martin Scorsese's go-to guy since 1993's Age of Innocence, and his work in Shutter Island can stand alongside some of the best stuff he's ever done, including Interview with the Vampire, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd.

Tom Savini Award
Best Makeup
Rick Baker, The Wolfman
The first time this award has gone to anyone other than Greg Nicotero, and clearly, if anyone deserved it this year, it was the legendary Baker for his work in the Universal werewolf remake. Revisiting old territory in his depiction of lyncanthropy, Baker did such a fine job that not even CGI tampering could ruin it.

Bernard Hermann Award
Best Score
Clint Mansell, Black Swan
As he did with Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Wrestler, Aronofsky went with Mansell to deliver yet another haunting, powerful score--and he most certainly delivered it. Using the same effortless technique with which he recently wowed genre fans with his Moon score, Mansell composed a suite of music that stays with you longer after the lights come up.

Molly Arbuthnot Award
Best Costume Design
Milena Canonero,
The Wolfman
Canonero cut her teeth working on A Clockwork Orange and The Shining for Stanley Kubrick, and she returned to the genre last year with some very impressive work recreating Victorian England for this very atmospheric period film--which just happens to be about werewolves.

Karl Freund Award
Best Cinematography
Matthew Libatique, Black Swan
Watching Black Swan is indeed a dream-like, somewhat dizzying experience--and it takes a certain kind of cinematographer to pull that off. Iron Man DP Libatique did it for Aronofsky on Pi and Requiem for a Dream, and completely outdoes himself here.

Curt Siodmak Award
Best Screenplay
Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz & John McLaughlin,
Black Swan
Heyman, Heinz and McLaughlin joined forces to deliver Aronofsky that rare gem of a horror script--subtle yet strong, terrifying yet beautiful. Black Swan works on many levels, and it is a testament to this fine collaboration that the finished product was such a truly memorable motion picture.

Linnea Quigley Award
Best Supporting Actress
Delphine Chaneac, Splice
The beautiful Chaneac was transformed into a bizarre, human/animal hybrid through the wonders of CGI, and managed to turn in a startling performance in the process. As Dren, she may have been nearly unrecognizable, but the part she played deserves all the recognition in the world.

Dwight Frye Award
Best Supporting Actor
Vincent Cassel,
Black Swan
The character jokingly referred to in an SNL spoof as "the world's only straight French choreographer" was portrayed rivetingly by Cassel, who took a part that could have easily been lost in the shuffle of Aronofsky's intense psychological thriller, and made it shine.

Vincent Price Award
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island
Though a stretch to be considered a genuine horror flick, Martin Scorsese's latest was a tense thriller/drama with enough chills to qualify--and the director once again brought out a terrific performance from Leo, taking the actor one more step away from his boyish, child star roots.

Jamie Lee Curtis Award
Best Actress
Natalie Portman,
Black Swan
She won the Oscar for this one, and now, she's won the Cyber Horror Award (how's that for a come-down, folks?) No one even came close to Portman in this category, with the stunning actress landing almost every single vote cast. A career-making turn which demonstrated just what kind of acting chops she really has.

David Cronenberg Award
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky,
Black Swan
As if there was any doubt. The gifted director who gave us Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Wrestler returned with a vengeance last year, closing out 2010 with what may have been the greatest work he's ever done. The auteur's masterful style was on full display in this, one of the greatest thrillers seen in recent years. Perhaps that's why the next and final award is really no surprise...

Val Lewton Award
Best Film
Black Swan,
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Taking home 8 out of 13 Cyber Horror Awards, Black Swan clearly was head-and-shoulders above the pack as the most memorable--and certainly most talked-about--horror film of 2010. Deriving most of its scares from atmospheric, psychological means, the film nevertheless packs a powerful enough punch to have been welcomed by genre filmgoers with open arms. It's rare that a mainstream thriller works so effectively as both horror and drama, but Black Swan pulled it off, and deserves to be recognized as the best of the best.

2010 Cyber Horror Award Nominees

2011-02-14T21:56:00.000-08:00

Val Lewton Award for Best Film

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

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

Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island

Jamie Lee Curtis Award for Best Actress

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

Vincent Cassel, Black Swan

Linnea Quigley Award for Best Supporting Actress

Geraldine Chaplin, The Wolfman

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

Mark Heyman, Black Swan

Molly Arbuthnot Award for Best Costume Design

Amy Westcott, Black Swan

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

Rick Baker, The Wolfman

Ray Harryhausen Award for Best Visual Effects

Shutter Island

Black Swan

Wolfman

Albert S. D'Agostino Award for Best Production Design

Shutter Island, Dante Ferretti

Black Swan, Therese DePrez

The Wolfman, Rick Heinrichs

Bernard Herrmann Award for Best Score

Bill Abbot, The Wolfman

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

Matthew Libatique, Black Swan

The Third Annual Cyber Horror Awards Loom.....

2010-12-07T13:35:00.000-08:00

As 2010 draws to a close, it's time to start thinking about all that was great about horror film in the past 12 months. That's right, the Cyber Horror Awards are soon to be coming back at you--in just a matter of weeks, in fact! The CHAs have been growing steadily over the past two years, and I'm hoping this year's will be the biggest installment yet!

For those who don't know, the CHAs are the only annual horror film awards voted on exclusively by the online horror journalism community. Blogger/writers/whatever from throughout the web are brought together to give their picks on the best of the best, and the results are published right here. For the results of the past two years, simply scroll down and peruse...

At the moment, I'm preparing to bring together some of the online community's finest to aid me in selecting the nominees for the 3rd annual awards. Once the nominating committee settles on the noms (by the beginning of February), then the vote will go to the full online horror collective. And with a year that gave us the likes of The Wolfman, Daybreakers, The Crazies, Let Me In and so many more...this is bound to get interesting.

So stay tuned!

The Vault of Horror Presents the 2009 Cyber Horror Awards

2010-03-06T08:36:00.000-08:00

Ray Harryhausen Award
Best Visual Effects
Coraline
This award is earned by so many for their efforts creating the surreal 3-D world of Henry Selick's newest animated masterpiece, but chiefly CG modeler Craig Dowsett, stop motion effects animator Richard Kent Burton, head animator John Allan Armstrong, visual effects supervisor Brian Van't Hul and the crew at LAIKA Digital Design Group.

Albert S. D'Agostino Award
Best Production Design
Steve Saklad,
Drag Me to Hell
An art director for previous Sam Raimi efforts The Quick and the Dead and Spider-Man 2, Saklad stepped up to the production designer role for the director's recent return to the horror genre. Saklad contributed greatly to the look of what was a visually stunning film, from Christine's sterile office environment to the many suitably hellish landscapes on view.

Tom Savini Award
Best Makeup
Greg Nicotero, Drag Me to Hell
For the second year in a row, Romero/Savini protege Nicotero wins the CHA for Best Makeup. In an era when the art of makeup effects often sadly take a backseat to digital work, it's nice to see someone like Nicotero still championing the amazing practical wizardry of the old school.

Bernard Hermann Award
Best Score
Christopher Young,
Drag Me to Hell
Young is a veteran of horror scoring, with films like The Uninvited, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Grudge, Urban Legend, Species, The Dark Half and his most famous horror score of all, Hellraiser, under his belt. Last year, he delivered a deliciously histrionic piece of music that was perfectly suited to Raimi's big-budget E.C. homage.

Molly Arbuthnot Award
Best Costume Design
Magali Guidasci, Zombieland
This is the first year for this award, and it goes to the woman responsible for dressing up all those wonderful ghouls wreaking havoc in Zombieland. She also did one hell of a job turning Woody Harrelson into one of the most bad-ass looking zombie hunters of all time.

Karl Freund Award
Best Cinematography
Anthony Dod Mantle, Antichrist
Love it or hate it, Lars von Trier's Antichrist was an extremely stylish motion picture, and the masterful Mantle was a big reason for that. Mantle's last film was the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, and he's also responsible for that other Danny Boyle movie, 28 Days Later--proving he's no slouch behind a camera.

Curt Siodmak Award
Best Screenplay
Michael Dougherty,
Trick 'r Treat
Dougherty got a start in the business working for Bryan Singer's Bad Hat Harry Productions, cranking out screenplays for Singer films like X2 and Superman Returns. But Trick 'r Treat was his baby through and through, and boy, did he make one hell of a splash in the horror world with this highly engaging, interwoven tapestry of terror.

Linnea Quigley Award
Best Supporting Actress
Lorna Raver, Drag Me to Hell
Veteran TV actress Raver (best recognized up till now for a recent stint on The Young and Restless) opened a lot of eyes by stealing the show in Raimi's Drag Me to Hell as the insanely over-the-top gypsy lady Sylvia Ganush. "You... shame me?" No, Ms. Raver--we salute you.

Dwight Frye Award
Best Supporting Actor
Bill Murray, Zombieland
This may have been nothing more than a walk-on cameo appearance, but among walk-on cameo appearances, it will live on as one of the most geektastic of all time. As always, Murray is comedy gold, even with very limited screen time. He may have just been having fun, but by watching him, so did millions of others.

Vincent Price Award
Best Actor
Woody Harrelson, Zombieland
He may be nominated for an Oscar for his role in The Messenger, but horror fans hailed him as the one and only Twinkie-loving Tallahassee, zombie killer extraordinaire. Who knew that Sam Malone's dim-witted sidekick would one day be so cool?

Jamie Lee Curtis Award
Best Actress
Isabelle Fuhrman, Orphan
For the second year in a row, the CHA for Best Actress goes to a pre-teen girl. Fuhrman (11 at the time of filming, now 13) is a revelation as Esther, the most terrifying and cold-hearted movie kid since Damien. Most impressive of all, the part called for a great deal of maturity on her part, and she came through in spades.

David Cronenberg Award
Best Director
Michael Dougherty,
Trick 'r Treat
Dougherty lands a second CHA for directing his aforementioned pet project. In his directorial debut, he certainly has set the standard high--not only for himself, but for other horror directors. Taking his own script, Dougherty saw the project through and delivered what could have been the most universally admired horror film of 2009. Which brings us to...

Val Lewton Award
Best Film
Trick 'r Treat, Bad Hat Harry Productions
Yes, this movie was made in 2007, and yes, it showed to film festivals in 2008. But 2009 was the year it finally made it the public at large--albeit, unfortunately, in direct-to-video form. Regardless of distribution nightmares, Trick 'r Treat finally did reach audiences, and those audiences embraced it wholeheartedly. This film more than rewarded all those who were waiting for it, and easily takes its place in the pantheon of modern horror classics.

2009 Cyber Horror Award Nominees

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Val Lewton Award for Best Film

Drag Me to Hell, Ghost House Pictures

Trick 'r Treat, Bad Hat Harry Productions

Zombieland, Relativity Media

Thirst, Moho Films

Grace, Dark Eye Entertainment

David Cronenberg Award for Best Director

Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell

Paul Solet, Grace

Chan-Wook Park, Thirst

Ruben Fleischer, Zombieland

Michael Doughery, Trick 'r Treat

Jame Lee Curtis Award for Best Actress

Alison Lohman, Drag Me to Hell

Isabelle Fuhrman, Orphan

Jordan Ladd, Grace

Emily Browning, The Uninvited

Megan Fox, Jennifer’s Body

Vincent Price Award for Best Actor

Woody Harrelson, Zombieland

Dylan Baker, Trick 'r Treat

Willem Dafoe, Antichrist

Kang-Ho Song, Thirst

Peter Saarsgard, Orphan

Dwight Frye Award for Best Supporting Actor

Brad Dourif, Halloween 2

Kyle Gallner, A Haunting in Connecticut

Brian Cox, Trick ‘r Treat

Bill Murray, Zombieland

Noah Segan, Deadgirl

Linnea Quigley Award for Best Supporting Actress

Lorna Raver, Drag Me to Hell

Vera Farmiga, Orphan

Ok-bin Kim, Thirst

Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer’s Body
Danielle Harris, Halloween 2

Curt Siodmak Award for Best Screenplay

Sam & Ivan Raimi, Drag Me to Hell

Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, Zombieland

Diablo Cody, Jennifer’s Body

Michael Dougherty, Trick ‘r Treat

Craig Rosenberg, Doug Miro & Carlo Bernard, The Uninvited

Karl Freund Award for Best Cinematography

Sharone Meir, Last House on the Left

Anthony Dod Mantle, Antichrist

Daniel Landin, The Uninvited

Peter Deming, Drag Me to Hell

Zoran Popovic, Grace

Molly Arbuthnot Award for Best Costume Design

Isis Mussenden, Drag Me to Hell

Katia Stano, Jennifer’s Body

Magali Guidasci, Zombieland

Albert S. D'Agostino Award for Best Production Design

Gareth Stover, Halloween 2

Steve Saklad, Drag Me to Hell

Nathan Amondson, Blood: The Last Vampire

Bernard Herrmann Award for Best Score

Christopher Young, Drag Me to Hell

Jeff Grace, I Sell the Dead

Bruno Coulais, Coraline

Tom Savini Award for Best Makeup

Greg Nicotero, Drag Me to Hell

Lene Bruksas, Ragnhild Prestholt, Gudmund Saksvik & Elisabeth Haugan Sorensen, Dead Snow

Scott Stoddard, Friday the 13th

Ray Harryhausen Award for Best Visual Effects

Drag Me to Hell

Coraline

Jennifer’s Body

Halfway to the 2nd Annual Cyber Horror Awards!

2009-07-27T23:51:00.000-07:00

Just checking in to make sure y'all haven't forgot about the Cyber Horror Awards--the one and only horror film awards voted on exclusively by the online horror blogging/writing community. Last year's awards were a tremendous success, drawing praise from the likes of REPO production designer (and Saw V director) David Hackl, and Let the Right One In composer Johan Soderqvist. Next year's awards will be even bigger.

One of the criticisms of last year's CHAs was the fact that there was no formal nominating process. I'm pleased to announce that that will be changing this time around. I've set in motion the creation of an official nominating committee, which so far includes Fangoria.com editor James Zahn, LoTT-D founder John Cozzoli and noted horror critic John Kenneth Muir as a start. Expect more to come soon.

Plus, the roster of fine bloggers and writers who will be included in this year's voting process has been vastly expanded from last year's. And last year's included the likes of Cinematical's Scott Weinburg, Horror's Not Dead's Peter Hall, Kindertrauma, Horror-Movie-a-Day's Brian Collins, Fangoria.com's Brian Matus, and the Stoker-winning Vince Liaguno of Slasher Speak. Not prepared to divulge who I'm adding this time around, but let's just say that many of you reading this may be in for a pleasant surprise in the months to come!

Balloting will begin at the end of the year, and by the looks of things, it should be quite an interesting field. The first half of the year may have been a bit slow, but when all is said and done, 2009 is a year that will have brought us films like Drag Me to Hell, Orphan, Moon, Grace, Antichrist, District 9, Jennifer's Body and Zombieland, to name a few.

So keep an eye out for more announcements to come regarding the 2009 Cyber Horror Awards!

The Vault of Horror Presents the 2008 Cyber Horror Awards

2009-03-01T17:42:00.000-08:00

Ray Harryhausen Award
Best Visual Effects
The Ruins
It took a combination of FX companies Rising Sun Pictures, Pixel Playground, Frantic Films, FUEL International and Eyetronics to bring the surreal menace of The Ruins to life.

Albert S. D'Agostino Award
Best Production Design
David Hackl, Repo! The Genetic Opera
While also stepping up this year to the role of director for Saw V, Hackl found himself in a much more familiar role working on the unique horror musical Repo! The Genetic Opera. Hackl's set design work was crucial to the creation of Repo's bizarre, nightmarish, not-so-distant future world of epidemics and organ harvesting.

Tom Savini Award
Best Makeup
Greg Nicotero, Diary of the Dead and Mirrors
25-year veteran Nicotero did double duty last year, crafting zombies yet again for mentor George Romero, as well as putting together some mind-bending makeups in Keifer Sutherland's supernatural thriller. Either one would've probably been enough to net him this award.

Bernard Hermann Award
Best Score
Johan Soderqvist, Let the Right One In
The hauntingly stirring music Soderqvist created for Sweden's Let the Right One In perfectly encapsulated the film's deft combination of horror and beauty, particularly in the Ennio Morricone-influenced "Eli's Theme". This is a score that stays with you long after the final credits have rolled.

Karl Freund Award
Best Cinematography
Hoyte Van Hoytema, Let the Right One In
A relatively new face in Swedish cinema, 37-year-old Van Hoytema added a large part of what made Let the Right One In such a memorable film, expertly framing both the intimate friendship of Oskar and Eli, and the stunning landscape of his native land, bathing the whole affair in an ethereal bluish tint.

Curt Siodmak Award
Best Screenplay
John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In
Adapting his own acclaimed debut novel, Lindqvist was able to successfully transfer the printed page to the screen while sacrificing a minimum of the power and dread that made the material so worthy of adaptation in the first place. Being a foreign film, it's only a shame that it's his translated words that English-speaking audiences are hearing.

Linnea Quigley Award
Best Supporting Actress
Lizzy Caplan, Cloverfield
In an often chaotic film, Caplan was nevertheless able to carve out a memorable performance as the ill-fated Marlena. She would also grab attention later in 2008 with a supporting part in HBO's True Blood.

Dwight Frye Award
Best Supporting Actor
Vinnie Jones, The Midnight Meat Train
Former UK footballer Jones' turn as the mysterious and deadly "Mahogany" was so instantly iconic and riveting that he was able to capture this award despite uttering only word in the entire film. That, my friends, is presence!

Vincent Price Award
Best Actor
Kare Hedebrant, Let the Right One In
Possessing a level of depth, poignancy and subtlety beyond his years, young Hedebrant puts forth the kind of nuanced performance as the morose, vaguely tragic Oskar in his cinematic debut that one rarely gets from a child actor.

Jamie Lee Curtis Award
Best Actress
Lina Leandersson, Let the Right One In
A big part of what made Hedebrant so unforgettable is who he gets to work with throughout the picture, a young actress who can already be safely described as brilliant in her sad portrayal of a vampire in the body of a 12-year-old girl. This was also Leandersson's debut role.

David Cronenberg Award
Best Director
Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In
Sensing a pattern here? This Swedish television director was able to step up to the plate in 2008 and deliver the finest vampire film in years, in no small part thanks to the touching performances he was able to coax out of two inexperienced pre-teen actors. He already Best Director honors in January at the Guldbagge Awards, Sweden's version of the Oscars, and now his work has been recognized by the horror blogosphere as well.

Val Lewton Award
Best Film
Let the Right One In, EFTI
Defying easy categorization and crossing international borders through the power of word-of-mouth, this instant classic represented Sweden's greatest contribution to horror since the heyday of Ingmar Bergman. In a year when it once again seemed that the combined epidemics of endless sequels and remakes might strangle the genre in America, it took a picture from foreign shores to remind us of the impact that well-executed original ideas can still have.

2008 Cyber Horror Award Nominees

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Val Lewton Award for Best Film

Eden Lake, Rollercoaster Films

Let the Right One In, EFTI

The Midnight Meat Train, Lions Gate

The Strangers, Rogue Pictures

Tokyo Gore Police, Fever Dreams/Nikkatsu

David Cronenberg Award for Best Director

Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In
Bryan Bertino, The Strangers
Ryuhei Kitamura, The Midnight Meat Train
Matt Reeves, Cloverfield
James Watkins, Eden Lake

Jamie Lee Curtis Award for Best Actress

Jennifer Carpenter, Quarantine

Mylene Jampanoi, Martyrs

Lina Leandersson, Let the Right One In

Kelly Reilly, Eden Lake

Liv Tyler, The Strangers

Vincent Price Award for Best Actor

Simon Callow, Chemical Wedding

Kare Hedebrant, Let the Right One In

Andy Serkis, The Cottage

Keifer Sutherland, Mirrors

Jonathan Tucker, The Ruins
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Dwight Frye Award for Best Supporting Actor

Anthony Head, Repo! The Genetic Opera

Vinnie Jones, The Midnight Meat Train

Jack O'Connell, Eden Lake

Eden Lake Clip - "Night Car Chase"
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Linnea Quigley Award for Best Supporting Actress

Morjana Alaoui, Martyrs

Julie Benz, Saw V

Lizzy Caplan, Cloverfield

Curt Siodmak Award for Best Screenplay

Jeff Buhler, The Midnight Meat Train

Pascal Laugier, Martyrs
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John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

Scott B. Smith, The Ruins
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James Watkins, Eden Lake

Karl Freund Award for Best Cinematography

Maxime Alexandre, Mirrors

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David A. Armstrong, Saw V

Michael Bonvillain, Cloverfield
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Hoyte van Hoytema, Let the Right One In

Peter Sova, The Strangers

Bernard Hermann Award for Best Score

Charlie Clouser, Saw V

Johan Soderqvist, Let the Right One In

Darren Smith & Terrance Zdunich, Repo! The Genetic Opera

Tom Savini Award for Best Makeup

Paul Hyett, Eden Lake

Greg Nicotero, Diary of the Dead and Mirrors
Yoshihiro Nishimura, Tokyo Gore Police

Albert S. D'Agostino Award for Best Production Design

David Hackl, Repo! The Genetic Opera

Tony Ianni, Saw V
Grant Major, The Ruins

Ray Harryhausen Award for Best Visual Effects

Mirrors

The Ruins

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