The Too Many Streamy Awards that We Didn’t See on the Live Show

Cornelia Tzana ‘17 / Emertainment Monthly Assistant Comic Books Editor

It is common knowledge by now that televised award shows deprive many of the nominees and winners of the opportunity to appear on live TV and claim their deserved recognition. Usually, behind-the-scenes categories are announced prior to the show for the sake of saving time and keeping the audience interested, which is expected in the world of television. However, the 2015 Streamy Awards took it a step too far and decided to announce thirty five of the winners during the Streamy Nominee Reception on Tuesday, leaving only nine awards for Thursday’s live show.

Many of the categories that were pre-announced such as Food, Fashion, Gaming, Sports, Cover Song and Social Good Campaign represented big parts of the YouTube population with big names like PewDiePie, Blogilates, Epic Rap Battles of History and #ProudToLove taking the silver statuette home. It is a surprise that YouTubers with so many subscribers were left out of the show when they could have pulled in so many more viewers.

 

No matter what the reason behind these choices may be, the world of YouTube is thrilled to have the Streamy Awards presented on TV. Emertainment Monthly is bringing you the list of the winners that did not make it to the live stream.

 

AWARDS FOR CHANNELS, SERIES, OR SHOWS

ANIMATED – Cyanide & Happiness

BREAKOUT CREATOR (NEW CATEGORY) – Matthew Santoro

DRAMA – BlackBoxTV

INDIE – Eat Our Feelings

INTERNATIONAL – Racka Racka

NON-FICTION – Good Mythical Morning

SPIN-OFF – The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Backstage

SUBJECT AWARDS

ACTION OR SCI-FI – Corridor Digital

DOCUMENTARY OR INVESTIGATIVE (NEW CATEGORY) – Atari: Game Over

FASHION – Lauren Elizabeth

FOOD – Epic Meal Time

GAMING – PewDiePie

HEALTH AND WELLNESS – Blogilates

NEWS AND CULTURE – The Young Turks

SCIENCE OR EDUCATION – Vsauce

SPORTS – Dude Perfect

PERFORMANCE AWARDS

ACTOR – James Van Der Beek, Adi Shankar’s “The Bootleg Universe”  

ACTRESS – Colleen Ballinger, Miranda Sings

COLLABORATION – Nice Peter, EpicLLOYD, Grace Helbig, and Hannah Hart, Epic Rap Battles of History

DANCE – Dominic “D-Trix” Sandoval

ENSEMBLE CAST – Video Game High School

MUSIC AWARDS

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST (NEW CATEGORY) – Shawn Mendes

COVER SONG – “Foil” (Lorde), “Weird Al” Yankovic

ORIGINAL SONG – “Here” Alessia Cara

CRAFT AWARDS

CINEMATOGRAPHY – devinsupertramp, Devin Graham

COSTUME DESIGN – Epic Rap Battles of History, Sulai Lopez

DIRECTING – Video Game High School, Matt Arnold and Freddie Wong

EDITING – Epic Rap Battles of History, Andrew Sherman, Ryan Moulton, Daniel Turcan and Peter Shukoff

VISUAL AND SPECIAL EFFECTS – Corridor Digital, Sam Gorski, Niko Pueringer, and Jake Watson

WRITING – You Deserve A Drink, Mamrie Hart

SOCIAL VIDEO AWARDS

SHORT FORM COMEDY (NEW CATEGORY) – Logan Paul

SHORT FORM CREATIVITY (NEW CATEGORY) – SnapperHero

SNAPCHAT STORYTELLER (NEW CATEGORY) – Shaun McBride (shonduras)

CAMPAIGN AWARDS

BRAND CAMPAIGN – ”Crazy Plastic Ball Prank” #WithDad, Roman Atwood (Nissan)

SOCIAL GOOD CAMPAIGN – #ProudToLove, Marriage Equality and LGBT Pride Month

 

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