For those who follow the Star Wars fan audio genre, particularly out of Star Wars Fanworks, I’m happy to note that the 2010 Star Wars Fanworks Fan Audio Award winners have finally been revealed. They were first revealed in a special crossover episode of Spinoff (crossing over with ToscheCast), then posted (almost immediately) on Star Wars Fanworks (in the Features area).
For those who don’t want to be spoiled as to who the winners were, stop reading now.
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2009 was a hell of a year for Star Wars fan audio productions. The only exception to that, of course, was in fan audio parodies. This year only saw the release of Jedi Love, which was very quickly removed from circulation due to potential legal troubles between one of the creators and an ex-girlfriend, who decided to play sour grapes and claim she’d sue over her voice being in the parody, after she recorded the lines for it.
Sour grapes, indeed.
Anyway . . .
Beyond that oddity of a basically empty parody subgenre (not counting Jedi Love because it was removed from circulation), this year saw three audio dramas eligible for awards, all of which were quite good: Blue Harvest; Knights of the Old Republic: Outcasts; and In the Shadows.
When votes were tallied, In the Shadows swept the awards, carrying on the tradition of last year’s sweep by Codename: Starkeeper. Dany Pepin, the project’s creator, has done excellent work on In the Shadows, just as he did with his previous audio dramatization of Karen Traviss’ Omega Squad: Targets.
2009 was chock-full in terms of podcasts. With sixteen Star Wars-based shows eligible for awards this year, along with seven “Star Wars and More” shows (dubbed “Fanworks Community-Based Radio Shows” in award parlance), competition was fierce.
When all was said and done, Anomaly again took a two-way tie for Best Panel of Radio Show Hosts, this time with Star Wars Action News. New podcast The Unknown Regions and my own Star Wars EU Primer took a two-way tie for Radio Show Rookie of the Year, while three categories featured returning winners: Star Wars Action News for Best Star Wars-Based Radio Show; my podcast The Butlerniverse took Best Fanworks Community-Based Radio Show; and I managed to garner the Best Solo Radio Show Host award. (These three last awards were mirrors of last year’s results.)
The Lifetime Achievement Award had previously been awarded to me (without my knowledge mind you), Rich Sigfrit, Dany Pepin, and Jeff Roney. This year, the award went to the quite deserving Joe Harrison of Lion’s Mouth Entertainment.
It was a heck of a year, and I look forward to seeing what 2010 has in store for Fanworks and the Star Wars fan audio community. My thanks go to all of those who voted, and especially to those who voted for me this year, quite against my efforts to sound like a complete twit on my podcasts.
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Congratulations to all those who picked up awards.
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