Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
Country	United States
Presented by	Fangoria
First awarded	1992
Website	www.fangoria.com/chainsaw-awards

The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards is an award ceremony focused on horror and thriller films. Beginning in 1992, the awards were expanded and an annual ceremony was inaugurated to give out the awards. As of 2015, Fangoria also delivers awards to television series.

Ceremonies

1992 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
1993 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
1994 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
1995 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
1996 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
1997 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
1998 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
1999 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2001 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2002 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2017 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2018 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2019 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2020 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2021 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2022 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2023 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

Winners and nominees

2023

BEST WIDE RELEASE	BEST LIMITED RELEASE
Barbarian The Black Phone Nope Pearl X	Orphan: First Kill Resurrection Something in the Dirt Terrifier 2 Mad God
BEST FIRST FEATURE	BEST STREAMING PREMIERE
Blood Relatives Deadstream The Sadness Watcher We're All Going to the World's Fair	Fresh Hellbender Hellraiser Prey A Wounded Fawn
BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIE	BEST SERIES
Hatching The Innocents Piggy Saloum Speak No Evil	Cabinet of Curiosities Chucky Stranger Things What We Do in the Shadows Yellowjackets
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE	BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
The Found Footage Phenomenon In Search of Darkness: Part III Living with Chucky Pennywise: The Story of IT This is Gwar	Anna Diop, Nanny Isabelle Fuhrman, Orphan: First Kill Mia Goth, Pearl Rebecca Hall, Resurrection Daniel Kaluuya, Nope Amber Midthunder, Prey Maika Monroe, Watcher Keke Palmer, Nope Josh Ruben, A Wounded Fawn Taylor Russell, Bones and All
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE	BEST DIRECTOR
Jamie Clayton, Hellraiser Ethan Hawke, The Black Phone Justin Long, Barbarian Madeleine McGraw, The Black Phone Jenna Ortega, Scream Mark Rylance, Bones and All Rachel Sennott, Bodies Bodies Bodies Brittany Snow, X Kristen Stewart, Crimes of the Future Steven Yeun, Nope	Zach Cregger, Barbarian David Cronenberg, Crimes of the Future Chloe Okuno, Watcher Jordan Peele, Nope Ti West, X
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY	BEST SCREENPLAY
Ksusha Genenfeld, A Wounded Fawn Rob Hardy, Men Eliot Rockett, Pearl Eliot Rockett, X Hoyte Van Hoytema, Nope	C. Robert Cargill and Scott Derrickson, The Black Phone Zach Cregger, Barbarian Mia Goth and Ti West, Pearl Jordan Peele, Nope Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, The Menu
BEST SCORE	BEST MAKEUP FX
Michael Abels, Nope Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury, Men Tyler Bates and Tim Williams, Pearl John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, Halloween Ends Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Bones and All	Alexandra Anger and Monica Pavez/Black Spot FX, Crimes of the Future Lyudmil Ivanov, Barbarian Damien Leone, Terrifier 2 Josh & Sierra Russell/RussellFX, Hellraiser Sarah Rubano & Kevin Wasner / WETA, X
BEST COSTUME DESIGN	BEST CREATURE FX
Alex Bovaird, Nope Stephanie Porter, Prey András Dániel Tóth and Godena-Juhász Attila, The Munsters Mayou Trikerioti, Crimes of the Future Malgosia Turzanska, Pearl	Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr., Prey Gustav Hoegen, Hatching Troy Larson, Patrick Magee, Mark Villalobos, V/H/S/99 John Nolan, Jurassic World Dominion Guillaume Rocheron/MPC, Nope
BEST NON-FICTION SERIES OR MINISERIES	BEST SHORT
101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time Cursed Films II The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans Joe Bob’s Ghoultide Get-Together Queer for Fear	Blink Close Your Eyes Guts Meat Friend O, Glory
BEST AMITYVILLE	BEST KILL
Amityville Christmas Vacation Amityville In Space Amityville Karen Amityville Scarecrow II Amityville Uprising	fan-submission category Killing Allie, Terrifier 2

EDITOR'S EYEBALL ON THE FUTURE AWARD
Awarded new in 2023, winners were selected by the Fangoria editorial team in the spirit of looking ahead in horror. This award recognizes emerging talent in the horror space who made a significant impact in the horror industry in the last year.
INAUGURAL WINNERS Lauren Lavera - Sienna, Terrifier 2 Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks - Alone with You Mason Thames - Finney, The Black Phone

List of winners:
List of nominees:
Announced on: January 27, 2023
Presented on: May 21, 2023

2022

Best Wide Release	Best Limited Release
Malignant – Directed by James Wan Candyman – Directed by Nia DaCosta Last Night in Soho – Directed by Edgar Wright The Night House – Directed by David Bruckner A Quiet Place Part II – Directed by John Krasinski	PG: Psycho Goreman – Directed by Steven Kostanski Come True – Directed by Anthony Scott Burns Hurt – Directed by Sonny Mallhi In the Earth – Directed by Ben Wheatley Werewolves Within – Directed by Josh Ruben
Best Streaming Premiere	Best Foreign Film
Fear Street Part Three: 1666 – Directed by Leigh Janiak The Boy Behind the Door – Directed by Justin Powell and David Charbonier Lucky – Directed by Natasha Kermani The Power – Directed by Corinna Faith Violation – Directed by Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer	Titane – Directed by Julia Ducournau Detention – Directed by John Hsu Lamb – Directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson The Queen of Black Magic – Directed by Kimo Stamboel The Feast – Directed by Lee Haven Jones
Best First Feature	Best Director
Saint Maud – Directed by Rose Glass Censor – Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To – Directed by Jonathan Cuartas The Stylist – Directed by Jill Gevargizian The Vigil – Directed by Keith Thomas	Edgar Wright – Last Night in Soho Prano Bailey-Bond – Censor David Bruckner – The Night House Anthony Scott Burns – Come True Julia Ducournau – Titane Rose Glass – Saint Maud
Best Lead Performance	Best Supporting Performance
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II – Candyman as Anthony McCoy Niamh Algar – Censor as Enid Baines Morfydd Clark – Saint Maud as Katie/Maud Barbara Crampton – Jakob's Wife as Anne Fedder Rebecca Hall – The Night House as Beth Parchin Thomasin McKenzie – Last Night in Soho as Eloise "Ellie" Turner Agathe Rousselle – Titane as Alexia/Adrien Madeleine Sims-Fewer – Violation as Miriam Julia Sarah Stone – Come True as Sarah Anya Taylor-Joy – Last Night in Soho as Alexandra "Sandie" Collins	Millicent Simmonds – A Quiet Place Part II as Regan Abbott Luke David Blumm – Son as David Jennifer Ehle – Saint Maud as Amanda Köhl Larry Fessenden – Jakob's Wife as Pastor Jakob Fedder Vincent Lindon as Vincent – Titane Diana Rigg – Last Night in Soho as Ms. Collins Bill Sage – Wrong Turn as Venable/Ram Skull Jeremy T. Thomas – Antlers as Lucas Weaver Suzanne Voss – Dementia Part II as Suzanne Goldblum
Best Screenplay	Best Score
Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski – The Night House Prano Bailey-Bond & Anthony Fletcher – Censor John Hsu, Fu Kai-ling, Chien Shih-keng – Detention Rose Glass – Saint Maud Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli – Violation	John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, Daniel Davies – Halloween Kills Electric Youth, Pilotpriest – Come True Ben Lovett – The Night House Clint Mansell – In the Earth Tom Schraeder, CJ Johnson – Hurt
Best Makeup FX	Best Creature FX
Christopher Nelson – Halloween Kills Tara Brawley – Hurt Mark Coulier – Blood Red Sky Francois Dagenais – Spiral: From the Book of Saw Oriane de Neve, CLSFX Atelier 69 – Kandisha	MastersFX, Steven Kostanski – PG: Psycho Goreman Barrie Gower – The Green Knight Robert Kurtzman – Black Friday Legacy Effects, Shane Mahan – Antlers Magee FX, Gaslight Studio – V/H/S/94
Best Costume Design
Odile Dicks-Mireaux – Last Night in Soho Lizzie Cook – Candyman Eulyn Colette Hufkie – Bingo Hell Chieko Matsumoto – Prisoners of the Ghostland Neil McClean – Slumber Party Massacre
Best Series	Best Kill (write-in category)
Midnight Mass Brand New Cherry Flavor Chucky Creepshow I Know What You Did Last Summer	The Bread Slicer – Fear Street Part One: 1994
Achievement In Non-Fiction	Best Documentary
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs Elvira’s 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special, Special The Boulet Brothers' Dragula	Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched Mail Order Murder Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story

2021

2020

2019

2016

Best Wide-Release Film

Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film

What We Do in the Shadows – Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
Anguish – Sonny Mallhi
The Final Girls – Todd Strauss-Schulson
Some Kind of Hate – Adam Egypt Mortimer
We Are Still Here – Ted Geoghegan

Best Foreign-Language Film

Goodnight Mommy – Veronika Franz and Severin Viala
Alleluia – Fabrice Du Welz
Cub – Jonas Govaerts
The Samurai – Till Kleinert
When Animals Dream – Jonas Alexander Arnby

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Jessica Chastain – Crimson Peak
Malin Åkerman – The Final Girls
Deanna Dunagan – The Visit
Kate Greenhouse – He Never Died
Krista Stadler – Krampus

Best Screenplay

What We Do in the Shadows – Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
Anguish – Sonny Mallhi
The Final Girls – M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller
The Gift – Joel Edgerton
The Midnight Swim – Sarah Adina Smith

Best Score

It Follows – Rich Vreeland
The Boy – Volker Bertelmann
Crimson Peak – Fernando Velázquez
The Editor – Claudio Simonetti, Carpenter Brut, Brian Wiacek and Jeremy Gillespie
We Are Still Here – Wojciech Golczewski

Best Makeup/Creature FX

Krampus – Weta Workshop
Bone Tomahawk – Hugo Villasenor
Deathgasm – Roger Murray, Main Reactor
The Hallow – John Nolan
We Are Still Here – Marcus Koch

Best TV Series

Best TV Actor

Best TV Actress

Eva Green – Penny Dreadful
Caroline Dhavernas – Hannibal
Vera Farmiga – Bates Motel
Lady Gaga – American Horror Story: Hotel
Janet Montgomery – Salem

Best TV Supporting Actor

Richard Armitage – Hannibal
Seth Gabel – Salem
Lennie James – The Walking Dead
Rory Kinnear – Penny Dreadful
Evan Peters – American Horror Story: Hotel

Best TV Supporting Actress

Best TV Makeup/Creature FX

The Walking Dead – Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger
American Horror Story: Hotel – Eryn Krueger Mekash and David LeRoy Anderson
Hannibal – François Dagenais
Salem – Matthew Mungle and Clinton Wayne
The Strain – Steve Newburn, Sean Samson

2015

Best Wide-Release Film

Oculus – Mike Flanagan
As Above, So Below – John Erick Dowdle
Dracula Untold – Gary Shore
Godzilla – Gareth Edwards
The Quiet Ones – John Pogue

Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film

The Babadook – Jennifer Kent
The Battery – Jeremy Gardner
Housebound – Gerard Johnstone
The Sacrament – Ti West
Under the Skin – Jonathan Glazer

Best Foreign-Language Film

Big Bad Wolves – Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – Ana Lily Amirpour
The House at the End of Time – Alejandro Hidalgo
The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears – Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
Witching & Bitching – Álex de la Iglesia

Best Actor

Best Actress

Essie Davis – The Babadook
Alexandra Essoe – Starry Eyes
Scarlett Johansson – Under the Skin
Marta Milans – Devoured
Tilda Swinton – Only Lovers Left Alive

Best Supporting Actor

Noah Wiseman – The Babadook
David Asavanond – Countdown
Tzahi Grad – Big Bad Wolves
Gene Jones – The Sacrament
Michael Parks – Tusk

Best Supporting Actress

Katee Sackhoff – Oculus
Olivia Cooke – The Quiet Ones
Anne Ramsay – The Taking of Deborah Logan
Rima Te Wiata – Housebound
Mia Wasikowska – Only Lovers Left Alive

Best Screenplay

The Babadook – Jennifer Kent
Housebound – Gerard Johnstone
Life After Beth – Jeff Baena
Oculus – Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard
Proxy – Zack Parker and Kevin Donner

Best Score

Under the Skin – Mica Levi
Big Bad Wolves – Frank Ilfman
Oculus – The Newton Brothers
Only Lovers Left Alive – Jozef van Wissem and SQÜRL
Starry Eyes – Jonathan Snipes

Best Makeup/Creature FX

Horns – Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger
Afflicted – Tamar Ouziel
Dead Snow 2 – Steinaar Karstein and Mike Elizalde
Late Phases – Robert Kurtzman and Brian Spears
Starry Eyes – Hugo Villasenor, SOTA FX

Worst Film

Best TV Series

Best TV Actor

Best TV Actress

Sarah Paulson – American Horror Story: Freak Show
Nicole Beharie – Sleepy Hollow
Eva Green – Penny Dreadful
Janet Montgomery – Salem
Anna Paquin – True Blood

Best TV Supporting Actor

Norman Reedus – The Walking Dead
David Bradley – The Strain
Zane Holtz – From Dusk till Dawn: The Series
Rory Kinnear – Penny Dreadful
Finn Wittrock – American Horror Story: Freak Show

Best TV Supporting Actress

Best TV Makeup/Creature FX

The Walking Dead – Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger
Hannibal – François Dagenais
Penny Dreadful – Nick Dudman
The Strain – Steve Newburn, Sean Samson
True Blood – Todd Masters and Dan Rebert

2014

Best Wide-Release Film

Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film

V/H/S/2 – Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Eduardo Sánchez, Gregg Hale, Gareth Huw Evans and Jason Eisener
Stoker – Park Chan-wook
We Are What We Are – Jim Mickle
Byzantium – Neil Jordan
Berberian Sound Studio – Peter Strickland

Best Foreign-Language Film

Here Comes the Devil – Adrián García Bogliano
The Condemned – Roberto Busó-García
Tormented (2011 film) – Takashi Shimizu
Wither – Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund
Horror Stories – Min Kyu-dong, Im Dae-woong, Jung Bum-sik, Hong Ji-young, Kim Gok, Kim Sun

Best Actor

Elijah Wood – Maniac
Patrick Wilson – Insidious: Chapter 2
Toby Jones – Berberian Sound Studio
Francisco Barreiro – Here Comes the Devil
Bill Sage – We Are What We Are

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Screenplay

You're Next – Simon Barrett
Stoker – Wentworth Miller
We Are What We Are – Nick Damici and Jim Mickle
Grabbers – Kevin Lehane
Haunter – Brian King

Best Score

Maniac – Rob
You're Next – Jasper Justice Lee, Kyle Mckinnon, Mads Heldtberg and Adam Wingard
Berberian Sound Studio – Broadcast
Byzantium – Javier Navarrete
We Are What We Are – Philip Mossman, Darren Morris and Jeff Grace