The 21st annual Webby Awards were held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on May 15, 2017, which was hosted by comedian and actor Joel McHale. [1] [2] The Webby Awards have been dubbed the "internet's highest honor" and, in 2017, received nearly 13,000 entries from 70 countries. [3]
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Category | Sub-Category | Webby Award Winner | People's Voice winner | Other Nominees |
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Special Achievement | Lifetime Achievement | Internet Archive | ||
Artist of the Year | Solange Knowles | |||
Social Movement of the Year | Women's March | |||
Best Actress | Gillian Anderson | |||
Best Actor | Steve Buscemi | |||
Special Achievement | Van Jones | |||
Agency of the Year | BBDO New York | |||
Web | Activism | Women's Footprint in History by UN Women and Elkanodata | Shout Your Abortion by Civilization (Design Practice) | Global Gender Gap Report Browser by TWO-N Inc. |
My Grandmother's Lingo by SBS | ||||
Make It OK by Preston Kelly | ||||
Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History by The Metropolitan Museum of Art | The Garden of Earthly Delights by Jheronimus Bosch by Q42, NTR, Fabrique & Pieter Huystee Film | ||
Associations | Vera Institute of Justice by Hyperakt | The United State of Video Games by E3 | ||
Best Individual Editorial Experience | Voices From Standing Rock by The Washington Post | |||
Best Practices | VirginAmerica.com by Virgin Atlantic, Work & Co | WIRED Ad Free by Condé Nast | ||
Best Visual Design - Aesthetic | iFly50.com by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Born05 | |||
Online Film & Video | Music Video | Coldplay – Up&Up by Prettybird | Beyoncé – Formation by Prettybird | DJ Shadow feat. Run the Jewels – Nobody Speak by Pulse Films |
Miike Snow – Genghis Khan by Pulse Films | ||||
OK Go – The One Moment by Ogilvy & Mather | ||||
Animation | “Are You Lost in the World Like Me?” by Moby and the Void Pacific Choir (illustration by Steve Cutts) | |||
Variety | "We the Internet TV" | "Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down Actors' Accents" by Wired | ||
Video Remixes/Mashups | "Kendrick Lamar/Rick and Morty Mashup" by Mylo the Cat | |||
Mobile Sites & Apps | Best Streaming Video | HBO Now by HBO | Radio Garden by Studio Puckey & Moniker | |
Pandora | ||||
Bumpers | ||||
Overcast | ||||
Games | Pokémon Go by Niantic, Inc. | The Walking Dead No Man's Land Mobile Game by AMC Networks | Dots & Co by Dots | |
Star Wars Arcade by Goodboy Digital and Disney EMEA | ||||
NBA LIVE Mobile by Electronic Arts | ||||
Social | Music | Mark Ronson – The Official Cover by McCann London | Album+Art by Eisen Bernardo | #beckWOW Instagram Campaign by Capitol Records |
StreetMusicMap Instagram by StreetMusicMap | ||||
Rolling Stone Instagram by Rolling Stone | ||||
Podcasts | Arts & Culture | Still Processing | Stuff You Should Know | |
Best Host | Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People | 99% Invisible | ||
Best Individual Episode | "Is the Internet Being Ruined?" (Ep. 253) from Freakonomics Radio | "My Little Hundred Million" (S1-E6) from Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell | ||
Best Sound Design/ Original Music Score | Secrets, Crimes & Audiotape : Wait Wait Don’t Kill Me Series | Undisclosed: The Music | ||
Best Writing | How to Be a Girl | Stuff You Missed in History Class | ||
Comedy | The Hilarious World of Depression | The Last Podcast On The Left | ||
Documentary | The Kitchen Sisters Present | Missing Richard Simmons | ||
Drama | Homecoming | |||
Interview/Talk Show | Another Round | |||
Lifestyle | Women of the Hour | The Sporkful | ||
News & Information | "Voting rights – and wrongs" episode from Reveal | FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast | ||
Recaps | Masterpiece Studio | |||
Science & Education | Hidden Brain | Waking Up with Sam Harris | ||
Sports | The Bill Simmons Podcast | |||
Technology | Leo Laporte talks with Edward Snowden's Lawyer | Codebreaker | ||
Advertising, Media & PR | Data Driven Media | Doctors of the World | I'm Moving to Canada | |
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