Iconic genre magazine Fangoria will be giving out their coveted Chainsaw Awards once again this year, and they have officially announced the lists of nominees who are up for the awards in all categories. The nominees can be seen below, and if you want to make sure your top choices have a better chance to win, you can send in your vote at THIS LINK.
Fangoria will be accepting votes until Thursday, March 31st at 11:59 PM EST. Votes will then be tallied, and “winners will be celebrated later this year during a yet-to-be-revealed Chainsaw Awards event.”
Fangoria editor-in-chief Phil Nobile Jr. provided the following statement:
Horror is always fertile ground for excellence, and 2021 offered an embarrassment of riches. Most of the voter feedback this year has been how hard it was to pick a favorite in any category. We concur.”
Here are the nominees:
BEST WIDE-RELEASE MOVIE
Malignant
Candyman
Last Night in Soho
The Night House
A Quiet Place Part II
BEST LIMITED-RELEASE MOVIE
Come True
Hurt
In the Earth
PG: Psycho Goreman
Werewolves Within
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Censor
My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To
Saint Maud
The Stylist
The Vigil
BEST STREAMING-PREMIERE MOVIE
The Boy Behind the Door
Fear Street: 1666
Lucky
The Power
Violation
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE MOVIE
Detention
The Feast
Lamb
The Queen of Black Magic
Titane
BEST SERIES
Brand New Cherry Flavor
Chucky
Creepshow
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Midnight Mass
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Candyman
Niamh Algar, Censor
Morfydd Clark, Saint Maud
Barbara Crampton, Jakob’s Wife
Rebecca Hall, The Night House
Thomasin McKenzie, Last Night in Soho
Agathe Rousselle, Titane
Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Violation
Julia Sarah Stone, Come True
Anya Taylor-Joy, Last Night in Soho
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Luke David Blumm, Son
Jennifer Ehle, Saint Maud
Larry Fessenden, Jakob’s Wife
Vincent Lindon, Titane
Diana Rigg, Last Night in Soho
Bill Sage, Wrong Turn
Millicent Simmonds, A Quiet Place Part II
Jeremy T. Thomas, Antlers
Suzanne Voss, Dementia Part II
BEST DIRECTOR
Prano Bailey-Bond, Censor
David Bruckner, The Night House
Anthony Scott Burns, Come True
Julia Ducournau, Titane
Rose Glass, Saint Maud
Edgar Wright, Last Night in Soho
BEST SCREENPLAY
Prano Bailey-Bond & Anthony Fletcher, Censor
John Hsu, Fu Kai-ling, Chien Shih-keng, Detention
Ben Collins, Luke Piotrowski, The Night House
Rose Glass, Saint Maud
Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli, Violation
BEST SCORE
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
Tara Brawley, Hurt
Mark Coulier, Blood Red Sky
Francois Dagenais, Spiral: From the Book of Saw
Christopher Nelson, Halloween Kills
Oriane de Neve, CLSFX Atelier 69, Kandisha
BEST CREATURE FX
Barrie Gower, The Green Knight
Robert Kurtzman, Black Friday
Legacy Effects, Shane Mahan, Antlers
Magee FX, Gaslight Studio, V/H/S/94
MastersFX, Steven Kostanski, PG: Psycho Goreman
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Lizzie Cook, Candyman
Odile Dicks-Mireaux, Last Night in Soho
Eulyn Colette Hufkie, Bingo Hell
Chieko Matsumoto, Prisoners of the Ghostland
Neil McClean, Slumber Party Massacre
ACHIEVEMENT IN NON-FICTION
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs
Elvira’s 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special, Special
The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched
Mail Order Murder
Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story
BEST KILL
Chosen by write-in votes.
There are definitely nominees I’ll be rooting for in several of those categories… but there also a lot of nominees that I’m not familiar with. For example, I haven’t seen any of the foreign language choices yet, and I haven’t seen many of the streaming premieres beyond the one I reviewed. So I’m going to have to do some catching up before I’m able to completely fill out the ballot for this year’s Chainsaw Awards.