2017 Webby Awards
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]
Winners
| Category | Sub-Category | Webby Award Winner | People's Voice Winner | Other Nominees |
| 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 |
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| 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 | ||
| This table is incomplete, please help to complete it from material on this page. | ||||
References
Winners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the web design firm or internal department that created the winning site and in the case of corporate websites, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes, both in the most recently available archive.org version before the awards ceremony and, where available, the current website. Many older websites no longer exist, are redirected, or have been substantially redesigned.
- "The 21st Annual Webby Awards Honor This Year's Internet VIPs". Variety. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
- "Hollywood Reporter Website Nominated for Webby Award". The Hollywood Reporter. 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
- "Here Are The Winners Of The 21st Annual Webby Awards". Fast Company. Retrieved 27 April 2017.