Nominees & Winners
Webby Honorees, Nominees and Winners truly represent the best of the Web. They are but a small percentage of total entries and have been chosen by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences based on a number of creative and functional criteria. See them all here.
12th Annual Webby Special Achievement Award Winners
- Sunday, June 8th
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- Tuesday, June 10th
- Special Achievement Award Winners
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About Webby Special Achievement Awards
The Webby Special Achievement Awards will be presented by the Academy at the 12th Annual Webby Awards Celebrations June 8-10, 2008 in New York City. All of the Special Achievement Award winners will attend to receive their honors.
Stephen Colbert will be honored for the innovative way he has used the Internet to interact with fans of The Colbert Report - from Google bombing to make him the top search result for "greatest living American" to challenging the "truthiness" of Wikipedia. In his presidential campaign, the "One Million Strong for Stephen T. Colbert" Facebook group attracted more than 78 members per minute in its first week, while his supporters have raised more than $250,000 for the education charity DonorsChoose.org.
Will.i.am will be honored with A Webby Artist of the Year Award in recognition of his contribution to the political landscape with his making of the Obama videos. Bringing together a massive collection of celebrities, Will.i.am brought attention to the political race, reaching millions through the Web. His record label, will.i.am music group, also boasts the #1 online single of the year (#1 song downloaded online was "Fergie").
From his legendary music videos to his pioneering work in film, Michel Gondry's inventive visual style and storytelling consistently set new motion picture standards. His latest film, "Be Kind Rewind," in itself a celebration of low-budget, do-it-yourself filmmaking, introduced "sweding" to the internet, inspiring filmmakers to follow his lead in recreating scenes from their favorite films and sharing them online. His Rubik's Cube videos, showing Gondry solving the puzzle with both his feet and nose, have become a viral hit of their own.
These guys got their start online with timanderic.com and were really pioneers of web comedy, making short films and hilarious videos well before the YouTube age. They were discovered by Bob Odenkirk a few years ago and have since inked a deal with Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network, first for an animated series called "Tom Goes to the Mayor," and then a live-action show called "Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!" They continue to do online shorts and are really big on Superdeluxe.com. They have a RABID fan base and regularly sell out their live shows across the nation.
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