GMM wins Academy of Web Television Award for Best Variety Web Series

Story soon -- right now here's Link's tweet. Congratulations, Rhett and Link!

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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on January 9, 2013 at 12:34am

IAWTV Awards Live Stream 2013 by IAWTV

About the IAWTV Awards The IAWTV Awards is an official web television industry awards show established for content creators, by content creators. The event serves as a platform for members of the IAWTV to honor the best of their profession, while networking among industry luminaries and supporting the IAWTV. Proceeds raised from the show are used for the betterment of the community by providing more member resources as well as professional development and education for professionals working in web television. For more information, please visit http://iawtvawards.org/ or follow us on twitter at @iawtvawards.

About The International Academy of Web Television The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) is a nonprofit organization comprised of leaders in the field of Web television, Web video and the digital entertainment industries. Founded in 2009, the IAWTV is helping to shape the rapidly evolving Web television industry while providing a venue for the acknowledgement of artistic and technological achievement in original entertainment distributed on the open Internet. IAWTV members include actors, agents, composers, content developers, directors, editors, producers, technology innovators, writers, and other industry professionals all of whom joined the organization based on their passion and dedication to advancing the craft of Web television. For more information, please visit www.iawtv.org or follow us on twitter @iawtv.

Best Animated Series - Red vs. Blue
Best Cinematography - H+ The Digital Series - Brett Pawlak
Best Comedy Series - Squaresville
Best Costume Design - The League of S.T.E.A.M. - The League of S.T.E.A.M.
Best Design (Art Direction/Production) - Continuum - Eric Whitney
Best Directing (Comedy) - My Gimpy Life - Sean Becker
Best Directing (Drama) - Anyone But Me - Tina Cesa Ward
Best Directing (Non-Fiction) - The Flog - Sean Becker
Best Documentary Series - PRODIGIES
Best Drama Series - Leap Year
Best Editing - Continuum - Blake Calhoun
Best Educational Series - Engineer Your Space
Best Ensemble Performance - Squaresville
Best Female Performance (Comedy) - My Gimpy Life - Teal Sherer Teal
Best Female Performance (Drama) - Blue - Julia Stiles - Blue
Best Host (Live) - What’s Trending - Shira Lazar
Best Host (Taped) - Daily Grace - Grace Helbig
Best Hosted (Live) Series - What’s Trending
Best Hosted (Taped) Series - Daily Grace
Best Interactive/Social Media Experience - The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Best Live Event - Bill Maher: CrazyStupidPolitics
Best Makeup/Special Effects - The League of S.T.E.A.M. - The League of S.T.E.A.M.
Best Male Performance (Comedy) - The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour - Jeff Lewis
Best Male Performance (Drama) - The Booth at the End, Season 2 - Xander Berkeley - Leed
Best News Series - The Philip DeFranco Show
Best Online Channel - Nerdist Channel
Best Original Music - Cost of Capital - Rob Gokee
Best Supplemental Content - Red vs. Blue
Best Variety Series - Rhett & Link
Best Visual Effects (Digital) - H+ The Digital Series - Faction Creative and The Sequence Group: VFX Supervisor Ian Kirby; Digital Effects Supervisor Chris van Dyck; VFX Producer Caleb Bouchard
Best Writing (Comedy) - Squaresville - Matt Enlow
Best Writing (Drama) - The Booth at the End, Season 2 - Christopher Kubasik
Best Writing (Non-Fiction) - The Flog - Felicia Day

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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on January 9, 2013 at 2:17pm

It appears that the folks at IAWT, a group created for the expressed purpose of promoting internet television broadcast, are still unable to figure out that whole picture / sound syncronization thing.

The award presentation for BEST VARIETY SERIES (the category that Rhett & Link were nominated in AND WON ! ! ! ) occurs at about 11:30-12:35 in the video playback.

Unfortunately, Rhett and Link could not be in Las Vegas at the time, so the award was accepted on their behalf by presenters Mark Malkoff (My Damn Channel), Kylie Sparks and Mary Kate Wiles (currently co-starring on the web series SQUARESVILLE).

The really big question in my mind is: How is the Philip DeFranco Show considered a news series?

Seriously, I have no idea what the show is about, because I've never been able to make it thru more than 30 seconds of his annoyingness.