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The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards is an award ceremony focused on Horror film and . Beginning in 1992, the awards were expanded and an annual ceremony was inaugurated to give out the awards.Ken Williams, "Scary Films--and Fans--in Focus", Los Angeles Times, May 14, 1992. As of 2015, Fangoria also delivers awards to television series.

Categories

Film

Best Wide Release Film
Best Limited Release Film
Best Streaming Premiere Film
Best International Film
Best Documentary Film
Best First Film
Best Director
Best Lead Performance
Best Supporting Performance
Best Screenplay
Best Score
Best Cinematography
Best Makeup FX
Best Creature FX
Best Costume Design
Best Documentary Feature
Best Kill

Television

Best TV Series
Best Nonfiction Series or Miniseries

Other

Best Video Game
Best Public Domain Resurrection
Fangoria Horror Hall of Fame
Fangoria Lifetime Achievement Award
The Editor's Eyeball Award

Discontinued awards

Worst Film
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best TV Actor
Best TV Actress
Best TV Supporting Actor
Best TV Supporting Actress
Best TV SFX

Ceremonies

1992 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
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2002 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2017 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2018 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2019 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2020 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2021 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2022 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2023 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2024 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2025 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

Winners and nominees

2025

List of winners: TBA
List of nominees:
Announced on: July 9, 2025
Presented on: October 19, 2025

2024

Best Wide Release: Godzilla Minus One
Best Limited Release: I Saw the TV Glow
Best Streaming Premiere: V/H/S/85
Best Foreign Film: When Evil Lurks
Best First Feature: Skinamarink
Best Director: Lee Cronin − Evil Dead Rise
Best Lead Performance: David Dastmalchian − Late Night with the Devil as Jack Delroy
Best Supporting Performance: Alyssa Sutherland − Evil Dead Rise as Ellie
Best Screenplay: Late Night with the Devil − Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes
Best Cinematography: Poor Things − Robbie Ryan
Best Score: Godzilla Minus One − Naoki Satō
Best Makeup FX: Evil Dead Rise − Luke Polti
Best Creature FX: Evil Dead Rise − Adam Johansen and Damian Martin/Odd Studio
Best Costume Design: Poor Things − Holly Waddington
Best Series: The Last of Us
Best Documentary Feature: The Legacy of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Best Non-Fiction Series or Miniseries: The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
Best Video Games: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Best Kill (write-in category): The Yoga Kill — In a Violent Nature
Editor's Eyeball on the Future Award:

Dewayne Perkins − The Blackening
Dusty Gannon, Vision Video

List of winners:
List of nominees:
Announced on: July 8, 2024
Presented on: October 13, 2024

2023

Best Wide Release: The Black Phone
Best Limited Release: Terrifier 2
Best Streaming Premiere: Prey
Best Foreign Film: Speak No Evil
Best First Feature: Watcher
Best Director: Jordan Peele − Nope
Best Lead Performance: Mia Goth − Pearl as Pearl
Best Supporting Performance: Madeleine McGraw − The Black Phone as Gwen
Best Screenplay: The Black Phone − C. Robert Cargill and Scott Derrickson
Best Cinematography: Nope − Hoyte Van Hoytema
Best Score: Halloween Ends − John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies
Best Makeup FX: Terrifier 2 − Damien Leone
Best Creature FX: Prey − Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr.
Best Costume Design: Prey − Stephanie Porter
Best Series: Stranger Things
Best Documentary: Pennywise: The Story of IT
Best Non-Fiction Series or Miniseries: 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time
Best Short: Close Your Eyes
Best Kill (write-in category): Killing Allie — Terrifier 2
Editor's Eyeball on the Future Award:

Lauren LaVera as Sienna Shaw − Terrifier 2
Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks − Alone with You
Mason Thames as Finney − The Black Phone

List of winners:
List of nominees:
Announced on: January 27, 2023
Presented on: May 21, 2023

2022

Best Wide Release: Malignant
Best Limited Release:
Best Streaming Premiere:
Best Foreign Film: Titane
Best First Feature: Saint Maud
Best Director: Edgar Wright − Last Night in Soho
Best Lead Performance: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II − Candyman as Anthony McCoy
Best Supporting Performance: Millicent Simmonds − A Quiet Place Part II as Regan Abbott
Best Screenplay: The Night House − Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski
Best Score: Halloween Kills − John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies
Best Makeup FX: Halloween Kills − Christopher Nelson
Best Creature FX: − Steven Kostanski/MastersFX
Best Costume Design: Last Night in Soho − Odile Dicks-Mireaux
Best Series: Midnight Mass
Achievement in Non-Fiction: The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
Best Kill (write-in category): The Bread Slicer –

List of winners:

2021

Best Wide Release: The Invisible Man
Best Limited Release: Color Out of Space
Best Streaming Premiere: Host
Best Foreign Film: La Llorona
Best First Feature: Come to Daddy
Best Director: Leigh Whannell, The Invisible Man
Best Lead Performance: Elisabeth Moss, The Invisible Man as Cecilia Kass
Best Supporting Performance: Clancy Brown, The Mortuary Collection as Montgomery Dark
Best Screenplay: Leigh Whannell, The Invisible Man
Best Score: Jim Williams, Possessor
Best Makeup FX: Dan Martin, Possessor
Best Creature FX: Dan Martin, Color Out of Space
Best Series: What We Do in the Shadows
Achievement in Non-Fiction: The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
Best Kill (write-in category): Emily's Death, The Invisible Man

List of winners:

2020

Best Wide Release: Midsommar
Best Limited Release: The Lighthouse
Best Streaming Premiere: The Perfection
Best Foreign Film: Tigers Are Not Afraid
Best First Feature: Girl on the Third Floor
Best Director: Ari Aster, Midsommar
Best Actor: Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse as Ephraim Winslow
Best Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, Us as Adelaide Wilson / Red
Best Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse as Thomas Wake
Best Supporting Actress: Rebecca Ferguson, Doctor Sleep as Rose the Hat
Best Screenplay: Ari Aster, Midsommar
Best Score: Haxan Cloak, Midsommar
Best Makeup FX: Mike Marino, The Dead Don't Die
Best Creature FX: Spectral Motion, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Best Series: Stranger Things
Best Kill (write-in category): "Christian and the Bear Suit on Fire" - Midsommar

List of winners:

2019

Best Wide Release: Hereditary
Best Limited Release: Mandy
Best Streaming Premiere: Bird Box
Best Foreign Film: Terrified
Best First Feature: Ghost Stories
Best Director: Ari Aster, Hereditary
Best Actor: Nicolas Cage, Mandy as Red Miller
Best Actress: Toni Collette, Hereditary
Best Supporting Actor: Alex Wolff, Hereditary as Peter Graham
Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, Suspiria as Madame Blanc/Mother Helena Markos/Dr. Josef Klemperer
Best Screenplay: Ari Aster, Hereditary
Best Score: Jóhann Jóhannsson, Mandy
Best Makeup FX: Mark Coulier, Suspiria
Best Creature FX: Josh Russell and Sierra Russell, The Ritual
Best Series: The Haunting of Hill House
Best Kill (write-in category): "Charlie Meets Telephone Pole" — Hereditary

2018

The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards were not held in 2018.

2017

Best Film: The Witch
Best Limited Release Film: The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Best Foreign Language Film: Train to Busan
Best Makeup & SFX: Wayne Eaton Green Room
Best Actor: John Goodman, 10 Cloverfield Lane as Howard Stambler
Best Actress: Anya Taylor-Joy, The Witch as Thomasin
Best Supporting Actor: Stephen Lang, Don't Breathe as Norman Nordstrom
Best Supporting Actress: Jena Malone, The Neon Demon as Ruby
Best Screenplay: Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, The Invitation
Best Score: Cliff Martinez, The Neon Demon
Best TV Series: Stranger Things
Best TV SFX: Roger Murray, Ash vs Evil Dead
Best TV Actor: Bruce Campbell, Ash vs Evil Dead as Ashley "Ash" Williams
Best TV Actress: Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things as Eleven
Best TV Supporting Actor: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, The Walking Dead as Negan
Best TV Supporting Actress: Winona Ryder, Stranger Things as Joyce Byers
Fangoria Hall of Fame: Barbara Steele
Fangoria Lifetime Achievement Award: Boris Karloff, Tony Todd, Gale Ann Hurd
Worst Film (write-in category): The Forest

List of winners:

2016

It Follows, dir. David Robert Mitchell Crimson Peak, dir. Guillermo Del Toro Krampus, dir. Michael Dougherty The Gift, dir. Joel Edgerton The Visit, dir. M. Night Shyamalan \| valign="top"	What We Do in the Shadows, dir. Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi Anguish, dir. Sonny Mallhi The Final Girls, dir. Todd Strauss-Schulson Some Kind of Hate, dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer We Are Still Here, dir. Ted Geoghegan
Goodnight Mommy, dir. Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala Cub, dir. Jonas Govaerts Der Samurai, dir. Till Kleinert When Animals Dream, dir. Jonas Alexander Arnby Alleluia, dir. Fabrice Du Welz \| valign="top"	Weta Workshop, Krampus Marcus Koch, We Are Still Here Roger Murray, Andrew Beattie, Vanessa Hurley, Storm McCracken, and Tim Wells, Deathgasm John Nolan, The Hallow Hugo Villasenor, Bone Tomahawk
Kurt Russell, Bone Tomahawk as Sheriff Franklin Hunt Mark Duplass, Creep as Josef Tom Hiddleston, Crimson Peak as Thomas Sharpe Lou Taylor Pucci, Spring as Evan Russell Henry Rollins, He Never Died as Jack \| valign="top"	Maika Monroe, It Follows as Jaime "Jay" Height Abigail Breslin, Maggie as Marguerite “Maggie” Vogel Barbara Crampton, We Are Still Here as Anne Sacchetti Ryan Simpkins, Anguish as Tess Susanne Wuest, Goodnight Mommy as Mother
Joel Edgerton, The Gift as Gordo Pit Bukowski, Der Samurai as Der Samurai Larry Fessenden, We Are Still Here as Jacob Lewis Richard Jenkins, Bone Tomahawk as Deputy Chicory Rainn Wilson, The Boy as William Colby \| valign="top"	Jessica Chastain, Crimson Peak as Lucille Sharpe Malin Åkerman, The Final Girls as Nancy/Amanda Cartwright Deanna Dunagan, The Visit as Marja Bella "Nana" Jamison Kate Greenhouse, He Never Died as Cara Krista Stadler, Trash Fire as "Omi" Engel
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, What We Do in the Shadows Joel Edgerton, The Gift M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller, The Final Girls Sonny Mallhi, Anguish Sarah Adina Smith, The Midnight Swim \| valign="top"	Disasterpeace (Rich Vreeland), It Follows Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann), The Boy Wojciech Golczewski, We Are Still Here Claudio Simonetti, Carpenter Brut, Brian Wiacek, and Jeremy Gillespie, The Editor Fernando Velázquez, Crimson Peak
Ash vs Evil Dead Hannibal Penny Dreadful Salem The Walking Dead \| valign="top"	Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger, The Walking Dead François Dagenais, Hannibal Eryn Krueger Mekash and David LeRoy Anderson, Matthew Mungle and Clinton Wayne, Salem Steve Newburn and Sean Samson, The Strain
Bruce Campbell, Ash vs Evil Dead as Ashley "Ash" Williams Hugh Dancy, Hannibal as Will Graham Josh Hartnett, Penny Dreadful as Ethan Chandler Mads Mikkelsen, Hannibal as Hannibal Lecter Matt Ryan, Constantine as John Constantine \| valign="top"	Eva Green, Penny Dreadful as Vanessa Ives Caroline Dhavernas, Hannibal as Dr. Alana Bloom Vera Farmiga, Bates Motel as Norma Louise Bates Lady Gaga, as The Countess Janet Montgomery, Salem as Mary Walcott
Richard Armitage, Hannibal as Francis Dolarhyde Seth Gabel, Salem as Cotton Mather Lennie James, The Walking Dead as Morgan Jones Rory Kinnear, Penny Dreadful as The Creature Evan Peters, as James Patrick March \| valign="top"	Gillian Anderson, Hannibal as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier Jamie Lee Curtis, Scream Queens as Dean Cathy Munsch Dana DeLorenzo, Ash vs Evil Dead as Kelly Maxwell Lucy Lawless, Salem as Countess Palatine Ingrid von Marburg Billie Piper, Penny Dreadful as Brona Croft
Kurt Russell Barbara Crampton \| valign="top"	Poltergeist, dir. Gil Kenan , dir. Gregory Plotkin The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence), dir. Tom Six The Gallows dir. Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff The Visit, dir. M. Night Shyamalan

List of winners:

2015

Best Wide-Release Film

Oculus – Mike Flanagan
As Above, So Below – John Erick Dowdle
Dracula Untold – Gary Shore
Godzilla – Gareth Edwards
The Quiet Ones – John Pogue

Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film

The Babadook – Jennifer Kent
The Battery – Jeremy Gardner
Housebound – Gerard Johnstone
The Sacrament – Ti West
Under the Skin – Jonathan Glazer

Best Foreign-Language Film

Big Bad Wolves – Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – Ana Lily Amirpour
The House at the End of Time – Alejandro Hidalgo
The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears – Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
Witching & Bitching – Álex de la Iglesia

Best Actor

Daniel Radcliffe – Horns
Lior Ashkenazi – Big Bad Wolves
Nick Damici – Late Phases
Jake Gyllenhaal – Enemy
Jared Harris – The Quiet Ones

Best Actress

Essie Davis – The Babadook
Alexandra Essoe – Starry Eyes
Scarlett Johansson – Under the Skin
Marta Milans – Devoured
Tilda Swinton – Only Lovers Left Alive

Best Supporting Actor

Noah Wiseman – The Babadook
David Asavanond – Countdown
Tzahi Grad – Big Bad Wolves
Gene Jones – The Sacrament
Michael Parks – Tusk

Best Supporting Actress

Katee Sackhoff – Oculus
Olivia Cooke – The Quiet Ones
Anne Ramsay – The Taking of Deborah Logan
Rima Te Wiata – Housebound
Mia Wasikowska – Only Lovers Left Alive

Best Screenplay

The Babadook – Jennifer Kent
Housebound – Gerard Johnstone
Life After Beth – Jeff Baena
Oculus – Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard
Proxy – Zack Parker and Kevin Donner

Best Score

Under the Skin – Micachu
Big Bad Wolves – Frank Ilfman
Oculus – The Newton Brothers
Only Lovers Left Alive – Jozef van Wissem and SQÜRL
Starry Eyes – Jonathan Snipes

Best Makeup/Creature FX

Horns – Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger
Afflicted – Tamar Ouziel
– Steinaar Karstein and Mike Elizalde
Late Phases – Robert Kurtzman and Brian Spears
Starry Eyes – Hugo Villasenor, SOTA FX

Worst Film

Ouija – Stiles White
Annabelle – John R. Leonetti
– Zach Lipovsky
Oculus – Mike Flanagan
Tusk – Kevin Smith

Best TV Series

The Walking Dead
Hannibal
Penny Dreadful
True Detective

Best TV Actor

Matthew McConaughey – True Detective
Hugh Dancy – Hannibal
Josh Hartnett – Penny Dreadful
Andrew Lincoln – The Walking Dead
Mads Mikkelsen – Hannibal

Best TV Actress

Sarah Paulson –
Nicole Beharie – Sleepy Hollow
Eva Green – Penny Dreadful
Janet Montgomery – Salem
Anna Paquin – True Blood

Best TV Supporting Actor

Norman Reedus – The Walking Dead
David Bradley – The Strain
Zane Holtz –
Rory Kinnear – Penny Dreadful
Finn Wittrock –

Best TV Supporting Actress

Gillian Anderson – Hannibal
Madeleine Martin – Hemlock Grove
Melissa McBride – The Walking Dead
Billie Piper – Penny Dreadful
Deborah Ann Woll – True Blood

Best TV Makeup/Creature FX

The Walking Dead – Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger
Hannibal – François Dagenais
Penny Dreadful – Nick Dudman
The Strain – Steve Newburn, Sean Samson
True Blood – Todd Masters and Dan Rebert

2014

Best Wide-Release Film

Evil Dead – Fede Álvarez
You're Next – Adam Wingard
Mama – Andrés Muschietti
– James Wan

Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film

V/H/S/2 – Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Eduardo Sánchez, Gregg Hale, Gareth Huw Evans and Jason Eisener
Stoker – Park Chan-wook
We Are What We Are – Jim Mickle
Byzantium – Neil Jordan
Berberian Sound Studio – Peter Strickland

Best Foreign-Language Film

Here Comes the Devil – Adrián García Bogliano
The Condemned – Roberto Busó-García
Tormented (2011 film) – Takashi Shimizu
Wither – Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund
Horror Stories – Min Kyu-dong, Im Dae-woong, Jung Bum-sik, Hong Ji-young, Kim Gok, Kim Sun

Best Actor

Elijah Wood – Maniac
Patrick Wilson –
Toby Jones – Berberian Sound Studio
Francisco Barreiro – Here Comes the Devil
Bill Sage – We Are What We Are

Best Actress

Katharine Isabelle – American Mary
Sharni Vinson – You're Next
Mia Wasikowska – Stoker
Saoirse Ronan – Byzantium
Juno Temple – Magic Magic

Best Supporting Actor

Matthew Goode – Stoker
Lou Taylor Pucci – Evil Dead
Joe Swanberg – You're Next
Michael Parks – We Are What We Are
Stephen McHattie – Haunter

Best Supporting Actress

Lili Taylor – The Conjuring
Tristan Risk – American Mary
Julianne Moore – Carrie
Julia Garner – We Are What We Are
Ambyr Childers – We Are What We Are

Best Screenplay

You're Next – Simon Barrett
Stoker – Wentworth Miller
We Are What We Are – Nick Damici and Jim Mickle
Grabbers – Kevin Lehane
Haunter – Brian King

Best Score

Maniac – Robin Coudert
You're Next – Jasper Justice Lee, Kyle Mckinnon, Mads Heldtberg and Adam Wingard
Berberian Sound Studio – Broadcast
Byzantium – Javier Navarrete
We Are What We Are – Philip Mossman, Darren Morris and Jeff Grace

Best Makeup/Creature FX

Evil Dead – Roger Murray and Jane O’Kane
Frankenstein's Army – Rogier Samuels
Bad Milo! – Justin Raleigh
– Mike Elizalde, Tamar Aviv and Jörn Seifert
Grabbers – Paddy Eason and Shaune Harrison

2006

2002

The 11th Annual Fangoria Chainsaw Awards:

Best Wide-Release Film

Jeepers Creepers
The Others

Best Limited-Release Film/Direct-to-Video Film

Ginger Snaps
The Convent

Best Actor

Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal
Johnny Depp - From Hell

Best Actress

Nicole Kidman - The Others
Emily Perkins - Ginger Snaps

Best Supporting Actor

Jonathan Breck - Jeepers Creepers
Ian Holm - From Hell

Best Supporting Actress

Adrienne Barbeau - The Convent
Mimi Rogers - Ginger Snaps

Best Screenplay

Karen Walton - Ginger Snaps
Steven Zaillian and David Mamet - Hannibal

Best Score

Hans Zimmer - Hannibal
Trevor Jones - From Hell

Best Makeup/Creature FX

KNB EFX - Thirteen Ghosts
Brian Penikas - Jeepers Creepers

Worst Film

Valentine
(tie) Hannibal, The Mummy Returns, Thirteen Ghosts

Fangoria Hall of Fame

Mario Bava (inducted)
Guillermo del Toro (inducted)

Films with multiple wins

Films with 4 and more wins.

	Bram Stoker’s Dracula
	Hereditary
	Midsommar
	Army of Darkness
	Black Swan
	The Babadook
	Evil Dead Rise
	The Cabin in the Woods
	Insidious
	Let the Right One In
	Scream
	Shaun of the Dead
	The Silence of the Lambs
	The Sixth Sense