2005 Mackie Winners!
Below is the list of this year's Mackie winners:
Best Picture
Game On - Ethan Vogt/Furnace Media Group
Best Direction
Whiplash: The Movie - Jake Hughes
Best Virtual Performance
A Few Good G-Men - Randall Glass
The IFC Award for Excellence in Machinima Screenwriting
P.A.N.I.C.S. - Rooster Teeth Productions
Best Visual Design
person2184 - Friedrich Kirschner
Best Technical Achievement
person2184 - Friedrich Kirschner
Best Sound
Only the Strong Survive - Jason Choi/Riot Films
Best Editing
Strangerhood Studios - Rooster Teeth Productions
Best Independent Machinima
Red vs. Blue - Season 3 - Rooster Teeth Productions
Best Commercial/Game Machinima
Game: On - Ethan Vogt/Furnace Media Group
Best Off the Shelf machinima
Return - Terran Gregory & Ezra Ferguson
Best Machinima Series:
This Spartan Life - Chris Burke
Academy Honorary Award
David "crt" Wright - for developing KeyGrip for Quake
2 Comments:
As one of the winners in the sound category for "Only the Strong Survive", I want to thank you for making the event and the award possible. I'm glad that the festival was so well-attended. Sorry I wasn't able to make it (no money!). This years winners (with one exception...ahem...sorry, but I've got to be honest) are truly representative of the best machinima has to offer. And thank you, Paul, for all of your hard work in putting the event together. "Still Seeing Breen" was a brilliant addition to the genre and I'd add it to the list as the "best of the best machinima of 2005". Yep!
Paul, thanks for putting on a great show. I've never been to any film festival before, and I only discovered machinima this year. I wish I had stumbled across it sooner.
The most amazing thing about the festival for me was the reaction of my two teenage sons. I had decided to attend because it relates to some of the technical work that I'm doing. I was browsing the web doing some background research on machinima as my sons were watching over my shoulder waiting to use the computer. I showed them "Hardly Workin'," which they really enjoyed, and some other machinima clips. When I later went online to buy a ticket for the festival, I asked them if they would be interested in going. I got the usual teenage non-committal reply, but I told them I'd order tickets for them anyway since they were only ten bucks. If they decided not to go, it wouldn't be a big loss.
So a couple days before the festival I asked them if they wanted to go, and they did, so we took the commuter train to Grand Central and the R train to Queens arriving at the MMI at 10:59. Great timing. There appeared to be only about twenty people waiting to get in. Maybe this machinima thing wasn't as big as I thought it was. We got our tickets and were first in line for the Intro session. Well of course within fifteen minutes the lobby was packed, the auditorium doors opened, and we got great seats.
I told my boys that that guy, Paul Marino, on stage is one of the ILL Clan who made "Hardly Workin'" and that guy over there, Hugh Hancock, runs the machinima.com web site. The boys were impressed by Hugh's shirt and hair. We had a great time all day.
As we were on our way home, my older son, Phil, actually thanked me for bringing him (to a film festival!!) and my younger son, Will, asked me when we could install FRAPS.
We got FRAPS installed and figured out how to turn off the HUD in Guild Wars, and now my boys and I have something else to do together besides soccer, baseball, and NASCAR. Thanks.
Mike Monkowski
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