Last night in Brooklyn the Moby Awards, sponsored by indie press Melville House, celebrated the best, worst, and weirdest of last year's book trailers. A panel of critics, editors, and other lit types representing the Huffington Post, McNally Jackson Books, the Millions, GoodReads, and more selected the following to receive the honorary golden sperm whale.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Ron Charles for his Totally Hip Video Book Review Series for the Washington Post
Grand Jury/We’re Giving You This Award Because Otherwise You’d Win Too Many Other Awards
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Book Trailer as Stand Alone Art Object
How Did You Get This Number? by Sloane Crosley
Best Small House
Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer
Best Big House
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Worst Performance by an Author
Jonathan Franzen in his Freedom trailer
Most Celebtastic Performance
James Franco in the trailer for Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story
Worst Small / No House
Pirates: The Midnight Passage by James R. Hannibal
Worst Big House
Savages by Don Winslow
What Are We Doing To Our Children?
It’s A Book by Lane Smith
General Technical Excellence and Courageous Pursuit of Gloriousness
Electric Literature, including the below short "Can a Book Save Your Life?"
Most Monkey Sex
Bonobo Handshake by Vanessa Woods
Worst Soundtrack
Ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley
Most Angelic Angel Falling to Earth
Teen tome Torment by Lauren Kate
Most Conflicted (we published the book but the trailer is sooo good!)
The Beaufort Diaries by T Cooper