Take advantage of this opportunity to make your voice heard and vote for the 2023 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards!
In 1992, Silence of the Lambs won “the big five” Academy Awards: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture.
It is the only horror movie ever to receive this prestigious honor. It’s the only horror movie ever to receive the award for Best Picture.
Meanwhile, horror gems like Hereditary, Midsommar, Malignant, The Invisible Man, Doctor Sleep, It Follows, and Oculus have floated by without a second look.
Let them keep their Oscars.
The award night explicitly made for horror fans is on the horizon.
What are the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards?
The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards began in 1992, and annually honor some of the best horror releases and performances the previous year had to offer in one spectacular show.
It is an opportunity for horror fans to come together while we cross our fingers that our favorites will receive the recognition they deserve.
It also is a time when we can reflect on the year’s horror and be informed about what we may have missed.
But, right now, it is the opportunity to make our voices heard.
Vote for Your Favorite Scary Movies from 2022
Maybe you’re like me and want to yell from the rooftops that Barbarian should win Best Wide Release. Perhaps you want to vote for anything but Barbarian because you don’t understand how anyone liked it.
Or maybe you’re far flung from this conversation and just want Pearl to win – even though we know Nope will likely bring it all home.
Nope Seems Poised for a Big Win
After all, out of the 18 nomination categories, Nope is an option in 9 of them, including Best Director, Best Score, Best Cinematography, Best Lead Performance – where Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer are nominees – and Best Supporting Performance, where Steven Yeun is nominated.
Ari Aster had clean sweeps of his own in the past, with six Chainsaw Award wins in 2019 for Hereditary and five in 2020 for Midsommar. It will be interesting to see if Jordan Peele can sweep the board with potentially record-breaking wins.
If any scary movie is enough of a cinematic masterpiece to warrant one of those little gold statuettes from the Academy, many of us can agree; it’s Nope. Since it was (un)surprisingly snubbed, horror fans will undoubtedly see that it receives the accolades it deserves during Fangoria’s award show. Despite this, I am still an avid champion for Barbarian in all five of its nomination categories.
We’re All Entitled to Our Horror Opinions
I won’t lie to you; not all decisions will be easy. I hit a personal brick wall when it came time to choose between Stranger Things and Yellowjackets for Best Series.
Yellowjackets is a criminally underrated show, and I eagerly await season two’s premiere in March. But I could not stop talking about Stranger Things in 2022, so much that it would feel disingenuous not to vote for the series that captured so much of my attention.
No disrespect meant for the other nominees – Chucky, What We Do in the Shadows, and Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities – but they weren’t even on my radar. On a side note, I am disappointed that Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Club didn’t make the cut.
We all have our opinions in horror, and just as I have shared mine, it’s your opportunity to share yours.
Be a deciding voice in *the* award show for horror before voting closes on February 27th at 11:59 pm PST.
The 2023 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards are Coming Soon
An official date has yet to be announced for when the 2023 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards will air. However, it aired in May of last year and April the year before, so it’s probably safe to expect a mid-Spring release.
When you stock up on your FCA merch, don’t forget to use code HORRORPRESSLLC for 10% off your order at the Fangoria shop!
Go vote now, and make your voice heard before time runs out!
