Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards is an award ceremony focused on horror and thriller films. Beginning in 1992, the awards were expanded and an annual ceremony was inaugurated to give out the awards. As of 2015, Fangoria also delivers awards to television series.

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 Short
 * Best Kill

Television

 * Best TV Series
 * Best Nonfiction Series or Miniseries

Special Awards

 * 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

Multiple Wins

 * James Wan-3
 * Wes Craven-2
 * Ari Aster-2
 * Sam Raimi-2
 * Alex Proyas-2

Multiple Wins

 * Brian Yuzna — 2

Ceremonies

 * 1992 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
 * 1993 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
 * 1994 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
 * 1995 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
 * 1996 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
 * 1997 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
 * 1998 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
 * 1999 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
 * 2001 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
 * 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

2023

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

2016
Best Wide-Release Film Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film Best Foreign-Language Film Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Screenplay Best Score Best Makeup/Creature FX
 * It Follows – David Robert Mitchell
 * Crimson Peak – Guillermo del Toro
 * The Gift – Joel Edgerton
 * Krampus – Michael Dougherty
 * The Visit – M. Night Shyamalan
 * What We Do in the Shadows – Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
 * Anguish – Sonny Mallhi
 * The Final Girls – Todd Strauss-Schulson
 * Some Kind of Hate – Adam Egypt Mortimer
 * We Are Still Here – Ted Geoghegan
 * Goodnight Mommy – Veronika Franz and Severin Viala
 * Alleluia – Fabrice Du Welz
 * Cub – Jonas Govaerts
 * The Samurai (2014 film) – Till Kleinert
 * When Animals Dream – Jonas Alexander Arnby
 * Kurt Russell – Bone Tomahawk
 * Mark Duplass – Creep
 * Tom Hiddleston – Crimson Peak
 * Lou Taylor Pucci – Spring
 * Henry Rollins – He Never Died
 * Maika Monroe – It Follows
 * Abigail Breslin – Maggie
 * Barbara Crampton – We Are Still Here
 * Ryan Simpkins – Anguish
 * Susanne Wuest – Goodnight Mommy
 * Pit Bukowski – The Samurai (2014 film)
 * Joel Edgerton – The Gift
 * Larry Fessenden – We Are Still Here
 * Richard Jenkins – Bone Tomahawk
 * Rainn Wilson – The Boy
 * Jessica Chastain – Crimson Peak
 * Malin Åkerman – The Final Girls
 * Deanna Dunagan – The Visit
 * Kate Greenhouse – He Never Died
 * Krista Stadler – Krampus
 * What We Do in the Shadows – Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
 * Anguish – Sonny Mallhi
 * The Final Girls – M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller
 * The Gift – Joel Edgerton
 * The Midnight Swim – Sarah Adina Smith
 * It Follows – Rich Vreeland
 * The Boy – Volker Bertelmann
 * Crimson Peak – Fernando Velázquez
 * The Editor – Claudio Simonetti, Carpenter Brut, Brian Wiacek and Jeremy Gillespie
 * We Are Still Here – Wojciech Golczewski
 * Krampus – Weta Workshop
 * Bone Tomahawk – Hugo Villasenor
 * Deathgasm – Roger Murray, Main Reactor
 * The Hallow – John Nolan
 * We Are Still Here – Marcus Koch

Best TV Series Best TV Actor Best TV Actress Best TV Supporting Actor Best TV Supporting Actress Best TV Makeup/Creature FX
 * Ash vs Evil Dead
 * Hannibal
 * Penny Dreadful
 * Salem
 * The Walking Dead
 * Bruce Campbell – Ash vs Evil Dead
 * Hugh Dancy – Hannibal
 * Josh Hartnett – Penny Dreadful
 * Mads Mikkelsen – Hannibal
 * Matt Ryan – Constantine
 * Eva Green – Penny Dreadful
 * Caroline Dhavernas – Hannibal
 * Vera Farmiga – Bates Motel
 * Lady Gaga – American Horror Story: Hotel
 * Janet Montgomery – Salem
 * Richard Armitage – Hannibal
 * Seth Gabel – Salem
 * Lennie James – The Walking Dead
 * Rory Kinnear – Penny Dreadful
 * Evan Peters – American Horror Story: Hotel
 * Gillian Anderson – Hannibal
 * Jamie Lee Curtis – Scream Queens
 * Dana DeLorenzo – Ash vs Evil Dead
 * Lucy Lawless – Salem
 * Billie Piper – Penny Dreadful
 * The Walking Dead – Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger
 * American Horror Story: Hotel – Eryn Krueger Mekash and David LeRoy Anderson
 * Hannibal – François Dagenais
 * Salem – Matthew Mungle and Clinton Wayne
 * The Strain – Steve Newburn, Sean Samson

2015
Best Wide-Release Film Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film Best Foreign-Language Film Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Screenplay Best Score Best Makeup/Creature FX Worst Film
 * Oculus – Mike Flanagan
 * As Above, So Below – John Erick Dowdle
 * Dracula Untold – Gary Shore
 * Godzilla – Gareth Edwards
 * The Quiet Ones – John Pogue
 * The Babadook – Jennifer Kent
 * The Battery – Jeremy Gardner
 * Housebound – Gerard Johnstone
 * The Sacrament – Ti West
 * Under the Skin – Jonathan Glazer
 * 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
 * Daniel Radcliffe – Horns
 * Lior Ashkenazi – Big Bad Wolves
 * Nick Damici – Late Phases
 * Jake Gyllenhaal – Enemy
 * Jared Harris – The Quiet Ones
 * Essie Davis – The Babadook
 * Alexandra Essoe – Starry Eyes
 * Scarlett Johansson – Under the Skin
 * Marta Milans – Devoured
 * Tilda Swinton – Only Lovers Left Alive
 * Noah Wiseman – The Babadook
 * David Asavanond – Countdown
 * Tzahi Grad – Big Bad Wolves
 * Gene Jones – The Sacrament
 * Michael Parks – Tusk
 * 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
 * The Babadook – Jennifer Kent
 * Housebound – Gerard Johnstone
 * Life After Beth – Jeff Baena
 * Oculus – Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard
 * Proxy – Zack Parker and Kevin Donner
 * Under the Skin – Mica Levi
 * Big Bad Wolves – Frank Ilfman
 * Oculus – The Newton Brothers
 * Only Lovers Left Alive – Jozef van Wissem and SQÜRL
 * Starry Eyes – Jonathan Snipes
 * Horns – Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger
 * Afflicted – Tamar Ouziel
 * Dead Snow 2 – Steinaar Karstein and Mike Elizalde
 * Late Phases – Robert Kurtzman and Brian Spears
 * Starry Eyes – Hugo Villasenor, SOTA FX
 * Ouija – Stiles White
 * Annabelle – John R. Leonetti
 * Leprechaun: Origins – Zach Lipovsky
 * Oculus – Mike Flanagan
 * Tusk – Kevin Smith

Best TV Series Best TV Actor Best TV Actress Best TV Supporting Actor Best TV Supporting Actress Best TV Makeup/Creature FX
 * The Walking Dead
 * American Horror Story: Freak Show
 * Hannibal
 * Penny Dreadful
 * True Detective
 * Matthew McConaughey – True Detective
 * Hugh Dancy – Hannibal
 * Josh Hartnett – Penny Dreadful
 * Andrew Lincoln – The Walking Dead
 * Mads Mikkelsen – Hannibal
 * Sarah Paulson – American Horror Story: Freak Show
 * Nicole Beharie – Sleepy Hollow
 * Eva Green – Penny Dreadful
 * Janet Montgomery – Salem
 * Anna Paquin – True Blood
 * Norman Reedus – The Walking Dead
 * David Bradley – The Strain
 * Zane Holtz – From Dusk till Dawn: The Series
 * Rory Kinnear – Penny Dreadful
 * Finn Wittrock – American Horror Story: Freak Show
 * Gillian Anderson – Hannibal
 * Madeleine Martin – Hemlock Grove
 * Melissa McBride – The Walking Dead
 * Billie Piper – Penny Dreadful
 * Deborah Ann Woll – True Blood
 * 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 Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film Best Foreign-Language Film Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Screenplay Best Score Best Makeup/Creature FX
 * Evil Dead – Fede Álvarez
 * You're Next – Adam Wingard
 * Mama – Andrés Muschietti
 * Insidious: Chapter 2 – James Wan
 * 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
 * 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
 * Elijah Wood – Maniac
 * Patrick Wilson – Insidious: Chapter 2
 * Toby Jones – Berberian Sound Studio
 * Francisco Barreiro – Here Comes the Devil
 * Bill Sage – We Are What We Are
 * Katharine Isabelle – American Mary
 * Sharni Vinson – You're Next
 * Mia Wasikowska – Stoker
 * Saoirse Ronan – Byzantium
 * Juno Temple – Magic Magic
 * Matthew Goode – Stoker
 * Lou Taylor Pucci – Evil Dead
 * Joe Swanberg – You're Next
 * Michael Parks – We Are What We Are
 * Stephen McHattie – Haunter
 * 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
 * You're Next – Simon Barrett
 * Stoker – Wentworth Miller
 * We Are What We Are – Nick Damici and Jim Mickle
 * Grabbers – Kevin Lehane
 * Haunter – Brian King
 * Maniac – Rob
 * 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
 * Evil Dead – Roger Murray and Jane O’Kane
 * Frankenstein's Army – Rogier Samuels
 * Bad Milo! – Justin Raleigh
 * Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters – Mike Elizalde, Tamar Aviv and Jörn Seifert
 * Grabbers – Paddy Eason and Shaune Harrison

2002
The 11th Annual Fangoria Chainsaw Awards:

Best Wide-Release Film Best Limited-Release Film/Direct-to-Video Film Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
 * Jeepers Creepers
 * The Others
 * Ginger Snaps
 * The Convent
 * Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal
 * Johnny Depp - From Hell
 * Nicole Kidman - The Others
 * Emily Perkins - Ginger Snaps
 * Jonathan Breck - Jeepers Creepers
 * Ian Holm - From Hell
 * Adrienne Barbeau - The Convent
 * Mimi Rogers - Ginger Snaps

Best Screenplay Best Score Best Makeup/Creature FX Worst Film Fangoria Hall of Fame
 * Karen Walton - Ginger Snaps
 * Steven Zaillian and David Mamet - Hannibal
 * Hans Zimmer - Hannibal
 * Trevor Jones - From Hell
 * KNB EFX - Thirteen Ghosts
 * Brian Penikas - Jeepers Creepers
 * Valentine
 * (tie) Hannibal, The Mummy Returns, Thirteen Ghosts
 * Mario Bava (inducted)
 * Guillermo del Toro (inducted)