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This is a list of the winners of companies and websites that won
the annual Webby
Awards of the International
Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
1997
1997 was the first year of the annual Webby Award event, which
was the first-ever nationally televised awards ceremony devoted to
the Internet. 700 people attended the event on March 6, 1997 at
Bimbo's Night Club in San
Francisco, California[2] Whereas
in later years the panelists were official members of International
Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, in 1997 the awards were
chosen and given by IDG's The
Web Magazine, which appointed a panel to judge the
competition.[3]
1998
The 1998 Webby Awards were held on March 6,
1998 at the San Francisco Palace of Fine
Arts,[4] and
were the first event ever to be broadcast live via the Web in 3D.[5] The
"People's Voice" awards, chosen by online poll, received 100,000
cumulative votes that year.
The Web magazine, which was hosting the awards, was
closed down by its parent company IDG shortly before the awards, and the ceremony
continued thereafter under the management of Tiffany Shlain,
who IDG had hired in 1996 to coordinate the awards.[6] The International
Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences was constituted that year
as the judging panel for the awards, continues to do so as of the
2007 awards.
1999
The 1999 Webby Awards were held on March 18, 1999 at the Herbst
Theater (War memorial Opera House) in San Francisco,
with a post-award party at City Hall.[7] That
year, Mayor Rudy
Giuliani lobbied to move the ceremony to New York City, but
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown convinced the
organization to remain in San Francisco by promising city support.
The event was noted for the famous incident in which a
representative of Jodi.org, which had won in the arts
category, called the event participants "Ugly corporate
sons-of-bitches" in his acceptance speech and tossed his trophy to
the audience.[8] In 1999
the Webby Awards asked PricewaterhouseCoopers to help
it tabulate and ensure security for the "People's Voice" winners,
chosen by online voting.[9]
2000
2001
2002
Main article: 2002
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2003
Main article: 2003
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2004
Main article: 2004
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2005
Special achievement honorees at 9th Annual Webby
Awards[10]
included:
- Webby Lifetime Achievement Award: Former Vice
President Al Gore in
recognition of the role he played in the development of the
Internet over the past three decades[11][12]
- Webby Person of the Year: Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist
- Webby Artist of the Year: The Kleptones
- Webby Breakout of the Year: Caterina Fake and Stewart
Butterfield, the founders of Flickr
Webby Awards winners included Mercedes-Benz USA (Automotive), Google (Best Practices), Merck (Health),
and Skype
(Telecommunications).
2006
Special Achievement honorees included:
- Webby Breakout of the Year: MySpace.com and its founders Tom
Anderson and Chris DeWolfe
- Webby Artist of the Year: The Gorillaz
- Webby Entrepreneur of the Year: Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas
Mavericks and HDNet
- Webby Person of the Year: Thomas Friedman, New York Times
columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The World is Flat: A
Brief History of The 21st Century
- Webby Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Robert Kahn, co-inventor
of the TCP/IP protocols, the technology used to transmit
information on today's Internet
- Webby Lifetime Achievement Award: Prince, for "visionary" use of the
internet, and being the first major artist to release an album over
the internet, Crystal
Ball
2007
Nicolas Roope of London agency Poke London, receiving a Webby in
2007 for designing the
Zopa
site
- Webby Lifetime Achievement: David Bowie was honored for his career
which has pushed the boundaries of art and technology – from Ziggy
Stardust to BowieNet, the Internet service provider he launched in
1998, to BowieArt, a Web site that connects the new visual artists
with art collectors worldwide.
- Webby Lifetime Achievement: eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman
accepted the award on behalf of the 150 million registered eBay
buyers and sellers
- Webby People of the Year: YouTube Co-Founders Steve Chen and
Chad Hurley
- Webby Artist of the Year: Beastie Boys were recognized for
their 2006 concert film, "Awesome, I F***ing Shot That", which was
filmed entirely by dozens of audience members using hand-held
cameras provided by the group.
- Two Special Achievement Awards for Acting were presented at the
1st Annual Webby Film and Video Awards:
- Best Actor: "Ninja", the star of the online comedy series "Ask
a Ninja"
- Best Actress: Jessica Rose, star of the fictional video
diary "lonelygirl15"
2008
The 2008 Webby Awards took place on June 11, 2008 at the
Citriani Restaurant event space on Wall Street in New York City.[13][14][15]
Special Achievement honorees included:
2009
Winners will be honored at a star-studded ceremony hosted by
Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers in New York City on June 8th.[16]
Special Achievement honorees included:
Notes
In keeping with the awards themselves, winners are
designated according to the website winning the award, although the
winner is, technically, the web design firm that created the winning
site and in the case of corporate websites, the designer's
client. Web links are provided for informational purposes where the
winning website or a follow-on remains available and can be found;
the text used for the hyperlink is as listed on the past winner
pages at http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/winners-1997.php
and so on. Many older websites, however, no longer exist or are
redirected to replacements and are so noted.
- ^
"About". Webby Awards.
http://www.webbyawards.com/about/. Retrieved
2008-06-01.
- ^
Rachel Rosmarin (June 9, 2006). "Webbys 2.0". Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/technology/2006/06/09/webby_internet_award_cx_rr_0609webby.html. Retrieved
2007-01-03.
- ^
Carolyn Said (July 30, 1998). "The Woman Behind the
Webbies:S.F., N.Y. woo Web award impresario Tiffany Shlain".
San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1998/07/30/BU52646.DTL. Retrieved
2008-01-08.
- ^
"The Best of the Web: The 1998
Webby Award Winners". PC World. March 31, 1998. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,3879/article.html.
- ^
Glenn McDonald (March 10, 1998). "1998 Webby Awards: Like the
Oscars, Only Funny:San Francisco awards show honors the best Web
sites in 19 categories.". PC World. http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,6187/printable.html.
- ^
Carolyn Said (July 30, 1998). "The Woman Behind the
Webbies:S.F., N.Y. woo Web award impresario Tiffany Shlain".
San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1998/07/30/BU52646.DTL. Retrieved
2008-01-08.
- ^
"Buchanan, goofiness mark
Webby Awards ceremony". CNN. May 12, 2000. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/12/webby.awards/index.html. Retrieved
2008-01-02.
- ^
Rachel Chalmers (Marcy 22, 1999). "Usual Suspects Takes Webbies
in Five Words or Less". Computergram International. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_1999_March_22/ai_54170019.
- ^
"PricewaterhouseCoopers
Address On-Line Balloting Issues for Webby Awards". Business
Wire. March 17, 1999. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_March_17/ai_54127102. Retrieved
2008-01-03.
- ^
9th Annual Webby
Awards
- ^ A.P. (5 May 2005). "Webby Awards not laughing at
Gore's contribution to Net Former Vice President of the United
States". USA
Today. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-05-04-gore-webby_x.htm. Retrieved
2008-06-15.
- ^ Carr, David (8 June 2005). "Accepting a Webby? Brevity,
Please". American Broadcasting
Company. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/arts/08webb.html. Retrieved
2008-06-15.
- ^
Caroline McCarthy (2008-06-11). "The Meta-Webbys: The awards
for the best Webby acceptance speeches". CNet. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9965724-36.html.
- ^
Alex Woodson (2008-06-09). "Webbys lure top talent:Lorne
Michaels on hand to pick up lifetime achievement". Fox
News. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199638,00.html.
- ^
Andrew Ramadge (2008-06-11). "Stephen Colbert thanks
himself at Webbys". news.com.au. http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23846701-5014108,00.html.
- ^
Patrick Kowalczyk (2009-05-05). "WINNERS OF 13th ANNUAL WEBBY
AWARDS ANNOUNCED". webbyawards. http://www.webbyawards.com/press/press-release.php?id=183.
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