The 2025 BOBI Awards were announced on Friday, May 23rd at 5:30 pm. The Viewers’ Choice Awards were announced on May 25th at the end of the festival. You can find the winners and honourable mentions below.
INDUSTRY AWARDS
Best Cinematography
WINNER - Josh Laemmle, Michael McCourt, Danielle McCourt for Purgatory
Best Original Score
WINNER - Red Tiles for the original score composed by Isserley
Best Special Effects
WINNER - Locked in the Cellar Creations for Dungeon of Death
Best Performance from an Actor in a Non-Human Role
WINNER - Savannah Hagin as The Abomination in ABHORRENT
Best Beast
WINNER - Scott Davis, Eli Moores, and Bara Bara Mahto for the Great Worm and tentacles in Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake
Filmmaker to Watch
WINNER - Owen McCourt (Director of Purgatory)
HONOURABLE MENTION - Maxwell, Emmett and Michael Dorfman of Dorfman Brothers Films (Directors of Fangs of the Forgotten)
Best Supporting Performance
WINNER - Osawa Muskwa for The Damnation
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Ryan Lunn for The Damnation, Liam Siebolt for Lucy's Birthday
Best Leading Performance
WINNER - Zeddy Chevron for trial.doc
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Hannah Brennen for Doll, Sofia Skates for Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake, Fernando Navarro for Evil Dinner
Best Short Film
WINNER - Evil Dinner
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Lucy's Birthday, Red Tiles, Passion, The Noonday Demon
Best Micro Film
WINNER - Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Fangs of the Forgotten, Exit the Red Room: A David Lynch Tribute
Best Student/Emerging Film
WINNER - Doll
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Crystal Eyes, Last Blood, Agnes Wakes Up, Pitch Dark
Best Animated Film
WINNER - Les Bêtes
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - The Shrouding, The Noonday Demon, The Lost Echo
Best Feature
WINNER - Coffintooth
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - The Damnation, Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill, Bawla, Girls Just Wanna Have Kill
JURORS’ CHOICE AWARDS
Grossest Gag
WINNER - From One Hole to Another
If you’ve seen this film, you’ll know why we gave it this award.
The Bram Stoker Award
WINNER - Coffintooth
Many of this year’s films were bloody, so it was hard to narrow it down to just one, but in the end Coffintooth won out for its consistency.
The Mary Shelley Award
WINNER - Girls Just Wanna Have Kill
This film really stood out to us because of its innovative approach to storytelling and filmmaking.
The Edgar Allan Poe Award
WINNER - Agnes Wakes Up
From beginning to end this film created an eerie atmosphere that chilled us to the bone.
VIEWERS’ CHOICE AWARDS
Favourite Film
WINNER - Dungeon of Death
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - State of Mind, The Damnation
Favourite Non-Human
WINNER - The Figure (played by Scott Johnson) in State of Mind
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Zombies (played by Jack Myers & William Albert) in Last Blood, The Whisper/Minerva (played by Julie Mainville) in Dungeon of Death
Favourite Beast
WINNER - Organ Creature in From One Hole to Another
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Victor (bat form) in Dungeon of Death, Pizza Monster in Evil Dinner
Best Kill
WINNER - Parker Blaine (played by Anna Clary) in Coffintooth (drill in the face)
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Minerva (played by Julie Mainville) in Dungeon of Death (Raullin neck bite), Thomas Albert in Last Blood (zombie machete kill)
Best Death
WINNER - Raullin (played by Keith Busher) in Dungeon of Death (death by vampire)
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Anna in The Lost Echo (death by head explosion), Connor Easton Osunab (played by Ian Wickham) in Purgatory (death by plastic bag)