Winners: 10th Golden Trailer Awards

COMMENTS (16)

• There are awards just for trailers? Wow! I’m surprised the trailers aren’t made in-studio nor by the filmmakers who made the movie.

  Comment by Armando — Friday June 5, 2009 @ 11:25am PDT  Reply to this post

  • I’ll choke if the trailers for Where the Wild Things Are and BRONSON don’t get nominated

    Comment by Michael — Wednesday September 30, 2009 @ 6:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• There’s actually 2 awards shows for trailers; The Golden Trailer Awards and The Hollywood Report’s Key Art Awards. Lots of work goes into making trailers, and that work should be awarded. Nothing wrong with that.

  Comment by musicsoup — Friday June 5, 2009 @ 12:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Shame they don’t give credit or list the names of the editors who make these trailers.

  Comment by marc — Friday June 5, 2009 @ 12:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• totally agree w/ Musicsoup. sometimes trailers are actually better than the film itself. like T-4, for example.

  Comment by SimAlex2000 — Friday June 5, 2009 @ 2:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m glad the trailer for Where The Wild Things Are won an award… it became one of my all-time favorites. Here’s hoping the film is half as good!

  Comment by Editor — Friday June 5, 2009 @ 3:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Agree about T4 – should get some kind of award because it got me to fork over my $12 – a decision I began to regret about 3 minutes into the movie..

  Comment by shootasdirected — Friday June 5, 2009 @ 3:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Actually, editors don’t make trailers. Marketing executives do. Just wanted to set the record straight.

  Comment by Harvard Grad — Friday June 5, 2009 @ 5:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wasn’t Wall-e from two years ago? That’s a weird list.

  Comment by GS — Friday June 5, 2009 @ 5:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I also didn’t know there were awards for trailers, though I agree that they’re often better than the actual films.
  What is the criteria here? With so many teaser trailers, various versions of trailers, etc… what is eligible?

  Comment by IDM — Friday June 5, 2009 @ 6:29pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The Golden Trailer Awards honor the best trailers, TV spots, and posters of the past year whereas the Key Art awards honor the best trailers, TV spots, and posters of the previous calendar year. The final trailer for Wall-E was released last summer so it counts.

  Marketing executives do not cut trailers. There are trailer houses all over town that are commissioned by marketing executives to cut trailers.

  Teasers might not get any love because the company might chose to only enter their main trailer. Either that or the main trailer was simply better than the teaser.

  Check out the Golden Trailer Awards website for more info.

  Comment by Informant — Friday June 5, 2009 @ 7:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wonder which trailers were produced by the magical…genius…undersized hands of Josh Greenstein?

  Comment by steamfreshmeals — Friday June 5, 2009 @ 10:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The best, most successful trailer of the year was unquestionably the trailer for “Taken.” Liam’s phone call speech was perfect, and then ending with the villain’s taunting “Good luck.” Heck, I’ll give them an award.

  Comment by Doug — Saturday June 6, 2009 @ 3:05am PDT  Reply to this post

• Sorry Doug-
  The most successful trailer of the year was for Fast and Furious, which took and undersized 4th film in a dwindling series and helped it open to a $70 million weekend. That is true success. (Taken and Star Trek definitely deserve props)

  Comment by furious — Sunday June 7, 2009 @ 12:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Actually, trailers are an amalgam, an effort between the studio marketing executives, the trailer house producers, the editor and then approval or direction from the director and film producers. They bounce back and forth through multiple iterations in the course of settling on the final work. Sometimes this takes dozens of incarnations and months and months of work. I’ve seen trailers produced over a weekend and others over a year. Some work from dailies and others from features. We even have a version one that is just storyboards! Teaser trailers come out early on and often have little or no finished footage: that’s why they’re often more abstract and poetic. I like ‘em.

  Comment by Roy Rogers Oldenkamp — Monday June 8, 2009 @ 6:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Watchmen had an amazing trailer, mostly due to that great Smashing Pumpkins song. That’s the only good thing to come from that mess of a film.

  Comment by Kristina — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 5:19pm PDT  Reply to this post