Thus, Gothtober is proud to present the VERY FIRST Gothtober Awards, featuring the coveted Citrouille d’Or!!!! We are pleased and proud to present the following categories and the winner for each for Gothtober 2020.
Citrouille d’Or – Golden Pumpkin – Best Gothtober Piece
Le Globe Oculaire Flottant – Best VFX or technical piece
Prix Countess Vampiress Innovante – Innovative and audacious works
Prix Lugosi – Best Acting
Queer Goth Palm – Best LGBTQ+ related work
Helen Hill Romance Activist Award – Sweetest or most Romantic piece
CraftNight Award – Best craft project + download
Panushka d’Or – Best Animation or Puppetry
Gothtober Lifetime Achievement Award – for longstanding Gothtober participants through the years
Citrouille d’Or – Golden Pumpkin for Best Gothtober Piece
DAY 31 – Lisa McNeely for Full Moon Rising
Stephen McNeely as Satan, Lisa McNeely as Spittle
Director of Photography – Zachariah Dalton, Editor and Special FX – Nina McNeely
Prix Countess Vampiress Innovante – Innovative and audacious works
DAY 19 – Asher Slasher for the first ever ASMR piece Gothtober has ever seen!
Le Globe Oculaire Flottant – Best VFX or technical piece
DAY 31 – Lisa McNeely for Full Moon Rising
Stephen McNeely as Satan, Lisa McNeely as Spittle
Director of Photography – Zachariah Dalton, Editor and VFX – Nina McNeely
Prix Lugosi – Best Acting
DAY 17 – Dominique Dibbell for acting with HERSELF and having us believe she’s 4 different people!
Queer Goth Palm – Best LGBTQ+ related work
DAY 27 – The Witchy Witches for SelfCare TimeOut Quaran-Ween Guided Meditation
Ian MacKinnon, Travis Wood, and Mystery Witch!
Helen Hill Romance Activist Award – Sweetest or most Romantic piece
DAY 3 – Ollie Paige Linden – for original illustration of two kitties under the desert moon
CraftNight Award – Best craft project + download
DAY 21 – Federico Tobon aka Wolfcat Workshop for his lovingly complex and kickass pop-up moving card download! Print it! Make it!
Panushka d’Or – Best Animation or Puppetry
DAY 10 – Sibyl O’Malley for Love and Hate in the Time of Covid
Tom Moose – Music
Gothtober LifeTime Achievement Award – To DAY 23, Jenny Walsh, who has participated in SEVENTEEN consecutive Gothtober Calendars, making her the most seasoned Gothtober Artists in existence! THANK YOU, JENNY!!!!
I am a thousand pumpkins grateful for every last bit of effort that’s been given in the name of The Gothtober Countdown Calendar. Every participant gets treats in the mail, and a party (when we’re not having a worldwide pandemic) and perhaps the feeling of achievement of doing a thing. Thank you for joining us and we hope to see you in 2021!
In lieu of not having a whole lot of preparation for this prestigious festival, the judges are the creator of Gothtober, Julianna Parr, (that’s me) and her trusty science officer, Cristin Pescosolido, both of whom have pieces in Gothtober and are disqualified from consideration. We expect to have a larger panel of judges next year, so get ready!