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Honoring the Best in the Business

26 Aug, 2010 By: Stephanie Prange

We’re in awards season here at Home Media Magazine.

A few weeks ago we announced the top discs of 2009 with our annual DVD Critics Awards (Warner Home Video’s glorious Wizard of Oz re-release took top honors) and next week we will honor the best in high-definition Blu-ray Discs.

There are so many great people behind these discs, from the sales and marketing executives to the supplemental material producers to the replicators and authoring companies. We appreciate your hard work and relish the opportunity to recognize it.

And there’s more to come.

Our panel of horror judges is evaluating titles and choosing the nominees for our annual Reaper Awards. The awards, honoring the best discs in the horror genre, will be presented Oct. 12 at a gala dinner and cocktail reception at the legendary (and haunted) Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. We’ve had more than 100 submissions for the nominee process, and there is some truly great product out there. We’ll be announcing those final nominees vying to receive a coveted Grimmy soon. Home Media Magazine is co-presenting the Reaper Awards with the in-the-know horror site . DreadCentral’s editor-in-chief and co-founder Uncle Creepy is again set to host the show — and we look forward to a frightfully good party.

Also, coming in late October is our much-anticipated annual Women in Home Entertainment issue, in which we honor the savvy and capable women who help make this industry what it is. We will soon set up an online nomination process for that honor. Until then, please pass on nominees to me. It’s really a pleasure to honor the great women in our business, and I look forward to this issue every year.

In these recessionary times, our industry (and everyone) can use something to celebrate. The Home Media Magazine team sees our mission as both informing the home media industry through our website and magazine and enthusiatically trumpeting its top accomplishments. Offering these awards and galas is one of the ways we like to complete that mission.

It’s our pleasure, and we welcome your enthusiastic input in the process.


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