The 19th annual Webby Awards for 2015 was held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on May 19, 2015, which was hosted by comedian and actor Hannibal Buress.[1] The awards ceremony was streamed live at the Webby Awards webpage. Judges from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences picked the over one hundred winners, which may or may not match the people's choice.[2]

The Webby for Lifetime Achievement was awarded to Wired magazine co-founders Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe for shaping how the world thinks about technology.

Nominees and winners

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(from http://winners.webbyawards.com/2015)[permanent dead link]
Category Webby Award winner People's Voice winner Other nominees

Lifetime Achievement

Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe

Special Achievement

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Special Achievement

Jerome Jarre

Outstanding Comedic Performance

Chelsea Peretti

Best Actress

Ellie Kemper

Best Actor

Tituss Burgess

Best Drama, Individual Short or Episode

Kept Man

Breakout of the Year

Tinder

Agency of the Year

Leo Burnett Toronto

Mobile Sites & Apps - Music

SoundCloud Pandora Radio

Mobile & Apps - Games (Handheld)

Lumosity Two Dots

Mobile & Apps - Games (Tablet & All Other Devices)

Monument Valley Monument Valley
Mobile & Apps - Lifestyle (Tablet & All Other Devices) Amikasa Dogalize

Online Film & Video - Events & Live Webcasts

The Howard Stern Show Birthday Bash

Online Film & Video - News & Politics: Individual Episode

VICE Media Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine (Dispatch Two)

Online Film & Video - News & Politics: Series

VICE Media Russian Roulette
Online Film & Video - Video Remixes/Mashups Apehood
Video - Comedy Shortform Rob Cantor: Shia LaBeouf Live[3]
This table is incomplete, please help to complete it from material on this page.

References

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Winners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the web design firm or internal department that created the winning site and in the case of corporate websites, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes, both in the most recently available archive.org version before the awards ceremony and, where available, the current website. Many older websites no longer exist, are redirected, or have been substantially redesigned.

  1. ^ "Welcome to the Webby Awards". Webby Awards. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
  2. ^ "The Webby Awards 2015: Here Are This Year's Winners". Forbes. 2015-04-29. Retrieved 2015-04-29.
  3. ^ "Webby Awards: The Best 5 Word Speeches". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
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