The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Awards

The Howie Award

The H.P. Lovecraft Award (or "Howie"), is awarded annually to filmmakers, directors, writers, scholars, and other people or organizations that have produced significant contributions to the genre of cosmic horror, weird tales, and the promotion of Lovecraft and his work in particular. The award was sculpted by artist Bryan Moore and first awarded to festival director Andrew Migliore by Mr. Moore and fellow filmmakers for creating the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. It has since been awarded on a yearly basis.

The Brown Jenkin Award

The Brown Jenkin Award represents the subtle, wicked, and evergrowing influence of filmmakers specializing in cosmic horror and weird tales. The Brown Jenkin Award is awarded annually for a variety of categories, to filmmakers, for audience awards as well as juried prizes.

2011 Brown Jenkin Awards

Guest judge Guillermo del Toro announces the 2011 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® Brown Jenkin Short Film Awards (the 6" award was sculpted by Bryan Moore of Arkham Studios), the awards were presented by the festival founder Andrew Migliore and the HPLFF-LA festival director Aaron Vanek at the Grand Warner in San Pedro on September 17, 2011.

• Runner up - Black Goat by Joseph Nanni
• Co-Winner - Static Aeons by Gib Patterson
• Co-Winner - Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven by Don Thiel III & Christopher Saphire

Chris and Don were there at the Warner Grand theater to accept their award, we sent the statue to Gib who was in New York at the time. Apparently Chris and Don said they were literally covering their mouths and waving their free hand to stay silent and listen to Guillermo's praise.

The festival founder also gave special consideration to "shadow of the Unnamable" by Sascha Renninger for Best Short Lovecraft Adaptation.

Once again we thank all the filmmakers for their submissions this year.

2010 Awards

2009 Howie Award

The 2009 Howie award went to director and screenwriter Dan O'Bannon.

2009 Brown Jenkin & Audience Awards

The top winners, thanks to our great sponsors, get FilmTracker memberships and DVD replication from Bullseye disc.

• Relic of Cthulhu - Audience Pick (Best of Show), Best Comedy
• Dirt Dauber - Best Short
• Pickman's Muse - Audience Pick (Best Adaptation)
• Colour from the Dark - Best Feature

Nominated

• Colour from the Dark - Best Adaptation, Best of Show
• Forlorn Hope - Best Period Film

2009 Deep One Award

• Andrew Fuller's Effulgence - Best Screenplay

2008 Howie Awards

Both of these gentlemen have used Lovecraft's works as a springboard and have incorporated elements of it into there own works creating something new.

• Author Brian Lumley
• Artist Mike Mignola

2008 Brown Jenkin Awards

The following films were some of the best at this years festival. Through a combination of guest judges, audience feedback, and festival director's input the following films were nominated , with the winners indicated:

• AM 1200 by David Prior — Best of Festival, Best Cosmic Horror Film
• Eel Girl by Paul Campion — Best Short Film, Best Special Effects, Best Comedy
• The Outsider by Doug Bradley — Best Dramatic Reading
• Alien Raiders by Ben Rock — Audience Award for Best Feature

Nominated

• The Dunwich Horror and Others by Ryo Shingawa — Nominated for Best of Festival
• Morella by Jeff Ferrell — Nominated for Best Period Adaptation
• The Casting Call of Cthulhu by Joseph Nanni — Nominated for Best Comedy
• Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown by Frank Woodward — Nominated for Best Documentary

2008 Deep One Screenwriter Awards

The following screenplays were selected as best of out of a field of 54 entries. The head judges were author Robert M. Price, author Joseph S. Pulver, and festival director Andrew Migliore.

• Jeffrey Blake Palmer’s nightmare parade “The Sleeping Deep” won first prize
• Faisal A. Qureshi’s eerie “In Bright Darkness" won runner up

Previous Winners

2007

• The H. P. Lovecraft Award, awarded to artist Bernie Wrightson
• The H. P. Lovecraft Award, awarded to composer Richard Band
• The H. P. Lovecraft Award, awarded to director John Carpenter
• The Brown Jenkin Award (Audience Pick for Best Short), awarded to Gary Irwin for Of Darkness
• The Brown Jenkin Award, awarded to Daniel Gildark for Cthulhu
• The Brown Jenkin Award, awarded to Balaji K. Kumar for 9 Lives of Mara
• The Brown Jenkin Award, awarded to Shawn Linden for Nobody

2006

• The H. P. Lovecraft Award, awarded to author Ramsey Campbell
• The H. P. Lovecraft Award, awarded to author Robert Price
• The Brown Jenkin Award, awarded to Raymond Zablocki for Binding Silence
• The Brown Jenkin Award, awarded to Paul von Stoetzel for Asleep in the Deep
• The Brown Jenkin Award, awarded to Michael Granberry for From Beyond

2005

• The H. P. Lovecraft Award, awarded to actor Christopher Heyerdahl
• The Brown Jenkin Award (Best of Festival), awarded to the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society for The Call of Cthulhu
• The Brown Jenkin Award (Audience Pick), awarded to the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society for The Call of Cthulhu

2004 and all previous years

• Information coming soon