From 'Keanu' to 'Spotlight,' these are your 2016 Golden Trailer Award winners

The only place where 'Pixels' and 'Room' both get nominated.
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Movie trailers are an art unto themselves, the first exposure audience members get to a movie and sometimes -- depending on the trailer -- all they'll see of it.

And for 17 years, the Golden Trailer Awards have been celebrating the best in film trailers, from blockbusters to documentaries and everything in between.


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This year's ceremony, held Thursday night, brought four awards for Disney's The Jungle Book, with The Force Awakens claiming two wins of its own. Warner Bros. won 11 awards, including Best Comedy Trailer for Key and Peele's recently released Keanu

Along with film, the ceremony also honored posters, television and radio spots, and foreign films. The full list of winners can be found here, while the movie award winners are as follows:

Best of Show: Spotlight "Answers" Open Road Films, InSync + BemisBalkind

Best Action: Deadpool “DOM Trlr E: Power Red Online”, 20th Century Fox, mOcean

Best Animation/Family: Jungle Book "Jungle", Disney, Vibe Creative

Best Comedy: Keanu "Take it", Warner Bros., Create Advertising Group

Best Documentary: He Named Me Malala, Fox Searchlight, Mark Woollen & Associates

Best Drama: The Martian, 20th Century Fox, Giaronomo Productions

Best Fantasy Adventure: Star Wars: The Force Awakens "Lessons", Disney, Disney In-house

Best Horror: The Witch "Family", A24, AV Squad

Best Independent: Spotlight "Answers", Open Road Films, InSync + BemisBalkind

Best Music: Deadpool "Trailer B - Power Red", 20th Century Fox, Wild Card

Best Thriller: Black Mass "Just Sayin", Warner Bros., Aspect

Best Summer 2016 Blockbuster: Captain America: Civil War "Vigilante", Marvel, Trailer Park, Inc.

Golden Fleece: Pixels Trailer "Game On", Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Refinery AV

Most Original: Hail, Caesar! "So Simple", Universal Pictures, Motive

Trashiest Trailer: Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland "Redband", Lionsgate, Mob Scene Creative + Productions

Best Romance: Me Before You "Live", Warner Bros/MGM/New Line Cinema, Aspect

The Don LaFontane Award for Best Voice Over: Anomalisa, Paramount Pictures, Mark Woollen & Associates

Best Motion/Title Graphics: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. "Timeline", Warner Bros., Buddha Jones

Best Original Score: Jungle Book "Mowgli", Disney, Vibe Creative

Best Sound Editing: The Revenant, 20th Century Fox, Mark Woollen & Associates

Best Teaser: Joy "Change", 20th Century Fox, Industry Creative

Best Trailer/Teaser for a TV Series or Mini-series: Narcos "Lines", Netflix, TRANSIT

Best Independent Trailer (For Film shot under $1 Million): Grandma "Domestic Trailer", Sony Pictures Classics, The Grossmyth Company

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Proma Khosla

Proma Khosla is a Senior Entertainment Reporter writing about all things TV, from ranking Bridgerton crushes to composer interviews and leading Mashable's stateside coverage of Bollywood and South Asian representation. You might also catch her hosting video explainers or on Mashable's TikTok and Reels, or tweeting silly thoughts from @promawhatup.

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