'Black Panther' trailer wins top honor at the Golden Trailer Awards

Wakanda forever and ever.
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"Wakanda forever" is right.

Marvel smash Black Panther took home $1.3 billion at the global box office, and the top prize at the Golden Trailer Awards.

The trailer titled “Crown,” won Best of Show on Thursday night at the 19th Annual Golden Trailer Awards at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. Since 1999, the GTAs have honored the top of the film trailer crop, from blockbusters to independent films, documentaries and everything in between.

"Crown," created by Walt Disney Studios' Create Advertising Group, gave us one of our most detailed looks into Wakanda and the Golden City, and offered up plenty of glimpses of T'Challa's tech-fuelled Black Panther transformation.

Black Panther was the top film winner of the industry event, taking home awards in four categories: the aforementioned Best in Show, along with Best Action, Best Action TV Spot, and Best Music TV Spot — that's four of 17 awards handed out in front of about 1,000 industry folks in LA.

Fox Searchlight's trailer for Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs won Best Animation, and Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird won Best Comedy, both by Giaronomo Productions. Best Picture winner The Shape of Water took out Best Drama, Steven Soderbergh's Unsane took out Best Thriller, and John Krasinski's A Quiet Place won Best Horror (honestly, what a trailer).

On the smaller screen, Stranger Things and Westworld won three awards each for their Season 2 trailers, "Darkness," and "Locked Inside," respectively.

Here's Stranger Things':

Here's Westworld's:

Netflix, Warner Bros (HBO, New Line Cinema), and Fox (FX, Fox Searchlight), were big winners, taking home 13 awards each. 

Along with film, the ceremony also gave awards for the best posters, television and radio spots, and a whole swathe of awards for foreign films. The full list of winners can be found here, but if you're in a rush, here's a look at the movie award winners:

Best of Show: Black Panther “Crown” — Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Studios Create 

Best Action: Black Panther "Crown" — Walt Disney Studios Create 

Best Animation / Family: Isle Of Dogs — Fox Searchlight, Giaronomo Productions

Best Comedy: Lady Bird — A24 Films, Giaronomo Productions

Best Documentary: Won't You Be My Neighbor — Focus Features, Mark Woollen & Associates

Best Drama: The Shape of Water "Escape" — Fox Searchlight Pictures, MOCEAN

Best Fantasy Adventure: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald "Expelliarmus" — Warner Bros., Jax

Best Horror: A Quiet Place "Hunt" — Paramount, AV Squad

Best Independent Trailer: I, Tonya "Haters" — Neon, Zealot

Best Music: Baby Driver "Tekillyah" — Sony Pictures Entertainment, Trailer Park

Best Summer Blockbuster Trailer: The Incredibles 2 "Illegal" — Disney, Trailer Park

Best Teaser: Deadpool 2 "Cable Red" — 20th Century Fox, MOCEAN

Best Thriller: Unsane "Believe" — Bleecker Street, Buddha Jones

Golden Fleece: The Meg "Carnage" — Warner Bros. Pictures, Trailer Park

Most Original Trailer: Deadpool 2 "Paintings - Bob Ross Trailer" — 20th Century Fox, MOCEAN/Big Picture

Best Independent Trailer (for film budget shot under a million US): The Endless "Cult" — Well Go, USA Entertainment, Sequence Creative

Best Motion/Title Graphics: Baby Driver "Tekillyah" — Sony Pictures Entertainment, Trailer Park

Best Original Score: Good Time "Feelin it" — A24, GrandSon

Best Romance: Call Me By Your Name "Theatrical Trailer" — Sony Pictures Classics, The Grossmyth Company

Head to the GTA site for all the winning trailers, posters and other winners.

Topics Film Marvel

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Shannon Connellan
UK Editor

Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.

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