The Dark Knight, Hellboy II Win DVD Critics Awards

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The Dark Knight, Hellboy II Win DVD Critics Awards

Source:Home Media Magazine

September 8, 2009

Home Media Magazine has announced the winners of the 2009 DVD Critics Awards and The Dark Knight and Hellboy II: The Golden Army both walked away with awards. The full press release:

HBO Home Entertainment’s complete-series megaset of “The Sopranos” is the 2009 DVD Critics Awards’ Title of the Year. The Sopranos: The Complete Series also won for Best Collection/Multidisc Set.

The Fifth Annual DVD Critics Awards honor the top DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles from 2008. The awards, presented by Home Media Magazine, are traditionally held during the summer Home Entertainment Summit, which has been delayed this year.

“We still wanted to honor the best titles on DVD and Blu-ray as soon as possible,” said Thomas K. Arnold, Home Media Magazine publisher and executive producer of the Summit.

The delay allowed organizers to create special categories for an online consumer vote, a first in the history of the DVD Critics Awards.

More than 130 entries were judged by a panel of critics and journalists. Submitted titles also were placed in eight special categories for the consumer vote, bringing the total number of awards to 21.

Warner Home Video’s The Dark Knight won Best Theatrical Title, plus the consumer categories Best Action Title, Best Superhero Title and Consumer Favorite.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment’s Pixar release Wall-E also fared well, winning for Best Animated Title and taking the consumer vote for Best Sci-Fi Title.

In all, Warner won five awards, while sister company HBO took three. Disney earned four awards.

2009 DVD Critics Award Winners:

Title of the Year: The Sopranos: The Complete Series, HBO

Best Theatrical Title: The Dark Knight, Warner

Best TV DVD: Mad Men: Season One, Lionsgate

Best Classic/Catalog Title: The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration Gift Set, Paramount

Best Collection/Multidisc Set: The Sopranos: The Complete Series, HBO

Best Nonfiction Title: Young @ Heart, 20th Century Fox

Best Animation Title: Wall-E, Walt Disney Studios

Best Kidvid Title: Tinker Bell, Walt Disney Studios

Best Nontheatrical Title: Stargate: Continuum, Fox/MGM

Best Extended Cut/Director’s Cut: Step Brothers, Sony Pictures

Best Extras: Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Universal Studios

Best Packaging: Masters of Horror: Season Two, Anchor Bay

Best Blu-ray Disc: Planet of the Apes: 40-Year Evolution, 20th Century Fox

Consumer’s Choice Categories

Consumer Favorite DVD/Blu-ray Release: The Dark Knight, Warner

Funniest DVD/Blu-ray: Robot Chicken: Star Wars, Warner

Best Action Title: The Dark Knight, Warner

Best Sci-Fi Title: Wall-E, Walt Disney Studios

Best Superhero Title: The Dark Knight, Warner

Best Western Title: 3:10 to Yuma, Lionsgate

Best Period Piece: Band of Brothers (Blu-ray), HBO

Best Single Extra: The Making-Of Documentary on Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition, Walt Disney Studios

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Posted by: El Bart-O on September 8, 2009 at 14:45:56

I love both of those movies equally!

Posted by: okfan on September 8, 2009 at 14:46:13

Any chance of a hellboy 3?

Posted by: L on September 8, 2009 at 14:48:02

FINALLY!

Some recognition for Hellboy!

Posted by: obvious on September 8, 2009 at 14:56:16

DVD awards!? WTF? I'm sorry but that is ridiculous.

Posted by: Man of Tommorrow on September 8, 2009 at 14:56:29

Dark Knight was a great movie but it did not have hardly anything on it's DVD extras that stood out.

But it was a great movie.

Posted by: onslaught666 on September 8, 2009 at 15:31:54

Along with the dark knight, Hellboy was an awesome movie, it deserves that recognition. Perhaps more.

Posted by: Wyngarde on September 8, 2009 at 15:50:14

While TDK is one of the greatest movies ever made, the DVD was lacking. This thing should have had a grand 50 disc box set in the shape of Batman's fist punching you with a Michael Caine action figure.

Posted by: DC FAN on September 8, 2009 at 15:52:19

Jealous Marvel fans,and dont deny your pathetic jealousy.

Iron Man was SOOOOOOOOO overrated. At least TDK 100 times better than that incoherent crapfest. Batman is the winner everywhere.

Come on Marvel. W e aint got nothing to fear from you,except maybe Spider-Man and Mickey Mouse in a tag-team against Batman and Superman.

Posted by: Meso Soup Suck Pole on September 8, 2009 at 15:57:53

Whoever utters that The Dark Knight wasn't an awesome movie is obviously a nerdy marvel c*ck rider. Go jack off to Spiderman 3

Posted by: DC FAN on September 8, 2009 at 16:00:14

Marvel has an advantage of more heros. But the qualities of ALL their movies are SHlT. TDK was rated one of the best movies of all time. Batman knocked Spider-Man of the top spot for best hero.

Posted by: WHAT!? on September 8, 2009 at 16:01:43

haha is anyone surprised that Dark Knight won MULTIPLE 'dvd' awards...
it freakin won an oscar! as was nominated for several others...
how many other awards did it win?

@ meso soup
im a huge Batman fan and huge DC fan...but for real thats the only descent movie development DC's got.
hopefully with Jonah Hex and Green Lantern (and apparently LOBO) on their way they'll have more.
and in all fairness: Marvel's pretty hit n miss with the movies they put out.

Posted by: butters on September 8, 2009 at 16:05:12

TDK winning numerous awards isn't a coincidence...maybe it perhaps was....ummm....actually a good movie that deserves recognition. Digest that marvel fanboys. meso soup is lame ass...FACT

Posted by: WHAT!? on September 8, 2009 at 16:05:19

@ Wyngarde
LOL....your statement totally cracked me up!! and i totally agree with you!!!!
however...the reason they didnt have more special features is because Nolan wanted to respect the actors because they had just come off the strike about not getting paid for ...you guessed it...special features documentaries. lol.

Posted by: Darian on September 8, 2009 at 16:52:00

As great as Dark Knight is, i was INCREDIBLY disappointed with the extras. I was expecting so much more, but all they did was repackage the History channel docs they aired on tv

Posted by: Kebert Xela on September 8, 2009 at 16:54:06

I'm a Batman fan from way back. Having said that I still think TDK was too long and boring in spots. I think they could have trimmed a lot off to tighten it up a bit. Thought Two Face was really unnecessary.

Posted by: WHAT!? on September 8, 2009 at 16:54:14

@darian
the reason they didnt have more special features is because Nolan wanted to respect the actors because they had just come off the strike about not getting paid for ...you guessed it...special features documentaries. lol.

Posted by: Freddy "Boom-Boom" Washington on September 8, 2009 at 17:28:58

Good for both movies. I however enjoyed Hellboy way more than TDK. Nothing wrong with Tdk it was just way overrated. Hellboy was a fun movie with a truly imaginatve characters and story. The Watchmen was a much better movie than any other comic movie this year.

Posted by: Wyngarde on September 8, 2009 at 18:44:01

@brucelovesd*ck

Yeah, the second highest grossing film of all time...Must not mean much...The fact that EVERYONE saw this movie 3 times...Nothing...

And your thoughts on the greatest movie? Bayformers 2: Revenge of the Plotless? G.I. Joke? Director's cut of Daredevil? Ang Lee's Hulk?

We are waiting, as you can set us straight here. What is it?

Posted by: rorscach 101 on September 8, 2009 at 19:45:12

and for you dc haters/marvel obssessed fanboys:

THE END IS NIGH!!!!!

Posted by: GizmoDataBender on September 8, 2009 at 19:50:37

@ Wyngarde

You absolutely have no idea what you're talking about.. For anybody to base the quality of a movie on the amount of money it made at the box office is ludacris and insanely ridiculous. Guess what is the highest grossing movie of all time? TITANIC! Kate Winslett's boobies are great, but it's not like she doesn't get topless in every other movie she's in. Also the movie you're bashing, Transformers 2, was the highest grossing movie at theaters for three weeks. EVERYONE saw that movie, and it made 830.3 million dollars worldwide. I don't know about you but that got awful close to the 1.1 billion that the Dark Knight made...
Obviously the Dark Knight is 10 times the movie Transformers 2 will ever be..I'm just trying to tell you to base a movie's quality on how much money it makes is crap logic. Fargo is one of my favorite movies and it did only ok at the box office.... By the way X2 is my favorite superhero movie followed closely behind by Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Spiderman 2, Hellboy, and Watchmen..

Posted by: GizmoDataBender on September 8, 2009 at 19:51:42

@ Wyngarde

You absolutely have no idea what you're talking about.. For anybody to base the quality of a movie on the amount of money it made at the box office is ludacris and insanely ridiculous. Guess what is the highest grossing movie of all time? TITANIC! Kate Winslett's boobies are great, but it's not like she doesn't get topless in every other movie she's in. Also the movie you're bashing, Transformers 2, was the highest grossing movie at theaters for three weeks. EVERYONE saw that movie, and it made 830.3 million dollars worldwide. I don't know about you but that got awful close to the 1.1 billion that the Dark Knight made...
Obviously the Dark Knight is 10 times the movie Transformers 2 will ever be..I'm just trying to tell you to base a movie's quality on how much money it makes is crap logic. Fargo is one of my favorite movies and it did only ok at the box office.... By the way X2 is my favorite superhero movie followed closely behind by Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Spiderman 2, Hellboy, and Watchmen..

Posted by: BIG BLUE SODA on September 8, 2009 at 21:25:11

SCREW THAT, BIG BLUE RULES!

Posted by: Neither Marvel or DC on September 8, 2009 at 21:39:23

Who's the idiot that said The Dark Knight was the 2nd highest grossing movie EVER? YOU ARE WRONG! It's not even 3rd its 4th on the worldwide list. It is 2nd on the US list but total box-office counts with all the other countries too. Its behind Titanic, LOTR: Return of the King, Pirates 2. BTW TDK is pretty good no denying that but I personally enjoyed Iron Man much more. It is a much more entertaining movie. Spiderman 1 & 2 is also equally as good as Batman Begins (which is better than TDK). As far as the best Comic film of all-time... Its a toss up to what is your preference. Mine happens to be X-2 and Iron Man. But everyone needs to realize what the Original Superman film is... Because of it & the best Batman film ever (the original) comic films are made today with huge budgets and everything.

Posted by: I have a life... on September 8, 2009 at 21:55:10

Seriously, don't you guys have a life? Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.

You girls need a hobby...how about comic book collecting...oh wait...youo can't handle that...sorry

Posted by: memo on September 9, 2009 at 00:02:01

Im glad Hellboy II won something. I love this movie and I really hope a Hellboy III

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