KB Awards

The **KB Fan Fiction Awards**, also known as the **KB Awards** and **K Brothers Awards** (from 2009 to 2013), are a set of awards for artistic and technical merit among the fan fiction films produced by KB Fan Fiction, given annually by KB Fan Fiction itself to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the KB staff's voting membership. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the "KB Fan Fiction Award". The awards were first presented in 2010 for KB films made in 2009.

## List of KB Award Ceremonies

1. 1st KB Awards – 2009 (awarded in 2010)
2. 2nd KB Awards – 2010 (awarded in 2011)
3. 3rd KB Awards – 2011 (awarded in 2012)
4. 4th KB Awards – 2012 (awarded in 2013)
5. 5th KB Awards – 2013 (awarded in 2014)
6. 6th KB Awards – 2014 (awarded in 2015)
7. 7th KB Awards – 2015 (awarded in 2016)
8. 8th KB Awards – 2016 (awarded in 2017)
9. 9th KB Awards – 2017 (awarded in 2018)
10. 10th KB Awards - 2018 (awarded in 2019)
11. 11th KB Awards - 2019 (awarded in 2020)
12. 12th KB Awards - 2020 (awarded in 2021)
13. 13th KB Awards - 2021 (awarded in 2022)

## KB Award categories

* Best Picture: The premier award of the KB Awards, presented for the best film made by KB Fan Fiction of the year.

* Best Direction: Presented for outstanding direction.

* Best Actor: Presented for outstanding performance by a male character playing a lead (or positive) role in a film.

* Best Villain: Presented for outstanding performance by a character playing an antagonistic role in a film. In most ceremonies, the Best Villainess category is merged with this category.

* Best Actress: Presented for outstanding performance by a female character playing a lead (or positive) role in a film.

* Best Villainess: Presented for outstanding performance by a female character playing an antagonistic role in a film. In most ceremonies, this category is merged with the Best Villain category. However, since 2019, the category became more prominent due to the increasing number of female villains in the Animanga Boom.

* Best Figure Animation: Presented for the quality of the animation of action figures used in toy films. This award is presented only for toy films until *Elsanna: Winter* *War*, which combines live action and figure animation, won the award in 2016.

* Best Cinematography: Presented for the quality of cinematography. KB’s *Transformers* films are never exempted from this category due to their outstanding cinematography properties.

* Best Film Editing: Presented for the quality of editing in the films.

* Best Live Action Short Film: Presented for the best short film of the year.

* Best Art Direction: Presented for outstanding art direction in the film, its production and promotional design.

* Best Sound Editing: Presented for the quality of sound editing in a film.

* Best Sound Mixing: Presented for the quality of sound mixing in a film. KB’s *Transformers* films are never exempted from this category due to their outstanding sound mixing.

* Best Visual Effects: Presented for the quality of visual effects in a film.

* Best Screenplay: Presented for outstanding scriptwriting.

* Best Comedy: Introduced in 2011. Presented for outstanding humor in a comedy film.

* Newcomer of the Year: Introduced in 2017. Presented for debuting rising stars.

* Lifetime Achievement Award: Introduced in 2011. Presented to a certain franchise/character that is influential to KB’s development of the year.

* Worst Picture: The anti-premier award of the KB Awards, presented for the worst film made by KB Productions of the year.

* Worst Direction: Presented for most terrible direction.

* Worst Actor: Presented for most terrible performance by a male character playing a lead (or positive) role in a film.

* Worst Actress: Presented for most terrible performance by a female character playing a lead (or positive) role in a film.

* Worst Villain: Presented for most terrible performance by a male or female character playing an antagonistic role in a film.

* Worst Screenplay: Presented for terrible scriptwriting.
* Franchise Redeemer Award: Presented to a past Worst Award nominee or winner in a certain franchise who had subsequently "become respected" and come back from critical or commercial failure.

### Upcoming awards

* Best Popular Mockbuster: Introduced in 2020. Presented to a blockbuster film parody that made an outstanding achievement during KB’s development of the year.

## Awards overview

### Best Direction

Main article: KB Award For Best Direction

### Best Villainess

Main article: KB Award For Best Villainess

The award was merged with the Best Villain award until the 2018 ceremony.

### Best Screenplay

Main article: KB Award For Best Screenplay

### Best Production Design

Main article: KB Award For Best Production Design

Previously called Best Art Direction before the 2019 ceremony.

### Best Figure Animation

Main article: KB Award For Best Figure Animation

### Best Cinematography

Main article: KB Award For Best Cinematography

### Best Film Editing

Main article: KB Award For Best Film Editing

### Best Visual Effects

Main article: KB Award For Best Visual Effects

### Best Sound/Sound Editing

Main article: KB Award For Best Sound, KB Award For Best Sound Editing

### Best Sound Mixing

This award is merged with Best Sound Editing into Best Sound in 2020.

Main article: KB Award For Best Sound Mixing

### Best Live-Action Short Film

Main article: KB Award For Best Live-Action Short Film

### Worst Screenplay

Main article: KB Award For Worst Screenplay

### Franchise Redeemer Award

Main article: KB Franchise Redeemer Award

### Lifetime Achievement Award

Main article: KB Lifetime Achievement Award

### Newcomer of the Year

Main article: KB Award for Newcomer of the Year

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## Winners by franchise

Best Live-Action Short Film, Lifetime Achievement and Newcomer of the Year awards are not counted in this table.

## Trivia

* KB Productions’ version of Adolf Hitler is normally chosen for Best Villain awards. KB Productions’ policy is to make their version of the Nazi dictator a “twisted, evil megalomaniac” and the main antagonist of any film featuring the character.

* KB Productions’ *Transformers* films frequently won awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound Mixing.
* KB Productions’ dinosaur short films won consecutive KB Awards for Best Live-Action Short Film.

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