THE GOLDen claw awards

2025

best horror film

  • I Saw The TV Glow

  • Longlegs

  • Oddity

  • Strange Darling

  • The Substance

Best lead performance

  • David Dastmalchian (Late Night With The Devil)

  • Demi Moore (The Substance)

  • Hugh Grant (Heretic)

  • Juliette Gariépy (Red Rooms)

  • Justice Smith (I Saw The TV Glow)

  • Lupita Nyong’o (A Quiet Place: Day One)

  • Maika Monroe (Longlegs)

  • Naomi Scott (Smile 2)

  • Nell Tiger Free (The First Omen)

  • Sydney Sweeney (Immaculate)

best supporting performance

  • Alicia Witt (Longlegs)

  • Blair Underwood (Longlegs)

  • Dan Stevens (Cuckoo & Abigail)

  • David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus)

  • Dennis Quaid (The Substance)

  • Ingrid Torelli (Late Night With The Devil)

  • Jack Haven (I Saw The TV Glow)

  • Kyle Gallner (Strange Darling)

  • Margaret Qualley (The Substance)

  • Nicolas Cage (Longlegs)

  • Sophie Thatcher (Heretic)

best director

  • Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)

  • Damian Mc Carthy (Oddity)

  • Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw The TV Glow)

  • JT Mollner (Strange Darling)

  • Osgood Perkins (Longlegs)

best screenwriter

  • Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)

  • Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw The TV Glow)

  • JT Mollner (Strange Darling)

  • Osgood Perkins (Longlegs)

  • Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (Heretic)

best vfx/sfx

  • Alien: Romulus

  • In a Violent Nature

  • Infested

  • Smile 2

  • The Substance

best horror film not in English

  • Chime

  • Exhuma

  • Infested

  • MadS

  • Red Rooms

  • The Coffee Table

best kill

  • Acid Blood Kill (Alien Romulus)

  • Baby Meets Table (The Coffee Table)

  • Chainsaw in the Shower (Terrifier 3)

  • Rock Meets Baby (Immaculate)

  • Yoga Kill (In a Violent Nature)

Best British or Irish Horror Film – Sponsored by the Independent Horror Society

  • Broken Bird

  • Daddy’s Head

  • Oddity

  • Stopmotion

  • The Moor

Trailblazer of The Year

  • Chris Nash (Writer-Director, In A Violent Nature)

  • Coralie Fargeat (Writer-Director, The Substance)

  • Jane Schoenbrun (Writer-Director, I Saw The TV Glow)

Representation Award – Sponsored by the Soho Horror Film Festival

  • A Different Man

  • Cuckoo

  • I Saw The TV Glow

  • Love Lies Bleeding

  • The Substance

best feature debut

  • Arkasha Stevenson (Director, The First Omen)

  • Chris Nash (Director, In a Violent Nature)

  • Sebastian Vanicek (Director, Infested)

  • Zelda Williams (Writer, Lisa Frankenstein)

  • Zoe Kravitz (Director, Blink T

best horror TV show

  • From

  • Inside No. 9

  • Interview with the Vampire

  • The Creep Tapes

  • True Detective: Night Country

technical excellence

  • Chime (Sound Design)

  • Longlegs (Score)

  • MadS (Cinematography)

  • Strange Darling (Cinematography)

  • The Substance (Production Design, Makeup & Costuming)

2024

best film with a UK/i cinema release

  • Talk to Me

  • Evil Dead Rise

  • Godzilla Minus One

  • Infinity Pool

  • Pearl

Best Film to go Straight To VOD in the UK/Ireland (Or short cinema release)

  • Raging Grace

  • El Conde

  • Huesera: The Bone Woman

  • No One Will Save You

  • When Evil Lurks

best film on the festival circuit

  • The Coffee Table

  • Late Night With The Devil

  • The Moor

  • New Life

  • Red Rooms

best UK/I horror film

  • Raging Grace

  • Attachment

  • Hostile Dimensions

  • How To Kill Monsters

  • The Moor

best non-English film

  • Godzilla Minus One

  • El Conde

  • Huesera: The Bone Woman

  • The Coffee Table

  • When Evil Lurks

best tv show

  • The Last Of Us

  • Black Mirror (Season 6)

  • Dead Ringers

  • Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder

  • The Fall Of The House Of Usher

best lead performance

  • Sophie Wilde – Talk To Me

  • Tobin Bell – Saw X

  • Russell Crowe – The Pope’s Exorcist

  • Kaitlyn Dever – No One Will Save You

  • Max Eigenmann – Raging Grace

  • Mia Goth – Pearl

  • Ryunosuke Kamiki – Godzilla Minus One

  • Joaquin Phoenix – Beau Is Afraid

  • Nick Stahl – What You Wish For

  • Alyssa Sutherland – Evil Dead Rise

best supporting performance

  • Mia Goth – Infinity Pool

  • Joe Bird – Talk To Me

  • Jaeden Paige Boadilla – Raging Grace

  • Nicholas Cage – Renfield

  • David Corenswet – Pearl

  • Morgan Davies – Evil Dead Rise

  • Patrick Dempsey – Thanksgiving

  • Patti Lupone – Beau Is Afraid

  • Lily Sullivan – Evil Dead Rise

  • Zoe Terakes – Talk To Me

best director

  • Danny and Michael Philippou – Talk To Me

  • Ari Aster – Beau Is Afraid

  • Lee Cronin – Evil Dead Rise

  • Demián Rugna  – When Evil Lurks

  • Takashi Yamazaki – Godzilla Minus One

best screenplay

  • Ti West and Mia Goth – Pearl

  • Michelle Garza Cervera and Abia Castillo – Huesera: The Bone Woman

  • Lee Cronin – Evil Dead Rise

  • Danny Philippou – Talk To Me

  • Takashi Yamazaki – Godzilla Minus One

best cinematography

  • Karim Hussain – Infinity Pool

  • Dave Garbett – Evil Dead Rise

  • Aaron McLisky – Talk To Me

  • Kōzō Shibasaki – Godzilla Minus One

  • Mariano Suárez – When Evil Lurks

best visual and special fx

  • Takashi Yamazaki and Kiyoko Shibuya – Godzilla Minus One

  • Jon Campfens, Beau Parsons, Simon Han and Cailin Munroe – Saw X

  • Liam Neville and Caoimhe Maguire – Evil Dead Rise

  • Peter ‘Babylon’ Owens, Marty Pepper, Dylan Browne and Sharna Hackett – Talk To Me

  • Andy Robinson, Ádám Szücs and Dan Martin – Infinity Pool

best score or soundtrack

  • Naoki Sato – Godzilla Minus One

  • Tim Hecker – Infinity Pool

  • Bobby Krlic – Beau Is Afraid

  • Stephen McKeon – Evil Dead Rise

  • Cornell Wilczek – Talk To Me

scariest horror film

  • Talk To Me

  • Evil Dead Rise

  • Huesera: The Bone Woman

  • Red Rooms

  • When Evil Lurks

best kill (*spoilers)

  • When Evil Lurks – Dog vs Child

  • Evil Dead Rise – Marauder deadite vs wood chipper

  • Saw X – Brain surgery trap

  • Scream VI – Shaky ladder

  • Thanksgiving – Turkey in the oven

breakout star award

  • Sophie Wilde – Talk to Me

  • Judah Lewis – Suitable Flesh

  • M3gan (yes, the character) – M3gan

  • Michael and Danny Philippou – Talk To Me

  • Alyssa Sutherland – Evil Dead Rise

best horror media outlet

  • Evolution of Horror (podcast)

  • Dead Meat (podcast)

  • Ghouls Magazine (site)

  • Horror Queers (podcast)

  • Moving Pictures Film Club (podcast)

2023

best film with a UK/i cinema release

  • Barbarian

  • Nope

  • Bodies Bodies Bodies

  • Bones and All

  • X

Best Film to go Straight To VOD in the UK/Ireland (Or short cinema release)

  • Deadstream

  • We’re All Going To The World’s Fair

  • Dashcam

  • Mad God

  • Sissy

  • The Leech

best film on the festival circuit

  • Hypochondriac

  • The Harbinger

  • Huesera: The Bone Woman

  • New Religion

  • Next Exit

best UK/I horror film

  • Men

  • You Are Not My Mother

  • A Banquet

  • All My Friends Hate Me

  • Lola

best non-English film

  • Piggy

  • The Innocents

  • Huesera: The Bone Woman

  • Incantation

  • New Religion

best tv show

  • Yellowjackets

  • Stranger Things

  • All of Us Are Dead\

  • Archive 81

  • Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities

  • What We Do In The Shadows

best lead performance

  • Mia Goth- X

  • Amber Midthunder - Prey

  • Anna Cobb – We’re All Going To The World’s Fair

  • Georgina Campbell – Barbarian

  • Graham Skipper – The Leech

  • Keke Palmer – Nope

  • Laura Gálan – Piggy

  • Rahul Kohli – Next Exit

  • Taylor Russell – Bones and All

  • Zack Villa – Hypochondriac

best supporting performance

  • Justin Long - Barbarian

  • Rachel Sennott - Bodies, Bodies, Bodies

  • Nicholas Hoult – The Menu

  • Rory Kinnear – Men

  • Bill Skarsgard – Barbarian

  • Brittany Snow – X

  • Kristen Stewart – Crimes of the Future

  • Melanie Stone – Deadstream & V/H/S/99

  • Mark Rylance – Bones and All

  • Steven Yeun – Nope

best director

  • Jordan Peele - NOPE

  • Zach Cregger - Barbarian

  • Kate Dolan – You Are Not My Mother

  • Keishi Kondo – New Religion

  • Ti West – X

best screenplay

  • Addison Heimann - Hypochondriac

  • Zach Cregger - Barbarian

  • Travis Stevens & Nathan Faudree – A Wounded Fawn

  • Kristen Roupenian & Sarah DeLappe – Bodies Bodies Bodies

  • Jordan Peele – Nope

best cinematography

  • Hoyte van Hoytema - NOPE

  • Phil Tippett - Mad God

  • Arseni Khachaturan - Bones and All

  • Jeff Cutter - Prey

  • Eliot Rockett - X

best visual and special fx

  • Zakariyah Abdel-Illah - NOPE

  • Christian N. Curry Akuna - Fall

  • Troy Larson - Deadstream

  • Ray Holycross - V/H/S 99

  • Niki Bern, McGregor Allen - X

best score or soundtrack

  • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Bones and All

  • VAAAL – A Wounded Fawn

  • Michael Abels – Nope

  • Sebastian Gainsborough & Robin Carolan – The Northman

  • Rich Vreeland – Bodies Bodies Bodies

scariest horror film

  • The Harbinger

  • Barbarian

  • Dashcam

  • Fall

  • You Are Not My Mother

best kill (*spoilers)

  • Violent Night - John Leguizamo

  • Bodies, Bodies, Bodies - Pete Davidson

  • Barbarian - Justin Long

  • NOPE - Jupiter and his show Attendees

  • Speak No Evil - The Nice Couple

breakout star award

  • Jenna Ortega - X

  • Amber Midthunder - Prey

  • Eric Pennycoff - The Leech

  • Taylor Russell - Bones and All

  • Joseph & Vanessa Winter Deadstream

best horror media outlet

  • Evolution of Horror (podcast)

  • Ghouls Magazine (site)

  • Fishnets and Philosophy (podcast)

  • The Final Girls (podcast)

  • What a Scream (site)

best horror Documentary

  • Queer for Fear

  • The Found Footage Phenomenon

  • A Life on The Farm

  • Living with Chucky

  • Orchestrator of Storms

Most atmospheric horror film

  • The Harbinger

  • Barbarian

  • Crimes of the Future

  • Nope

  • X

best horror fest

  • Soho Horror Film Festival

  • Frightfest

  • Celluloid Screams

  • Grimmfest

  • Mayhem

die die die award - for Championing Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity in Horror.

  • Mitch Harrod - Creator, SOHO HORROR FEST