Playfish announce winners of Pet Society Movie Awards
The BAFTAs are behind us, the Oscars are in front of us, and in the middle, filling the film season void, is the Pet Society Movie Awards. Playfish, the organisers of this glittering new entry onto the awards circuit, have today unveiled the lucky award winners.
The Pet Society Movie Awards was launched on February 15th and challenged players of popular online social game, Pet Society, to get in the director's chair and recreate famous movie scenes using their virtual pets. The Pet Society community rose to the challenge and made film stars out of their fully customisable virtual pets by using the various items that are available for sale in the game, including clothes, furniture, food, toys, gadgets and other items.
In just two weeks the competition received over 20,000 entries, with more than 136,000 people becoming fans of the Facebook page. The level of creativity and effort that the Pet Society community put into their entries was absolutely staggering, and it was hard to pick winners amongst the thousands of great images and videos submitted. Thirteen entries rose to the top though, so without further ado, here are the winners!
Best Comedy - Back to the Future (video)
Best Action - King Kong (image)
Best Science Fiction - E.T. (image)
Best Drama - American Beauty (image)
Best Romance - Breakfast at Tiffany's (image)
Best Horror - Silent Hill (image)
Best Musical - Singing in the Rain (image)
Best Picture - Casablanca (image)
Best Thriller - The Shining (video)
Gangster City Award for Best Gangster Movie - The Usual Suspects (image)
Best Miscellaneous - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (video)
Best Fantasy - Cinderella (video) / Lord of the Rings (image)
Overall Best Movie - Titanic (video)
Each of the 11 category winners will receive 500 Playfish Cash and a Golden Mayor Award (named after the Pet Society town mayor). In addition, winner of the Best Movie award will win 1000 Playfish Cash, as well a Golden Mayor Award.
What is Pet Society?
Pet Society is made by leading social games company, Playfish, for friends to play together on social networks such as Facebook, Myspace and Bebo. Over 21 million people are playing Pet Society each month on Facebook alone (equivalent to the population of Australia). Pet Society lets users create and look after their own virtual pet; they can decorate the house they live in, play with them and buy them a wide variety of virtual goods. The pet lives in a town populated by other pets owned by the user's social network friends, so they can always pop round to visit.