9th Shorty Awards

9th Annual Shorty Awards
9th Annual Shorty Awards
Date	April 23, 2017
Location	The Times Center, New York City
Hosted by	Tony Hale

The 9th Annual Shorty Awards, honoring the best in social media, took place on April 23, 2017, at The Times Center, New York City. The ceremony was hosted by actor and comedian Tony Hale. There was a musical performance by Lizzo.

Influencer winners and nominees

Nominations were announced on January 17, 2017, with public voting closing on February 16, 2017.^[1] Finalists were announced on March 2, 2017.^[2] Winners are listed first and in boldface.

Arts & Entertainment

Best Actor Gaten Matarazzo Aziz Ansari Channing Tatum Cole Sprouse Jesse Tyler Ferguson Ryan Reynolds	Best Actress Shay Mitchell Brie Larson Gina Rodriguez Kristen Bell Skai Jackson Viola Davis
Best Celebrity Chrissy Teigen Cher Kylie Jenner Lady Gaga Lin-Manuel Miranda Oprah	Best Comedian Elijah Daniel & Christine Sydelko Chelsea Peretti Leslie Jones Samantha Bee Sarah Silverman The Lonely Island
Best in Dance 1Million Dance Studio Maddie Ziegler Matt Steffanina Taylor Hatala tWitch Willdabeast Adams	Best in Music BTS Ariana Grande Chance the Rapper Ingrid Michaelson Solange Tegan and Sara
Best TV Show Orange Is the New Black Game of Thrones Gilmore Girls Mr. Robot Stranger Things Teen Wolf

Content

Emoji of the Year Middle Finger 🖕 Black Heart 🖤 Eye Roll 🙄 The Hugger 🤗 The Thinker 🤔 Upside-Down Smiley 🙃	GIF of the Year Mr. Peanut's Dab Crying Jordan I Have Arrived Kermit Vs. Kermit Obama's Mic Drop Well Yikes
Instagram of the Year Same But Different #Visible Me Beyoncé and Blue Happy Place That Kim Photo You're the Spark	Tumblr Blog of the Year The Blackout Bryan Daugherty Google Dog View OMG Check Please Old Dorito's Bags in Movies Words N Quotes
Vine of the Year The Laughing Fox Hemtube's Household Chores Still SpongeBob AF When You Find Your Soulmate When You're the Main Character Tho You Make My Dreams Come Tru

Creative & Media

Animal Crusoe the Celebrity Dachshund Aaron's Animals Geordi La Corgi Harlow and Sage Lionel the Hedgehog Jiffpom Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary	Art Timmy Ham Geronimo Balloons Hari & Deepti Jessica Walsh Shawna X Tuesday Bassen
Author Mara Wilson Chuck Klosterman Jennifer Weiner Maureen Johnson Roxane Gay Stephen King	Fashion Winnie Harlow Bryan Yambao Danielle Bernstein Julie Sariñana Margaret Zhang Olivier Rousteing
Food Tasty Brothers Green Olga Noskova SweetAmbs The Domestic Geek Wright Kitchen	Health & Wellness Dana Falsetti Black Girl In Om Hannah Bronfman Hello Glow Patrick Beach The Body Coach TV
House & Home Mr. Kate Design Milk Drew & Jonathan Scott – Property Brothers Fredrik Eklund The House that Lars Built The Jungalow	Instagrammer of the Year Doug the Pug Celebs on Sandwiches Desirée De León Paulo del Valle Stephen McMennamy Vickie Liu
Journalist Lauren Duca Al Roker Andrew Kaczynski Jacqui Cheng Jorge Ramos Tre'well Anderson	Lifestyle Kyle Krieger Amber Fillerup Clark Amelia Liana Christina Brown Jeanne Grey The Anna Edit
Meme/Parody Account Girl With No Job @FibonacciSpiral Kirby Jenner Taste of Streep Versace Tamagotchi Your Shitty Family	Parenting Nev Schulman & Laura Perlongo Harlem Eh Bee Family James Breakwell Life of Dad That Happy Family
Sports Simone Biles Cam Newton Ibtihaj Muhammad Indi Cowie Michael Phelps Richard Jefferson

Team Internet

Breakout Youtuber James Charles Alexis G. Zall Bretman Rock Evelyn From the Internets Mikey Murphy Ozzy Man Reviews	Muser of the Year Jacob Sartorius Dani and Deven (Perkins Sisters) Baby Ariel Lisa and Lena Loren Gray Max and Harvey
Snapchatter of the Year Atlas Acopian Lauren Giraldo Mike Platco OperAmericano Rasmus Kolbe Women In Tech	Viner of the Year Aaron Chewning Kenny Knox Manon Mathews Matt Post Sarah Schauer chloe lmao
Younower of the Year Absofcourse Diegosaurs Evie Yannakidis Joel and Monica Zach Clayton itssnowhimself	Youtube Comedian Andrew Lowe Drew Monson Jessi Smiles Nathan Zed Sarah Baska Thomas Sanders
Youtube Ensemble Jenna and Julien Desi Perkins & Lustrelux Dirty 30 Carly & Erin Just Between Us Matt Steffanina & D-Trix	Youtube Guru Carli Bybel Jackie Aina Jaclyn Hill Jeffree Star KathleenLights
Youtube Musician Dodie Clark Andrew Huang Meghan Tonjes Tiffany Alvord Todrick Hall Trevor Moran	Youtuber of the Year Colleen Ballinger Gigi Gorgeous Jenna Marbles Lilly Singh Liza Koshy MKBHD

Tech & Innovation

Activism Ashley Graham Jazz Jennings Jesse Williams Leonardo DiCaprio Shailene Woodley Zellie Imani	Gaming Funhaus IHasCupquake KYRSP33DY Markiplier MatPat YOGSCAST Hannah
LGBTQ+ Youtube Channel Shannon Beveridge Bria and Chrissy Kat Blaque MarkE Miller Ari Fitz Stevie Boebi	Periscoper of the Year Darius Arya Bec Boop Go2Kitchens Ian McLaughlin SockCop mawnika
Podcast Anna Faris is Unqualified Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Guys We F****d Lore Stuff You Should Know TED Radio Hour	STEM Bill Nye Adam Savage Dr. Sandra Lee Simone Giertz The Tim Peake Unbox Therapy
Twitch Streamer of the Year Annemunition Bob Ross DexterityBonus OMGitsfirefoxx Summit1G iijeriichoii	Vlogger of the Year David Dobrik* Erik Conover Julien Solomita Louis Cole Shaytards The Gabbie Vlogs
Web Series Camp Unplug Foursome Freakish Girl on Girl with Hannah Witton Style Code Live The Tyler Oakley Show	Weird Hydraulic Press Channel Casually Explained Bread Face Channel The Food Surgeon You Are Dog Now You Suck at Cooking

References

^ "9th Annual Shorty Award Influencer Nominees".
^ Spangler, Todd. "Shorty Awards 2017: Finalists" Variety, accessed March 2, 2017

External links

Official Shorty Awards website

[1] "9th Annual Shorty Award Influencer Nominees".

[2] Spangler, Todd. "Shorty Awards 2017: Finalists" Variety, accessed March 2, 2017

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