Great Lakes Wildlife Alliance Presents
And the Oscar Goes To…
The 1st Annual Wildlife Awards 🏆
Hollywood has its stars. We have ours — and they don’t need agents.
Donate $25 to cast your ballot. Melissa reveals her official picks in the morning!
The Nominees
Best Picture
The story that moved us most this year
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The Wisconsin Wolf
A tale of survival against all odds
★ NOMINEE
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The Black Bear
Coming home to a changing forest
★ NOMINEE
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The Bald Eagle
Comeback of the century
★ NOMINEE
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The White-Tailed Deer
An American epic
★ NOMINEE
Best Actor
Leading male performance of the year
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Alpha Male Wolf
For “The Pack” — raw, fearless, unforgettable
★ NOMINEE
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Great Horned Owl
For “Night Watch” — silent, brooding, intense
★ NOMINEE
🦌
Buck in Full Rack
For “November” — dramatic entrance, zero lines needed
★ NOMINEE
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The Bullfrog
For “One Last Song Before Frost”
★ NOMINEE
Best Actress
Leading female performance of the year
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She-Wolf
For “The Den” — protective, fierce, transcendent
★ NOMINEE
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Mama Bear
For “The Long Winter” — method performance, no stunt double
★ NOMINEE
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Great Blue Heron
For “Still Water” — minimalist, devastating
★ NOMINEE
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Monarch Butterfly
For “3,000 Miles” — the performance of a lifetime
★ NOMINEE
Best Costume Design
Nature’s finest wardrobe — who wore it best?
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The Red Fox
Flame coat, white-tipped tail — effortlessly iconic
★ NOMINEE
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Monarch Butterfly
Orange and black stained glass — couture by evolution
★ NOMINEE
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The Bluebird
That color. Just that color. Impossible.
★ NOMINEE
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Bald Eagle
White cap, dark suit — power dressing since 1782
★ NOMINEE
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The Nominees cont’d
Best Short Film
Small but mighty — brief appearance, massive impact
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The Spring Peeper
For “15 Seconds of Fame” — you heard it, you felt it
★ NOMINEE
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The Chipmunk
For “Gone in 60 Seconds” — sprinted across the entire scene
★ NOMINEE
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The Spider
For “Suspended” — aerial work, no wire team
★ NOMINEE
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The Painted Turtle
For “Sunning” — 4 minutes. Nothing else happened. Perfection.
★ NOMINEE
Best Sound
The soundtrack of the Wisconsin wild
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Wolf Howl at Midnight
No studio, no mixing board — just the night sky
★ NOMINEE
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The Bluebird’s Song
First sound of spring — nothing hits harder
★ NOMINEE
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Great Horned Owl Call
Who-who-who wrote this? Chills every time.
★ NOMINEE
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Frog Chorus at Dusk
10,000 voices. Zero rehearsal. Full send.
★ NOMINEE
Best Original Screenplay
The most compelling story arc in nature
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The Wolf’s Return
Reintroduction, persecution, resilience — the original three-act structure
★ NOMINEE
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The Monarch Migration
Born here, flew 3,000 miles, came back — a classic
★ NOMINEE
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The Painted Turtle
50 million years of unrevised drafts. Still working.
★ NOMINEE
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The Red Fox
Adapted to everything humans threw at it. Still thriving.
★ NOMINEE
Best Original Score
The soundtrack nature composed herself
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The Gray Wolf
A midnight howl that rewrites the silence
★ NOMINEE
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The Common Loon
Most haunting score ever recorded — no studio needed
★ NOMINEE
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The Wood Frog
Sounds like a duck. Somehow wins every room.
★ NOMINEE
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The Field Cricket
The original ambient soundtrack — performing nightly since forever
★ NOMINEE
Cast Your Ballot
Cast Your Ballot for the Wild
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The envelopes open in the morning.
Melissa reveals her official picks at dawn!
Melissa reveals her official picks at dawn!
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