And the Oscar goes to…

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Wildlife on the Red Carpet

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!

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The Envelopes Are Sealed Until Morning
Browse the nominees below. Who do YOU think deserves to win?
Donate $25 and weigh in — results revealed at dawn.
The Nominees
🎬

Best Picture
The story that moved us most this year
🐺
The Wisconsin Wolf
A tale of survival against all odds
★ NOMINEE
🐻
The Black Bear
Coming home to a changing forest
★ NOMINEE
🦅
The Bald Eagle
Comeback of the century
★ NOMINEE
🦌
The White-Tailed Deer
An American epic
★ NOMINEE
🎭

Best Actor
Leading male performance of the year
🐺
Alpha Male Wolf
For “The Pack” — raw, fearless, unforgettable
★ NOMINEE
🦉
Great Horned Owl
For “Night Watch” — silent, brooding, intense
★ NOMINEE
🦌
Buck in Full Rack
For “November” — dramatic entrance, zero lines needed
★ NOMINEE
🐸
The Bullfrog
For “One Last Song Before Frost”
★ NOMINEE
🌟

Best Actress
Leading female performance of the year
🐺
She-Wolf
For “The Den” — protective, fierce, transcendent
★ NOMINEE
🐻
Mama Bear
For “The Long Winter” — method performance, no stunt double
★ NOMINEE
🦢
Great Blue Heron
For “Still Water” — minimalist, devastating
★ NOMINEE
🦋
Monarch Butterfly
For “3,000 Miles” — the performance of a lifetime
★ NOMINEE
✨

Best Costume Design
Nature’s finest wardrobe — who wore it best?
🦊
The Red Fox
Flame coat, white-tipped tail — effortlessly iconic
★ NOMINEE
🦋
Monarch Butterfly
Orange and black stained glass — couture by evolution
★ NOMINEE
🐦
The Bluebird
That color. Just that color. Impossible.
★ NOMINEE
🦅
Bald Eagle
White cap, dark suit — power dressing since 1782
★ NOMINEE

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Great Lakes Wildlife Alliance
The Nominees cont’d
🎞️

Best Short Film
Small but mighty — brief appearance, massive impact
🐸
The Spring Peeper
For “15 Seconds of Fame” — you heard it, you felt it
★ NOMINEE
🐿️
The Chipmunk
For “Gone in 60 Seconds” — sprinted across the entire scene
★ NOMINEE
🕷️
The Spider
For “Suspended” — aerial work, no wire team
★ NOMINEE
🐢
The Painted Turtle
For “Sunning” — 4 minutes. Nothing else happened. Perfection.
★ NOMINEE
🎶

Best Sound
The soundtrack of the Wisconsin wild
🐺
Wolf Howl at Midnight
No studio, no mixing board — just the night sky
★ NOMINEE
🐦
The Bluebird’s Song
First sound of spring — nothing hits harder
★ NOMINEE
🦉
Great Horned Owl Call
Who-who-who wrote this? Chills every time.
★ NOMINEE
🐸
Frog Chorus at Dusk
10,000 voices. Zero rehearsal. Full send.
★ NOMINEE
📜

Best Original Screenplay
The most compelling story arc in nature
🐺
The Wolf’s Return
Reintroduction, persecution, resilience — the original three-act structure
★ NOMINEE
🦋
The Monarch Migration
Born here, flew 3,000 miles, came back — a classic
★ NOMINEE
🐢
The Painted Turtle
50 million years of unrevised drafts. Still working.
★ NOMINEE
🦊
The Red Fox
Adapted to everything humans threw at it. Still thriving.
★ NOMINEE
🎵

Best Original Score
The soundtrack nature composed herself
🐺
The Gray Wolf
A midnight howl that rewrites the silence
★ NOMINEE
🦅
The Common Loon
Most haunting score ever recorded — no studio needed
★ NOMINEE
🐸
The Wood Frog
Sounds like a duck. Somehow wins every room.
★ NOMINEE
🦗
The Field Cricket
The original ambient soundtrack — performing nightly since forever
★ NOMINEE

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