The Thumbcast Awards 2011

You voted in your dozens, and now we can reveal the winners – and losers in the 2011 Thumbcast Awards!

For the third consecutive time, we marked the end of the year with our annual awards show. The noble contributors to the Thumbcast cast their suggestions for the ballot paper on what made up this year’s best and worst TV shows, films, books, games and comics.

And then you made the crucial decision by voting for your favourite – or least favourite – in each of the six categories in this year’s awards.

You can listen to the breakdown of how the awards went – plus Craig, Iain and Al discuss the winners and losers in each category, in our Awards Show podcast – which you can download from here or stream at the bottom of the page.

But if you just want to know the winners… well, here you go.

BEST UK TV SERIES OF 2011
Nominated: Burnistoun, Doctor Who, The Fades, Misfits
Winner: Doctor Who

BEST US TV SERIES OF 2011
Nominated: Archer, Breaking Bad, Community, Game of Thrones
Winner: Community

WORST TV SERIES OF 2011
Nominated: Camelot, Outcasts, Terra Nova, Torchwood: Miracle Day
Winner:Torchwood: Miracle Day

BEST FILM OF 2011
Nominated: Attack the Block, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Source Code, X Men: First Class
Winner: Three-way tie between Attack the Block, Source Code and X Men: First Class

WORST FILM OF 2011
Nominated: Cars 2, Green Lantern, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Sucker Punch
Winner: Sucker Punch

NON-BROADCAST AWARD FOR BEST ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
Nominated: Batman: Arkham City, DC Comics: The New 52, The Doctor Who Experience, Xenoblade Chronicles
Winner: Batman: Arkham City

Every year the team behind the Thumbcast also make two discretionary awards, given out in recognition of the highest, and lowest, commitment to pop culture or genre media in the last year. This year’s recipients:

PERSONS OF THE YEAR: Nicholas Courtney and Elisabeth Sladen
(posthumously awarded in recognition of their work on Doctor Who)

FUD OF THE YEAR: Isaac Perlmutter
(for his work in damaging the reputation and morale at Marvel Comics in 2011)

Thank you to everyone who voted this year, and to everyone who has given their support to the Thumbcast and the Awards over the last three years.