The GuardianWitness Awards aim to celebrate our users and their involvement in our stories. They will reflect the Guardian’s open approach to journalism, and through them we hope to encourage even more people to take part in our coverage.
With help from our panel of judges, we have selected your most important and compelling stories, images and videos from over 50,000 contributions published on GuardianWitness since we launched in April 2013 with our partners, EE.The award judges come from across the worlds of journalism, film, photography, science and food. They include:
- Deborah Rayner, VP and Managing Editor EMEA at CNN
- Alastair Stewart, ITN newscaster
- Andrea Arnold, film director
- Ruby Tandoh, Great British Bake Off finalist
- Wolfgang Blau, Director of Digital Strategy at the Guardian.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on 27 March 2014. Here are the shortlists.
News contribution of the year award
Excellent turnout at the big screen in Edinburgh by Amanda Whitehead
Giant beach ball on the loose by Bernard Yu
Girl carries her infant brother through Zaatari by Greg Beals
Photo taken at the scene of the Woolwich murder by Abechem
Rescue from a van on the seafront at Scarborough by David Platt
Video of the National Catalan day human chain by Pere Capdevila
Award for a series of contributions
Barbaros Kayan: protests in Turkey
Eujin Byun: Syrian refugees
Giles Bennett: extreme weather in Aberystwyth
Jens Darup: WW1 from a German perspective
Luciano Freaza: protests in Brazil
Tim Brown: WW1 from a British perspective
The bigger picture award
Coastguard rescue by Nathan Birch
Exhausted seal pup sheltering among mounds of plastic waste by Claire Wallerstein
I am not an immigrant, I moved to another country by Teodora Totorean
Mare and foal in high tide on Loughor Estuary by Julia Franklin
Police officer washes an old man’s face who is affected by tear gas by Eser Karadag
Human interest award
Freddie meets his grandfather by Kate Halls and Darren Young
Mum in hospital by Caroline Johnson
One came by plane: the march as a civil rights gathering by Monica Green
The wedding and beauty shop in Zaatari refugee camp by Yasmin Al Tellawy
Best original still award
Above the cloud by Luca Tommasi
Bit rough by Stephen Beckett
Fisherman in Danube Delta by Vlad Iosif
Horse racing in Iran by Samin Ahmadzadeh
Puffin landing with sand eels by Christy White
Soar by Souvid Datta
Food award
Mombasa meat market by Matt Wood
My nan’s 90th birthday – and the giant profiterole cake by Colleen Branch
Scotch eggs by Chris Connon
Tea stop on the highway by Ruchir Joshi
Tomatoes by Marco Carboni
Original short film award
8-BIT Waterslide in REAL LIFE! by Liam Tate and Jamie Stanton
Fred by Jameson Kergozou
Heat by Fin McMorran
Monday by Guy Jamieson and Stefan Wernik
The Myth of Robo Wonder Kid by Joel Mackenzie
Pasty Child by Andy Luck
Polar Where? by Terry Thomas
Science award
Eratosthenes and the circumference of the earth by Chris Johnson-Standley
Evolution: the importance of being cousins by William Taylor
General relativity and me by Joseph Elton
The hero of our time: vaccination by Kevin Rich, Thomas Fenton, Vicky Chapman, Hannah Johnston and Livi Sloss
Sam and Sally explain phases of the moon, in the office, with a softball by Sally Collins and Sam Rae
Science is everything: Higgs boson explainer by Dom Burgess
Thanks for the memory by John Berry
Pet of the year award
Immi contributed by Morgan Thomas
Mila contributed by Harpal Padwal
Mr Piddles contributed by Fr Bill Haymaker
Palmiro contributed by Mark Grilli
Rafferty contributed by Mary Griffiths-Clarke
EE contributor of the year award
The EE contributor of the year award will be awarded to the winner of one of the categories above, which the judges consider to have made the most significant contribution to GuardianWitness.
For full details of the Awards, see the dedicated GuardianWitness Awards website.
Many thanks to all of you who have contributed to the Guardian.
