Each year TASVideos hosts an official awards ceremony where the best TASes and TASers of the year are recognized. The ceremony happens each January for the previous year. First there is a nomination process for each award category. Then a poll is opened for the audience to vote. The winner of the poll is given the official award. This tradition started officially for the 2007 movies.
Award eligibility is based purely on the publication date. It must be between 1/1 and 12/31 of that year.
Current awards
TASer of the year
Awarded to the overall most impressive author.
Rookie of the year
Awarded to the overall most impressive "rookie" author. To be eligible as a rookie the author's very first publication must be dated in that year.
System X TASer of the year
Awarded for the authors that contributed to each of the specific platforms: NES, SNES, N64, Sega (Genesis with its add-ons and Master System), Game Boy/Super Game Boy/Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, DS, Arcade, PCE, and PSX. Starting with 2009 new platforms are combined in a "New platform TASer of the year" category; in 2010 this included DOS, MSX, and Virtual Boy.
TAS of the year
Awarded to the overall most impressive TAS. The TAS of the year is done last. The winner of each system TAS of the year award is entered into the TAS of the year poll.
First edition TAS of the year
Awarded to the most impressive TAS that was the first publication for its particular game.
System X TAS of the year
Awarded to the most impressive TAS of each of the specific platforms: NES, SNES, N64, Sega (Genesis with its add-ons and Master System), Game Boy/Super Game Boy/Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, DS, Arcade, PCE, and PSX. Starting with 2009 new platforms are combined in a "New platform TAS of the year" category; in 2010 this included DOS, MSX, and Virtual Boy.
Glitchy TAS of the year
Awarded to the most glitched-out TAS.
Lucky TAS of the year
Awarded to the TAS that demonstrates the most impressive luck manipulation.
Retired awards
Innovative TAS of the year
Awarded to the TAS that was the most groundbreaking in some way; doing something new and interesting.
Funny TAS of the year
Awarded to the most funny/humorous TAS.
Speedy TAS of the year
Awarded to the TAS with the fastest achieved character movement speeds (note: this was not about fastest in-game completion time, but rather fastest motion).