Golden Collar Awards

The Golden Collar Awards reward the best canine actors. The trophies are delivered during a ceremony, similar to other ceremonies of the cinema industry.

The Golden Collar Awards were created in 2012 by the website Dog News Daily, a commercial web site dedicated to the products for dogs that has been created in 2009.

The first Golden Collar Awards rolled out the red carpet for the dogs on the 13 February 2012 in a luxury hotel, the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, in front of an audience composed of the press. The trophy has been created by designer Simon Tavassoli: it consists in a statue that represents an Italian Leather Collar with embedded shiny Swarovski crystals.

Some criticism has been expressed that the awards were only launched a couple of months prior, due to the attention the dog Uggie was getting for his performance in The Artist.

The dogs and their owners or trainers concur in five catégories:

An honorary prize rewards the "humanitarian" (animal protection) or the "legends" of the dogs on the screen:

The 2012 edition has been presented by actresses Pauley Perrette and Wendie Malick.

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