The BAFTAs are behind us, the Oscars are in front of us, and in the middle, filling the film season void, is the Pet Society Movie Awards. Playfish, the organisers of this glittering new entry onto the awards circuit, are pleased to today unveil the lucky award winners.
The Pet Society Movie Awards was launched on February 15th and challenged players of popular online social game, Pet Society, to get in the director's chair and recreate famous movie scenes using their virtual pets. The Pet Society community rose to the challenge and made film stars out of their fully customisable virtual pets by using the various items that are available for sale in the game, including clothes, furniture, food, toys, gadgets and other items.

In just two weeks the competition received over 20,000 entries, with more than 136,000 people becoming fans of the Facebook page. The level of creativity and effort that the Pet Society community put into their entries was absolutely staggering, and it was hard to pick winners amongst the thousands of great images and videos submitted. Thirteen entries rose to the top though, so without further ado, we give you the winners.....!

Best Comedy
Back to the Future (video)

Best Action
King Kong (image)

Best Science Fiction
E.T. (image)

Best Drama
American Beauty (image)

Best Romance
Breakfast at Tiffany's (image)

Best Horror
Silent Hill (image)

Best Musical
Singing in the Rain (image)

Best Picture
Casablanca (image)

Best Thriller
The Shining (video)

Gangster City Award for Best Gangster Movie
The Usual Suspects (image)

Best Miscellaneous
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (video)

Best Fantasy
Cinderella (video)
Lord of the Rings (image)

Overall Best Movie 
Titanic (video)

Each of the 11 category winners will receive 500 Playfish Cash and a Golden Mayor Award (named after the Pet Society town mayor). In addition, winner of the Best Movie award will win 1000 Playfish Cash, as well a Golden Mayor Award. Congratulations!

What is Pet Society? 

Pet Society is made by leading social games company, Playfish, for friends to play together on social networks such as Facebook, Myspace and Bebo. Over 21 million people are playing Pet Society each month on Facebook alone (equivalent to the population of Australia). Pet Society lets users create and look after their own virtual pet; they can decorate the house they live in, play with them and buy them a wide variety of virtual goods. The pet lives in a town populated by other pets owned by the user's social network friends, so they can always pop round to visit!