Since 1961, the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum has awarded the year’s best of the West in Western literature, music, film, and television programming. Honorees are celebrated at a black-tie event, April 19-20, 2013, in Oklahoma City at the museum. Tickets to the event can be purchased here.
The categories and 2013 winners:
Film and Television
Outstanding Theatrical Motion Picture
Django Unchained
Outstanding Documentary
The Dust Bowl
Outstanding Television Feature Film
Shadow on the Mesa
Outstanding Fictional Drama
Longmire
Outstanding Television—Docudrama
Hatfields & McCoys
Literary
Outstanding Juvenile Book
Sandra Dallas The Quilt Walk by Sleeping Bear Press
Outstanding Western Novel
D.B. Jackson Unbroke Horses by Goldminds Publishing
Outstanding Nonfiction Book
Robert M. Utley Geronimo by Yale University Press
Outstanding Art Book
Adam Duncan Harris Bob Kuhn: Drawing on Instinct by University at Oklahoma Press
Outstanding Photography Book
Rich Clarkson & James C. McNutt National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West by National Geographic Books
Outstanding Magazine Article
Jim Logan The Other Trail Published in Oklahoma Today
Outstanding Poetry Book
John Dofflemyer Proclaiming Space by Dry Crik Press
Music
Outstanding Original Composition
The Gillette Brothers Trade Off
Outstanding Traditional Western Music Album
Bill Barwick The Usual Suspects
New Horizons
Miss Devon & the Outlaw Where in the Dickens RU?