Moving one step further to crowning the favorite movie trailers of the year, the nominees for the Ninth Annual Golden Trailer Awards are in, selected for the first time ever by a public jury.

Actor and comedian Sinbad will host the live award ceremony on May 8, 2008 at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. This double announcement was made today by Golden Trailer event co-founders and producers Evelyn Brady-Watters and Monica Brady.

Created in 1999 to celebrate the art, craft and fun of movie promotion, The Golden Trailer Awards have established themselves as the top prize in the field, coveted by trailer producers, and watched carefully by marketing decision-makers in the industry. But, while the awards are serious business for the winners, for the rest of us they are just plain fun.

In a gala laced with comedy and entertainment, 16 of the 54 categories of Golden Trailer Awards will be distributed on May 8. Sinbad will be bringing his considerable talents to a popular event that in past years has been led by the likes of Tom Green, Dennis Miller and Kathy Griffin. On Monday, May 26, the awards will be broadcast nationally in primetime on MyNetworkTV, presenting the program as "The Movie Preview Awards."

Nominations for 53 categories will be posted today on www.goldentrailer.com (The 54th is "Best of Show," that will be announced later). Nominees for the 16 show-awards are below, and range from big-budget extravaganzas to smaller, more unconventional reels.

This was the first time that nominations for the Golden Trailer Awards were selected by public vote. Responding to a public call to action, 140 trailer buffs signed up online and devoted an average of four hours to selecting from a total pool of 968 entries.

Each juror evaluated one fifth of the nomination categories, which cover trailers, posters and TV spots, and range from the expected -- Best Action, Best Romance, Best Horror -- to the irreverent, including The Golden Fleece trophy applauding the best reel for a bad movie, and Trashiest Trailer. Additionally, there is a category for Best Videogame Trailer.

The final-round will be judged by a prestigious jury of entertainment pros, including legendary skateboarder/game developer Tony Hawk; writer/director Joss Whedon; writer/director Eli Roth; USA TODAY critic Claudia Puig; director Morgan Spurlock; producer Jonathan D. Krane; Telluride Film Festival co-director Gary Meyer; chairman of Lowe Worldwide Mark Wnek and SVP of Creative Advertising at Focus Features Myles Bender.

Ninth Annual Golden Trailer Award Nominees:

Best Action
THE DARK KNIGHT, Warner Bros., Intralink Film
HELLBOY 2, Universal Pictures, Workshop Creative
IRON MAN, Paramount Pictures, Create Advertising Group
LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD, 20th Century Fox, Trailer Park

Best Animation/Family
ENCHANTED, Walt Disney Pictures, Craig Murray Productions
KUNG FU PANDA, DreamWorks, Buddha Jones
MR. MAGORIUM'S WONDER EMPORIUM, Fox/Walden Films, Trailer Park
SHREK THE THIRD, DreamWorks, The Ant Farm

Best Comedy
FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, Universal Pictures, Workshop Creative
JUNO, Fox Searchlight, Tea:Wonderland
MEET BILL, First Look International, GoodSpot
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, Columbia Pictures, Ignition Creative
TROPIC THUNDER, DreamWorks, Buddha Jones

Best Documentary
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON, ThinkFilm, Celluloid Heroes
SICKO, Lionsgate, Ignition Creative
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, Sony Pictures Classics, The Grossmyth Company
SURFWISE, Magnolia Pictures, Big Science
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?, Weinstein Co., Buddha Jones

Best Drama
3:10 TO YUMA, Lionsgate, InSync Advertising
AMERICAN GANGSTER, Universal Pictures, Intralink Film
INTO THE WILD, Paramount Vantage, Craig Murray Productions
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, Miramax Films, Giaronomo Productions

Best Horror
30 DAYS OF NIGHT, Columbia Pictures, Ignition Creative
ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE, Optimum Releasing, The Editpool
I AM LEGEND, Warner Bros., Skip Film
THE STRANGERS, Rogue Pictures, Buddha Jones

Best Independent Trailer
BROKEN ENGLISH, Magnolia Pictures, Kinetic Trailers