Sixth Annual TV DVD Award Winners

Selected by consumers, here's the list of the finalists and winners in each category (winners in bold) for the Home Media Magazine 2009 TV-DVD Awards, plus the "Title of the Year" at the bottom:

• Best Current Series Set (discs of shows containing episodes that aired in 2008-09):
  • Fringe: The Complete First Season, Warner
  • Lost: The Complete Fourth Season, Disney
  • Mad Men: Season Two, Lionsgate
  • True Blood: The Complete First Season, HBO
  • 24: Season 7, Fox
  
  
• Best Contemporary Season Set (discs of shows containing episodes that aired between 1990 and 2007):
  • According to Jim: The Complete First Season, Lionsgate
  • Andy Richter Controls the Universe: The Complete Series, Paramount/CBS
  • Life on Mars: Series 1 - The Original UK Series, Acorn
  • The Simpsons: The Twelfth Season, Fox
  • The State: The Complete Series, Paramount/MTV
  
  
• Best Vintage Series Set (discs of shows containing episodes that aired before and up to 1989):
  • Bonanza: The Official First Season (Vol. 1-2), Paramount/CBS
  • The Howdy Doody Show: 40 Episode Collection, Mill Creek
  • The Lucy Show: The Official First Season, Paramount/CBS
  • The Outer Limits: The Complete Original Series, Fox/MGM
  • Thirtysomething: The Complete First Season, Shout! Factory
  
  
• Best Complete Series Set (all the seasons of a show in a boxed set):
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series, Universal
  • G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero - The Complete Collector's Set, Shout! Factory
  • The Real Ghostbusters Complete Collection, Time Life
  • The Sopranos: The Complete Series (Limited Edition), HBO
  • That '70s Show: The Complete Series Stash Box, Fox
  
  
• Best Miniseries or TV Movie (a disc release of short-form TV content):
  • Cagney & Lacey: The Menopause Years, S'More
  • Kennedy, MPI
  • Torchwood: Children of Earth, BBC
  • 24: Redemption, Fox
  • War and Remembrance: The Complete Epic Miniseries, MPI
  
  
• Best Animation TV DVD (a disc release of animated programming):
  • Afro Samurai: Resurrection, Funimation
  • The Irresponsible Captain Tylor: The Complete TV Series Remastered, Right Stuf
  • The Powerpuff Girls: The Complete Series - 10th Anniversary Collection, Warner
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes, Paramount/Nickelodeon
  • The Transformers: 25th Anniversary Matrix of Leadership Edition, Shout! Factory
  
  
• Best Kidvid TV DVD (a disc release intended for younger viewers):
  • Charlie and Lola: The Complete Seasons One and Two, BBC
  • Liberty's Kids: The Complete Series, Shout! Factory
  • Mr. Men: Mr. Tickle/Little Miss Sunshine, Sony Pictures
  • Sesame Street: Elmo Loves You/Being Green, Genius Products/Sesame Workshop
  • Transformers Animated: Season Two, Paramount
  
  
• Best Nonfiction TV DVD (a disc release of a documentary or informational program):
  • A Moment in History: The Inauguration of Barack Obama, MPI
  • Nature's Most Amazing Events, BBC
  • Penn & Teller: BS - The Complete Sixth Season, Paramount/CBS
  • This American Life: Season Two, Paramount/CBS
  • Yellowstone: Battle for Life, BBC
  
  
• Best Unscripted Series Set (a disc release of a reality or variety show):
  • The Girls Next Door: Season Five, Fox
  • The Hills: The Complete Fourth Season, Paramount/MTV
  • Keeping Up With the Kardashians: Season 1, Lionsgate
  • Playing Shakespeare, Acorn/Athena
  • Project Runway: The Complete Fifth Season, Genius Products
  
  
• Best Extras (the bonus material, including commentaries, featurettes, deleted scenes, etc., that add value to the disc):
  • Crash: The Complete First Season, Anchor Bay
  • Dollhouse: Season One, Fox
  • Fringe: The Complete First Season, Warner
  • Lost: The Complete Fourth Season, Disney
  • Mad Men: Season Two, Lionsgate
  
  
• Best TV on Blu-ray (programming released in the high-definition format):
  • Band of Brothers, HBO
  • Fringe: The Complete First Season, Warner
  • John Adams, HBO
  • Lost: The Complete Fourth Season, Disney
  • Star Trek: The Original Series - Season Two, Paramount/CBS
  
  
• Title of the Year
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series, Universal

Finalists were selected by a panel of judges, and the final decision was made by consumer voting. Your favorite set didn't win? Maybe next year...