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Winners of the 2025 Ursa Major Awards

Posted by dronon on Sat 4 Apr 2026 - 11:19

The winners of the 2025 Ursa Major Awards are in! The announcements were made at Las Vegas Fur Con on Friday April 3, 2026.

The Streamer category is a new addition, and for 2025 a temporary Classic Anthro Videogame was created to acknowledge games made before 2001, before the Ursas existed.

Winners below the cut!

In each category, the runners-up are presented in descending numbers of votes. You can view the full voting statistics on the Ursas website; there were 969 voters. Our earlier article on Flayrah has links to most of the nominees' work.

Motion Picture:

Live-action or animated feature-length movies.

Winner: Zootopia 2
The Bad Guys 2
Dog Man
Good Boy
Elio

Dramatic Short Work:

One-shots, advertisements or short videos.

Winner: Lackadaisy: Last Call
Bun Hunting 2.0: You can (not) be Baked
Snow Bear
Intermarché - Unloved
Talon: An Animated Dinosaur Epic

Dramatic Series:

TV or YouTube series.

Winner: The Amazing Digital Circus
Helluva Boss
Hazbin Hotel
Belfort & Lupin
The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball

Novel:

Written works of 40,000 words or more. Serialized novels qualify only for the year that the final chapter is published.

Winner: Feral Flame
Of Late Belonging
Relinquished Realms
Gravitational Pull
The Blood of Life

Short Fiction:

Stories less than 40,000 words, poetry, and other short written works.

Winner: Coming Ott
The Young Man who Knew Where he was Going
The Package
Salisbury
Against the Upright Ones
Sanctum Scriptorium

General Literary Work:

Story collections, comic collections, graphic novels, non-fiction works, and serialized online stories.

Winner: Sabrina Online: A Trio of Tales
The Wideness of the World
Tales from the Guild: Blood and Water
Echoes
Detective Alice

Non-Fiction Work:

Winner: 85 Years of Con Cosplay: From Costume Masquerade to Fursuit Parade
The Wealth Disparity in the Furry Fandom
Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster
Who runs your community? Five stories about predators with powerful friends in fandom
They solved a horrific crime in their community

Graphic Story:

Includes comic books, and serialized online stories.

Winner: A Tale of Tails
Wrath of Con
Projection Edge
Incomplete Control
Pixeas and Henry

Comic Strip:

Newspaper-style strips, including those with ongoing arcs.

Winner: Foxes in Love
Lauren Ipsum
Nine To Nine
Freefall
Damian Foxx

Magazine:

Edited collections of creative and/or informational works by various people, professional or amateur, published in print or online in written, pictorial or audio-visual form.

Winner: The Voice of Dog
Dogpatch Press
InFurNation
Gaming Furever
Indie Anthro

Published Illustration:

General artwork, may include illustrations for books, magazines, convention program books, cover art for such, T-shirts, coffee-table portfolios.

Winner: Furry Fantasy Banner Set
Steampunk Protogen Banner
Adventure
Avian Aerie: 2025
Among the Tides
Deep Sea Fox

Game:

Computer or console games, role-playing games, board games.

Winner: Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Donkey Kong Bananza
Back to the Dawn
Sunderfolk
Shape of Dreams

Website:

Online collections of art, stories, and other creative and/or informational works. Includes galleries, story archives, directories, blogs, and personal sites.

Winner: FurAffinity
E621
FurTrack
The Belfry WebComics Index
Fluffle

Fursuit:

Fursuiters and Fursuits galore!

Winner: Gintan 3.0
Echo the Bat
Bubblegum
Violet the Mule
Bon Pansky

Music:

Musical works such as singles and albums.

Winner: If I Were to Die
Off the Leash
First Step
Ignition
There's Still Tomorrow

Streamer:

New category for 2025! Furry streamers.

Winner: BarleyTheBurr
Skaifox
Whiskeyding0
BardicRJ
Qweave
Fluwufy

Classic Anthro Videogame:

One-time special category for 2025! Games released before 2001 that had a playable animal character.

Winner: Spyro the Dragon (1998)
Star Fox 64 (1997)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992)
Crash Bandicoot (1996)
Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993)
Banjo-Kazooie (1998)
PaRappa the Rapper (1997)
Tail Concerto (1998)
Mappy (1983)
Rocket Knight Adventures (1993)

Congrats to everyone! Don't forget you can contribute links to furry stuff you like in 2026 to the Recommended Anthropomorphics List!

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2cross2affliction — Sat 4 Apr 2026 - 23:53

#1

Okay, I'm just going to be mean, but I was wondering why I didn't see as many "copaganda" complaints from furries about Zootopia 2, but then I saw the nominees for Non-Fiction and I understood, "oh, so now we want to be the cops".

Anyway, glad the cute one won, then.

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dronon — Sun 5 Apr 2026 - 02:11

#2

Her name was Judy, she was a beat cop, with her ears tied up like hair, and her height just up to th-- Oh, copaganda.

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Sonious — Sun 5 Apr 2026 - 23:01

#3

To be fair the "We want to be the cops" ones did worse than I expected them too.

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2cross2affliction — Sun 5 Apr 2026 - 23:09

#4

Yeah, statisticially, it wasn't really a contest; Bad Guys 2 actually put up a better fight against Zootopia 2. I mean, that was still a blowout, but it somehow feels like less of a blowout due to how much of a blowout it was last time.

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Sonious — Sun 5 Apr 2026 - 23:30

#5

There are many blowouts this year, the voters basically at this point seem to understand if they want the one thing they like to win, give them a #1 and don't vote for anything else. You can see that in the Lack-A-Daisy trailer win in Dramatic Shorts most distinctly.

At least in the movies and the games there was definitely a split in this where there were two titans and the three misc entries, those ones I kind of expected though.