Before I start this week’s edition of Geek Guru, I would like to apologize for my lack of presence last week. I competed in both the league and regional Quiz Bowl championships with my fellow team members (and won!), and that took up quite a bit of time and geeky output. I promise that now I am back to stay. So, without further ado, it’s time for February’s first Geek Guru.

This year’s Oscars nominations, infamously questionable and whitewashed, were only followed by the Grammy’s snubbing of the empress Beyonce and other talented artists, including Sia. Usually I greatly enjoy awards shows, even if they don’t always go the way I want them to go. This year, I’m just disappointed. My solution: I’m making my own awards show. Welcome to the first annual Geek Guru Awards. (In case anyone was wondering, all votes for nominees and winners are 100 percent all me, and surely just as biased as those of the Oscars and Grammys).

Nintendo video game of the year

(Nintendo games get their own category because they’re basically all I play, and I am therefore super biased in their favor.)

Nominees: Super Smash Bros. 4 — Wii U and 3DS, Bravely Default, Fantasy Life, Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, Mario Kart 8, Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Winner: Super Smash Bros. 4 — Wii U and 3DS

This game might be the best Nintendo game to date; it combines characters and elements from different Nintendo universes into the quintessential fighting game. I’ve written about the glories of this game before. All in all, the variety of the characters, great graphics and playability combine to create a game that is truly worthy of the title of game of the year.

Non-Nintendo video game of the year

Nominees: Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Sunset Overdrive, Watch Dogs, Destiny, I can’t think of another I deem close to worthy so the Oregon Trail re-release

Winner: Dragon Age: Inquisition

The Dragon Age trilogy has come a long a way. The gorgeous graphics, beautiful soundtrack and memorable characters of Inquisition make a great gaming experience. One of the coolest parts of the game is the amount of content. There are ridiculous amounts of storylines, side quests and alternate endings. Not to mention, the character customization, one of my favorite parts of games, is impeccable. (Though Oregon Trail does provide some stiff competition.)

Soundtrack of the year

Nominees: “Divergent” compilation soundtrack, “Big Hero 6” score, “Interstellar” score, “Guardians of the Galaxy” compilation soundtrack, Bravely Default score, Dragon Age: Inquisition score

Winner: Bravely Default score and “Interstellar” score tie because I can’t choose. Yay! Since this awards show isn’t legit, they both get trophies!

The score for “Interstellar” experiments with unique musical techniques with a main focus on the organ and a choir. The result is an amazingly haunting album that is a great accompaniment to its movie. Bravely Default’s score is probably my favorite video game soundtrack of all time. It’s charming, mysterious and rambunctious throughout the mainly symphonic songs. It’s definitely worth a listen.

Best Internet phenomenon

Nominees: skeleton war jokes, Twitch Plays Pokemon, Ice Bucket Challenge, Jaden Smith tweets, #ThingsTimHowardCouldSave, Apparently Kid

Winner: Twitch Plays Pokemon

In what can best be described as a social experiment, the video game streaming website Twitch hosted a stream in which users could control a game of Pokemon Red via the chat box next to the stream. Chatters could send in which button they wanted pressed (e.g. “down,” “A,” “start”) and the program would input it into the game. It blew up, and with the large amount of chatters, which controls actually got through became impossible to predict. The struggle to get thousands of people to somehow win this game captured the hearts of many, invented fictional religions overnight and inspired some amazing art. Hands down, my favorite nerdy moment of the year.

Nerdy movie of the year

Nominees: “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part One,” “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “Interstellar,” “How To Train Your Dragon 2”

Winner: Another tie. Don’t think I could ever choose between “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Interstellar.”

To be succinct, these are two of my favorite movies ever. I wrote about “Interstellar” before here. It is, truly, an experience. For “Guardians,” I really love how Marvel branched out and tried something new, creating a movie with hilarious dialogue, an amazing soundtrack and my celeb crush Chris Pratt. Props, Marvel.

Book of the year

Nominees: “Yes Please” by Amy Poehler, “Landline” by Rainbow Rowell, “All The Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr, “The Martian” by Andy Weir, “Written In My Own Heart’s Blood” by Diana Gabaldon, “We Were Liars” by E. Lockhart

Winner: I have not read any of these books, because this awards show is very unofficial right now. However, I wish there were televised book awards akin to the Oscars. So all these books get awards for being good books. Congrats!

There are plenty more categories I could add, but all this hyperlinking is getting me a little sleepy. That’s all for the first Geek Guru awards. Pretend that some well-dressed celebrities announced the winners and that a swaggy band performed. See you next time.