OSRS Golden Gnome Awards 2026: voting, finalists and ceremony

How Golden Gnome Awards 2026 voting works

The Golden Gnome Awards celebrate Old School RuneScape community creators, artists and contributors. For 2026, Jagex split the awards across RuneScape, Old School RuneScape and Dragonwilds, so each game has its own finalist set and its own news post. The OSRS finalist list was published on August 7, 2026, and voting runs through the official survey linked in that post.

The rule is simple: the finalist with the most votes in each category wins. Voting closes Friday, August 14, 2026 at 08:00 UTC, so there is no advantage to waiting. One practical note: the Best Cosplay Creation award is judged live at the RuneFest Cosplay Parade and is not part of the online vote. Weapon-like props must pass NEC security checks, and sharp items are confiscated.

• Voting window: August 7 to August 14, 2026, 08:00 UTC.
• Vote through the official survey linked in the OSRS news post.
• Highest vote count wins each category.
• Cosplay awards are judged at RuneFest, not online.

OSRS finalist categories: creators, guides and streamers

The content categories are where most voters spend their attention. Best New OSRS Video Creator features MadSeasonShow, Eltk, PotatoHimeRS and ItsIvy, while Best OSRS Video Creator pits Settled, Odablock, Gnomonkey and SoupRS against each other. The Best New Video Guide category includes two Gnomonkey entries (a first Inferno Cape golden trio route and a free Corrupted Gauntlet prep guide), Synq's remastered solo raids guide and Jamzful's deep delve guide.

OSRS Video of the Year nominees are Port Khazard's Fortis Colosseum without protection prayers, Settled's 0 Damage Colosseum finale, MadSeasonShow's Fight Caves episode and the Gielinor Games 5 finale from SoupRS. On the streaming side, Best New Streamer features Sardaco, Jamzful, PetaOSRS and Widega, while Best Streamer nominees are B0aty, Faux, Gnomonkey and Odablock.

Art, podcast, mobile and plugin creator categories

The artistic categories split into digital and physical work. Digital nominees include Prezleek's Post-Colosseum Cabbages, LilSmokey's RuneSkate, Ninth Cloud's Tales of 25 Years and Legend Arts' Lord Lowerniel V. Drakan. Physical nominees include a knitted Chambers of Xeric sweater (Tinklemouse), a polymer clay Beef pet (Flutten), a tile-accurate Al Kharid build (Rune LoreKeeper) and a Guthixian Archive Guardian (Ninth Cloud).

Three categories matter directly to tool users. Best OSRS Podcast features The BeheCast, XP Waste Podcast, Sae Bae Cast and Wall Friends. Best Video featuring OSRS on Mobile includes two GothOSRS entries plus FullyOSRS's six-month mobile-only Infernal Cape and Theoatrix's 2026 mobile methods. Best OSRS Plugin Creator finalists are ChunkyAtlas (Chanceman), Az (OSRS TCG), Zoinkwiz (Quest Helper) and 117 (117HD). The Unsung Hero player-choice award recognises PureSpam, Megan, Maybe Jessi and 10Boot OSRS.

• Digital and physical art run as separate categories.
• Best Plugin Creator includes the Quest Helper and OSRS TCG developers.
• Unsung Hero is a player-choice recognition with four finalists.

Cross-game categories with OSRS finalists

Several categories are shared across Jagex titles, and OSRS creators appear in most of them. Best Series nominees include MadSeasonShow's OSRS Ironman Blind No Guides, Settled's Sailing Locked and SoupRS's Gielinor Games Season 5. Best Streamed Event includes Solomission's Deadman All Stars Season 3, Odablock's childhood cancer charity stream and the Gielinor Games 5 finale.

Gamer of the Year features two OSRS names in Port Khazard and Gnomonkey alongside xWannes and Odablock, and Odablock also appears in Champion for Charity. Best Music Composition includes two OSRS soundfont covers. Because these categories pool entries from multiple games, they are a useful place to see how visible OSRS content is across the wider RuneScape community.

RuneFest ceremony: date, pre-show and stream

The awards ceremony takes place at RuneFest on Saturday, October 3, 2026. RuneFest itself runs October 3–4 at the Birmingham NEC. For 2026 the format changed: a new pre-show ceremony happens before the main show and is not streamed, but it gives every winner stage time with J-Mods. Pre-show winners are announced in a blog post after the event. The main ceremony streams live on Twitch.

If you plan to attend, remember that the cosplay parade is the only live-judged award path, and prop rules are enforced at security. If you are not attending, the Twitch stream covers the main show, and the official news channels carry the pre-show results afterwards.