Announcing the 28th Annual World's Fair Award Winner

Each year The World's Fair bestows its top honor at the end of December, or early January. This honor has come to be renowned not just in the blogosphere (see this write-up from Time), not just on the internet (see this write-up by Susan Sontag), not just embedded within the broad swath we call middlebrow sensibility (see this column penned by Norman Mailer), but as a central element of the current cultural zeitgeist.

Please see below the fold for this year's 2008 winner, given at the end of the list of all prior winners.

Thank you to the many, many readers and subscribers to The World's Fair who, throughout this year and many prior, have continued to support us and send along nominees, well wishes, and comments. We couldn't continue the tradition without you and, we know, we owe the success of the award and its cultural cache to you.

Much love,
Ben and Dave

1981: no winner
1982: no winner
1983: The World Champion Baltimore Orioles
1984: no winner
1985: no winner
1986: no winner
1987: no winner
1988: no winner
1989: no winner [tie]
1990: no winner
1991: no winner
1992: no winner
1993: no winner
1994: no winner
1995: no winner
1996: no winner
1997: no winner
1998: Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line
1999: no winner
2000: no winner
2001: A Space Odyssey
2002: no winner
2003: no winner
2004: no winner
2005: no winner
2006: no winner
2007: no winner
2008: All natural Orange Creme Soda