At Sunday night's 59th annual Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards, The Walking Dead was honored with an award for Best Sound Editing: Long Form Sound Effects and Foley in Television for the Season 2 Premiere, "What Lies Ahead" -- the show's second Golden Reel after a win last year. In addition, Executive Producer, Gale Anne Hurd, was named the recipient of the 2012 MPSE Filmmaker Award.

The full team nominated in the category is as follows:

• Supervising Sound Editor: Jerry Ross
• Foley Artists: Gregg Barbanell, M.P.S.E., Pamela Kahn, M.P.S.E.
• Sound Editors: Tim Farrell, Phil Barrie, Jerry Edemann
• Assistant Sound Editor: Deron Street
• Foley Mixer: Stacey Michaels
• Zombie Wrangler: WK Stratton
• FX Re-recording Mixer: Gary D. Rogers

The Walking Dead faced HBO's Cinema Verite, Showtime's Homeland, Syfy's Red Faction Origins and Fox's Terra Nova to take home the prize.

For more information about the awards, visit the MPSE website.

At Sunday night's Writer's Guild of America Awards, John Esposito and Greg Nicotero picked up an award for the first ever Outstanding Achievement in Writing Derivative New Media for their work on The Walking Dead webisodes.

The webisodes were written by John Esposito and directed by Co-Executive Producer and Special FX Makeup Designer Greg Nicotero. Esposito and Nicotero had been up against web series Jack Donaghy: Executive Superhero (tied to NBC's 30 Rock), Mortal Kombat: The Web Series and a Sons of Anarchy web series (FX).

Click here to watch The Walking Dead webisodes.

For more information on the awards, visit the WGA website.

On Thursday, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films held its 37th annual Saturn Awards in Burbank, California, and The Walking Dead was honored to take home the prize for Best Television Presentation. In addition, the series' Writer/Director/Executive Producer Frank Darabont received the prestigious George Pal Memorial Award for his twenty-five year body of genre work.

The Walking Dead faced heavy competition for this year's award: BBC's Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol and Sherlock, ABC's Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special and Starz' The Pillars of the Earth and Spartacus: Gods of the Arena were also nominated.

Also a big winner at last night's ceremony was AMC's drama Breaking Bad, which won the trophy for Best Syndicate/Cable series.

On Sun., Feb. 20 The Motion Picture Sound Editors announced the winners for the 2011 Golden Reel Awards, and The Walking Dead's Sound Editor Walter Newman was honored with the award for Best Sound Editing: Short Form Dialogue and ADR in Television for his work on Episode 2, "Guts."

Newman faced stiff competition to take home the award. Competing in the category this year were HBO's True Blood, Showtime's The Tudors, CBS's The Mentalist, A&E's The Glades, The CW's Smallville, Fox's Human Target and AMC's own Mad Men.

On Sat., Feb. 19 The American Cinema Editors society announced the winners of the 61st Annual ACE Eddie awards honoring excellence in film and television editing, and The Walking Dead editor Hunter Via walked home with the award for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial Television.

Via, who won for his work on the Season 1 Pilot, "Days Gone Bye", faced down stiff competition for the trophy: Friday Night Lights's Mark Conte; Glee's Bradley Buecker, Doc Crotzer, Joe Leonard and John Roberts; and Kelley Dixon from AMC's own Breaking Bad were also nominated.

AMC will encore the award-winning Pilot episode during its full-series marathon of The Walking Dead on Fri., Mar. 4 beginning at 8/7c.