1st Place: Cameo Budget Theatre
2nd Place: Micon Cinemas
3rd Place: Gemini Drive-In
 
Downtown Eau Claire’s Cameo Budget Twin is the reigning champion of regional movie houses, winning for the third consecutive year. One cannot even begin to describe the sheer awesomeness that resides in this historic second-run theater, with its worn and discolored carpeting, butt-pain inducing chairs, and mildly creepy basement bathrooms. From its extremely popular discount Tuesday movie nights, to its lowest priced theater concessions in town, the Cameo is the Eau Claire movie theater. Micon Cinemas in Chippewa Falls is a massive eight-screen complex, with an abundance of large movie cardboard cutouts. Rounding it out is the Gemini Drive-In, a single-screen, double-feature experience, where moviegoers are able to sneak in outside food, and talk loudly amongst their car-mates without being “shooshed” by grumpy strangers. – Bailey Berg