It has long been a tradition at GD to award the best paper from each of the two tracks. Furthermore, the GD participants can also vote for the best poster and the best presentation.

Best Paper Track 1

Michael Kaufmann, Boris Klemz, Kristin Knorr, Meghana M Reddy, Felix Schröder, and Torsten Ueckerdt

for their paper

The Density Formula: One Lemma to Bound Them All.

Best Paper Track 2

Henry Förster, Felix Klesen, Tim Dwyer, Peter Eades, Seok-Hee Hong, Stephen G. Kobourov, Giuseppe Liotta, Kazuo Misue, Fabrizio Montecchiani, Alexander Pastukhov, and Falk Schreiber

for their paper

GraphTrials: Visual Proofs of Graph Properties.

Best Poster

Simon D. Fink, Matthias Pfretzschner, Ignaz Rutter, and Peter Stumpf

for their poster

Level Planarity Is More Difficult Than We Thought.

Best Presentation

Soeren Terziadis

for his presentation of the paper

Boundary Labeling in a Circular Orbit.