Ed Wood is alive?????

It seems weird that has a dedicatee, he was awarded prizes in festivals. However, it isn't uncommon for famous people to receive "thanks" credits.

PS According to me, the claim that he is cinema's worst director is ludicrous. If people saw what amateurs were capable of they do be disgusted. Even if we're talking about professional directors, it is hard to say that Ed Wood is the worst. The more you approach the peak of cinema, the less contenders there are for "greatest directors" (Kubrick, Hitchcock, Bresson, Bergman, Fellini, Scorsese, Truffaut, Ford, etc.) However, the more you approach the very bottom of cinema, the more there are utterly incapable people such as myself. 0.1% of cinema's talent are producing 99.99% of cinema's greatest film. You probably have ten thousand direct-to-dvd directors for every Hitchcock, and then, ten thousand worthless amateur (like me) for every direct-to-dvd directors. Seriously, IMDb lists 500 961 feature films. Only 106 071 (21%) have more than 100 votes, only 36 881 (7%) have more than 1000 votes, only 5890 films (1%) have more than than 25 000 votes and would be considered for IMDb's Top 250 and Ed Wood's Planet 9 from Outer Space would be one of them. In fact, if you look at Planet from Outer Space's stats (3.9 rating for 38 902 film), only 4 472 films (0,9%) surpasses it. It is a mere aproximation, it doesn't take into account the number of quality films that have less than 39 000 votes, but nevertheless, one could argue that Ed Wood's Planet 9 from Outer Space is more successful among IMDb users than 99.1% of all the films in cinema's history.

M&M: I looked at the awards for Wood at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000248/awards/ and found that it was being claimed that for every one of these awards and nominations, it was claimed that the award/nomination was shared by the director, three cast members, and Wood as dedicatee. The categories in which these awards were being given were things like "Best Experimental Short Film".

This sounded fake to begin with. When IMDb lists the person associated with an award, we are supposed to follow the policy of the award event as to which person is the award recipient. So, for example, for the Oscar for Best Picture, the producer is the honoree (not the director), and for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film, the submitting country is the honoree (also not the director, and not any other individual either).

On the other hand, at most film festivals, when a film is honored, typically the honoree is the director (only). In a category like "Best Experimental Short Film", I would expect only the director to be named as the honoree. I would not expect any of the actors to share in the award in that category. 

And I would never expect a dedicatee to share in any film award in any category. 

It was difficult to find verification of many of the awards for the film Astronaut's Uniform because (a) some of the festivals did not have web sites accessible, (b) others did not have their lists of award winners accessible, and (c) most of these award events are monthly events and it was hard to find the right monthly listing. But I did find confirmation of the "World Indie Film Awards" for January 2022. And this film did win their Best Experimental Short for that month:

You said "Wood". From "Beavis and Butthead".