The 2018 Academy Awards nominees are out and, for the first time ever, a superhero movie has made it into the Best Picture Category. Black Panther probably won’t win, but it’s a nice nod to the genre that has certainly matured in the last decade.
What films are pleased to see on the list? Which one are you not? And which films do you think got snubbed?
It was ladies night at WorldCon 76 with women or female-identifying winners across the board. N.K. Jemisin won an unprecedented three-in-a-row win for Best Novel.
This was the first year with new voting rules meant to break up the voting slates that have plagued the awards for the past few years.
Full list of winners follow.
This year’s winners were announced today at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki, Finland. Due to some rule changes, there appears to be a lot less drama around the whole voting process this year.
Congrats to the winners!
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America awarded the Nebula Awards in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this weekend. Charlie Jane Anders’ All the Birds in the Sky (Tor; Titan) took Best Novel (we’ll be reviewing that one shortly– we’re a bit behind), while Arrival received the Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation. The other awards are listed below:
For genre films it was (yet again) a quiet night:
Which genre films did you think got what they deserved? Which were snubbed?
The nominees for the films that came out in 2016 are up. As usual, genre films are passed over, but at least Arrival seems to have caught the Academy’s attention for some of the major awards. While not genre, per se, Hidden Figures is definitely a geek-friendly movie and highly recommended by the Bureau staff.
Dragon Con in Atlanta (see Scottsquatch’s Dragon Con Parade video above) awarded the inaugural Dragons this weekend. The open nomination and voting process and broader category range resulted in a (mostly) different set of winners from this year’s Hugos.
Results below:
The Hugo Awards went out as part of this year’s World SF Con. They were not free of controversy, but less so than last year’s event. Pat Cadigan (who addressed her ongoing battle with cancer), hosted. Video courtesy of Charles Tan.
Results below:
The Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards* have some competition as SF/Fantasy/Horror/Geekdom’s major honors. Atlanta’s successful Dragon Con brings us the The Dragon Awards, and their first ever nominees feature a wealth of attention-worthy titles.
Cthulhu Monopoly, anyone?
Game of Thrones, which this season passed the books they’re based upon, has nabbed 23 nominations this year. You can see a full list here (PDF).
Genre series are scattered throughout the nominations and, unlike the Oscars earlier this year, full of people from a variety of ethnicities.