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:
Category Archives: Awards
2017 Oscar Round-Up
For genre films it was (yet again) a quiet night:
- Arrival – Sound Editing
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Costume Design
- The Jungle Book – Visual Effects
- Piper – Animated Short Film
- Suicide Squad – Makeup and Hairstyling
- Zootopia – Animated Feature Film
Which genre films did you think got what they deserved? Which were snubbed?
2017 Academy Award Nominess
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.
First Dragon Awards
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:
Hugo Awards, 2016
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:
Dragon Nominees
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 Leads 2016 Emmy Nominees
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.
2016 Nebula Awards
The 2016 Nebulas were awarded tonight at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Female authors dominate this year’s awards, which include, as always, several works also nominated for Hugos. In a year that saw many strong SF movies, the Bradbury winner might surprise some people, and delight others.
The winners are:
2016 Hugo Award Nominees
Here are this year’s nominees.
I was hoping that last year’s kerfuffle would bring some changes to the process. I was wrong. Some of the titles (and authors) nominated are repugnant and represent the very worst in fandom.
88th Academy Awards – Genre Winners
How did genre films fare this year at Hollywood’s biggest night?
As usual, genre films were passed over in the “big” awards. But some of our favorite films from 2015 did not go home empty-handed with Mad Max: Fury Road winning 6 Oscars (the most of any film).
What’s your take on the awards this year?