May 14, 2016
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:
April 26, 2016
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.
February 29, 2016
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?
January 14, 2016
July 16, 2015
You can grab the full list here, but if your genre show wasn’t titled “Game of Thrones” or “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” it didn’t get a nomination.
March 3, 2014
The complete list of nominations and wins can be found here. Gravity was the big winner from the genre and non-genre entertainment perspectives, although it was not chosen for Best Picture.
July 2, 2013
Here is a list of this year’s award winners from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.
The Saturn Award is the official honor presented by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror films. The Academy has been voting these awards since 1972. The films may change, but the quality and ideas presented in these works remain to be the most successful at the box-office.
January 14, 2013
This year’s Golden Globe winners are known, with minimal representation of genre films as usual. (By my count, genre films dominated the music and animation categories.) The Golden Globes tend to be an indication of the way the Oscars will play out as well.
July 14, 2016
Game of Thrones Leads 2016 Emmy Nominees
Brian Awards, Emmys, Game of Thrones Awards
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.
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