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:
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here they are. Share your opinion below.
Surprising no one, genre shows were ignored at the nomination level this year. I would say snubbed, but that would indicate a miscarriage of judgment and I don’t think that’s happened this year, just the state of genre television is pretty poor.
In the “main” Emmys ceremony, Jessica Lange won for supporting actress on American Horror Story. You have to dig into the “Creative Arts” ceremony to find any other winners from Fantasy, Sci-Fi, or Horror. Namely, Game of Thrones walked away with six for art, costuming, and others.