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  Hugo Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hugo Award trophy was co-designed by longtime SF fan and booster Benedict Jablonski who based the trophy on a rocket-shaped hood ornament from an Oldsmobile 88.
While "bests" had been voted upon at all conventions there were no awards until the 11th Worldcon (Philadelphia, 1953) and this was, at the time, considered a one-time event.
The awards also sparked controversy in 2004 when the prize for Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form was given to a joke awards show acceptance speech featuring Gollum from The Lord of the Rings over acclaimed episodes of Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Smallville.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugo_Award   (921 words)

  
 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is one of the annual Hugo Award categories, presented by members of the World Science Fiction Convention.
Awards given in one year are for works released during the previous calendar year.
In the case of television presentations, the award is for particular episodes rather than for a program as a whole.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Dramatic_Presentation   (465 words)

  
 Hugo Award - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Hugo Award is given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy stories of the previous year, and for related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation.
The Hugo Award itself was co-designed by longtime SF fan and booster Benedict Jablonski who based the trophy on a rocket-shaped hood ornament from an Oldsmobile 88.
This precedent led to complaints when the 2001 Hugo for best novel was given to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a fantasy novel aimed at young adults.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /h/hu/hugo_award_1.html   (536 words)

  
 Babylon 5 Awards
The 1994 Space Frontier Foundation Award for "Best Vision of the Future" from the National Association of Space Scientists, Astronauts and Engineers.
The 1996 Space Frontier Foundation Award for "Best Vision of the Future" from the National Association of Space Scientists, Astronauts and Engineers for the epsisode "The Fall of Night".
The Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation" for the episode "Severed Dreams".
www.zocalo.nildram.co.uk /Award.html   (600 words)

  
 Emerald City - Hugo Best Dramatic Presentation
See also Other Dramatic Awards for a few years when the award title was different.
See Best Dramatic Presentation for years when there was a single category.
"Hugo Award" is a service mark of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
www.emcit.com /hugo_dramalong.shtml   (131 words)

  
 FUTURE FEATURES for December 21, 1999: Which is What Makes Time Travel Possible
One of the Original Trek series' best remembered episodes, and rightly so, is the Harlan Ellison-penned 'City on the Edge of Forever.' This episode won that year's Hugo award for the Best Dramatic Presentation, the second only television episode to win that award.
The dramatic events surrounding the disappearance and reappearance of the title station's predecessor is far and away one of the most dramatic conceits of Straczynski's space opera.
The Best Dramatic Presentation is for the best film or television episode of the previous year.
www.bttf.com /futurefeatures/19991221.htm   (3599 words)

  
 AwardWeb: Hugo Award Winners from the 2000s
Anyway, Jeff Walker was the desginated acceptor for all of the Dramatic Presentation Hugos, except for one.
Dramatic Presentation: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, (New Line Cinema).
Dramatic Presentation: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (New Line Cinema).
www.dpsinfo.com /awardweb/hugos/00s.html   (1050 words)

  
 The Twilight Zone (original series) -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
An anthology, each episode presented a self-contained story, frequently ending in an eerie or unexpected twist and often envoking a particular philosophy or political message.
This season would also see Serling win his fifth Emmy for dramatic writing, an additional Emmy awarded to director of photography George T. Clemens and earn, for the second year in a row, the Hugo Award for best dramatic presentation.
Awards were limited to an Emmy nomination for cinematography and another for the Hugo Award, neither of which it won.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/The_Twilight_Zone_(original_series)   (2142 words)

  
 Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
The two new categories will be best long-form dramatic presentation, for works longer than 90 minutes, principally movies, and best short-form presentation, for works under 90 minutes, principally TV episodes.
The two categories will be in effect for next year's Hugo Awards, to be administered by Torcon III in Toronto.
Previous rules allowed only single episodes of TV series to be nominated in the best dramatic presentation category, which many voters felt unfairly restricted the chances for TV shows to compete for the award, Locus reported.
www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-main.html?2002-09/06/10.15.film   (203 words)

  
 Worldcon 2005 UK - Hugo Awards
The Hugo Award® is the leading award for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy.
The Hugos are awarded each year by the World Science Fiction Society, at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon).
The design of the 2005 Hugo Base is being chosen through a public competition as announced in Press Release 20.
www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk /hugo.htm   (695 words)

  
 Hugo Award for Best Related Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winners of the Hugo Award for best related book (previously best non-fiction).
This award category is defined in Article 3.3.5 of the Constitution of the World Science Fiction Society as a work, "which is either non-fiction or, if fictional, is noteworthy primarily for aspects other than the fictional text".
This category replaced the best non-fiction (awarded 1980 to 1998).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Related_Book   (507 words)

  
 The Lord of the Rings - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released in December 2001 (and won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation of 2001).
A 1979 dramatization was broadcast in the USA and subsequently issued on tape and CD.
In 1981 the BBC broadcast a new, ambitious dramatization of The Lord of the Rings in 26 half-hour instalments.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Lord_of_the_Rings   (2262 words)

  
 Hugo Award -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Hugo Award is given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy stories of the previous year.
The Nebula award is given by members of SFWA, the Locus award is a poll of readers of the Locus (magazine).
Dramatic Presentation (Long) - Dramatic Presentation (Short) - Dramatic Presentation (1946–2002)
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Hugo_Award   (933 words)

  
 L.A.con IV: Online Hugo and Campbell Award Ballot
Hugo Awards and Campbell Award voting is conducted using an alternative vote system.
Note that "No Award" is a vote that none of the nominees should be given the award in question, not an abstention.
An award for the best new writer whose first work of science fiction or fantasy appeared during 2004 or 2005 in a professional publication.
www.laconiv.org /2006/hugos/ballot.htm   (1303 words)

  
 Babylon 5 - Babylon 5 Awards
The Pilot episode was nominated for a Hugo award.
American Cinema Foundation's 1997 E Pluribus Unum award for "Television Series, Drama".
The Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation" awarded to the episode "Severed Dreams".
www.isnnews.net /babylon5/info/b5awards.shtml   (617 words)

  
 Vernor Vinge, Galaxy Quest Win Hugos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
To raucous cheers, the writer and director of the movie Galaxy Quest gushed as they accepted their Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
It was the first time in years that a Hugo movie winner had personally accepted the award.
Each of the actual Hugo trophies was escorted on stage by a different costumed woman.
www.space.com /sciencefiction/books/worldcon_hugo_winners_000904.html   (961 words)

  
 Guide page: "The Coming of Shadows"
One of the problems we had with the Hugo last year was that whereas only a couple of TNG episodes were good enough to get nominated, eight B5 episodes made it to the final cut.
When the winner was announced for Best Dramatic Presentation, and I headed for the stage, for a moment I thought we were having an earthquake, or there was a sudden thunder...but it was the fans applauding and stomping their feet enough to make the ground shake.
Yeah, the Shadow Hugo (an ominous name for what's basically a coaster-shaped circuit board with a bronze plate on it) went to B5 from Sci-Fi.Com, which was actually the first SF award B5 has gotten, beating the real Hugos by about 24 hours.
www.midwinter.com /lurk/guide/031.html   (6047 words)

  
 Galaxy Quest, Hugo Awards
The Hugo is the best-known and most popular of all the science fiction prizes, awarded annually by the membership of WorldCon for excellence in the previous calendar year.
Galaxy Quest (starring Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver) is a screwball comedy that unashamedly lampoons both the Star Trek franchise and SF fandom in general.
Of all the nominees, The Matrix has the best chance of being considered one of the all-time groundbreaking SF films.
www.scifidimensions.com /Oct00/galaxyquesthugo.htm   (524 words)

  
 Locus Online News: 2004 Hugo Awards Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 2003 Hugo Awards were presented Saturday evening, September 4, at Noreascon 4, the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention in Boston.
Toastmaster for the awards ceremony was Neil Gaiman.
Other awards presented prior to the announcement of the Hugos were:
www.locusmag.com /2004/News/09_HugoAwardsWinners.html   (295 words)

  
 The Millennium Philcon - 2001 Hugo Awards
is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2001 Hugo Awards.
There were an additional 29 paper ballots, and 15 electronic ballots that were received, that were marked ineligible for various reasons.
Nominations for Dramatic Presentation (279 nominating ballots, 151 nominees)
www.milphil.org /hugos/press-release.html   (599 words)

  
 Le Guin's World - Awards
Ursula Le Guin has been awarded a number of different awards, including the National Book Award and a number of Nebulas and Hugos.
Locus Poll Award for Best SF Novel for
Hugo Award nomination for Best Dramatic Presentation for
hem.passagen.se /peson42/lgw/awards.html   (180 words)

  
 2003 Hugo Nominees
A list of the top fifteen nominees in each category (with the number of nominations received) will be released after the 2003 Hugo Award winners are announced at the Torcon 3 Hugo Ceremony on Saturday, August 30th.
The final Hugo Awards voting ballot will be enclosed in Torcon 3's Progress Report Five, which will be mailed out in May. The ballot will also be available as a downloadable PDF file and as an online electronic ballot on the Torcon 3 web site at www.torcon3.on.ca.
Questions or comments may be sent to the Torcon 3 Hugo Awards postal address (PO Box 3252, Merrifield, VA 22116-3252 USA) or HugoAdmin@torcon3.on.ca.
www.torcon3.on.ca /ballots/hugonominees.html   (796 words)

  
 Alien Legend - Alien -- Awards and Nominations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
All awards and nominations were received in 1980.
Alien won an Oscar for Best Effects in Visual Effects, and it was nominated for another one under Best Art Direction in Set Decoration.
Alien was nominated for a Golden Globe under Best Original Score in a Motion Picture.
www.planetavp.com /al/Alien/AwardsandNominations   (87 words)

  
 Worldcon 2005 UK - Press Release 47
Winners of 2005 Hugo Awards announced — Susanna Clarke wins award for Best Novel - "The Incredibles" wins award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) - Special Committee Award given to David Pringle.
The winners of the 2005 Hugo Awards were announced tonight at Interaction, the 2005 World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon).
Best Novella: "The Concrete Jungle" by Charles Stross
www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk /pressr47.htm   (277 words)

  
 Babylon 5 Seekers Guide | Awards | Datalore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
September 1996 - Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation:
awards for Best Series, Best Actor (Bruce Boxleitner,) Best Supporting Actor (Peter Jurasik,) and Best Supporting Actress (Mira Furlan.)
September 1997 - Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation:
users.ticnet.com /kevind/b5/making/awards.htm   (83 words)

  
 Babylon 5 Behind the Scenes: Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
September 1996 - Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation: "The Coming of Shadows"
October 1996 - Space Frontier Foundation "Visions of the Future" award.
September 1997 - Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation: "Severed Dreams"
www.midwinter.com /lurk/making/awards.html   (129 words)

  
 Noreascon Four Hugo and Retro Hugo Nominations
Note: This award is not a Hugo; it is sponsored by Dell Magazines.
Below are nominations in 10 categories for the best work of 1953.
Three categories were dropped for insufficient nominees: Best Dramatic Presentation — Long Form, Best Semiprozine, and Best Fan Artist.
www.noreascon.org /hugos/nominees.html   (649 words)

  
 David Gerrold: Tribble-ations of Star Trek and Science Fiction
The episode has gone on to be a fan favorite and was nominated for the prestigious science fiction Hugo Award as best dramatic presentation of 1968.
More important, however, is that the DVD represents another paradigm shift in how we transmit and receive information; because it represents a significant increase in the amount and type of information that human beings can communicate to each other; it also represents a further opportunity for us to create community.
The difference between the original series and all of the new series is that when we were making the original series, we did not know we were making a hit show, so we were making the best show we could to please ourselves, because we knew that we could be canceled at any moment.
www.camino.k12.ca.us /media/geroldinterview.htm   (1764 words)

  
 ISN News - Crusade - NEWS ARCHIVE: (28/03/98) - (29/04/99)
Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski will receive the Ray Bradbury Award for Dramatic Screenwriting, which is given by the president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
The award was founded by SFWA president Ben Bova in 1992 and has only been given once, to writer/director James Cameron for his work on Terminator 2.
Straczynski is being honored for his work on B5, which SFWA called "one of the most imaginative and influential science fiction television shows in years." The series recently concluded its five-year run and is currently being shown in repeats on TNT.
www.isnnews.net /crusade/news/290499.shtml   (1114 words)

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