For what are the 'Hugo' awards given?
"awarded every year since 1955. Over the years that the award has been given, the categories presented have changed; currently Hugo Awards are given in more than a dozen categories, and include both written and dramatic works of various types. The Hugo Awards have been termed as ""among the highest honors bestowed in science fiction and fantasy writing"". Works that have won have been published in special collections, and the official logo of the Hugo Awards is often placed on the winning books' cover as a promotional tool. The 2018 Hugos were presented at the 76th Worldcon, ""Worldcon 76"", in"
"discontinued Hugo Awards have been presented throughout the years, only to be removed after a few years. When the Hugo awards were begun in 1953, each Worldcon organizing committee decided what awards they would give. Several awards were presented over the next few years which were not repeated in later conventions, unlike the primary categories which are still presented—such as Best Novel. These awards were the Best Cover Artist, Best Interior Illustrator, Excellence in Fact Articles, Best New SF Author or Artist, and #1 Fan Personality Hugos at the initial 1953 awards ceremony, the Best Feature Writer, Best Book Reviewer,"
"has been awarded annually since 1955, except in 1957. The award was titled ""Best Short Fiction"" rather than ""Best Short Story"" in 1960–1966. During this time no Novelette category was awarded and the Novella category had not yet been established; the award was defined only as a work ""of less than novel length"" that was not published as a stand-alone book. In addition to the regular Hugo awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or ""Retro Hugos"", have been available to be awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years in which"
"Society administers and presents the Hugo Awards, the oldest and most noteworthy award for science fiction. Selection of the recipients is by vote of the Worldcon members. Categories include novels and short fiction, artwork, dramatic presentations, and various professional and fandom activities. Other awards may be presented at Worldcon at the discretion of the individual convention committee. This has often included the national SF awards of the host country, including the Japanese Seiun Awards as part of Nippon 2007, and the Prix Aurora Awards as part of Anticipation in 2009. The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and"
"subsequently awarded in 1956, 1958, and 1959, lapsing in 1960. The category was reinstated for 1967 through 1969, before lapsing again in 1970; after returning in 1973, it has remained to date. In addition to the regular Hugo awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or ""Retro Hugos"", have been available to be awarded for years 50, 75, or 100 years prior in which no awards were given. To date, Retro Hugo awards have been given for novelettes for 1939, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1951, and 1954. Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the"
"Work Hugo Awards. Worldcon committees may also give out special awards during the Hugo ceremony, which are not voted on. Unlike the additional Hugo categories which Worldcons may present, these awards are not officially Hugo Awards and do not use the same trophy, though they once did. Two additional awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, are presented at the Hugo Award ceremony and voted on by the same process, but are not formally Hugo Awards. The Hugo Award is highly regarded by observers. The ""Los Angeles Times"""
"Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer The Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer is the Hugo Award given each year for writers of works related to science fiction or fantasy which appeared in low- or non-paying publications such as semiprozines or fanzines or in generally available electronic media during the previous calendar year. There is no restriction that the writer is not also a professional author, and several such authors have won the award for their non-paying works. The award was first presented in 1967 and has been awarded annually. During the 58 regular and retro nomination years, 98 writers"
"consisting of at least 3 works totaling at least 240,000 words, with at least one work released or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The Hugo Award for Best Series has been awarded annually since 2017. It was started then as a one-time special Hugo Award in advance of a vote to make it a permanent category, and was ratified as such by members of the World Science Fiction Society that year. Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes"
"Hugo Awards were instituted in 1953, one of the categories was ""#1 Fan Personality"", which has also been referred to as the ""BNF Award."" This award, which was not revived when the Hugos became institutionalized in 1955, was given to Forrest J Ackerman. (According to an interim report issued by the Philcon II convention committee while voting was still going on, the next most popular candidate at the time was Harlan Ellison; but at the time Ackerman was given the award, he actually physically declined it in favor of Ken Slater, to whom the trophy was later forwarded.) Fans report"
"Hugo Awards. One Hugo was a special award for the series, while another was for ""The Menagerie"", the episode which used footage from the original unaired pilot for ""Star Trek"", ""The Cage"". In addition, he was awarded the Brotherhood Award by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for his work in the advancement of African American characters on television. Following the end of ""Star Trek"", he was nominated for Hugo Awards for ""Genesis II"" and ""The Questor Tapes"". Following his death in 1991, he was posthumously awarded the Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award by the National Space"
"retroactively awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years in which a Worldcon was hosted, but no awards were originally given. Retro Hugos have been awarded six times: for 1946, 1951, and 1954 (given 50 years later), and for 1939, 1941, and 1943 (given 75 years later). The Hugo Award for Best Related Work has only been retroactively awarded once, in 2004; it was not on the ballot for the 1996 Retro Hugo awards, and the 2001 retro-award was ""dropped due to insufficient response"" after only nine nominating ballots included any response"
"previous awards removed before the guidelines were changed back to listing specific categories. The next discontinued Hugo award was the Other Forms award, given in 1988. It was followed in 1990 by the Best Original Art Work award, which was listed again as a special award in 1991, though not actually awarded, and instated afterward as an official Hugo Award. It was then removed from this status in 1996, and has not been awarded since. The Best Web Site special Hugo award, which was given in 2002 and 2005, was the latest special award given prior to the Best Series"
"the Hugo ballot. The category filled with six nominations due to a tie for fifth place. The 2009 Hugo Award statue base was designed by Seattle-based artist Dave Howell. A number of notable science fiction and fantasy awards were presented at Anticipation. The Prix Aurora Awards are given out annually for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary works, artworks, and fan activities from that year, and are awarded in both English and French. The Sidewise Award for Alternate History recognizes the best alternate history stories and novels of the year. The members of Anticipation selected Reno, Nevada, as"
"oversight between years. Thus there was no mandate for any future conventions to repeat the awards, and no set rules for how to do so. The 1954 Worldcon chose not to, but the awards were reinstated at the 1955 Worldcon, and thereafter became traditional. The award was called the Annual Science Fiction Achievement Award, with ""Hugo Award"" being an unofficial, but better known name. The nickname was accepted as an official alternative name in 1958, and since the 1992 awards the nickname has been adopted as the official name of the award. In 1959, though there were still no formal"
"with five nominees per category, except in the case of a tie. The awards are split over more than a dozen categories, and include both written and dramatic works. For each category of Hugo, the voter may rank ""No Award"" as one of their choices. Voters are instructed that they should do so if they feel that none of the nominees are worthy of the award, or if they feel the category should be abolished entirely. A vote for ""No Award"" other than as one's first choice signifies that the voter believes the nominees ranked higher than ""No Award"" are"
"with five nominees per category, except in the case of a tie. The awards are split over more than a dozen categories, and include both written and dramatic works. For each category of Hugo, the voter may rank ""No Award"" as one of their choices. Voters are instructed that they should do so if they feel that none of the nominees are worthy of the award, or if they feel the category should be abolished entirely. A vote for ""No Award"" other than as one's first choice signifies that the voter believes the nominees ranked higher than ""No Award"" are"
"Hugo Boss Prize The Hugo Boss Prize is awarded every other year to an artist (or group of artists) working in any medium, anywhere in the world. Since its establishment in 1996, it has distinguished itself from other art awards (e.g. the Turner Prize) because it has no restrictions on nationality or age. The prize is administered by the Guggenheim Museum and sponsored by the Hugo Boss clothing company, which since 1995 has been sponsoring various exhibitions and activities at the museum. It carries with it a cash award of US$100,000 and a tetrahedral trophy. A jury of five to"
"mustered an estimated 80–90 members and 12 nominations. The World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) gives out the Hugo Awards each year for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. Works are eligible for an award if they were published in the prior calendar year, or translated into English in the prior calendar year. Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The selection process is defined in the WSFS constitution as instant-runoff voting"
"scientific insight or extrapolation. James Blish, in a caustic review, described the novel as ""incompetent, pedantic, graceless, incredible, unpopulated and boring"" and concluded that its publication ""accomplishes nothing but the placing of a blot on the memory of a justly honored man."" Gernsback combined his fiction and science into ""Everyday Science and Mechanics"" magazine, serving as the editor in the 1930s. The Hugo Awards or ""Hugos"" are the annual achievement awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention, selected in a process that ends with vote by current Convention members. They originated and acquired the ""Hugo"" nickname during the 1950s"
"has been nominated four times. Six other works have two nominations. In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the story was first published. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominated works. * Winners and joint winners Beginning with the 1996 Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Society created the concept of ""Retro Hugos"", in which the Hugo award could be retroactively awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years in which a Worldcon"
"newszine ""File 770"", named in commemoration of this party, has won the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine a number of times. Hugo Awards were not presented at this Worldcon as the awards were not proposed until the following year, 1952, with the first Hugos actually presented in 1953 at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention. However, in 2001 at the 59th World Science Fiction Convention held in Philadelphia, a set of Retro Hugo Awards were presented to honor work that would have been Hugo-eligible had the award existed in 1951. A ""Certificate of Merit"" was presented to representatives of ""The"
"for the Victor Hugo Award (a French award for books) was nominated. An audiobook was nominated in 2009, another acceptance speech was nominated in 2012, a concept album was nominated in 2017, and a song was nominated in 2018. During the 66 nomination years, 43 awards for Best Dramatic Presentation, 17 awards each for Short Form and Long Form, and 8 Retro Hugo awards have been given. The individual franchises with the most awards are the revived 2000s-era ""Doctor Who"" with 6 Short Form awards out of 31 nominations, ""The Twilight Zone"" with 3 Best Dramatic Presentation awards out of"
"a finned rocket ship on a wooden base. Each subsequent trophy, with the exception of the 1958 trophy, has been similar to the original design. The rocket trophy was formally redesigned in 1984, and since then only the base of the trophy has changed each year. There is no monetary or other remuneration associated with the Hugo, other than the trophy. Retrospective Hugo Awards, or Retro Hugos, were added to the ballot beginning in 1996. They are awards optionally given by a Worldcon for works that would have been eligible 50, 75, or 100 years ago. Prior to 2017, these"
"Hugo Awards in the categories of Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Novelette, and Best Non-Fiction Book (this last for ""The Book on the Edge of Forever"" (also known as ""Last Deadloss Visions""), an exploration of the unpublished ""Last Dangerous Visions"" anthology). ""The Space Machine"" won the International SF prize in the 1977 Ditmar Awards . Priest's 1979 essay ""The Making of the Lesbian Horse"" (published as a Novacon chapbook) takes a humorous look at the roots of his acclaimed novel ""Inverted World"". He was guest of honour at Novacon 9 in 1979 and Novacon 30 in 2000, and at the"
"whether or not there was a Worldcon that year, or fifteen years in total: 1939–52 and 1954. Worldcon 76 and Dublin 2019 then jointly announced that Retro Hugos would be awarded in 2018 for 1943 and in 2019 for 1944. The first Hugo Awards were presented at the 11th Worldcon in Philadelphia in 1953, which awarded Hugos in seven categories. The awards presented that year were initially conceived as a one-off event, though the organizers hoped that subsequent conventions would also present them. At the time, Worldcons were completely run by their respective committees as independent events and had no"
"San Jose, California, on August 19, 2018. The 2019 awards will be presented at the 77th Worldcon, ""Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon"", in Dublin on August 19, 2019. For lists of winners and nominees for each category, see the list of award categories below. The World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) gives out the Hugo Awards each year for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, who founded the pioneering science fiction magazine ""Amazing Stories"" and who is considered one of the ""fathers"" of the science fiction genre."
"last 90 minutes or longer (excluding commercials)"" in the official Hugo Award rules. The Short Form award is for ""a dramatized production in any medium, including film, television, radio, live theater, computer games or music. The work must last less than 90 minutes (excluding commercials)"" in the official Hugo Award rules. An individual work such as a television show can be nominated for a season in the Long Form category or for individual episodes in the Short Form, though not for both in the same year; as of 2017, a single show is additionally limited to two nominations in the"
"held in a different city around the world each year. Members are permitted to vote ""no award"", if they feel that none of the nominees is deserving of the award that year, and in the case that ""no award"" takes the majority the Hugo is not given in that category. This happened in the Best Short Story category in 2015. During the 69 nomination years, 191 authors have had works nominated; 52 of these have won, including co-authors and Retro Hugos. Harlan Ellison has received the most Hugos for Best Short Story at four, Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, Mike"
"by Ernst Fegté and George Sawley. At the 1st Berlin International Film Festival it won the Bronze Berlin Bear Award, for ""Thrillers and Adventure Films."" Retro Hugo Awards: A special 1951 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation was retroactively awarded to ""Destination Moon"" by the 59th World Science Fiction Convention (2001) exactly 50 years later for being one of the science fiction films eligible in calendar year 1950. (50 years, 75 years, or 100 years govern the time periods when a Retro Hugo can be awarded by a Worldcon for the years prior to 1953 when the Hugos were established"
"Lou Gehrig Memorial Award The Lou Gehrig Memorial Award is given annually to a Major League Baseball (MLB) player who best exhibits the character and integrity of Lou Gehrig, both on the field and off it. The award was created by the Phi Delta Theta fraternity in honor of Gehrig, who was a member of the fraternity at Columbia University. It was first presented in , fourteen years after Gehrig's death. The award's purpose is to recognize a player's exemplary contributions in ""both his community and philanthropy."" The bestowal of the award is overseen by the headquarters of the Phi"
"categories were for Best Novel, Short Fiction (short stories, broadly defined), Dramatic Presentation, Professional Magazine, Professional Artist, and Best Fanzine (fan magazine). 1963 was also the second year in which ""no award"" won a category, again for Dramatic Presentation. In 1964 the guidelines were changed to allow individual conventions to create additional categories, which was codified as up to two categories for that year. These additional awards were officially designated as Hugo Awards, but were not required to be repeated by future conventions. This was later adjusted to only allow one additional category; while these extra Hugo Awards have been"
"what they considered more traditional science fiction. Among the most respected awards for science fiction are the Hugo Award, presented by the World Science Fiction Society at Worldcon; the Nebula Award, presented by the SFWA and voted on by the community of authors; and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for short fiction. One notable award for science fiction films is the Saturn Award. It is presented annually by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films. There are national awards, like Canada's Prix Aurora Awards, regional awards, like"
"1990 the Best Original Art Work award was given as an extra Hugo Award, and was listed again in 1991, though not actually awarded, and established afterward as an official Hugo Award. It was then removed from this status in 1996, and has not been awarded since. The Retro Hugos were created in the mid-1990s, and were first awarded in 1996. In 2003, the Dramatic Presentation award was split into two categories, Long Form and Short Form. This was repeated with the Best Professional Editor category in 2007. 2009 saw the addition of the Best Graphic Story category, while the"