Hugo Award

Steven Moffat with his 2007 Hugo Award.

Established in 1953, the Hugo Awards are awarded to the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, as voted for by members of the World Science Fiction Society. The awards themselves are presented at the annual World Science Fiction Convention over a number of various categories.

Dramatic presentation

The Doctor Who Universe has had the most success in the category of "Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form", which is awarded to "a dramatised production in any medium", which generally lasts less than 90 minutes.

Doctor Who itself was nominated every year for the first sixteen years of its revival, including multiple nominations from 2006 to 2014, with a total of six wins. Torchwood also received a nomination for Captain Jack Harkness, and the 50th Anniversary stories An Adventure in Space and Time and The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot were both nominated in 2014.

Steven Moffat in particular has had unparalleled success in this category. As an individual writer he has been short-listed more than fifteen times. Of these, he received two nominations in both 2011 and 2014, and in 2013 he had written three of the five nominees. He has also won the award four times, including three consecutive wins for his first three televised stories.

Year	Doctor Who Related Nominees	Winner
2006	Dalek, and Father's Day	The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
2007	School Reunion, and Army of Ghosts/Doomsday	The Girl in the Fireplace
2008	Human Nature/The Family of Blood, and Captain Jack Harkness	Blink
2009	Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, and Turn Left	Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
2010	The Next Doctor, and Planet of the Dead	The Waters of Mars
2011	Vincent and the Doctor, and A Christmas Carol	The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang
2012	The Girl Who Waited, and A Good Man Goes To War	The Doctor's Wife
2013	Asylum of the Daleks, The Angels Take Manhattan and The Snowmen	Game of Thrones: Blackwater
2014	The Name of the Doctor, The Day of the Doctor, An Adventure in Space and Time, and The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot	Game of Thrones: The Rains of Castamere
2015	Listen	Orphan Black: By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried
2016	Heaven Sent	Jessica Jones: AKA Smile
2017	The Return of Doctor Mysterio	The Expanse: Leviathan Wakes
2018	Twice Upon a Time	The Good Place: The Trolley Problem
2019	Rosa and Demons of the Punjab	The Good Place: Janet(s)
2020	Resolution	The Good Place: The Answer
2021	Fugitive of the Judoon	The Good Place: Whenever You're Ready

Related work

The only other category in which the Doctor Who Universe has won a Hugo Award is for the "Best Related Work", which is awarded to "work related to the field of science fiction, fantasy, or fandom". This was for the reference book Chicks Dig Time Lords in 2011.

Chicks Unravel Time, and Queers Dig Time Lords also received nominations in 2013, and 2014 respectively.

The 2019 award was won by Archive of Our Own, "A fan-created, fan-run, non-profit, non-commercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic", of which the Doctor Who universe (spread out over various categories) is one of the most represented fandoms.

Graphic story

Paul Cornell and Jimmy Broxton's The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who was nominated for a 2014 award in the "Best Graphic Story" category, which is given to a "science fiction or fantasy story told in graphic form".

This makes Cornell the only writer to earn Doctor Who nominations in two separate categories. He previously wrote Father's Day and Human Nature/The Family of Blood, which received nominations for the best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2006 and 2008 respectively.

Non DWU winners

As well as the award winning episode The Doctor's Wife, Neil Gaiman's writing has also achieved five other Hugo Awards, as well as a further nomination. These have all been awarded over five separate categories: "Best Short Story", "Best Novel", "Best Novella", "Best Related Work", and "Best Graphic Story".

Two adaptations of his novels have also won the award for "Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form", the first being the film Stardust in 2008, based on his novel of the same name; the 2020 award was won by the TV series Good Omens. Not only did Gaiman co-write the original novel with Terry Pratchett but also served as showrunner, and David Tennant also had a starring role in the series.

Other contributors who have won a Hugo Award for non-DWU works include Harlan Ellison (multiple, 1966-86), Jane Espenson (Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, 2003), and Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (Other forms, 1988). Nominees include Douglas Adams (Dramatic Presentation, 1979), and Michael Moorcock (Professional Magazine, 1968-69)