Hugo Award
Established in 1953, The Hugo Awards are awarded to the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. Nominees and winners are voted for by members of the World Science Fiction Society, and 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, including film, television, radio, live theatre, computer games or music", which generally lasts less than 90 minutes. [1]
To date Doctor Who itself has received multiple nominations for each of the nine years since its revival. With a total of six wins, the series has won more than half of the Short Form awards since the "Dramatic Presentation" award was split into two separate categories in 2003.
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 thirteen times, meaning almost two thirds of his regular television stories have been nominated. Of these, he received two nominations in both 2011 and 2014, and in 2013 three of the five nominees were written by Moffat. He has also won the award four times, including three consecutive wins for his first three televised stories.
| Year | DWU 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 |
Graphic story
Paul Cornell and Jimmy Broxton's The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who has been nominated for a 2014 award in the "Best Graphic Story" category, given to a "science fiction or fantasy story told in graphic form, such as a comic book, graphic novel, or webcomic."[2]
This makes Cornell the only writer to have written Doctor Who stories nominated in two separate categories. He was previously nominated for the best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2006 and 2008.
Related work
Three Doctor Who reference books have also featured in the "Best Related Work" category, which is awarded to "work related to the field of science fiction, fantasy, or fandom ... works eligible include, but are not limited to, collections of art, works of literary criticism, books about the making of a film or TV series, biographies and so on". [3]
To date Chicks Dig Time Lords is the only DWU winner, receiving the 2011 award, but Chicks Unravel Time, and Queers Dig Time Lords also achieved nominations in 2013, and 2014 respectively.
Neil Gaiman
Prior to the award winning episode The Doctor's Wife, Neil Gaiman's writing also achieved four other Hugo Awards, as well as a further nomination. These were awarded over four separate categories: "Best Short Story", "Best Novel", "Best Novella", and "Best Related Work".
The 2008 award for "Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form" was also won by the film Stardust, which was adapted from his novel of the same name.
Footnotes
- ↑ Hugo Award Categories. The Hugo Awards. Retrieved on 3 September 2012.
- ↑ Hugo Award Categories. The Hugo Awards. Retrieved on 20 April 2014.
- ↑ Hugo Award Categories. The Hugo Awards. Retrieved on 2 September 2013.
