All Entries Tagged With: "nomination"

Rant: Is Expanding the Best Picture Category a Good Thing?

A few months ago when I first heard that next year’s Academy Awards was expanding the ‘Best Picture’ category from five nominees to 10 nominees there’s been one question lingering in my head ever since. Why? The obvious explanation is that a majority of the Academy for Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (or whichever association [...]

Gemini Nominations Announced

Just wanted to do a quick post congratulating all of the science fiction television shows nominated for this year’s Gemini Award. As much American television is filmed in what many dub “Hollywood North” (Battlestar Galactica is a testament to this as much of Caprica City looks a lot like downtown Vancouver) it is no surprise [...]

Aurora Award Banquet Tickets on Sale Now!

The Aurora Awards is building on its success in Winnipeg last year, and promises to be a badge of pride for Canada on the Worldcon stage. The Awards presentation banquet will have Canada’s best and brightest authors presenting the Awards, and also some surprise guests from outside the literary community, who are appearing nowhere else [...]

2009 Chesley Award Nominations Announced

The nominees for the 2009 Chesley Award were recently announced and the list is impressive. For those unaware of this award, the Chelseys are given for excellence in science fiction and fantasy art or illustration. The award began in 1985 and is run by the Association for Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA). The award [...]

Rant: “If All the SF Magazines are Closing, How Am I Going to Get Published?”

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Now this statement may be a bit of an exaggeration, but think about all of the changes that are happening in the world of publishing today; less books are being produced by publishing houses (and being purchased by customers), top level editors and agents are being firing in the midst of corporate restructuring, [...]

Bram Stoker Award Final Ballot Announced

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And the awards just keep on coming. Yesterday the final ballot for the Bram Stoker Award was announced. Winners will be announced at the Stoker Award weekend, June 12-14, 2009 at the Burbank Marriott Hotel, near Los Angeles.  Now I realize that this is a science fiction [...]

Jay Straczynski Snubbed Oscar Nomination

Next to Roland Moore, Brannon Braga, I don’t anyone has done more for science fiction in television, books, and movies in the last twenty years than Jay M. Straczynski. Not only was he the creator and head writer of Babylon 5, but he was in charge of spearheading (as well as being the lead creative [...]

My Nominations for the Hugo Ballot

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With my invitation to the Worldcon this year better known as ‘Anticipation 2009′ in Montreal comes the invitation to select this year’s ballot for the Hugo, Aurora, and the John W. Campbell Award. I don’t know that much about the science fiction community [...]