Winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards Announced

The winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1953 by the World Science Fiction Society, to recognize the best in science fiction and fantasy, have been announced.

 

The 2026 Hugo Awards were presented at a ceremony during LACon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, on August 30 2025 in Anaheim, USA.

Best Novel

• The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK)

Best Novella

• The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia UK)

Best Novelette

• “Never Eaten Vegetables” by HH Pak (Clarkesworld, Issue 220)

Best Short Story

• “In My Country” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld, Issue 223)

Best Series

• Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel, written by Ursula K Le Guin, adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham (Clarion Books; Walker UK)

Best Related Work

• Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer (University of Chicago Press US, Head of Zeus UK)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Sinners, screenplay by Ryan Coogler, directed by Ryan Coogler (Proximity Media, Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Murderbot: “All Systems Red,” written by Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz, directed by Roseanne Liang, based on the book All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Apple TV)

Best Game or Interactive Work

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, developed by Sandfall Interactive, published by Kepler Interactive

Best Editor, Short Form

• Neil Clarke

Best Editor, Long Form

• Diana M Pho

Best Professional Artist

• John Picacio

Best Semiprozine

• Uncanny Magazine, publisher and editor-in-chief: Michael Damian Thomas; managing editor Monte Lin; poetry editor Betsy Aoki, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine

• nerds of a feather, flock together, editors Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer; senior editors Joe Sherry, G Brown, Vance Kotrla

Best Fancast

• Hugo, Girl!, presented by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson

Best Fan Writer

• Jason Sanford

Best Fan Artist

• Yuumei

Best Poem

• “Hex Supply Customer Support Log” by Elis Montgomery (Strange Horizons, Issue 25 August 2025)

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

• Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe by CB Lee (Feiwel & Friends)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (sponsored by Dell Magazines)

• Antonia Hodgson (1st year of eligibility)

Winners of the 61st Annual SFWA Nebula Awards Announced

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the winners of the 61st annual Nebula Awards for works first published in 2025, along with the winners of the Ray Bradbury and Andre Norton Awards.

Each year, the organization’s members vote on which stories they consider to be the best novel, novella, novelette, short story and Young Adult story in the genre, as well as the best game writing and best outstanding dramatic presentation.

The Nebula Awards was presented in a ceremony on Saturday June 6 in Chicago as part of the 61st Annual Nebula Awards Conference. 

The Nebula Award for Best Novel

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)

The Nebula Award for Best Novella

• The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia)

The Nebula Award for Best Novelette

• “Uncertain Sons”, by Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)

The Nebula Award for Best Short Story

• “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”, by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)

The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• Into the Wild Magic, by Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick)

The Nebula Award for Best Game Writing

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, by Guillaume Broche, & Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (Kepler Interactive), Developer: Sandfall Interactive, Sandfall SAS.

The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Murderbot: Season One, by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz (Apple TV+)

The Nebula Award for Best Comic

• Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters: The Killing Stone, by Jessica Maison (Wicked Tree)

The Nebula Award for Best Poem

• “The World To Come”, by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25)

Finalists for the 2025 Locus Awards Announced

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation have announced the finalists for the 2025 Locus Awards.

The Locus Awards are presented to winners of the Locus Magazine's annual readers' poll, first presented in 1971, to recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy literature.

The winners will be announced May 30, 2026, at the Locus Awards Ceremony in Berkeley, California.

Science Fiction Novels

• The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
• Picks & Shovels, Cory Doctorow (Ad Astra; Tor)
• Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman (Tor)
• When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga)
• All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu (Saga; Ad Astra)
• Where the Axe Is Buried, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Slow Gods, Claire North (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)
• The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
• Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)

 

Fantasy Novels

• The Devils, Joe Abercrombie (Tor; Gollancz)
• The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
• Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan UK)
• A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape)
• The Everlasting, Alix E Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
• The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape)
• Hemlock & Silver, T Kingfisher (Tor; Tor UK)
• Katabasis, RF Kuang (Harper Voyager; Harper Voyager UK)
• The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor)

Horror Novels

• The Possession of Alba Díaz, Isabel Cañas (Berkley; Solaris UK)
• Spread Me, Sarah Gailey (Nightfire)
• King Sorrow, Joe Hill (Morrow; Headline UK)
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
• The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• Never Flinch, Stephen King (Scribner, Hodder & Stoughton UK)
• The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Arcadia UK)
• It Was Her House First, Cherie Priest (Poisoned Pen)
• The Crimson Road, AG Slatter (Titan UK)
• The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)

 

Young Adult Novels

• The Singular Life of Aria Patel, Samira Ahmed (Little, Brown; Atom UK) [SF]
• Make Me a Monster, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H]
• Costumes for Time Travelers, AR Capetta (Candlewick; Walker UK) [F]
• The Executioners Three, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Daphne UK) [H]
• The Underwood Tapes, Amanda DeWitt (Peachtree Teen) [H]
• Among Ghosts, Rachel Hartman (Random House) [F]
• Sky on Fire, EK Johnston (Dutton) [F]
• Starstrike, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK) [SF]
• I Am Not Jessica Chen, Ann Liang (Harper) [F]
• They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H]

First Novels

• A Song of Legends Lost, MH Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga) [F]
• Red Rabbit Ghost, Jen Julian (Run For It) [H]
• When Devils Sing, Xan Kaur (Holt; First Ink UK) [H]
• Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan (Pantheon; Simon & Schuster UK) [SF]
• Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster; Magpie) [SF]
• Archive of Unknown Universes, Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner; Footnote UK) [SF]
• North Sun, Or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, Ethan Rutherford (A Strange Object) [H]
• Blob, Maggie Su (Harper; Sceptre UK) [F]
• Song of Spores, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye) [SF]
• Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire UK) [F]

Translated Novel

• On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle, tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (New Directions; Faber & Faber) [SF]
• The Unworthy, Agustina Bazterrica, tr. Sarah Moses (Scribner; Pushkin UK) [H]
• The Midnight Shift, Cheon Seon-Ran, tr. Gene Png (Bloomsbury UK; Bloomsbury US) [H]
• Red Sword, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Honford Star) [SF]
• The Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Algonquin) [H]
• Ice, Jacek Dukaj, tr. Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus) [SF]
• Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, tr. Anton Hur (Tor) [F]
• Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove; Granta UK) [SF]
• Dengue Boy, Michel Nieva, tr. Rahul Bery (Astra House; Serpent’s Tail) [SF]
• The Wax Child, Olga Ravn, tr. Martin Aitken (New Directions; Viking UK) [F]

Novellas

• The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean)
• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom)
• What Stalks the Deep, T Kingfisher (Nightfire)
• Cinder House, Freya Marske (Tordotcom)
• Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)
• Making History, KJ Parker (Tordotcom)
• Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
• Lives of Bitter Rain, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)
• A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
• Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (Tordotcom)

Novelettes

• “The Witch and the Wyrm,” Elizabeth Bear (Reactor 2/26/25)
• “Barnacle,” Kate Elliott (Reactor 11/5/25)
• “Uncertain Sons,” Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
• “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)
• “The Tin Man’s Ghost,” Ray Nayler (Asimov’s 5-6/25)
• “The Millay Illusion,” Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
• “When He Calls Your Name,” Catherynne M Valente (Uncanny 7-8/25)
• “The Twenty-One Second God,” Peter Watts (Lightspeed 6/25)
• “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon,” AC Wise (Reactor 1/13/25)
• “Phantom View,” John Wiswell (Reactor 10/22/25)

Short Stories

• “Secret Night,” Nathan Ballingrud (Night & Day)
• “In the Halls of the Makeshift King”, Tobias S Buckell (Asimov’s 7-8/25)
• “In My Country,” Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
• “Wire Mother,” Isabel J Kim (Clarkesworld 10/25)
• “The Shape of Stones,” Hildur Knútsdóttir (Reactor 3/12/25)
• “Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead,” Sam J Miller (Nightmare 10/25)
• “Because I Held His Name Like a Key,” Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
• “Landline,” Kelly Robson (Reactor 3/5/25)
• “Missing Helen,” Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld 7/25)
• “Woolly,” Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 5-6/25)

Anthology

• The Black Fantastic, andré m. carrington, ed. (Library of America)
• Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
• Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams)
• The End of the World As We Know It, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery)
• We Will Rise Again, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga)
• Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, Lee Mandelo, ed. (Erewhon)
• The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
• Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline)

Collection

• Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
• Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man)
• Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon)
• Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow)
• Bright Dead Star, Caitlín R Kiernan (Subterranean)
• The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A McKillip (Tachyon)
• One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
• The Revelation Space Collection Volumes 1 & 2, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
• Crows and Silences, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)
• A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde (Fairwood)

Magazine

• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• Fiyah
• khōréō
• Lightspeed
• Reactor
• Strange Horizons
• Uncanny Magazine

Publisher

• Angry Robot
• DAW
• Del Rey
• Gollancz
• Neon Hemlock
• Orbit
• Pan Macmillan / Tor UK
• Saga
• Solaris
• Tachyon

Editor

• John Joseph Adams
• Scott H. Andrews
• Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• Dave Ring
• Jonathan Strahan
• Bogi Takács
• Wendy N Wagner
• Fran Wilde & Julian Yap
• Sheila Williams

Artist

• Brom
• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• Bob Eggleton
• Kathleen Jennings
• Alan Lee
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

Illustrated and Art Books

• The Invisible Parade, Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio (Little, Brown)
• Frank Frazetta: Fine Lines, Sara Frazetta & Arnie Fenner, eds., art by Frank Frazetta (Frazetta Girls)
• Starling House, Alix E.Harrow, art by Rovina Cai (Subterranean)
• Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Paul Kidby (Harper; Doubleday UK)
• Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, art by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Beehive)
• The Space Cat, Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford (First Second)
• Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3, adapted by Rebecca K Reynolds, art by Justin Gerard (Sky Turtle)
• Sunset at Zero Point, Simon Stålenhag (as Swedish Machines Free League Sweden; Saga US)
• Faraway Dreaming, Ulla Thynell (Atthis Arts)
• Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, Amanda T. Zehnder & David M Brinley, eds. (University of Delaware Press)

Non-Fiction

• The Outspoken and the Incendiary, Terry Bisson (PM)
• Enshittification, Cory Doctorow (MCD)
• Colourfields, Paul Kincaid (Briardene)
• Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling, Henry Lien (Norton)
• Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E Butler, Susana M Morris (Amistad)
• Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World, Tavia Nyong’o (University of California Press)
• Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, Tochi Onyebuchi (Roxane Gay)
• Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga)
• Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, Richard Wolinsky, ed. (Tachyon)
• Octavia E Butler: H is for Horse, Chi-ming Yang (Oxford University Press)

Finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards Announced

The finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1953 by the World Science Fiction Society, to recognize the best in science fiction and fantasy, have been announced.

 

The 2026 Hugo Awards are scheduled to be presented at a ceremony during LACon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, on August 30 2025 in Anaheim, USA.

Best Novel

• A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape)
• Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (William Morrow; Gollancz)
• Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
• The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK)
• The Incandescent by Emily Tesh (Tor US; Orbit UK)
• The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape)

Best Novella

• Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)
• Cinder House by Freya Marske (Tordotcom; Tor UK)
• Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite (Tordotcom)
• The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia UK)
• The Summer War by Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
• What Stalks the Deep by T Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)

Best Novelette

• “Kaiju Agonistes” by Scott Lynch (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 62)
• “Never Eaten Vegetables” by HH Pak (Clarkesworld, Issue 220)
• “Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy” by Martha Wells (Reactor, July 10, 2025)
• “The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For” by Cameron Reed (Reactor, April 2, 2025)
• “The Millay Illusion” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 67)
• “When He Calls Your Name” by Catherynne M Valente (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 65)

Best Short Story

• “10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days” by Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 63)
• “In My Country” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld, Issue 223)
• “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots, May 16, 2025)
• “Missing Helen” by Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld, Issue 226)
• “Six People to Revise You” by JR Dawson (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 62)
• “Wire Mother” by Isabel J Kim (Clarkesworld, Issue 229)

Best Series

• Emily Wilde by Heather Fawcett (Del Rey US; Orbit UK)
• October Daye by Seanan McGuire (Tor US; DAW)
• Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK)
• The Chronicles of Osreth by Katherine Addison (Tor US; Solaris UK; Subterranean)
• The Craft Wars by Max Gladstone (Tor; Tordotcom)
• White Space by Elizabeth Bear (Saga Press; Gollancz)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Last Amazon, written by Kelly Thompson, art by Hayden Sherman and Mattia de Iulis, colouring by Jordie Bellaire, lettering by Becca Carey (DC Comics)
• A Girl and Her Fed, written by KB Spangler, art by Ale Presser (www.agirlandherfed.com)
• A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel, written by Ursula K Le Guin, adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham (Clarion Books; Walker UK)
• The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Orion UK)
• The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers, written by Kieron Gillen, art by Caspar Wijngaard, lettering by Clayton Cowles (Image Comics)
• The Space Cat, written by Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford (First Second)

Best Related Work

• Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid (Briardene Books)
• Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer (University of Chicago Press US, Head of Zeus UK)
• Last War in Albion: “The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)” by Elizabeth Sandifer (Eruditorum Press)
• Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E Butler by Susana M. Morris (Amistad)
• “Ragnarök vs the Long Night” by Ashaya and Aziz (History of Westeros Podcast, August 10, 2025)
• The Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom, maintained by Renay (Google Spreadsheet)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Andor (Season 2), written by Tom Bissell, Dan Gilroy, Tony Gilroy, and Beau Willimon, directed by Ariel Kleiman, Janus Metz, Alonso Ruizpalacios (Disney+)
• Frankenstein, screenplay by Guillermo del Toro, directed by Guillermo del Toro (Netflix)
• KPop Demon Hunters, screenplay by Danya Jimenez & Hannah McMechan, Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans; directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans (Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix)
• Mickey 17, screenplay by Bong Joon Ho, directed by Bong Joon Ho (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Sinners, screenplay by Ryan Coogler, directed by Ryan Coogler (Proximity Media, Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Superman, screenplay by James Gunn, directed by James Gunn (DC Studios)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Doctor Who: “The Story & the Engine,” written by Inua Ellams, directed by Makalla McPherson (BBC One, Disney +)
• Murderbot: “All Systems Red,” written by Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz, directed by Roseanne Liang, based on the book All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Apple TV)
• Murderbot: “The Perimeter,” written by Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz, directed by Paul Weitz, based on the book All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Apple TV)
• Pluribus: “We Is Us,” written and directed by Vince Gilligan (Apple TV)
• Severance: “Cold Harbor,” written by Dan Erickson, directed by Ben Stiller (Apple TV)
• The Wheel of Time: “The Road to the Spear,” written by Rafe Lee Judkins, directed by Thomas Napper, based on the series The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (Amazon Prime Video)

Best Game or Interactive Work

• Blue Prince, developed by Dogubomb, published by Raw Fury
• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, developed by Jump Over the Age, published by Fellow Traveller
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, developed by Sandfall Interactive, published by Kepler Interactive
• Dispatch, developed and published by AdHoc Studio
• Hades II, developed and published by Supergiant Games
• Hollow Knight: Silksong, developed and published by Team Cherry

Best Editor, Short Form

• Scott H Andrews
• Jennifer Brozek
• Neil Clarke
• Lee Harris
• Michael Damian Thomas
• Sheila Williams

Best Editor, Long Form

• Carl Engle-Laird
• Jaymee Goh
• Lee Harris
• Jenni Hill
• Joe Monti
• Diana M Pho

Best Professional Artist

• Lulu Chen
• Kelly Chong
• Dave Kellett
• Tran Nguyen
• John Picacio
• Tom Roberts

Best Semiprozine

• Escape Pod, editors Mur Lafferty and Valerie Valdes, assistant editors Kevin Wabaunsee and Phoebe Barton, hosts Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart, producers Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht, and the entire Escape Pod team
• khōréō magazine, by team khōréō (publisher Aleksandra Hill; editor-in-chief Zhui Ning Chang; editors Kanika Agrawal, Isabella Kestermann, Danai Christopoulou; audio Lian Xia Rose, Jenelle DeCosta, Grayson Norman, Aaron Kling, EB; marketing ML Krishnan, Ashley Thompson; art Ambi Sun; copyeditors Jeané Ridges, Eleanor Glewwe, Derek Yen, Ariya Bandy; proofreader Cyrus Chin; first readers Adialyz Del Valle Berríos, Sanjna Bhartiya, Kelsey Costa, Merulai Femi, AR Frederiksen, Yuvashri Harish, Zohar Jacobs, Lynn D Jung, Phoebe Low, Katie McIvor, Adil Mian, Katarzyna Nowacka, AW Prihandita, Helena Ramsaroop, Jin Hui Saw, Aditya Sundararajan, Sophia Uy, Madeleine Vigneron, Aaron Voigt, KS Walker, Akilah White, MJ Woods, Kelsea Yu, Lilia Zhang, Tina Zhu)
• On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, published by the Copper Pig Writers’ Society; managing editor/art director Diane L Walton; poetry editors Colleen Anderson and Bob Stallworthy; fiction editors Barb Galler-Smith, Ann Marston, Virginia O’Dine, Constantine Kaoukakis, Susan MacGregor, Alyssa Kulchisky, Amanda Wells, Ashley Alton, Lorina Stephens, Lareina Abbott, Matthew Stobie Jackman, Cheryl Merkel, Dan Gyoba, Ethan Zou, Jade Mah-Vierling, Jessica Zdril, Kathleen Phul, Krystle McGrath, Thomas Schwarz, and William Thompson; interviewers Roberta Laurie and Cat McDonald; proofreaders Ashlin McCartney, Isaac Calon, and Mya Colwell
• Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
• The Deadlands, publisher Sean Markey, editor-in-chief E Catherine Tobler, poetry editor Nicasio Andres Reed, nonfiction editor David Gilmore, necromancer Amanda Downum, art director Cory Skerry, copy editors Laura Blackwell and Annika Barranti Klein, proofreader Josephine Stewart, designer Christine M Scott, and social media skeleton Felicia Martínez
• Uncanny Magazine, publisher and editor-in-chief: Michael Damian Thomas; managing editor Monte Lin; poetry editor Betsy Aoki, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine

• Ancillary Review of Books, editors Jake Casella Brookins, Misha Grifka Wander, Bianca Skrinyár, Zachary Gillan, Cynthia Zhang, Lyz Bush-Peel
• An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, editors Olav Rokne and Amanda Wakaruk
• Galactic Journey, founder Gideon Marcus, editor Janice L Newman, staff David Levinson, Jessica Dickinson Goodman, Tam Phan, Andi Dukleth
• Intergalactic Mixtape, edited by Renay
• Journey Planet, edited by Allison Hartman Adams, Jean Martin, Steven H Silver, Christopher J Garcia, James Bacon
• nerds of a feather, flock together, editors Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer; senior editors Joe Sherry, G Brown, Vance Kotrla

Best Fancast

• A Meal of Thorns, presented by Jake Casella Brookins
• Eating the Fantastic, hosted by Scott Edelman
• Hugo, Girl!, presented by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson
• Octothorpe, presented by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
• The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K Wolfe
• Worldbuilding for Masochists, presented by Marshall Ryan Maresca, Cass Morris, and Natania Barron

Best Fan Writer

• Jay Brantner for “Tar Vol”
• Alex Brown
• James Davis Nicoll
• Roseanna Pendlebury
• Jason Sanford
• Örjan Westin

Best Fan Artist

• Terri Ash
• Geneva Bowers
• Sara Felix
• Richard Man
• España Sheriff
• Yuumei

Best Poem

• “Care for Lightning” by Mari Ness (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 62)
• “Hex Supply Customer Support Log” by Elis Montgomery (Strange Horizons, Issue 25 August 2025)
• “How to Become a Sea Witch” by Theodora Goss (The Orange & Bee, Issue 5)
• “Landing: Seattle” by Brandon O’Brien (Seattle Worldcon 2025 Opening Ceremony)
• “The Mourning Robot” by Angela Liu (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 66)
• “The World to Come” by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons, Issue 22 December 2025)

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

• Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman (Random House Books for Young Readers)
• Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe by CB Lee (Feiwel & Friends)
• Holy Terrors by Margaret Owen (Henry Holt; Hodderscape UK)
• Oathbound by Tracy Deonn (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
• They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (sponsored by Dell Magazines)

• Sophie Burnham (2nd year of eligibility)
• Kamilah Cole (2nd year of eligibility)
• Antonia Hodgson (1st year of eligibility)
• Molly O’Neill (1st year of eligibility)
• HH Pak (2nd year of eligibility)
• Jared Pechaček (2nd year of eligibility)

Finalists for the 61st Annual SFWA Nebula Awards Announced

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the finalists for the 61st annual Nebula Awards for works first published in 2025, along with contenders for the Ray Bradbury and Andre Norton Awards.

Each year, the organization’s members vote on which stories they consider to be the best novel, novella, novelette, short story and Young Adult story in the genre, as well as the best game writing and best outstanding dramatic presentation.

The Nebula Awards will be presented in a ceremony on Saturday June 6 in Chicago as part of the 61st Annual Nebula Awards Conference. 

The Nebula Award for Best Novel

• When We Were Real, by Daryl Gregory (Saga)
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
• Katabasis, by RF Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• Death of the Author, by Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)
• The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Sour Cherry, by Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire)
• Wearing the Lion, by John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia)

The Nebula Award for Best Novella

• Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle, by Renan Bernardo (Dark Matter INK)
• The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia)
• The Death of Mountains, by Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
• Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)
• But Not Too Bold, by Hache Pueyo (Tordotcom)
• “Descent”, by Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld 5/25)

The Nebula Award for Best Novelette

• “Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh”, by Marie Croke (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/9/25)
• “Uncertain Sons”, by Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
• “We Begin Where Infinity Ends”, by Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)
• The Name Ziya, by Wen-Yi Lee (Reactor)
• “Never Eaten Vegetables”, by HH Pak (Clarkesworld 1/25)
• “The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends”, by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 3-4/25)

The Nebula Award for Best Short Story

• “Through the Machine”, by PA Cornell (Lightspeed 5/25)
• “Six People to Revise You”, by JR Dawson (Uncanny 1-2/25)
• “In My Country”, by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
• “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead”, by EM Linden (PodCastle 2/18/25)
• “Because I Held His Name Like a Key”, by Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
• “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”, by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)

The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• The Tower, by David Anaxagoras (Recorded Books)
• Gemini Rising, by Jonathan Brazee (Semper Fi Press)
• Wishing Well, Wishing Well, by Jubilee Cho (Atthis Arts)
• Sunrise on the Reaping, by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
• Into the Wild Magic, by Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick)
• Goblin Girl, by KA Mielke (self-published)

The Nebula Award for Best Game Writing

• Spire, Surge, and Sea, by Stewart C Baker (Choice of Games)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, by Guillaume Broche, & Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (Kepler Interactive), Developer: Sandfall Interactive, Sandfall SAS.
• Hollow Knight: Silksong, by Ari Gibson & William Pelen (Team Cherry)*
• Dispatch, by Ashley Jeffalone, Suzee Matson, Chris Rebbert, Chad Rhiness, & Pierre Shorette (AdHoc Studios)
• Hades II, by Greg Kasavin
• (Supergiant Games)
• Blue Prince, by Tonda Ros (Raw Fury, Developer: Dogubomb)

The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• KPop Demon Hunters, by Danya Jimenez, Maggie Kang, & Hannah McMechan (Netflix)*
• Sinners, by Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros Pictures)*
• Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”, by Dan Erickson & Mark Friedman (Apple TV+)*
• Pluribus: Season One, by Vince Gilligan (Apple TV+)*
• Superman, by James Gunn (Warner Bros Pictures)*
• Murderbot: Season One, by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz (Apple TV+)*

The Nebula Award for Best Comic

• Second Shift, by Kit Anderson (Avery Hill)
• Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal, by Amy Chu (Berger)
• Helen of Wyndhorn, by Tom King (Dark Horse)
• Fishflies, by Jeff Lemire (Image)
• Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters: The Killing Stone, by Jessica Maison (Wicked Tree)
• Strange Bedfellows, by Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperAlley)
• The Flip Side, by Jason Walz (Rocky Pond)
• The Stoneshore Register, by G Willow Wilson (Berger)

The Nebula Award for Best Poem

• “Though You Always Are”, by Linda D Addison & Jamal Hodge (Everything Endless)
• “They Said Robots Are”, by Casey Aimer (Penumbric 6/25)
• “The World To Come”, by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25)
• “The Mourning Robot”, by Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/25)
• “Care for Lightning”, by Mari Ness (Uncanny 1-2/25)
• “To Be the Change”, by Nico Martinez Nocito (Strange Horizons 3/10/25)

*Provisional nomination; awaiting acceptance and response on LLM-use.

Winners of the 53rd Annual Saturn Awards Announced

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films have announced the winners of the 53rd annual Saturn Awards. 

The Saturn Awards are dedicated to honouring the finest in genre entertainment in film, television and home entertainment.

The winners were revealed on March 8 2026.

Film

Best Science Fiction Film

• Avatar: Fire and Ash (20th Century Studios / Lightstorm)

Best Fantasy Film

• Wicked: For Good (Universal Pictures)

Best Horror Film

• Frankenstein (Netflix)

Best Cinematic Film Adaptation

• The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Marvel Studios / Walt Disney Studios)

Best Thriller Film

• Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Action / Adventure Film

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (Paramount Pictures)

Best Actor in a Film

• Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Best Actress in a Film

• Elle Fanning, Predator: Badlands

Best Supporting Actor in a Film

• Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein

Best Supporting Actress in a Film

• Sigourney Weaver, Dust Bunny

Best Younger Performer in a Film

• Jack Champion, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Film Direction

• James Cameron, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Film Screenwriting

• James Cameron, Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Visual / Special Effects

• Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Eric Saindon, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Film Music

• Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross), Tron: Ares

Best Film Production Design

• Kasra Farahani, Jille Azis, The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Best Film Make-Up

• Mike Hill, Megan Many, Frankenstein

Best Film Editing

• Michael P Shawyer, Sinners

Best Film Costume

• Kate Hawley, Frankenstein

Best Independent Film

• Dust Bunny (Roadside Attractions / Lionsgate)

Best International Film

• Sisu 2: Road to Revenge (Screen Gems / Sony Pictures)

Best Animated Film

• Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney Studios)

Best International Animated Film

• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (Crunchyroll / Sony Pictures)

Television

Best Science Fiction Television Series

• Andor (Lucasfilm)

Best Fantasy Television Series

• Outlander (Starz / Sony Pictures Television)

Best Horror Television Series

• It: Welcome to Derry (HBO / Warner Bros. Television)

Best New Genre Television Series

• Pluribus (Sony Pictures Television / Apple)

Best Action /Adventure Television Series

• Duster (Bad Robot / Warner Bros. Television)

Best Thriller Television Series

• Dexter: Resurrection (Showtime / Paramount+)

Best Superhero Television Series

• Peacemaker (Warner Bros. Television / DC Studios)

Best Television Presentation or Limited Series

• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC)

Best Animated Television Series or Event

• Predator: Killer of Killers (Hulu / 20th Century Studios)

Best Actor in a Television Series

• Diego Luna, Andor

Best Actress in a Television Series

• Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus

Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series

• Stellan Skarsgård, Andor

Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series

• Karolina Wydra, Pluribus

Best Guest Star in a Television Series

• Dave Dastmalchian, Dexter: Resurrection

Best Younger Performer in a Television Series

• Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

Home Media

Best Classic Film Home Media Release

• Frailty (Lionsgate Home Video)

Best 4K Home Media Release

• Wicked (Universal)

Best Home Media Collection Release

• The Pink Panther Peter Sellers Comedy Collection (Kino Lorber)

Best Television Home Media Release

• Chucky: The Complete Series (Universal)

SPECIAL AWARDS

The Dr. Donald A Reed Founder's Award (in recognition of individuals who have made significant, pioneering contributions to genre entertainment:

• George Lucas

The Robert Forster Artists Award (in honour of an innovative trailblazer for their body of work and impact on the entertainment industry):

• Terry Matalas 

The George Pal Memorial Award (in recognition of its groundbreaking impact on sci-fi and fantasy):

• Aliens

The Saturn Hall Of Fame Award:

• Star Trek

The Spotlight Award:

• The Boys

The Visionary Award:

• Christopher McQuarrie

The Lance Reddick Legacy Award (celebrating performers who serve as true goodwill ambassadors in the industry):

• Titus Welliver 

#ArtOfTheDay: 'The Moon Maid' by Frank Frazetta

'The Moon Maid' by Frank Frazetta.

A reworking of Frank's own original 1974 cover art for the novel 'The Moon Maid', Book 1 in the 'Moon' series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Winners Of The 2025 Hugo Awards Announced

The winners of the 2025 Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1953 by the World Science Fiction Society, to recognize the best in science fiction and fantasy, have been announced.

 

The 2025 Hugo Awards were presented at a ceremony during Seattle WorldCon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, on August 16 2025 in Seattle, USA.

Best Novel

• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey, Hodderscape UK)

Best Novella

• The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)

Best Novelette

• “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea” by Naomi Kritzer (Asimov’s, September/October 2024)

Best Short Story

• “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is” by Nghi Vo (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 57)

Best Series

• Between Earth and Sky by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio (IDW Publishing)

Best Related Work

• Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S Carroll (University of Minnesota Press)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Dune: Part Two, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Legendary Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Star Trek: Lower Decks: “The New Next Generation” created and written by Mike McMahan, based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Megan Lloyd (CBS Eye Animation Productions for Paramount+)

Best Game or Interactive Work

• Caves of Qud, co-creators Brian Bucklew and Jason Grinblat; contributors Nick DeCapua, Corey Frang, Craig Hamilton, Autumn McDonell, Bastia Rosen, Caelyn Sandel, Samuel Wilson (Freehold Games); sound design A Shell in the Pit; publisher Kitfox Games

Best Editor Short Form

• Neil Clarke

Best Editor Long Form

• Diana M Pho

Best Professional Artist

• Alyssa Winans

Best Semiprozine

• Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing editor Monte Lin; poetry editor Betsy Aoki, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine

• Black Nerd Problems, editors William Evans and Omar Holmon

Best Fancast

• Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, presented by Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow

Best Fan Writer

• Abigail Nussbaum

Best Fan Artist

• Sara Felix

Best Poem

• “A War of Words” by Marie Brennan (Strange Horizons, September 2024

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

• Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (sponsored by Dell Magazines)

• Moniquill Blackgoose (2nd year of eligibility)

Winners of the 2025 Locus Awards for Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature Announced

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation have announced the winners of the 2025 Locus Awards.

The Locus Awards are presented to winners of the Locus Magazine's annual readers' poll, first presented in 1971, to recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy literature.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexander Boldizar (Clash) 

FANTASY NOVEL

• A Sorceress Comes to Call, T Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)

HORROR NOVEL

• Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle (Nightfire; Titan UK)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)

FIRST NOVEL

• Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)

NOVELLA

• What Feasts at Night, T Kingfisher (Nightfire)

NOVELETTE

• "By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars", Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons 6/9/24)

SHORT STORY

• "Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole", Isabel J Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Black Girl Survives in This One, Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J Fennell, eds. (Flatiron)

COLLECTION

• Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

MAGAZINE

• Clarkesworld

PUBLISHER

• Subterranean Press

EDITOR

• Neil Clarke

ARTIST

• Charles Vess

NON-FICTION

• Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon, ed. (Bloomsbury Academic)

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

• The Last Unicorn, Peter S Beagle, art by Tom Kidd (Suntup)

SPECIAL AWARD 2025: Celebrating Excellence in Genre

• Ignyte Awards

Finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards Announced

The finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1953 by the World Science Fiction Society, to recognize the best in science fiction and fantasy, have been announced.

 

The 2025 Hugo Awards are scheduled to be presented at a ceremony during Seattle WorldCon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, on August 16 2025 in Seattle, USA.

Best Novel

• Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US, Tor UK)
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press, Sceptre)
• Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom)
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (DAW)
• A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher (Tor)
• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey, Hodderscape UK)

Best Novella

• The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
• The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
• Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
• The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
• What Feasts at Night by T Kingfisher (Nightfire)

Best Novelette

• “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld, May 2024)
• “By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars” by Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons, Fund Drive 2024)
• “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea” by Naomi Kritzer (Asimov’s, September/October 2024)
• “Lake of Souls” by Ann Leckie in Lake of Souls (Orbit)
• “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 58)
• “Signs of Life” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 59)

Best Short Story

• “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” by Rachael K Jones (Lightspeed Magazine, Jan 2024 (Issue 164))
• “Marginalia” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 56)
• “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is” by Nghi Vo (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 57)
• “Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 58)
• “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” by Caroline M Yoachim (Lightspeed Magazine, May 2024 (Issue 168))
• “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J Kim (Clarkesworld, February 2024)

Best Series

• Between Earth and Sky by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press)
• The Burning Kingdoms by Tasha Suri (Orbit)
• InCryptid by Seanan McGuire (DAW)
• Southern Reach by Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books)
• The Tyrant Philosophers by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag (Graphix)
• The Hunger and the Dusk: Vol. 1 written by G Willow Wilson, art by Chris Wildgoose (IDW Publishing)
• Monstress, Vol. 9: The Possessed written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Image)
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2 by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio (IDW Publishing)
• We Called Them Giants written by Kieron Gillen, art by Stephanie Hans, lettering by Clayton Cowles (Image)

Best Related Work

• “Charting the Cliff: An Investigation into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics” by Camestros Felapton and Heather Rose Jones (File 770, February 22, 2024)
• r/Fantasy’s 2024 Bingo Reading Challenge (r/Fantasy on Reddit), presented by the r/Fantasy Bingo team: Alexandra Forrest (happy_book_bee), Lisa Richardson, Amanda E. (Lyrrael), Arka (RuinEleint), Ashley Rollins (oboist73), Christine Sandquist (eriophora), David H. (FarragutCircle), Diana Hufnagl, Pia Matei (Dianthaa), Dylan H. (RAAAImmaSunGod), Dylan Kilby (an_altar_of_plagues), Elsa (ullsi), Emma Surridge (PlantLady32), Gillian Gray (thequeensownfool), Kahlia (cubansombrero), Kevin James, Kopratic, Kristina (Cassandra_sanguine), Lauren Mulcahy (Valkhyrie), Megan, Megan Creemers (Megan_Dawn), Melissa S. (wishforagiraffe), Mike De Palatis (MikeOfThePalace), Para (improperly_paranoid), Sham, The_Real_JS, Abdellah L. (messi1045), AnnTickwittee, Chad Z. (shift_shaper), Emma Smiley (Merle), Rebecca (toughschmidt22), smartflutist661
• “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel” by Jenny Nicholson (YouTube)
• Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press)
• Track Changes by Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene Books)
• “The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion” by Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford (Genre Grapevine and File770, February 14, 2024)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Dune: Part Two, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Legendary Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Flow, screenplay by Gints Zilbalodis and Matīss Kaža, directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Dream Well Studio)
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, screenplay by George Miller and Nick Lathouris, directed by George Miller (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• I Saw the TV Glow, screenplay by Jane Schoenbrun, directed by Jane Schoenbrun (Fruit Tree / Smudge Films / A24)
• Wicked, screenplay by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, directed by Jon M. Chu (Universal Pictures)
• The Wild Robot, screenplay by Chris Sanders and Peter Brown, directed by Chris Sanders (DreamWorks Animation)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Fallout: “The Beginning” written by Gursimran Sandhu, directed by Wayne Che Yip (Amazon Prime Video)
• Agatha All Along: “Death’s Hand in Mine” written by Gia King & Cameron Squires, directed by Jac Schaeffer (Marvel, Disney+)
• Doctor Who: “Dot and Bubble” written by Russell T Davies, directed by Dylan Holmes Williams (BBC, Disney+)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: “Fissure Quest” created by Mike McMahan and written by Lauren McGuire based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Brandon Williams (CBS Eye Animation Productions for Paramount+)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: “The New Next Generation” created and written by Mike McMahan, based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Megan Lloyd (CBS Eye Animation Productions for Paramount+)
• Doctor Who: “73 Yards” written by Russell T Davies, directed by Dylan Holmes Williams (BBC, Disney+)

Best Game or Interactive Work

• Caves of Qud, co-creators Brian Bucklew and Jason Grinblat; contributors Nick DeCapua, Corey Frang, Craig Hamilton, Autumn McDonell, Bastia Rosen, Caelyn Sandel, Samuel Wilson (Freehold Games); sound design A Shell in the Pit; publisher Kitfox Games
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard produced by BioWare
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom produced by Nintendo
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes produced by Simogo
• Tactical Breach Wizards developed by Suspicious Developments
• 1000xRESIST developed by sunset visitor 斜陽過客, published by Fellow Traveller

Best Editor Short Form

• Scott H Andrews
• Jennifer Brozek
• Neil Clarke
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
• Sheila Williams

Best Editor Long Form

• Carl Engle-Laird
• Ali Fisher
• Lee Harris
• David Thomas Moore
• Diana M Pho
• Stephanie Stein

Best Professional Artist

• Micaela Alcaino
• Audrey Benjaminsen
• Rovina Cai
• Maurizio Manzieri
• Tran Nguyen
• Alyssa Winans

Best Semiprozine

• The Deadlands, publisher Sean Markey; editors E. Catherine Tobler, Nicasio Andres Reed, David Gilmore, Laura Blackwell, Annika Barranti Klein; proofreader Josephine Stewart; columnist Amanda Downum; art and design Cory Skerry, Christine M. Scott; social media Felicia Martínez; assistant Shana Du Bois.
• Escape Pod, editors Mur Lafferty and Valerie Valdes, assistant editors Premee Mohamed and Kevin Wabaunsee, hosts Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart, producers Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht; and the entire Escape Pod team
• FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, publisher and executive editor DaVaun Sanders, poetry editor B. Sharise Moore, art director Christian Ivey, acquiring editors Rebecca McGee, Kerine Wint, Egbiameje Omole, Emmalia Harrington, Genine Tyson, Tonya R. Moore, sponsor coordinator Nelson Rolon
• khōréō, produced by Zhui Ning Chang, Aleksandra Hill, Danai Christopoulou, Isabella Kestermann, Kanika Agrawal, Sachiko Ragosta, Lian Xia Rose, Jenelle DeCosta, Melissa Ren, Elaine Ho, Ambi Sun, Cyrus Chin, Nivair H. Gabriel, Jeané Ridges, Lilivette Domínguez, Isaree Thatchaichawalit, Jei D. Marcade, M. L. Krishnan, Ysabella Maglanque, Aaron Voigt, Adialyz Del Valle Berríos, Adil Mian, Akilah White, Alexandra Millatmal, Anselma Widha Prihandita, E. Broderick, K. S. Walker, Katarzyna Nowacka, Katie McIvor, Kelsea Yu, Lynn D. Jung, Madeleine Vigneron, Marie Croke, Merulai Femi, Phoebe Low, S. R. Westvik, Sanjna Bhartiya, Sara Messenger, Sophia Uy, Tina Zhu, Yuvashri Harish, Zohar Jacobs
• Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
• Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing editor Monte Lin; poetry editor Betsy Aoki, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine

• Ancillary Review of Books, editors Jake Casella Brookins, Zachary Gillan, Lane Gillespie, Misha Grifka Wander, Gareth A. Reeves, Bianca Skrinyár, Cynthia Zhang
• Black Nerd Problems, editors William Evans and Omar Holmon
• The Full Lid, written by Alasdair Stuart and edited by Marguerite Kenner
• Galactic Journey, founder Gideon Marcus, editor Janice L. Newman, associate writers Cora Buhlert, Jessica Holmes, Kerrie Dougherty, Kris Vyas-Myall, and Natalie Devitt, and the rest of the Journey team
• Journey Planet, edited by Allison Hartman Adams, Amanda Wakaruk, Ann Gry, Jean Martin, Sara Felix, Sarah Gulde, Chuck Serface, David Ferguson, Olav Rokne, Paul Weimer, Steven H Silver, Christopher J. Garcia and James Bacon
• Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, editors Olav Rokne and Amanda Wakaruk

Best Fancast

• The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe, producer Jonathan Strahan
• Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, presented by Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow
• Hugo, Girl!, presented by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson
• Hugos There, presented by Seth Heasley
• A Meal of Thorns, presented by Jake Casella Brookins
• Worldbuilding for Masochists, presented by Marshall Ryan Maresca, Cass Morris and Natania Barron

Best Fan Writer

• Camestros Felapton
• Abigail Nussbaum
• Roseanna Pendlebury
• Jason Sanford
• Alasdair Stuart
• Örjan Westin

Best Fan Artist

• Iain J Clark
• Sara Felix
• Meg Frank
• Michelle Morrell
• Alison Scott
• España Sheriff

Best Poem

• Calypso by Oliver K Langmead (Titan)
• “Ever Noir” by Mari Ness (Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 16, July 2024)
• “there are no taxis for the dead” by Angela Liu (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 58)
• “A War of Words” by Marie Brennan (Strange Horizons, September 2024)
• “We Drink Lava” by Ai Jiang (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 56)
• “Your Visiting Dragon” by Devan Barlow (Strange Horizons, Fund Drive 2024)

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

• The Feast Makers by HA Clarke (Erewhon)
• Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao (Tundra Books)
• The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko (Amulet)
• Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte Press)
• Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
• So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (sponsored by Dell Magazines)

• Moniquill Blackgoose (2nd year of eligibility)
• Bethany Jacobs (2nd year of eligibility)
• Hannah Kaner (2nd year of eligibility)
• Angela Liu (2nd year of eligibility)
• Jared Pechaček (1st year of eligibility)
• Tia Tashiro (2nd year of eligibility)

Finalists for the 60th Annual SFWA Nebula Awards Announced

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the finalists for the 60th annual Nebula Awards for works first published in 2024, along with contenders for the Ray Bradbury and Andre Norton Awards.

Each year, the organization’s members vote on which stories they consider to be the best novel, novella, novelette, short story and Young Adult story in the genre, as well as the best game writing and best outstanding dramatic presentation.

The Nebula Awards will be presented in a ceremony on Saturday June 7 in Kansas City, MO as part of the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference. 

 

Novel

• Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory, Yaroslav Barsukov (Caezik SF & Fantasy)
• Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
• Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom)
• A Sorceress Comes to Call, T Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
• The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK)
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)

Novella

• The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
• The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
• Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom)
• Countess, Suzan Palumbo (ECW)
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
• The Dragonfly Gambit, AD Sui (Neon Hemlock)

Novelette

• The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 5/24)
• Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka, Christine Hanolsy (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/18/24)
• Another Girl Under the Iron Bell, Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/24)
• What Any Dead Thing Wants, Aimee Ogden (Psychopomp 2/24)
• Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, AW Prihandita (Clarkesworld 11/24)
• Joanna’s Bodies, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 7/1/24)
• Loneliness Universe, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-6/24)

Short Story

• The Witch Trap, Jennifer Hudak (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 9/24)
• Five Views of the Planet Tartarus, Rachael K Jones (Lightspeed 1/24)
• Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole, Isabel J Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)
• Evan: A Remainder, Jordan Kurella (Reactor 1/31/24)
• The V*mpire, PH Lee (Reactor 10/23/24)
• We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read, Caroline M Yoachim (Lightspeed 5/24)

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• Daydreamer, Rob Cameron (Labyrinth Road)
• Braided, Leah Cypess (Delacorte)
• Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed, José Pablo Iriarte (Knopf)
• Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)
• Puzzleheart, Jenn Reese (Henry Holt)
• The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts, Vanessa Ricci-Thode (self-published)

Game Writing

• A Death in Hyperspace, Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J Kim, Sara S Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, M Darusha Wehm, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (Infomancy.net)
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Hidetaka Miyazaki (From Software)
• The Ghost and the Golem, Benjamin Rosenbaum (Choice of Games)
• 1000xRESIST, Remy Siu, Pinki Li, Conor Wylie (Fellow Traveller Games)
• Pacific Drive, Karrie Shao, Paul Dean (Ironwood Studios)
• Restore, Reflect, Retry, Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of Games)
• Slay the Princess - The Pristine Cut, Tony Howard-Arias, Abby Howard (Black Tabby Games)
• Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast, Jay Dragon, M Veselak, Mercedes Acosta, Lillie J Harris (Possum Creek Games)

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Doctor Who: “Dot and Bubble” by Russell T Davies (BBC)
• Dune: Part Two by Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve (Warner Bros)
• I Saw the TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun (A24 Films LLC)
• KAOS by Charlie Covell, Georgia Christou (Netflix)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 by Mike McMahan (Paramount+)
• Wicked by Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox (Universal Pictures)

#ArtOfTheDay: 'The Godmakers' by Frank Frazetta

'The Godmakers' by Frank Frazetta.

Preliminary art for the cover of the novel, 'The Godmakers', written by Dan Britain, published in 1970.

Winners of the 52nd Annual Saturn Awards Announced

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films have announced the winners of the 52nd annual Saturn Awards. 

The Saturn Awards are dedicated to honouring the finest in genre entertainment in film, television and home entertainment.

The winners were revealed on February 2 2025.

FILM

BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM:

• Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)

BEST FANTASY FILM:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST HORROR FILM:

• Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)

BEST ACTION / ADVENTURE FILM:

• Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)

BEST THRILLER FILM:

• Strange Darling (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)

BEST INDEPENDENT FILM:

• Late Night with the Devil (IFC Films/Shudder)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

• Godzilla Minus One (Toho International)

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

• The Wild Robot (Universal/Dreamworks Animation)

BEST ACTOR IN A FILM:

• Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario (A24)

BEST ACTRESS IN A FILM:

• Demi Moore, The Substance (Mubi)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A FILM:

• Hugh Jackman, Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A FILM:

• Rebecca Ferguson, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A FILM:

• Jenna Ortega, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST FILM DIRECTION:

• Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)

BEST FILM SCREENWRITING:

• Longlegs, Osgood Perkins (Neon)

BEST VISUAL / SPECIAL EFFECTS:

• Dune: Part Two (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salacombe, Gerd Nefzer) (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST FILM MUSIC:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Danny Elfman (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST FILM PRODUCTION DESIGN:

• Dune: Part Two, Patricia Vermette (Warner Bros./Legendary)  

BEST FILM MAKE-UP:

• The Substance, Pierre-Olivier Persin (Mubi)

BEST FILM EDITING:

• Deadpool & Wolverine, Dean Zimmerman & Shane Reid (Marvel/Walt Disney Pictures)

BEST FILM COSTUME DESIGN:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Colleen Atwood (Warner Bros. Pictures)

TELEVISION

BEST SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION SERIES:

• Fallout (Amazon)

BEST FANTASY TELEVISION SERIES:

• House of the Dragon (MAX)

BEST HORROR TELEVISION SERIES:

• From (MGM+)

BEST ACTION / THRILLER TELEVISION SERIES:

• Cobra Kai (Netflix)

BEST ADVENTURE TELEVISION SERIES:

• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+)

BEST SUPERHERO TELEVISION SERIES:

• Agatha All Along (Marvel Studios/Disney+)

BEST TELEVISION PRESENTATION:

• The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)

BEST GENRE COMEDY TELEVISION SERIES

• Ghosts (CBS)

BEST ANIMATED TELEVISION SERIES:

• Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Disney+/Lucasfilm)

BEST ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Colin Farrell, The Penguin (Max)

BEST ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Rosario Dawson, Ahsoka (Lucasfilm/Disney+)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Antony Starr, The Boys (Amazon)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Cristin Milioti, The Penguin (Max)

BEST GUEST STAR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Mark Hamill, The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix)

BEST YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Xolo Maridueña, Cobra Kai (Netflix)

HOME VIDEO

Best 4K Home Media Release:

• Saw X (Lionsgate Home Entertainment)

Best Film Home Media Release Collection:

• Batman 85th Anniversary Collection (Warner Home Video)

Best Classic Film Home Media Release:

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (KL Studio Classics)

Best Television Home Media Release:

• Star Wars: Andor - The Complete First Season (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

SPECIAL AWARDS

The Dan Curtis Legacy Award (in recognition of its outstanding contribution to superhero storytelling):

• Superman & Lois (The CW)

The Robert Forster Artists Award:

• Hiroyuki Sanada 

The George Pal Memorial Award (in recognition of its groundbreaking impact on sci-fi and fantasy):

• Back To The Future

The Spotlight Award:

• Fallout 

The Lifetime Achievement Award:

• William Shatner

The Lance Reddick Legacy Award:

• Laurence Fishburne 

2024 Saturn Award Nominees Announced

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films have revealed the nominees for the 2024 Saturn Awards. 

The Saturn Awards are dedicated to honouring the finest in genre entertainment in film, television and home entertainment.

The winners will be announced on February 2 2025.

FILM

BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM:

• Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Lionsgate Films)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios)
• Megalopolis (Lionsgate Films/American Zoetrope)
• Venom: The Last Dance (Sony Pictures/Marvel)

BEST FANTASY FILM:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Sony Pictures)
• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary)
• My Old Ass (Amazon/MGM)
• Poor Things (Searchlight)
• Wonka (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST HORROR FILM:

• Abigail (Universal Pictures)
• Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)
• The First Omen (20th Century Studios)
• In a Violent Nature (IFC Films)
• Longlegs (Neon)
• A Quiet Place: Day One (Paramount Pictures)
• Smile 2 (Paramount Pictures)

BEST ACTION / ADVENTURE FILM:

• Argylle (Apple Films/Universal Pictures)
• Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)
• The Fall Guy (Universal Pictures)
• Fly Me to the Moon (Apple Films/Columbia Pictures)
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Lionsgate Films)
• Twisters (Universal Pictures)

BEST THRILLER FILM:

• Blink Twice (Amazon/MGM)
• Civil War (A24)
• Saltburn (Amazon/MGM)
• Strange Darling (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)
• Speak No Evil (Universal Pictures)
• Wolfs (Apple Films)

BEST INDEPENDENT FILM:

• Dream Scenario (A24)
• Late Night with the Devil (IFC Films/Shudder)
• MaXXXine (A24)
• The Substance (Mubi)
• Thelma (Magnolia Pictures)
• The Thicket (Tubi Movies)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

• The Animal Kingdom (Magnet Releasing)
• Godzilla Minus One (Toho International)
• Kill (Lionsgate Films)
• Monkey Man (Universal Pictures)
• Oddity (IFC Films)
• Society of the Snow (Netflix)

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

• The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS)
• Despicable Me 4 (Universal/Illumination Entertainment)
• Inside Out 2 (Pixar/Walt Disney Studios)
• Kung-Fu Panda 4 (Universal/Dreamworks Animation)
• Spy x Family Code: White (Crunchyroll)
• Transformers One (Paramount Pictures)
• The Wild Robot (Universal/Dreamworks Animation)

BEST ACTOR IN A FILM:

• Tom Blyth, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds Snakes (Lionsgate Films)
• Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario (A24)
• Timothée Chalamet, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• David Dastmalchian, Late Night with the Devil (IFC Films/Shudder)
• Kyle Gallner, Strange Darling (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)
• Michael Keaton, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)

BEST ACTRESS IN A FILM:

• Willa Fitzgerald, Strange Darling (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)
• Demi Moore, The Substance (Mubi)
• Lupita Nyong’o, A Quiet Place – Day One (Paramount Pictures)
• Winona Ryder, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Naomi Scott, Smile 2 (Paramount Pictures)
• June Squibb, Thelma (Magnolia Pictures)
• Anya Taylor-Joy, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A FILM:

• Josh Brolin, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Austin Butler, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Nicolas Cage, Longlegs (Neon)
• Willem Dafoe, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Hugh Jackman, Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)
• David Jonsson, Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)
• Owen Teague, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A FILM:

• Emma Corrin, Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)
• Rebecca Ferguson, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Barbara Hershey, Strange Darling (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)
• Juliette Lewis, The Thicket (Tubi Movies)
• Margaret Qualley, The Substance (Mubi)
• Cailee Spaeny, Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)
• Zendaya, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)

BEST YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A FILM:

• Freya Allan, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios)
• McKenna Grace, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Sony Pictures)
• Kaylee Hottle, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Calah Lane, Wonka (Warner Bros Pictures)
• Jenna Ortega, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Alisha Weir, Abigail (Universal Pictures)
• Rachel Zegler, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Lionsgate Films)

BEST FILM DIRECTION:

• Fede Álvarez, Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)
• Wes Ball, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios)
• Tim Burton, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Shawn Levy, Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)
• J.T. Mollner, Strange Darling (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)
• Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Takashi Yamazaki, Godzilla Minus One (Toho International)

BEST FILM SCREENWRITING:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Deadpool & Wolverine, Shawn Levy, Ryan Reynolds (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)
• Dune: Part Two, Denis Villenueve, Jon Spaihts (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazak (Toho International)
• Longlegs, Osgood Perkins (Neon)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver (20th Century Studios)
• Strange Darling, JT Mollner (Miramax/Majenta Light Studios)

BEST VISUAL / SPECIAL EFFECTS:

• Alien: Romulus (TBD) (20th Century Studios)
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Angus Bickerton, James Brennan-Craddock, Neal Scanlan, Stefano Pepin) (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Deadpool & Wolverine (TBD) (Marvel/Walt Disney Pictures)
• Dune: Part Two (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salacombe, Gerd Nefzer) (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Godzilla Minus One (Masaki Takahashi, Tatsuiji Nojima, Kiyokk Shubuya, Takashi Yamazaki) (Toho International)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Erik Winquist, TBD) (20th Century Studios)
• Twisters (TBD) (Universal Pictures)

BEST FILM MUSIC:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Danny Elfman (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Dune: Part Two, Hans Zimmer (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Dario Marianelli (Sony Pictures)
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, James Newton Howard (Lionsgate Pictures)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, John Paesano (20th Century Studios)
• Smile 2, Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Paramount Pictures)

BEST FILM PRODUCTION DESIGN:

• Alien: Romulus, Naaman Marshall (20th Century Studios)
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Matt Scruton (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Deadpool & Wolverine, Ray Chan (Marvel/Walt Disney Pictures)
• Dune: Part Two, Patricia Vermette (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Longlegs, Danny Vermette (Neon)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Daniel T Dorrance (20th Century Studios)

BEST FILM MAKE-UP:

• Alien: Romulus (TBD) (20th Century Studios)
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Neal Scanlan, Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener) (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Dune: Part Two (Donald Mowat and TBD) (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Longlegs (Felix Fox, Madelaine Hermans) (Neon)
• Smile 2 (TBD) (Paramount Pictures)
• The Substance (TBD) (Mubi)

BEST FILM EDITING:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Jay Prychidny (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Civil War, Jake Roberts (A24)
• Deadpool & Wolverine, Dean Zimmerman & Shane Reid (Marvel/Walt Disney Pictures)
• Dune: Part Two, Joe Walker (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Eliot Knapman & Margaret Sixel (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Strange Darling, Christopher Robin Bell (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)

BEST FILM COSTUME:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Colleen Atwood (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Deadpool & Wolverine, Graham Churchyard & Mayes C. Rubeo (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)
• Dune: Part Two, Jacqueline West (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Alex Fortes & Ruth Myers (Sony Pictures)
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Trish Summerville (Lionsgate Pictures)
• Wonka, Lindy Hemming (Warner Bros. Pictures)

TELEVISION

BEST SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION SERIES:

• 3 Body Problem (Netflix)
• Ahsoka (Lucasfilm/Disney+)
• The Ark (Syfy)
• Dark Matter (Apple TV+)
• Fallout (Amazon)
• Star Trek: Discovery (CBS Studios)

BEST FANTASY TELEVISION SERIES:

• Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix)
• For All Mankind (Apple TV+)
• House of the Dragon (MAX)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon)
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Disney+)
• The Spiderwick Chronicles (Roku Channel)

BEST HORROR TELEVISION SERIES:

• Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
• Creepshow (Shudder)
• Evil (CBS Studios)
• From (MGM+)
• Grotesquerie (FX)
• Teacup (Peacock)
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC)

BEST ACTION / THRILLER TELEVISION SERIES:

• Bosch: Legacy (Amazon Freevee)
• Cobra Kai (Netflix)
• Found (NBC)
• High Potential (ABC)
• Presumed Innocent (Apple TV+)
• True Detective: Night Country (Max)
• Tulsa King (Paramount+)

BEST ADVENTURE TELEVISION SERIES:

• La Brea (NBC/Universal)
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Amazon)
• Reacher (Amazon)
• Shōgun (FX)
• Sugar (Apple TV+)

BEST SUPERHERO TELEVISION SERIES:

• Agatha All Along (Marvel Studios/Disney+)
• The Boys (Amazon Prime)
• Loki (Marvel Studios/Disney+)
• The Penguin (MAX)
• Superman & Lois (Warner Bros. Television)
• The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)

BEST TELEVISION PRESENTATION:

• Apartment 7A (Paramount+)
• Don’t Move (Netflix)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix)
• Fargo (FX)
• Ripley (Netflix)
• Salem’s Lot (Max)
• The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)

BEST GENRE COMEDY TELEVISION SERIES

• Chucky (Syfy/Universal)
• Ghosts (CBS)
• Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
• Resident Alien (Syfy)
• Ted (Peacock)
• What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

BEST ANIMATED TELEVISION SERIES:

• Batman: Caped Crusader (Amazon Prime)
• Gremlins: The Wild Batch (Max)
• Kaiju No. 8 (Crunchyroll)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks (CBS Studios)
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Disney+/Lucasfilm)
• X-Men ’97 (Disney+/Marvel Studios)

BEST ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Colin Farrell, The Penguin (Max)
• Walton Goggins, Fallout (Amazon)
• Jon Hamm, Fargo (FX)
• Andrew Lincoln, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)
• Harold Perrineau, From (MGM+)
• Norman Reedus, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC)
• Kurt Russell & Wyatt Russell, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+)

BEST ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Emma D’Arcy, House of the Dragon (Max)
• Rosario Dawson, Ahsoka (Lucasfilm/Disney+)
• Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country (Max)
• Danai Gurira, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)
• Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along (Marvel/Disney+)
• Melissa McBride, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC)
• Ella Purnell, Fallout (Amazon)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Matt Berry, What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
• Lamorne Morris, Fargo (FX)
• Aaron Moten, Fallout (Amazon)
• Matt Smith, House of the Dragon (Max)
• Antony Starr, The Boys (Amazon)
• Henry Thomas, The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix)
• Brandon Scott Jones, Ghosts (CBS)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Jennifer Connelly, Dark Matter (Apple TV+)
• Jennifer Jason Leigh, Fargo (FX)
• Pollyanna McIntosh, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)
• Cristin Milioti, The Penguin (Max)
• Elizabeth Saunders, From (MGM+)
• Anna Sawai, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+)
• Rebecca Wisocky, Ghosts (CBS)

BEST GUEST STAR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Mark Hamill, The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix)
• Matthew Jeffers, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Lived (AMC)
• Martin Kove, Cobra Kai (Netflix)
• Kyle MacLachlan, Fallout (Amazon)
• Andrea Martin, Evil (CBS Studios)
• Aubrey Plaza, Agatha All Along (Marvel/Disney+)
• Ke Huy Quan, Loki (Marvel/Disney+)

BEST YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Zackary Arthur, Chucky (Syfy/Universal)
• Hannah Cheramy, From (MGM+)
• Cameron Crovetti, The Boys (Amazon)
• Rhenzy Feliz, The Penguin (Max)
• Joe Locke, Agatha All Along (Marvel/Disney+)
• Xolo Maridueña, Cobra Kai (Netflix)
• Louis Puech Scigliuzzi, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC)

HOME VIDEO

Best 4K Home Media Release:

• Conan the Barbarian (Arrow Video)
• Crimson Peak (Arrow Video)
• The Crow (Paramount)
• Face Off (KL Studio Classics)
• The Monster Squad (KL Studio Classics)
• Saw X (Lionsgate Home Entertainment)

Best Film Home Media Release Collection:

• Batman 85th Anniversary Collection (Warner Home Video)
• Nature Run Amok Collection (Kino Cult)
• OSS-117 Five Film Collection (KL Studio Classics)
• Republic Pictures Horror Collection (KL Studio Classics)
• Rocky: Ultimate Knockout Collection (Warner Home Video)
• Sci Fi Chillers Collection (KL Studio Classics)

Best Classic Film Home Media Release:

• I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim (Criterion Collection)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (KL Studio Classics)
• The Lady Killers (KL Studio Classics)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (Warner Home Video)
• Repo Man (The Criterion Collection)
• Reptilicus (Vinegar Syndrome)

Best Television Home Media Release:

• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: The Complete Series (MPI)
• Columbo: The Return (KL Studio Classics)
• Farscape: The Complete Series (25th Anniversary Edition (Shout)
• Interview with the Vampire (Season 2) (RLJ Entertainment)
• La Brea: The Complete Series (Universal)
• Star Wars: Andor – The Complete First Season (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)