- Discontinued Hugo Awards
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The Hugo Awards are presented every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was once officially known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award.[1] The award has been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".[2][3] In addition to the regular awards that have been given in most years that the awards have been active, several 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, and Most Promising New Author awards in 1956, the Outstanding Actifan award in 1958, and the Best New Author of 1958 award in 1959.[4][5][6][7]
In 1961, however, formal rules were set down for which categories would be awarded, which could only be changed by the World Science Fiction Society board.[8] Despite this, the 1964 convention awarded a Hugo Award for the Best SF Book Publisher, which was not on that list.[8] Immediately afterward 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.[9] This was later adjusted to only allow one additional category.[10] The Best SF Book Publisher award was repeated in 1965, and the Best All-Time Series award was given in 1966.[11][12] No other additional categories were added by 1974, when the guidelines were changed again to allow up to ten categories which would be chosen by each convention, though they were expected to be similar to those presented in the year before. Despite this change no new awards were added or previous awards removed before the guidelines were changed back to listing specific categories.[13][14]
The next discontinued Hugo award was the Other Forms award, given in 1988.[15] 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.[16][17] It was then removed from this status in 1996, and has not been awarded since.[18] The only other special Hugo award since has been the Best Web Site award, which was given in 2002 and 2005.[19][20]
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 World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with five nominees, except in the case of a tie. These five works on the ballot are those most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of works that can be nominated. The 1953 through 1958 awards did not include any recognition of runner-up nominees, but since 1959 all five candidates have been recorded.[21] Initial nominations are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of five nominations is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held.[22] Worldcons are generally held near Labor Day, and in a different city around the world each year.[1][23] 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. The only time this has happened in these awards was in the 1959 Best New Author category.[7]
Winners and nominees
* Winners and joint winners + No winner selected
Best Cover Artist
Year Artist Ref 1953 Hannes Bok and Ed Emshwiller* [4] Best Interior Illustrator
Year Artist Ref 1953 Virgil Finlay* [4] Excellence in Fact Articles
Year Author Ref 1953 Willy Ley* [4] Best New SF Author or Artist
Year Author/Artist Ref 1953 Philip José Farmer* [4] #1 Fan Personality
Year Fan Ref 1953 Forrest J Ackerman* [4] Sometimes referred to as the "BNF Award". According to an interim report issued by the Philcon II convention committee while voting was still going on, the next most popular candidate to Ackerman at the time was Harlan Ellison. When Ackerman was handed the trophy at Philcon II (by Isaac Asimov), he actually physically declined, saying it should go to Ken Slater, to whom the trophy was later forwarded by the con committee.[24]
Best Feature Writer
Year Writer Ref 1956 Willy Ley* [5] Best Book Reviewer
Year Reviewer Ref 1956 Damon Knight* [5] Most Promising New Author
Year Author Ref 1956 Robert Silverberg* [5] Outstanding Actifan
Year Fan Ref 1958 Walt Willis* [6] Best New Author
Year Author Ref 1959 (no award)+ [7] 1959 Brian Aldiss [7] 1959 Pauline Ashwell [7] 1959 Rosel George Brown [7] 1959 Louis Charbonneau [7] 1959 Kit Reed [7] Best SF Book Publisher
Year Publisher Ref 1964 Ace Books* [25] 1964 Pyramid Books [25] 1964 Ballantine Books [25] 1964 Doubleday [25] 1965 Ballantine Books* [11] 1965 Ace Books [11] 1965 Victor Gollancz Ltd [11] 1965 Pyramid Books [11] Best All-Time Series
Year Series Author Ref 1966 Foundation* Isaac Asimov [12] 1966 Barsoom Edgar Rice Burroughs [12] 1966 Future History Robert A. Heinlein [12] 1966 Lensmen E. E. Smith [12] 1966 The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien [12] Other Forms
Year Work Creator(s) Publisher Ref 1988 Watchmen* Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons DC Comics [15] 1988 Wild Cards George R. R. Martin Bantam Spectra [15] 1988 I, Robot: The Movie Harlan Ellison Asimov's Science Fiction [15] 1988 The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective Harlan Ellison, Terry Dowling, Richard Delap, and Gil Lamont Nemo Press [15] 1988 Cvltvre Made Stvpid Tom Weller Houghton Mifflin [15] Best Original Art Work
Best Web Site
Year Website Editor(s) Ref 2002 Locus Online (www.locusmag.com)* Mark R. Kelly [19] 2002 Sci Fiction (www.scifi.com) Craig Engler [19] 2002 SF Site (www.sfsite.com) Rodger Turner [19] 2002 Strange Horizons (www.strangehorizons.com) Mary Anne Mohanraj [19] 2002 Tangent Online (www.tangentonline.com) Dave Truesdale and Tobias S. Buckell [19] 2005 Sci Fiction (www.scifi.com/scifiction)* Ellen Datlow [20] 2005 Locus Online (www.locusmag.com) Mark R. Kelly [20] 2005 Emerald City (www.emcit.com) Cheryl Morgan [20] 2005 Strange Horizons (www.strangehorizons.com) Susan Marie Groppi [20] 2005 eFanzines (www.efanzines.com) Bill Burns [20] References
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