Podcast The Chronic Rift has announced the nominees for their Roundtable Awards (a reinvigoration of the awards the podcast's predecessor television show used to award, see this article.). The winners will be announced on the 6 April program. The seemingly broad—yet widely varied—categories present an interesting (and at times mismatched or repetetive) range of nominees. The nominees are:
Best Writer of a Novel, Short Story, or Comic Book:
Jim Butcher for Small Favor and Princeps' Fury
Neil Gaiman for The Graveyard Book
David Mack for Star Trek Destiny: Gods of Night, Star Trek Destiny: Mere Mortals, and Star Trek Destiny: Lost Souls
Terry Pratchett for Nation
Ian Randal Strock for "Mars is the Wrong Color"
Best Editor of a Magazine, Anthology, or Comic Book:
Ellen Datlow for The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy
Keith R.A. DeCandido for Doctor Who Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership
Mark S. Deniz & Amanda Pillar for Voices
Joe Quesada for Marvel Comics
Stanley Schmidt for Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Best Artist of a Comic Book:
Olivier Coipel for Thor
Jae Lee for Dark Tower: The Long Road Home and Dark Tower: Treachery
Alex Ross for Avengers/Invaders Sketchbook and Project Superpowers
Dustin Weaver for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars: Rebellion, and Star Wars: Legacy
JK Woodward for Fallen Angel and X-Men Origins
Best Cover Artist of a Book, Magazine, or Comic Book:
Bryan Hitch for Fantastic Four, Wildstorm Fine Arts, Giant-Size Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Force, Captain Britain, and MI13
Georges Jeanty for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight
J.G. Jones for Final Crisis and Marvel Boy
John Picacio for Star Trek: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers, Star Trek: Terok Nor: Night of the Wolves, Star Trek: Terok Nor: Dawn of the Eagles, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Fearful Symmetry, Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Infinity's Prism, Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Echoes and Refractions, and Elric: The Stealer of Souls
Alex Ross for Kurt Busiek's Astro City: Beautie, Justice Society of America, Avengers/Invaders, Superman, Batman, Captain America, Project Superpowers, Red Sonja, and Black Adam: The Dark Age
Best Novel:
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Free Fall by Laura Anne Gilman
Underground by Kat Richardson
Galaxy Blues by Allen M. Steele
Best Short Story:
"Empty Spaces" by Michael A. Burstein in I Remember the Future
"I Remember the Future" by Michael A. Burstein in I Remember the Future
"Good Queen, Bad Queen, I Queen, You Queen" by Terri Osborne in Doctor Who: Short Trips 24: The Quality of Leadership
"Mars is the Wrong Color" by Ian Randal Strock in Nature
Best Anthology of Short Stories:
I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein by Michael A. Burstein
Voices edited by Mark Deniz and Amanda Pillar
The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan
Best Nonfiction Book:
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris
Up Til Now: The Autobiography by William Shatner
The Presidential Book of Lists: From Most to Least, Elected to Rejected, Worst to Cursed—Fascinating Facts About Our Chief Executives by Ian Randal Strock
Best Comic Book:
All Star Superman
The Amazing Spider-Girl
Locke & Key
100 Bullets
Star Trek: The Last Generation
Best Manga:
StarCraft: Frontline Volume 1
Fairy Tail
Death Note
Best Web Comic:
EZ Street
Real Life Comics
xkcd
Sheldon
Second Empire
Best Fiction Magazine:
Abyss & Apex
Analog
Best Nonfiction Magazine:
Entertainment Weekly
Maxim
New Scientist
SF Scope
Sky and Telescope
Best Fanzine:
Argentus
Best TV Episode:
"Forest of the Dead" from Doctor Who
"Power Hungry" from Fringe
"The Constant" from Lost
"Alison from Palmdale" from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
"The Invisible Hand of Fate" from The Venture Bros.
Best Movie:
The Dark Knight
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man
Twilight
WALL-E
Best Special Effects in a Movie or TV Series:
Battlestar Galactica
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man
Stargate Atlantis
Best Podcast:
Better in the Dark
The Chronic Rift
Doctor Who: Podshock
The Gamer's Haven Podcast
Scapecast
Best Website:
The Chronic Rift
Cinefantastique Online
DungeonMastering.com
SF Scope
Twitter
Best Director of a TV Show or Movie:
Jon Favreau for Iron Man
Graeme Harper for Doctor Who
Clark Johnson for The Wire, The Shield, Flashpoint, and Eleventh Hour
Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight
Andrew Stanton for WALL-E
Best Performer in a TV Show or Movie:
Michael Chiklis for The Shield
Aaron Eckhart for The Dark Knight
Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight
Catherine Tate for Doctor Who
David Tennant for Doctor Who
Best Writer of a TV Show or Movie:
Toni Graphia for Battlestar Galactica and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Drew Goddard for Lost
Marc Guggenheim for Eli Stone
Steven Moffatt for Doctor Who
Matt Nix for Burn Notice
Best Animation:
Kung Fu Panda
Moribito no Seirei (Guardian of the Sacred Spirit)
Spectacular Spider-Man
The Venture Bros.
WALL-E
Best Character:
Abby Grant (Julie Graham) from Survivors
Bubbles (Andre Royo) from The Wire
Captain America from Captain America
The Joker (Heath Ledger) from The Dark Knight
River Song (Alex Kingston) from Doctor Who
Best Thing of 2008:
The year ended.
Dr. Horrible's sing-along blog
End of the Bush era
Change of guard on Doctor Who
The release of Deborah Grabien's Rock and Roll Never Forgets
The return of the Choose Your Own Adventure series
A Matter of Loaf and Death: the new Wallace and Grommit Adventure
Giants win the Super Bowl
The release of I Remember the Future
Middle-Man TV series
Chuck
Increase in Genre/Media Tie-In related websites (Chronic Rift, Unreality SF)
The super hero movie as serious cinema
Hall of Fame:
Arthur C. Clarke
|
