The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) today announced the nominees for the 20th annual IFMCA Awards, for excellence in musical scoring in 2023. Composers John Williams and Christopher Young lead the list of composer nominees with four nominations each, … Continue reading
The 51st Annual Saturn Awards winners were revealed during a ceremony streamed from Los Angeles on February 4. Avatar: The Way of Water brought home four awards in the film categories. Star Trek: Picard equaled the tally with four in … Continue reading
The 2023 Saturn Award nominees were announced on December 6. James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water received 12 nominations, surpassing the record he set back in 2010 when the original Avatar film garnered 10 nominations. Other films leading the way are Christopher Nolan’s biopic, Oppenheimer, with … Continue reading
The Game Awards 2023 nominations were released on November 13. Survival-horror themed Alan Wake 2 from Remedy Entertainment and role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3 from Larian Studios lead the field with nominations in eight categories apiece, including Game of the Year. Fan voting continues … Continue reading
The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation presented the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Awards at their Unleash Imagination event on November 8. (Note: This is a different honor than the literary Arthur C. Clarke Award.) INNOVATOR AWARD NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Represented by its … Continue reading
Samantha Mills’ “Rabbit Test,” published by Uncanny Magazine, is the winner of the 2023 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science fiction short story published in 2022. The award was announced August 25 by the J. Wayne and Elsie M. … Continue reading
Many creators were honored with Inkpot Awards at Comic-Con International 2023 for their contributions to the worlds of comics, science fiction/fantasy, film, television, animation, and fandom services. The convention has not yet updated its list of winners, but all of the … Continue reading
[Introduction: Gary Westfahl has authored, edited, or co-edited over thirty books about science fiction and fantasy, including the Hugo Award-nominated Science Fiction Quotations (2005) and the two-volume Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia (2021). In 2003 he won the Science Fiction Research Association’s … Continue reading
Reflected glory isn’t enough – maybe it was never enough. Now some writers are demanding an explicit share of the glory when anthologies win awards. Nuzo Onoh, a Nigerian-British writer of Igbo descent popularly known as the “Queen of African … Continue reading
The Grants Committee of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has awarded 29 organizations, activities, and public interest programs with Givers Fund Grants. These micro-grants ranged from $165 to $4,235 each, for use for projects taking place in … Continue reading