Ray Bradbury Award
The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation (formerly the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation) is an annual award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) to the principal director(s) and writer(s) of the best dramatic presentation published in the United States in the preceding year. It is named to honor prolific author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury, and it was established in 2010 to replace the discontinued Nebula Award for Best Script, which was awarded from 1974 to 1978 and from 2000 to 2009. The award was originally not a Nebula Award, despite being presented along with them and following the same rules for nominations and voting, but in 2019 SFWA announced that the award was considered a Nebula category.[1]
A previous award called the Ray Bradbury Award, chosen by the President of SFWA and not by vote, was awarded four times between 1992 and 2009. The physical award was designed by Vincent Villafranca.[2] The cast bronze statuette references Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, while the IBM Selectric type ball used for the figure's head is indicative of Bradbury's stated preference for using an IBM Selectric typewriter.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the work was first released. Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.
* Winners and joint winners
1992–2009
This Ray Bradbury Award was not the current Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation. Before 2010 the winner was chosen by the President of SFWA, not by vote of the organization’s members.[3][4][5][6]
| Year | Winner(s) | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1992[7] | James Cameron (writer/director) and William Wisher (writer)* | Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
| 1999[7] | J. Michael Straczynski* | Babylon 5 |
| 2001[7] | Yuri Rasovsky and Harlan Ellison* | 2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia |
| 2009[7] | Joss Whedon* | Joss Whedon filmography |
2010–present
Starting with the 2010 award, the Nebula Award for Best Script was eliminated and the Ray Bradbury Award given in its place.
Other uses
In 1971, James Warren, the publisher of Warren Publishing began giving out a series of awards at the New York Comic Con, including one called the Ray Bradbury Award for Best Story, which went to Tom Sutton for the story "Snowman" publishing in Creepy issue 31. In subsequent years, the award for Best Story from Warren Publishing was not referred to as the Ray Bradbury Award.[19] This award is completely unrelated to the award presented by SFWA.
In 2020, the Los Angeles Times created the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, with the first award being presented at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The award "honors and extends Bradbury’s literary legacy by celebrating and elevating the writers working in his field today."[20] This award is also completely unrelated to the award presented by SFWA.
References
- Levine, David D. (2019-04-10). "I am now officially a Nebula Award winner!". daviddlevine.com. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
- Nebula Awards Ceremony 2009. Los Angeles, CA: SFWA. 2009. p. 12.
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominated-work/2000x-tales-next-millennia-yuri-rasovsky/
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominated-work/terminator-2/
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominated-work/babylon-5-j-michael-straczynski/
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominated-work/joss-whedon/
- "Nebula Awards Nominees and Winners: Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation Nebula Awards - The Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2009/
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2010/
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2011/
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2012/
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2013/
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2014/
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2015/
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2016/
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2017/
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2018/
- "Nebula Awards 2020". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- "Eerie Archives Volume 7". Eerie Archives Volume 7. Dark Horse Comics. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
- "The Los Angeles Times to Honor Walter Mosley and WriteGirl at the 40th Annual Book Prizes". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-03-05.