Nebula Award for Best Script

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Template:Infobox award The Nebula Award for Best Script was given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy scripts for movies or television episodes. Awards are also given out for published literary works in the novel, novella, novelette, and short story categories. The Nebula Award for Best Script was awarded annually from 1974 through 1978, and from 2000 through 2009. It was presented under several names; in 1974, 1975, and 1977 the award was for Best Dramatic Presentation, while in 1976 the award was for Best Dramatic Writing.[1] The award was discontinued in 2010 and replaced with Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation; this award was not originally a Nebula but was made one retroactively in 2019, and is presented at the Nebula Awards Ceremony and follows Nebula rules and procedures.[2] The Nebula Awards have been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of the Emmy Awards.[3][4]

Selection process

Nebula Award nominees and winners are chosen by members of the SFWA, though the authors of the nominees do not need to be a member. Works are nominated each year between November 15 and February 15 by published authors who are members of the organization, and the six works that receive the most nominations then form the final ballot, with additional nominees possible in the case of ties. Members may then vote on the ballot throughout March, and the final results are presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in May. Authors are not permitted to nominate their own works, and ties in the final vote are broken, if possible, by the number of nominations the works received.[1] Beginning with the 2009 awards, the rules were changed to the current format. Prior to then, the eligibility period for nominations was defined as one year after the publication date of the work, which allowed the possibility for works to be nominated in the calendar year after their publication and then reach the final ballot in the calendar year after that. Works were added to a preliminary ballot for the year if they had ten or more nominations, which were then voted on to create a final ballot, to which the SFWA organizing panel was also allowed to add an additional work.[5]

Award statistics

During the 15 nomination years, 14 awards for Best Script have been given, including the special award given to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1978 but not including 1977, since no nominee was given the award. No winner was declared that year as "no award" received the highest number of votes.[6] With three awards The Lord of the Rings film trilogy earned the most awards or nominations of any franchise. The Christopher Nolan Batman movies, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Doctor Who franchises have each had two nominations, but no wins. Hayao Miyazaki, Christopher Nolan, Joss Whedon, and The Lord of the Rings screenwriters have had the most nominations, with three each.

Winners and nominees

SFWA currently identifies the awards by the year of publication, that is, the year prior to the year in which the award is given. Entries with a yellow background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; the other entries are the other nominees on the shortlist. Entries with a gray background and a plus sign (+) mark a year when "no award" was selected as the winner.

  *   Winners and joint winners   +   No winner selected

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Year Writer(s) Work Publisher Ref.
1973 Template:Sortname (script), Harry Harrison (original novel)* Soylent Green Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [7]
Template:Sortname Westworld Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [7]
Template:Sortname Steambath PBS [7]
Template:Sortname (script, original novel) Catholics ITV [7]
1974 Template:Sortname* Sleeper United Artists [8]
Template:Sortname and Don Bachardy (script), Mary Shelley (original novel) Frankenstein: The True Story NBC [8]
Template:Sortname and Roland Topor (script), Stefan Wul (original novel) Fantastic Planet Argos Films [8]
1975 Template:Sortname and Gene Wilder (script), Mary Shelley (original novel)* Young Frankenstein United Artists [9]
Template:Sortname and Dan O'Bannon Dark Star Jack H. Harris Enterprises [9]
Template:Sortname (script), Harlan Ellison (original novella) Template:Sort LQ/JAF [9]
Template:Sortname (script, original story) Rollerball United Artists [9]
1976 (no award)+ [10]
Template:Sortname Harlan! Harlan Ellison Reads Harlan Ellison Alternative World Recordings [10]
Template:Sortname (script), William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson (original novel) Logan's Run United Artists [10]
Template:Sortname (script), Walter Tevis (original novel) Template:Sort Columbia Pictures [10]
1977 Template:Sortname* Star Wars Episode IV: A New HopeTemplate:Efn 20th Century Fox [11]
1999 Template:Sortname* Template:Sort Hollywood Pictures [12]
Template:Sortname (script), Jane Yolen (original novel) Template:Sort Showtime Networks [12]
Template:Sortname and Tim McCanlies (script), Ted Hughes (original novel) Template:Sort Warner Bros. [12]
Template:Sortname Template:Sort Private Black Label [12]
Template:Sortname Template:Sort Warner Bros. [12]
2000 Template:Sortname and Robert Gordon* Galaxy Quest DreamWorks [13]
Template:Sortname (script), Stephen King (original novel) Template:Sort Warner Bros. [13]
Template:Sortname (script) and Neil Gaiman (English translation) Princess Mononoke Studio Ghibli/Miramax Films [13]
Template:Sortname Being John Malkovich Propaganda Films [13]
Template:Sortname Unbreakable Touchstone Pictures [13]
Template:Sortname Dogma View Askew Productions [13]
2001 Template:Sortname, Kuo Jung Tsai, and Hui-Ling Wang (script), Wang Dulu (original novel)* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Sony Pictures Classics [14]
Template:Sortname O Brother, Where Art Thou? Touchstone Pictures [14]
Template:Sortname and Bryan Singer (story), David Hayter (screenplay) X-Men 20th Century Fox [14]
Template:Sortname Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "The Body" Fox Television Studios/Mutant Enemy Productions [14]
2002 Template:Sortname, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (script), J. R. R. Tolkien (original novel)* Template:Sort New Line Cinema [15]
Template:Sortname and Terry Rossio Shrek DreamWorks [15]
Template:Sortname (script), Stephen King (original concept) Template:Sort: "Unreasonable Doubt" DreamWorks [15]
Template:Sortname Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Once More, With Feeling" Warner Bros. [15]
2003 Template:Sortname, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Peter Jackson (script), J. R. R. Tolkien (original novel)* Template:Sort New Line Cinema [16]
Template:Sortname and Jon Cohen (script), Philip K. Dick (original story) Minority Report 20th Century Fox/DreamWorks [16]
Template:Sortname Futurama: "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" Fox Broadcasting Company [16]
Template:Sortname (script), Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt (English translation) Spirited Away Studio Ghibli/The Walt Disney Company [16]
Template:Sortname, Bob Peterson, and David Reynolds Finding Nemo Pixar/The Walt Disney Company [16]
2004 Template:Sortname, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (script), J. R. R. Tolkien (original novel)* Template:Sort New Line Cinema [17]
Template:Sortname Template:Sort Pixar/The Walt Disney Company [17]
Template:Sortname and Eric Bress Template:Sort New Line Cinema [17]
Template:Sortname & Michel Gondry Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Focus Features [17]
2005 Template:Sortname* Serenity Universal Studios/Mutant Enemy Productions [18]
Template:Sortname, Bradley Thompson, and David Weddle Battlestar Galactica: "Act of Contrition/You Can't Go Home Again" Sci-Fi Channel [18]
2006 Template:Sortname (script), Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt (English translation) Howl's Moving Castle Studio Ghibli/The Walt Disney Company [19]
Template:Sortname and David S. Goyer Batman Begins Warner Bros. [19]
Template:Sortname Battlestar Galactica: "Unfinished Business" Sci-Fi Channel [19]
Template:Sortname Doctor Who: "The Girl in the Fireplace" BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One [19]
2007 Template:Sortname* Pan's Labyrinth Picturehouse [20]
Template:Sortname, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, and Hawk Ostby (script), P. D. James (original novel) Children of Men Universal Studios [20]
Template:Sortname Doctor Who: "Blink" BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One [20]
Template:Sortname and Jonathan Nolan (script), Christopher Priest (original novel) Template:Sort Touchstone Pictures [20]
Template:Sortname (script), David Lloyd (original graphic novel) V for Vendetta Warner Bros. [20]
Template:Sortname and Michael Reaves Star Trek: New Voyages: "World Enough and Time" Cawley Entertainment Company/The Magic Time Company [20]
2008 Template:Sortname, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter* WALL-E Pixar/The Walt Disney Company [21]
Template:Sortname, Jonathan Nolan, and David S. Goyer Template:Sort Warner Bros. [21]
Template:Sortname Stargate Atlantis: "The Shrine" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [21]

See also

Notes

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References

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External links

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