Awards

Award Listings

This Wiki page supports the ISFDB Award Directory, which has a list of all the awards currently in the database. The table below has a link to individual awards and indicates the current status of incorporating them into the ISFDB. Awards are listed in alphabetical order; when the award is named after an individual, this order uses the last name of that individual.

Note that of the many awards given, some are published as for the year in which they are awarded, and some are published as for the year of eligibility of the works being evaluated. For consistency, we always list awards for the year of eligibility. This means that we may list "The XYZ Award - 2010" while Locus or the XYZ awarding group calls it "The XYZ Award - 2011". Our policy, in addition to this basic consistency, makes it more likely that a title receiving multiple awards has them listed for the same year, and makes it much easier to handle cases where an organization "catches up" on back awards by announcing 2 years of awards during one calendar year.

Award	Status
Multi-Category Awards	"General" Awards covering all forms of Speculative Fiction
Nebula Award	Complete through 2012.
Hugo Award	Up to date through 2012
Retro Hugo Award	In progress
Locus Poll Award	In progress.
Quill Award	2005-2007 (complete)
SF Chronicle Award	In progress.
HOMer Award	Complete
Sub-Genre Awards	(Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Alternative History)
Science Fiction
British Science Fiction Award	In progress.
Robert A. Heinlein Award	Up-to-date (2003-2014)
Philip K. Dick Award	Complete to 2013.
John W. Campbell Memorial Award	Up to date through 2013
Fantasy
Balrog Award	Uncertain
British Fantasy Award	In progress. Winners up to date thru 2011
August Derleth Award	Initially, the name of the award now called the British Fantasy Award. After the scope of the award was changed in 1976 to add more categories, the name "August Derleth Award" was retained to refer specifically to the British Fantasy Best Novel Award, which see for details.
International Fantasy Award	Complete (1951-1957)
Gandalf Award	Complete? The 1981 award seems to disagree with Locus.
Mythopoeic Award	In progress.
World Fantasy Award	Complete through 2011.
Horror
Deathrealm Award	Complete
International Horror Guild Award	In progress
Bram Stoker Award	In progress. Up to date through 2004.
Rondo Hatton Horror Award	Primarily for horror movies, one category is for best book. Most such books are focused on horror movies or actors, and are not eligible for inclusion here. Eligible books on the final short list are noted on their title page, and listed here. Complete through 2012, except for 2007.
Alternate History
Sidewise Award	Complete through 2009. Is missing the 2007 award for Elizabeth Bear's "Lumiere", which is waiting to get the full contents of the book "New Amsterdam" (on order) so we can make a proper bibliographic link.
Writing Form Awards	(Short Story, Poem, Screenwriting)
Short Story
Asimov's Undergraduate Award	Complete through 2011
Dell Magazines Award	The award usually called the "Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing" is now sponsored by Dell Magazines, and the name was changed in 2005 to the "Dell Magazines Award ...". ISFDB lists these awards as "Asimov's Undergraduate Awards / Dell Magazines Award"
Sturgeon Award	Up to date through 2010.
James White Award	Complete through 2010.
Poem
Rhysling Award	In progress.
Screenwriting
Ray Bradbury Award	1992-2013
Thematic Awards	(Gender, LGBT, Race & Ethnicity, Libertarian)
Gender
James Tiptree, Jr. Award	Up to date through 2010, except for a few awards (1 to a web page, and 1 to a title series) that are difficult to include correctly just yet.
Norma K. Hemming Award	Complete through 2013.
LGBT
Lambda Award	Up-to-date through 2010, awarded in 2011. (The award includes many categories of different genres and LGBT themes. The only award consistently included here is "Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror".)
Race, Ethnicity, PoC
Carl Brandon Society Award	Complete to 2011
Libertarian
Prometheus Award	In progress.
Young Reader Awards	(Young Adult & Children's books)
Eleanor Cameron Award	The Golden Duck Award for middle-grades was renamed "The Eleanor Cameron Award" as of 2004, and is given in honor of the author most famous for her "Mushroom Planet" and "Julia Redfern" books. These awards are classified with the Golden Duck awards.
Hal Clement Award for Excellence in Young Adults Science Fiction Literature	This award presented in memory of Hal Clement at Worldcon each year. It is one of the Golden Duck Awards, and is classified with them.
Golden Duck Award	In progress
Andre Norton Award	Complete through 2014.
Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award	Up-to-date through 2011.
New "..." Awards	(New Author, Artist, Novelist)
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer	Up to date through 2012
Compton Crook Award	In progress. Winners up to date thru 2012.
Gaughan Award	Up-to-Date
Artist Awards
Chesley Award	In progress. 2003-2009 have Winners of published works only so far.
See New "..." Awards as well
Personal (Individual) Awards	Career Honors, Lifetime Achievement, etc.
First Fandom Hall of Fame Award	Complete to 2013
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award	A lifetime honor presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to no more than one living writer of fantasy or science fiction. Founded as the "SFWA Grand Master" in 1975, it was renamed in 2002 after the Association's founder, Damon Knight, who had died that year -- see under Nebula Award/
Skylark Award	Up-to-date through 2013.
Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction	The formal name for what is more commonly called the Skylark Award.
Solstice Award	Listed in ISFDB as a category under Nebula Awards. Complete to 2013.
Academic/Professional Awards
William Atheling Jr. Award
Publication Specific Awards	Best story in a specific publication
Analog Award	Complete through 2012. Still collecting the awards for the "All-Time Best" poll (see the award narrative).
Asimov's Reader's Poll Award	Complete through 2011
SFBC Award	In progress.
Regional (U.S.) Awards
Endeavour Award	Up-to-date.
National Awards	Countries other than the United States
Australia
Aurealis Award	Novel winners complete through 2011. 2013 totally complete. Note: The year is the publication year, not the year in which the award was announced. [Although the eligibility year started about November of the previous year - up to about 2010, I think ... clarkmci]
Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award	Now called the Ditmar Awards
Ditmar Award	In progress.
Canada
Aurora Award	In progress. 2004-2010 need French titles.
Sunburst Award	Up-to-date through 2012.
France
Prix Tour-Apollo Award	Complete.
Imaginaire Award	In progress
New Zealand
Sir Julius Vogel Award	Does not include the "New Zealand Science Fiction Fan Awards" from 1989-2001. In progress under the new name through 2013.
United Kingdom
Arthur C. Clarke Award	Up to date through 2011