Ray Bradbury Award

The Ray Bradbury Award (full name "Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation") is presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to recognize excellence in screenwriting. Originally presented in 1992 and given for specific work, the award was not presented annually and was dormant from 2001 through 2008, when it was presented for a body of work rather than an individual work.

Starting with the 2009 award, the Nebula Award for Best Script was eliminated and the Bradbury Award given in its place. While no longer a Nebula, the award will be presented at the Nebula Awards Ceremony and will follow Nebula rules and procedures.^[1]

The award

Named in honor of Ray Bradbury, 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 other nominees

Year	Winner	Other nominees
1992	Terminator 2: Judgment Day by James Cameron (writer/director)^[3]
1999	Babylon 5 by J. Michael Straczynski (creator) ^[3]
2001	2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia by Yuri Rasovsky and Harlan Ellison (creators)^[3]
2008	Joss Whedon (career award)^[2]
2009^[4]	District 9 by Neill Blomkamp (writer/director) and Terri Tatchell (writer)^[5]	Star Trek, by J. J. Abrams (director), Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (writers) Avatar by James Cameron (writer/director) Moon by Duncan Jones (writer/director) and Nathan Parker (writer) Up by Pete Docter (writer/director), Bob Peterson and Thomas McCarthy (writers) Coraline by Henry Selick (writer/director)
2010^[6]	Inception by Christopher Nolan (writer/director)	Despicable Me by Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud (directors), Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio and Sergio Pablos (writers) Doctor Who: "Vincent and the Doctor" by Jonny Campbell (director) and Richard Curtis (writer) How To Train Your Dragon by Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders (writers/directors) and William Davies (writer) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World by Edgar Wright (writer/director) and Michael Bacall (writer) Toy Story 3 by Lee Unkrich (writer/director), Michael Arndt, John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton (writers)
2011^[7]	Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife" by Richard Clark (director) and Neil Gaiman (writer)	The Adjustment Bureau by George Nolfi (writer/director) Attack the Block by Joe Cornish (writer/director) Captain America: The First Avenger by Joe Johnston (director), Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (writers) Hugo by Martin Scorsese (director) and John Logan (writer) Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen (writer/director) Source Code by Duncan Jones (director) and Ben Ripley (writer)
2012^[8]	Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin (writer/director) and Lucy Alibar (writer)	The Avengers by Joss Whedon (writer/director) and Zak Penn (writer) The Cabin in the Woods by Drew Goddard (writer/director) and Joss Whedon (writer) The Hunger Games by Gary Ross (writer/director), Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray (writers) John Carter by Andrew Stanton (writer/director), Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon (writers) Looper by Rian Johnson (writer/director)
2013^[9]	Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón (director/writer) and Jonás Cuarón, (writer)	Doctor Who: "The Day of the Doctor" by Nick Hurran (director) and Steven Moffat (writer) Europa Report by Sebastián Cordero (director) and Philip Gelatt (writer) Her by Spike Jonze (director/writer) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Francis Lawrence (director), Simon Beaufoy & Michael deBruyn (writers) Pacific Rim by Guillermo del Toro (director/writer), Travis Beacham & Guillermo del Toro (writers)
2014^[8]	Guardians of the Galaxy by James Gunn (writer/director) and Nicole Perlman (writer)	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) by Alejandro G. Iñárritu (writer/director) and Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bó (writers) Captain America: The Winter Soldier by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (writers) Edge of Tomorrow by Christopher McQuarrie and Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth (writers) Interstellar by Jonathan Nolan (writer) and Christopher Nolan (writer/director) The Lego Movie by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (writers/directors)
2015^[10]	(To be announced)	Ex Machina by Alex Garland (writer/director) Inside Out by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen (writers/directors), Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley (writers) Jessica Jones: AKA Smile by Scott Reynolds, Melissa Rosenberg, and Jamie King (writers) Mad Max: Fury Road by George Miller (writer/director), Brendan McCarthy, and Nico Lathouris (writers) The Martian by Ridley Scott (director) and Drew Goddard (writer) Star Wars: The Force Awakens by J. J. Abrams (writer/director), Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt (writers)

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.^[11] This award is completely unrelated to the award presented by SFWA.

References

↑ "Ray Bradbury Award". Locus Magazine.
1 2 Nebula Awards Ceremony 2009. Los Angeles, CA: SFWA. 2009. p. 12.
1 2 3 "Bradbury Award Information". SFWA Web Site. SFWA. Archived from the original on March 4, 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-27.
↑ "2009 SFWA Final Nebula Awards Ballot". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc.
↑ Winners: 2009 Nebula Awards, SF Signal, accessed May 15, 2010.
↑ "2010 SFWA Final Nebula Awards Ballot". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc.
↑ "2011 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc.
1 2 Scalzi, John (2013-02-20). "This Year’s Nebula Award Nominees". Whatever. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
↑ "2013 Nebula Award Nominees". SFWA. 2014-02-25. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
↑ "sfadb: Ray Bradbury Award 2016". www.sfadb.com. Archived from the original on 2016-02-22. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
↑ "Eerie Archives Volume 7". Eerie Archives Volume 7. Dark Horse Comics. Retrieved 2015-08-26.

External links

Nebula Awards

Nebula Awards	Novel Novella Novelette Short Story Script

Retrospective awards	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 1 Volume 2

Other SFWA awards	Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award Author Emeritus Bradbury Award Andre Norton Award Solstice Award Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award

Nebula Award for Best Script/Bradbury Award

Nebula Award for Best Script	Soylent Green – Stanley R. Greenberg (1973) Sleeper – Woody Allen (1974) Young Frankenstein – Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder (1975) Star Wars - George Lucas (1977) The Sixth Sense – M. Night Shyamalan (1999) Galaxy Quest – David Howard & Robert Gordon (2000) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai and Hui-Ling Wang (2001) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson (2002) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson (2003) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson (2004) Serenity – Joss Whedon (2005) Howl's Moving Castle – Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt and Donald H. Hewitt (2006) Pan's Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro (2007) WALL-E – Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter (2008)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation	Terminator 2: Judgment Day – James Cameron (1992) Babylon 5 – J. Michael Straczynski (1999) 2000X — Tales of the Next Millennia – Yuri Rasovsky and Harlan Ellison (2001) Joss Whedon (2008) District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (2009) Inception – Christopher Nolan (2010) Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife" - Richard Clark and Neil Gaiman (2011) Beasts of the Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin, Lucy Alibar (2012) Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron and Jonas Cuaron (2013) Guardians of the Galaxy - James Gunn and Nicole Perlman (2014)

Ray Bradbury (works)

Novels	The Martian Chronicles (1950) Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Dandelion Wine (1957) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) The Halloween Tree (1972) Death Is a Lonely Business (1985) A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990) Green Shadows, White Whale (1992) From the Dust Returned (2001) Let's All Kill Constance (2002) Farewell Summer (2006)

Short stories	"The Scythe" (1943) "The Lake" (1944) "Frost and Fire" (1946) "The Million Year Picnic" (1946) "The Small Assassin" (1946) "I See You Never" (1947) "Fever Dream" (1948) "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" (1948) "The Long Years" (1948) "Mars Is Heaven!" (1948) "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" (1949) "The Exiles" (1949) "Marionettes, Inc." (1949) "The Long Rain" (1950) "The Rocket" (1950) "There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950) "The Veldt" (1950) "Ylla" (1950) "Embroidery" (1951) "The Fog Horn" (1951) "Here There Be Tygers" (1951) "The Pedestrian" (1951) "The April Witch" (1952) "A Sound of Thunder" (1952) "The Wilderness" (1952) "The Flying Machine" (1953) "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind" (1953) "The Meadow" (1953) "The Murderer" (1953) "Sun and Shadow" (1953) "All Summer in a Day" (1954) "The Dragon" (1955) "The Aqueduct" (1979) "Banshee" (1984) "The Toynbee Convector" (1984) "Is That You, Herb?" (2003)

Collections	Dark Carnival (1947) The Illustrated Man (1951) The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953) The October Country (1955) A Medicine for Melancholy (1959) The Day It Rained Forever (1959) The Small Assassin (1962) R Is for Rocket (1962) The Machineries of Joy (1964) The Autumn People (1965) The Vintage Bradbury (1965) Tomorrow Midnight (1966) S Is for Space (1966) Twice 22 (1966) I Sing the Body Electric (1969) Ray Bradbury (1975) Long After Midnight (1976) The Fog Horn & Other Stories (1979) The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980) The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980) The Fog Horn and Other Stories (1980) Dinosaur Tales (1983) A Memory of Murder (1984) The Toynbee Convector (1988) Classic Stories 1 (1990) Classic Stories 2 (1990) The Parrot Who Met Papa (1991) Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (1991) Quicker Than the Eye (1996) Driving Blind (1997) Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (2001) One More for the Road (2002) Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003) The Cat's Pajamas: Stories (2004) A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005) The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007) Summer Morning, Summer Night (2007) A Pleasure to Burn (2010) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury (2011, 2014)

Plays	The Meadow (1947) The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men (1953) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays (1972) Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975) The Martian Chronicles (1986) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1986) Fahrenheit 451 (1986) Dandelion Wine (1988) The Veldt (1988)

Adaptations	It Came from Outer Space (1953) Moby Dick (1956 screenplay) "I Sing the Body Electric" (1962) The Picasso Summer (1969) The Illustrated Man (1969) The Martian Chronicles (1980 miniseries) The Electric Grandmother (1982) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Bradbury 13 (radio series, 1983-84) The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV series, 1985-86, 1988-92) The Halloween Tree (1993) Dandelion Wine (1997) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998) A Sound of Thunder (2005) Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis (2008) The Whispers (2015)

Miscellaneous	The Mummies of Guanajuato (1978) Zen in the Art of Writing (1990) It Came from Outer Space (2003 book)

Related	Spaceship Earth Bradbury Landing Bradbury Award Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury (2010 music video)

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