Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
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The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is given each year for theatrical films, television episodes, or other dramatized works related to science fiction or fantasy released in the previous calendar year.<ref name="HugoConst71"/> Originally the award covered both works of film and of television but since 2003, it has been split into two categories: Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) and Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form). The Dramatic Presentation Awards are part of the broader Hugo Awards, which are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, and was once officially known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award.<ref name="LocusHugoinfo"/> The award has been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction".<ref name="GuardianHugo"/>
History
The award was first presented in 1958, and with the exceptions of 1964 and 1966 was given annually through 2002 when it was retired in favor of the newly created Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) and Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) categories, which divided the category depending on whether the work was longer or shorter than 90 minutes. In the 1964 and 1966 awards there were insufficient nominations made to support the category.<ref name="Hugo64"/><ref name="Hugo66"/> Prior to 1971, the category was defined as including works from "radio, television, stage or screen", and thereafter was expanded to "any medium of dramatized science fiction or fantasy", resulting in the nomination of recorded songs and other works.<ref name="Franson"/> In addition to the regular Hugo awards, since 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro Hugos", have been available to be awarded for years 50, 75, or 100 years prior in which no awards were given.<ref name="thafaq"/> To date, Retro Hugo awards have been awarded for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954; the 1946 and 1951 awards were for the Best Dramatic Presentation category while the 1939, 1945, and 1954 awards were for the Short Form category. There were insufficient nominations to support an award in the Long Form category for those years. The 1941 and 1944 awards were for both Long and Short Form.<ref name="LocusRetroHugoinfo"/>
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six finalists, except in the case of a tie. The works on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of works that can be nominated. The 1958 awards did not include any recognition of runner-up magazines, but since 1959 all six candidates were recorded.<ref name="thafaq"/> Initial nominations are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six finalists is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held.<ref name="thaabout"/> Prior to 2017, the final ballot was five works; it was changed that year to six, with each initial nominator limited to five nominations, and no more than two works per series allowed on the final ballot.<ref name="2017change"/> Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and are held in a different city around the world each year.<ref name="LocusHugoinfo"/><ref name="worldcon"/> Members are permitted to vote "no award", if they feel that none of the finalists is deserving of the award that year, and in the case that "no award" takes the majority the Hugo is not given in that category. This has happened in the Dramatic Presentation category four times, in 1959, 1963, 1971, and 1977.<ref name="Hugo59"/><ref name="Hugo63"/><ref name="Hugo71"/><ref name="Hugo77"/>
The award is typically for television and film presentations, but occasionally rewards works in other formats: in 1970 it was awarded to news coverage of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, while in 1971 a concept album and a comedy album were finalists.<ref name="Hugo70"/><ref name="Hugo71"/> Another comedy album was a finalist the following year,<ref name="Hugo72"/> and a slideshow was a finalist in 1976.<ref name="Hugo76"/> A radio play was a finalist in 1979,<ref name="Hugo79"/> and all of the 1939 Retro Hugo awards were for radio plays.<ref name="Hugo39"/> In 2004, an acceptance speech from the 2003 MTV Movie Awards won the award, while in 2006, a skit from the opening of the previous year's award ceremony (pretending to be for the "Victor Hugo Award") was a finalist.<ref name="Hugo06"/> An audiobook was a finalist in 2009, another acceptance speech was a finalist in 2012, a concept album was a finalist in 2017, and a song was a finalist in 2018.<ref name="Hugo17"/>
During the 75 nomination years, 43 awards for Best Dramatic Presentation, 24 awards each for Short Form and Long Form, and 11 Retro Hugo awards have been given. The individual franchises with the most awards are Doctor Who/Whoniverse with 6 Short Form awards out of 39 final ballot nominations;Template:Efn Star Trek with 4 Best Dramatic Presentation awards out of 21 nominations, as well as one Short Form award out of 9 nominations, and a Long Form nomination; Star Wars with 3 Best Dramatic Presentation awards out of 3 nominations as well as 4 Long Form and 5 Short Form nominations.
Other shows or series with multiple awards or nominations include The Good Place with 4 wins out of 6 Short Form nominations, The Twilight Zone with 3 Best Dramatic Presentation awards out of 4 nominations, Game of Thrones with 3 wins out of a Long Form and 5 Short Form nominations, The Expanse with 3 wins out of 6 Short Form nominations, and Babylon 5 with 2 wins out of 4 nominations, the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 1 win out of 15 Long Form and 4 Short Form nominations, Buffy the Vampire Slayer with 1 out of 6, Battlestar Galactica (2004) with 1 of 5, and Harry Potter with no awards after 7 nominations. The members of the hip hop group Clipping are the only musical artists to have earned two nominations for their works, first for their 2016 album Splendor & Misery and then for their 2017 song "The Deep".<ref name="Hugo17"/><ref name="Hugo18"/>
Winners and finalists
In the following tables, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the work was first published. Entries with a yellow background and an asterisk (*) next to the work's name have won the award; those with a white background are the finalists on the short-list. Entries with a gray background and a plus sign (+) mark a year when "no award" was selected as the winner. In the case of television presentations, the award is generally for a particular episode rather than for a program as a whole; however, sometimes, as in the case of The Twilight Zone, it was given for the series' body of work that year rather than for any particular episode.
1958–2002
* Winner(s) + No winner selected
| Year | Work | Creator(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | The Incredible Shrinking Man* | Jack Arnold (director), Richard Matheson (screenplay, story) | Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo58"/> |
| 1959 | (no award)+ | <ref name="Hugo59"/> | ||
| The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Nathan Juran (director), Ken Kolb (screenplay), Ray Harryhausen (story) | Morningside Movies/Columbia Pictures | <ref name="Hugo59"/> | |
| Dracula | Terence Fisher (director), Jimmy Sangster (screenplay), Bram Stoker (original novel) | Hammer Film Productions | <ref name="Hugo59"/> | |
| The Fly | Kurt Neumann (director), James Clavell (screenplay), George Langelaan (story) | 20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo59"/> | |
| 1960 | The Twilight Zone* | Rod Serling (creator, screenplay) | CBS | <ref name="Hugo60"/> |
| Men into Space | (multiple directors and writers) | CBS | <ref name="Hugo60"/> | |
| Murder and the Android | Alex Segal (director), Alfred Bester (original story) | NBC | <ref name="Hugo60"/> | |
| The Turn of the Screw | John Frankenheimer (director), James Costigan (screenplay), Henry James (original story) | NBC | <ref name="Hugo60"/> | |
| The World, the Flesh and the Devil | Ranald MacDougall (director, screenplay), Ferdinand Reyher (story), M. P. Shiel (original novel) | HarBel/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo60"/> | |
| 1961 | The Twilight Zone* | Rod Serling (creator, screenplay) | CBS | <ref name="Hugo61"/> |
| The Time Machine | George Pal (director), David Duncan (screenplay), H. G. Wells (original novel) | Galaxy Films/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo61"/> | |
| Village of the Damned | Wolf Rilla (director, screenplay), Stirling Silliphant (screenplay), Ronald Kinnoch (screenplay) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo61"/> | |
| 1962 | The Twilight Zone* | Rod Serling (creator, screenplay) | CBS | <ref name="Hugo62"/> |
| Thriller | (multiple directors and writers) | NBC | <ref name="Hugo62"/> | |
| The United States Steel Hour: "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon" | James Yaffe (screenplay), Daniel Keyes (original story) | CBS | <ref name="Hugo62"/> | |
| Village of the Damned | Wolf Rilla (director, screenplay), Stirling Silliphant (screenplay), Ronald Kinnoch (screenplay) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo62"/> | |
| The Fabulous World of Jules Verne | Karel Zeman (director, screenplay), František Hrubín (screenplay), Jules Verne (original novel) | Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo62"/> | |
| 1963 | (no award)+ | <ref name="Hugo63"/> | ||
| The Twilight Zone | Rod Serling (creator, screenplay) | CBS | <ref name="Hugo63"/> | |
| Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais (director, screenplay), Alain Robbe-Grillet (screenplay), Adolfo Bioy Casares (original novel) | Argos Films | <ref name="Hugo63"/> | |
| The Day the Earth Caught Fire | Val Guest (director, screenplay), Wolf Mankowitz (screenplay) | British Lion Films/Pax | <ref name="Hugo63"/> | |
| Night of the Eagle | Sidney Hayers (director), Charles Beaumont (screenplay), Richard Matheson (screenplay), George Baxt (screenplay), Fritz Leiber (original novel) | Anglo-Amalgamated/Independent Artists | <ref name="Hugo63"/> | |
| 1965 | Dr. Strangelove* | Stanley Kubrick (director, screenplay), Terry Southern (screenplay), Peter George (screenplay, original novel) | Hawk Films/Columbia Pictures | <ref name="Hugo65"/> |
| 7 Faces of Dr. Lao | George Pal (director), Charles Beaumont (screenplay), Charles G. Finney (original novel) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo65"/> | |
| 1967 | Star Trek: "The Menagerie"* | Marc Daniels (director), Gene Roddenberry (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | <ref name="Hugo67"/> |
| Star Trek: "The Corbomite Maneuver" | Joseph Sargent (director), Jerry Sohl (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | <ref name="Hugo67"/> | |
| Star Trek: "The Naked Time" | Marc Daniels (director), John D. F. Black (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | <ref name="Hugo67"/> | |
| Fahrenheit 451 | François Truffaut (director, screenplay), Jean-Louis Richard (screenplay), Helen G. Scott (screenplay), Ray Bradbury (original novel) | Anglo Enterprises/Vineyard | <ref name="Hugo67"/> | |
| Fantastic Voyage | Richard Fleischer (director), Harry Kleiner (screenplay), David Duncan (screenplay), Jerome Bixby (story), Otto Klement (story) | 20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo67"/> | |
| 1968 | Star Trek: "The City on the Edge of Forever"* | Joseph Pevney (director), Harlan Ellison (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | <ref name="Hugo68"/> |
| Star Trek: "Amok Time" | Joseph Pevney (director), Theodore Sturgeon (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | <ref name="Hugo68"/> | |
| Star Trek: "Mirror, Mirror" | Marc Daniels (director), Jerome Bixby (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | <ref name="Hugo68"/> | |
| Star Trek: "The Doomsday Machine" | Marc Daniels (director), Norman Spinrad (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | <ref name="Hugo68"/> | |
| Star Trek: "The Trouble with Tribbles" | Joseph Pevney (director), David Gerrold (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | <ref name="Hugo68"/> | |
| 1969 | 2001: A Space Odyssey* | Stanley Kubrick (director, screenplay), Arthur C. Clarke (screenplay, original story) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo69"/> |
| The Prisoner: "Fall Out" | Patrick McGoohan (director, screenplay) | Everyman/ITC Entertainment | <ref name="Hugo69"/> | |
| Charly | Ralph Nelson (director), Stirling Silliphant (screenplay), Daniel Keyes (original story) | ABC Pictures/Selmer | <ref name="Hugo69"/> | |
| Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski (director, screenplay), Ira Levin (original novel) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo69"/> | |
| Yellow Submarine | George Dunning (director), Al Brodax (screenplay), Roger McGough (screenplay), Jack Mendelsohn (screenplay), Lee Minoff (screenplay), Erich Segal (screenplay) | Apple Corps/Hearst/King Features Syndicate | <ref name="Hugo69"/> | |
| 1970 | News coverage of Apollo 11* | Multiple sources | Multiple publishers, NASA | <ref name="Hugo70"/> |
| The Bed Sitting Room | Richard Lester (director), John Antrobus (screenplay), Charles Wood (screenplay), John Antrobus (original play), Spike Milligan (original play) | Oscar Lewenstein Productions | <ref name="Hugo70"/> | |
| The Illustrated Man | Jack Smight (director), Howard B. Kreitsek (screenplay), Ray Bradbury (original story collection) | SKM | <ref name="Hugo70"/> | |
| The Immortal | Allen Baron (director), Joseph Sargent (director), Lou Morheim (screenplay), Robert Specht (screenplay), James Gunn (original novel) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo70"/> | |
| Marooned | John Sturges (director), Mayo Simon (screenplay), Martin Caidin (original novel) | Columbia Pictures | <ref name="Hugo70"/> | |
| 1971 | (no award)+ | <ref name="Hugo71"/> | ||
| Blows Against the Empire | Paul Kantner (lyrics, music) | RCA Records | <ref name="Hugo71"/> | |
| Colossus: The Forbin Project | Joseph Sargent (director), James Bridges (screenplay), D. F. Jones (original novel) | Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo71"/> | |
| Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers | The Firesign Theatre (screenplay, performance) | Columbia Records | <ref name="Hugo71"/> | |
| Hauser's Memory | Boris Sagal (director), Adrian Spies (screenplay), Curt Siodmak (original novel) | Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo71"/> | |
| No Blade of Grass | Cornel Wilde (director), Sean Forestal (screenplay), Jefferson Pascal (screenplay), John Christopher (original novel) | Theodora/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo71"/> | |
| 1972 | A Clockwork Orange* | Stanley Kubrick (director, screenplay), Anthony Burgess (original novel) | Hawk Films/Polaris/Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo72"/> |
| The Andromeda Strain | Robert Wise (director), Nelson Gidding (screenplay), Michael Crichton (original novel) | Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo72"/> | |
| I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus | The Firesign Theatre (screenplay, performance) | Columbia Records | <ref name="Hugo72"/> | |
| The Name of the Game: "L.A. 2017" | Steven Spielberg (director), Philip Wylie (screenplay) | Universal Studios/NBC | <ref name="Hugo72"/> | |
| THX 1138 | George Lucas (director, screenplay, story), Walter Murch (screenplay) | Warner Bros./American Zoetrope | <ref name="Hugo72"/> | |
| 1973 | Slaughterhouse-Five* | George Roy Hill (director), Stephen Geller (screenplay), Kurt Vonnegut (original novel) | Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo73"/> |
| Between Time and Timbuktu | Fred Barzyk (director), Kurt Vonnegut (screenplay, story) | NET Playhouse/Public Broadcasting Service | <ref name="Hugo73"/> | |
| The People | John Korty (director), James M. Miller (screenplay), Zenna Henderson (original stories) | American Zoetrope/ABC | <ref name="Hugo73"/> | |
| Silent Running | Douglas Trumbull (director), Deric Washburn (screenplay), Michael Cimino (screenplay), Steven Bochco (screenplay) | Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo73"/> | |
| 1974 | Sleeper* | Woody Allen (director, screenplay), Marshall Brickman (screenplay) | Rollins-Joffe/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists | <ref name="Hugo74"/> |
| Genesis II | John Llewellyn Moxey (director), Gene Roddenberry (screenplay) | Norway/Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo74"/> | |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | Richard Irving (director), Tom Greene (screenplay), Howard Rodman (screenplay), Martin Caidin (original novel) | Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo74"/> | |
| Soylent Green | Richard Fleischer (director), Stanley R. Greenberg (screenplay), Harry Harrison (original novel) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo74"/> | |
| Westworld | Michael Crichton (director, screenplay) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo74"/> | |
| 1975 | Young Frankenstein* | Mel Brooks (director, screenplay, story), Gene Wilder (screenplay, story), Mary Shelley (original novel) | 20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo75"/> |
| Flesh Gordon | Michael Benveniste (director, screenplay), Howard Ziehm (director) | Graffiti Productions | <ref name="Hugo75"/> | |
| Phantom of the Paradise | Brian De Palma (director, screenplay) | Harbor/20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo75"/> | |
| The Questor Tapes | Richard A. Colla (director), Gene L. Coon (screenplay), Gene Roddenberry (screenplay, story) | Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo75"/> | |
| Zardoz | John Boorman (director, screenplay) | 20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo75"/> | |
| 1976 | A Boy and His Dog* | L. Q. Jones (director, screenplay), Wayne Cruseturner (screenplay), Harlan Ellison (original story) | LQ/JAF | <ref name="Hugo76"/> |
| Dark Star | John Carpenter (director, screenplay), Dan O'Bannon (screenplay) | USC | <ref name="Hugo76"/> | |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Terry Gilliam (director, screenplay), Terry Jones (director, screenplay), Graham Chapman (screenplay), John Cleese (screenplay), Eric Idle (screenplay), Michael Palin (screenplay) | Python (Monty) Pictures | <ref name="Hugo76"/> | |
| Rollerball | Norman Jewison (director), William Harrison (screenplay, original story) | Algonquin/United Artists | <ref name="Hugo76"/> | |
| The Capture | Robert Asprin (writer), Phil Foglio (artist) | Boojums Press<ref name="capture"/> | <ref name="Hugo76"/> | |
| 1977 | (no award)+ | <ref name="Hugo77"/> | ||
| Carrie | Brian De Palma (director), Lawrence D. Cohen (screenplay), Stephen King (original novel) | Redbank/United Artists | <ref name="Hugo77"/> | |
| Logan's Run | Michael Anderson (director), David Zelag Goodman (screenplay), William F. Nolan (original novel), George Clayton Johnson (original novel) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo77"/> | |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nicolas Roeg (director), Paul Mayersberg (screenplay), Walter Tevis (original novel) | British Lion Films | <ref name="Hugo77"/> | |
| Futureworld | Richard T. Heffron (director), George Schenk (screenplay), Mayo Simon (screenplay) | American International Pictures | <ref name="Hugo77"/> | |
| 1978 | Star Wars* | George Lucas (director, screenplay) | Lucasfilm | <ref name="Hugo78"/> |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg (director, screenplay) | Columbia Pictures/EMI Films | <ref name="Hugo78"/> | |
| Blood!: The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper | Shelley Torgeson (director), Robert Bloch (script), Harlan Ellison (script), Roy Torgeson (producer) | Alternate Worlds Recordings | <ref name="Hugo78"/> | |
| Wizards | Ralph Bakshi (director, screenplay) | 20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo78"/> | |
| The Hobbit | Jules Bass (director), Arthur Rankin, Jr. (director), Romeo Muller (screenplay), J. R. R. Tolkien (original novel) | Rankin/Bass | <ref name="Hugo78"/> | |
| 1979 | Superman* | Richard Donner (director), Mario Puzo (screenplay), David Newman (screenplay), Leslie Newman (screenplay), Robert Benton (screenplay), Mario Puzo (story), Jerry Siegel (original character), Joe Shuster (original character) | Alexander Salkind | <ref name="Hugo79"/> |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Philip Kaufmann (director), W. D. Richter (screenplay), Jack Finney (original novel) | Solofilm/United Artists | <ref name="Hugo79"/> | |
| The Lord of the Rings | Ralph Bakshi (director), Peter S. Beagle (screenplay), Chris Conkling (screenplay), J. R. R. Tolkien (original novels) | Fantasy Films | <ref name="Hugo79"/> | |
| Watership Down | Martin Rosen (director, screenplay), Richard Adams (original novel) | Nepenthe Productions | <ref name="Hugo79"/> | |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams (script), Geoffrey Perkins (producer) | BBC Radio 4 | <ref name="Hugo79"/> | |
| 1980 | Alien* | Ridley Scott (director), Dan O'Bannon (screenplay, story), Ronald Shusett (story) | 20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo80"/> |
| The Black Hole | Gary Nelson (director), Jeb Rosebrook (screenplay, story), Gerry Day (screenplay), Bob Barbash (story), Richard H. Landau (story) | The Walt Disney Company | <ref name="Hugo80"/> | |
| The Muppet Movie | James Frawley (director), Jack Burns (screenplay), Jerry Juhl (screenplay) | The Jim Henson Company/ITC Entertainment | <ref name="Hugo80"/> | |
| Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Robert Wise (director), Harold Livingstonn (screenplay), Alan Dean Foster (story), Gene Roddenberry (story) | Century/Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo80"/> | |
| Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer (director, screenplay), Karl Alexander (story, original novel), Steve Hayes (story) | Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo80"/> | |
| 1981 | The Empire Strikes Back* | Irvin Kershner (director), Leigh Brackett (screenplay), Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay), George Lucas (story) | Lucasfilm | <ref name="Hugo81"/> |
| Cosmos: A Personal Voyage | Carl Sagan (director, screenplay), Ann Druyan (director, screenplay) | KCET/Public Broadcasting Service | <ref name="Hugo81"/> | |
| Flash Gordon | Mike Hodges (director), Lorenzo Semple, Jr. (screenplay), Michael Allin (adaptation), Alex Raymond (original comic strip) | 20th Century Fox/De Laurentiis | <ref name="Hugo81"/> | |
| The Lathe of Heaven | Fred Barzyk (director), David R. Loxton (director), Diane English (screenplay), Roger Swaybill (screenplay), Ursula K. Le Guin (original novel) | WNET/Public Broadcasting Service | <ref name="Hugo81"/> | |
| The Martian Chronicles | Michael Anderson (director), Richard Matheson (screenplay), Ray Bradbury (original stories) | BBC/NBC | <ref name="Hugo81"/> | |
| 1982 | Raiders of the Lost Ark* | Steven Spielberg (director), Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay), George Lucas (story), Philip Kaufman (story) | Lucasfilm | <ref name="Hugo82"/> |
| Dragonslayer | Matthew Robbins (director, screenplay), Hal Barwood (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures/The Walt Disney Company | <ref name="Hugo82"/> | |
| Excalibur | John Boorman (director, screenplay), Rospo Pallenberg (screenplay, adaptation), Thomas Malory (original novel) | Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo82"/> | |
| Outland | Peter Hyams (director, screenplay) | Outland/The Ladd Company | <ref name="Hugo82"/> | |
| Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam (director, screenplay), Michael Palin (screenplay) | HandMade Films | <ref name="Hugo82"/> | |
| 1983 | Blade Runner* | Ridley Scott (director), Hampton Fancher (screenplay), David Peoples (screenplay), Philip K. Dick (original novel) | Blade Runner Partnership | <ref name="Hugo83"/> |
| The Dark Crystal | Jim Henson (director, story), Frank Oz (director), Gary Kurtz (director), David Odell (screenplay) | The Jim Henson Company/ITC Entertainment/Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo83"/> | |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg (director), Melissa Mathison (screenplay) | Amblin Entertainment/Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo83"/> | |
| Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | George Miller (director, screenplay), Terry Hayes (screenplay), Brian Hannant (screenplay) | Kennedy Miller/Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo83"/> | |
| Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Nicholas Meyer (director, screenplay), Jack B. Sowards (screenplay, story), Harve Bennett (story), Samuel A. Peeples (story) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo83"/> | |
| 1984 | Return of the Jedi* | Richard Marquand (director), Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay), George Lucas (screenplay, story) | Lucasfilm | <ref name="Hugo84"/> |
| Brainstorm | Douglas Trumbull (director), Philip Frank Messina (screenplay), Robert Stitzel (screenplay), Bruce Joel Rubin (story) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo84"/> | |
| The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufmann (director, screenplay), Tom Wolfe (original novel) | The Ladd Company | <ref name="Hugo84"/> | |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Jack Clayton (director), Ray Bradbury (screenplay, original novel) | The Bryna Company/The Walt Disney Company | <ref name="Hugo84"/> | |
| WarGames | John Badham (director), Lawrence Lasker (screenplay), Walter F. Parkes (screenplay) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo84"/> | |
| 1985 | 2010* | Peter Hyams (director, screenplay), Arthur C. Clarke (original novel) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo85"/> |
| Dune | David Lynch (director, screenplay), Frank Herbert (original novel) | De Laurentiis/Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo85"/> | |
| Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman (director), Dan Aykroyd (screenplay), Harold Ramis (screenplay) | Black Rhino/Columbia Pictures | <ref name="Hugo85"/> | |
| The Last Starfighter | Nick Castle (director), Jonathan R. Betuel (screenplay) | Lorimar Productions/Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo85"/> | |
| Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Leonard Nimoy (director), Harve Bennett (screenplay) | Cinema Group/Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo85"/> | |
| 1986 | Back to the Future* | Robert Zemeckis (director, screenplay), Bob Gale (screenplay) | Amblin Entertainment/Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo86"/> |
| Brazil | Terry Gilliam (director, screenplay), Charles McKeown (screenplay), Tom Stoppard (screenplay) | Embassy/Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo86"/> | |
| Cocoon | Ron Howard (director), Tom Benedek (screenplay), David Saperstein (original novel) | 20th Century Fox/Zanuck/Brown | <ref name="Hugo86"/> | |
| Enemy Mine | Wolfgang Petersen (director), Edward Khmara (screenplay), Barry B. Longyear (original story) | 20th Century Fox/King's Road | <ref name="Hugo86"/> | |
| Ladyhawke | Richard Donner (director), Edward Khmara (screenplay, story), Michael Thomas (screenplay), Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay), David Peoples (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox/Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo86"/> | |
| 1987 | Aliens* | James Cameron (director, screenplay, story), David Giler (story), Walter Hill (story) | 20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo87"/> |
| The Fly | David Cronenberg (director, screenplay), Charles Edward Pogue (screenplay), George Langelaan (story) | Brooksfilms/20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo87"/> | |
| Labyrinth | Jim Henson (director, story), Terry Jones (screenplay), Dennis Lee (story) | Delphi/The Jim Henson Company/Lucasfilm/TriStar Pictures | <ref name="Hugo87"/> | |
| Little Shop of Horrors | Frank Oz (director), Howard Ashman (screenplay), Charles B. Griffith (original story) | The Geffen Film Company | <ref name="Hugo87"/> | |
| Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Leonard Nimoy (director, story), Harve Bennett (screenplay, story), Steve Meerson (screenplay), Peter Krikes (screenplay), Nicholas Meyer (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo87"/> | |
| 1988 | The Princess Bride* | Rob Reiner (director), William Goldman (screenplay, original novel) | Act III/20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo88"/> |
| Predator | John McTiernan (director), Jim Thomas (screenplay), John Thomas (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo88"/> | |
| RoboCop | Paul Verhoeven (director), Michael Miner (screenplay), Edward Neumeier (screenplay) | Orion Pictures | <ref name="Hugo88"/> | |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Encounter at Farpoint" | Corey Allen (director), D. C. Fontana (screenplay), Gene Roddenberry (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo88"/> | |
| The Witches of Eastwick | George Miller (director), Michael Cristofer (screenplay), John Updike (original novel) | Guber-Peters/Kennedy Miller/Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo88"/> | |
| 1989 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit* | Robert Zemeckis (director), Jeffrey Price (screenplay), Peter S. Seaman (screenplay), Gary K. Wolf (original novel) | Amblin Entertainment/Touchstone Pictures | <ref name="Hugo89"/> |
| Alien Nation | Graham Baker (director), Rockne S. O'Bannon (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo89"/> | |
| Beetlejuice | Tim Burton (director), Michael McDowell (screenplay, story), Warren Skaaren (screenplay), Larry Wilson (story) | Geffen/Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo89"/> | |
| Big | Penny Marshall (director), Gary Ross (screenplay), Anne Spielberg (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo89"/> | |
| Willow | Ron Howard (director), Bob Dolman (screenplay), George Lucas (story) | Imagine/Lucasfilm/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo89"/> | |
| 1990 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade* | Steven Spielberg (director), Jeffrey Boam (screenplay), George Lucas (story), Menno Meyjes (story) | Lucasfilm/Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo90"/> |
| The Abyss | James Cameron (director, screenplay) | 20th Century Fox/Lightstorm/Pacific Western | <ref name="Hugo90"/> | |
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Terry Gilliam (director, screenplay), Charles McKeown (screenplay), Rudolf Erich Raspe (original stories), Gottfried August Bürger (original stories) | Allied Artists International/Columbia Pictures/Laura/Prominent | <ref name="Hugo90"/> | |
| Batman | Tim Burton (director), Sam Hamm (screenplay, story), Warren Skaaren (screenplay), Bob Kane (original characters) | Guber-Peters/PolyGram/Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo90"/> | |
| Field of Dreams | Phil Alden Robinson (director, screenplay), W. P. Kinsella (original novel) | Gordon/Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo90"/> | |
| 1991 | Edward Scissorhands* | Tim Burton (director, story), Caroline Thompson (screenplay, story) | 20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo91"/> |
| Back to the Future Part III | Robert Zemeckis (director, story), Bob Gale (screenplay, story) | Amblin Entertainment/Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo91"/> | |
| Ghost | Jerry Zucker (director), Bruce Joel Rubin (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo91"/> | |
| Total Recall | Paul Verhoeven (director), Ronald Shusett (screenplay, story), Dan O'Bannon (screenplay, story), Gary Goldman (screenplay), Jon Povill (story), Philip K. Dick (original story) | Carolco Pictures/TriStar Pictures | <ref name="Hugo91"/> | |
| The Witches | Nicolas Roeg (director), Allan Scott (screenplay), Roald Dahl (original novel) | The Jim Henson Company/Lorimar Productions | <ref name="Hugo91"/> | |
| 1992 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day* | James Cameron (director, screenplay), William Wisher Jr. (screenplay) | Carolco Pictures/Lightstorm/Pacific Western | <ref name="Hugo92"/> |
| The Addams Family | Barry Sonnenfeld (director), Caroline Thompson (screenplay), Larry Wilson (screenplay), Charles Addams (original characters) | Orion Pictures/Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo92"/> | |
| Beauty and the Beast | Gary Trousdale (director), Kirk Wise (director), Linda Woolverton (screenplay) | Silver Screen Partners/The Walt Disney Company | <ref name="Hugo92"/> | |
| The Rocketeer | Joe Johnston (director), Danny Bilson (screenplay, story), Paul De Meo (screenplay, story), William Dear (story), Dave Stevens (original comic book) | Gordon/Silver Screen Partners/Touchstone Pictures/The Walt Disney Company | <ref name="Hugo92"/> | |
| Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | Nicholas Meyer (director, screenplay), Denny Martin Flinn (screenplay), Leonard Nimoy (story), Lawrence Konner (story), Mark Rosenthal (story) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo92"/> | |
| 1993 | Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Inner Light"* | Peter Lauritson (director), Peter Allan Fields (screenplay), Morgan Gendel (screenplay, story) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo93"/> |
| Aladdin | Ron Clements (director, screenplay), John Musker (director, screenplay), Ted Elliott (screenplay), Terry Rossio (screenplay) | The Walt Disney Company | <ref name="Hugo93"/> | |
| Alien 3 | David Fincher (director), David Giler (screenplay), Walter Hill (screenplay), Larry Ferguson (screenplay), Vincent Ward (story) | 20th Century Fox/Brandywine | <ref name="Hugo93"/> | |
| Batman Returns | Tim Burton (director), Daniel Waters (screenplay, story), Sam Hamm (story), Bob Kane (original characters) | PolyGram/Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo93"/> | |
| Bram Stoker's Dracula | Francis Ford Coppola (director), James V. Hart (screenplay), Bram Stoker (original novel) | American Zoetrope/Columbia Pictures | <ref name="Hugo93"/> | |
| 1994 | Jurassic Park* | Steven Spielberg (director), David Koepp (screenplay), Michael Crichton (screenplay, original novel) | Universal Studios/Amblin Entertainment | <ref name="Hugo94"/> |
| Addams Family Values | Barry Sonnenfeld (director), Paul Rudnick (screenplay), Charles Addams (original characters) | Orion Pictures/Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo94"/> | |
| Babylon 5: "The Gathering" | Richard Compton (director), J. Michael Straczynski (screenplay) | Babylonian Productions | <ref name="Hugo94"/> | |
| Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis (director, screenplay), Danny Rubin (screenplay, story) | Columbia Pictures | <ref name="Hugo94"/> | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | Henry Selick (director), Caroline Thompson (screenplay), Michael McDowell (adaptation), Tim Burton (story) | Skellington Productions/Touchstone Pictures | <ref name="Hugo94"/> | |
| 1995 | Star Trek: The Next Generation: "All Good Things..."* | Winrich Kolbe (director), Ronald D. Moore (screenplay), Brannon Braga (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo95"/> |
| Interview with the Vampire | Neil Jordan (director), Anne Rice (screenplay, original novel) | The Geffen Film Company | <ref name="Hugo95"/> | |
| The Mask | Chuck Russell (director), Mike Werb (screenplay), Michael Fallon (story), Mark Verheiden (story) | Dark Horse Entertainment/New Line Cinema | <ref name="Hugo95"/> | |
| Stargate | Roland Emmerich (director, screenplay), Dean Devlin (screenplay) | Carolco Pictures/Centropolis | <ref name="Hugo95"/> | |
| Star Trek Generations | David Carson (director), Ronald D. Moore (screenplay, story), Brannon Braga (screenplay, story), Rick Berman (story) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo95"/> | |
| 1996 | Babylon 5: "The Coming of Shadows"* | Janet Greek (director), J. Michael Straczynski (screenplay) | Babylonian Productions | <ref name="Hugo96"/> |
| Apollo 13 | Ron Howard (director), William Broyles, Jr. (screenplay), Al Reinert (screenplay), Jim Lovell (original book), Jeffrey Kluger (original book) | Imagine Entertainment/Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo96"/> | |
| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "The Visitor" | David Livingston (director), Michael Taylor (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo96"/> | |
| Toy Story | John Lasseter (director, story), Joss Whedon (screenplay), Joel Cohen (screenplay), Alec Sokolow (screenplay), Andrew Stanton (screenplay, story), Pete Docter (story), Joe Ranft (story) | The Walt Disney Company/Pixar | <ref name="Hugo96"/> | |
| 12 Monkeys | Terry Gilliam (director), David Peoples (screenplay), Janet Peoples (screenplay), Chris Marker (original film) | Atlas/Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo96"/> | |
| 1997 | Babylon 5: "Severed Dreams"* | David J. Eagle (director), J. Michael Straczynski (screenplay) | Babylonian Productions | <ref name="Hugo97"/> |
| Independence Day | Roland Emmerich (director, screenplay), Dean Devlin (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox/Centropolis | <ref name="Hugo97"/> | |
| Mars Attacks! | Tim Burton (director), Jonathan Gems (screenplay, story), Len Brown (original trading card game), Woody Gelman (original trading card game), Wally Wood (original trading card game), Bob Powell (original trading card game), Norman Saunders (original trading card game) | Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo97"/> | |
| Star Trek: First Contact | Jonathan Frakes (director), Ronald D. Moore (screenplay, story), Brannon Braga (screenplay, story), Rick Berman (story) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo97"/> | |
| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Trials and Tribble-ations" | Jonathan West (director), Ronald D. Moore (screenplay), René Echevarria (screenplay), Ira Steven Behr (story), Hans Beimler (story), Robert Hewitt Wolfe (story) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo97"/> | |
| 1998 | Contact* | Robert Zemeckis (director), James V. Hart (screenplay), Michael Goldenberg (screenplay), Carl Sagan (story, original novel), Ann Druyan (story) | SouthSide Amusement/Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo98"/> |
| The Fifth Element | Luc Besson (director, screenplay, story), Robert Mark Kamen (screenplay) | Gaumont Film Company/Columbia Pictures | <ref name="Hugo98"/> | |
| Gattaca | Andrew Niccol (director, screenplay) | Columbia Pictures/Jersey | <ref name="Hugo98"/> | |
| Men in Black | Barry Sonnenfeld (director), Ed Solomon (screenplay, story), Lowell Cunningham (original comic) | Amblin Entertainment/Columbia Pictures/McDonald/Parkes | <ref name="Hugo98"/> | |
| Starship Troopers | Paul Verhoeven (director), Edward Neumeier (screenplay), Robert A. Heinlein (original novel) | Touchstone Pictures/TriStar Pictures | <ref name="Hugo98"/> | |
| 1999 | The Truman Show* | Peter Weir (director), Andrew Niccol (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo99"/> |
| Babylon 5: "Sleeping in Light" | J. Michael Straczynski (director, screenplay) | Babylonian Productions | <ref name="Hugo99"/> | |
| Dark City | Alex Proyas (director, screenplay, story), Lem Dobbs (screenplay), David S. Goyer (screenplay) | New Line Cinema | <ref name="Hugo99"/> | |
| Pleasantville | Gary Ross (director, screenplay) | New Line Cinema | <ref name="Hugo99"/> | |
| Star Trek: Insurrection | Jonathan Frakes (director), Michael Piller (screenplay, story), Rick Berman (story) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo99"/> | |
| 2000 | Galaxy Quest* | Dean Parisot (director), David Howard (screenplay, story), Robert Gordon (screenplay) | DreamWorks | <ref name="Hugo00"/> |
| Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze (director), Charlie Kaufman (screenplay) | Gramercy Pictures/Propaganda Films/Single Cell | <ref name="Hugo00"/> | |
| The Iron Giant | Brad Bird (director, story), Tim McCanlies (screenplay), Ted Hughes (original novel) | Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo00"/> | |
| The Matrix | Lilly Wachowski (director, screenplay), Lana Wachowski (director, screenplay) | Silver Pictures | <ref name="Hugo00"/> | |
| The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan (director, screenplay) | Hollywood Pictures/Spyglass Entertainment/Kennedy/Marshall | <ref name="Hugo00"/> | |
| 2001 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* | Ang Lee (director), Wang Hui-ling (screenplay), James Schamus (screenplay), Tsai Kuo Jung (screenplay), Wang Dulu (original novel) | China Film Group Corporation | <ref name="Hugo01"/> |
| Chicken Run | Peter Lord (director, story), Nick Park (director, story), Kary Kirkpatrick (screenplay), Randy Cartwright (story) | Aardman Animations/Allied Artists International/DreamWorks | <ref name="Hugo01"/> | |
| Frank Herbert's Dune | John Harrison (director, screenplay), Frank Herbert (original novel) | New Amsterdam | <ref name="Hugo01"/> | |
| Frequency | Gregory Hoblit (director), Toby Emmerich (screenplay) | New Line Cinema | <ref name="Hugo01"/> | |
| X-Men | Bryan Singer (director, story), David Hayter (screenplay), Tom DeSanto (story) | 20th Century Fox/Marvel Studios | <ref name="Hugo01"/> | |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring* | Peter Jackson (director, screenplay), Fran Walsh (screenplay), Philippa Boyens (screenplay), J. R. R. Tolkien (original novel) | New Line Cinema/The Saul Zaentz Company/WingNut Films | <ref name="Hugo02"/> |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Chris Columbus (director), Steve Kloves (screenplay) | 1492 Pictures/Heyday Films/Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo02"/> | |
| Monsters, Inc. | Pete Docter (director, story), David Silverman (director), Lee Unkrich (director), Dan Gerson (screenplay), Andrew Stanton (screenplay), Jill Culton (story), Ralph Eggleston (story) Jeff Pidgeon (story) | Pixar/The Walt Disney Company | <ref name="Hugo02"/> | |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Once More, with Feeling" | Joss Whedon (director, screenplay) | Fox Television Studios/Mutant Enemy Productions | <ref name="Hugo02"/> | |
| Shrek | Andrew Adamson (director), Vicky Jenson (director), Ted Elliott (screenplay), Terry Rossio (screenplay), Joe Stillman (screenplay), Roger S. H. Schulman (screenplay), Edmund Fong (story), Ken Harsha (story) | DreamWorks/Pacific Data Images | <ref name="Hugo02"/> |
2003–present
Starting with the 2003 awards, the Dramatic Presentation award was split into two categories: Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) and Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form). The Long Form award is for "a dramatized production in any medium, including film, television, radio, live theater, computer games or music. The work must last 90 minutes or longer (excluding commercials)."<ref name="thacats"/> The Short Form award is for "a dramatized production in any medium, including film, television, radio, live theater, computer games or music. The work must last less than 90 minutes (excluding commercials)."<ref name="thacats"/> An individual work such as a television show can be nominated for a season in the Long Form category or for individual episodes in the Short Form, though not for both in the same year. As of 2017, a single show is limited to two nominations in the Short Form category per year.<ref name="2017change"/>
Long Form
Short Form
| Year | Work | Creator(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Conversations with Dead People"* | Nick Marck (director), Jane Espenson (screenplay), Drew Goddard (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | <ref name="Hugo03"/> |
| Angel: "Waiting in the Wings" | Joss Whedon (director, screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | <ref name="Hugo03"/> | |
| Firefly: "Serenity" | Joss Whedon (director, screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | <ref name="Hugo03"/> | |
| Star Trek: Enterprise: "Carbon Creek" | James A. Contner (director), Chris Black (screenplay), Rick Berman (story), Brannon Braga (story), Dan O'Shannon (story) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo03"/> | |
| Star Trek: Enterprise: "A Night in Sickbay" | David Straiton (director), Rick Berman (screenplay), Brannon Braga (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo03"/> | |
| 2004 | Gollum's Acceptance Speech at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards* | Fran Walsh (director, screenplay), Philippa Boyens (director, screenplay), Peter Jackson (director, screenplay) | Wingnut Films/New Line Cinema | <ref name="Hugo04"/> |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Chosen" | Joss Whedon (director, screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | <ref name="Hugo04"/> | |
| Firefly: "Heart of Gold" | Thomas J. Wright (director), Brett Matthews (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | <ref name="Hugo04"/> | |
| Firefly: "The Message" | Tim Minear (director, screenplay), Joss Whedon (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | <ref name="Hugo04"/> | |
| Smallville: "Rosetta" | James Marshall (director), Alfred Gough (screenplay), Miles Millar (screenplay) | Tollin/Robbins Productions/Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo04"/> | |
| 2005 | Battlestar Galactica: "33"* | Michael Rymer (director), Ronald D. Moore (screenplay) | NBC Universal/Sci Fi Channel | <ref name="Hugo05"/> |
| Angel: "Not Fade Away" | Jeffrey Jackson Bell (director, screenplay), Joss Whedon (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | <ref name="Hugo05"/> | |
| Angel: "Smile Time" | Ben Edlund (director, screenplay, story), Joss Whedon (story) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | <ref name="Hugo05"/> | |
| Lost: "Pilot" | J. J. Abrams (director, screenplay, story), Damon Lindelof (screenplay, story), Jeffrey Lieber (story) | Touchstone Pictures/Bad Robot | <ref name="Hugo05"/> | |
| Stargate SG-1: "Heroes" | Andy Mikita (director), Robert C. Cooper (screenplay) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Sci Fi Channel | <ref name="Hugo05"/> | |
| 2006 | Doctor Who: "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances"* | James Hawes (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One | <ref name="Hugo06"/> |
| Battlestar Galactica: "Pegasus" | Michael Rymer (director), Anne Cofell Saunders (screenplay) | NBC Universal/British Sky Broadcasting | <ref name="Hugo06"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "Dalek" | Joe Ahearne (director), Robert Shearman (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One | <ref name="Hugo06"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "Father's Day" | Joe Ahearne (director), Paul Cornell (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One | <ref name="Hugo06"/> | |
| Jack-Jack Attack | Brad Bird (director, screenplay) | The Walt Disney Company/Pixar | <ref name="Hugo06"/> | |
| Lucas Back in Anger | Phil Raines (director, script), Ian Sorensen (script) | Reductio Ad Absurdum Productions | <ref name="Hugo06"/> | |
| Prix Victor Hugo Awards Ceremony | Paul J. McAuley (performer, script), Kim Newman (performer, script), Mike Moir (director), Debby Moir (director) | Interaction Events | <ref name="Hugo06"/> | |
| 2007 | Doctor Who: "The Girl in the Fireplace"* | Euros Lyn (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One | <ref name="Hugo07"/> |
| Battlestar Galactica: "Downloaded" | Jeff Woolnough (director), Bradley Thompson (screenplay), David Weddle (screenplay) | NBC Universal/British Sky Broadcasting | <ref name="Hugo07"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday" | Graeme Harper (director), Russell T Davies (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One | <ref name="Hugo07"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "School Reunion" | James Hawes (director), Toby Whithouse (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One | <ref name="Hugo07"/> | |
| Stargate SG-1: "200" | Martin Wood (director), Brad Wright (screenplay), Robert C. Cooper (screenplay), Joseph Mallozzi (screenplay), Paul Mullie (screenplay), Carl Binder (screenplay), Martin Gero (screenplay), Alan McCullough (screenplay) | Double Secret Productions/NBC Universal | <ref name="Hugo07"/> | |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: "Blink"* | Hettie MacDonald (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC | <ref name="Hugo08"/> |
| Battlestar Galactica: "Razor" | Félix Enríquez Alcalá (director), Wayne Rose (director), Michael Taylor (screenplay) | Sci Fi Channel | <ref name="Hugo08"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood" | Charles Palmer (director), Paul Cornell (screenplay) | BBC | <ref name="Hugo08"/> | |
| Star Trek New Voyages: "World Enough and Time" | Marc Scott Zicree (director, screenplay), Michael Reaves (screenplay) | Cawley Entertainment Company/The Magic Time Company | <ref name="Hugo08"/> | |
| Torchwood: "Captain Jack Harkness" | Ashley Way (director), Catherine Tregenna (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo08"/> | |
| 2009 | Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog* | Joss Whedon (director, screenplay), Zack Whedon (screenplay), Jed Whedon (screenplay), Maurissa Tancharoen (screenplay) | Mutant Enemy Productions | <ref name="Hugo09"/> |
| Battlestar Galactica: "Revelations" | Michael Rymer (director), Bradley Thompson (screenplay), David Weddle (screenplay) | NBC Universal | <ref name="Hugo08"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" | Euros Lyn (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo09"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "Turn Left" | Graeme Harper (director), Russell T Davies (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo09"/> | |
| Lost: "The Constant" | Jack Bender (director), Carlton Cuse (screenplay), Damon Lindelof (screenplay) | Bad Robot/ABC Studios | <ref name="Hugo09"/> | |
| 2010 | Doctor Who: "The Waters of Mars"* | Graeme Harper (director), Russell T Davies (screenplay), Phil Ford (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo10"/> |
| Doctor Who: "The Next Doctor" | Andy Goddard (director), Russell T Davies (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo10"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "Planet of the Dead" | James Strong (director), Russell T Davies (screenplay), Gareth Roberts (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo10"/> | |
| Dollhouse: "Epitaph One" | David Solomon (director), Maurissa Tancharoen (screenplay), Jed Whedon (screenplay), Joss Whedon (story) | Mutant Enemy Productions | <ref name="Hugo10"/> | |
| FlashForward: "No More Good Days" | David S. Goyer (director, screenplay), Brannon Braga (screenplay), Robert J. Sawyer (original novel) | American Broadcasting Company | <ref name="Hugo10"/> | |
| 2011 | Doctor Who: "The Pandorica Opens"/"The Big Bang"* | Toby Haynes (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo11"/> |
| Doctor Who: "A Christmas Carol" | Toby Haynes (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo11"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "Vincent and the Doctor" | Jonny Campbell (director), Richard Curtis (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo11"/> | |
| Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury | Paul Briganti (director), Rachel Bloom (screenplay) | <ref name="Hugo11"/> | ||
| The Lost Thing | Shaun Tan (director, original story), Andrew Ruhemann (director) | Passion Pictures | <ref name="Hugo11"/> | |
| 2012 | Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife"* | Richard Clark (director), Neil Gaiman (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo12"/> |
| Community: "Remedial Chaos Theory" | Jeff Melman (director), Dan Harmon (creator), Chris McKenna (screenplay) | NBC | <ref name="Hugo12"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "The Girl Who Waited" | Nick Hurran (director), Tom MacRae (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo12"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "A Good Man Goes to War" | Peter Hoar (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo12"/> | |
| The Drink Tank's Hugo Acceptance Speech | Christopher J Garcia, James Bacon | Renovation | <ref name="Hugo12"/> | |
| 2013 | Game of Thrones: "Blackwater"* | Neil Marshall (director), George R. R. Martin (original novel, screenplay) | HBO | <ref name="Hugo13"/> |
| Doctor Who: "Asylum of the Daleks" | Nick Hurran (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo13"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "The Angels Take Manhattan" | Nick Hurran (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo13"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "The Snowmen" | Saul Metzstein (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | <ref name="Hugo13"/> | |
| Fringe: "Letters of Transit" | Joe Chappelle (director), J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Akiva Goldsman, J. H. Wyman, Jeff Pinkner (screenplay) | Fox Broadcasting Company | <ref name="Hugo13"/> | |
| 2014 | Game of Thrones: "The Rains of Castamere"* | David Nutter (director), David Benioff (screenplay), D. B. Weiss (screenplay), George R. R. Martin (original novel) | HBO | <ref name="Hugo14"/> |
| An Adventure in Space and Time | Terry McDonough (director), Mark Gatiss (screenplay) | BBC Television | <ref name="Hugo14"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "The Day of the Doctor" | Nick Hurran (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Television | <ref name="Hugo14"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "The Name of the Doctor" | Saul Metzstein (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Television | <ref name="Hugo14"/> | |
| The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Peter Davison (director, screenplay) | BBC Television | <ref name="Hugo14"/> | |
| Orphan Black: "Variations under Domestication" | John Fawcett (director), Will Pascoe (screenplay) | Temple Street Productions/Space/BBC America | <ref name="Hugo14"/> | |
| 2015 | Orphan Black: "By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried"* | John Fawcett (director), Graeme Manson (screenplay) | Temple Street Productions, Space/BBC America | <ref name="Hugo15"/> |
| Doctor Who: "Listen" | Douglas Mackinnon (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Television | <ref name="Hugo15"/> | |
| The Flash: "Pilot" | David Nutter (director), Andrew Kreisberg (screenplay, story), Geoff Johns (screenplay, story), Greg Berlanti (screenplay, story) | Berlanti Productions/DC Entertainment/Warner Bros. Television | <ref name="Hugo15"/> | |
| Game of Thrones: "The Mountain and the Viper" | Alex Graves (director), David Benioff (screenplay), D. B. Weiss (screenplay), George R. R. Martin (original novel) | HBO/Bighead, Littlehead/Television 360/Startling Television/Generator Productions | <ref name="Hugo15"/> | |
| Grimm: "Once We Were Gods" | Steven DePaul (director), Alan Di Fiore (screenplay) | GK Productions/Hazy Mills Productions/Universal Television | <ref name="Hugo15"/> | |
| 2016 | Jessica Jones: "AKA Smile"* | Michael Rymer (director), Scott Reynolds (screenplay), Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay), Jamie King (screenplay) | Marvel Television/ABC Studios/Tall Girls Productions/Netflix | <ref name="Hugo16"/> |
| Doctor Who: "Heaven Sent" | Rachel Talalay (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Television | <ref name="Hugo16"/> | |
| Grimm: "Headache" | Jim Kouf (director), Jim Kouf (screenplay), David Greenwalt (screenplay) | GK Productions/Hazy Mills Productions/Universal Television | <ref name="Hugo16"/> | |
| My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "The Cutie Map" Parts 1 and 2 | Jayson Thiessen (director), Jim Miller (director), Scott Sonneborn (screenplay), M.A. Larson (screenplay), Meghan McCarthy (screenplay) | DHX Media/Vancouver/Hasbro Studios | <ref name="Hugo16"/> | |
| Supernatural: "Just My Imagination" | Richard Speight, Jr. (director), Jenny Klein (screenplay) | Kripke Enterprises/Wonderland Sound and Vision/Warner Bros. Television | <ref name="Hugo16"/> | |
| 2017 | The Expanse: "Leviathan Wakes"* | Terry McDonough (director), Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (screenplay), James S. A. Corey (original novel) | SyFy | <ref name="Hugo17"/> |
| Black Mirror: "San Junipero" | Owen Harris (director), Charlie Brooker (screenplay) | House of Tomorrow | <ref name="Hugo17"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" | Edward Bazalgette (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Television | <ref name="Hugo17"/> | |
| Game of Thrones: "Battle of the Bastards" | Miguel Sapochnik (director), David Benioff (screenplay), D. B. Weiss (screenplay), George R. R. Martin (original novel) | HBO | <ref name="Hugo17"/> | |
| Game of Thrones: "The Door" | Jack Bender (director), David Benioff (screenplay), D. B. Weiss (screenplay), George R. R. Martin (original novel) | HBO | <ref name="Hugo17"/> | |
| Splendor & Misery | Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes) | Sub Pop, Deathbomb Arc | <ref name="Hugo17"/> | |
| 2018 | The Good Place: "The Trolley Problem"* | Dean Holland (director), Josh Siegal (screenwriter), Dylan Morgan (screenwriter) | Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal Television | <ref name="Hugo18"/> |
| Black Mirror: "USS Callister" | Toby Haynes (director), William Bridges (screenplay), Charlie Brooker (screenplay) | House of Tomorrow | <ref name="Hugo18"/> | |
| "The Deep" | Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes) | This American Life | <ref name="Hugo18"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "Twice Upon a Time" | Rachel Talalay (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Television | <ref name="Hugo18"/> | |
| The Good Place: "Michael's Gambit" | Michael Schur (director, screenplay) | Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal Television | <ref name="Hugo18"/> | |
| Star Trek: Discovery: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" | David M. Barrett (director), Aron Eli Coleite (screenplay), Jesse Alexander (screenplay) | CBS Television Studios | <ref name="Hugo18"/> | |
| 2019 | The Good Place: "Janet(s)"* | Morgan Sackett (director), Josh Siegal (screenplay), Dylan Morgan (screenplay) | NBC | <ref name="Hugo19"/> |
| Dirty Computer | Andrew Donoho, Chuck Lightning (director), Janelle Monáe (screenplay) | Wondaland Arts Society/Bad Boy Records/Atlantic Records | <ref name="Hugo19"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "Demons of the Punjab" | Jamie Childs (director), Vinay Patel (screenplay) | BBC | <ref name="Hugo19"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "Rosa" | Mark Tonderai (director), Malorie Blackman (screenplay), Chris Chibnall (screenplay) | BBC | <ref name="Hugo19"/> | |
| The Expanse: "Abaddon's Gate" | Simon Cellan Jones (director), Daniel Abraham (screenplay, original novel), Ty Franck (screenplay, original novel), Naren Shankar (screenplay) | Penguin in a Parka/Alcon Entertainment | <ref name="Hugo19"/> | |
| The Good Place: "Jeremy Bearimy" | Trent O'Donnell (director), Megan Amram (screenplay) | NBC | <ref name="Hugo19"/> | |
| 2020 | The Good Place: "The Answer"* | Valeria Migliassi Collins (director), Daniel Schofield (screenplay) | NBC | <ref name="Hugo20" /> |
| Doctor Who: "Resolution" | Wayne Yip (director), Chris Chibnall (screenplay) | BBC | <ref name="Hugo20" /> | |
| The Expanse: "Cibola Burn" | Breck Eisner (director), Daniel Abraham (screenplay, original novel), Ty Franck (screenplay, original novel), Naren Shankar (screenplay) | Amazon Prime Video | <ref name="Hugo20"/> | |
| The Mandalorian: "Chapter 8: Redemption" | Taika Waititi (director), Jon Favreau (screenplay) | Disney+ | <ref name="Hugo20" /> | |
| Watchmen: "A God Walks into Abar" | Nicole Kassell (director), Jeff Jensen (screenplay), Damon Lindelof (screenplay) | HBO | <ref name="Hugo20"/> | |
| Watchmen: "This Extraordinary Being" | Stephen Williams (director), Damon Lindelof (screenplay), Cord Jefferson (screenplay) | HBO | <ref name="Hugo20"/> | |
| 2021 | The Good Place: "Whenever You're Ready"* | Michael Schur (director, screenplay) | Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal Television | <ref name="Hugo21"/> |
| Doctor Who: "Fugitive of the Judoon" | Nida Manzoor (director), Vinay Patel (screenplay), Chris Chibnall (screenplay) | BBC | <ref name="Hugo21"/> | |
| The Expanse: "Gaugamela" | Nick Gomez (director), Dan Nowak (screenplay), Daniel Abraham (original novel), Ty Franck (screenplay, original novel) | Alcon Entertainment/Alcon Television Group/Amazon Studios/Hivemind/Just So | <ref name="Hugo21"/> | |
| She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: "Heart" | Jen Bennett (director), Kiki Manrique (director), Josie Campbell (screenplay), ND Stevenson (screenplay) | DreamWorks Animation Television/Netflix | <ref name="Hugo21"/> | |
| The Mandalorian: "Chapter 13: The Jedi" | Dave Filoni (director, screenplay) | Golem Creations/Lucasfilm/Disney+ | <ref name="Hugo21"/> | |
| The Mandalorian: "Chapter 16: The Rescue" | Peyton Reed (director), Jon Favreau (screenplay) | Golem Creations/Lucasfilm/Disney+ | <ref name="Hugo21"/> | |
| 2022 | The Expanse: "Nemesis Games"* | Breck Eisner (director), Daniel Abraham (screenplay, original novel), Ty Franck (screenplay, original novel), Naren Shankar (screenplay) | Amazon Studios | <ref name="Hugo22"/> |
| Arcane: "The Monster You Created" | Pascal Charrue (director), Arnaud Delord (director), Christian Linke (screenplay, story), Alex Yee (screenplay, story), Conor Sheehy, (story), Ash Brannon (story) | Netflix | <ref name="Hugo22"/> | |
| For All Mankind: "The Grey" | Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (director), Matt Wolpert (screenplay), Ben Nevidi (screenplay) | Tall Ship Productions/Sony Pictures Television | <ref name="Hugo22"/> | |
| Loki: "The Nexus Event" | Michael Waldron (creator), Kate Herron (director), Eric Martin (screenplay) | Disney+ | <ref name="Hugo22"/> | |
| Star Trek: Lower Decks: "wej Duj" | Bob Suarez (director), Kathryn Lyn (screenplay) | CBS Eye Animation Productions | <ref name="Hugo22"/> | |
| The Wheel of Time: "The Flame of Tar Valon" | Salli Richardson-Whitfield (director), Justine Juel Gillmer (screenplay), Robert Jordan (original novels) | Amazon Studios | <ref name="Hugo22"/> | |
| 2023 | The Expanse: "Babylon's Ashes"* | Breck Eisner (director), Daniel Abraham (screenplay, original novel), Ty Franck (screenplay, original novel), Naren Shankar (screenplay) | Alcon Entertainment | <ref name="Hugo23"/> |
| Andor: "One Way Out" | Toby Haynes (director), Beau Willimon (screenplay), Tony Gilroy (creator), George Lucas (based on Star Wars by) | Lucasfilm | <ref name="Hugo23"/> | |
| Andor: "Rix Road" | Benjamin Caron (director), Tony Gilroy (creator, screenplay), George Lucas (based on Star Wars by) | Lucasfilm | <ref name="Hugo23"/> | |
| For All Mankind: "Stranger in a Strange Land" | Craig Zisk (director), Matt Wolpert (screenplay), Ben Nedivi (screenplay) | Tall Ship Productions/Sony Pictures Television | <ref name="Hugo23"/> | |
| She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: "Whose Show Is This?" | Kat Coiro (director), Jessica Gao (screenplay), Francesca Gailes (screenplay), Jacqueline Gailes (screenplay) | Marvel Entertainment | <ref name="Hugo23"/> | |
| Stranger Things: "Chapter Four: Dear Billy" | Shawn Levy (director), Matt Duffer (creator), Ross Duffer (creator), Paul Dichter (screenplay) | 21 Laps Entertainment | <ref name="Hugo23"/> | |
| 2024 | The Last of Us: "Long, Long Time"* | Peter Hoar (director), Craig Mazin (screenplay), Neil Druckmann (screenplay) | Naughty Dog/Sony Pictures | <ref name="Hugo24"/> |
| Doctor Who: "The Giggle" | Chanya Button (director), Russell T. Davies (screenplay) | Bad Wolf/BBC | <ref name="Hugo24"/> | |
| Loki: "Glorious Purpose" | Justin Benson (director), Aaron Moorhead (director), Eric Martin (screenplay), Michael Waldron (screenplay), Katharyn Blair (screenplay) | Marvel Entertainment/Disney+ | <ref name="Hugo24"/> | |
| Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: "Those Old Scientists" | Jonathan Frakes (director), Kathryn Lyn (screenplay), Bill Wolkoff (screenplay) | CBS/Paramount+ | <ref name="Hugo24"/> | |
| Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: "Subspace Rhapsody" | Dermott Downs (director), Dana Horgan (screenplay), Bill Wolkoff (screenplay) | CBS/Paramount+ | <ref name="Hugo24"/> | |
| Doctor Who: "Wild Blue Yonder" | Tom Kingsley (director), Russell T. Davies (screenplay) | Bad Wolf/BBC | <ref name="Hugo24"/> | |
| 2025 | Star Trek: Lower Decks: "The New Next Generation"* | Megan Lloyd (director), Mike McMahan (screenplay) | CBS/Paramount+ | <ref name="Hugo25" /> |
| Fallout: "The Beginning" | Wayne Che Yip (director), Gursimran Sandhu (screenplay) | Amazon Prime Video | <ref name="Hugo25" /> | |
| Agatha All Along: "Death's Hand in Mine" | Jac Schaeffer (director), Gia King (screenplay), Cameron Squires (screenplay) | Marvel/Disney+ | <ref name="Hugo25" /> | |
| Doctor Who: "Dot and Bubble" | Dylan Holmes Williams (director), Russell T Davies (screenplay) | BBC/Disney+ | <ref name="Hugo25" /> | |
| Star Trek: Lower Decks: "Fissure Quest" | Brandon Williams (director), Lauren McGuire (screenplay) | CBS/Paramount+ | <ref name="Hugo25" /> | |
| Doctor Who: "73 Yards" | Dylan Holmes Williams (director), Russell T Davies (screenplay) | BBC/Disney+ | <ref name="Hugo25" /> |
Retro Hugos
Beginning with the 1996 Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Society created the concept of "Retro Hugos", in which the Hugo award could be retroactively awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years in which a Worldcon was hosted, but no awards were originally given.<ref name="thafaq"/>Template:Efn The 1939, 1941, and 1943—1945 awards were given 75 years later; the other three awards were given 50 years later.<ref name="LocusRetroHugoinfo"/> In 1946 and 1951, an award was given for Best Dramatic Presentation, as the category had not yet been split, while in 1939, 1943, 1945, and 1954 an award was given for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. The Long Form category did not receive enough nominations for an award to be given in those years. The 1941 and 1944 Retro Hugos awarded both Long and Short Forms.<ref name="thafaq"/>
| Year | Year awarded | Work | Creator(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 2014 | The War of the Worlds* | Orson Welles (director, screenplay), H.G. Wells (original novel) | The Mercury Theatre on the Air/CBS | <ref name="Hugo39"/> |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Orson Welles (director, screenplay), Jules Verne (original novel) | The Mercury Theatre on the Air/CBS | <ref name="Hugo39"/> | ||
| A Christmas Carol | Orson Welles (director, screenplay), Charles Dickens (original novella) | The Campbell Playhouse/CBS | <ref name="Hugo39"/> | ||
| Dracula | Orson Welles (director, screenplay), John Houseman (screenplay), Bram Stoker (original novel) | The Mercury Theatre on the Air/CBS | <ref name="Hugo39"/> | ||
| R.U.R. | Jan Bussell (producer), Karel Čapek (original play) | BBC | <ref name="Hugo39"/> | ||
| 1941 (Long Form) | 2016 | Fantasia* | Samuel Armstrong et al. (director), Joe Grant (screenplay), Dick Huemer (screenplay) | Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio Pictures | <ref name="Hugo41"/> |
| Dr. Cyclops | Ernest B. Schoedsack (director), Tom Kilpatrick (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo41"/> | ||
| Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe | Ford Beebe (director), Ray Taylor (director), George H. Plympton (screenplay), Basil Dickey (screenplay), Barry Shipman (screenplay) | Universal Pictures | <ref name="Hugo41"/> | ||
| One Million B.C. | Hal Roach (director), Hal Roach, Jr. (director), Mickell Novack (screenplay), George Baker (screenplay), Joseph Frickert (screenplay) | United Artists | <ref name="Hugo41"/> | ||
| The Thief of Bagdad | Michael Powell (director), Ludwig Berger (director), Tim Whelan (director), Lajos Bíró (screenplay), Miles Malleson (screenplay) | London Films, United Artists | <ref name="Hugo41"/> | ||
| 1941 (Short Form) | 2016 | Pinocchio* | Ben Sharpsteen (director), Hamilton Luske (director), Ted Sears et al. (screenplay) | Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio Pictures | <ref name="Hugo41"/> |
| The Adventures of Superman: "The Baby from Krypton" | Frank Chase (producer), George Ludlam (screenplay) | WOR | <ref name="Hugo41"/> | ||
| The Invisible Man Returns | Joe May (director, screenplay), Kurt Siodmak (screenplay), Lester Cole (screenplay) | Universal Pictures | <ref name="Hugo41"/> | ||
| Looney Tunes: "You Ought to Be in Pictures" | Friz Freleng (director), Jack Miller (screenplay) | Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo41"/> | ||
| Merrie Melodies: "A Wild Hare" | Tex Avery (director), Rich Hogan (screenplay) | Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo41"/> | ||
| 1943 | 2018 | Bambi* | David Hand et al. (director), Perce Pearce (screenplay), Larry Morey et al. (screenplay), Felix Salten (original novel) | The Walt Disney Company | <ref name="Hugo43"/> |
| Cat People | Jacques Tourneur (director), DeWitt Bodeen (screenplay), Val Lewton (original novel) | RKO Radio Pictures | <ref name="Hugo43"/> | ||
| The Ghost of Frankenstein | Erle C. Kenton (director), W. Scott Darling (screenplay) | Universal Pictures | <ref name="Hugo43"/> | ||
| I Married a Witch | René Clair (director), Robert Pirosh (screenplay), Marc Connelly (screenplay), Thorne Smith (original novel) | Cinema Guild Productions / Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo43"/> | ||
| Invisible Agent | Edwin L. Marin (director), Curtis Siodmak (screenplay) | Frank Lloyd Productions / Universal Pictures | <ref name="Hugo43"/> | ||
| Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book | Zoltan Korda (director), Laurence Stallings (screenplay), Rudyard Kipling (original novel) | Alexander Korda Films / United Artists | <ref name="Hugo43"/> | ||
| 1944 (Long Form) | 2019 | Heaven Can Wait* | Ernst Lubitsch (director), Samson Raphaelson (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo44"/> |
| Batman | Lambert Hillyer (director), Victor McLeod (screenplay), Leslie Swabacker (screenplay), Harry L. Fraser (screenplay) | Columbia Pictures | <ref name="Hugo44"/> | ||
| Cabin in the Sky | Vincente Minnelli (director), Busby Berkeley (uncredited director), Joseph Schrank (screenplay) | MGM | <ref name="Hugo44"/> | ||
| A Guy Named Joe | Victor Fleming (director), Frederick Hazlitt Brennan (screenplay), Dalton Trumbo (screenplay) | MGM | <ref name="Hugo44"/> | ||
| Münchhausen | Josef von Báky (director), Erich Kästner (screenplay), Rudolph Erich Raspe (screenplay) | UFA | <ref name="Hugo44"/> | ||
| Phantom of the Opera | Arthur Lubin (director), Eric Taylor (screenplay), Samuel Hoffenstein (screenplay), Hans Jacoby (story) | Universal Pictures | <ref name="Hugo44"/> | ||
| 1944 (Short Form) | 2019 | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man* | Roy William Neil (director), Curt Siodmak (screenplay) | Universal Pictures | <ref name="Hugo44"/> |
| The Ape Man | William Beaudine (director), Barney A. Sarecky (screenplay) | Banner Productions | <ref name="Hugo44"/> | ||
| Der Fuehrer's Face | Jack Kinney (director), Joe Grant (story), Dick Huemer (story)) | The Walt Disney Company | <ref name="Hugo44"/> | ||
| I Walked With a Zombie | Jacques Tourneur (director), Curt Siodmak (screenplay), Ardel Wray (screenplay) | RKO Radio Pictures | <ref name="Hugo44"/> | ||
| The Seventh Victim | Mark Robson (director), Charles O'Neal (screenplay), DeWitt Bodeen (screenplay) | RKO Radio Pictures | <ref name="Hugo44"/> | ||
| Merrie Melodies: "Super-Rabbit" | Charles M. Jones (director), Tedd Pierce (story) | Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo44"/> | ||
| 1945 (Short Form) | 2020 | The Canterville Ghost* | Jules Dassin (director), Edwin Harvey Blum (screenplay), Oscar Wilde (original short story) | MGM | <ref name="Hugo45"/> |
| The Curse of the Cat People* | Gunther V. Fritsch (director), Robert Wise (director), DeWitt Bodeen (screenplay) | RKO Radio Pictures | <ref name="Hugo45"/> | ||
| Donovan's Brain | William Spier (producer, director, editor), Robert L. Richards (screenplay), Curt Siodmak (original novel) | CBS Radio Network | <ref name="Hugo45"/> | ||
| The House of Frankenstein | Erle C. Kenton (director), Edward T. Lowe Jr. (screenplay), Curt Siodmak (original story) | Universal Pictures | <ref name="Hugo45"/> | ||
| The Invisible Man's Revenge | Ford Beebe, (director), Bertram Millhauser (screenplay) | Universal Pictures | <ref name="Hugo45"/> | ||
| It Happened Tomorrow | René Clair (director, screenplay), Dudley Nichols (screenplay) | Arnold Pressburger Films | <ref name="Hugo45"/> | ||
| 1946 | 1996 | The Picture of Dorian Gray* | Albert Lewin (director, screenplay), Oscar Wilde (original novel) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | <ref name="Hugo46"/> |
| Blithe Spirit | David Lean (director, screenplay), Anthony Havelock-Allan (screenplay), Ronald Neame (screenplay), Noël Coward (original play) | United Artists | <ref name="Hugo46"/> | ||
| The Body Snatcher | Robert Wise (director), Philip MacDonald (screenplay), Val Lewton (screenplay), Robert Louis Stevenson (original story) | RKO Radio Pictures | <ref name="Hugo46"/> | ||
| The Horn Blows at Midnight | Raoul Walsh (director), Sam Hellman (screenplay), James V. Kern (screenplay) | Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo46"/> | ||
| House of Dracula | Erle C. Kenton (director), Edward T. Lowe, Jr. (screenplay) | Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo46"/> | ||
| 1951 | 2001 | Destination Moon* | Irving Pichel (director), Alford Van Ronkel (screenplay), James O'Hanlon (screenplay), Robert A. Heinlein (screenplay, original novel) | George Pal Productions | <ref name="Hugo51"/> |
| Cinderella | Clyde Geronimi (director) Wilfred Jackson (director) Hamilton Luske (director) Ken Anderson (screenplay), Homer Brightman (screenplay), Winston Hibler (screenplay), Bill Peet (screenplay), Erdman Penner (screenplay), Harry Reeves (screenplay), Joe Rinaldi (screenplay), Ted Sears (screenplay), Charles Perrault (original story) | The Walt Disney Company | <ref name="Hugo51"/> | ||
| Harvey | Henry Koster (director), Oscar Brodney (screenplay), Myles Connolly (screenplay), Mary Chase (screenplay, original play) | Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo51"/> | ||
| Looney Tunes: "Rabbit of Seville" | Chuck Jones (director), Michael Maltese (story) | Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo51"/> | ||
| Rocketship X-M | Kurt Neumann (director, screenplay), Dalton Trumbo (screenplay), Orville H. Hampton (screenplay) | Lippert Pictures | <ref name="Hugo51"/> | ||
| 1954 | 2004 | The War of the Worlds* | Byron Haskin (director), Barré Lyndon (screenplay), H. G. Wells (original novel) | Paramount Pictures | <ref name="Hugo54"/> |
| The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | Eugène Lourié (director), Louis Morheim (screenplay), Fred Freiberger (screenplay), Ray Bradbury (original story) | Mutual Pictures/Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo54"/> | ||
| Merrie Melodies: "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century" | Chuck Jones (director), Michael Maltese (screenplay) | Warner Bros. | <ref name="Hugo54"/> | ||
| Invaders from Mars | William Cameron Menzies (director), Richard Blake (screenplay), John Tucker Battle (story) | National Pictures/20th Century Fox | <ref name="Hugo54"/> | ||
| It Came from Outer Space | Jack Arnold (director), Harry Essex (screenplay), Ray Bradbury (original story) | Universal Studios | <ref name="Hugo54"/> |
See also
- Nebula Award for Best Script
- Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- List of joint winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards
Notes
References
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