akuchling | Ideas for 2016 Hugo nominees (Reply)

Since I'll have nominating privileges next year, I've started keeping a list of potential nominees. Otherwise my brain will be blank at nomination time. Inclusion on these lists just means that I heard about them, not that I actually read/watched them or necessarily consider them award-worthy.

Best Related Work: the HBO documentary "Going Clear"; "The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction", Simone Caroti; "Blake's 7: A Critical Guide to Series 1-4", Rodney Marshall; "Gender in Science Fiction Films, 1964-1979: A Critical Study", Bonnie Noonan; "Classical Traditions in Science Fiction", ed. Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Rolling Stone's piece on Rush; Felicia Day's memoir.

Best Fan Writer: Philip Sandifer's "Guided by the Beauty of Their Weapons: An Analysis of Theodore Beale and his Supporters", Nick Mamatas's "Rocket to the Red Planet" explaining how the Sad Puppies are very Marxist in their thinking; Mike Glyer.

Best Fanzine: File 770

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form): Ex Machina, Avengers 2: Age of Ultron, Mad Max: Fury Road, Jupiter Ascending, Jurassic World; Inside Out; Big Finish's The Omega Factor: Season 1.

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form): Community S6 E8 "Intro to Recycled Cinema", "Community S6 ep 10 "Basic RV Repair and Palmistry", iZombie ("Pilot", "Virtual Reality Bites", "Astroburger"), Paul Feig's Other Space, Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" video; the Wachowski's Sense8, Doctor Who season 9, Game of Thrones season 5.

Best Editor (Long Form): Nick Mamatas for Haikasoru.

Best Graphic Story: Oglaf (?).

Best Fancast: The X-Files Files

Links: Partial list of 2015 items from authors who missed out