2006 SyFy Genre Awards Nominations.
Firefly, Serenity, and Wonderfalls are all nominated in several categories. Also, Whedonesque is nominated for BEST WEB SITE.
SyFy Portal was hacked recently and is trying to recover from extensive damage, including the loss of articles about the award and nominees. I was asked to let people know that the nominations are in for the 2006 SyFy Genre Awards. Voting is supposed to be between June 25 - July 25, but the main site is offline until repairs can be made. For now I am linking to the message boards for the site.
The nominations are as follows:
BEST ACTOR/Television
Ben Browder, "Stargate SG-1"
Christopher Eccleston, "Doctor Who"
Nathan Fillion, "Firefly"
Matthew Fox, "Lost"
Edward James Olmos, "Battlestar Galactica"
BEST ACTRESS/Television
Caroline Dhavernas, "Wonderfalls"
Jennifer Love Hewitt, "Ghost Whisperer"
Evangeline Lilly, "Lost"
Mary McDonnell, "Battlestar Galactica"
Billie Piper, "Doctor Who"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR/Television
Adam Baldwin, "Firefly"
Jamie Bamber, "Battlestar Galactica"
James Callis, "Battlestar Galactica"
Terry O'Quinn, "Lost"
Michael Shanks, "Stargate SG-1"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS/Television
Amy Acker, "Alias"
Tricia Helfer, "Battlestar Galactica"
Rachel Luttrell, "Stargate: Atlantis"
Grace Park, "Battlestar Galactica"
Katee Sackhoff, "Battlestar Galactica"
BEST ACTOR/Movie
Christian Bale, "Batman Begins"
Nathan Fillion, "Serenity"
Daniel Radcliffe, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
Mickey Rourke, "Sin City"
Hugo Weaving, "V for Vendetta"
BEST ACTRESS/Movie
Zooey Deschanel, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Summer Glau, "Serenity"
Natalie Portman, "V for Vendetta"
Gina Torres, "Serenity"
Emma Watson, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
BEST YOUNG ACTOR
Dakota Fanning, "War of the Worlds"
Carter Jenkins, "Surface"
Malcolm David Kelly, "Lost"
Daniel Radcliffe, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
Emma Watson, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
BEST WEB SITE
Bloody Disgusting
GateWorld
Kryptonsite
SciFi Wire
Whedonesque
BEST SPECIAL GUEST/Television
Claudia Black, "Avalon, Part 1," Stargate SG-1
Michelle Forbes, "Pegasus," Battlestar Galactica
Kelsey Grammer, "Death Takes a Holiday," Medium
Christina Hendricks, "Trash," Firefly
Connor Trinneer, "Michael," Stargate: Atlantis
BEST EPISODE/Television
"Dalek," Doctor Who
"Downloaded," Battlestar Galactica
"Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2," Battlestar Galactica
"Scar," Battlestar Galactica
"Trash," Firefly
BEST SERIES/Television
Battlestar Galactica
Doctor Who
Firefly
Lost
Wonderfalls
BEST MOVIE
Batman Begins
Chronicles of Narnia
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Serenity
V for Vendetta
GENE RODDENBERRY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
J.J. Abrams, producer/writer
Gene Coon, producer
Dan Curtis, producer
Stan Lee, comic book creator
Ronald D. Moore, producer/writer
William Shatner, actor
BREAKDOWN/Television Show
Battlestar Galactica -- 12
Firefly -- 5
Lost -- 5
Doctor Who -- 4
Stargate SG-1 -- 3
Wonderfalls -- 2
Stargate: Atlantis -- 2
Ghost Whisperer -- 1
Alias -- 1
Surface -- 1
Medium -- 1
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For more details on the SyFy Genre Awards including past winners, click: here
June 19 2006
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Bloody Disgusting
GateWorld
Kryptonsite
SciFi Wire
Whedonesque
Thought we'd be up against GateWorld and Kryptonsite. All very good sites that got nominated. But vote for us (when SyFy Portal gets back on their feet). We're sexy.
Simon | June 19, 20:19 CET
delirium_haze | June 19, 20:51 CET
Tycho | June 19, 20:53 CET
Joss won in 2004. Previous winners can't be nominated again.
[ edited by Nebula1400 on 2006-06-19 19:04 ]
Nebula1400 | June 19, 20:56 CET
GENE RODDENBERRY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
2005 - Steven Spielberg
2004 - Joss Whedon
2003 - J.R.R. Tolkien
2001 - Leonard Nimoy
2000 - George Lucas
1999 - Gene Roddenberry
The only odd thing I feel about that list is J.R.R. Tolkien winning a Rodenberry award.
delirium_haze | June 19, 21:01 CET
Grounded | June 19, 21:02 CET
What would you call it?
Nebula1400 | June 19, 21:06 CET
Uh oh, this may start one of those 'blog vs. board' discussions again.
delirium_haze | June 19, 21:07 CET
Ameer | June 19, 21:11 CET
zeitgeist | June 19, 21:13 CET
Do anyone here really think that Trash was the best FF episode. It is good, of course; but amongst FF episodes, can it be considered "the best"?
Le Comité | June 19, 21:20 CET
RedClaire | June 19, 21:37 CET
Chocdogg | June 19, 21:44 CET
Chocdogg - One really easy way would be to copy and paste Le Comité's name :) This link and this link explain some other ways.
zeitgeist | June 19, 21:48 CET
UnpluggedCrazy | June 19, 21:55 CET
zeitgeist | June 19, 21:59 CET
Edited to link-ify your Wikipedia link :)
Thanks, zeitgeist!
[ edited by Nebula1400 on 2006-06-19 20:03 ]
Nebula1400 | June 19, 22:03 CET
I'm probably in the minority but I think my absolute favorite episode of Firefly was "War Stories" It just made me love Wash & Mal all the more. "Out of Gas" is a close second.
Addicted Eve | June 19, 22:22 CET
And it makes it hard to choose. Firefly vs. BSG?! That's hard. And they're throwing Eccleston in for best actor too and that makes it even harder.
flightofserenity | June 19, 22:44 CET
Simon | June 19, 22:47 CET
I may seem like a traitor, but I've decided to vote for Eccleston in the Best Actor category for TV, and Nathan for the Best Actor category for movies. The choices are really tough ones this year.
[ edited by Nebula1400 on 2006-06-19 21:22 ]
Nebula1400 | June 19, 23:19 CET
And the nominations are just so much sweeter, because FF has been "officially" cancelled since 2002, yet we still got to see new episodes. All that doing-the-impossible-and-being-mighty stuff comes to mind.
teachndoc | June 19, 23:26 CET
zeitgeist | June 19, 23:39 CET
Best Website - Kryptonsite for sure. Kidding ;). Congrats on the nom guys.
Roddenberry Award - Gotta be Stan Lee or The Shat. Everyone else (that i've heard of) seems too young for a lifetime achievement (Joss might just be excused from '04 because I really feel he changed the world a little bit, as well as the face of television as we know it - just 9 years after the series began Buffy appears on numerous lists of genre/screen icons - though ordinarily i'd say he's a bit young too).
I think it's great that all of the choices are pretty tough though. There's a fair amount of decent genre stuff out there at the moment (even if some of it is 4 years old ;).
Saje | June 20, 01:16 CET
And for the record, in my own personal nomination list (we had a committee make the nominations, so I was just one little voice), I had nominated "The Message." To me, that episode was awesome. The writing, the acting ... and most especially the music.
I appreciate all the comments! I wish we could post this on SyFy Portal, but as you already saw, we were hacked. :( We hope to get things fixed soon.
And just so you know, Gene Coon died in 1969 or thereabouts. He's actually credited with some of the best Star Trek episodes, and is the man credited with creating the Klingons. :)
SyFyMichael | June 20, 01:22 CET
TamaraC | June 20, 01:28 CET
That was also on my personal nomination list, SyFyMichael. I liked "Trash," and "Heart of Gold" may be my least favorite episode of Firefly, but "The Message" brought me to tears. Any story that can do that is a great one in my book.
Michael (if you're still around), why isn't it posted at least on the message board where everyone can see it?
[ edited by Nebula1400 on 2006-06-19 23:48 ]
Nebula1400 | June 20, 01:45 CET
Ronald D. Moore sounds so familiar that I feel like I should know who he is. Dan Curtis, I don't know.
I am trying to figure out what William Shatner did to deserve a nomination in that company. I have nothing against the man, and personally think he is a fine comic actor. Comparing what I know of his career, I do not see him in the same league as Stan Lee and Speilberg...or Gene Coon. Maybe I am just ignorant of some of his accomplishments.
Of the three originally unaired episodes, I rather like Trash...
newcj | June 20, 01:50 CET
I also agree with your questions William Shatner being on that list, newcj. The man is not in the same league as any of the other nominees, and he's not a pleasant person to boot. (I have met the man, and that was the assessment that I and a group of about a dozen other people who met him made -except in much stronger terms.) I think Stan Lee of Gene L. Coon deserve the honor this time around.
[ edited by Nebula1400 on 2006-06-20 00:05 ]
Nebula1400 | June 20, 01:53 CET
Yeah, 'Out of Gas' was my favorite Firefly episode as well with 'Ariel' a close second.
And a congratulations to Whedonesque for being nominated, a great honor in its self. No surprise to me. Simon, you may have to start wearing sunglasses;)
Madhatter | June 20, 01:53 CET
(wish I could fathom the Network Exec mind, i'd make a mint betting on which shows would last a season)
Of those three i'd go with 'The Message' too then. Good episode with some nice character moments for Mal and an absolutely beautiful score.
Ah, cheers SyFyMichael, it was Gene Coon and Dan Curtis I hadn't heard of. Sounds like he may well deserve it then (even if it strikes me a little odd to give a lifetime achievement award posthumously. There's nothing wrong with it in principle of course, I just don't think i've seen it happen before).
I reckon William Shatner has quite a lot to do with the success of Star Trek and agree that he's a great comic actor (and is fine with laughing at himself which I respect) though I think you could pretty much swap him out with any of the main original cast in that category (pity he's apparently a bit of a plonker in real life but obviously it's irrelevant regarding his lifetime achievements). Since I don't know exactly what Gene Coon's done i'd have to plump for Stan The Man. He really had a huge impact on the comics industry and created loads of memorable characters and storylines.
(BTW, Ron Moore also had a hand in running/writing 'Carnivale' yet another excellent series cancelled before its time)
Saje | June 20, 02:15 CET
Nebula1400 | June 20, 02:18 CET
I just looked up Gene L Coon. According to IMDb, he died in July 1973. I only knew him from Star Trek, tOS but boy did he do a lot of other stuff in TV. It looks like he wrote for almost every show on the air at that time.
...and Dan Curtis created Dark Shadows and produced and directed lots of horror on TV. Ok. I get it. He just died this past March btw.
As far as William Shatner not having a reputation for being a nice guy, yeah, I also was given first hand evidence of that when I met him briefly, but agree that that should not be taken into consideration when looking at a life time achievement award. What could affect it besides what I mentioned before, however, is that this implies by its name to be an award connected to Science Fiction. If I recall correctly, he was very dismissive of the genre and its fans for a long time. So that bothers me a bit.
One other thing. Emma Watson fr best actress?!!! When I first saw it, I tried to be charitable to the actress and say that maybe it was the directing that killed the performance, but the portrayal of Hermionie came close to ruining the movie for me. I thought it was truly awful.
newcj | June 20, 03:27 CET
Whereas Trash is just rollickingly great, and the final scene with Inara standing over YoSafBridge (as we must all call her) is one of Firefly's most indelible moments. (The episode is still marginally behind War Stories, Our Mrs. Reynolds, Out of Gas, Objects in Space, and Serenity (the pilot) in my ledger though.)
SoddingNancyTribe | June 20, 03:31 CET
As far as the Lifetime Achievement Award - personally I think Gene Coon has to get it. He was some kind of distant cousin to me, and all my relations deserve LAA's! ;)
cabri | June 20, 10:57 CET
wouldestous | June 20, 18:07 CET
Th link still goes to the board.
Mods? hello? help? Where can I vote?
Harpy | July 04, 02:49 CET
SyFyMichael | July 10, 18:45 CET