The 2018 Hugo Award Trophy

~ Cheryl ~ 1 Comment

The trophy for this year’s Hugo Awards was unveiled as part of the Worldcon 76 opening ceremonies. The base design is by Sara Felix and Vincent Villafranca. Here’s a close-up of the base.

This year’s Hugo Award winners will be announced on Sunday night (California time). For details of our live coverage see here.

Retro-Hugo Photo Update

~ Cheryl

This photograph of Worldcon 76 Chair, Kevin Roche, pictured with his husband, Andy Trembley, gives a much better view of the tower behind the rocket. The design is based on the San José Electric Light Tower.

The base of the trophy is made from cherry wood because cherries were a major crop in San José before the advent of Silicon Valley.

2017 Hugo Awards Ceremony Video Posted

~ Kevin

Worldcon 75 Helsinki was unable to live-stream the 2017 Hugo Awards ceremony as originally planned due to technical difficulties, but has published a recording of the ceremony on their YouTube channel. The recording omits approximately the first fifteen minutes of the ceremony, including the presentation of Best Fan Artist, and begins with the presentation of Best Fan Writer.

1989 Hugo Award Page Updated

~ Kevin

We have updated the 1989 Hugo Award history page by adding the nominating and final ballot statistics for that year. In addition, we have added the results for the 1989 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, which had been inadvertently omitted from the 1989 results. We thank Jo Van Ekeren for reconstructing the detail reports from contemporaneous accounts of the 1989 Hugo Awards and for pointing out the omission of the 1989 Campbell Award results.

1956 Hugo Award Page Updated

~ Kevin ~ 9 Comments

Thanks to new information coming to light, we have updated the 1956 Hugo Award history page with the finalists that appeared on the ballot that year. We thank Olav Rokne for bringing to our attention an article on page 15 of the 1956 Worldcon Progress Report 3 that included the names of the finalists along with voting instructions.

Note that the order in which the finalists are listed is the same order that they appeared in the progress report and does not imply order of finish on final ballot. According to the article, the final ballot included space for write-in candidates. In Best Professional Magazine, no finalists were listed at all, so all votes were write-ins.

Voting rules in 1956 were significantly different from those currently in use. The shortlist was not formed based on an initial poll as is done today, but apparently by the convention committee. Should we obtain additional information about the detailed voting for this or any other year, we will add it to the relevant history page.

2017 Hugo Awards Ceremony Tonight

~ Kevin ~ 3 Comments

The 2017 Hugo Awards ceremony is tonight, August 11, 2017, at 19:30 Eastern European Summer Time, at Worldcon 75, in Hall 1 of the Messukeskus Expo and Convention Centre in Helsinki, Finland.

Live video streaming of the 2017 Hugo Awards ceremony provided by Worldcon 75 is at the Worldcon 75 YouTube Channel. Due to technical issues, live streaming of the 2017 Hugo Awards Ceremony was unavailable.

Text-only coverage of the 2017 Hugo Awards ceremony through CoverItLive, suitable for lower-bandwidth connections, is in the window below. Our coverage of the ceremony will start at approximately 19:15.

Live Blog 2017 Hugo Awards Ceremony
 

The CoverItLive feed is generally a few seconds to a few minutes ahead of the video streaming.