{"id":328,"date":"2015-08-23T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/08\/23\/a-look-back-at-hugo-award-winning-television-and-film\/"},"modified":"2015-08-23T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T18:08:00","slug":"a-look-back-at-hugo-award-winning-television-and-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/08\/23\/a-look-back-at-hugo-award-winning-television-and-film\/","title":{"rendered":"A look back at Hugo Award-winning television and film"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday marked the 73rd WorldCon, an annual assemblage of science fiction and fantasy fans and writers that hosts the prestigious Hugo Awards. Named after science fiction editor Hugo Gernsback, the Hugos are awarded every year to groundbreaking genre fiction and proudly include legends like Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick among their winners. This year’s ceremony was steeped in controversy after anti-diversity groups flooded the nomination process to block submissions by and about people of different races and gender identities, and voters responded by, well, just not giving out some of the awards this time. (Probably an appropriate response!)<\/p>\n

Among the many awards for short stories and novellas, the Hugos also honor “dramatic presentations,” usually films and television shows. This year’s crowns went to Guardians of the Galaxy<\/i> and, for the first time, BBCs Orphan Black<\/i>. As with the rest of the Hugos, the winners in both the Short Form and Long Form categories have a remarkable pedigree, though we’ll quibble with some of the choices over the years. No win for Last Year at Marienbad<\/i> in 1963?<\/p>\n

Below, we’ve assembled a sample of Hugo-winning titles in our collection. It’s not everything, but it’s a good representation of what the Hugos tends to honor. There’s a lot of obvious major names (of course Star Wars<\/i> won), which if anything is a great indication of how often they get it right. Congrats to the Hugos on their weird but successful year, and we look forward to seeing what joins these annals in 2016!<\/p>\n

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon \u2013 HU DVD 480<\/a>
The Lord of the Rings trilogy \u2013 HU DVD 808 – 810<\/a>
Blade Runner \u2013 HU DVD 1067<\/a>
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? \u2013 HU DVD 1096<\/a>
Star Wars original trilogy \u2013 HU DVD 1643 – 1646<\/a>
Pan’s Labyrinth \u2013 HU DVD 2770<\/a>
Slaughterhouse-Five \u2013 HU DVD 5727<\/a>
Star Trek: “The Menagerie” \u2013 HU DVD 6201<\/a>, Disc 4
Inception \u2013 HU DVD 8000<\/a>
The Incredible Shrinking Man \u2013 HU DVD 8968<\/a>
Game of Thrones, Season 1 \u2013 HU DVD 10021<\/a>
Doctor Who: “Blink” \u2013 HU DVD 10803<\/a>, Disc 4
A Boy and His Dog \u2013 HU DVD 11420<\/a>
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Conversations with Dead People” \u2013 HU DVD 14011<\/a>, Disc 2
The Twilight Zone (television) \u2013 HU DVD 14063 – 14067<\/a>
Star Trek: The Next Generation: “All Good Things…” \u2013 HU DVD 14209<\/a>, Disc 7 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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