Woo-hoo! Hugo Nominations!

[kevin_standlee]

I'm sure they'll be posted officially tomorrow morning, but John Lorentz (the Hugo Administrator) sent out the Hugo Award nominations announcement this evening. Two of Interaction's major events got Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) nominations: Lucas Back in Anger (Phil Raines and Ian Sorensen's Star Wars parody performed on Friday night of Interaction) and Prix Victor Hugo (Opening speech and framing sequence of 2005 Hugo Awards Ceremony, written and performed by Kim Newman & Paul McAuley). I was Events division manager -- in dramatic presentation terms, I think that makes me roughly the executive producer of both these works. (Not that I'm claiming any ownership rights, you understand, not a bit: if either work should somehow manage to win -- which does seem rather unlikely I have to admit, running against three Doctor Who episodes and a Battlestar Galactica episode -- the trophies go to the authors of the respective works.)

I once again merely bask in reflected glory, as I also do with Emerald City's nomination for Best Semiprozine. (As most of you reading this know, I proofread EmCit and am auxiliary moderator for the web site's blog.)

As I said, the official posting will probably be up on the L.A.con IV web site and elsewhere soon, but in my opinion, posting an announcement on SMOFS is IMO as good as anything else. (If I post an announcement on SMOFS, I expect it to be publicized.) If you want to see the nominations right away, here they are at the Emerald City site.

Comments

[kproche.livejournal.com]

poo.

couldn't those dad-gummed other Dr Who fans at least have agreed on *one* episode of the series.

At least they're all quality nominations.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Remember, members of Interthingy were able to nominate for Hugos (although they won't be able to vote; that's reserved for LACon IV members). I figure that explains the Dr. Who onslaught, in that this year has a much larger proportion of Brits nominating than usual.

[kproche.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know that. And I nominated one of those episodes myself. It really is good that there were so many things worth nominating this year.

I'd just entertained hopes that Ready, Steady, Sew would make the ballot because I don't foresee being involved in anything else that could ever qualify for nomination. Hence the "poo".