Chronic Rift Roundtable Awards
The winners of the 2009 Chronic Rift Roundtable Awards were announced on the April 7 podcast of The Chronic Rift.
Best Writer of a Novel, Short Story, or Comic Book: Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Best Editor of a Magazine, Anthology, or Comic Book: Stanley Schmidt for Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Best Artist of a Comic Book: Alex Ross – Avengers/Invaders Sketchbook, Project Superpowers
Best Cover Artist of a Book, Magazine, or Comic Book: Alex Ross for Kurt Busiek’s Astro City: Beautie, Justice Society of America, Avengers/Invaders, Superman, Batman, Captain America, Project Superpowers, Red Sonja, Black Adam: The Dark Age
Best Novel: The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
Best Short Story: “Good Queen, Bad Queen, I Queen, You Queen” by Terri Osborne in Doctor Who: Short Trips 24: The Quality of Leadership
Best Anthology of Short Stories: I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein
Best Nonfiction Book: Up Til Now: The Autobiography, by William Shatner
Best Comic Book: All Star Superman
Best Manga: StarCraft: Frontline Volume 1
Best Web Comic: Sheldon
Best Fiction Magazine: Analog
Best Nonfiction Magazine: New Scientist
Best Fanzine: Argentus
Best TV Episode: “Forest of the Dead,” Doctor Who
Best Movie: Iron Man
Best Special Effects in a Movie or TV Series: Iron Man
Best Podcast: Doctor Who: Podshock
Best Website: SF Scope
Best Director of a TV Show or Movie: Jon Favreau for Iron Man
Best Performer in a TV Show or Movie: Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight
Best Writer of a TV Show or Movie: Steven Moffatt for Doctor Who
Best Animation: Wall-E
Best Character: The Joker (Heath Ledger) in The Dark Knight
Best Thing of 2008: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Hall of Fame: Arthur C. Clarke
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The podcast Chronic Rift has announced this year’s nominations for the Roundtable Awards. The award winners will be announced on the April 6 edition of the Chronic Rift.
Best Writer of a Novel, Short Story, or Comic Book
- Jim Butcher – Small Favor, Princeps’ Fury
- Neil Gaiman – The Graveyard Book
- David Mack – Star Trek Destiny: Gods of Night, Star Trek Destiny: Mere Mortals, Star Trek Destiny: Lost Souls
- Terry Pratchett – Nation
- Ian Randal Strock – “Mars is the Wrong Color”
Best Editor of a Magazine, Anthology, or Comic Book
- Ellen Datlow – The Del Ray Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction’s Finest Voices
- Keith R.A. DeCandido – Doctor Who Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership
- Mark S. Deniz & Amanda Pillar – Voices
- Joe Quesada – Marvel Comics
- Stanley Schmidt – Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Best Artist of a Comic Book
- Olivier Coipel – Thor
- Jae Lee – Dark Tower: The Long Road Home, Dark Tower: Treachery
- Alex Ross – Avengers/Invaders Sketchbook, Project Superpowers
- Dustin Weaver – Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars: Rebellion, Star Wars: Legacy
- JK Woodward – Fallen Angel, X-Men Origins
Best Cover Artist of a Book, Magazine, or Comic Book
- Bryan Hitch – Fantastic Four, Wildstorm Fine Arts, Giant-Size Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Force, Captain Britain & MI13
- Georges Jeanty – Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight
- J.G. Jones – Final Crisis, Marvel Boy
- John Picacio – Star Trek: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers, Star Trek: Terok Nor: Night of the Wolves, Star Trek: Terok Nor: Dawn of the Eagles, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Fearful Symmetry, Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Infinity’s Prism, Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Echoes and Refractions, Elric: The Stealer of Souls
- Alex Ross – Kurt Busiek’s Astro City: Beautie, Justice Society of America, Avengers/Invaders, Superman, Batman, Captain America, Project Superpowers, Red Sonja, Black Adam: The Dark Age
Best Novel
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- Free Fall by Laura Anne Gilman
- Underground by Kat Richardson
- Galaxy Blues by Alan Steele
Best Short Story
- “Empty Places” by Michael A. Burstein in I Remember the Future
- “I Remember the Future” by Michael A. Burstein in I Remember the Future
- “Good Queen, Bad Queen, I Queen, You Queen” by Terri Osborne in Doctor Who: Short Trips 24: The Quality of Leadership
- “Mars is the Wrong Color” by Ian Randall Strock in Nature
Best Anthology of Short Stories
- I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein
- Voices ed by Mark Deniz and Amanda Pillar
- The Starry Rift, ed. by Jonathan Strahan
Best Nonfiction Book
- Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris
- Up Til Now: The Autobiography by William Shatner
- The Presidential Book of Lists: From Most to Least, Elected to Rejected, Worst to Cursed-Fascinating Facts About Our Chief Executives by Ian Randal Strock
Best Comic Book
- All Star Superman
- The Amazing Spider-Girl
- Locke & Key
- 100 Bullets
- Star Trek: The Last Generation
Best Manga
- StarCraft: Frontline Volume 1
- Fairy Tail
- Death Note
Best Web Comic
- EZ Street
- Real Life Comics
- xkcd
- Sheldon
- Second Empire
Best Fiction Magazine
Best Nonfiction Magazine
- Maxim
- Entertainment Weekly
- Sky and Telescope
- SF Scope
- New Scientist
Best Fanzine
Best TV Episode
- “Forest of the Dead” – Doctor Who
- “Power Hungry” – Fringe
- “The Constant” – Lost
- “Alison from Palmdale” – Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- “The Invisible Hand of Fate” – The Venture Bros.
Best Movie
- The Dark Knight
- The Incredible Hulk
- Iron Man
- Twilight
- Wall-E
Best Special Effects in a Movie or TV Series
- Battlestar Galactica
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Incredible Hulk
- Iron Man
- Stargate Atlantis
Best Podcast
- Better in the Dark
- The Chronic Rift
- Doctor Who: Podshock
- The Gamer’s Haven Podcast
- Scapecast
Best Website
- Cinefantastique Online
- The Chronic Rift
- DungeonMastering.com
- SF Scope
- Twitter
Best Director of a TV Show or Movie
- Jon Favreau – Iron Man
- Graeme Harper – Doctor Who
- Clark Johnson – The Wire, The Shield, Flashpoint, Eleventh Hour
- Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
- Andrew Stanton – Wall-E
Best Performer in a TV Show or Movie
- Michael Chiklis – The Shield
- Aaron Eckhart – The Dark Knight
- Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
- Catherine Tate – Doctor Who
- David Tennant – Doctor Who
Best Writer of a TV Show or Movie
- Toni Graphia – Battlestar Galactica, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Drew Goddard – Lost
- Marc Guggenheim – Eli Stone
- Steven Moffatt – Doctor Who
- Matt Nix – Burn Notice
Best Animation
- Kung Fu Panda
- Moribito no Seirei (Guardian of the Sacred Spirit)
- Spectacular Spider-Man
- The Venture Bros.
- Wall-E
Best Character
- Abby Grant (Julie Graham) – Survivors
- Bubbles (Andre Royo) – The Wire
- Captain America – Captain America
- The Joker (Heath Ledger) – The Dark Knight
- River Song (Alex Kingston) – Doctor Who
Best Thing of 2008
- The year ended.
- Dr. Horrible’s sing-along blog
- End of the Bush era
- Change of guard on Doctor Who
- The release of Deborah Grabien’s Rock and Roll Never Forgets
- The return of the Choose Your Own Adventure series
- A Matter of Loaf and Death – New Wallace and Grommit Adventure
- Giants win the Superbowl
- The release of I Remember the Future
- Middle-Man TV Series
- Chuck
- Increase in Genre/Media Tie-In related websites (Chronic Rift, Unreality SF)
- The super hero movie as serious cinema
Hall of Fame
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