| Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation | |
| Awarded For: | The best dramatized production devoted primarily to science fiction or fantasy |
| Presenter: | World Science Fiction Society |
| Year: | 1958 |
| Holder: | (Long Form) The Last of Us: "Long, Long Time" (Short Form) |
| Holder Label: | Most recent winner |
| Website: | thehugoawards.org |
The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is given each year for theatrical films, television episodes, or other dramatized works related to science fiction or fantasy released in the previous calendar year. Originally the award covered both works of film and of television but since 2003, it has been split into two categories: Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) and Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form). The Dramatic Presentation Awards are part of the broader Hugo Awards, which are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, and was once officially known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award. The award has been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction".
The award was first presented in 1958, and with the exceptions of 1964 and 1966 was given annually through 2002 when it was retired in favor of the newly created Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) and Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) categories, which divided the category depending on whether the work was longer or shorter than 90 minutes. In the 1964 and 1966 awards there were insufficient nominations made to support the category. Prior to 1971, the category was defined as including works from "radio, television, stage or screen", and thereafter was expanded to "any medium of dramatized science fiction or fantasy", resulting in the nomination of recorded songs and other works. In addition to the regular Hugo awards, since 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro Hugos", have been available to be awarded for years 50, 75, or 100 years prior in which no awards were given. To date, Retro Hugo awards have been awarded for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954; the 1946 and 1951 awards were for the Best Dramatic Presentation category while the 1939, 1945, and 1954 awards were for the Short Form category. There were insufficient nominations to support an award in the Long Form category for those years. The 1941 and 1944 awards were for both Long and Short Form.
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six nominees, except in the case of a tie. The works on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of works that can be nominated. The 1958 awards did not include any recognition of runner-up magazines, but since 1959 all six candidates were recorded. Initial nominations are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six nominations is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held. Prior to 2017, the final ballot was five works; it was changed that year to six, with each initial nominator limited to five nominations, and no more than two works per series allowed on the final ballot. Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and are held in a different city around the world each year. Members are permitted to vote "no award", if they feel that none of the nominees is deserving of the award that year, and in the case that "no award" takes the majority the Hugo is not given in that category. This has happened in the Dramatic Presentation category four times, in 1959, 1963, 1971, and 1977.
The award is typically for television and film presentations, but occasionally rewards works in other formats: in 1970 it was awarded to news coverage of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, while in 1971 a concept album and a comedy album were nominated. Another comedy album was nominated the following year, and a slideshow was nominated in 1976. A radio play was nominated in 1979, and all of the 1939 Retro Hugo awards were for radio plays. In 2004, an acceptance speech from the 2003 MTV Movie Awards won the award, while in 2006, a skit from the opening of the previous year's award ceremony (pretending to be for the "Victor Hugo Award") was nominated. An audiobook was nominated in 2009, another acceptance speech was nominated in 2012, a concept album was nominated in 2017, and a song was nominated in 2018.
During the 74 nomination years, 43 awards for Best Dramatic Presentation, 23 awards each for Short Form and Long Form, and 11 Retro Hugo awards have been given. The individual franchises with the most awards are the revived 2000s-era Doctor Who with 6 Short Form awards out of 37 nominations, Star Wars with 3 Best Dramatic Presentation awards out of 3 nominations as well as 4 Long Form and 5 Short Form nominations, The Twilight Zone with 3 Best Dramatic Presentation awards out of 4 nominations, Game of Thrones with 3 wins out of a Long Form and 5 Short Form nominations, The Good Place with 4 wins out of 6 Short Form nominations. Other shows or series with multiple awards or nominations include the original Star Trek series with 2 wins out of 8 nominations, with 2 wins out of 3 nominations, The Expanse with 3 wins out of 6 Short Form nominations, and Babylon 5 with 2 wins out of 4 nominations. Less successful were the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 1 win out of 15 Long Form and 3 Short Form nominations, Buffy the Vampire Slayer with 1 out of 6, Battlestar Galactica (2004) with 1 of 5, and Harry Potter with no awards after 7 nominations. The members of the hip hop group Clipping are the only musical artists to have earned two nominations for their works, first for their 2016 album Splendor & Misery and then for their 2017 song "The Deep".
In the following tables, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the work was first published. Entries with a yellow background and an asterisk (*) next to the work's name have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list. Entries with a gray background and a plus sign (+) mark a year when "no award" was selected as the winner. In the case of television presentations, the award is generally for a particular episode rather than for a program as a whole; however, sometimes, as in the case of The Twilight Zone, it was given for the series' body of work that year rather than for any particular episode.
| Year | Work | Creator(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | data-sort-value="Incredible Shrinking Man" | The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold (director), Richard Matheson (screenplay, story) | Universal Studios | |
| 1959 | (no award)+ | ||||
| data-sort-value="Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, The" | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Nathan Juran (director), Ken Kolb (screenplay), Ray Harryhausen (story) | Morningside Movies/Columbia Pictures | ||
| Dracula | Terence Fisher (director), Jimmy Sangster (screenplay), Bram Stoker (original novel) | Hammer Film Productions | |||
| data-sort-value="Fly" | The Fly | Kurt Neumann (director), James Clavell (screenplay), George Langelaan (story) | 20th Century Fox | ||
| 1960 | data-sort-value="Twilight Zone" | The Twilight Zone | Rod Serling (creator, screenplay) | CBS | |
| Men into Space | (multiple directors and writers) | CBS | |||
| Murder and the Android | Alex Segal (director), Alfred Bester (original story) | NBC | |||
| data-sort-value="Turn of the Screw" | The Turn of the Screw | John Frankenheimer (director), James Costigan (screenplay), Henry James (original story) | NBC | ||
| data-sort-value="World, the Flesh and the Devil" | The World, the Flesh and the Devil | Ranald MacDougall (director, screenplay), Ferdinand Reyher (story), M. P. Shiel (original novel) | HarBel/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | ||
| 1961 | data-sort-value="Twilight Zone" | The Twilight Zone | Rod Serling (creator, screenplay) | CBS | |
| data-sort-value="Time Machine" | The Time Machine | George Pal (director), David Duncan (screenplay), H. G. Wells (original novel) | Galaxy Films/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | ||
| Village of the Damned | Wolf Rilla (director, screenplay), Stirling Silliphant (screenplay), Ronald Kinnoch (screenplay) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |||
| 1962 | data-sort-value="Twilight Zone" | The Twilight Zone | Rod Serling (creator, screenplay) | CBS | |
| Thriller | (multiple directors and writers) | NBC | |||
| data-sort-value="United States Steel Hour: Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon" | The United States Steel Hour "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon" | James Yaffe (screenplay), Daniel Keyes (original story) | CBS | ||
| Village of the Damned | Wolf Rilla (director, screenplay), Stirling Silliphant (screenplay), Ronald Kinnoch (screenplay) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |||
| data-sort-value="Fabulous World of Jules Verne" | The Fabulous World of Jules Verne | Karel Zeman (director, screenplay), František Hrubín (screenplay), Jules Verne (original novel) | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1963 | (no award)+ | ||||
| data-sort-value="Twilight Zone" | The Twilight Zone | Rod Serling (creator, screenplay) | CBS | ||
| Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais (director, screenplay), Alain Robbe-Grillet (screenplay), Adolfo Bioy Casares (original novel) | Argos Films | |||
| data-sort-value="Day the Earth Caught Fire" | The Day the Earth Caught Fire | Val Guest (director, screenplay), Wolf Mankowitz (screenplay) | British Lion Films/Pax | ||
| Night of the Eagle | Sidney Hayers (director), Charles Beaumont (screenplay), Richard Matheson (screenplay), George Baxt (screenplay), Fritz Leiber (original novel) | Anglo-Amalgamated/Independent Artists | |||
| 1965 | data-sort-value="Doctor Strangelove" | Dr. Strangelove | Stanley Kubrick (director, screenplay), Terry Southern (screenplay), Peter George (screenplay, original novel) | Hawk Films/Columbia Pictures | |
| data-sort-value="Seven Faces of Dr. Lao" | 7 Faces of Dr. Lao | George Pal (director), Charles Beaumont (screenplay), Charles G. Finney (original novel) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | ||
| 1967 | data-sort-value="Star Trek: Menagerie" | Star Trek | Marc Daniels (director), Gene Roddenberry (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | |
| data-sort-value="Star Trek: Corbomite Maneuver" | Star Trek | Joseph Sargent (director), Jerry Sohl (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | ||
| data-sort-value="Star Trek: Naked Time" | Star Trek | Marc Daniels (director), John D. F. Black (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | ||
| Fahrenheit 451 | François Truffaut (director, screenplay), Jean-Louis Richard (screenplay), Helen G. Scott (screenplay), Ray Bradbury (original novel) | Anglo Enterprises/Vineyard | |||
| Fantastic Voyage | Richard Fleischer (director), Harry Kleiner (screenplay), David Duncan (screenplay), Jerome Bixby (story), Otto Klement (story) | 20th Century Fox | |||
| 1968 | data-sort-value="Star Trek: City on the Edge of Forever" | Star Trek | Joseph Pevney (director), Harlan Ellison (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | |
| Star Trek | Joseph Pevney (director), Theodore Sturgeon (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | |||
| Star Trek | Marc Daniels (director), Jerome Bixby (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | |||
| data-sort-value="Star Trek: Doomsday Machine" | Star Trek | Marc Daniels (director), Norman Spinrad (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | ||
| data-sort-value="Star Trek: Trouble with Tribbles" | Star Trek | Joseph Pevney (director), David Gerrold (screenplay) | Desilu Productions | ||
| 1969 | data-sort-value="Two thousand and one" | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick (director, screenplay), Arthur C. Clarke (screenplay, original story) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| data-sort-value="Prisoner: Fall Out" | The Prisoner "Fall Out" | Patrick McGoohan (director, screenplay) | Everyman/ITC Entertainment | ||
| Charly | Ralph Nelson (director), Stirling Silliphant (screenplay), Daniel Keyes (original story) | ABC Pictures/Selmer | |||
| Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski (director, screenplay), Ira Levin (original novel) | Paramount Pictures | |||
| Yellow Submarine | George Dunning (director), Al Brodax (screenplay), Roger McGough (screenplay), Jack Mendelsohn (screenplay), Lee Minoff (screenplay), Erich Segal (screenplay) | Apple Corps/Hearst/King Features Syndicate | |||
| 1970 | News coverage of Apollo 11* | Multiple sources | Multiple publishers, NASA | ||
| data-sort-value="Bed-Sitting Room" | The Bed Sitting Room | Richard Lester (director), John Antrobus (screenplay), Charles Wood (screenplay), John Antrobus (original play), Spike Milligan (original play) | Oscar Lewenstein Productions | ||
| data-sort-value="Illustrated Man" | The Illustrated Man | Jack Smight (director), Howard B. Kreitsek (screenplay), Ray Bradbury (original story collection) | SKM | ||
| data-sort-value="Immortal" | The Immortal | Allen Baron (director), Joseph Sargent (director), Lou Morheim (screenplay), Robert Specht (screenplay), James Gunn (original novel) | Paramount Pictures | ||
| Marooned | John Sturges (director), Mayo Simon (screenplay), Martin Caidin (original novel) | Columbia Pictures | |||
| 1971 | (no award)+ | ||||
| Blows Against the Empire | Paul Kantner (lyrics, music) | RCA Records | |||
| Joseph Sargent (director), James Bridges (screenplay), D. F. Jones (original novel) | Universal Studios | ||||
| Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers | The Firesign Theatre (screenplay, performance) | Columbia Records | |||
| Hauser's Memory | Boris Sagal (director), Adrian Spies (screenplay), Curt Siodmak (original novel) | Universal Studios | |||
| No Blade of Grass | Cornel Wilde (director), Sean Forestal (screenplay), Jefferson Pascal (screenplay), John Christopher (original novel) | Theodora/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |||
| 1972 | data-sort-value="Clockwork Orange" | A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick (director, screenplay), Anthony Burgess (original novel) | Hawk Films/Polaris/Warner Bros. | |
| data-sort-value="Andromeda Strain" | The Andromeda Strain | Robert Wise (director), Nelson Gidding (screenplay), Michael Crichton (original novel) | Universal Studios | ||
| I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus | The Firesign Theatre (screenplay, performance) | Columbia Records | |||
| data-sort-value="Name of the Game: L.A. 2017" | The Name of the Game | Steven Spielberg (director), Philip Wylie (screenplay) | Universal Studios/NBC | ||
| THX 1138 | George Lucas (director, screenplay, story), Walter Murch (screenplay) | Warner Bros./American Zoetrope | |||
| 1973 | Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill (director), Stephen Geller (screenplay), Kurt Vonnegut (original novel) | Universal Studios | ||
| Between Time and Timbuktu | Fred Barzyk (director), Kurt Vonnegut (screenplay, story) | NET Playhouse/Public Broadcasting Service | |||
| data-sort-value="People" | The People | John Korty (director), James M. Miller (screenplay), Zenna Henderson (original stories) | American Zoetrope/ABC | ||
| Silent Running | Douglas Trumbull (director), Deric Washburn (screenplay), Michael Cimino (screenplay), Steven Bochco (screenplay) | Universal Studios | |||
| 1974 | Sleeper | Woody Allen (director, screenplay), Marshall Brickman (screenplay) | Rollins-Joffe/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists | ||
| Genesis II | John Llewellyn Moxey (director), Gene Roddenberry (screenplay) | Norway/Warner Bros. | |||
| data-sort-value="Six Million Dollar Man" | The Six Million Dollar Man | Richard Irving (director), Tom Greene (screenplay), Howard Rodman (screenplay), Martin Caidin (original novel) | Universal Studios | ||
| Soylent Green | Richard Fleischer (director), Stanley R. Greenberg (screenplay), Harry Harrison (original novel) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |||
| Westworld | Michael Crichton (director, screenplay) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |||
| 1975 | Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks (director, screenplay, story), Gene Wilder (screenplay, story), Mary Shelley (original novel) | 20th Century Fox | ||
| Flesh Gordon | Michael Benveniste (director, screenplay), Howard Ziehm (director) | Graffiti Productions | |||
| Phantom of the Paradise | Brian De Palma (director, screenplay) | Harbor/20th Century Fox | |||
| data-sort-value="Questor Tapes" | The Questor Tapes | Richard A. Colla (director), Gene L. Coon (screenplay), Gene Roddenberry (screenplay, story) | Universal Studios | ||
| Zardoz | John Boorman (director, screenplay) | 20th Century Fox | |||
| 1976 | data-sort-value="Boy and His Dog" | A Boy and His Dog | L. Q. Jones (director, screenplay), Wayne Cruseturner (screenplay), Harlan Ellison (original story) | LQ/JAF | |
| Dark Star | John Carpenter (director, screenplay), Dan O'Bannon (screenplay) | USC | |||
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Terry Gilliam (director, screenplay), Terry Jones (director, screenplay), Graham Chapman (screenplay), John Cleese (screenplay), Eric Idle (screenplay), Michael Palin (screenplay) | Python (Monty) Pictures | |||
| Rollerball | Norman Jewison (director), William Harrison (screenplay, original story) | Algonquin/United Artists | |||
| data-sort-value="Capture" | The Capture | Robert Asprin (writer), Phil Foglio (artist) | Boojums Press | ||
| 1977 | (no award)+ | ||||
| Carrie | Brian De Palma (director), Lawrence D. Cohen (screenplay), Stephen King (original novel) | Redbank/United Artists | |||
| Logan's Run | Michael Anderson (director), David Zelag Goodman (screenplay), William F. Nolan (original novel), George Clayton Johnson (original novel) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |||
| data-sort-value="Man Who Fell to Earth" | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nicolas Roeg (director), Paul Mayersberg (screenplay), Walter Tevis (original novel) | British Lion Films | ||
| Futureworld | Richard T. Heffron (director), George Schenk (screenplay), Mayo Simon (screenplay) | American International Pictures | |||
| 1978 | Star Wars | George Lucas (director, screenplay) | Lucasfilm | ||
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg (director, screenplay) | Columbia Pictures/EMI Films | |||
| Shelley Torgeson (director), Robert Bloch (script), Harlan Ellison (script), Roy Torgeson (producer) | Alternate Worlds Recordings | ||||
| Wizards | Ralph Bakshi (director, screenplay) | 20th Century Fox | |||
| data-sort-value="Hobbit" | The Hobbit | Jules Bass (director), Arthur Rankin, Jr. (director), Romeo Muller (screenplay), J. R. R. Tolkien (original novel) | Rankin/Bass | ||
| 1979 | Superman | Richard Donner (director), Mario Puzo (screenplay), David Newman (screenplay), Leslie Newman (screenplay), Robert Benton (screenplay), Mario Puzo (story), Jerry Siegel (original character), Joe Shuster (original character) | Alexander Salkind | ||
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Philip Kaufmann (director), W. D. Richter (screenplay), Jack Finney (original novel) | Solofilm/United Artists | |||
| data-sort-value="Lord of the Rings" | The Lord of the Rings | Ralph Bakshi (director), Peter S. Beagle (screenplay), Chris Conkling (screenplay), J. R. R. Tolkien (original novels) | Fantasy Films | ||
| Watership Down | Martin Rosen (director, screenplay), Richard Adams (original novel) | Nepenthe Productions | |||
| data-sort-value="Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | Douglas Adams (script), Geoffrey Perkins (producer) | BBC Radio 4 | |||
| 1980 | Alien | Ridley Scott (director), Dan O'Bannon (screenplay, story), Ronald Shusett (story) | 20th Century Fox | ||
| data-sort-value="Black Hole" | The Black Hole | Gary Nelson (director), Jeb Rosebrook (screenplay, story), Gerry Day (screenplay), Bob Barbash (story), Richard H. Landau (story) | The Walt Disney Company | ||
| data-sort-value="Muppet Movie" | The Muppet Movie | James Frawley (director), Jack Burns (screenplay), Jerry Juhl (screenplay) | The Jim Henson Company/ITC Entertainment | ||
| Robert Wise (director), Harold Livingstonn (screenplay), Alan Dean Foster (story), Gene Roddenberry (story) | Century/Paramount Pictures | ||||
| Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer (director, screenplay), Karl Alexander (story, original novel), Steve Hayes (story) | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1981 | data-sort-value="Empire Strikes Back, The" | The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner (director), Leigh Brackett (screenplay), Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay), George Lucas (story) | Lucasfilm | |
| Carl Sagan (director, screenplay), Ann Druyan (director, screenplay) | KCET/Public Broadcasting Service | ||||
| Flash Gordon | Mike Hodges (director), Lorenzo Semple, Jr. (screenplay), Michael Allin (adaptation), Alex Raymond (original comic strip) | 20th Century Fox/De Laurentiis | |||
| data-sort-value="Lathe of Heaven" | The Lathe of Heaven | Fred Barzyk (director), David R. Loxton (director), Diane English (screenplay), Roger Swaybill (screenplay), Ursula K. Le Guin (original novel) | WNET/Public Broadcasting Service | ||
| data-sort-value="Martian Chronicles" | The Martian Chronicles | Michael Anderson (director), Richard Matheson (screenplay), Ray Bradbury (original stories) | BBC/NBC | ||
| 1982 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg (director), Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay), George Lucas (story), Philip Kaufman (story) | Lucasfilm | ||
| Dragonslayer | Matthew Robbins (director, screenplay), Hal Barwood (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures/The Walt Disney Company | |||
| Excalibur | John Boorman (director, screenplay), Rospo Pallenberg (screenplay, adaptation), Thomas Malory (original novel) | Warner Bros. | |||
| Outland | Peter Hyams (director, screenplay) | Outland/The Ladd Company | |||
| Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam (director, screenplay), Michael Palin (screenplay) | HandMade Films | |||
| 1983 | Blade Runner | Ridley Scott (director), Hampton Fancher (screenplay), David Peoples (screenplay), Philip K. Dick (original novel) | Blade Runner Partnership | ||
| data-sort-value="Dark Crystal" | The Dark Crystal | Jim Henson (director, story), Frank Oz (director), Gary Kurtz (director), David Odell (screenplay) | The Jim Henson Company/ITC Entertainment/Universal Studios | ||
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg (director), Melissa Mathison (screenplay) | Amblin Entertainment/Universal Studios | |||
| Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | George Miller (director, screenplay), Terry Hayes (screenplay), Brian Hannant (screenplay) | Kennedy Miller/Warner Bros. | |||
| Nicholas Meyer (director, screenplay), Jack B. Sowards (screenplay, story), Harve Bennett (story), Samuel A. Peeples (story) | Paramount Pictures | ||||
| 1984 | Return of the Jedi | Richard Marquand (director), Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay), George Lucas (screenplay, story) | Lucasfilm | ||
| Brainstorm | Douglas Trumbull (director), Philip Frank Messina (screenplay), Robert Stitzel (screenplay), Bruce Joel Rubin (story) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |||
| data-sort-value="Right Stuff" | The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufmann (director, screenplay), Tom Wolfe (original novel) | The Ladd Company | ||
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Jack Clayton (director), Ray Bradbury (screenplay, original novel) | The Bryna Company/The Walt Disney Company | |||
| WarGames | John Badham (director), Lawrence Lasker (screenplay), Walter F. Parkes (screenplay) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |||
| 1985 | data-sort-value="Two thousand and ten" | 2010 | Peter Hyams (director, screenplay), Arthur C. Clarke (original novel) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| Dune | David Lynch (director, screenplay), Frank Herbert (original novel) | De Laurentiis/Universal Studios | |||
| Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman (director), Dan Aykroyd (screenplay), Harold Ramis (screenplay) | Black Rhino/Columbia Pictures | |||
| data-sort-value="Last Starfighter" | The Last Starfighter | Nick Castle (director), Jonathan R. Betuel (screenplay) | Lorimar Productions/Universal Studios | ||
| Leonard Nimoy (director), Harve Bennett (screenplay) | Cinema Group/Paramount Pictures | ||||
| 1986 | data-sort-value="Back to the Future Part I" | Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis (director, screenplay), Bob Gale (screenplay) | Amblin Entertainment/Universal Studios | |
| Brazil | Terry Gilliam (director, screenplay), Charles McKeown (screenplay), Tom Stoppard (screenplay) | Embassy/Universal Studios | |||
| Cocoon | Ron Howard (director), Tom Benedek (screenplay), David Saperstein (original novel) | 20th Century Fox/Zanuck/Brown | |||
| Enemy Mine | Wolfgang Petersen (director), Edward Khmara (screenplay), Barry B. Longyear (original story) | 20th Century Fox/King's Road | |||
| Ladyhawke | Richard Donner (director), Edward Khmara (screenplay, story), Michael Thomas (screenplay), Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay), David Peoples (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox/Warner Bros. | |||
| 1987 | Aliens | James Cameron (director, screenplay, story), David Giler (story), Walter Hill (story) | 20th Century Fox | ||
| data-sort-value="Fly" | The Fly | David Cronenberg (director, screenplay), Charles Edward Pogue (screenplay), George Langelaan (story) | Brooksfilms/20th Century Fox | ||
| Labyrinth | Jim Henson (director, story), Terry Jones (screenplay), Dennis Lee (story) | Delphi/The Jim Henson Company/Lucasfilm/TriStar Pictures | |||
| Little Shop of Horrors | Frank Oz (director), Howard Ashman (screenplay), Charles B. Griffith (original story) | The Geffen Film Company | |||
| Leonard Nimoy (director, story), Harve Bennett (screenplay, story), Steve Meerson (screenplay), Peter Krikes (screenplay), Nicholas Meyer (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | ||||
| 1988 | data-sort-value="Princess Bride" | The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner (director), William Goldman (screenplay, original novel) | Act III/20th Century Fox | |
| Predator | John McTiernan (director), Jim Thomas (screenplay), John Thomas (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox | |||
| RoboCop | Paul Verhoeven (director), Michael Miner (screenplay), Edward Neumeier (screenplay) | Orion Pictures | |||
| Corey Allen (director), D. C. Fontana (screenplay), Gene Roddenberry (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | ||||
| data-sort-value="Witches of Eastwick" | The Witches of Eastwick | George Miller (director), Michael Cristofer (screenplay), John Updike (original novel) | Guber-Peters/Kennedy Miller/Warner Bros. | ||
| 1989 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis (director), Jeffrey Price (screenplay), Peter S. Seaman (screenplay), Gary K. Wolf (original novel) | Amblin Entertainment/Touchstone Pictures | ||
| Alien Nation | Graham Baker (director), Rockne S. O'Bannon (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox | |||
| Beetlejuice | Tim Burton (director), Michael McDowell (screenplay, story), Warren Skaaren (screenplay), Larry Wilson (story) | Geffen/Warner Bros. | |||
| Big | Penny Marshall (director), Gary Ross (screenplay), Anne Spielberg (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox | |||
| Willow | Ron Howard (director), Bob Dolman (screenplay), George Lucas (story) | Imagine/Lucasfilm/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |||
| 1990 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Steven Spielberg (director), Jeffrey Boam (screenplay), George Lucas (story), Menno Meyjes (story) | Lucasfilm/Paramount Pictures | ||
| data-sort-value="Abyss" | The Abyss | James Cameron (director, screenplay) | 20th Century Fox/Lightstorm/Pacific Western | ||
| data-sort-value="Adventures of Baron Munchausen" | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Terry Gilliam (director, screenplay), Charles McKeown (screenplay), Rudolf Erich Raspe (original stories), Gottfried August Bürger (original stories) | Allied Artists International/Columbia Pictures/Laura/Prominent | ||
| Batman | Tim Burton (director), Sam Hamm (screenplay, story), Warren Skaaren (screenplay), Bob Kane (original characters) | Guber-Peters/PolyGram/Warner Bros. | |||
| Field of Dreams | Phil Alden Robinson (director, screenplay), W. P. Kinsella (original novel) | Gordon/Universal Studios | |||
| 1991 | Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton (director, story), Caroline Thompson (screenplay, story) | 20th Century Fox | ||
| Back to the Future Part III | Robert Zemeckis (director, story), Bob Gale (screenplay, story) | Amblin Entertainment/Universal Studios | |||
| Ghost | Jerry Zucker (director), Bruce Joel Rubin (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | |||
| Total Recall | Paul Verhoeven (director), Ronald Shusett (screenplay, story), Dan O'Bannon (screenplay, story), Gary Goldman (screenplay), Jon Povill (story), Philip K. Dick (original story) | Carolco Pictures/TriStar Pictures | |||
| data-sort-value="Witches" | The Witches | Nicolas Roeg (director), Allan Scott (screenplay), Roald Dahl (original novel) | The Jim Henson Company/Lorimar Productions | ||
| 1992 | James Cameron (director, screenplay), William Wisher Jr. (screenplay) | Carolco Pictures/Lightstorm/Pacific Western | |||
| data-sort-value="Addams Family" | The Addams Family | Barry Sonnenfeld (director), Caroline Thompson (screenplay), Larry Wilson (screenplay), Charles Addams (original characters) | Orion Pictures/Paramount Pictures | ||
| Beauty and the Beast | Gary Trousdale (director), Kirk Wise (director), Linda Woolverton (screenplay) | Silver Screen Partners/The Walt Disney Company | |||
| data-sort-value="Rocketeer" | The Rocketeer | Gordon/Silver Screen Partners/Touchstone Pictures/The Walt Disney Company | |||
| Nicholas Meyer (director, screenplay), Denny Martin Flinn (screenplay), Leonard Nimoy (story), Lawrence Konner (story), Mark Rosenthal (story) | Paramount Pictures | ||||
| 1993 | data-sort-value="Star Trek: The Next Generation: Inner Light" | Peter Lauritson (director), Peter Allan Fields (screenplay), Morgan Gendel (screenplay, story) | Paramount Pictures | ||
| Aladdin | Ron Clements (director, screenplay), John Musker (director, screenplay), Ted Elliott (screenplay), Terry Rossio (screenplay) | The Walt Disney Company | |||
| Alien 3 | David Fincher (director), David Giler (screenplay), Walter Hill (screenplay), Larry Ferguson (screenplay), Vincent Ward (story) | 20th Century Fox/Brandywine | |||
| Batman Returns | Tim Burton (director), Daniel Waters (screenplay, story), Sam Hamm (story), Bob Kane (original characters) | PolyGram/Warner Bros. | |||
| Bram Stoker's Dracula | Francis Ford Coppola (director), James V. Hart (screenplay), Bram Stoker (original novel) | American Zoetrope/Columbia Pictures | |||
| 1994 | Jurassic Park | Steven Spielberg (director), David Koepp (screenplay), Michael Crichton (screenplay, original novel) | Universal Studios/Amblin Entertainment | ||
| Addams Family Values | Barry Sonnenfeld (director), Paul Rudnick (screenplay), Charles Addams (original characters) | Orion Pictures/Paramount Pictures | |||
| data-sort-value="Babylon 5: Gathering" | Babylon 5 | Richard Compton (director), J. Michael Straczynski (screenplay) | Babylonian Productions | ||
| Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis (director, screenplay), Danny Rubin (screenplay, story) | Columbia Pictures | |||
| data-sort-value="Nightmare Before Christmas" | The Nightmare Before Christmas | Henry Selick (director), Caroline Thompson (screenplay), Michael McDowell (adaptation), Tim Burton (story) | Skellington Productions/Touchstone Pictures | ||
| 1995 | Winrich Kolbe (director), Ronald D. Moore (screenplay), Brannon Braga (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | |||
| Interview with the Vampire | Neil Jordan (director), Anne Rice (screenplay, original novel) | The Geffen Film Company | |||
| data-sort-value="Mask" | The Mask | Chuck Russell (director), Mike Werb (screenplay), Michael Fallon (story), Mark Verheiden (story) | Dark Horse Entertainment/New Line Cinema | ||
| Stargate | Roland Emmerich (director, screenplay), Dean Devlin (screenplay) | Carolco Pictures/Centropolis | |||
| Star Trek Generations | David Carson (director), Ronald D. Moore (screenplay, story), Brannon Braga (screenplay, story), Rick Berman (story) | Paramount Pictures | |||
| 1996 | data-sort-value="Babylon 5: Coming of Shadows" | Babylon 5 | Janet Greek (director), J. Michael Straczynski (screenplay) | Babylonian Productions | |
| Apollo 13 | Ron Howard (director), William Broyles, Jr. (screenplay), Al Reinert (screenplay), Jim Lovell (original book), Jeffrey Kluger (original book) | Imagine Entertainment/Universal Studios | |||
| data-sort-value="Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Visitor" | David Livingston (director), Michael Taylor (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | |||
| Toy Story | John Lasseter (director, story), Joss Whedon (screenplay), Joel Cohen (screenplay), Alec Sokolow (screenplay), Andrew Stanton (screenplay, story), Pete Docter (story), Joe Ranft (story) | The Walt Disney Company/Pixar | |||
| data-sort-value="Twelve Monkeys" | 12 Monkeys | Terry Gilliam (director), David Peoples (screenplay), Janet Peoples (screenplay), Chris Marker (original film) | Atlas/Universal Studios | ||
| 1997 | Babylon 5 | David J. Eagle (director), J. Michael Straczynski (screenplay) | Babylonian Productions | ||
| Independence Day | Roland Emmerich (director, screenplay), Dean Devlin (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox/Centropolis | |||
| Mars Attacks! | Tim Burton (director), Jonathan Gems (screenplay, story), Len Brown (original trading card game), Woody Gelman (original trading card game), Wally Wood (original trading card game), Bob Powell (original trading card game), Norman Saunders (original trading card game) | Warner Bros. | |||
| Jonathan Frakes (director), Ronald D. Moore (screenplay, story), Brannon Braga (screenplay, story), Rick Berman (story) | Paramount Pictures | ||||
| Jonathan West (director), Ronald D. Moore (screenplay), René Echevarria (screenplay), Ira Steven Behr (story), Hans Beimler (story), Robert Hewitt Wolfe (story) | Paramount Pictures | ||||
| 1998 | Contact | Robert Zemeckis (director), James V. Hart (screenplay), Michael Goldenberg (screenplay), Carl Sagan (story, original novel), Ann Druyan (story) | SouthSide Amusement/Warner Bros. | ||
| data-sort-value="Fifth Element" | The Fifth Element | Luc Besson (director, screenplay, story), Robert Mark Kamen (screenplay) | Gaumont Film Company/Columbia Pictures | ||
| Gattaca | Andrew Niccol (director, screenplay) | Columbia Pictures/Jersey | |||
| Men in Black | Barry Sonnenfeld (director), Ed Solomon (screenplay, story), Lowell Cunningham (original comic) | Amblin Entertainment/Columbia Pictures/McDonald/Parkes | |||
| Starship Troopers | Paul Verhoeven (director), Edward Neumeier (screenplay), Robert A. Heinlein (original novel) | Touchstone Pictures/TriStar Pictures | |||
| 1999 | data-sort-value="Truman Show" | The Truman Show | Peter Weir (director), Andrew Niccol (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | |
| Babylon 5 "Sleeping in Light" | J. Michael Straczynski (director, screenplay) | Babylonian Productions | |||
| Dark City | Alex Proyas (director, screenplay, story), Lem Dobbs (screenplay), David S. Goyer (screenplay) | New Line Cinema | |||
| Pleasantville | Gary Ross (director, screenplay) | New Line Cinema | |||
| Jonathan Frakes (director), Michael Piller (screenplay, story), Rick Berman (story) | Paramount Pictures | ||||
| 2000 | Galaxy Quest | Dean Parisot (director), David Howard (screenplay, story), Robert Gordon (screenplay) | DreamWorks | ||
| Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze (director), Charlie Kaufman (screenplay) | Gramercy Pictures/Propaganda Films/Single Cell | |||
| data-sort-value="Iron Giant" | The Iron Giant | Brad Bird (director, story), Tim McCanlies (screenplay), Ted Hughes (original novel) | Warner Bros. | ||
| data-sort-value="Matrix" | The Matrix | Lilly Wachowski (director, screenplay), Lana Wachowski (director, screenplay) | Silver Pictures | ||
| data-sort-value="Sixth Sense" | The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan (director, screenplay) | Hollywood Pictures/Spyglass Entertainment/Kennedy/Marshall | ||
| 2001 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Ang Lee (director), Wang Hui-ling (screenplay), James Schamus (screenplay), Tsai Kuo Jung (screenplay), Wang Dulu (original novel) | China Film Group Corporation | ||
| Chicken Run | Peter Lord (director, story), Nick Park (director, story), Kary Kirkpatrick (screenplay), Randy Cartwright (story) | Aardman Animations/Allied Artists International/DreamWorks | |||
| Frank Herbert's Dune | John Harrison (director, screenplay), Frank Herbert (original novel) | New Amsterdam | |||
| Frequency | Gregory Hoblit (director), Toby Emmerich (screenplay) | New Line Cinema | |||
| X-Men | Bryan Singer (director, story), David Hayter (screenplay), Tom DeSanto (story) | 20th Century Fox/Marvel Studios | |||
| 2002 | data-sort-value="Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" | Peter Jackson (director, screenplay), Fran Walsh (screenplay), Philippa Boyens (screenplay), J. R. R. Tolkien (original novel) | New Line Cinema/The Saul Zaentz Company/WingNut Films | ||
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Chris Columbus (director), Steve Kloves (screenplay) | 1492 Pictures/Heyday Films/Warner Bros. | |||
| Monsters, Inc. | Pete Docter (director, story), David Silverman (director), Lee Unkrich (director), Dan Gerson (screenplay), Andrew Stanton (screenplay), Jill Culton (story), Ralph Eggleston (story) Jeff Pidgeon (story) | Pixar/The Walt Disney Company | |||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Once More, with Feeling" | Joss Whedon (director, screenplay) | Fox Television Studios/Mutant Enemy Productions | |||
| Shrek | Andrew Adamson (director), Vicky Jenson (director), Ted Elliott (screenplay), Terry Rossio (screenplay), Joe Stillman (screenplay), Roger S. H. Schulman (screenplay), Edmund Fong (story), Ken Harsha (story) | DreamWorks/Pacific Data Images |
Starting with the 2003 awards, the Dramatic Presentation award was split into two categories: Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) and Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form). The Long Form award is for "a dramatized production in any medium, including film, television, radio, live theater, computer games or music. The work must last 90 minutes or longer (excluding commercials)." The Short Form award is for "a dramatized production in any medium, including film, television, radio, live theater, computer games or music. The work must last less than 90 minutes (excluding commercials)." An individual work such as a television show can be nominated for a season in the Long Form category or for individual episodes in the Short Form, though not for both in the same year. As of 2017, a single show is limited to two nominations in the Short Form category per year.
| Year | Work | Creator(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | data-sort-value="Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" | Peter Jackson (director, screenplay), Fran Walsh (screenplay), Philippa Boyens (screenplay), Stephen Sinclair (screenplay), J. R. R. Tolkien (original novel) | New Line Cinema | ||
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Chris Columbus (director), Steve Kloves (screenplay), J. K. Rowling (original novel) | Warner Bros. | |||
| Minority Report | Steven Spielberg (director), Scott Frank (screenplay), Jon Cohen (screenplay), Philip K. Dick (original story) | 20th Century Fox/DreamWorks | |||
| Spider-Man | Sam Raimi (director), David Koepp (screenplay), Steve Ditko (original character), Stan Lee (original character) | Columbia Pictures | |||
| Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki (director, screenplay), Cindy Davis Hewitt (screenplay), Donald H. Hewitt (screenplay) | Studio Ghibli/The Walt Disney Company | |||
| 2004 | data-sort-value="Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" | Peter Jackson (director, screenplay), Fran Walsh (screenplay), Philippa Boyens (screenplay), J. R. R. Tolkien (original novel) | New Line Cinema | ||
| data-sort-value="Twenty-eight days later" | 28 Days Later | Danny Boyle (director), Alex Garland (screenplay) | DNA Films/Fox Searchlight Pictures | ||
| Finding Nemo | Andrew Stanton (director, screenplay, story), Lee Unkrich (director), Bob Peterson (screenplay), David Reynolds (screenplay) | Pixar/The Walt Disney Company | |||
| Gore Verbinski (director), Ted Elliott (screenplay, story), Terry Rossio (screenplay, story), Stuart Beattie (story), Jay Wolpert (story) | The Walt Disney Company | ||||
| X2: X-Men United | Bryan Singer (director, story), Michael Dougherty (screenplay), Dan Harris (screenplay), David Hayter (screenplay, story), Zak Penn (story) | 20th Century Fox/Marvel Studios | |||
| 2005 | data-sort-value="Incredibles" | The Incredibles | Brad Bird (director, screenplay) | Pixar/The Walt Disney Company | |
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry (director, story), Charlie Kaufman (screenplay, story), Pierre Bismuth (story) | Focus Features | |||
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Alfonso Cuarón (director), Steve Kloves (screenplay), J. K. Rowling (original novel) | Warner Bros. | |||
| Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Kerry Conran (director, screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | |||
| Spider-Man 2 | Sam Raimi (director), Alvin Sargent (screenplay), Alfred Gough (story), Miles Millar (story), Michael Chabon (story), Steve Ditko (original character), Stan Lee (original character) | Sony Pictures Entertainment/Columbia Pictures | |||
| 2006 | Serenity | Joss Whedon (director, screenplay) | Universal Studios/Mutant Enemy Productions | ||
| Batman Begins | Christopher Nolan (director, screenplay), David S. Goyer (screenplay, story), Bob Kane (original character) | Warner Bros. | |||
| data-sort-value="Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" | Andrew Adamson (director, screenplay), Ann Peacock (screenplay), Christopher Markus (screenplay), Stephen McFeely (screenplay), C. S. Lewis (original novel) | The Walt Disney Company/Walden Media | |||
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Mike Newell (director), Steve Kloves (screenplay), J. K. Rowling (original novel) | Warner Bros. | |||
| Nick Park (director, screenplay), Steve Box (director, screenplay), Bob Baker (screenplay), Mark Burton (screenplay) | DreamWorks Animation/Aardman Animations | ||||
| 2007 | Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro (director, screenplay) | Picturehouse | ||
| Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón (director, screenplay), Timothy J. Sexton (screenplay), David Arata (screenplay), Mark Fergus (screenplay), Hawk Ostby (screenplay), P. D. James (original novel) | Universal Studios | |||
| data-sort-value="Prestige" | The Prestige | Christopher Nolan (director, screenplay), Jonathan Nolan (screenplay), Christopher Priest (original novel) | Touchstone Pictures | ||
| data-sort-value="Scanner Darkly" | A Scanner Darkly | Richard Linklater (director, screenplay), Philip K. Dick (original novel) | Warner Independent Pictures | ||
| V for Vendetta | James McTeigue (director), Lana Wachowski (screenplay), Lilly Wachowski (screenplay), David Lloyd (original graphic novel) | Warner Bros. | |||
| 2008 | Stardust | Matthew Vaughn (director, screenplay), Jane Goldman (screenplay), Neil Gaiman (original novel) | Paramount Pictures | ||
| Enchanted | Kevin Lima (director), Bill Kelly (screenplay) | The Walt Disney Company | |||
| data-sort-value="Golden Compass" | The Golden Compass | Chris Weitz (director, screenplay), Philip Pullman (original novel) | |||
| Heroes (season one) | Tim Kring (creator), multiple directors and writers | NBC Universal Television Group/Tailwind Productions | |||
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | David Yates (director), Michael Goldenberg (screenplay), J. K. Rowling (original novel) | Warner Bros. | |||
| 2009 | WALL-E | Andrew Stanton (director, screenplay, story), Jim Reardon (screenplay), Pete Docter (story) | Pixar/The Walt Disney Company | ||
| data-sort-value="Dark Knight" | The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan (director, screenplay, story), Jonathan Nolan (screenplay), David S. Goyer (story), Bob Kane (original character) | Warner Bros. | ||
| Guillermo del Toro (director, screenplay, story), Mike Mignola (story, original comic) | Dark Horse Entertainment/Universal Studios | ||||
| Iron Man | Jon Favreau (director), Mark Fergus (screenplay), Hawk Ostby (screenplay), Art Marcum (screenplay), Matt Holloway (screenplay), Stan Lee (original characters), Don Heck (original characters), Larry Lieber (original characters), Jack Kirby (original characters) | Paramount Pictures/Marvel Studios | |||
| METAtropolis | John Scalzi (editor, story), Elizabeth Bear (story), Jay Lake (story), Tobias S. Buckell (story), Karl Schroeder (story) | Audible.com | |||
| 2010 | Moon | Duncan Jones (director, story), Nathan Parker (screenplay) | Liberty Films | ||
| Avatar | James Cameron (director, screenplay) | 20th Century Fox | |||
| District 9 | Neill Blomkamp (director, screenplay), Terri Tatchell (screenplay) | TriStar Pictures | |||
| Star Trek | J. J. Abrams (director), Roberto Orci (screenplay), Alex Kurtzman (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | |||
| Up | Bob Peterson (director, screenplay, story), Pete Docter (director, screenplay, story), Tom McCarthy (story) | Pixar/The Walt Disney Company | |||
| 2011 | Inception | Christopher Nolan (director, screenplay, story) | Warner Bros. | ||
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | David Yates (director), Steve Kloves (screenplay) | Warner Bros. | |||
| How to Train Your Dragon | Dean DeBlois (director, screenplay), Chris Sanders (director, screenplay), William Davies (screenplay) | DreamWorks Animation | |||
| Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Edgar Wright (director, screenplay), Michael Bacall (screenplay) | Universal Studios | |||
| Toy Story 3 | Lee Unkrich (director, story), Michael Arndt (screenplay), John Lasseter (story), Andrew Stanton (story) | Pixar/Walt Disney Pictures | |||
| 2012 | Game of Thrones (season one)* | David Benioff (creator) D. B. Weiss (creator), multiple directors and writers | HBO | ||
| Joe Johnston (director), Christopher Markus (screenplay), Stephen McFeely (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures/Marvel Studios | ||||
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | David Yates (director), Steve Kloves (screenplay) | Warner Bros. | |||
| Hugo | Martin Scorsese (director), John Logan (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | |||
| Source Code | Duncan Jones (director), Ben Ripley (screenplay) | Summit Entertainment | |||
| 2013 | data-sort-value="Avengers" | The Avengers | Joss Whedon (director, screenplay) | Paramount Pictures/Marvel Studios | |
| data-sort-value="Cabin in the Woods" | The Cabin in the Woods | Drew Goddard (director, screenplay), Joss Whedon (screenplay) | Mutant Enemy Productions/Lions Gate Entertainment | ||
| data-sort-value="Hobbit 1" | Peter Jackson (director, screenplay), Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Guillermo del Toro (screenplay) | WingNut Films/New Line Cinema/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Warner Bros. | |||
| data-sort-value="Hunger Games 1" | The Hunger Games | Gary Ross (director, screenplay), Suzanne Collins (original novel, screenplay) | Lions Gate Entertainment/Color Force | ||
| Looper | Rian Johnson (director, screenplay) | FilmDistrict/EndGame Entertainment | |||
| 2014 | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón (director, screenplay), Jonás Cuarón (screenplay) | Esperanto Filmoj/Heyday Films/Warner Bros. | ||
| Frozen | Chris Buck (director), Jennifer Lee (director, screenplay) | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | |||
| data-sort-value="Hunger Games 2" | Francis Lawrence (director), Simon Beaufoy (screenplay), Michael deBruyn (screenplay), Suzanne Collins (original novel) | Lions Gate Entertainment/Color Force | |||
| Iron Man 3 | Shane Black (director, screenplay), Drew Pearce (screenplay) | Marvel Studios/DMG Entertainment/Paramount Pictures | |||
| Pacific Rim | Guillermo del Toro (director, screenplay), Travis Beacham (screenplay) | Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros./Disney Double Dare You | |||
| 2015 | Guardians of the Galaxy | James Gunn (director, screenplay), Nicole Perlman (screenplay) | Marvel Studios/Moving Picture Company | ||
| Anthony Russo (director), Joe Russo (director), Christopher Markus (screenplay), Stephen McFeely (screenplay), Ed Brubaker (original story) | Marvel Studios/Perception/Sony Pictures Imageworks | ||||
| Edge of Tomorrow | Doug Liman (director), Christopher McQuarrie (screenplay), Jez Butterworth (screenplay), and John-Henry Butterworth (screenplay) | Village Roadshow/RatPac-Dune Entertainment/3 Arts Entertainment/Viz Productions | |||
| Interstellar | Christopher Nolan (director, screenplay), Jonathan Nolan (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures/Lynda Obst Productions/Syncopy | |||
| data-sort-value="Lego Movie, The" | The Lego Movie | Phil Lord (director, screenplay, story), Christopher Miller (director, screenplay, story), Dan Hageman (story), Kevin Hageman (story) | Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow/RatPac-Dune Entertainment/LEGO System A/S/Vertigo Entertainment/Lin Pictures | ||
| 2016 | data-sort-value="Martian, The" | The Martian | Ridley Scott (director), Drew Goddard (screenplay), Andy Weir (original novel) | Scott Free Productions/Kinberg Genre/TSG Entertainment/20th Century Fox | |
| Joss Whedon (director, screenplay) | Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | ||||
| Ex Machina | Alex Garland (director, screenplay) | Film4/DNA Films/Universal Pictures | |||
| George Miller (director, screenplay), Brendan McCarthy (screenplay), Nico Lathouris (screenplay) | Village Roadshow Pictures/Kennedy Miller Mitchell/RatPac-Dune Entertainment/Warner Bros. Pictures | ||||
| J. J. Abrams (director, screenplay), Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay), Michael Arndt (screenplay) | Lucasfilm Ltd./Bad Robot Productions/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | ||||
| 2017 | Arrival | Denis Villeneuve (director), Eric Heisserer (screenplay), Ted Chiang (original short story) | 21 Laps Entertainment/FilmNation Entertainment/Lava Bear Films | ||
| Deadpool | Tim Miller (director), Rhett Reese (screenplay), Paul Wernick (screenplay) | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/Marvel Entertainment/Kinberg Genre/The Donners' Company/TSG Entertainment | |||
| Ghostbusters | Paul Feig (director, screenplay), Katie Dippold (screenplay) | Columbia Pictures/LStar Capital/Village Roadshow Pictures/Pascal Pictures/Feigco Entertainment/Ghostcorps/The Montecito Picture Company | |||
| Hidden Figures | Theodore Melfi (director, screenplay), Allison Schroeder (screenplay) | Fox 2000 Pictures/Chernin Entertainment/Levantine Films/TSG Entertainment | |||
| Rogue One | Gareth Edwards (director), Chris Weitz (screenplay), Tony Gilroy (screenplay) | Lucasfilm/Allison Shearmur Productions/Black Hangar Studios/Stereo D/Walt Disney Pictures | |||
| Stranger Things (season one) | The Duffer Brothers (creators) | 21 Laps Entertainment/Monkey Massacre | |||
| 2018 | Wonder Woman | Patty Jenkins (director), Allan Heinberg (screenplay, story), Zack Snyder (story), Jason Fuchs (story) | DC Films/Warner Brothers | ||
| Blade Runner 2049 | Denis Villeneuve (director), Hampton Fancher (screenplay), Michael Green (screenplay) | Alcon Entertainment/Bud Yorkin Productions/Torridon Films/Columbia Pictures | |||
| Get Out | Jordan Peele (director, screenplay) | Blumhouse Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/QC Entertainment | |||
| data-sort-value="Shape of Water, The" | The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro (director, screenplay), Vanessa Taylor (screenwriter) | TSG Entertainment/Disney Double Dare You/Fox Searchlight Pictures | ||
| Rian Johnson (director, screenplay) | Lucasfilm | ||||
| Taika Waititi (director), Eric Pearson (screenplay), Craig Kyle (screenplay), Christopher Yost (screenwriter) | Marvel Studios | ||||
| 2019 | Bob Persichetti (director), Peter Ramsey (director), Rodney Rothman (director, screenplay), Phil Lord (screenplay) | Sony | |||
| Annihilation | Alex Garland (director, screenplay), Jeff VanderMeer (original novel) | Paramount Pictures/Skydance Media | |||
| Anthony Russo (director), Joe Russo (director), Christopher Markus (screenplay), Stephen McFeely (screenplay) | Marvel Studios | ||||
| Black Panther | Ryan Coogler (director, screenplay), Joe Robert Cole (screenplay) | Marvel Studios | |||
| John Krasinski (director, screenplay), Scott Beck (screenplay), Bryan Woods (screenplay) | Platinum Dunes/Sunday Night | ||||
| Sorry to Bother You | Boots Riley (director, screenplay) | Annapurna Pictures | |||
| 2020 | Good Omens | Douglas Mackinnon (director), Neil Gaiman (screenplay, original novel), Terry Pratchett (original novel) | Amazon Studios | ||
| Anthony Russo (director), Joe Russo (director), Christopher Markus (screenwriter), Stephen McFeely (screenplay) | Marvel Studios | ||||
| Captain Marvel | Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (directors, screenplay), Geneva Robertson-Dworet (screenplay) | Marvel Studios | |||
| Russian Doll (season one) | Natasha Lyonne (co-creator, director), Leslye Headland (co-creator, director), Amy Poehler (co-creator), Jamie Babbit (director) | Netflix | |||
| J. J. Abrams (director, screenplay), Chris Terrio (screenplay) | Lucasfilm | ||||
| Us | Jordan Peele (director, screenplay) | Monkeypaw Productions | |||
| 2021 | data-sort-value="Old Guard" | The Old Guard | Gina Prince-Bythewood (director), Greg Rucka (screenplay) | Netflix/Skydance Media | |
| Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) | Cathy Yan (director), Christina Hodson (screenplay) | Warner Bros. | |||
| David Dobkin (director), Will Ferrell (screenplay), Andrew Steele (screenplay) | European Broadcasting Union/Netflix | ||||
| Palm Springs | Max Barbakow (director), Andy Siara (screenplay) | Limelight/Sun Entertainment Culture/The Lonely Island/Culmination Productions/Neon/Hulu/Amazon Prime | |||
| Soul | Pete Docter (director, screenplay), Mike Jones (screenplay), Kemp Powers (screenplay), Dana Murray (producer) | Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures | |||
| Tenet | Christopher Nolan (director, screenplay) | Warner Bros./Syncopy | |||
| 2022 | Dune | Denis Villeneuve (director, screenplay), Jon Spaihts (screenplay), Eric Roth (screenplay), Frank Herbert (original novel) | Warner Bros./Legendary Entertainment | ||
| Encanto | Jared Bush (director, screenplay), Charise Castro Smith (director, screenplay), Byron Howard (director) | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | |||
| data-sort-value="Green Knight" | The Green Knight | David Lowery (director, screenplay) | BRON Studios/A24 | ||
| Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Destin Daniel Cretton (director, screenplay), Dave Callaham (screenplay), Andrew Lanham (screenplay) | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | |||
| Space Sweepers | Jo Sung-hee (director, screenplay), Yookang Seo-ae (screenplay), Yoon Seung-min (screenplay) | Bidangil Pictures | |||
| WandaVision | Jac Schaeffer (creator, writer), Matt Shakman (director), Gretchen Enders (writer), Megan McDonnell (writer), Bobak Esfarjani (writer), Peter Cameron (writer), Mackenzie Dohr (writer), Chuck Hayward (writer), Cameron Squires (writer), Laura Donney (writer) | Disney+ | |||
| 2023 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Kwan (director, screenplay), Daniel Scheinert (director, screenplay) | IAC Films/Gozie AGBO | ||
| James Cameron (director, screenplay), Rick Jaffa (screenplay), Amanda Silver (screenplay) | Lightstorm Entertainment/TSG Entertainment II | ||||
| Ryan Coogler (director, screenplay), Joe Robert Cole (screenplay) | Marvel Studios | ||||
| Nope | Jordan Peele (director, screenplay) | Universal Pictures/Monkeypaw Productions | |||
| Severance (season one) | Ben Stiller (director), Aoife McArdle (director), Dan Erickson (creator, writer), Anna Ouyang Moench (writer), Andrew Colville (writer), Kari Drake (writer), Amanda Overton (writer), Helen Leigh (writer), Chris Black (writer) | Red Hour Productions/Fifth Season | |||
| Turning Red | Domee Shi (director, screenplay), Julia Cho (screenplay) | Walt Disney Studios/Pixar Animation Studios | |||
| 2024 | John Francis Daley (director, screenplay), Jonathan Goldstein (director, screenplay), Michael Gilio (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | |||
| Barbie | Greta Gerwig (director, screenplay), Noah Baumbach (screenplay) | Warner Bros. | |||
| Nimona | Nick Bruno (director), Troy Quane (director), Robert L. Baird (screenplay), Lloyd Taylor (screenplay) | Annapurna Animation | |||
| Poor Things | Yorgos Lanthimos (director), Tony McNamara (screenplay) | Element Pictures | |||
| Joaquim Dos Santos (director), Kemp Powers (director), Justin K. Thompson (director), Phil Lord (screenplay), Christopher Miller (screenplay), Dave Callaham (screenplay) | Columbia Pictures/Marvel Entertainment/Avi Arad Productions/Lord Miller/Pascal Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation | ||||
| data-sort-value="Wandering Earth 2" | The Wandering Earth 2 | Frant Gwo (director, screenplay), Yang Zhixue (screenplay), Wang Hongwei (screenplay), Liu Cixin (original story) | CFC Pictures/G!Film (Beijing) Studio Co./Beijing Dengfeng International Culture Communication Co./China Film Co. |
| Year | Work | Creator(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Nick Marck (director), Jane Espenson (screenplay), Drew Goddard (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | ||
| Angel | Joss Whedon (director, screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | |||
| Firefly "Serenity" | Joss Whedon (director, screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | |||
| James A. Contner (director), Chris Black (screenplay), Rick Berman (story), Brannon Braga (story), Dan O'Shannon (story) | Paramount Pictures | ||||
| David Straiton (director), Rick Berman (screenplay), Brannon Braga (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | ||||
| 2004 | Gollum's Acceptance Speech at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards* | Fran Walsh (director, screenplay), Philippa Boyens (director, screenplay), Peter Jackson (director, screenplay) | Wingnut Films/New Line Cinema | ||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Chosen" | Joss Whedon (director, screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | |||
| Firefly | Thomas J. Wright (director), Brett Matthews (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | |||
| Firefly | Tim Minear (director, screenplay), Joss Whedon (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | |||
| Smallville "Rosetta" | James Marshall (director), Alfred Gough (screenplay), Miles Millar (screenplay) | Tollin/Robbins Productions/Warner Bros. | |||
| 2005 | Battlestar Galactica "33"* | Michael Rymer (director), Ronald D. Moore (screenplay) | NBC Universal/Sci Fi Channel | ||
| Angel | Jeffrey Jackson Bell (director, screenplay), Joss Whedon (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | |||
| Angel | Ben Edlund (director, screenplay, story), Joss Whedon (story) | 20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Productions | |||
| Lost "Pilot" | J. J. Abrams (director, screenplay, story), Damon Lindelof (screenplay, story), Jeffrey Lieber (story) | Touchstone Pictures/Bad Robot | |||
| Stargate SG-1 "Heroes" | Andy Mikita (director), Robert C. Cooper (screenplay) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Sci Fi Channel | |||
| 2006 | Doctor Who | James Hawes (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One | ||
| Battlestar Galactica "Pegasus" | Michael Rymer (director), Anne Cofell Saunders (screenplay) | NBC Universal/British Sky Broadcasting | |||
| Doctor Who "Dalek" | Joe Ahearne (director), Robert Shearman (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One | |||
| Doctor Who | Joe Ahearne (director), Paul Cornell (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One | |||
| Jack-Jack Attack | Brad Bird (director, screenplay) | The Walt Disney Company/Pixar | |||
| Lucas Back in Anger | Phil Raines (director, script), Ian Sorensen (script) | Reductio Ad Absurdum Productions | |||
| Prix Victor Hugo Awards Ceremony | Paul J. McAuley (performer, script), Kim Newman (performer, script), Mike Moir (director), Debby Moir (director) | Interaction Events | |||
| 2007 | Doctor Who | Euros Lyn (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One | ||
| Battlestar Galactica | Jeff Woolnough (director), Bradley Thompson (screenplay), David Weddle (screenplay) | NBC Universal/British Sky Broadcasting | |||
| Doctor Who | Graeme Harper (director), Russell T Davies (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One | |||
| Doctor Who | James Hawes (director), Toby Whithouse (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales/BBC One | |||
| Stargate SG-1 "200" | Martin Wood (director), Brad Wright (screenplay), Robert C. Cooper (screenplay), Joseph Mallozzi (screenplay), Paul Mullie (screenplay), Carl Binder (screenplay), Martin Gero (screenplay), Alan McCullough (screenplay) | Double Secret Productions/NBC Universal | |||
| 2008 | Doctor Who "Blink"* | Hettie MacDonald (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC | ||
| Battlestar Galactica "Razor" | Félix Enríquez Alcalá (director), Wayne Rose (director), Michael Taylor (screenplay) | Sci Fi Channel | |||
| Doctor Who | Charles Palmer (director), Paul Cornell (screenplay) | BBC | |||
| Star Trek New Voyages | Marc Scott Zicree (director, screenplay), Michael Reaves (screenplay) | Cawley Entertainment Company/The Magic Time Company | |||
| Torchwood | Ashley Way (director), Catherine Tregenna (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | |||
| 2009 | data-sort-value="Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" | Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog | Joss Whedon (director, screenplay), Zack Whedon (screenplay), Jed Whedon (screenplay), Maurissa Tancharoen (screenplay) | Mutant Enemy Productions | |
| Battlestar Galactica | Michael Rymer (director), Bradley Thompson (screenplay), David Weddle (screenplay) | NBC Universal | |||
| Doctor Who | Euros Lyn (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | |||
| Doctor Who | Graeme Harper (director), Russell T Davies (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | |||
| Lost | Jack Bender (director), Carlton Cuse (screenplay), Damon Lindelof (screenplay) | Bad Robot/ABC Studios | |||
| 2010 | Doctor Who | Graeme Harper (director), Russell T Davies (screenplay), Phil Ford (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | ||
| Doctor Who | Andy Goddard (director), Russell T Davies (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | |||
| Doctor Who | James Strong (director), Russell T Davies (screenplay), Gareth Roberts (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | |||
| Dollhouse | David Solomon (director), Maurissa Tancharoen (screenplay), Jed Whedon (screenplay), Joss Whedon (story) | Mutant Enemy Productions | |||
| FlashForward | David S. Goyer (director, screenplay), Brannon Braga (screenplay), Robert J. Sawyer (original novel) | American Broadcasting Company | |||
| 2011 | Doctor Who | Toby Haynes (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | ||
| Doctor Who | Toby Haynes (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | |||
| Doctor Who | Jonny Campbell (director), Richard Curtis (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | |||
| Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury | Paul Briganti (director), Rachel Bloom (screenplay) | ||||
| data-sort-value="Lost Thing, The" | The Lost Thing | Shaun Tan (director, original story), Andrew Ruhemann (director) | Passion Pictures | ||
| 2012 | Doctor Who | Richard Clark (director), Neil Gaiman (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | ||
| Community | Jeff Melman (director), Dan Harmon (creator), Chris McKenna (screenplay) | NBC | |||
| Doctor Who | Nick Hurran (director), Tom MacRae (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | |||
| Doctor Who | Peter Hoar (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | |||
| data-sort-value="Drink Tank's Hugo Acceptance Speech" | The Drink Tank's Hugo Acceptance Speech | Christopher J Garcia, James Bacon | Renovation | ||
| 2013 | Game of Thrones "Blackwater"* | Neil Marshall (director), George R. R. Martin (original novel, screenplay) | HBO | ||
| Doctor Who | Nick Hurran (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | |||
| Doctor Who | Nick Hurran (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | |||
| Doctor Who | Saul Metzstein (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Cymru Wales | |||
| Fringe | Joe Chappelle (director), J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Akiva Goldsman, J. H. Wyman, Jeff Pinkner (screenplay) | Fox Broadcasting Company | |||
| 2014 | Game of Thrones | David Nutter (director), David Benioff (screenplay), D. B. Weiss (screenplay), George R. R. Martin (original novel) | HBO | ||
| data-sort-value="Adventure in Space and Time, An" | An Adventure in Space and Time | Terry McDonough (director), Mark Gatiss (screenplay) | BBC Television | ||
| Doctor Who | Nick Hurran (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Television | |||
| Doctor Who | Saul Metzstein (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Television | |||
| data-sort-value="Five(ish) Doctors Reboot" | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Peter Davison (director, screenplay) | BBC Television | ||
| Orphan Black "Variations under Domestication" | John Fawcett (director), Will Pascoe (screenplay) | Temple Street Productions/Space/BBC America | |||
| 2015 | Orphan Black "By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried"* | John Fawcett (director), Graeme Manson (screenplay) | Temple Street Productions, Space/BBC America | ||
| Doctor Who "Listen" | Douglas Mackinnon (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Television | |||
| data-sort-value="Flash, The" | The Flash "Pilot" | David Nutter (director), Andrew Kreisberg (screenplay, story), Geoff Johns (screenplay, story), Greg Berlanti (screenplay, story) | Berlanti Productions/DC Entertainment/Warner Bros. Television | ||
| Game of Thrones | Alex Graves (director), David Benioff (screenplay), D. B. Weiss (screenplay), George R. R. Martin (original novel) | HBO/Bighead, Littlehead/Television 360/Startling Television/Generator Productions | |||
| Grimm "Once We Were Gods" | Steven DePaul (director), Alan Di Fiore (screenplay) | GK Productions/Hazy Mills Productions/Universal Television | |||
| 2016 | Jessica Jones "AKA Smile"* | Michael Rymer (director), Scott Reynolds (screenplay), Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay), Jamie King (screenplay) | Marvel Television/ABC Studios/Tall Girls Productions/Netflix | ||
| Doctor Who | Rachel Talalay (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Television | |||
| Grimm "Headache" | Jim Kouf (director), Jim Kouf (screenplay), David Greenwalt (screenplay) | GK Productions/Hazy Mills Productions/Universal Television | |||
"The Cutie Map" Parts 1 and 2 | Jayson Thiessen (director), Jim Miller (director), Scott Sonneborn (screenplay), M.A. Larson (screenplay), Meghan McCarthy (screenplay) | DHX Media/Vancouver/Hasbro Studios | |||
| Supernatural "Just My Imagination" | Richard Speight, Jr. (director), Jenny Klein (screenplay) | Kripke Enterprises/Wonderland Sound and Vision/Warner Bros. Television | |||
| 2017 | data-sort-value="Expanse: Leviathan Wakes, The" | The Expanse "Leviathan Wakes"* | Terry McDonough (director), Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (screenplay), James S. A. Corey (original novel) | SyFy | |
| Black Mirror | Owen Harris (director), Charlie Brooker (screenplay) | House of Tomorrow | |||
| Doctor Who | Edward Bazalgette (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Television | |||
| Game of Thrones | Miguel Sapochnik (director), David Benioff (screenplay), D. B. Weiss (screenplay), George R. R. Martin (original novel) | HBO | |||
| Game of Thrones "The Door" | Jack Bender (director), David Benioff (screenplay), D. B. Weiss (screenplay), George R. R. Martin (original novel) | HBO | |||
| Splendor & Misery | Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes) | Sub Pop, Deathbomb Arc | |||
| 2018 | data-sort-value="Good Place: The Trolley Problem" | The Good Place "The Trolley Problem"* | Dean Holland (director), Josh Siegal (screenwriter), Dylan Morgan (screenwriter) | Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal Television | |
| Black Mirror | Toby Haynes (director), William Bridges (screenplay), Charlie Brooker (screenplay) | House of Tomorrow | |||
| data-sort-value="Deep, The" | "The Deep" | Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes) | This American Life | ||
| Doctor Who | Rachel Talalay (director), Steven Moffat (screenplay) | BBC Television | |||
| data-sort-value="Good Place: Michael's Gambit, The" | The Good Place | Michael Schur (director, screenplay) | Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal Television | ||
"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" | David M. Barrett (director), Aron Eli Coleite (screenplay), Jesse Alexander (screenplay) | CBS Television Studios | |||
| 2019 | data-sort-value="Good Place: Janet(s), The" | The Good Place "Janet(s)"* | Morgan Sackett (director), Josh Siegal (screenplay), Dylan Morgan (screenplay) | NBC | |
| Dirty Computer | Andrew Donoho, Chuck Lightning (director), Janelle Monáe (screenplay) | Wondaland Arts Society/Bad Boy Records/Atlantic Records | |||
| Doctor Who | Jamie Childs (director), Vinay Patel (screenplay) | BBC | |||
| Doctor Who "Rosa" | Mark Tonderai (director), Malorie Blackman (screenplay), Chris Chibnall (screenplay) | BBC | |||
| data-sort-value="Expanse: Abaddon's Gate, The" | The Expanse "Abaddon's Gate" | Simon Cellan Jones (director), Daniel Abraham (screenplay, original novel), Ty Franck (screenplay, original novel), Naren Shankar (screenplay) | Penguin in a Parka/Alcon Entertainment | ||
| data-sort-value="Good Place: Jeremy Bearimy, The" | The Good Place "Jeremy Bearimy" | Trent O'Donnell (director), Megan Amram (screenplay) | NBC | ||
| 2020 | data-sort-value="Good Place: The Answer, The" | The Good Place "The Answer"* | Valeria Migliassi Collins (director), Daniel Schofield (screenplay) | NBC | |
| Doctor Who | Wayne Yip (director), Chris Chibnall (screenplay) | BBC | |||
| data-sort-value="Expanse: Cibola Burn, The" | The Expanse "Cibola Burn" | Breck Eisner (director), Daniel Abraham (screenplay, original novel), Ty Franck (screenplay, original novel), Naren Shankar (screenplay) | Amazon Prime Video | ||
| data-sort-value="Mandalorian Chapter 8: The Redemption" | The Mandalorian "" | Taika Waititi (director), Jon Favreau (screenplay) | Disney+ | ||
| Watchmen | Nicole Kassell (director), Jeff Jensen (screenplay), Damon Lindelof (screenplay) | HBO | |||
| Watchmen | Stephen Williams (director), Damon Lindelof (screenplay), Cord Jefferson (screenplay) | HBO | |||
| 2021 | data-sort-value="Good Place: Whenever You're Ready" | The Good Place | Michael Schur (director, screenplay) | Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal Television | |
| Doctor Who | Nida Manzoor (director), Vinay Patel (screenplay), Chris Chibnall (screenplay) | BBC | |||
| data-sort-value="Expanse: Gaugamela" | The Expanse "Gaugamela" | Nick Gomez (director), Dan Nowak (screenplay), Daniel Abraham (original novel), Ty Franck (screenplay, original novel) | Alcon Entertainment/Alcon Television Group/Amazon Studios/Hivemind/Just So | ||
| She-Ra and the Princesses of Power "Heart" | Jen Bennett (director), Kiki Manrique (director), Josie Campbell (screenplay), ND Stevenson (screenplay) | DreamWorks Animation Television/Netflix | |||
| data-sort-value="Mandalorian: Chapter 13: The Jedi" | The Mandalorian "" | Dave Filoni (director, screenplay) | Golem Creations/Lucasfilm/Disney+ | ||
| data-sort-value="Mandalorian: Chapter 16: The Rescue" | The Mandalorian "" | Peyton Reed (director), Jon Favreau (screenplay) | Golem Creations/Lucasfilm/Disney+ | ||
| 2022 | data-sort-value="Expanse: Nemesis Games" | The Expanse "Nemesis Games"* | Breck Eisner (director), Daniel Abraham (screenplay, original novel), Ty Franck (screenplay, original novel), Naren Shankar (screenplay) | Amazon Studios | |
| Arcane "The Monster You Created" | Pascal Charrue (director), Arnaud Delord (director), Christian Linke (screenplay, story), Alex Yee (screenplay, story), Conor Sheehy, (story), Ash Brannon (story) | Netflix | |||
| For All Mankind "The Grey" | Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (director), Matt Wolpert (screenplay), Ben Nevidi (screenplay) | Tall Ship Productions/Sony Pictures Television | |||
| Loki | Michael Waldron (creator), Kate Herron (director), Eric Martin (screenplay) | Disney+ | |||
"wej Duj" | Bob Suarez (director), Kathryn Lyn (screenplay) | CBS Eye Animation Productions | |||
| data-sort-value="Wheel of Time: The Flame of Tar Valon" | The Wheel of Time "The Flame of Tar Valon" | Salli Richardson-Whitfield (director), Justine Juel Gillmer (screenplay), Robert Jordan (original novels) | Amazon Studios | ||
| 2023 | data-sort-value="Expanse: Babylon's Ashes" | The Expanse | Breck Eisner (director), Daniel Abraham (screenplay, original novel), Ty Franck (screenplay, original novel), Naren Shankar (screenplay) | Alcon Entertainment | |
| Andor "One Way Out" | Toby Haynes (director), Beau Willimon (screenplay), Tony Gilroy (creator), George Lucas (based on Star Wars by) | Lucasfilm | |||
| Andor "Rix Road" | Benjamin Caron (director), Tony Gilroy (creator, screenplay), George Lucas (based on Star Wars by) | Lucasfilm | |||
| For All Mankind "Stranger in a Strange Land" | Craig Zisk (director), Matt Wolpert (screenplay), Ben Nedivi (screenplay) | Tall Ship Productions/Sony Pictures Television | |||
"Whose Show Is This?" | Kat Coiro (director), Jessica Gao (screenplay), Francesca Gailes (screenplay), Jacqueline Gailes (screenplay) | Marvel Entertainment | |||
| Stranger Things "" | Shawn Levy (director), Matt Duffer (creator), Ross Duffer (creator), Paul Dichter (screenplay) | 21 Laps Entertainment | |||
| 2024 | The Last of Us | Peter Hoar (director), Craig Mazin (screenplay), Neil Druckmann (screenplay) | Naughty Dog/Sony Pictures | ||
| Doctor Who | Chanya Button (director), Russell T. Davies (screenplay) | Bad Wolf/BBC | |||
| Loki | Justin Benson (director), Aaron Moorhead (director), Eric Martin (screenplay), Michael Waldron (screenplay), Katharyn Blair (screenplay) | Marvel Entertainment/Disney+ | |||
| Jonathan Frakes (director), Kathryn Lyn (screenplay), Bill Wolkoff (screenplay) | CBS/Paramount+ | ||||
| Dermott Downs (director), Dana Horgan (screenplay), Bill Wolkoff (screenplay) | CBS/Paramount+ | ||||
| Doctor Who | Tom Kingsley (director), Russell T. Davies (screenplay) | Bad Wolf/BBC |
Beginning with the 1996 Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Society created the concept of "Retro Hugos", in which the Hugo award could be retroactively awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years in which a Worldcon was hosted, but no awards were originally given. The 1939, 1941, and 1943—1945 awards were given 75 years later; the other three awards were given 50 years later. In 1946 and 1951, an award was given for Best Dramatic Presentation, as the category had not yet been split, while in 1939, 1943, 1945, and 1954 an award was given for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. The Long Form category did not receive enough nominations for an award to be given in those years. The 1941 and 1944 Retro Hugos awarded both Long and Short Forms.
| Year | Year awarded | Work | Creator(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 2014 | data-sort-value="War of the Worlds, The (1938)" | The War of the Worlds | Orson Welles (director, screenplay), H.G. Wells (original novel) | The Mercury Theatre on the Air/CBS | |
| data-sort-value="Around the World in Eighty Days" | Around the World in Eighty Days | Orson Welles (director, screenplay), Jules Verne (original novel) | The Mercury Theatre on the Air/CBS | |||
| data-sort-value="Christmas Carol" | A Christmas Carol | Orson Welles (director, screenplay), Charles Dickens (original novella) | The Campbell Playhouse/CBS | |||
| data-sort-value="Dracula" | Dracula | Orson Welles (director, screenplay), John Houseman (screenplay), Bram Stoker (original novel) | The Mercury Theatre on the Air/CBS | |||
| R.U.R. | Jan Bussell (producer), Karel Čapek (original play) | BBC | ||||
| 1941 (Long Form) | 2016 | Fantasia | Samuel Armstrong et al. (director), Joe Grant (screenplay), Dick Huemer (screenplay) | Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio Pictures | ||
| data-sort-value="Doctor Cyclops" | Dr. Cyclops | Ernest B. Schoedsack (director), Tom Kilpatrick (screenplay) | Paramount Pictures | |||
| Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe | Ford Beebe (director), Ray Taylor (director), George H. Plympton (screenplay), Basil Dickey (screenplay), Barry Shipman (screenplay) | Universal Pictures | ||||
| One Million B.C. | Hal Roach (director), Hal Roach, Jr. (director), Mickell Novack (screenplay), George Baker (screenplay), Joseph Frickert (screenplay) | United Artists | ||||
| data-sort-value="Thief of Bagdad, The" | The Thief of Bagdad | Michael Powell (director), Ludwig Berger (director), Tim Whelan (director), Lajos Bíró (screenplay), Miles Malleson (screenplay) | London Films, United Artists | |||
| 1941 (Short Form) | 2016 | Pinocchio | Ben Sharpsteen (director), Hamilton Luske (director), Ted Sears et al. (screenplay) | Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio Pictures | ||
| data-sort-value="Adventures of Superman" | The Adventures of Superman "The Baby from Krypton" | Frank Chase (producer), George Ludlam (screenplay) | WOR | |||
| data-sort-value="Invisible Man Returns" | The Invisible Man Returns | Joe May (director, screenplay), Kurt Siodmak (screenplay), Lester Cole (screenplay) | Universal Pictures | |||
| Looney Tunes | Friz Freleng (director), Jack Miller (screenplay) | Warner Bros. | ||||
| Merrie Melodies | Tex Avery (director), Rich Hogan (screenplay) | Warner Bros. | ||||
| 1943 | 2018 | Bambi | David Hand et al. (director), Perce Pearce (screenplay), Larry Morey et al. (screenplay), Felix Salten (original novel) | The Walt Disney Company | ||
| Cat People | Jacques Tourneur (director), DeWitt Bodeen (screenplay), Val Lewton (original novel) | RKO Radio Pictures | ||||
| data-sort-value="Ghost of Frankenstein, The" | The Ghost of Frankenstein | Erle C. Kenton (director), W. Scott Darling (screenplay) | Universal Pictures | |||
| I Married a Witch | René Clair (director), Robert Pirosh (screenplay), Marc Connelly (screenplay), Thorne Smith (original novel) | Cinema Guild Productions / Paramount Pictures | ||||
| Invisible Agent | Edwin L. Marin (director), Curtis Siodmak (screenplay) | Frank Lloyd Productions / Universal Pictures | ||||
| Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book | Zoltan Korda (director), Laurence Stallings (screenplay), Rudyard Kipling (original novel) | Alexander Korda Films / United Artists | ||||
| 1944 (Long Form) | 2019 | Heaven Can Wait | Ernst Lubitsch (director), Samson Raphaelson (screenplay) | 20th Century Fox | ||
| Batman | Lambert Hillyer (director), Victor McLeod (screenplay), Leslie Swabacker (screenplay), Harry L. Fraser (screenplay) | Columbia Pictures | ||||
| Cabin in the Sky | Vincente Minnelli (director), Busby Berkeley (uncredited director), Joseph Schrank (screenplay) | MGM | ||||
| data-sort-value="Guy Named Joe" | A Guy Named Joe | Victor Fleming (director), Frederick Hazlitt Brennan (screenplay), Dalton Trumbo (screenplay) | MGM | |||
| Münchhausen | Josef von Báky (director), Erich Kästner (screenplay), Rudolph Erich Raspe (screenplay) | UFA | ||||
| Phantom of the Opera | Arthur Lubin (director), Eric Taylor (screenplay), Samuel Hoffenstein (screenplay), Hans Jacoby (story) | Universal Pictures | ||||
| 1944 (Short Form) | 2019 | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man | Roy William Neil (director), Curt Siodmak (screenplay) | Universal Pictures | ||
| data-sort-value="Ape Man" | The Ape Man | William Beaudine (director), Barney A. Sarecky (screenplay) | Banner Productions | |||
| Der Fuehrer's Face | Jack Kinney (director), Joe Grant (story), Dick Huemer (story)) | The Walt Disney Company | ||||
| I Walked With a Zombie | Jacques Tourneur (director), Curt Siodmak (screenplay), Ardel Wray (screenplay) | RKO Radio Pictures | ||||
| data-sort-value="Seventh Victim" | The Seventh Victim | Mark Robson (director), Charles O'Neal (screenplay), DeWitt Bodeen (screenplay) | RKO Radio Pictures | |||
| Merrie Melodies | Charles M. Jones (director), Tedd Pierce (story) | Warner Bros. | ||||
| 1945 (Short Form) | 2020 | data-sort-value="Canterville Ghost, The" | The Canterville Ghost | Jules Dassin (director), Edwin Harvey Blum (screenplay), Oscar Wilde (original short story) | MGM | |
| data-sort-value="Curse of the Cat People, The" | The Curse of the Cat People | Gunther V. Fritsch (director), Robert Wise (director), DeWitt Bodeen (screenplay) | RKO Radio Pictures | |||
| Donovan's Brain | William Spier (producer, director, editor), Robert L. Richards (screenplay), Curt Siodmak (original novel) | CBS Radio Network | ||||
| data-sort-value="House of Frankenstein, The" | The House of Frankenstein | Erle C. Kenton (director), Edward T. Lowe Jr. (screenplay), Curt Siodmak (original story) | Universal Pictures | |||
| data-sort-value="Invisible Man's Revenge, The" | The Invisible Man's Revenge | Ford Beebe, (director), Bertram Millhauser (screenplay) | Universal Pictures | |||
| It Happened Tomorrow | René Clair (director, screenplay), Dudley Nichols (screenplay) | Arnold Pressburger Films | ||||
| 1946 | 1996 | data-sort-value="Picture of Dorian Gray" | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Albert Lewin (director, screenplay), Oscar Wilde (original novel) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| Blithe Spirit | David Lean (director, screenplay), Anthony Havelock-Allan (screenplay), Ronald Neame (screenplay), Noël Coward (original play) | United Artists | ||||
| data-sort-value="Body Snatcher" | The Body Snatcher | Robert Wise (director), Philip MacDonald (screenplay), Val Lewton (screenplay), Robert Louis Stevenson (original story) | RKO Radio Pictures | |||
| data-sort-value="Horn Blows at Midnight" | The Horn Blows at Midnight | Raoul Walsh (director), Sam Hellman (screenplay), James V. Kern (screenplay) | Warner Bros. | |||
| House of Dracula | Erle C. Kenton (director), Edward T. Lowe, Jr. (screenplay) | Universal Studios | ||||
| 1951 | 2001 | Destination Moon | Irving Pichel (director), Alford Van Ronkel (screenplay), James O'Hanlon (screenplay), Robert A. Heinlein (screenplay, original novel) | George Pal Productions | ||
| Cinderella | Clyde Geronimi (director) Wilfred Jackson (director) Hamilton Luske (director) Ken Anderson (screenplay), Homer Brightman (screenplay), Winston Hibler (screenplay), Bill Peet (screenplay), Erdman Penner (screenplay), Harry Reeves (screenplay), Joe Rinaldi (screenplay), Ted Sears (screenplay), Charles Perrault (original story) | The Walt Disney Company | ||||
| Harvey | Henry Koster (director), Oscar Brodney (screenplay), Myles Connolly (screenplay), Mary Chase (screenplay, original play) | Universal Studios | ||||
| Looney Tunes | Chuck Jones (director), Michael Maltese (story) | Warner Bros. | ||||
| Rocketship X-M | Kurt Neumann (director, screenplay), Dalton Trumbo (screenplay), Orville H. Hampton (screenplay) | Lippert Pictures | ||||
| 1954 | 2004 | data-sort-value="War of the Worlds, The (1953)" | The War of the Worlds | Byron Haskin (director), Barré Lyndon (screenplay), H. G. Wells (original novel) | Paramount Pictures | |
| data-sort-value="Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" | The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | Eugène Lourié (director), Louis Morheim (screenplay), Fred Freiberger (screenplay), Ray Bradbury (original story) | Mutual Pictures/Warner Bros. | |||
| Merrie Melodies | Chuck Jones (director), Michael Maltese (screenplay) | Warner Bros. | ||||
| Invaders from Mars | William Cameron Menzies (director), Richard Blake (screenplay), John Tucker Battle (story) | National Pictures/20th Century Fox | ||||
| It Came from Outer Space | Jack Arnold (director), Harry Essex (screenplay), Ray Bradbury (original story) | Universal Studios |