Dr. Who Gets Three Hugo Nods

[23skidoo]

3 Hugo nominations!

The Hugo nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form have been announced and Doctor Who has been nominated for the FIFTH consecutive year!

According to the report, The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead and Waters of Mars have all been nominated. (Note The Next Doctor's inclusion here - that means The End of Time isn't eligible until next year's Hugos, so put those knives away . )

Looks like RTD stands a chance to finally get one as the only other nominees are Dollhouse and FlashForward (not knocking those two shows, but neither has really set the world on fire).

http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/04/2010-hugo-awards-3-nominations.html

Alex

 

[ParticleMan]

Re: 3 Hugo nominations!

Interesting...so that means we could potentially have a showdown in next year's Hugos of the final RTD-era episode versus one of the new Moffat-era episodes...

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Re: 3 Hugo nominations!

Slim pickings all around, there, compared to past years. Guess I'd have to go with "Waters Of Mars," but...meh.

 

[DWF]

http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/04/2010-hugo-awards-3-nominations.html

The 2010 Hugo Award ceremony will take place at Aussiecon 4 in Melbourne Australia this year, and sees Doctor Who nominated three times in the Best Dramatic Presentation — Short Form category! The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead and The Waters of Mars — all penned/co-penned by former series show-runner Russell T Davies — are vying for the award, and are up against American series Dollhouse and Flash Forward.

It looks like they've got a good chance to win another Hugo.

 

[Lindley]

Traditionally, splitting the vote between several episodes of a single series is a bad thing in terms of actually winning.

 

[Stevil2001]

Doctor Who won with three nominations in 2006 and 2007, and with two nominations in 2008 (three if you count Torchwood).

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I don't think DW wins by logrolling - some other sf series have done just that, and for such efforts having more than one episode nominated causes problems. I think a lot of the folks who vote for DW really are voting for a favorite story rather than simply trying to assure a win for the series, and a favorite is a favorite no matter how many are nominated.

 

[The Wormhole]

I thought Hugos were for the previous calendar year (eg the 2010 awards are for 2009 productions)? If so, how can The Next Doctor be applicable since that aired in 2008?

 

[Stevil2001]

According to the WSFS Constitution:
3.2.3: The Business Meeting may by a 3/4 vote provide that works originally published outside the United States of America and first published in the United States of America in the current year shall also be eligible for Hugo Awards given in the following year.
3.2.4: A work shall not be eligible if in a prior year it received sufficient nominations to appear on the final award ballot.

Given that "The Next Doctor" did not air in the States until July 2009, and was not on the 2009 ballot, it would be eligible if approved.

 

[23skidoo]

Given that "The Next Doctor" did not air in the States until July 2009, and was not on the 2009 ballot, it would be eligible if approved.

And The End of Time likely wouldn't have qualified because the second part of the story didn't air in the US (or in the UK) until 2010, which puts it in the running for next year.

I agree we'll probably see an RTD vs. Moffat showdown, though from what I've been hearing some of the non-Moffat episodes sound like they stand a great chance, too, such as the one by Richard Curtis.

Waters of Mars is the likely front-runner. Next Doctor and Planet of the Dead were enjoyed by many but weren't really emotional powerhouses, as opposed to Waters of Mars which took DW in directions it had never taken. Plus it had a funny robot.

FastForward is the potential spoiler as it's a rarity -- a major TV series actually connected to a bona fide SF novel author which hasn't gone Starlost. Dollhouse has the Whedon connection, but it really didn't set the world on fire and I don't think anyone can consider it a critics' darling, even in the genre field. I actually was hoping to see Terminator given the nod as it went in some interesting directions in the final episodes. And I actually was half-expecting to see The Prisoner remake included because while it didn't measure up to the original it was still a very intelligent story of a type we're not used to seeing. I'd rather have seen it get a Long Form nomination than Avatar (though I was glad to see the Trek movie get one too).

Alex

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Plus it had a funny robot.

Always a plus.

"Well, dogs..."

 

[diankra]

Ummm...
Not seen Flash Forward yet, but despite being a major Who fan, I think my vote would be...

Water of Mars
Dollhouse: Epitaph 1
Planet of the Dead
No Award
The Next Doctor.

And I'm being generous to Planet of the Dead - a watchable episode, but the idea that it might be on the five best pieces of SFTV that year makes you want to cry...

 

[Andy S]

Given that "The Next Doctor" did not air in the States until July 2009, and was not on the 2009 ballot, it would be eligible if approved.

And The End of Time likely wouldn't have qualified because the second part of the story didn't air in the US (or in the UK) until 2010, which puts it in the running for next year.

But will "The End of Time" qualify as short form?

Per the definition I see on Wikipedia, short form means less than 90 minutes; "The End of Time" was nearer 130 minutes all told wasn't it? And I doubt it's good enough to win the long form category against whatever blockbuster will qualify next year.

Of the ones up this year I'd hope for "Waters of Mars" to win; it's the only one I thought had any real merit to it.