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What Awards Has NuWho Won?

TedShatner10

TedShatner10

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While NuWho routinely gets kicked apart in the made up inner world of the internets, back in reality NuWho has been a huge success amongst the majority of viewers and critics, winning many awards. But how many awards has it won? I know most recently it has bagged two National TV Awards and spcial effects house attached to NuWho, The Mill, has bagged a Bafta.
 
There was a list online of all the awards but I can't seem to find it. So this list is likely incomplete:

Hugo Awards - won 3 consecutive years, all for Steven Moffat scripts, and beating Battlestar Galactica almost every time.

Saturn Awards - won Best International Series in 2008.

Constellation Awards - It won 3 awards in 2007 - Best Actor (Tennant), best SF episode for Girl in the Fireplace, and Best SF Television series. It also won Outstanding Canadian Contribution to SF due to the CBC network contributing seed money to the show, which made it eligible for that category.

BAFTA TV Awards: Audience Award and Best Drama Series in 2006; Best Writer (Moffat) in 2008; Best Editing (2009), and an armful of nominations

BAFTA Cymru Awards (a BAFTA spinoff focusing on Wales-based productions): It's won 10 of these so far, including a whack of technical awards in 2008.

National Television Awards: It's won Most Popular Drama every year since 2005; Eccleston won Most Popular Actor and Tennant has been unbeatable since 2006; Billie Piper won Most Popular Actress twice. Both Tate and Agyeman were nominated as well.

Royal Television Society - won for Best Sound in 2008

People's Choice Awards - yes, the American awards. It didn't win but it was nominated along with BSG in the Favorite Sci-Fi Show category. Stargate Atlantis won in what is generally assumed to have been a split vote between DW and BSG.

TV Quick Awards (never heard of this one either) - DW has won an armful of these since 2006.

Visual Effects Society Awards, 2008

Writer's Guild of Great Britain Awards, 2007 - the entire writing team was honored.

I'm certain there have been others. A few of the above like the NTAs were viewer-voted awards, indicating the popularity of the show over there, while the BAFTAs are juried. People can bitch all they like about the new show and RTD, but the fact is while the original series picked up the occasional award (The Writer's Guild of Great Britain gave its writing team the same award as above in 1975; the Royal Television Society gave it Best Graphics in 1974; TV60 named it Most Popular Drama Series in 1996 (tribute award), and it got a couple of BAFTA TV nominations in the mid-70s), the new version has been raking them in. And considering this has been the era of Rome, The Tudors, Life on Mars, Being Human, Hustle and scores of other acclaimed and, arguably, more internationally popular series, DW's success really has been saying something.

I particularly like to point out nuWho's consistently high Appreciation Index ratings and its NTS success to people who make the claim that "nobody likes it". And I still see that chestnut rolled out by the occasional particularly disillusioned fan who longs for the days of papier mache spaceships and John Nathan-Turner.

Alex
 
An award is an award. As long as it's not a razzie. Congrats to the show and everyone involved.
 
TedShatner10 said:
I don't take the Welsh Baftas that seriously.
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You should. A BAFTA is a BAFTA. It's like saying you don't take the Daytime or Creative Arts Emmys seriously compared to the Nighttime Emmys. They're just as important.

And anyway, count the BAFTAs (any kind) of other British SF shows, or the original series.

Alex
 
I'm sorry but NuWho is produced in Wales and the accolades from the Welsh Baftas comes across to me as back scratching.
 
Well I figure they fall into two kinds. The ones where the industry vote and the ones where the public vote. Both are flawed in my opinion, but the fact that Who wins in both categories says a lot about the show.
 
The awards that allow the public to vote for are less flawed; the Baftas remind me of the Oscars, with a closed in voting process from a small circle of people who lead the industy, not really representing what the audience think. Does anybody really take the Oscars that seriously in the last twenty years?
 
Starkers said:
Well I figure they fall into two kinds. The ones where the industry vote and the ones where the public vote. Both are flawed in my opinion, but the fact that Who wins in both categories says a lot about the show.
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That's a key point. If DW won no other awards, then I might agree with the back-scratchy point. (Though if you make that point you have to agree that the Emmys, which primarily honor American productions, and the Geminis, which honor Canadian TV, are back-scratchy too. Ergo all juried awards are back-scratchy.)

TedShatner10 said:
Does anybody really take the Oscars that seriously in the last twenty years?
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Those folks who made Slumdog Millionaire the No. 1 film at the box office after its best picture win and those who have verifiable proof that adding "Oscar winner" to a DVD box adds a few hundred thousand sales certainly do.

No one has ever cared about the pedigree of awards. The Golden Globes are apparently decided by less people than it takes to fill a school bus. No one cares -- as long as their favorites win.

The BAFTAs, whether they're the national film version, the video game one (which I just found out about), the Wales one, or the "West Hartlepool BAFTAs" are still BAFTAs. They are considered on par with the Emmys. No one cares about regional differences or whether they are back-scratchy. I certainly don't. The only people who might care are DW haters who think the show doesn't deserve any awards, in which case we still have the Appreciation Index figures, the NTAs and other non-BAFTA awards to slap them down with. We win.

Alex

Alex
 
The awards from many sources is encouraging in of itself (alongside the moderately suspect Welsh BAFTAS) and I agree that the Appreciation Index is the large elephant in the room that craps on most of the NuWho haters' arguments.

A lot of NuWho haters seem to either come across as rather glib anyway.
 
The Oscars are just Hollywood backpatting itself. It's hardly in touch with what the audiences think.

But the amount of stuff Who has won is encouraging.
 
More award nominations for Doctor Who, and one for Torchwood, at the Constellation Awards. People who think regional awards are worthless (these are Canadian awards) can ignore this. Just remember the Emmys are regional, too.

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

TedShatner10 said:
I agree that the Appreciation Index is the large elephant in the room that craps on most of the NuWho haters' arguments.
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Especially when you look at those recently released BBC archive documents that show the AI numbers for past Doctors (it used to be called the Reaction Index at one time) were usually in the 50s and 60s, even during the beloved Troughton, Pertwee and Baker years, compared to the usual ratings in the 80s and 90s since the show came back in 2005. I did notice the "no one likes it" claims pretty much evaporated when we saw Stolen Earth and Journey's End set new records for drama in terms of AI. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, and certainly the nuWho bashers are in good company with the inconsolable Trek and Galactica fans who never warmed to the new/updated versions of their favorite shows, but nonetheless the AI, combined with these award nominations from multiple sources most notably Hugos and NTA, and a BAFTA is a BAFTA - no one cares about the suffix - and the high ratings, have delivered one of the most effective basher-smackdowns I have ever witnessed in my 30+ years of being in genre fandom.

It ranks up there with the success of last year's reborn Star Trek and the huge critical and box office success of Daniel Craig's James Bond in Casino Royale.

Alex
 
TedShatner10 said:
The awards from many sources is encouraging in of itself (alongside the moderately suspect Welsh BAFTAS) and I agree that the Appreciation Index is the large elephant in the room that craps on most of the NuWho haters' arguments.

A lot of NuWho haters seem to either come across as rather glib anyway.
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Every fandom has its contingent - check out the Trek TOS forum. And neither is anything to notice next to the oldBSG/nuBSG divide. :lol:
 
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