Podcast The Chronic Rift has announced the winners of their Roundtable Awards as their 6 April program. In the podcast, the winners are announced and discussed, and in many cases talk about the award and the work themselves. We detailed the list of nominees in this article.
The winners were presented by members of TCR‘s staff. First, Andrea Lipinski presented the following awards:
Best Writer of a Novel, Short Story, or Comic Book: Neil Gaiman for The Graveyard Book
Best Novel: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Best Artist of a Comic Book: Alex Ross for Avengers/Invaders Sketchbook and Project Superpowers
Best Cover Artist of a Book, Magazine, or Comic Book: Alex Ross for Kurt Busiek’s Astro City: Beautie, Justice Society of America, Avengers/Invaders, Superman, Batman, Captain America, Project Superpowers, Red Sonja, and Black Adam: The Dark Age
Following, host John S. Drew presented a slew of awards, including:
Best Editor of a Magazine, Anthology, or Comic Book: Stanley Schmidt for Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Best Short Story: “Good Queen, Bad Queen, I Queen, You Queen” by Terri Osborne in Doctor Who: Short Trips 24: The Quality of Leadership
Best Anthology of Short Stories: I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein by Michael A. Burstein
Best Nonfiction Book: Up Til Now: The Autobiography by William Shatner
Best Comic Book: All Star Superman
Best Manga: StarCraft: Frontline Volume 1
Best Web Comic: Sheldon
Best Fiction Magazine: Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Film critic Dan Persons then took the microphone to announce:
Best Website: SFScope
Best Director of a TV Show or Movie: Jon Favreau for Iron Man
Best Performer in a TV Show or Movie: Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight
Best Character: The Joker (Heath Ledger) in The Dark Knight
Best Writer of a TV Show or Movie: Steven Moffatt for Doctor Who
Best Animation: WALL-E
Co-host Keith R.A. DeCandido presented:
Best Nonfiction Magazine: New Scientist
Best Fanzine: Argentus
Best TV Episode: “Forest of the Dead” from Doctor Who
Best Movie: Iron Man
Best Special Effects in a Movie or TV Series: Iron Man
Best Podcast: Doctor Who: Podshock
Finally, Drew retook the microphone for the last two awards:
Best Thing of 2008: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Hall of Fame: Arthur C. Clarke (Clarke joins three previous inductees from TCR‘s television incarnation: Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, and Gene Roddenberry).