Podcast The Chronic Rift has announced the nominees for their Roundtable Awards. A trademark of the Roundtable Awards is their broad and varied category structure, and their often-unexpected nominees; this year’s list does not disappoint.
Voting is now open, until the end of February (see this page. The winners will be announced on a later episode. The nominees are:
Best Writer of a Novel, Short Story, or Comic Book:
Suzanne Collins for Catching Fire
George Pelecanos for The Way Home
Lili St. Crow for Strange Angels
Gregg Taylor for The Crime Cabal and The Mind Master
Best Editor of a Magazine, Anthology, or Comic Book:
Tom Pomplun for Science Fiction Classics(Graphic Classics series)
Aaron Sparrow for BOOM! Kids
Best Artist of a Comic Book:
Sam Hart & Artur Fujita for Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood
John Picacio for his body of work
Best Novel:
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Mind Master by Gregg Taylor
Best Nonfiction Book:
Baseball Prospectus 2009
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
Best Comic Book:
Tyranny by Lesley Fairfield
The Muppet Show by Roger Langridge
Doctor Horrible’s Sing-A-Long-Blog by Zack Whedon
Best Web Comic:
Freefall
Sheldon
XKCD
Best Nonfiction Magazine:
SFX
Smithsonian
Best TV Episode:
Fringe‘s “Grey Matters
Leverage‘s “The First David Job”
Leverage‘s “The Second David Job”
Mad Men‘s “The Grown Ups”
Torchwood: Children of Earth‘s “Day Three”
Best Movie:
G-Force
Gamorrah
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Up
Best Special Effects in a Movie or TV Series:
Avatar
G-Force
Star Trek
Best Podcast:
Better in the Dark
Decoder Ring Theater
H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast
The Scapecast
Best Website:
ComicMix.com
Dragonsfoot.org
epguides.com
The Institute of Official Cheer
Best Director of a TV Show or Movie:
JJ Abrams for Star Trek
Graeme Harper for Doctor Who
Guy Ritchie for Sherlock Holmes
Michael Weiner for Mad Men
Best Performer in a TV Show or Movie:
Bernard Cribbins in Doctor Who
Michael C. Hall in Dexter
John Noble in Fringe
Best Writer of a TV Show or Movie:
Russell T. Davies for Doctor Who/Torchwood
Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz for Fringe
John Rogers & Chris Downey for Leverage
Best Animation:
Coraline
The Princess and the Frog
Up
The Venture Bros.
Best Character:
Dr. Walter Bishop from Fringe
Dexter from Dexter
Dogberry from HG World
Dr. Helena Magnus from Sanctuary
Wilf from Doctor Who
Best Thing of 2009:
Season 3 of The Guild
Torchwood: Children of Earth
V returns to tv
Hall of Fame:
Douglas Adams
William Hartnell
Neil Gaiman
Ursula K. Le Guin