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2005 Hugo Ceremony

Interaction's ceremony was held in the main Clyde Auditorium at the SECC, which seats over 3,000 people, and took place on the Sunday night of the convention (August 7^th).

The ceremony was hosted by authors Paul McAuley and Kim Newman. Interaction is delighted that their opening speech has been nominated for the 2006 Hugo Awards in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form category. A transcript of the speech can be found on Kim's website.

You can also watch the speech by downloading it as a WMV file. Please note that this file is around 48 MB in size, and will typically take a few minutes to download using broadband. (The file will however stream assuming an adequate connection).

2005 Hugo Results

The 2005 Hugo results and detailed voting information were released at 10 pm on 7 August 2005.

• Press release 47 - 2005 Hugo Winners Announced

• PDF Download of Winners Summary

• Detailed voting statistics for Final Ballot

• Detailed voting statistics for Nominating Ballot

Hugo Categories A full list of the current award categories with definitions is available here. In summary, however, the ongoing categories, for which Hugos are presented every year, are: Best Novel Best Novella Best Novellette Best Short Story Best Related Book Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Best Professional Editor Best Professional Artist Best SemiProzine Best Fanzine Best Fan Writer Best Fan Artist Each Worldcon is also entitled to create one additional Hugo category which has the same weight and is awarded through the same process as the ongoing categories. Interaction has taken up this right and will therefore be awarding a Hugo for: Best Web Site This category has been used once before, by ConJosé in 2002, where it proved very popular. More information on this decision is available in the corresponding press release.

Hugo Nomination and Voting

Voting for the Hugo Awards takes place in two distinct stages.

• During the first stage, known as the Nomination Ballot, members of Interaction and the 2004 Worldcon, Noreascon 4, were allowed to nominate up to five entries in each of the fourteen categories. The nomination ballot closed on 11 March 2005, and the collated nominations were then used to produce a shortlist of 5 entries in each category. The shortlists were announced officially at the 2005 Eastercon, Paragon 2, on 26 March 2005.

• During the second stage, known as the Final Ballot, voters selected their favourites from the shortlists. The Final Ballot was open to full attending or supporting members of Interaction, and closed on 8 July 2005.

If you haven't voted in the Hugos before, we've provided a comprehensive Hugo Award Voter's Guide to help you understand the process in more detail.

We have also created a web page containing links to the official web pages for nominees, where available. We are especially delighted that many of the short fiction nominees and their publishers have chosen to make their work available free of charge to voters.

Hugo Design and Hugo Bases

The basic design of the Hugo (see picture above) is a chrome rocket ship created by Jack McKnight and Ben Jason. The design of the base on which the ship is mounted is left up to each individual Worldcon, so each year's Hugos look slightly different. Designs often reflect the location of the Worldcon, so past designs have included both a miniature Ayers Rock (Aussiecon II, 1999) and a map of Texas (LoneStarCon, 1998).

A photographic archive of many of the Hugo designs is available here.

The design of the 2005 Hugo Base is being chosen through a public competition as announced in Press Release 20. The closing date for competition entries was 30 November 2004 and the shortlisted entrants will be contacted during January 2005.

Hugo History and Other Information

We have provided a separate FAQ containing more information on the Hugos, their history, nomination and voting rules.

Useful links to more information about on the Hugos include:

• The WSFS Constitution defines the formal rules governing the Hugo categories and voting procedures.

• Locus Online contains a comprehensive listing of SF Awards including not only the Hugos but many others from around the World.

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