Ray Bradbury Award

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Awarded forThe best science fiction or fantasy dramatic presentation published in the prior calendar year
Presented byScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association
First awarded1992
Most recent winnerDaniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
Websitenebulas.sfwa.org

The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation (formerly the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation) is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy dramatic works such as movies or television episodes. To be eligible for Nebula Award consideration a work must be published in English in the United States. Works published in English elsewhere in the world are also eligible provided they are released either on a website or in an electronic edition. Only individual works are eligible, not serials such as television series, though miniseries of three or fewer parts are allowed. The award, named to honor prolific author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury, was begun in 1992 as the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation. It was not considered a Nebula Award, despite being awarded at the same ceremony, and was chosen by the President of SFWA instead of by a vote. This form of the award was given in 1992, 1999, 2001, and 2009. In 2010, the Nebula Award for Best Script, which was awarded for scripts from 1974 to 1978 and from 2000 to 2009, was discontinued. The Ray Bradbury Award, though still not considered an official Nebula category, was converted to follow the normal nomination and voting procedures of the Nebula Awards in its place. In 2019 SFWA announced that the award was considered a Nebula category, and the following year the award was retitled the Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation.

Nebula Award nominees and winners are chosen by members of SFWA, though the creators of the nominees do not need to be members. Works are nominated each year by members in a period around December 15 through January 31, and the six works that receive the most nominations then form the final ballot, with additional nominees possible in the case of ties. Soon after, members are given a month to vote on the ballot, and the final results are presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in May. Members are not permitted to nominate their own works, and ties in the final vote are broken, if possible, by the number of nominations the works received. Prior to the 2009 awards, the eligibility period for nominations was defined as one year after the publication date of the work, which allowed the possibility for works to be nominated in the calendar year after their publication and then be awarded in the calendar year after that.

During the 14 nomination years, 84 works have been nominated, with 13 winners in addition to the 4 awards chosen without nominees in 1992–2009. A few franchises have seen multiple nominations; the Marvel Cinematic Universe has earned the most nominations with nine films, two television seasons, and one television episode, with one film and one television season winning. Other franchises with multiple nominations are Doctor Who with one win out of three nominated television episodes, Star Wars with three film and three television episode nominations, and The Good Place with one win out of three nominated television episodes. The award is typically for television episodes and films, but occasionally rewards works in other formats: the 1999 award was given to an entire television series and three other seasons have been nominated since, the 2001 award was given to a radio anthology series, the 2009 award was given to a creator's entire filmography to date.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the work was first published. Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the work's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist. The creators listed are the people and roles identified by SFWA, and may not match the full credited people or titles for the work; SFWA states in its rules that the award is given to the "principal" director and writers.

  *   Winners and joint winners

Winners and nominees
Year Work Creator(s) Publisher(s) Ref.
1992 Terminator 2: Judgment Day* James Cameron (director, writer), William Wisher Jr. (writer) TriStar Pictures
1999 Babylon 5* J. Michael Straczynski (director, writer) Babylonian Productions / Warner Bros. Domestic Television
2001 2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia* Yuri Rasovsky (writer), Harlan Ellison (writer) NPR
2009 Joss Whedon filmography* Joss Whedon (writer) multiple
2010 District 9* Neill Blomkamp (director, writer), Terri Tatchell (writer) TriStar Pictures
Avatar James Cameron (director, writer) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Coraline Henry Selick (director, writer) Focus Features
Moon Duncan Jones (director, writer), Nathan Parker (writer) Sony Pictures
Star Trek J. J. Abrams (director), Roberto Orci (writer), Alex Kurtzman (writer) Paramount Pictures
Up Pete Docter (director, writer), Bob Peterson (writer), Tom McCarthy (writer) Pixar/Walt Disney Pictures
2011 Inception* Christopher Nolan (director, writer) Warner Bros.
Despicable Me Pierre Coffin (director), Cinco Paul (writer), Ken Daurio (writer) Universal Pictures
Doctor Who: "Vincent and the Doctor" Jonny Campbell (director), Richard Curtis (writer) BBC
How To Train Your Dragon Dean DeBlois (writer), Chris Sanders (writer), William Davies (writer) Paramount Pictures
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Edgar Wright (director, writer), Michael Bacall (writer) Universal Pictures
Toy Story 3 Michael Arndt (writer) Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures
2012 Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife"* Richard Clark (director), Neil Gaiman (writer) BBC Cymru Wales
The Adjustment Bureau George Nolfi (director, writer) Universal Pictures
Attack the Block Joe Cornish (director, writer) Optimum Releasing/Screen Gems
Captain America: The First Avenger Joe Johnston (director), Christopher Markus (writer), Stephen McFeely (writer) Paramount Pictures
Hugo Martin Scorsese (director), John Logan (writer) Paramount Pictures
Midnight in Paris Woody Allen (director, writer) Sony Pictures
Source Code Duncan Jones (director) and Ben Ripley (writer) Summit Entertainment
2013 Beasts of the Southern Wild* Benh Zeitlin (director, writer), Lucy Alibar (writer) Journeyman/Cinereach/Court 13
The Avengers Joss Whedon (director, writer), Zak Penn (writer) Marvel Studios
The Cabin in the Woods Drew Goddard (director, writer), Joss Whedon (writer) Mutant Enemy Productions
The Hunger Games Gary Ross (director, writer), Suzanne Collins (writer), and Billy Ray (writer) Lionsgate
John Carter Andrew Stanton (director, writer) Walt Disney Pictures
Looper Rian Johnson (director) DMG Entertainment/Endgame Entertainment
2014 Gravity* Alfonso Cuarón (director, writer), Jonás Cuarón, (writer) Warner Bros.
Doctor Who: "The Day of the Doctor" Nick Hurran (director), Steven Moffat (writer) BBC Cymru Wales
Europa Report Sebastián Cordero (director), Philip Gelatt (writer) Start Motion Pictures
Her Spike Jonze (director, writer) Warner Bros.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Francis Lawrence (director), Simon Beaufoy (writer), Michael deBruyn (writer) Lionsgate
Pacific Rim Guillermo del Toro (director, writer), Travis Beacham (writer) Warner Bros.
2015 Guardians of the Galaxy* James Gunn (writer), Nicole Perlman (writer) Walt Disney Pictures
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Alejandro González Iñárritu (writer), Nicolás Giacobone (writer), Alexander Dinelaris Jr. (writer), Armando Bó (writer) Fox Searchlight
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Christopher Markus (writer), Stephen McFeely (writer) Walt Disney Pictures
Edge of Tomorrow Christopher McQuarrie (writer), Jez Butterworth (writer), John-Henry Butterworth (writer) Warner Bros.
Interstellar Christopher Nolan (writer), Jonathan Nolan (writer) Paramount Pictures
The Lego Movie Phil Lord (writer), Christopher Miller (writer) Warner Bros.
2016 Mad Max: Fury Road* George Miller (director, writer), Brendan McCarthy (writer), Nico Lathouris (writer) Village Roadshow Pictures/Kennedy Miller Mitchell/RatPac-Dune Entertainment
Ex Machina Alex Garland (director, writer), Bradley Thompson (director, writer), David Weddle (director, writer) Film4 Productions/DNA Films
Inside Out Pete Docter (director, writer), Ronnie del Carmen (writer), Meg LeFauve (writer), Josh Cooley (writer) Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar
Jessica Jones: "AKA Smile" Michael Rymer (director), Scott Reynolds (writer), Melissa Rosenberg (writer), Jamie King (writer) Marvel Television/ABC Studios/Tall Girls Productions
The Martian Ridley Scott (director), Drew Goddard (writer) Scott Free Productions/Kinberg Genre/TSG Entertainment
Star Wars: The Force Awakens J. J. Abrams (director, writer), Lawrence Kasdan (writer), Michael Arndt (writer) Lucasfilm/Bad Robot Productions
2017 Arrival* Denis Villeneuve (director), Eric Heisserer (writer) 21 Laps Entertainment/FilmNation Entertainment/Lava Bear Films/Xenolinguistics
Doctor Strange Scott Derrickson (director, writer), C. Robert Cargill (writer) Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Pictures
Kubo and the Two Strings Travis Knight (director), Mark Haimes (writer), Chris Butler (writer) Laika
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Gareth Edwards (director), Chris Weitz (writer), Tony Gilroy (writer) Lucasfilm/Walt Disney Pictures
Westworld: "The Bicameral Mind" Jonathan Nolan (director, writer), Lisa Joy (writer) HBO
Zootopia Byron Howard (director), Jared Bush (writer), Phil Johnston (writer) Walt Disney Pictures
2018 Get Out* Jordan Peele (director, writer) Universal Pictures
The Good Place: "Michael's Gambit" Michael Schur (director, writer) NBC
Logan James Mangold (director, writer), Scott Frank (writer), Michael Green (writer) 20th Century Fox
The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro (director, writer), Vanessa Taylor (writer) Fox Searchlight Pictures
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Rian Johnson (director, writer) Lucasfilm
Wonder Woman Patty Jenkins (director), Allan Heinberg (writer) Warner Bros.
2019 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* Phil Lord (writer), Rodney Rothman (writer) Sony Pictures Animation
Black Panther Ryan Coogler (writer), Joe Robert Cole (writer) Marvel Studios
Dirty Computer Janelle Monáe (writer), Chuck Lightning (writer) Wondaland Arts Society/Bad Boy Records/Atlantic Records
The Good Place: "Jeremy Bearimy" Megan Amram (writer) NBC
A Quiet Place John Krasinski (writer), Bryan Woods (writer), Scott Beck (writer) Platinum Dunes/Sunday Night Productions
Sorry to Bother You Boots Riley (writer) Annapurna Pictures
2020 Good Omens: "Hard Times"* Neil Gaiman (writer) Amazon Studios/BBC Studios
Avengers: Endgame Christopher Markus (writer), Stephen McFeely (writer) Marvel Studios
Captain Marvel Anna Boden (writer), Geneva Robertson-Dworet (writer), Ryan Fleck (writer) Marvel Studios
The Mandalorian: "The Child" Jon Favreau (writer) Disney+
Russian Doll: "The Way Out" Allison Silverman (writer), Leslye Headland (writer) Netflix
Watchmen: "A God Walks into Abar" Jeff Jensen (writer), Damon Lindelof (writer) HBO
2021 The Good Place: "Whenever You're Ready"* Michael Schur (writer) NBC, Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn Christina Hodson (writer) Warner Bros. Television Studios, Clubhouse Pictures/DC Films/Kroll & Co. Entertainment/LuckyChap Entertainment
The Expanse: "Gaugamela" Dan Nowak (writer) Amazon Prime, Alcon Entertainment/Alcon Television Group/Amazon Studios/Hivemind/Just So
Lovecraft Country (season 1) Misha Green (writer), Shannon Houston (writer), Kevin Lau (writer), Wes Taylor (writer), Ihuoma Ofordire (writer), Jonathan I. Kidd (writer), and Sonya Winton-Odamtten (writer) HBO Max, Bad Robot Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/Warner Bros. Television Studios
The Mandalorian: "The Tragedy" Jon Favreau (writer) Disney+, Golem Creations/Lucasfilm
The Old Guard Greg Rucka (writer) Netflix, Skydance Media/Denver and Delilah Productions/Marc Evans Productions
2022 WandaVision (season 1)* Peter Cameron (writer), Mackenzie Dohr (writer), Laura Donney (writer), Bobak Esfarjani (writer), Megan McDonnell (writer), Jac Schaeffer (writer), Cameron Squires (writer), Gretchen Enders (writer), Chuck Hayward (writer) Marvel Studios
Encanto Charise Castro Smith (writer), Jared Bush (writer), Byron Howard (writer), Jason Hand (writer), Nancy Kruse (writer), Lin-Manuel Miranda (writer) Walt Disney Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures
The Green Knight David Lowery (writer) Sailor Bear/Bron Studios/A24
Loki (season 1) Bisha K. Ali (writer), Elissa Karasik (writer), Eric Martin (writer), Michael Waldron (writer), Tom Kauffman (writer), Jess Dweck (writer) Marvel Studios
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Dave Callaham (writer), Destin Daniel Cretton (writer), Andrew Lanham (writer) Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Pictures
Space Sweepers Jo Sung-hee (writer) Bidangil Pictures
What We Do in the Shadows (season 3) Jake Bender (writer), Zach Dunn (writer), Shana Gohd (writer), Sam Johnson (writer), Chris Marcil (writer), William Meny (writer), Sarah Naftalis (writer), Stefani Robinson (writer), Marika Sawyer (writer), Paul Simms (writer), Lauren Wells (writer) FX Productions/Two Canoes Pictures/343 Incorporated/FX Network
2023 Everything Everywhere All at Once* Daniel Kwan (writer), Daniel Scheinert (writer) A24/AGBO/IAC Films
Andor: "One Way Out" Beau Willimon (writer), Tony Gilroy (writer) Lucasfilm/Disney+
Nope Jordan Peele (writer) Universal Pictures
Our Flag Means Death (season 1) David Jenkins (writer), Eliza Jiménez Cossio (writer), Zadry Ferrer-Geddes (writer), William Meny (writer), Maddie Dai (writer), Alyssa Lane (writer), John Mahone (writer), Simone Nathan (writer), Natalie Torres (writer), Zackery Alexzander Stephens (writer), Alex J. Sherman (writer), Jes Tom (writer), Adam Stein (writer) Dive/HBO Max
The Sandman (season 1) Neil Gaiman (writer), Lauren Bello (writer), Vanessa Benton (writer), Mike Dringenberg (writer), Sam Kieth (writer), Catherine Smyth-McMullen (writer), Heather Bellson (writer), Jim Campolongo (writer), Jay Franklin (writer), Austin Guzman (writer), Alexander Newman-Wise (writer), Ameni Rozsa (writer), David S. Goyer (writer), Allan Heinberg (writer) DC Entertainment/Netflix
Severance (season 1) Dan Erickson (writer), Chris Black (writer), Andrew Colville (writer), Amanda Overton (writer), Anna Ouyang Moench (writer), Helen Leigh (writer), Kari Drake (writer), Mark Friedman (writer) Endeavor Content/Red Hour Productions/Apple TV+

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