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Awards and Honors (RDM)

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Ever since the Miniseries first aired, the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica has been repeatedly honored both from within the sci-fi genre and from television critics with a wider scope. As well as the series as a whole, individual episodes, cast and crew have also been nominated for, and have also won, various awards and honors listed below.

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Emmy Award Nominations or Wins

The Emmy® Awards are United States television production awards, similar to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment. The nominations below are for the annual Creative Arts Emmy awards, presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

2004 Emmy Awards

  • Nominated: The Battlestar Galactica Miniseries, for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special

2005 Emmy Awards (Season 1)

  • Nominated: The season and series premiere "33", for Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series
  • Nominated: The episode "The Hand of God", for Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series

2006 Emmy Awards (Season 2)

2007 Emmy Awards (Season 3)

  • Nominated: The episodes "Occupation" and "Precipice", for Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series
  • Nominated: The episode "Exodus, Part II", for Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series
  • Winner: The episode "Exodus, Part II", for Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series
  • Nominated: The episode "Exodus, Part II", for Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series

Hugo Awards

The Hugo Award is presented each year in recognition of outstanding work in science fiction. They are given for the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year and the awards are handed out at the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or "WorldCon".

2005 Hugo Awards

  • Winner: The first season premiere episode "33", for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

2006 Hugo Awards

  • Nominated: The mid-season 2 cliffhanger episode "Pegasus", for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

2007 Hugo Awards

  • Nominated: The Season 2 episode "Downloaded", for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

2008 Hugo Awards

  • Nominated: The Season 4 episode "Razor" (televised version) for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

Peabody Award

The Peabody Awards are annual international awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting and cable television. The awards are generally regarded as "the most prestigious awards within the fields of broadcast journalism, documentary making, educational programming, children's programming, and entertainment."

2006 Peabody Awards

  • Winner: Battlestar Galactica and Sci Fi Channel received a 2006 Peabody Award for its "revitalized sci-fi television with its parallax considerations of politics, religion, sex, even what it means to be human." Press release of winners.

Visual Effects Society Awards

2004 2nd Annual VES Awards

  • Winner: Zoic Studios for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Television Miniseries, Movie or a Special, Miniseries
  • Nominated: Zoic Studios for Outstanding Compositing in a Televised Program, Music Video or Commercial, Miniseries

2005 3rd Annual VES Awards

2006 4th Annual VES Awards

  • Winner: Zoic Studios for Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Broadcast Program, Commercial, or Music Video, Episode 203, "Fragged", "Cylon Centurion"
  • Nominated: Zoic Studios for Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Broadcast Program, Commercial, or Music Video, Episode 202, "Valley of Darkness", "Cylon"

The Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy & Horror Films Awards

The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video.

2004 30th Annual Awards

2005 31st Annual Awards

  • Winner: Battlestar Galactica TV Series, for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series

2006 32nd Annual Awards

2007 33rd Annual Awards

  • Winner: Battlestar Galactica TV Series, for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series
  • Nominated: Edward James Olmos as William Adama, for Best Actor in a Television Program or Series
  • Nominated: Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, for Best Actress in a Television Program or Series
  • Nominated: James Callis as Gaius Baltar, for Best Supporting Actor on Television

2008 34th Annual Awards

  • Nominated: Battlestar Galactica TV Series, for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series
  • Nominated: "Razor", for Best Presentation on Television
  • Nominated: Edward James Olmos as William Adama, for Best Actor in a Television Program or Series

Leo Awards

2006 Leo Awards

Nebula Awards

2007 Nebula Awards

Miscellaneous

2005

2006

  • Salon.com recipient of the Buffy Award for Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica "the most underappreciated show in all of TV land"[2]

Various critic's Best of 2006

  • Arizona Republic (Position: #7)
  • Chicago Tribune (Position: N/A)
  • Entertainment Weekly's (Position: #3)
  • Metacritic (Position: #2)
  • Newsday (Position: #3)
  • Pittsburgh Post Gazette (Position: #3)
  • San Jose Mercury-News (Position: #5)
  • TV Guide (Position: #5)

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2007

Comments and Quotes

I didn't get into this business to get awards or get acclamation. I did it because I was searching for my own sense of who I was as a human being....
-- Edward James Olmos, (Scifi.com interview)

See Also

References

  1. ↑ Best of 2005: Television (in English). (HTML) (2005-12-15). Retrieved on 2006-10-27.
  2. ↑ And the Buffy goes to... (in English). (HTML) (2006-08-26). Retrieved on 2006-11-23.
  3. ↑ BBC reports the American Film Institute's top 10 TV shows of the year (in en). (HTML) (2006-12-11). Retrieved on 2006-12-12.
  4. ↑ Best of 2006: Television (in English). (HTML) (2006-12-17). Retrieved on 2007-01-14.
  5. ↑ Battlestar Galactica: "Occupation/Precipice" Advance Review (in English). (HTML) (2006-10-19). Retrieved on 2006-10-27.
  6. ↑ Battlestar Galactica: "Exodus, Part 2" Advance Review (in English). (HTML) (2006-10-19). Retrieved on 2006-10-27.
  7. ↑ Bests of 2006 Television (in English). (HTML) (2006-12-17). Retrieved on 2007-01-14.
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