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The Golden Toaster Award

The Golden Toaster Award

The Golden Toaster Awards are a fan-created, fan-operated annual awards show which was created by the posters on the official Scifi.com Battlestar Galactica messageboard, as well as other fansites.

Overview

Process

Over a period of several months leading up to the awards, nominations and categories are developed and put foward to the fan organizers of the event, who then issue an official award and nomination ballot on the messageboards. Voting then takes place on a specially designed official voting webpage.

Categories and nominations are made up entirely by the fans, and then agreed upon as an eligible category by consensus. For example, Season 1 had no "Best Battlestar" category because besides side references to other ships like Atlantia, Galactica was the one that was really showcased, so this would not really be a fair competition and was not made into a category. However, practically anything in which three or more eligible competitors can be found can be turned into a category, such as the "Best Usage of the Word "Frak" category. Different years might therefore have several new categories.

Presentation

Finally, the awards are "presented" in an "online awards show": in an official live Golden Toaster Awards message thread, several posters have been pre-selected as "presenters" for a certain category, and in the Awards message-thread they then introduce their assigned category. They introduce the category, give a short speech about it, and list the nominees (just like in any "live" awards show), and soon afterwords that person announces who won. Although it takes place on a messageboard, it occurs in real time, and the "show" lasts several hours. However, this event is not limited to only those fans who are presenting awards: anyone can post in the middle of the awards thread to chime in with their feelings, cheer on hopeful candidates, and opine.

Awards

First Golden Toaster Awards - Miniseries & Season One

The First Annual Golden Toaster Awards were held on October 14th, 2005. Considered a major event within the online fanbase, hundreds of ballots were cast. ^{[citation needed]} The first awards were held at GalacticaActual.com because the Scfi.com messageboards were being upgraded at the time to deal with hacker attacks, bandwidth and technical issues.

Carbon copies of the awards printed with the Golden Toaster Award art (seen at right) were mailed to the Battlestar Galactica production office, and they were handed out to all cast members at the season two wrap-party.

For the first awards, it was decided that Cylons who had destinct enough personalities should be considered separate characters, thus the Number Six who oversaw the Cylon experiment with Helo and got into a fight with Starbuck in "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II", Shelly Godfrey, and the copy that claimed to be a computer chip in Baltar's mind, were considered different characters and actually competed with each other. This convention was dropped after the first awards, because during the nominations process fans found it to be too confusing.

The first annual awards covered both the Miniseries and the 13 episode first season. All subsquent episode will cover one full 20-episode season (thus there are no awards for the first ten episodes of Season 2, then a separate set of awards for the final 10, but one comprehensive set of awards that includes all 20 episodes).

The Solium - The moment most likely to set fan messageboards on fire

• Season one cliffhanger of Sharon/Boomer shooting Adama.

Most Dramatic Moment

• Kara telling Adama she was responsible for Zak's death - "Act of Contrition"

Best Ship/Spacecraft/Fighter

• Battlestar Galactica

Best FX Shot or Sequence - Must be a use of FX, by visual or CG

• Viper battle & Lee’s destruction of the tylium mine (The Hand of God)

Best Guest Actor

• Donnelly Rhodes (Doctor Cottle)

Best Guest Actress

• Lorena Gale (Priestess Elosha)

Funniest Moment

• Kara walking in on Gaius Baltar having sex with the invisible Six, ending with Kara telling him to zip up his fly. (Colonial Day)

Best Script/Writer

• Ronald D. Moore and David Eick for "Kobol's Last Gleaming Parts 1 & 2"

The Caravaggio - For Moments you didn't see coming, even if you were spoiled

• Sharon/Boomer shooting Adama (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)

Best Musical Track

• Wander My Friends ("Hand of God" victory celebration music, by Bear McCreary)

The TOSser - For Biggest Continuity Error/or General Stupid moment/obvious plot device

• Sharon's Cylon test takes a matter of minutes, while they later say it takes 11 hours. (By two votes.)

Most Shocking Moment

• Sharon/Boomer shooting Adama ("Kobol’s Last Gleaming, pt 2")

Best Line A tie:

• Adama: "If it were you... we'd never leave." (from "You Can’t Go Home Again")

and

• Baltar: "No more Mister Nice Gaius!" (from "Six Degrees of Separation")

Best Relationship

• Bill Adama/Laura Roslin

Best Usage of the word "Frak"

• Crashdown: "We are well and truly frakked." (from "Hand of God")

Best Supporting Actor A tie:

• Aaron Douglas (Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol)

and

• Michael Hogan (Colonel Saul Tigh)

Best Supporting Actress

• Kandyse McClure (Petty Officer 2nd Class Anastasia Dualla)

Best Action Sequence - Can be all live action, no FX required

• Lee's piloting through the tunnel & the destruction of the Cylon tylium mine in "Hand of God"

Best Hero/Heroine

• Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace

Best Villain/Villainess

• Number Six (Dr. Baltar’s internal "Harvey"-Copy)

Sexiest Male Character

• Lee "Apollo" Adama

Sexiest Female Character

• Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace

Best Director

• Michael Rymer for "33"

The Gino - For Overall Excellence in Making the Fans Happy By a Cast or Crew Member

• Ronald D. Moore (Barely edged out Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell and Richard Hatch by two votes.)

Best Actor

• Edward James Olmos (Defeated James Callis by a single vote.)

Best Actress

• Mary McDonnell (Won by 2 votes.)

Best Episode

• "33"

Second Golden Toaster Awards - Season Two

The Second Annual Golden Toaster Awards were held on June 30, 2006. Series creator Ron Moore and his wife Terry "Mrs.Ron" Moore were in attendance. Terry presented The Solium award, while Ron presented the Best Usage of the Word "Frak" and Best Episode awards. 890 votes were cast in the second GTA's, and affiliated sites stretched across the globe as german fansite www.Caprica-City.de joined in and contributed over 50 votes.

The Solium - The moment most likely to set fan messageboards on fire

• "One Year Later" time jump (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II)

The Caravaggio - For Moments you didn't see coming, even if you were spoiled

• "One Year Later" time jump (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II)

The TOSser - For Biggest Plot Blunder/Most Obvious Plot Device, or Continuity Error

• The romantic relationship between Lee "Apollo" Adama and Anastasia Dualla

External links

• SciFi.com post for the First Annual Golden Toaster Awards (the messageboard the first awards were on was destroyed, and the only record of them is the winners list. Barring another accident, the links to the second annual awards onwards will allow viewing of the entire message thread awards show, as if it was "taped".
• Hangar Deck 5's fullly recorded posting of the Second Annual Golden Toaster Awards

Re-imagined Series definition: all-purpose vulgarism; Colonial version of "fuck" (see: frak)

Re-imagined Series definition: mineral that can be refined to a powerful fuel, see: tylium

Original Series definition: a highly combustible fuel (see: tylium) ^{(TOS: "Fire in Space")}

Re-imagined Series definition: the process of using the FTL engines to make an near-instantaneous apparent faster-than-light transport of a ship from one point in space to another