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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[edit]

Process[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

First Golden Toaster Awards - Miniseries & Season One[edit]

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. 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

Most Dramatic Moment

Best Ship/Spacecraft/Fighter

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

Best Guest Actor

Best Guest Actress

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 Scriptwriter

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

Best Musical Track

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

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

  • 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:

and

Best Relationship

Best Usage of the word "Frak"

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

Best Supporting Actor A tie:

and

Best Supporting Actress

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

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

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Episode

Second Golden Toaster Awards - Season Two[edit]

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

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

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

Sexiest Male Character

  • Lee "Apollo" Adama

Sexiest Female Character

Most Shocking Moment

Most Dramatic Moment

  • Commander Adama's "I'm getting my men!" confrontation with Admiral Cain, at the cliffhanger ending of "Pegasus"

Funniest Moment

Best Villain

Best Usage of the Word "Frak"

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Ship/Spacecraft/Fighter

Best Relationship

  • William Adama/Laura Roslin

Best Screenwriter

Best Line

Best Hero/Heroine

Best Guest Actor

Best Guest Actress

Best F/X Scene

Best Actress

Best Actor

Best Episode

Best Action Sequence

  • Battle of the Resurrection Ship, (Resurrection Ship, Part II)

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


Several new awards were created for the Second Annual Golden Toaster Awards:


Best New Character

The Mrs. Ron Award - For Most Relevant Political Scene - named in honor of Terry Moore, for her discussion with fans on the official Scifi.com messageboard.

Most Underappreciated Character - Character that did not get the screentime they deserved

Best Death Scene

The Digital Inspiration - Moment Most Likely To Be Used in Fanart

Five "technical awards" presented during a "red carpet pre-show":

Best Costume

Best Makeup

  • Gina’s bruises, cuts and scrapes as a result of her torture (Pegasus)

Best Set Design

Best Musical Track

Best Podcast

French Golden Toaster Awards[edit]

Overview[edit]

For the first time, the Golden Toaster Awards were adapted in another language, French. Since it was now in another country, the process had to be re-adapted. For instance, a special jury was created to deliberate on the nominations (between 4 to 6 per category). However, the voting is open to anyone, on a specially designed official voting webpage.

Categories also had to be renamed, like "The TOSser", renamed "La SOupe", and "Best Line" transformed into "Best Original Quote" (to fit with "Best French Quote"). But most of the original categories were retained, as well as some Anglophone categories such as "The Best Usage of the Word "Frak"" category.

The French Golden Toaster Awards are also held in an official live Golden Toaster Awards Ceremony message thread.

First French Golden Toaster Awards - Miniseries & Season One[edit]

The jury's deliberations on the nominations were held from September 15th to October 1st, 2006. There are 37 categories, each containing between 4 and 6 nominations.

Nominations was announced during the month of November.

The official voting site is : www.fgta.fr It opened during the night between December 23rd, 2006 and December 24th, 2006 and closed on February 10th, 2007.

The French Golden Toaster Awards ceremony was held on Saturday February 17th, 2007 on the battlestar-galactica.fr board. It started with the Red Carpet at 6PM and was followed by the ceremony at 7:30PM (GMT+1).

Awards[edit]

Here will be posted the results of the First French Golden Toaster Awards.

The various Awards were divided into 3 distinct categories to reflect their variety :

  • The 7 Technical Awards
  • The 5 Special Awards
  • The Normal Awards

The Technical Awards[edit]

The 7 Technical Awards were given out during a pre-show : The Red Carpet.

Best Costume

Best Set Design

Best Makeup

Best New Character

Best Podcast

Best Ship

Best Special FX


The Special Awards[edit]

The 5 Special Awards were handed out during the Ceremony.

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

L'Inspiration Digitale (The Digital Inspiration) - Moment Most Likely To Be Used in Fanart

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

La SOupe (The TOSser) - For Biggest Plot Blunder/Most Obvious Plot Device, or Continuity Error

Le Moment Politique (The Mrs. Ron) - For Most Relevant Political Scene or Moment

  • The influence of the military on a government

The Normal Awards[edit]

The 25 other Awards were given during the Ceremony.

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