Awards and Honors (RDM)

This article lists any awards, nominations or honors received by the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica episodes, its cast or crew.

Emmy Award Nominations or Wins

2004 Emmy Awards

Nominated: Miniseries for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special

2005 Emmy Awards

Nominated: The first season premiere episode, "33", for Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series
Nominated: The episode "The Hand of God" for Outstanding Special Visual Effects 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 stories of the previous year and the awards are handed out at the annual World Science Fiction Convention.

2005 Hugo Awards

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

2006 Hugo Awards

Nominated: mid-season 2 cliffhanger episode, "Pegasus", 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."

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

Nominated: Zoic Studios for Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in a Live Action Broadcast Program, Episode 101, '33', "Cylon Character"

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

2004 30th Annual Awards

Nominated: Battlestar Galactica TV Series, Sci-Fi Channel, for Best Television Presentation
Nominated: Katee Sackhoff for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series
Nominated: "Battlestar Galactica Complete Epic Series" DVD Collection, for Best DVD Television Release

Miscellaneous

2005

American Film Institute's top 10 Television shows of the year 2005
Time Magazine's Best of 2005: Television (Position: #1) [1]
TV Guide's and TV Land's The 100 Most Unexpected TV Moments for "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II" (Position: #98)

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