Harlan Ellison - Awards

Awards

Ellison has won the Hugo Award nine times, including a shared award for the screenplay of "A Boy and his Dog" that he counts as "half an Hugo", plus two special awards; the Nebula Award four times, along with a Grandmaster Nebula Award (basically a lifetime achievement award); the Bram Stoker Award, presented by the Horror Writers Association, five times (including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996); the Edgar Award of the Mystery Writers of America twice; the World Fantasy Award twice (the second time for Lifetime achievement); and the Georges Méliès fantasy film award twice.

As of 2011, Ellison is the only author to have won the Nebula Award three times for the short story. A fourth Nebula was awarded in the novella category.

He was awarded the Silver Pen for Journalism by International PEN, the international writers' union. In 1990, Ellison was honored by International PEN for continuing commitment to artistic freedom and the battle against censorship. In 1998, he was awarded the "Defender of Liberty" award by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

In March 1998, the National Women's Committee of Brandeis University honored him with their 1998 Words, Wit, Wisdom award. In 1990, Ellison was honored by International PEN for continuing commitment to artistic freedom and the battle against censorship.

Ellison was named 2002's winner of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal's "Distinguished Skeptic Award", in recognition of his contributions to science and critical thinking. Ellison was presented with the award at the Skeptics Convention in Burbank, California, June 22, 2002.

In December 2009, Ellison was nominated for a Grammy award in the category Best Spoken Word Album For Children for his reading of Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There for Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films (USA)

• Golden Scroll (Best Writing – Career 1976)

Audio Publishers Association

• The Titanic Disaster Hearings: The Official Transcript of the 1912 Senatorial Investigation (Best "Multi-Voiced Presentation", 1999)
• City of Darkness (Best Solo Narration, 1999)

Best American Short Stories

• The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (included in the 1993 anthology)

The Bradbury Award

• Given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000 to Harlan Ellison and Yuri Rasovsky for the radio series 2000X.

Bram Stoker Award

• The Essential Ellison (best collection, 1987)
• Harlan Ellison's Watching (best non-fiction, 1989 — tie)
• Mefisto in Onyx (best novella, 1993 — tie)
• Chatting With Anubis (best short story, 1995)
• Lifetime Achievement Award, 1995
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (best other media — audio, 1999)

Edgar Allan Poe Award

• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (best short story, 1974)
• Soft Monkey (best short story, 1988)

Hugo Award

• ""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" (best short fiction, 1966)
• "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" (best short story, 1968)
• The City on the Edge of Forever (best dramatic presentation, 1968)
• Dangerous Visions (special award, 1968)
• "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" (best short story, 1969)
• Again, Dangerous Visions (special award for excellence in anthologizing, 1972)
• "The Deathbird" (best novelette, 1974)
• "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" (best novelette, 1975)
• A Boy and His Dog (film – Best Dramatic Presentation, 1976. The Hugo was originally given to the producers, but after Ellison complained that as author of the original story on which L. Q. Jones's screenplay was based, he deserved to share in the award. But no extra statuette could be found, so he was given the base of one to mollify him, which he calls his "half Hugo.")
• "Jeffty Is Five" (best short story, 1978)
• "Paladin of the Lost Hour" (best novelette, 1986)

Locus Poll Award

• The Region Between (best short fiction, 1970)
• Basilisk (best short fiction, 1972)
• Again, Dangerous Visions (best anthology, 1972)
• The Deathbird (best short fiction, 1974)
• Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W (best novelette, 1975)
• Croatoan (best short story, 1976)
• Jeffty Is Five (best short story, 1978) (best short story of all time, 1999 online poll)
• Count the Clock That Tells the Time (best short story, 1979)
• Djinn, No Chaser (best novellette, 1983)
• Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed (best related non-fiction, 1985)
• Medea: Harlan's World (best anthology, 1986)
• Paladin of the Lost Hour (best novelette, 1986)
• With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole (best short story, 1986)
• Angry Candy (best collection, 1989)
• The Function of Dream Sleep (best novellette, 1989)
• Eidolons (best short story, 1989)
• Mefisto in Onyx (best novella, 1994)
• Slippage (best collection, 1998)

Nebula Award

• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (best short story, 1965)
• A Boy and His Dog (best novella, 1969)
• Jeffty Is Five (best short story, 1977)
• Grand Master Award (at Tempe, Arizona, May 6, 2006)
• How Interesting: A Tiny Man (best short story, tied with Kij Johnson/"Ponies" 2011)

Writers Guild of America

• Demon with a Glass Hand/The Outer Limits (Best Original Teleplay)
• The City on the Edge of Forever/Star Trek(Best Original Teleplay)
• Phoenix Without Ashes/The Starlost (Best Written Dramatic Episode, 1974)
• Paladin of the Lost Hour/The Twilight Zone (Best Anthology Episode/Single Program, 1987)

Writers Guild of Canada

• The Human Operators/The Outer Limits (2000)

World Fantasy Award

• Angry Candy (Best Collection, 1988)
• Lifetime Achievement Award, 1993

J. Lloyd Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in Science Fiction

• 2011 recipient (Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, University of California, Riverside)