Awards and Recognition
His personal awards include the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (shared with director Janet Greek) for the Babylon 5 episode, "The Coming of Shadows" and the 1997 Hugo Award for Dramatic Presentation (shared with director David Eagle) for the Babylon 5 episode, "Severed Dreams". Along with the Babylon 5 cast and crew he received the 1994 Visions Of The Future Award from the Space Frontier Foundation, and in 1998 he received the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation for the television series Babylon 5.
Along with John Romita Jr. and Scott Hanna he was the 2002 Eisner Award winner for Best Serialized Story for his work on the Amazing Spider-Man comic, Coming Home. In 2004, he was voted Favorite Comics Writer by UK readers and received that year's Eagle Award. He was also among the recipients of the 1994 Inkpot Award. In 2008, as screenwriter, he was among the recipients of the Christopher Award issued to the movie Changeling.
Award nominations include the 2009 BAFTA Award, for his screenplay for Changeling. Three separate 2009 Eisner Award nominations - for Best Limited Edition (The Twelve) along with Chris Weston, Best Continuing Series (Thor) along with Olivier Coipel and Mark Morales, and Best Writer (Thor). In 1988, his novel, Demon Night, was presented for consideration of that year's Bram Stoker award, under the category of Best First Novel. He was also nominated for a Writers Guild Award and a Cable Ace Award for his adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, produced for Showtime Network. An asteroid, discovered in 1992 at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, was honorarily named 8379 Straczynski.
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