Seiun Award

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The Japanese equivalent of the Hugo Award (though, ironically, "seiun" means "nebula"), the Seiun Award is an award for the best Science Fiction published in Japan in the previous year, as voted on by fans who attend the Japan Science Fiction Convention. Named after the first professional science fiction magazine in Japan, they have been run since 1970.

Works that have won or been nominated for a Seiun Award include:

Anime - Best Media

• Uchuu Senkan Yamato (won 1975)
• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (won 1985)
• Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (won 1988)
• My Neighbor Totoro (won 1989)
• Gunbuster (won 1990)
• Martian Successor Nadesico: The Prince Of Darkness (won 1999)
• Cowboy Bebop (won 2000)
• Voices of a Distant Star (won 2003)
• Planetes (won 2005)
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (won 2007)
• Dennou Coil (won 2008)
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (nominated 2008)
• Darker than Black (nominated 2008)
• Oh! Edo Rocket (nominated 2008)
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S (nominated 2008)
• Macross Frontier (won 2009)
• Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (nominated 2009)
• Fireball (nominated 2009)
• Summer Wars (won 2010)
• Fresh Precure! Omocha no Kuni wa Himitsu ga Ippai!? (nominated 2010)
• The Tatami Galaxy (nominated 2011)
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica (nominated 2012)
• Mawaru Penguindrum (nominated 2012)
• Steins;Gate (nominated 2012)
• Tiger and Bunny (nominated 2012)

Comic Books (Best Comic)

• Kick-Ass (nominated 2011)

Film (Live Action) - Best Media

• Charly (tied winner 1970 with The Prisoner)
• The Andromeda Strain (won 1972)
• A Clockwork Orange (won 1973)
• Soylent Green (won 1974)
• Solaris (won 1978)
• Star Wars:
  • A New Hope (won 1979)
  • The Empire Strikes Back (won 1981)
• Alien (won 1980)
• Blade Runner (won 1983)
• The Dark Crystal(won 1984)
• Back to The Future (won 1986)
• Brazil (won 1987)
• Terminator:
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day (won 1992)
  • Terminator: Salvation (nominated 2010)
• Jurassic Park (won 1994)
• Zeiram 2 (won 1995)
• Gamera:
  • Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (won 1996)
  • Gamera: Attack of Legion (won 1997)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (won 2004)
• Transformers (nominated 2008)
  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (nominated 2010)
• Pan's Labyrinth (nominated 2008)
• The Dark Knight (nominated 2009)
• Avatar (nominated 2010)
• Star Trek (nominated 2010)
• Watchmen (nominated 2010)
• District 9 (won 2011)
• Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (nominated 2011)
• Paul (nominated 2012)
• Real Steel (nominated 2012)

Literature (Japanese) - Best Japanese Novel, unless noted

• Sentou Yousei Yukikaze (won 1985); Good Luck, Sentou Yousei Yukikaze (won 2000)
• The Dirty Pair's Great Adventures (won Best Japanese Short Story, 1980); Dirty Pair no Daigyakuten (won 1986)
• Legend of Galactic Heroes (won 1988)
• Crest of the Stars (won 1997)
• Library War series (won 2008)
• Guin Saga series (won 2010)

Literature (Non-Japanese) - Best Foreign Novel, unless noted

• The Andromeda Strain (won 1971)
• The Sirens of Titan (won 1973)
• Dune (won 1974)
• I Will Fear No Evil (won 1978)
• Ringworld (won 1979)
• Rendezvous With Rama (won 1980)
• The Elric Saga (won 1986)
• Neuromancer (won 1987)
• The Uplift War (won 1991)
• Tau Zero (won 1993)
• The Fall of Hyperion (won 1996 - tie with Timelike Infinity)
• Red Mars (won 1999 - tie with The Time Ships)
• There and Back Again (won 2002)
• Diaspora (won 2006)
• Mortal Engines (won 2007)
• Kiln People (nominated 2008)
• The Atrocity Archive (nominated 2008)
• Spin (won 2009)
• Light (nominated 2009)
• Accelerando (nominated 2010)
• Perdido Street Station (nominated 2010)
• The Yiddish Policemens Union (nominated 2010)
• World War Z (nominated 2011)
• Un Lun Dun (nominated 2011)
• Small Change (nominated 2011)
• Eifelheim (won 2011)
• The Windup Girl (nominated 2012)
• The City and The City (nominated 2012)
• The Chronoliths (nominated 2012)
• Dhalgren (nominated 2012)
• Little Brother (nominated 2012)

Live Action TV - Best Media

• The Prisoner (tied winner 1970 - with Charly)
• UFO (won 1971)
• Ultraman Tiga (won 1998)
• Kamen Rider:
  • Kamen Rider Kuuga (won 2002)
  • Kamen Rider Double (nominated 2011)
• Super Sentai:
  • Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (won 2006)
  • Samurai Sentai Shinkenger (nominated 2011)

Manga - Best Comic

• Toward the Terra (won 1978)
• Domu: A Child's Dream (won 1984)
• Appleseed (won 1986)
• Urusei Yatsura (won 1987)
• Mermaid's Forest (won 1989)
• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (won 1995)
• Parasyte (won 1996)
• Ushio and Tora (won 1997)
• Cardcaptor Sakura (won 2001)
• Planetes (won 2002)
• From Far Away (won 2004)
• Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (won 2007)
• 20th Century Boys (won 2008)
• Fruits Basket (nominated 2008)
• Trigun Maximum (won 2009)
• Pluto (won 2010)
• Hellsing (nominated 2010)
• Hakodate Youjin Buraichou Himegami (nominated 2010)
• Twin Spica (nominated 2010)
• Fullmetal Alchemist (won 2011)
• The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer (nominated 2011)
• Natsu no Arashi (nominated 2011)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (nominated 2012)
• Mirai Nikki vol. 12 (nominated 2012)
• Excel Saga vol. 27 (nominated 2012)

Video Games - Best Media

• Gunparade March (won 2001)

Free Genre

• Hatsune Miku (won 2008)
• Gundam 30th Anniversary Project Real G the Statue of Gundam (won 2010)
• Kobe Tetsujin Project (nominated 2010)

Special Award

• Osamu Tezuka (won 1989)