Ray Bradbury Award
The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation is an annual award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to the principal director and writer of the best dramatic presentation published in the United States in the preceding year. It is named to honor prolific author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury, and it was established in 2010 to replace the discontinued Nebula Award for Best Script, which was awarded from 1974 to 1978 and from 2000 to 2009. The award was originally not a Nebula Award, despite being presented along with them and following the same rules for nominations and voting, but in 2019 SFWA announced that the award was considered a Nebula category.
A previous award called the Ray Bradbury Award, chosen by the President of SFWA and not by vote, was awarded four times between 1992 and 2009. The physical award was designed by Vincent Villafranca. The cast bronze statuette references Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, while the IBM Selectric type ball used for the figure's head is indicative of Bradbury's stated preference for using an IBM Selectric typewriter.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the work was first released. Entries with a blue background and an asterisk next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.* Winners and joint winners
1992–2009
This Ray Bradbury Award was not the current Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation. Before 2010 the winner was chosen by the President of SFWA, not by vote of the organization’s members.| Year | Winner | Work |
| 1992 | and William Wisher * | |
| 1999 | * | Babylon 5 |
| 2001 | and * | 2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia |
| 2009 | * | Joss Whedon filmography |
2010–present
Starting with the 2010 award, the Nebula Award for Best Script was eliminated and the Ray Bradbury Award given in its place.| Year | Creator | Work | Publisher |
| * | District 9 | TriStar Pictures | |
| , Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman | Star Trek | Paramount Pictures | |
| Avatar | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | ||
| , Bob Peterson and Tom McCarthy | Up | Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures | |
| , Neil Gaiman | Coraline | Focus Features | |
| * | Inception | Warner Brothers | |
| , Chris Renaud, Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio and Sergio Pablos | Despicable Me | Universal Pictures | |
| and Richard Curtis | Doctor Who: "Vincent and the Doctor" | BBC | |
| , Chris Sanders and William Davies | How To Train Your Dragon | DreamWorks Animation | |
| and Michael Bacall | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Universal Pictures | |
| , Michael Arndt, John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton | Toy Story 3 | Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures | |
| and Neil Gaiman * | Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife" | BBC Wales | |
| The Adjustment Bureau | Universal Pictures | ||
| Attack the Block | Optimum Releasing and Screen Gems | ||
| , Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely | ' | Paramount Pictures | |
| and John Logan | Hugo | Paramount Pictures | |
| Midnight in Paris | Sony Pictures | ||
| and Ben Ripley | Source Code | Summit | |
| and Lucy Alibar * | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Journeyman, Cinereach, and Court 13 | |
| and Zak Penn | The Avengers | Marvel Studios | |
| and Joss Whedon | The Cabin in the Woods | Mutant Enemy Productions | |
| , Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon | John Carter | Walt Disney Pictures | |
| Looper | DMG Entertainment and Endgame Entertainment | ||
| and Jonás Cuarón, * | Gravity | Warner Brothers | |
| and Steven Moffat | Doctor Who: "The Day of the Doctor" | BBC Wales | |
| and Philip Gelatt | Europa Report | Start Motion Pictures | |
| Her | Warner Brothers | ||
| , Simon Beaufoy, and Michael deBruyn | ' | Lionsgate | |
| and Travis Beacham | Pacific Rim | Warner Brothers | |
| and Nicole Perlman * | Guardians of the Galaxy | Walt Disney Pictures | |
| and Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó | Birdman or | Fox Searchlight | |
| and Stephen McFeely | ' | Walt Disney Pictures | |
| and Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth | Edge of Tomorrow | Warner Brothers | |
| and Christopher Nolan | Interstellar | Paramount Pictures | |
| and Christopher Miller | The Lego Movie | Warner Brothers | |
| , Brendan McCarthy, and Nico Lathouris * | ' | Village Roadshow Pictures, Kennedy Miller Mitchell, and RatPac-Dune Entertainment | |
| , Bradley Thompson, and David Weddle | Ex Machina | Film4 and DNA Films | |
| , Ronnie del Carmen, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley | Inside Out | Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios | |
| , Melissa Rosenberg, and Jamie King | Jessica Jones: "AKA Smile" | Marvel Television, ABC Studios, and Tall Girls Productions | |
| , Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt | The Martian | Scott Free Productions, Kinberg Genre, and TSG Entertainment | |
| , Bradley Thompson, and David Weddle | ' | Lucasfilm and Bad Robot Productions | |
| * | Arrival | 21 Laps Entertainment/FilmNation Entertainment/Lava Bear Films/Xenolinguistics | |
| and C. Robert Cargill | Doctor Strange | Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures | |
| and Chris Butler | Kubo and the Two Strings | LAIKA | |
| and Tony Gilroy | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Pictures | |
| and Jonathan Nolan | Westworld: "The Bicameral Mind" | HBO | |
| and Phil Johnston | Zootopia | Walt Disney Pictures | |
| * | Get Out | Universal Pictures | |
| The Good Place: "Michael's Gambit" | NBC | ||
| , James Gilroy and Michael Green | Logan | 20th Century Fox | |
| and Vanessa Taylor | The Shape of Water | Fox Searchlight Pictures | |
| ' | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | ||
| Wonder Woman | Warner Brothers Pictures | ||
| and Rodney Rothman* | ' | Sony Pictures Animation | |
| and Joe Robert Cole | Black Panther | Marvel Studios | |
| , Bryan Woods and Scott Beck | A Quiet Place | Platinum Dunes/Sunday Night | |
| and Chuck Lightning | Dirty Computer | Wondaland Arts Society/Bad Boy Records/Atlantic Records | |
| Sorry to Bother You | Annapurna Pictures | ||
| The Good Place: "Jeremy Bearimy" | NBC | ||
| * | Good Omens: "Hard Times" | Amazon Studios/BBC Studios | |
| and Stephen McFeely | ' | Marvel Studios | |
| , Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Ryan Fleck | Captain Marvel | Marvel Studios | |
| The Mandalorian: "The Child" | Disney+ | ||
| and Leslye Headland | Russian Doll: "The Way Out" | Netflix | |
| and Damon Lindelof | Watchmen: "A God Walks into Abar" | HBO |
Other uses
In 1971, James Warren, the publisher of Warren Publishing began giving out a series of awards at the New York Comic Con, including one called the Ray Bradbury Award for Best Story, which went to Tom Sutton for the story "Snowman" publishing in Creepy issue 31. In subsequent years, the award for Best Story from Warren Publishing was not referred to as the Ray Bradbury Award. This award is completely unrelated to the award presented by SFWA.In 2020, the Los Angeles Times created the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, with the first award being presented at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The award "honors and extends Bradbury’s literary legacy by celebrating and elevating the writers working in his field today." This award is also completely unrelated to the award presented by SFWA.