Steven Moffat In No Hugo Award Shock!

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Our own Steven Moffat has won several Hugo awards and has been nominated for even more. Doctor Who episodes like The Empty Child/ The Doctor Dances, The Girl in the Fireplace, Blink, and The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang have won Moffat the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Hugo award. Other episodes like A Christmas Carol, A Good Man Goes to War, Asylum of the Daleks, The Snowmen, and The Day of the Doctor have gotten Moffat nominated for the award, but didn’t win it.

More recently, the Moff was nominated for 2014’s Listen, which many fans consider just as good as Blink. In a strange turn of events, however (probably the Daleks were involved), he didn’t win the award, and Graham Manson’s Orphan Black: “By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried” got first place.

Below are the nominees:

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (4705 final ballots, 938 nominating ballots, 470 entries, range 71-170)

Orphan Black: “By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried”, ” written by Graham Manson, directed by John Fawcett (Temple Street Productions, Space/BBC America)
Doctor Who: “Listen”, written by Steven Moffat, directed by Douglas Mackinnon (BBC Television)
Game of Thrones: “The Mountain and the Viper”, written by David Benioff & D. B. Weiss, directed by Alex Graves ((HBO Entertainment in association with Bighead, Littlehead; Television 360; Startling Television and Generator Productions)
The Flash: “Pilot”, teleplay by Andrew Kreisberg & Geoff Johns, story by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg & Geoff Johns, directed by David Nutter (The CW) (Berlanti Productions, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television)
Grimm: “Once We Were Gods”, written by Alan DiFiore, directed by Steven DePaul (NBC) (GK Productions, Hazy Mills Productions, Universal TV)

Although I didn’t like it that much, Listen had it’s good moments, and many fans loved it – so I was a bit surprised to find out that it didn’t win a Hugo. Some people may consider this a turning point for Moffat, and a decline in his nominations and award-winnings. To me though, since he didn’t even win the Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) for episodes like The Day of the Doctor and A Good Man Goes to War, we shouldn’t be worried about him losing this fight.

That’s all for now! Have a good week!

Geronimo!!

Were you surprised that Listen didn’t win the award?

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