THE NETHERSPHERE EDITED BY Dallas Jones & Roger Reynolds
The Doctor Who story Listen has been nominated for a 2015 Hugo Award in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form category. Other shows nominated include Game of Thrones, The Flash, Grimm and Orphan Black. The 2015 Hugo Award winners will be announced Saturday August 22 2015, during the Hugo Awards Ceremony at the 2015 Worldcon.
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Milk VFX, Real SFX, and BBC Wales VFX the three visual effects houses that create all of the CGI used in Doctor Who have been nominated for the 2015 BAFTA Craft Award for Special, Visual, and Graphic Effects. Danny Hargreaves of Real SFX tweeted "Very proud of my team today". Doctor Who won the award last year for the work on the fiftieth anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor. The winners will be announced on Sunday April 26 at the Brewery in East London.
Karen Gillan took away the Best Female Newcomer for her work on Guardians of the Galaxy and Oculus at the Jameson Empire Awards. Also in attendance was Peter Capaldi who was among the stars of Paddington who appeared on stage to accept the award for Best Comedy. In brief interviews, afterward, with various press people, he touched upon why Doctor Who would be perfect as a movie – but also that it should remain very much domestic. “It looks so much like a movie now,” he said. “The production values are so high that it looks extraordinary. So it would look great on the big screen… But I think there’s something nice about the domestic quality of it being in the living room as well. I mean, that’s the great thing about Doctor Who; it’s always managed to be both galactic and domestic.” He also revealed that Paddington was the last thing he made before stepping into the TARDIS, and that he has no current plans for another movie as yet – simply because in the time between filming Doctor Who, he’ll be promoting it!
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The PromaxBDA Europe Awards 2015 took place in Berlin on March 24 and AMC Networks took the award for General Image Programme Design Package for the evocative imagery created by Drover for the launch of classic Doctor Who on the Horror Channel. ‘The New Doctor Lands’, the BBC campaign to accompany the arrival of Peter Capaldi by Red Bee Creative, picked up Silver in the Promotional Interactive Applications category.
Doctor Who has won two awards at the Cardiff Life Awards, which celebrate the very best businesses in Cardiff. The Doctor Who Experience has been awarded Best in Leisure & Tourism at the event. Meanwhile, Real SFX who has been providing Special Effects for Doctor Who, has been awarded the prize as best Creative in the city.
Samuel Anderson has won the award for Best Male Performance in TV at the 2015 Screen Nation Film & Television Awards for his work on Doctor Who and Trollied. The Awards reward professionals of African heritage working in the UK in global film, TV industries. The awards were presented at a ceremony held at London's Hilton Metropole on February 16.
The 41st Annual Saturn Award nominations have been announced, and see Doctor Who up for two awards for this year. The show itself is listed in the Best Youth-Oriented Television Series category. Jenna Coleman has also been nominated in the Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series category. The Awards are presented by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, and will take place this year on June 25 2015.
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