Named in honor of Ray Bradbury, the physical award was designed by Vincent Villafranca.[1] 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.
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.
This Ray Bradbury Award was not the current Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation. Before 2009 the winner was chosen by the President of SFWA, not by vote of the organization’s members.[2][3][4][5]
Starting with the 2009 award, the Nebula Award for Best Script was eliminated and the Ray Bradbury Award given in its place. While no longer a Nebula, the award will be presented at the Nebula Awards Ceremony and will follow Nebula rules and procedures.[7]
| Year | Creator(s) | Work | Publisher(s) |
|---|
| {{sort|20001|2009[8] | Neill|Blomkamp}}* | District 9 | TriStar Pictures |
|---|
| J. J.|Abrams}} (director), Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (writers) | Star Trek | Paramount Pictures |
| James|Cameron}} | Avatar | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
| Pete|Docter}} (writer/director), Bob Peterson and Tom McCarthy (writers) | Up | Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures |
| Henry|Selick}} (writer/director), Neil Gaiman (original story) | Coraline | Focus Features |
| {{sort|20011|2010[9] | Christopher|Nolan}}* | Inception | Warner Brothers |
|---|
| Pierre|Coffin}}, Chris Renaud (directors), Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio and Sergio Pablos (writers) | Despicable Me | Universal Pictures |
| Jonny|Campbell}} (director) and Richard Curtis (writer) | Doctor Who: "Vincent and the Doctor" | BBC |
| Dean|DeBlois}}, Chris Sanders (writers/directors) and William Davies (writer) | How To Train Your Dragon | Paramount Pictures |
| Edgar|Wright}} (writer/director) and Michael Bacall (writer) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Universal Pictures |
| Lee|Unkrich}} (writer/director), Michael Arndt, John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton (writers) | Toy Story 3 | Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures |
| {{sort|20021|2011[10] | Richard|Clark|Richard Clark (director)}} (director) and Neil Gaiman (writer)* | Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife" | BBC Wales |
|---|
| George|Nolfi}} | The Adjustment Bureau | Universal Pictures |
| Joe|Cornish}} | Attack the Block | Optimum Releasing and Screen Gems |
| Joe|Johnston}} (director), Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (writers) | The First Avenger | Paramount Pictures |
| Martin|Scorsese}} (director) and John Logan (writer) | Hugo | Paramount Pictures |
| Woody|Allen}} | Midnight in Paris | Sony Pictures |
| Duncan|Jones}} (director) and Ben Ripley (writer) | Source Code | Summit |
| {{sort|20031|2012[11] | Benh|Zeitlin}} (writer/director) and Lucy Alibar (writer)* | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Journeyman, Cinereach, and Court 13 |
|---|
| Joss|Whedon}} (writer/director) and Zak Penn (writer) | The Avengers | Marvel Studios |
| Drew|Goddard}} (writer/director) and Joss Whedon (writer) | The Cabin in the Woods | Mutant Enemy Productions |
| Andrew|Stanton}} (writer/director), Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon (writers) | John Carter | Walt Disney Pictures |
| Rian|Johnson}} | Looper | DMG Entertainment and Endgame Entertainment |
| {{sort|20041|2013[12] | Alfonso|Cuarón}} (director/writer) and Jonás Cuarón, (writer)* | Gravity | Warner Brothers |
|---|
| Nick|Hurran}} (director) and Steven Moffat (writer) | Doctor Who: "The Day of the Doctor | BBC Wales |
| Sebastián|Cordero}} (director) and Philip Gelatt (writer) | Europa Report | Start Motion Pictures |
| Spike|Jonze}} | Her | Warner Brothers |
| Francis|Lawrence}} (director), Simon Beaufoy, and Michael deBruyn (writers) | Catching Fire | Lionsgate |
| Guillermo|del Toro|Guillermo del Toro}} (director/writer) and Travis Beacham (writer) | Pacific Rim | Warner Brothers |
| {{sort|20051|2014[13] | James|Gunn }} (writer/director) and Nicole Perlman (writer) * | Guardians of the Galaxy | Walt Disney Pictures |
|---|
| Alejandro|G.|Iñárritu}} (writer/director) and Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó (writers) | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Fox Searchlight |
| Christopher|Markus}} and Stephen McFeely | The Winter Soldier | Walt Disney Pictures |
| Christopher|McQuarrie}} and Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth (writers) | Edge of Tomorrow | Warner Brothers |
| Jonathan|Nolan}} (writer) and Christopher Nolan (writer/director) | Interstellar | Paramount Pictures |
| Phil|Lord}} and Christopher Miller | The Lego Movie | Warner Brothers |
| {{sort|20061|2015[14] | George|Miller|George Miller (director)}} (writer/director), Brendan McCarthy, and Nico Lathouris (writers)* | Fury Road | Village Roadshow Pictures, Kennedy Miller Mitchell, and RatPac-Dune Entertainment |
|---|
| Alex|Garland}}, Bradley Thompson, and David Weddle | Ex Machina | Film4 and DNA Films |
| Pete|Docter}}, Ronnie del Carmen (writers/directors), Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley (writers) | Inside Out | Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios |
| Scott|Reynolds|Scott Reynolds (writer)}}, Melissa Rosenberg, and Jamie King (writers) | Jessica Jones: "AKA Smile" | Marvel Television, ABC Studios, and Tall Girls Productions |
| Ridley|Scott}} (writer/director), Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt (writers) | The Martian | Scott Free Productions, Kinberg Genre, and TSG Entertainment |
| J. J.|Abrams}}, Bradley Thompson, and David Weddle | The Force Awakens | Lucasfilm and Bad Robot Productions |
| {{sort|20071|2016[15] | Eric|Heisserer}}* | Arrival | 21 Laps Entertainment/FilmNation Entertainment/Lava Bear Films/Xenolinguistics |
|---|
| Scott|Derrickson}} and C. Robert Cargill | Doctor Strange | Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures |
| Mark|Haimes}} and Chris Butler | Kubo and the Two Strings | LAIKA |
| Chris|Weitz}} and Tony Gilroy | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Pictures |
| Lisa|Joy}} and Jonathan Nolan (writers) | Westworld: "The Bicameral Mind" | HBO |
| Jared|Bush}} and Phil Johnston | Zootopia | Walt Disney Pictures |
| {{sort|20171|2017[16] | Jordan|Peele}}* | Get Out | Universal Pictures |
|---|
| Michael|Schur}} | The Good Place: "Michael's Gambit" | NBC |
| Scott|Frank}}, James Gilroy and Michael Green | Logan | 20th Century Fox |
| Guillermo|del Toro}} and Vanessa Taylor | The Shape of Water | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| Rian|Johnson}} | The Last Jedi | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| Allan|Heinberg}} | Wonder Woman | Warner Brothers Pictures |
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.[17] This award is completely unrelated to the award presented by SFWA.
1. ^{{cite book | title = Nebula Awards Ceremony 2009 | publisher = SFWA | year = 2009 | location = Los Angeles, CA | page = 12}}
2. ^https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominated-work/2000x-tales-next-millennia-yuri-rasovsky/
3. ^https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominated-work/terminator-2/
4. ^https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominated-work/babylon-5-j-michael-straczynski/
5. ^https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominated-work/joss-whedon/
6. ^1 2 3 {{Cite web|url=https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award/ray-bradbury-award/|title=Nebula Awards Nominees and Winners: Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation Nebula Awards - The Nebula Awards|website=The Nebula Awards|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-24}}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=http://locusmag.com/2009/01/ray-bradbury-award/|title=Ray Bradbury Award|work=Locus Online|access-date=2017-10-24|language=en-US}}
8. ^https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2009/
9. ^https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2010/
10. ^https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2011/
11. ^https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2012/
12. ^https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2013/
13. ^https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2014/
14. ^https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2015/
15. ^https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2016/
16. ^https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2017/
17. ^{{cite web | title = Eerie Archives Volume 7| work = Eerie Archives Volume 7| publisher = Dark Horse Comics| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HTmydFTbr30C&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=Warren+Publishing+Ray+Bradbury+Award&source=bl&ots=1xEbH6-QLy&sig=GZjAdyrHlRCu6jGGV73N16gQdMg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAGoVChMIzN3Sx8HHxwIVCZENCh0iLwyj#v=onepage&q=Warren%20Publishing%20Ray%20Bradbury%20Award&f=false | accessdate = 2015-08-26}}