Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation

The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is given each year for theatrical films, television episodes, or other dramatized works related to science fiction or fantasy released in the previous calendar year. Originally the award covered both works of film and of television but since 2003, it has been split into two categories: Best Dramatic Presentation and Best Dramatic Presentation . The Dramatic Presentation Awards are part of the broader Hugo Awards, which are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, and was once officially known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award. The award has been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction".

History

The award was first presented in 1958, and with the exceptions of 1964 and 1966 was given annually through 2002 when it was retired in favor of the newly created Dramatic Presentation and Dramatic Presentation categories, which divided the category depending on whether the work was longer or shorter than 90 minutes. In the 1964 and 1966 awards there were insufficient nominations made to support the category. Prior to 1971, the category was defined as including works from "radio, television, stage or screen", and thereafter was expanded to "any medium of dramatized science fiction or fantasy", resulting in the nomination of recorded songs and other works. In addition to the regular Hugo awards, since 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro Hugos", have been available to be awarded for years 50, 75, or 100 years prior in which no awards were given. To date, Retro Hugo awards have been awarded for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954; the 1946 and 1951 awards were for the Best Dramatic Presentation category while the 1939, 1945, and 1954 awards were for the Short Form category. There were insufficient nominations to support an award in the Long Form category for those years. The 1941 and 1944 awards were for both Long and Short Form.
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six finalists, except in the case of a tie. The works on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of works that can be nominated. The 1958 awards did not include any recognition of runner-up magazines, but since 1959 all six candidates were recorded. Initial nominations are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six finalists is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held. Prior to 2017, the final ballot was five works; it was changed that year to six, with each initial nominator limited to five nominations, and no more than two works per series allowed on the final ballot. Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and are held in a different city around the world each year. Members are permitted to vote "no award", if they feel that none of the finalists is deserving of the award that year, and in the case that "no award" takes the majority the Hugo is not given in that category. This has happened in the Dramatic Presentation category four times, in 1959, 1963, 1971, and 1977.
The award is typically for television and film presentations, but occasionally rewards works in other formats: in 1970 it was awarded to news coverage of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, while in 1971 a concept album and a comedy album were finalists. Another comedy album was a finalist the following year, and a slideshow was a finalist in 1976. A radio play was a finalist in 1979, and all of the 1939 Retro Hugo awards were for radio plays. In 2004, an acceptance speech from the 2003 MTV Movie Awards won the award, while in 2006, a skit from the opening of the previous year's award ceremony was a finalist. An audiobook was a finalist in 2009, another acceptance speech was a finalist in 2012, a concept album was a finalist in 2017, and a song was a finalist in 2018.
During the 75 nomination years, 43 awards for Best Dramatic Presentation, 24 awards each for Short Form and Long Form, and 11 Retro Hugo awards have been given. The individual franchises with the most awards are Doctor Who/Whoniverse with 6 Short Form awards out of 39 final ballot nominations; Star Trek with 4 Best Dramatic Presentation awards out of 21 nominations, as well as one Short Form award out of 9 nominations, and a Long Form nomination; Star Wars with 3 Best Dramatic Presentation awards out of 3 nominations as well as 4 Long Form and 5 Short Form nominations.
Other shows or series with multiple awards or nominations include The Good Place with 4 wins out of 6 Short Form nominations, The Twilight Zone with 3 Best Dramatic Presentation awards out of 4 nominations, Game of Thrones with 3 wins out of a Long Form and 5 Short Form nominations, The Expanse with 3 wins out of 6 Short Form nominations, and Babylon 5 with 2 wins out of 4 nominations, the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 1 win out of 15 Long Form and 4 Short Form nominations, Buffy the Vampire Slayer with 1 out of 6, Battlestar Galactica with 1 of 5, and Harry Potter with no awards after 7 nominations. The members of the hip hop group Clipping are the only musical artists to have earned two nominations for their works, first for their 2016 album Splendor & Misery and then for their 2017 song "The Deep".

Winners and finalists

In the following tables, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the work was first published. Entries with a yellow background and an asterisk next to the work's name have won the award; those with a white background are the finalists on the short-list. Entries with a gray background and a plus sign mark a year when "no award" was selected as the winner. In the case of television presentations, the award is generally for a particular episode rather than for a program as a whole; however, sometimes, as in the case of The Twilight Zone, it was given for the series' body of work that year rather than for any particular episode.

1958–2002

* Winner
+ No winner selected

Year	Work	Creator	Publisher	Ref.
1958	The Incredible Shrinking Man*	Jack Arnold, Richard Matheson	Universal Studios
1959	+
1959	The 7th Voyage of Sinbad	Nathan Juran, Ken Kolb, Ray Harryhausen	Morningside Movies/Columbia Pictures
1959	Dracula	Terence Fisher, Jimmy Sangster, Bram Stoker	Hammer Film Productions
1959	The Fly	Kurt Neumann, James Clavell, George Langelaan	20th Century Fox
1960	The Twilight Zone*	Rod Serling	CBS
1960	Men into Space		CBS
1960	Murder and the Android	Alex Segal, Alfred Bester	NBC
1960	The [Turn of the Screw (Ford Startime)\|The Turn of the Screw]	John Frankenheimer, James Costigan, Henry James	NBC
1960	The World, the [Flesh and the Devil (1959 film)\|The World, the Flesh and the Devil]	Ranald MacDougall, Ferdinand Reyher, M. P. Shiel	HarBel/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1961	The Twilight Zone*	Rod Serling	CBS
1961	The Time Machine	George Pal, David Duncan, H. G. Wells	Galaxy Films/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1961	Village of the Damned	Wolf Rilla, Stirling Silliphant, Ronald Kinnoch	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1962	The Twilight Zone*	Rod Serling	CBS
1962	Thriller		NBC
1962	The United States Steel Hour: "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon"	James Yaffe, Daniel Keyes	CBS
1962	Village of the Damned	Wolf Rilla, Stirling Silliphant, Ronald Kinnoch	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1962	The Fabulous World of Jules Verne	Karel Zeman, František Hrubín, Jules Verne	Warner Bros.
1963	+
1963	The Twilight Zone	Rod Serling	CBS
1963	Last Year at Marienbad	Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Adolfo Bioy Casares	Argos Films
1963	The Day the Earth Caught Fire	Val Guest, Wolf Mankowitz	British Lion Films/Pax
1963	Night of the Eagle	Sidney Hayers, Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, George Baxt, Fritz Leiber	Anglo-Amalgamated/Independent Artists
1965	Dr. Strangelove*	Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George	Hawk Films/Columbia Pictures
1965	7 Faces of Dr. Lao	George Pal, Charles Beaumont, Charles G. Finney	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1967	Star Trek: "The Menagerie"*	Marc Daniels, Gene Roddenberry	Desilu Productions
1967	Star Trek: "The Corbomite Maneuver"	Joseph Sargent, Jerry Sohl	Desilu Productions
1967	Star Trek: "The Naked Time"	Marc Daniels, John D. F. Black	Desilu Productions
1967	Fahrenheit 451	François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Helen G. Scott, Ray Bradbury	Anglo Enterprises/Vineyard
1967	Fantastic Voyage	Richard Fleischer, Harry Kleiner, David Duncan, Jerome Bixby, Otto Klement	20th Century Fox
1968	Star Trek: "The City on the Edge of Forever"*	Joseph Pevney, Harlan Ellison	Desilu Productions
1968	Star Trek: "Amok Time"	Joseph Pevney, Theodore Sturgeon	Desilu Productions
1968	Star Trek: "Mirror, Mirror"	Marc Daniels, Jerome Bixby	Desilu Productions
1968	Star Trek: "The Doomsday Machine"	Marc Daniels, Norman Spinrad	Desilu Productions
1968	Star Trek: "The Trouble with Tribbles"	Joseph Pevney, David Gerrold	Desilu Productions
1969	2001: A Space Odyssey*	Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1969	The Prisoner: "Fall Out"	Patrick McGoohan	Everyman/ITC Entertainment
1969	Charly	Ralph Nelson, Stirling Silliphant, Daniel Keyes	ABC Pictures/Selmer
1969	Rosemary's Baby	Roman Polanski, Ira Levin	Paramount Pictures
1969	Yellow Submarine	George Dunning, Al Brodax, Roger McGough, Jack Mendelsohn, Lee Minoff, Erich Segal	Apple Corps/Hearst/King Features Syndicate
1970	News coverage of Apollo 11*	Multiple sources	Multiple publishers, NASA
1970	The Bed Sitting Room	Richard Lester, John Antrobus, Charles Wood, John Antrobus, Spike Milligan	Oscar Lewenstein Productions
1970	The Illustrated Man	Jack Smight, Howard B. Kreitsek, Ray Bradbury	SKM
1970	The Immortal	Allen Baron, Joseph Sargent, Lou Morheim, Robert Specht, James Gunn	Paramount Pictures
1970	Marooned	John Sturges, Mayo Simon, Martin Caidin	Columbia Pictures
1971	+
1971	Blows Against the Empire	Paul Kantner	RCA Records
1971	Colossus: The Forbin Project	Joseph Sargent, James Bridges, D. F. Jones	Universal Studios
1971	Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers	The Firesign Theatre	Columbia Records
1971	Hauser's Memory	Boris Sagal, Adrian Spies, Curt Siodmak	Universal Studios
1971	No Blade of Grass	Cornel Wilde, Sean Forestal, Jefferson Pascal, John Christopher	Theodora/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1972	A Clockwork Orange*	Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess	Hawk Films/Polaris/Warner Bros.
1972	The Andromeda Strain	Robert Wise, Nelson Gidding, Michael Crichton	Universal Studios
1972	I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus	The Firesign Theatre	Columbia Records
1972	The Name of the Game: "L.A. 2017"	Steven Spielberg, Philip Wylie	Universal Studios/NBC
1972	THX 1138	George Lucas, Walter Murch	Warner Bros./American Zoetrope
1973	Slaughterhouse-Five*	George Roy Hill, Stephen Geller, Kurt Vonnegut	Universal Studios
1973	Between Time and Timbuktu	Fred Barzyk, Kurt Vonnegut	NET Playhouse/Public Broadcasting Service
1973	The People	John Korty, James M. Miller, Zenna Henderson	American Zoetrope/ABC
1973	Silent Running	Douglas Trumbull, Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Steven Bochco	Universal Studios
1974	Sleeper*	Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman	Rollins-Joffe/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists
1974	Genesis II	John Llewellyn Moxey, Gene Roddenberry	Norway/Warner Bros.
1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Richard Irving, Tom Greene, Howard Rodman, Martin Caidin	Universal Studios
1974	Soylent Green	Richard Fleischer, Stanley R. Greenberg, Harry Harrison	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1974	Westworld	Michael Crichton	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1975	Young Frankenstein*	Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Mary Shelley	20th Century Fox
1975	Flesh Gordon	Michael Benveniste, Howard Ziehm	Graffiti Productions
1975	Phantom of the Paradise	Brian De Palma	Harbor/20th Century Fox
1975	The Questor Tapes	Richard A. Colla, Gene L. Coon, Gene Roddenberry	Universal Studios
1975	Zardoz	John Boorman	20th Century Fox
1976	A [Boy and His Dog (1975 film)\|A Boy and His Dog]*	L. Q. Jones, Wayne Cruseturner, Harlan Ellison	LQ/JAF
1976	Dark Star	John Carpenter, Dan O'Bannon	USC
1976	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin	Python (Monty) Pictures
1976	Rollerball	Norman Jewison, William Harrison	Algonquin/United Artists
1976	The Capture	Robert Asprin, Phil Foglio	Boojums Press
1977	+
1977	Carrie	Brian De Palma, Lawrence D. Cohen, Stephen King	Redbank/United Artists
1977	Logan's Run	Michael Anderson, David Zelag Goodman, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1977	The [Man Who Fell to Earth (film)\|The Man Who Fell to Earth]	Nicolas Roeg, Paul Mayersberg, Walter Tevis	British Lion Films
1977	Futureworld	Richard T. Heffron, George Schenk, Mayo Simon	American International Pictures
1978	Star Wars*	George Lucas	Lucasfilm
1978	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Steven Spielberg	Columbia Pictures/EMI Films
1978	Blood!: The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper	Shelley Torgeson, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Roy Torgeson	Alternate Worlds Recordings
1978	Wizards	Ralph Bakshi	20th Century Fox
1978	The Hobbit	Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr., Romeo Muller, J. R. R. Tolkien	Rankin/Bass
1979	Superman*	Richard Donner, Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, Robert Benton, Mario Puzo, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster	Alexander Salkind
1979	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Philip Kaufmann, W. D. Richter, Jack Finney	Solofilm/United Artists
1979	The Lord of the Rings	Ralph Bakshi, Peter S. Beagle, Chris Conkling, J. R. R. Tolkien	Fantasy Films
1979	Watership Down	Martin Rosen, Richard Adams	Nepenthe Productions
1979	The [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)\|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]	Douglas Adams, Geoffrey Perkins	BBC Radio 4
1980	Alien*	Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett	20th Century Fox
1980	The Black Hole	Gary Nelson, Jeb Rosebrook, Gerry Day, Bob Barbash, Richard H. Landau	The Walt Disney Company
1980	The Muppet Movie	James Frawley, Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl	The [Jim Henson Company]/ITC Entertainment
1980	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	Robert Wise, Harold Livingstonn, Alan Dean Foster, Gene Roddenberry	Century/Paramount Pictures
1980	Time After Time	Nicholas Meyer, Karl Alexander, Steve Hayes	Warner Bros.
1981	The Empire Strikes Back*	Irvin Kershner, Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas	Lucasfilm
1981	Cosmos: A Personal Voyage	Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan	KCET/Public Broadcasting Service
1981	Flash Gordon	Mike Hodges, Lorenzo Semple, Jr., Michael Allin, Alex Raymond	20th Century Fox/De Laurentiis
1981	The Lathe of Heaven	Fred Barzyk, David R. Loxton, Diane English, Roger Swaybill, Ursula K. Le Guin	WNET/Public Broadcasting Service
1981	The Martian Chronicles	Michael Anderson, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury	BBC/NBC
1982	Raiders of the Lost Ark*	Steven Spielberg, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Philip Kaufman	Lucasfilm
1982	Dragonslayer	Matthew Robbins, Hal Barwood	Paramount Pictures/The Walt Disney Company
1982	Excalibur	John Boorman, Rospo Pallenberg, Thomas Malory	Warner Bros.
1982	Outland	Peter Hyams	Outland/The Ladd Company
1982	Time Bandits	Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin	HandMade Films
1983	Blade Runner*	Ridley Scott, Hampton Fancher, David Peoples, Philip K. Dick	Blade Runner Partnership
1983	The Dark Crystal	Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Gary Kurtz, David Odell	The Jim Henson Company/ITC Entertainment/Universal Studios
1983	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg, Melissa Mathison	Amblin Entertainment/Universal Studios
1983	Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior	George Miller, Terry Hayes, Brian Hannant	Kennedy Miller/Warner Bros.
1983	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	Nicholas Meyer, Jack B. Sowards, Harve Bennett, Samuel A. Peeples	Paramount Pictures
1984	Return of the Jedi*	Richard Marquand, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas	Lucasfilm
1984	Brainstorm	Douglas Trumbull, Philip Frank Messina, Robert Stitzel, Bruce Joel Rubin	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1984	The Right Stuff	Philip Kaufmann, Tom Wolfe	The Ladd Company
1984	Something Wicked This Way Comes	Jack Clayton, Ray Bradbury	The Bryna Company/The Walt Disney Company
1984	WarGames	John Badham, Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1985	2010*	Peter Hyams, Arthur C. Clarke	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1985	Dune	David Lynch, Frank Herbert	De Laurentiis/Universal Studios
1985	Ghostbusters	Ivan Reitman, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis	Black Rhino/Columbia Pictures
1985	The Last Starfighter	Nick Castle, Jonathan R. Betuel	Lorimar Productions/Universal Studios
1985	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett	Cinema Group/Paramount Pictures
1986	Back to the Future*	Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale	Amblin Entertainment/Universal Studios
1986	Brazil	Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown, Tom Stoppard	Embassy/Universal Studios
1986	Cocoon	Ron Howard, Tom Benedek, David Saperstein	20th Century Fox/Zanuck/Brown
1986	Enemy Mine	Wolfgang Petersen, Edward Khmara, Barry B. Longyear	20th Century Fox/King's Road
1986	Ladyhawke	Richard Donner, Edward Khmara, Michael Thomas, Tom Mankiewicz, David Peoples	20th Century Fox/Warner Bros.
1987	Aliens*	James Cameron, David Giler, Walter Hill	20th Century Fox
1987	The Fly	David Cronenberg, Charles Edward Pogue, George Langelaan	Brooksfilms/20th Century Fox
1987	Labyrinth	Jim Henson, Terry Jones, Dennis Lee	Delphi/The Jim Henson Company/Lucasfilm/TriStar Pictures
1987	Little Shop of Horrors	Frank Oz, Howard Ashman, Charles B. Griffith	The Geffen Film Company
1987	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett, Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Nicholas Meyer	Paramount Pictures
1988	The Princess Bride*	Rob Reiner, William Goldman	Act III/20th Century Fox
1988	Predator	John McTiernan, Jim Thomas, John Thomas	20th Century Fox
1988	RoboCop	Paul Verhoeven, Michael Miner, Edward Neumeier	Orion Pictures
1988	Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Encounter at Farpoint"	Corey Allen, D. C. Fontana, Gene Roddenberry	Paramount Pictures
1988	The Witches of Eastwick	George Miller, Michael Cristofer, John Updike	Guber-Peters/Kennedy Miller/Warner Bros.
1989	Who Framed Roger Rabbit*	Robert Zemeckis, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Gary K. Wolf	Amblin Entertainment/Touchstone Pictures
1989	Alien Nation	Graham Baker (director), Rockne S. O'Bannon	20th Century Fox
1989	Beetlejuice	Tim Burton, Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren, Larry Wilson	Geffen/Warner Bros.
1989	Big	Penny Marshall, Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg	20th Century Fox
1989	Willow	Ron Howard, Bob Dolman, George Lucas	Imagine/Lucasfilm/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1990	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*	Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Boam, George Lucas, Menno Meyjes	Lucasfilm/Paramount Pictures
1990	The Abyss	James Cameron	20th Century Fox/Lightstorm/Pacific Western
1990	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Gottfried August Bürger	Allied Artists International/Columbia Pictures/Laura/Prominent
1990	Batman	Tim Burton, Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren, Bob Kane	Guber-Peters/PolyGram/Warner Bros.
1990	Field of Dreams	Phil Alden Robinson, W. P. Kinsella	Gordon/Universal Studios
1991	Edward Scissorhands*	Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson	20th Century Fox
1991	Back to the Future Part III	Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale	Amblin Entertainment/Universal Studios
1991	Ghost	Jerry Zucker, Bruce Joel Rubin	Paramount Pictures
1991	Total Recall	Paul Verhoeven, Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, Gary Goldman, Jon Povill, Philip K. Dick	Carolco Pictures/TriStar Pictures
1991	The Witches	Nicolas Roeg, Allan Scott, Roald Dahl	The Jim Henson Company/Lorimar Productions
1992	Terminator 2: Judgment Day*	James Cameron, William Wisher Jr.	Carolco Pictures/Lightstorm/Pacific Western
1992	The Addams Family	Barry Sonnenfeld, Caroline Thompson, Larry Wilson, Charles Addams	Orion Pictures/Paramount Pictures
1992	Beauty and the Beast	Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, Linda Woolverton	Silver Screen Partners/The Walt Disney Company
1992	The Rocketeer	Joe Johnston, Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, William Dear, Dave Stevens	Gordon/Silver Screen Partners/Touchstone Pictures/The Walt Disney Company
1992	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	Nicholas Meyer, Denny Martin Flinn, Leonard Nimoy, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal	Paramount Pictures
1993	Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Inner Light"*	Peter Lauritson, Peter Allan Fields, Morgan Gendel	Paramount Pictures
1993	Aladdin	Ron Clements, John Musker, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio	The Walt Disney Company
1993	Alien 3	David Fincher, David Giler, Walter Hill, Larry Ferguson, Vincent Ward	20th Century Fox/Brandywine
1993	Batman Returns	Tim Burton, Daniel Waters, Sam Hamm, Bob Kane	PolyGram/Warner Bros.
1993	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Francis Ford Coppola, James V. Hart, Bram Stoker	American Zoetrope/Columbia Pictures
1994	Jurassic Park*	Steven Spielberg, David Koepp, Michael Crichton	Universal Studios/Amblin Entertainment
1994	Addams Family Values	Barry Sonnenfeld, Paul Rudnick, Charles Addams	Orion Pictures/Paramount Pictures
1994	Babylon 5: "The Gathering"	Richard Compton, J. Michael Straczynski	Babylonian Productions
1994	Groundhog Day	Harold Ramis, Danny Rubin	Columbia Pictures
1994	The Nightmare Before Christmas	Henry Selick, Caroline Thompson, Michael McDowell, Tim Burton	Skellington Productions/Touchstone Pictures
1995	Star Trek: The Next Generation: "All Good Things..."*	Winrich Kolbe, Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga	Paramount Pictures
1995	Interview with the Vampire	Neil Jordan, Anne Rice	The Geffen Film Company
1995	The Mask	Chuck Russell, Mike Werb, Michael Fallon, Mark Verheiden	Dark Horse Entertainment/New Line Cinema
1995	Stargate	Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin	Carolco Pictures/Centropolis
1995	Star Trek Generations	David Carson, Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga, Rick Berman	Paramount Pictures
1996	Babylon 5: "The Coming of Shadows"*	Janet Greek, J. Michael Straczynski	Babylonian Productions
1996	Apollo 13	Ron Howard, William Broyles, Jr., Al Reinert, Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger	Imagine Entertainment/Universal Studios
1996	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "The Visitor"	David Livingston, Michael Taylor	Paramount Pictures
1996	Toy Story	John Lasseter, Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft	The Walt Disney Company/Pixar
1996	12 Monkeys	Terry Gilliam, David Peoples, Janet Peoples, Chris Marker	Atlas/Universal Studios
1997	Babylon 5: "Severed Dreams"*	David J. Eagle, J. Michael Straczynski	Babylonian Productions
1997	Independence Day	Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin	20th Century Fox/Centropolis
1997	Mars Attacks!	Tim Burton, Jonathan Gems, Len Brown, Woody Gelman, Wally Wood, Bob Powell, Norman Saunders	Warner Bros.
1997	Star Trek: First Contact	Jonathan Frakes, Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga, Rick Berman	Paramount Pictures
1997	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Trials and Tribble-ations"	Jonathan West, Ronald D. Moore, René Echevarria, Ira Steven Behr, Hans Beimler, Robert Hewitt Wolfe	Paramount Pictures
1998	Contact*	Robert Zemeckis, James V. Hart, Michael Goldenberg, Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan	SouthSide Amusement/Warner Bros.
1998	The Fifth Element	Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen	Gaumont Film Company/Columbia Pictures
1998	Gattaca	Andrew Niccol	Columbia Pictures/Jersey
1998	Men in Black	Barry Sonnenfeld, Ed Solomon, Lowell Cunningham	Amblin Entertainment/Columbia Pictures/McDonald/Parkes
1998	Starship Troopers	Paul Verhoeven, Edward Neumeier, Robert A. Heinlein	Touchstone Pictures/TriStar Pictures
1999	The Truman Show*	Peter Weir, Andrew Niccol	Paramount Pictures
1999	Babylon 5: "Sleeping in Light"	J. Michael Straczynski	Babylonian Productions
1999	Dark City	Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs, David S. Goyer	New Line Cinema
1999	Pleasantville	Gary Ross	New Line Cinema
1999	Star Trek: Insurrection	Jonathan Frakes, Michael Piller, Rick Berman	Paramount Pictures
2000	Galaxy Quest*	Dean Parisot, David Howard, Robert Gordon	DreamWorks
2000	Being John Malkovich	Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman	Gramercy Pictures/Propaganda Films/Single Cell
2000	The Iron Giant	Brad Bird, Tim McCanlies, Ted Hughes	Warner Bros.
2000	The Matrix	Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski	Silver Pictures
2000	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan	Hollywood Pictures/Spyglass Entertainment/Kennedy/Marshall
2001	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*	Ang Lee, Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, Tsai Kuo Jung, Wang Dulu	China Film Group Corporation
2001	Chicken Run	Peter Lord, Nick Park, Kary Kirkpatrick, Randy Cartwright	Aardman Animations/Allied Artists International/DreamWorks
2001	Frank Herbert's Dune	John Harrison, Frank Herbert	New Amsterdam
2001	Frequency	Gregory Hoblit, Toby Emmerich	New Line Cinema
2001	X-Men	Bryan Singer, David Hayter, Tom DeSanto	20th Century Fox/Marvel Studios
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*	Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, J. R. R. Tolkien	New Line Cinema/The Saul Zaentz Company/WingNut Films
2002	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	Chris Columbus, Steve Kloves	1492 Pictures/Heyday Films/Warner Bros.
2002	Monsters, Inc.	Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich, Dan Gerson, Andrew Stanton, Jill Culton, Ralph Eggleston Jeff Pidgeon	Pixar/The Walt Disney Company
2002	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Once More, with Feeling"	Joss Whedon	Fox Television Studios/Mutant Enemy Productions
2002	Shrek	Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, Roger S. H. Schulman, Edmund Fong, Ken Harsha	DreamWorks/Pacific Data Images

2003–present

Starting with the 2003 awards, the Dramatic Presentation award was split into two categories: Best Dramatic Presentation and Best Dramatic Presentation. The Long Form award is for "a dramatized production in any medium, including film, television, radio, live theater, computer games or music. The work must last 90 minutes or longer." The Short Form award is for "a dramatized production in any medium, including film, television, radio, live theater, computer games or music. The work must last less than 90 minutes." An individual work such as a television show can be nominated for a season in the Long Form category or for individual episodes in the Short Form, though not for both in the same year. As of 2017, a single show is limited to two nominations in the Short Form category per year.

Long Form

Short Form

Retro Hugos

Beginning with the 1996 Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Society created the concept of "Retro Hugos", in which the Hugo award could be retroactively awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years in which a Worldcon was hosted, but no awards were originally given. The 1939, 1941, and 1943—1945 awards were given 75 years later; the other three awards were given 50 years later. In 1946 and 1951, an award was given for Best Dramatic Presentation, as the category had not yet been split, while in 1939, 1943, 1945, and 1954 an award was given for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. The Long Form category did not receive enough nominations for an award to be given in those years. The 1941 and 1944 Retro Hugos awarded both Long and Short Forms.

Year	Year awarded	Work	Creator	Publisher	Ref.
1939	2014	The [War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)\|The War of the Worlds]*	Orson Welles, H.G. Wells	The Mercury Theatre on the Air/CBS
1939	2014	Around the World in Eighty Days	Orson Welles, Jules Verne	The Mercury Theatre on the Air/CBS
1939	2014	A Christmas Carol	Orson Welles, Charles Dickens	The Campbell Playhouse/CBS
1939	2014	Dracula	Orson Welles, John Houseman, Bram Stoker	The Mercury Theatre on the Air/CBS
1939	2014	R.U.R.	Jan Bussell, Karel Čapek	BBC
1941	2016	Fantasia*	Samuel Armstrong et al., Joe Grant, Dick Huemer	Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
1941	2016	Dr. Cyclops	Ernest B. Schoedsack, Tom Kilpatrick	Paramount Pictures
1941	2016	Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe	Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor, George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey, Barry Shipman	Universal Pictures
1941	2016	One Million B.C.	Hal Roach, Hal Roach, Jr., Mickell Novack, George Baker, Joseph Frickert	United Artists
1941	2016	The Thief of Bagdad	Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan, Lajos Bíró, Miles Malleson	London Films, United Artists
1941	2016	Pinocchio*	Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, Ted Sears et al.	Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
1941	2016	Superman (radio)\|The Adventures of Superman]: "The Baby from Krypton"	Frank Chase, George Ludlam	WOR
1941	2016	The Invisible Man Returns	Joe May, Kurt Siodmak, Lester Cole	Universal Pictures
1941	2016	Looney Tunes: "You Ought to Be in Pictures"	Friz Freleng, Jack Miller	Warner Bros.
1941	2016	Merrie Melodies: "A Wild Hare"	Tex Avery, Rich Hogan	Warner Bros.
1943	2018	Bambi*	David Hand et al., Perce Pearce, Larry Morey et al., Felix Salten	The Walt Disney Company
1943	2018	Cat People	Jacques Tourneur, DeWitt Bodeen, Val Lewton	RKO Radio Pictures
1943	2018	Ghost of Frankenstein">Ghost (1990 film)">Ghost of Frankenstein	Erle C. Kenton, W. Scott Darling	Universal Pictures
1943	2018	I Married a Witch	René Clair, Robert Pirosh, Marc Connelly, Thorne Smith	Cinema Guild Productions / Paramount Pictures
1943	2018	Invisible Agent	Edwin L. Marin, Curtis Siodmak	Frank Lloyd Productions / Universal Pictures
1943	2018	Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book	Zoltan Korda, Laurence Stallings, Rudyard Kipling	Alexander Korda Films / United Artists
1944	2019	Heaven Can Wait*	Ernst Lubitsch, Samson Raphaelson	20th Century Fox
1944	2019	Batman	Lambert Hillyer, Victor McLeod, Leslie Swabacker, Harry L. Fraser	Columbia Pictures
1944	2019	Cabin in the Sky	Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley, Joseph Schrank	MGM
1944	2019	A Guy Named Joe	Victor Fleming, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Dalton Trumbo	MGM
1944	2019	Münchhausen	Josef von Báky, Erich Kästner, Rudolph Erich Raspe	UFA
1944	2019	Phantom of the Opera	Arthur Lubin, Eric Taylor, Samuel Hoffenstein, Hans Jacoby	Universal Pictures
1944	2019	Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man*	Roy William Neil, Curt Siodmak	Universal Pictures
1944	2019	The Ape Man	William Beaudine, Barney A. Sarecky	Banner Productions
1944	2019	Der Fuehrer's Face	Jack Kinney, Joe Grant, Dick Huemer )	The Walt Disney Company
1944	2019	I Walked With a Zombie	Jacques Tourneur, Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray	RKO Radio Pictures
1944	2019	The Seventh Victim	Mark Robson, Charles O'Neal, DeWitt Bodeen	RKO Radio Pictures
1944	2019	Merrie Melodies: "Super-Rabbit"	Charles M. Jones, Tedd Pierce	Warner Bros.
1945	2020	The Canterville Ghost*	Jules Dassin, Edwin Harvey Blum, Oscar Wilde	MGM
1945	2020	The Curse of the Cat People*	Gunther V. Fritsch, Robert Wise, DeWitt Bodeen	RKO Radio Pictures
1945	2020	Donovan's Brain	William Spier, Robert L. Richards, Curt Siodmak	CBS Radio Network
1945	2020	The House of Frankenstein	Erle C. Kenton, Edward T. Lowe Jr., Curt Siodmak	Universal Pictures
1945	2020	The Invisible Man's Revenge	Ford Beebe,, Bertram Millhauser	Universal Pictures
1945	2020	It Happened Tomorrow	René Clair, Dudley Nichols	Arnold Pressburger Films
1946	1996	The [Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film)\|The Picture of Dorian Gray]*	Albert Lewin, Oscar Wilde	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1946	1996	Blithe Spirit	David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame, Noël Coward	United Artists
1946	1996	The Body Snatcher	Robert Wise, Philip MacDonald, Val Lewton, Robert Louis Stevenson	RKO Radio Pictures
1946	1996	The Horn Blows at Midnight	Raoul Walsh, Sam Hellman, James V. Kern	Warner Bros.
1946	1996	House of Dracula	Erle C. Kenton, Edward T. Lowe, Jr.	Universal Studios
1951	2001	Destination Moon*	Irving Pichel, Alford Van Ronkel, James O'Hanlon, Robert A. Heinlein	George Pal Productions
1951	2001	Cinderella	Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske Ken Anderson, Homer Brightman, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Erdman Penner, Harry Reeves, Joe Rinaldi, Ted Sears, Charles Perrault	The Walt Disney Company
1951	2001	Harvey	Henry Koster, Oscar Brodney, Myles Connolly, Mary Chase	Universal Studios
1951	2001	Looney Tunes: "Rabbit of Seville"	Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese	Warner Bros.
1951	2001	Rocketship X-M	Kurt Neumann, Dalton Trumbo, Orville H. Hampton	Lippert Pictures
1954	2004	The War of the Worlds*	Byron Haskin, Barré Lyndon, H. G. Wells	Paramount Pictures
1954	2004	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms	Eugène Lourié, Louis Morheim, Fred Freiberger, Ray Bradbury	Mutual Pictures/Warner Bros.
1954	2004	Merrie Melodies: "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century"	Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese	Warner Bros.
1954	2004	Invaders from Mars	William Cameron Menzies, Richard Blake, John Tucker Battle	National Pictures/20th Century Fox
1954	2004	It Came from Outer Space	Jack Arnold, Harry Essex, Ray Bradbury	Universal Studios