Wins and Nominations - All Awards and Polls


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This table excludes nothing and includes everything -- all nominations for all awards and polls for all types of nominees.

  • Artist Michael Whelan has won more awards of all types than anyone else. Connie Willis leads for works of short fiction having overtaken Ursula K. Le Guin, who earlier overtook Harlan Ellison.
  • Robert Silverberg has the most 'nominations'--though keep in mind these figures include all rankings on the Locus and other reader polls.
  • John Barnes currently has the sad distinction of being nominated most without ever having won. Lisa Goldstein, who held this title for many years, won both a Sidewise Award and a Mythopoeic Award in 2012.
  • Updated October 2019: The leads of Whelan, Willis, Silverberg, and Barnes have not changed in five years.

    Total Wins
    (Number of fiction wins in parentheses)
    83 Michael Whelan
    78 Gardner Dozois (7)
    66 Ursula K. Le Guin (50)
    58 Neil Gaiman (43)
    57 Harlan Ellison (41)
    56 Connie Willis (53)
    50 Ellen Datlow
    48 David Langford (2)
    43 George R. R. Martin (36)
    42 Bob Eggleton
    41 Mike Resnick (39)
    40 Stephen King (28), Robert J. Sawyer (39)
    39 no award (26)
    38 Robert Silverberg (28)
    36 Greg Egan (35)
    35 Donato Giancola, Joe Haldeman (33), Dan Simmons (34)
    33 Charles N. Brown, Stephen Jones (1)
    32 Orson Scott Card (30)
    30 Ted Chiang (27), Lucius Shepard (25)
    29 Isaac Asimov (22), Tansy Rayner Roberts (13)
    Total Nominations
    (Number of fiction nominations in parentheses)
    [Number of wins in brackets]
    267 Robert Silverberg (183) [38]
    224 Ellen Datlow [50]
    214 Ursula K. Le Guin (171) [66]
    210 Gardner Dozois (50) [78]
    180 Michael Swanwick (168) [19]
    179 Michael Whelan [83]
    173 Stephen King (138) [40]
    170 Bob Eggleton [42]
    167 Greg Egan (158) [36]
    165 Lucius Shepard (147) [30], Connie Willis (157) [56]
    162 Mike Resnick (140) [41]
    160 Gene Wolfe (149) [26]
    152 George R. R. Martin (122) [43]
    146 David G. Hartwell [20], Harlan Ellison (101) [57]
    145 Kim Stanley Robinson (138) [23]
    144 Stephen Jones (1) [33]
    142 Nancy Kress (134) [22]
    141 Jonathan Strahan (1) [18]
    140 Stephen Baxter (132) [21]
    133 Robert Reed (129) [7]
    129 Neil Gaiman (86) [58]
    128 Frederik Pohl (90) [28]
    126 Orson Scott Card (113) [32]
    123 Poul Anderson (108) [26]
    122 Ian McDonald (117) [18]
    119 Michael Bishop (105) [14]
    118 Terri Windling (2) [12]
    117 Bruce Sterling (106) [11]
    115 Joe Haldeman (105) [35], James Patrick Kelly (108) [10]
    112 Don Maitz [17]
    109 Robert J. Sawyer (101) [40], Jim Burns (1) [24]
    108 Isaac Asimov (61) [29], Kristine Kathryn Rusch (70) [25], Gregory Benford (91) [11]
    104 Larry Niven (89) [23]
    96 Donato Giancola [35]
    95 David Langford (10) [48], Martin H. Greenberg [7], Jeff VanderMeer (36) [10]
    93 Vincent Di Fate [11], Tanith Lee (76) [6], Charles Stross (91) [11]
    92 Lois McMaster Bujold (90) [25]
    91 Tansy Rayner Roberts (38) [29], Kelly Link (44) [18], John Varley (84) [27]
    90 Fritz Leiber (69) [27]
    Never-Winners
    Number of nominations without ever having won
    (Fiction nominations in parentheses)
    40 John Barnes (39)
    35 R. Garcia y Robertson (34)
    29 Paul Park (29)
    28 Scott Edelman (12)
    27 Ron Walotsky
    25 Charles Coleman Finlay (15)
    24 Liz Williams (22), Darrell K. Sweet, James Van Pelt (24), L. Timmel Duchamp (20)
    23 Alexander Jablokov (22), William Barton (23)
    22 John C. Wright (21)
    21 Hilbert Schenck (20), Stephen Youll
    20 Charles L. Harness (18)
    19 Benjamin Rosenbaum (18), Rebecca Ore (18)
    18 Justina Robson (17)
    17 Carolyn Ives Gilman (17)
    16 Steven H Silver
    15 Sharyn November, Alan Baxter (13), Rudyard Kipling (15), Ben Baldwin
    14 Evelyn C. Leeper, Guy H. Lillian III, A. A. Attanasio (13), Ian Whates (4), Kevin J. Maroney, Michael P. Kube-McDowell (14), Ben Peek (11)
    Total Losses
    Number of times nominated but lost [Number of wins in bracket]
    229 Robert Silverberg [38]
    174 Ellen Datlow [50]
    161 Michael Swanwick [19]
    148 Ursula K. Le Guin [66]
    135 Lucius Shepard [30]
    134 Gene Wolfe [26]
    133 Stephen King [40]
    132 Gardner Dozois [78]
    131 Greg Egan [36]
    128 Bob Eggleton [42]
    126 Robert Reed [7], David G. Hartwell [20]
    123 Jonathan Strahan [18]
    122 Kim Stanley Robinson [23]
    121 Mike Resnick [41]
    120 Nancy Kress [22]
    119 Stephen Baxter [21]
    111 Stephen Jones [33]
    109 George R. R. Martin [43], Connie Willis [56]
    106 Bruce Sterling [11], Terri Windling [12]
    105 Michael Bishop [14], James Patrick Kelly [10]
    104 Ian McDonald [18]
    100 Frederik Pohl [28]
    97 Poul Anderson [26], Gregory Benford [11]
    96 Michael Whelan [83]
    95 Don Maitz [17]
    94 Orson Scott Card [32]
    89 Harlan Ellison [57]
    88 Martin H. Greenberg [7]
    87 Tanith Lee [6]
    85 Jim Burns [24], Jeff VanderMeer [10]
    83 Kristine Kathryn Rusch [25]
    82 Charles Stross [11], Vincent Di Fate [11]
    81 Paul J. McAuley [6], Larry Niven [23]
    80 Joe Haldeman [35]
    79 Isaac Asimov [29]
    78 Howard Waldrop [4]
    77 Alastair Reynolds [5]

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