Nebula Award winners

American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)

Heywood "Woody" Allen is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning eight decades, he has written for film, television, and theater. Allen has received many accolades, including the most wins and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has won four Academy Awards, ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for an Emmy Award and a Tony Award. Allen has also received numerous honors, including an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Honorary Palme d'Or in 2002, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. Two of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

American filmmaker and philanthropist (born 1944)

British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)

James Francis Cameron is a Canadian filmmaker and deep-sea explorer. His films combine cutting-edge film technology with classical filmmaking techniques and have grossed over $10 billion worldwide, making him the second-highest-grossing film director of all time. A major figure in the post-New Hollywood era, Cameron has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for six British Academy Film Awards.

George Raymond Richard Martin, also known by the initials G.R.R.M., is an American author, screenwriter, and television producer. Martin is best known as the author of the epic fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted by HBO into the Primetime Emmy Award–winning television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019) and its prequel series House of the Dragon (2022–present). Martin also wrote a related series of novellas, Tales of Dunk and Egg, which have been adapted by HBO as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2026–present). Outside of A Song of Ice and Fire and its related media, Martin helped create the Wild Cards anthology series and contributed worldbuilding for the video game Elden Ring (2022).

Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (born 1941)

American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)

Sir Christopher Edward Nolan is a British and American filmmaker. A significant auteur of his generation, he has been a major figure in the 21st century Hollywood. Nolan's films have earned over $6 billion worldwide, making him the seventh-highest-grossing film director. His accolades include two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and two British Academy Film Awards. Nolan was appointed as a CBE in 2019 and was knighted in 2024 for his contributions to film.

American actor (1933–2016)

New Zealand film director, screenwriter, producer and actor (born 1961)

American writer (1920–1986)

English writer (born 1960)

Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, filmmaker, comedian, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 28 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and an Honorary Academy Award in 2024.

Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism and horror, often blending the genres, with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty in the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is known for pioneering dark fantasy in the film industry and for his use of insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting.

Mexican filmmaker (born 1961)

American actress and filmmaker (born 1983)

American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)

American filmmaker (born 1970)

Canadian film director and screenwriter (born 1967)

American director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1964)

American science fiction novelist (born 1951)

U.S. science fiction and fantasy writer and poet (1937–1995)

American writer, journalist (1904–1988)

British science fiction writer (1925–2017)

American science fiction writer (1947-2006)

American actor, comedian and filmmaker (born 1979)

American writer (1934–2018)

James Francis Gunn Jr. is an American filmmaker. He began his career as a screenwriter in the mid-1990s, starting at Troma Entertainment with Tromeo and Juliet (1996). He then began working as a director, starting with the horror-comedy film Slither (2006), and moving to the superhero genre with Super (2010), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), The Suicide Squad (2021), and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023).

American writer (born 1938)

Australian filmmaker (born 1945)

American novelist, short story writer, essayist

American science fiction writer and editor (1919–2013)

American science fiction writer (born 1952)

American novelist (born 1949)

American author

English writer, editor, critic (born 1939)

American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction (1910–1992)

American speculative fiction writer (1918–1985)

American mystery and speculative fiction writer (1916–2013)

American animator, film director and screenwriter (born 1965)

American scientist and science fiction author (born 1950)

South African film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator

American-Irish novelist (1926–2011)

American science fiction and fantasy writer

American filmmaker (born 1969)

American speculative fiction writer and editor (born 1935)

American animator and film director

American writer best known for science fiction (1951–2022)

science fiction author and astrophysicist

American science fiction writer (1908–2006)

American science fiction writer

American author (1937-2011)

American science fiction and fantasy writer (1931–2019)

American writer

American science fiction writer

American science fiction writer

American science fiction and fantasy writer

American science fiction writer (1915–1987)

American author and literary critic (born 1942)