The Japanese equivalent of the Hugo Award (though, ironically, "seiun" means "nebula"), the Seiun Award is an award for the best Science Fiction published in Japan in the previous year, as voted on by fans who attend the Japan Science Fiction Convention. Named after the first professional science fiction magazine in Japan, they have been run since 1970.
Works with a Seiun nomination that have pages on this wiki include:
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Anime (Best Media)
- Space Battleship Yamato (won 1975)
- Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (nominated 2014)
- Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Star-Voyaging Ark (won 2015)
- Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (nominated 2014)
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (won 1985)
- Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (won 1988)
- My Neighbor Totoro (won 1989)
- GunBuster (won 1990)
- Martian Successor Nadesico: The Prince Of Darkness (won 1999)
- Cowboy Bebop (won 2000)
- Voices of a Distant Star (won 2003)
- Planetes (won 2005)
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (won 2007)
- Den-noh Coil (won 2008)
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (nominated 2008)
- Darker than Black (nominated 2008)
- Oh! Edo Rocket (nominated 2008)
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS (nominated 2008)
- Macross Frontier (won 2009)
- Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (nominated 2009)
- Fireball (nominated 2009)
- Summer Wars (won 2010)
- Fresh Precure! Omocha no Kuni wa Himitsu ga Ippai!? (nominated 2010)
- The Tatami Galaxy (nominated 2011)
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica (won 2012)
- Penguindrum (nominated 2012)
- Steins;Gate (nominated 2012)
- Tiger & Bunny (nominated 2012)
- 009 Re: Cyborg (nominated 2013)
- Bodacious Space Pirates (won 2013)
- Eureka Seven AO (nominated 2013)
- Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne (nominated 2013)
- Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet (nominated 2014)
- Arpeggio of Blue Steel (nominated 2014)
- Psycho-Pass Season 1 (nominated 2014)
- Psycho-Pass: The Movie (nominated 2016)
- Patema Inverted (nominated 2014)
- Girls und Panzer (nominated 2014)
- Girls und Panzer der Film (won 2016)
- Expelled from Paradise (nominated 2015)
- Space☆Dandy (nominated 2015)
- Kill la Kill (nominated 2015)
- Wish Upon the Pleiades (nominated 2016)
- The Empire of Corpses (nominated 2016)
- Your Name (nominated 2017)
- Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (nominated 2017)
- Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou (nominated 2017)
- Zegapain ADPnote (nominated 2017)
- Kuromukuro (nominated 2017)
- Kemono Friends (won 2018)
- ID-0 (nominated 2018)
- Kado: The Right Answer (nominated 2018)
- Re:CREATORS (nominated 2018)
- SSSS.GRIDMAN (won 2019)
- Cells at Work! (nominated 2019)
- Beatless (nominated 2019)
- Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan (nominated 2019)
- Planet With (nominated 2019)
- Penguin Highway (nominated 2019)
- Astra Lost in Space (won 2020)
- Hello World (nominated 2020)
- Promare (nominated 2020)
- Weathering With You (nominated 2020)
- Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion THE ANIMATION: The Mythically Fast ALFA-X that came from the Future (nominated 2020)
- Deca-Dence (nominated 2021)
- ID: Invaded (nominated 2021)
- BNA: Brand New Animal (nominated 2021)
- Demon Slayer: Mugen Train (nominated 2021)
- Pretty Cure Miracle Leap: A Strange Day with Everyone (nominated 2021)
- Drifting Dragons (nominated 2021)
- Godzilla: Singular Point (won 2022)
- Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (nominated 2022)
- Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars (nominated 2022)
- Sing a Bit of Harmony (nominated 2022)
- Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song (nominated 2022)
Comic Books (Best Comic)
- Kick-Ass (nominated 2011)
Films — Animated (Best Media)
- Big Hero 6note (nominated 2015)
- Kubo and the Two Strings (nominated 2018)
Films — Live-Action (Best Media)
- Charly (won 1970 - tie with The Prisoner (1967))
- The Andromeda Strain (won 1972)
- A Clockwork Orange (won 1973)
- Soylent Green (won 1974)
- Solaris (1972) (won 1978)
- Star Wars:
- A New Hope (won 1979)
- The Empire Strikes Back (won 1981)
- The Force Awakens (nominated 2016)
- Rogue One (nominated 2017)
- Alien (won 1980)
- Blade Runner:
- Blade Runner (won 1983)
- Blade Runner 2049 (nominated 2018)
- The Dark Crystal (won 1984)
- Back to the Future (won 1986)
- Brazil (won 1987)
- Terminator:
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (won 1992)
- Terminator Salvation (nominated 2010)
- Jurassic Park (1993) (won 1994)
- Zeiram 2 (won 1995)
- Gamera:
- Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (won 1996)
- Gamera 2: Advent of Legion (won 1997)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (won 2004)
- Transformers Film Series:
- Transformers (nominated 2008)
- Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen (nominated 2010)
- Pan's Labyrinth (nominated 2008)
- The Dark Knight (nominated 2009)
- Avatar (nominated 2010)
- Star Trek (2009) (nominated 2010)
- Watchmen (nominated 2010)
- District 9 (won 2011)
- Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (nominated 2011)
- Paul (nominated 2012)
- Real Steel (nominated 2012)
- The Avengers (2012) (nominated 2013)
- Iron Sky (nominated 2013)
- Pacific Rim:
- Pacific Rim (won 2014)
- Pacific Rim: Uprising (nominated 2019)
- Gravity (nominated 2014)
- Interstellar (nominated 2015)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (nominated 2016)
- Chappie (nominated 2016)
- The Congress (nominated 2016)
- Godzilla:
- Shin Godzilla (won 2017)
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) (nominated 2020)
- Look Who's Back (nominated 2017)
- Arrival (nominated 2018)
- Passengers (2016) (nominated 2018)
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (nominated 2018)
- Ready Player One (2018) (nominated 2019)
- Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (nominated 2019)
- Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (2020) (nominated 2021)
- The Door into Summer (nominated 2022)
- Dune (2021) (nominated 2022)
- Shin Ultraman (won 2023)
Literature — Japanese (Best Japanese Long Story, unless noted)
- Sentou Yousei Yukikaze (won 1985); Good Luck, Sentou Yousei Yukikaze (won 2000)
- The Dirty Pair's Great Adventures (won Best Japanese Short Story, 1980); Dirty Pair no Daigyakuten (won 1986)
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes (won 1988)
- Crest of the Stars (won 1997)
- Library War series (won 2008)
- Guin Saga series (won 2010)
- Humanity Has Declined (nominated 2015)
- Understanding the Astronomy Behind Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (nominated for Best Non-Fiction, 2015)
- Tytania (nominated 2016)
- Rail Wars! (nominated 2021)
- The Irregular at Magic High School (nominated 2021)
Literature — Non-Japanese (Best Translated Long Story, unless noted)
- The Andromeda Strain (won 1971)
- The Sirens of Titan (won 1973)
- Dune (won 1974)
- I Will Fear No Evil (won 1978)
- Ringworld (won 1979)
- Rendezvous with Rama (won 1980)
- The Elric Saga (won 1986)
- Neuromancer (won 1987)
- The Uplift War (won 1991)
- Tau Zero (won 1993)
- The Fall of Hyperion (won 1996 - tie with Timelike Infinity)
- Red Mars Trilogy:
- Red Mars (won 1999 - tie with The Time Ships)
- Blue Mars (nominated 2018)
- There and Back Again (won 2002)
- Diaspora (won 2006)
- Mortal Engines (won 2007)
- Kiln People (nominated 2008)
- The Atrocity Archive (nominated 2008)
- Spin (won 2009)
- Light (nominated 2009)
- Accelerando (nominated 2010)
- Perdido Street Station (nominated 2010)
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union (nominated 2010)
- World War Z (nominated 2011)
- Un Lun Dun (nominated 2011)
- Small Change (nominated 2011)
- Eifelheim (won 2011)
- The Windup Girl (won 2012)
- The City & the City (nominated 2012)
- The Chronoliths (nominated 2012)
- Dhalgren (nominated 2012)
- Little Brother (nominated 2012)
- Blindsight (won 2014)
- The Martian (won 2015)
- Pathfinder (2010) (nominated 2015)
- Ready Player One (nominated 2015)
- Redshirts (nominated 2015)
- Ancillary Justice (won 2016)
- The Grace of Kings (nominated 2017)
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (nominated 2017)
- Imperial Radch trilogy (nominated 2017)
- The Themis Files:
- Sleeping Giants (won 2018)
- Waking Gods (nominated 2019)
- Only Human (nominated 2020)
- Artemis (nominated 2019)
- Provenance (nominated 2019)
- Six Wakes (nominated 2019)
- Seveneves (nominated 2019)
- The Three-Body Problem (won 2020)
- Death's End (nominated 2022)
- Jade City (nominated 2020)
- The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (nominated 2020)
- The Murderbot Diaries (nominated 2020)
- Network Effect (nominated 2022)
- Project Hail Mary (won 2022)
- Children of Time (2015) (nominated 2022)
- The Fated Sky (nominated 2022)
- This Is How You Lose the Time War (nominated 2022)
Live-Action TV (Best Media)
- The Prisoner (1967) (won 1970 - tie with Charly)
- UFO (1970) (won 1971)
- Ultra Series:
- Ultraman Tiga (won 1998)
- Ultraman Z (won 2021)
- Kamen Rider:
- Kamen Rider Kuuga (won 2002)
- Kamen Rider Double (nominated 2011)
- Super Sentai:
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (won 2006)
- Samurai Sentai Shinkenger (nominated 2011)
Manga (Best Comic)
- Toward the Terra (won 1978)
- Domu (won 1984)
- Appleseed (won 1986)
- Urusei Yatsura (won 1987)
- Mermaid's Forest (won 1989)
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (won 1995)
- Parasyte (won 1996)
- Ushio and Tora (won 1997)
- Cardcaptor Sakura (won 2001)
- Planetes (won 2002)
- From Far Away (won 2004)
- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (won 2007)
- 20th Century Boys (won 2008)
- Fruits Basket (nominated 2008)
- Trigun Maximum (won 2009)
- Pluto (won 2010)
- Hellsing (nominated 2010)
- Hakodate Youjin Buraichou Himegami (nominated 2010)
- Twin Spica (nominated 2010)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (won 2011)
- The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer (nominated 2011)
- Natsu no Arashi! (nominated 2011)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (won 2012)
- Future Diary vol. 12 (nominated 2012)
- Excel♡Saga vol. 27 (nominated 2012)
- Tetsuwan Birdy Evolution (nominated 2013)
- Hoshi O Tsugu Mono (won 2013)
- Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (nominated 2013)
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi (nominated 2013)
- The World of Narue (won 2014)
- Gantz (nominated 2014)
- Neon Genesis Evangelion (nominated 2015)
- Moyashimon (won 2015)
- Ah! My Goddess (nominated 2015)
- The World God Only Knows (nominated 2015)
- Mysterious Girlfriend X (nominated 2015)
- Knights of Sidonia (won 2016)
- Linebarrels of Iron (nominated 2016)
- Kochikame (won 2017)
- Spirit Circle (nominated 2017)
- ERASED (nominated 2017)
- And Yet the Town Moves (won 2018)
- 7 Seeds (nominated 2018)
- Inuyashiki (nominated 2018)
- Girls' Last Tour (won 2019)
- Astra Lost in Space (nominated 2019)
- Batman Ninja manga adaptation (won 2020 - tie with How Many Light-Years to Babylon?)
- Dimension W (nominated 2020)
- Harmony manga adaptation (nominated 2020)
- Hozuki's Coolheadedness (won 2021 - tie with Kimi wo Shinasenai tame no Storia)
- Psychic Squad (won 2022)
- Attack on Titan (nominated 2022)
- Beastars (nominated 2022)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion (nominated 2022)
- Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (nominated 2022)
- Sou Bou Tei Must Be Destroyed (nominated 2022)
Video Games (Best Media)
- Gunparade March (won 2001)
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (nominated 2020)
Free Genre
- Hatsune Miku (won 2008)
- Gundam statues:
- Gundam 30th Anniversary Project Real G the Statue of Gundamnote (won 2010)
- The Nu Gundam statue in Fukuoka and the Freedom Gundam statue in Shanghai (jointly nominated 2022)
- Kobe Tetsujin Projectnote (nominated 2010)
- The first image of a black hole observed in April 2019 (won 2020)
- Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time marking the Grand Finale of the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise (won 2022)
- Super Robot Wars 30 (nominated 2022 for its Milestone Celebration status rather than for the actual video game itself)
- Uma Musume mobile game (nominated 2022 for its unexpected Cash-Cow Franchise status rather than for the actual video game itself)
- SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission
, the first manned flight by a private citizen (Jared Isaacman) (nominated 2022)
Special Award
- Osamu Tezuka (won 1989)
