1959 Best SF or Fantasy Movie Hugo

The 1959 Best SF or Fantasy Movie Hugo was announced September 7 at Detention. For the first time the modern nominations ballot followed by a final ballot process was followed so we have a list of nominees and no winner, but we do not have the order of finish other than that No Award won first place.

The category was then transformed into Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo, which went on to thrive but mostly on TV series.

Winner: No Award

Runners-up:

• The Fly (1958) [20th Century Fox] Screenplay by James Clavell; Story by George Langelaan; Directed by Kurt Neumann
• The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) [Morningside Movies/Columbia] Screenplay by Ken Kolb; Story by Ray Harryhausen; Directed by Nathan Juran
• Dracula (1958; US title under which it was nominated: The Horror of Dracula) [Hammer] Screenplay by Jimmy Sangster; Directed by Terence Fisher; based on the novel by Bram Stoker

1958 Outstanding Movie Hugo<——>1960 Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo

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Best SF or Fantasy Movie Hugo, 1959 Hugos

1959

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