No Award

(Did you mean a different No Award?)

Under the Hugo rules, "No Award" (sometimes punningly personified as "Noah Ward") is always a choice on the final ballot and, if No Award comes in first or if more people prefer No Award to the putative first place winner, then No Award wins and no Hugo is awarded in that category that year.

No Award has won five times betwen 1959 and 1977, four times in the film category. In the Rabid Puppies crisis, it was used as a form of scorched-earth self-defense tactics five times in the 2015 Hugos and twice in the 2016 Hugos:

• 1959 Best SF or Fantasy Movie Hugo
• 1959 Best New Author of 1958 Hugo (Brian W. Aldiss was named as coming in 2nd, which led to confusion in some later listings. The category was abandoned)
• 1963 Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo
• 1971 Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo
• 1977 Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo
• 2015 Best Novella Hugo
• 2015 Best Short Story Hugo
• 2015 Best Related Work Hugo
• 2015 Best Editor, Short Form Hugo
• 2015 Best Editor, Long Form Hugo
• 2016 Best Related Work Hugo
• 2016 Best Fancast Hugo

For Worldcon Site Selection, if No Award wins, the site selection decision is thrown to the WSFS Business Meeting and all hell breaks loose the BM is responsible for selecting the site.

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