online resources - Is there a website that shows which SF book/film awards there are?

What website references the SF awards that are awarded to science fiction books and films?

Answer

There's a website devoted to tracking and reporting on SF awards, so I suggest you start there. The awards they currently list are:

Aeon Award

Andre Norton Award
Arthur C. Clarke Award
Aurealis Awards
Australian Shadows Awards
Big Heart Award
Bram Stoker Awards
British Fantasy Awards
British Science Fiction Association Awards
Carl Brandon Awards
Chesley Awards

Compton Crook Award
Constellation Awards
Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master
Darrell Awards
David Gemmell Awards
Deutscher Phantastik Preis
Deutscher Science Fiction Preis
Ditmar Awards
Endeavour Award

ESFS Awards
First Fandom Hall of Fame Award
Forry Award
Fountain Award
Gaylactic Spectrum Awards
Geffen Awards
Golden Duck Awards
Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire
Helsinki Science Fiction Society Awards
Hugo Awards

International Horror Guild Awards
Jack Gaughan Award
James Tiptree, Jr. Award
James White Award
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
John W. Campbell Memorial Award
Komatsu Sakyo Award
Lambda Literary Awards
Le Prix Européen Utopiales des Pays de la Loire
Locus Awards

Lord Ruthven Awards
Mythopoeic Awards
Nebula Awards
Nihon SF Taisho Award
Philip K. Dick Award
Premi Ictineu
Premio Italia
Premios Ignotus
Prix Aurora Awards
Prix Imaginales

Prometheus Awards
Quill Book Awards
Rhysling Awards
Robert A. Heinlein Award
Saturn Awards
Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Scribe Awards
Seiun Awards
Shirley Jackson Awards
Sidewise Awards

Sir Julius Vogel Awards
Sky Awards
Skylark Award
Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Awards
Southern Fandom Confederation Awards
Spectrum Awards (Art)
Sunburst Awards
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
Ursa Major Awards
William L. Crawford Fantasy Award

World Fantasy Awards
Worldcon Special Awards
WSFA Small Press Award

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