Dune, The Expanse Win at Hugo Awards

On Sunday evening at Chicon 8, the World Science Fiction Conference introduced the winners of the 2022 Hugo Awards, with Dune and The Expanse taking residence the awards within the dramatic presentation classes. Dune received the awards for Finest Dramatic Presentation, Lengthy Kind, beating Encanto, The Inexperienced Knight, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Area Sweepers, and WandaVision. The Expanse episode “Nemesis Video games,” the present’s fifth season finale, received the awards for Finest Dramatic Presentation, Quick Kind. Different nominees within the class included The Wheel of Time episode “The Flame of Tar Valon,” the For All Mankind episode “The Gray,” the Arcane episode “The Monster You Created, the Loki episode “The Nexus Occasion,” and the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode “wej Duj.”

Within the Finest Graphic Story or Comedian class, N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell’s Far Sector took residence the award over Die, Vol.4: Bleed, Lore Olympus, Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow, As soon as & Future, Vol. 3 The Parliament of Magpies, and Unusual Adventures. A Desolation Known as Peace, the second installment of Arkady Martine’s Teixcalaan area opera sequence, received Finest Novel. Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Kids received Finest Sequence. You can see the full list of winners and nominees on the Hugo Awards website.

Denis Villeneuve directed Dune from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jon Spaights and Eric Roth. The movie is the primary installment of a two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel of the identical title. The ensemble forged contains Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem. Principal photography for Dune: Part Two is now underway.

The Expanse is an adaptation of the sci-fi novel sequence by James S.A. Corey, the joint pen title of the writing group of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. Abraham and Franck co-wrote “Nemesis Video games” with The Expanse showrunner Naren Shankar. Breck Eisner directed the episode.

The Expanse concluded with its sixth season, ending in January. Chatting with ComicBook.com, star Steven Strait looked back on his experience playing James Holden on the show.

“I am so immensely pleased with the work that we have completed,” Strait mentioned. “I am grateful that we had been capable of end the story, that we now have an entire starting, center, and finish. I’ve at all times mentioned with this present that it is felt extra like a theater firm than a tv present. And I’ve by no means skilled the extent of dedication from all people concerned for thus lengthy as a result of they felt the work was as essential as The Expanse has been for us.”