In this thread we'll be keeping track on everything that's happening with our miscellaneous "appended" awards. I'll be throwing together simple tables with all the finalists.
Thanks guys. I have fun doing this! And what'll be really fun is when we have all our finalists in all fifteen categories (well, sixteen, counting the Best Book award), we can then see which book got the most nominations. There could even be a table of all the nominations, from most to least.
Updated the tables with all the data from the closed polls. Still awaiting Aaron's word on two ties:
Best Minor Antagonist: Lloyd Henreid and Greta Shaw are tied at 2.
Saddest Moment: Black House and Pet Sematary are tied at 4.
After that we still have the semifinals for the remaining categories (Best Novella/Novelette, Best King on the Screen, Worst King on the Screen, Best Trade Edition Cover Art, Best Illustrations in a Published Work, Best Minor Character), unless there are no semifinals, and we're just going into the finals on those.
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I hadn't noticed it was eleven entries Gretchen. I thought it was ten. Guess I can't count today.
Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
Con todo mi corazon, por todo de mis dias. And I always will, in this life and into the next.
Here's an interesting question. Since I'd like to have a list of how many nominations each book received, for the sake of statistics, would it be possible to decide which one book to nominate in those several cases where a character is from more than one book?
In the Best Protagonist category we have Johnny Marinville, Roland Deschain, and Jack Sawyer. In the Best Antagonist category we have Tak and Randall Flagg. In the Best Supporting Character category we have Jake Chambers, Ted Brautigan, and Oy. In the Best Couple category we have Eddie and Susannah Dean.
Would it be fair to use the book these characters first appeared in, in the case with the DT folks? As far as Johnny Marinville, Jack Sawyer, Tak, and Randall Flagg I'm not sure. But I'd prefer there would be a single book for each nominee.
Would it be fair to use the book these characters first appeared in, in the case with the DT folks? As far as Johnny Marinville, Jack Sawyer, Tak, and Randall Flagg I'm not sure. But I'd prefer there would be a single book for each nominee.
It's an interesting question, especially with respect to Johnny M as I think the Johnny M in Desperation and the Johnny M in The Regulators are quite different, obviously more so than Roland, Ted, Jake, or even Jack (although he's an adult in Black House, he's the adult version of the boy in The Talisman). The two Johnny's are not the same to me. Put it this way, I'd only vote for one of them, not the other.
Okay, if anyone's curious, here is a complete listing of the nominations.
Leading, of course, is The Dark Tower series, with a whopping 20 (twenty) nominations:
Best Protagonist, Best Supporting Character (2), Best Minor Antagonist (3), Best Couple (3), Saddest Moment (3), Best Death (4), Best Illustrations in a Published Work, Best Minor Character (3).
Next, with 12 nominations, is The Stand:
Most Frightening Published Work, Best Protagonist (2), Best Antagonist, Best Supporting Character (2), Best Minor Antagonist (4), Best Couple, Best Illustrations in a Published Work.
With 8 nominations in third place we have It:
Most Frightening Published Work, Best Protagonist, Best Antagonist, Best Minor Antagonist (2), Best Couple, Saddest Moment, Worst King on the Screen.
Next, four books with 6 nominations. The Talisman: Best Protagonist, Best Antagonist, Best Supporting Character, Best Supporting Character, Best Minor Antagonist, Saddest Moment, Best Death. Night Shift: Worst King on the Screen (Maximum Overdrive), Best Short Story (The Boogeyman, Strawberry Spring, Jerusalem's Lot), Most Frightening Published Work (The Boogeyman), Best Trade Edition Cover Art. Everything's Eventual: Best Short Story (Lunch at the Gotham Café, All That You Love Will Be Carried Away, 1408, The Man in the Black Suit), Most Frightening Published Work (1408), Best Novella/Novelette (Everything's Eventual). Different Seasons: Best Supporting Character (The Body), Best Novella/Novelette (The Body, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil), Best King on the Screen (The Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me).
With 5 nominations we have Desperation: Most Frightening Published Work, Best Trade Edition Cover Art, Worst King on the Screen, Best Protagonist, Best Antagonist.
Next, four books with 4 nominations. The Shining: Most Frightening Published Work, Best Minor Character, Best King on the Screen, Worst King on the Screen. Skeleton Crew: Best Short Story (Here There Be Tygers, Nona), Most Frightening Published Work (The Mist), Best King on the Screen (The Mist). Duma Key: Best Protagonist, Best Supporting Character, Saddest Moment, Best Trade Edition Cover Art. Black House: Best Supporting Character, Best Death, Best Illustrations in a Published Work, Best Protagonist.
With 3 nominations we have five books. The Green Mile: Saddest Moment (2), Best King on the Screen. Rose Madder: Best Protagonist, Best Antagonist, Best Minor Character. Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Best Short Story (Dolan's Cadillac), Best Trade Edition Cover Art, Best King on the Screen. Needful Things: Best Antagonist, Best Couple, Best Death. Insomnia: Best Protagonist, Best Antagonist, Best Couple.
We've got ten whole books with 2 nominations. The Tommyknockers: Saddest Moment, Worst King on the Screen. The Regulators: Best Protagonist, Best Antagonist. The Dark Half: Best Antagonist, Best Death. 'Salem's Lot: Most Frightening Published Work, Best Antagonist. Pet Sematary: Most Frightening Published Work, Saddest Moment. Misery: Best Antagonist, Best King on the Screen. Lisey's Story: Best Couple, Best Trade Edition Cover Art. Just After Sunset: Best Novella/Novelette (The Gingerbread Girl), Best Trade Edition Cover Art. Hearts in Atlantis: Best Supporting Character, Best Couple. Four Past Midnight: Best Novella/Novelette (The Langoliers), Best King on the Screen (Secret Window).
Finally, there are ten books with just 1 nomination. Bag of Bones: Best Couple. The Storm of the Century: Best Antagonist. The Running Man: Best Death. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: Best Protagonist. The Dead Zone: Best Death. Gerald's Game: Most Frightening Published Work. Dreamcatcher: Worst King on the Screen. Dolores Claiborne: Best Trade Edition Cover Art. Cycle of the Werewolf: Best Illustrations in a Published Work. Christine: Worst King on the Screen.
So that's it. A total of 130 nominations, and 37 different nominees (DT counted as one).
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I'm glad bears have enjoyed the process and approve of it. And Jean, I must also thank you for the great tough work you did on all the categories that made it putting those polls up a cakewalk. Thank you.
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