Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has received a few nominations this year at the annual SyFy Genre Awards. Dan Radcliffe is nominated for Best Actor, and Emma Watson received a nod for Best Actress for their performances in the fifth Harry Potter film. “Order of the Phoenix” is also nominated for Best Film along side “I Am Legend,” “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” “Iron Man” and “Stardust.”
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is among those in contention for the Gene Roddenberry Lifetime Achievement award, along with authors Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke, Gene L. Coon and H.G. Wells.
These awards are open to the public, with voting due to open June 25 and running through July 25, winners to be announced in early August during SyFy Portal’s 10th anniversary celebration. We will update you once the link becomes live for voting in a few weeks. Congrats to all the nominees!
Oh what a surprise – poor Rupert has been missed out yet again! Why does this always happen? He is easily the best actor of the trio (in my opinion anyway).
muggleQueen, I guess the IMO doesn’t go for everyone, IMO Dan is the best and it has been proven by his critical acclaim projects of My Boy Jack and Equus, on the other hand Rupert doesn’t have any aclaim project, DL was a small indy that got mix reviews the same with DB, so those two movies were not criticaly acclaim movies compare to Dan’s projects in Equus and My Boy Jack, even Dan’s episode in Extras got an award a few days ago in UK and in US this same episose was nominated to an Emmy.
I hope we won’t hear some fans whine about why certain actor is not there.
WOW! More awards! It doesn’t matter, if they win or lose [of course we hope they WILL] it’s that they’re even nominated with such prestigious company!
I agree, Soledad! I, too, hope we won’t hear whining about “certain actor is not there”] Go JKR, DR, EW and OOTP!!!!
god, watch out for the pooperts yet again. mugglequeen, rupert had so little a role that his nomination would be looked at askance- his role was more noted as being in the background . Against Dan’s role, and the roles of other actors in other movies, is it any wonder Rupert’s name wasn’t in the mix? You may think he is the best actor, (i disagree) but the fact is, he isn’t given the material/screentime to show it.
I love how it takes NO time at all for the Rupert whiners to show up. I like Rupert just fine, but I’m getting sick of all the “why did they ignore him AGAIN?” moans and groans. I imagine if he looks at these comments, he gets embarrassed at the behaviour of his fans. I know I would, if it was me.
Congrats to everyone who was nominated, and I hope they win!
The question is not why Rupert is not nominated, the question is why is Emma nominated? She doesn’t deserve it, like Rupert doesn’t deserve it. Also, they play secondary characters, they shouldn’t be nominated for a main character award.
The only one who had difficult scenes in OotP was Radcliffe, and he really surprised me doing a wonderful work.
I think OotP movie doesn’t deserve to win. The movie has many good things, like the art, special effects, some actors, but it has things I personally didn’t liked like the script, edition… But those are problems that all HP movies has had, in my opinion.
I don’t think J.K. Rowling deserve this nomination. That award is for lifetime achivement, and she has just written the HP books. I don’t doubt one day she will deserve it if she continues to write, but at the moment those other writers deserve it more, from the point of view of a whole career. And probably she agrees with this.
Ok well I’m sorry that you think I’m whining or whatever, but I did say “in my opinion anyway”. I just feel that Rupert deserves some credit in awards for his role so I am saying that. If you don’t agree with me then fine but I think I have a right to voice my opinion without being stereotyped.
@ Peter, I think Emma absolutely deserves it, so stop complaining. Just because Rupert was not nominated don’e give all the blame and anger on poor Emma!
I just had a look at the nominees and really, can you even compare Rupert’s role versus Dan’s, Depp, Ford and whoever got on that list? Then look at Emma’s competitors and yeah, they basically all had second banana roles. Claire Dans in Stardust, Nicole Kidman in the Golden Compass, etc? Not the main character by any means, so yeah, Emma’s nom would be legit.
potterhead23 wrote: “I don’t now much about these awards, but why would they give Emma a nod versus a nomination?”
potterhead23, its the same thing. “getting a nod” is like saying “also recognized” or “also nominated”. I guess it’s just a bit of slang to say something like: “Dan is nominated for this award, and yes, you too Emma”. It’s just a style of writing, I dont know, maybe so you dont use the word “nominated” constantly? Does that help?
I would like to know why OOTP is up against films like Indiana Jones (which wasnt that great) and Iron Man (which WAS!). Those are movies from this summer, where as OOTP was last summer. Doesnt seem right that movies from different summers would compete against eachother.
Also: Rupert gets too little to do in the films. Up until OOTP, he was relagated to goofy faces and comic relief. In OOTP, he got more to do, but he mumbled his way through most of it. Not surprised he’s not nominated.
Go HP!