Hugo Award
The World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) gives out the Hugo Awards each year for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, who founded the pioneering science fiction magazine "Amazing Stories" and who is considered one of the "fathers" of the science fiction genre. Works are eligible for an award if they were published in the prior calendar year, or translated into English in the prior calendar year. There are no written rules as to which works qualify as science fiction or fantasy, and the decision of eligibility in that regard is left up to the voters, rather than to the organizing committee. Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The selection process is defined in the WSFS constitution as instant-runoff voting with five nominees per category, except in the case of a tie. The awards are split over more than a dozen categories, and include both written and dramatic works.
Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine
During the nineteen nomination years, twelve magazines run by fifteen editors were nominated. Of these, only five magazines run by eight editors won. "Astounding Science-Fiction"/"Analog Science Fact & Fiction" and "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" each won eight times, out of eighteen and fifteen nominations, respectively. "If" won three of five nominations, "New Worlds" won one of its six nominations—though its win was in the 1957 "British Professional Magazine" category—and "Galaxy Science Fiction" won only one out of its fifteen nominations, for the first award in 1953. Of the magazines which never won, "Amazing Stories" was nominated the most at eight times, while the only other magazine to be nominated more than twice was "Science Fantasy" with three nominations. John W. Campbell, Jr. received both the most nominations and awards, as he edited "Analog Science Fact & Fiction" for all eighteen nominations and eight wins. Edward L. Ferman and Robert P. Mills both won four times, while Frederik Pohl won three. H. L. Gold received the second most number of nominations at twelve, while Cele Goldsmith received the most number of nominations without winning at ten for her work on two separate magazines; she was the only female editor to be nominated.