Hugo Award
The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine "Amazing Stories", and were officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards until 1992. Organized and overseen by the World Science Fiction Society, the awards are given each year at the annual World Science Fiction Convention as the central focus of the event. They were first given in 1953, at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention, and have been awarded every year since 1955. Over the years that the award has been given, the categories presented have changed; currently Hugo Awards are given in more than a dozen categories, and include both written and dramatic works of various types.
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.