The Constellation Awards - A Canadian Award for Excellence in Film & Television Science Fiction

Nominations

This page contains the legalese and details around our nomination process. If you have read these guidelines before and are ready to nominate, you can just go straight to our online nomination form. Use the links below to use one of our other nomination methods.

[Important Nomination Notes] [Nomination Guidelines]
[List of eligible shows and movies] [Nomination Forms]

Important Nomination Notes!

Don't want your nomination form to be rejected because you filled out incorrectly or incompletely? PLEASE read the guidelines carefully and include ALL information required, or your nominations may be rejected!

In particular:

For categories 1 and 2, you should include not only the name of the actor/actress and the series, but also the name of the episode that you want to nominate them for. To help you do this, our Eligibility List page includes links to the imdb entries for each item, which includes episode guides. Just click on the title or the image of the series you are interested in nominating to find this info.
For category 7, you must include the exact technical aspect of the show/movie you are nominating. You couldn't simply, for example, nominate the film "Spiderman 14", you would have to be more specific, such as "Costume Design in Spiderman 14".
If you nominate a script from a TV series in category 8, you must again let us know what episode you are nominating. Nominations that just list the name of a series will be rejected.
In all categories, please be sure that the episode or film you are nominating was released in Canada in 2009, not 2008 or 2010. Check episode guides or the imdb if you are unsure.
As noted in the nomination guidelines, any ballots that do not have a full name and postal address on them will be rejected, period.

Also, please note that you do not have to make nominations in every category. If you only submit nominations for some of the categories and leave the rest blank, that is perfectly acceptable and your nominations will indeed be accepted.

For your assistance, we have put a sample ballot online to help guide you as you fill out your ballot. Note that the names, series, and films listed on this sample ballot are, of course, purely fictional - the ballot is simply to help demonstrate what information is required in each part of the form.

If you have any questions or require further clarifications, please contact us at constellations@tcon.ca.

Nomination Guidelines

Anybody may submit nominations for the nine award categories.

There is no limit to the number of nominations you may make.

Performers may be nominated multiple times if they performed several eligible performances in 2009, but each distinct performance or work may be nominated only once per category.

The awards committee will review all nominations received and develop the final voting ballot, based on nomination frequency and eligibility. The committee reserves the right to reject, group, or reclassify any received nominations based on our eligibility guidelines. For example, nominations for the "Best Television Series" category that were for a work that were properly categoried as being a "mini-series" might be moved by the committee from category 3 to category 6.

Nomination forms received without names and addresses will NOT be processed. Names and addresses will be used for various tracking purposes (e.g. to track geographical statistics on where nominations are coming from).

Forms must be received by us by March 31st, 2010.

Please refer to our eligibility guidelines and eligibility list before filling out your nomination form. For your assistance, we have also put a sample ballot online to help guide you as you fill out your ballot.

Nomination Forms

Don't let your nominations be rejected! Please be sure to read the Important Nomination Notes on this page before filling out your nomination form!

There are four ways you can submit your nominations:

The fastest way to nominate: Use our online nomination form. Your choices will sent to us automatically. Note: You must have JavaScript and cookies enabled in your browser to use this form.
Download the PDF version of our nomination form. This is a fillable PDF that you can either fill in electronically, for printing or emailing, OR you can just print it off blank, fill it in by hand, and send to us by postal mail.
Download the Microsoft Word version of our nomination form that can be filled in via your word processor and sent to us by email.
Duplicate the information from the nomination form into another format and sent it to us by email.

Completed nomination forms or questions/comments can be emailed to constellations@tcon.ca.