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"Game of Thrones" already has a solid season season on HBO, nearly doubling the audience it had for the first season. And the quality shone through as well, especially when it came to the 2012 Airlock Alpha Portal Awards. The HBO fantasy drama picked up nine nominations, including Best Series/Tel ...

When I was putting together the idea of having a reader-influenced award for genre shows, movies and actors to make up for the lack of attention from the Emmys, I never thought that I'd still be knee-deep in the Portal Awards more than a dozen years later. Despite the tens of thousands of votes w ...

Fans are hoping "Game of Thrones" cleans up at this year's Emmy awards. But first, it had a very strong finish in voting for the 2011 Portal Awards. The HBO fantasy series from author George R.R. Martin tied "Fringe" to take three awards at this year's fan-chosen awards, including Best Actor/Tele ...

The movie categories have always been interesting ones for the Airlock Alpha Portal Awards, especially at times when readers have questioned how much of a "genre" film certain productions are, and if the biggest box office winners are usually the winners here as well. The fact is, the movie categ ...

You could say that all the awards in the 2012 Airlock Alpha Portal Awards are special, but even within these fan-chosen awards, there are some categories that are even more special. They are called the Gene Roddenberry Award and the Rod Serling Award. The Roddenberry honor rewards lifetime achiev ...

It's almost like the battle of the veterans when it comes to the supporting actor categories of the 2012 Airlock Alpha Portal Awards -- probably because it is. John Noble, who won Best Supporting Actor/Television last year for "Fringe," is back once again, up against a couple familiar names like ...

Fans will be asked to continue a tradition that is now 13 years old when voting for the 2012 Airlock Alpha Portal Awards begins June 25. The awards themselves started in 1999 as the SyFy World Genre Awards. At the time, SyFy World, still living in its home in the now defunct GeoCities, was just ...

Tired of both the Emmys and the Oscars ignoring your favorite genre shows and films? Wish you had more chances to vote for the best of the best, without having to buy a membership somewhere? That's why the Airlock Alpha Portal Awards were first started in 1999 as the SyFy Genre Awards, and why it ...

Shows trying to win prestige as part of the Rod Serling Award classic television series class will have a lot more competition as 31 new genre shows have become eligible. Among those joining the fray are popular shows "Firefly," "The X-Files," "Earth: Final Conflict" and "Dark Angel." They can no ...

On your marks ... get set .... OK, we'll end the cliche right there. You know what this story is about. You read the headline. It's time to vote in the 2011 Airlock Alpha Portal Awards. Now in its 12th year, the Portal Awards honors the best in science-fiction that aired on television or in t ...