Usually, this award is presented only to the screenwriter and director of the film, but
Harlan Ellison, who had written the original story the film was based on and who had already won six previous Hugo Awards, objected to being left out of this nomination. Eventually, the Hugo committee gave in and included him, but had run out of the iconic Hugo rocket statues. They did, however, have an extra base, which Ellison accepted and later referred to as his "half-Hugo."
