- Award Category: Professional Achievement Award Category Record # 111
- Award Type: Balrog Award
| 1981 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Win | for contributions, including the Star Wars saga | George Lucas |
| Nomination | for a lifetime of fiction writing | Fritz Leiber |
| Nomination | for a lifetime of writing contributions | H. Warner Munn |
| Nomination | for articles and interviews | Jeffrey Elliot |
| Nomination | for contributions to fantasy literature | Harlan Ellison |
| Nomination | for editing at Gregg Press, Pocket Books, and Simon & Schuster | David G. Hartwell |
| Nomination | for editing Dark Forces | Kirby McCauley |
| Nomination | for his Kane series and editing | Karl Edward Wagner |
| Nomination | for life work in the field of fantasy | Frank Kelly Freas and Polly Freas |
| Nomination | for popularizing horror/fantasy fiction | Stephen King |
| Nomination | for publication of fine fantasy works | Donald M. Grant |
| Nomination | for publishing efforts | Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller |
| Nomination | for publishing his father's work | Christopher Tolkien |