Place |
Year and Award |
Title |
Category |
Nomination
|
1977 World Fantasy
|
|
Best Artist |
11
|
1977 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
1978 World Fantasy
|
|
Best Artist |
Finalists
|
1978 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
2
|
1979 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
2
|
1979 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
1979 World Fantasy
|
|
Best Artist |
Win
|
1980 Balrog
|
|
Artist |
1
|
1980 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
1980 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
1980 World Fantasy
|
|
Best Artist |
4
|
1980 Hugo
|
Wonderworks
|
Best Non-Fiction Book |
4
|
1980 Locus
|
Wonderworks
|
Best Art or Illustrated Book |
1
|
1981 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
1981 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Win
|
1981 World Fantasy
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
1981 Balrog
|
|
Artist |
Win
|
1982 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
1
|
1982 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
1982 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Win
|
1982 World Fantasy
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
1982 Balrog
|
|
Artist |
Win
|
1983 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
1
|
1983 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
1983 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Win
|
1983 World Fantasy
|
|
Best Artist |
Win
|
1984 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
1
|
1984 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
1984 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
1984 SF Chronicle
|
|
Most Attractive Male Artist |
Nomination
|
1985 Chesley
|
Chanur's Venture
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
Nomination
|
1985 Chesley
|
Chanur's Venture
|
Best Cover Illustration - Paperback |
Nomination
|
1985 Chesley
|
Elric at the End of Time
|
Best Cover Illustration - Paperback |
Nomination
|
1985 Chesley
|
Job: A Comedy of Justice
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
Nomination
|
1985 Chesley
|
The Final Encyclopedia
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
Win
|
1985 Chesley
|
The Integral Trees
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
Win
|
1985 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
1
|
1985 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
1985 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
1985 World Fantasy
|
|
Best Artist |
Win
|
1986 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
1
|
1986 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
1986 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Win
|
1987 Chesley
|
Sentinels
(variant of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1990)
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
Win
|
1987 Chesley
|
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
|
Best Cover Illustration - Paperback |
Win
|
1987 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
1
|
1987 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
1988 Chesley
|
Being a Green Mother
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
Nomination
|
1988 Chesley
|
In Conquest Born
|
Best Cover Illustration - Paperback |
1
|
1988 Hugo
|
Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder
|
Best Non-Fiction Book |
2
|
1988 Locus
|
Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder
|
Best Non-Fiction |
Nomination
|
1988 Chesley
|
Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder
|
Award for Artistic Achievement |
Win
|
1988 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
1
|
1988 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
1988 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
1988 World Fantasy
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
1989 Chesley
|
Catspaw
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
1
|
1989 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
1989 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
1989 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
Nomination
|
1989 Chesley
|
|
Award for Artistic Achievement |
3
|
1990 Hugo
|
Paradise: A Chronicle of a Distant World
|
Best Original Artwork |
Nomination
|
1990 Chesley
|
Paradise: A Chronicle of a Distant World
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
Nomination
|
1990 Chesley
|
Passage the Red Step
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
4
|
1990 Hugo
|
The Renegades of Pern
|
Best Original Artwork |
1
|
1990 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
1990 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
3
|
1990 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
5
|
1990 Asimov's Readers'
|
|
Best Cover Artist |
Win
|
1991 Chesley
|
The Madness Season
|
Best Cover Illustration - Paperback |
Nomination
|
1991 Chesley
|
The Martian Chronicles
|
Best Cover Illustration - Paperback |
1
|
1991 Asimov's Readers'
|
|
Best Cover Artist |
Win ⓘFor body of work to date
|
1991 Chesley
|
|
Award for Artistic Achievement |
Win
|
1991 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
1
|
1991 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
1991 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
1992 Chesley
|
All the Weyrs of Pern
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
Withdrawn -- Nomination Declined
|
1992 Hugo
|
All the Weyrs of Pern
|
Best Original Artwork |
Withdrawn -- Nomination Declined
|
1992 Hugo
|
The Initiate Brother
|
Best Original Artwork |
1
|
1992 Hugo
|
The Summer Queen
|
Best Original Artwork |
Win
|
1992 Chesley
|
The Summer Queen
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
Win
|
1992 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
1
|
1992 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
1992 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Win
|
1992 Chesley
|
Weyrworld
|
Best Monochrome Work - Unpublished |
Win
|
1993 Chesley
|
Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1992
|
Best Cover Illustration - Magazine |
3
|
1993 Hugo
|
Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1992
|
Best Original Artwork |
9
|
1993 Hugo
|
Illusion
|
Best Original Artwork |
Nomination
|
1993 Chesley
|
Illusion
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
Nomination
|
1993 Chesley
|
Subterraneans
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
Win
|
1993 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
1
|
1993 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
2
|
1993 Asimov's Readers'
|
|
Best Cover Artist |
Withdrawn -- Nomination Declined
|
1993 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
Nomination
|
1994 Chesley
|
The Apotheosis of War
|
Best Monochrome Work - Unpublished |
1
|
1994 Locus
|
The Art of Michael Whelan: Scenes / Visions
|
Best Art Book |
2
|
1994 Hugo
|
The Art of Michael Whelan: Scenes / Visions
|
Best Non-Fiction Book |
Nominations Below Cutoff
|
1994 Hugo
|
The Art of Michael Whelan: Scenes / Visions
|
Best Original Artwork |
Nomination
|
1994 Chesley
|
The Leavetaking
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
Nominations Below Cutoff
|
1994 Hugo
|
To Green Angel Tower
|
Best Original Artwork |
Win
|
1994 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
1
|
1994 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
2
|
1994 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
Nomination
|
1994 Chesley
|
|
Award for Artistic Achievement |
2
|
1995 Hugo
|
Foreigner
|
Best Original Artwork |
Nomination
|
1995 Chesley
|
Foreigner
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
1
|
1995 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
2
|
1995 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
Nomination
|
1995 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
Nomination
|
1996 Chesley
|
Invader
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
Nominations Below Cutoff
|
1996 Hugo
|
Invader
|
Best Original Artwork |
Nomination
|
1996 Chesley
|
Malthusian Wave
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
1
|
1996 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
2
|
1996 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
Nomination
|
1996 IHG
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination ⓘdisplayed at L.A.con III
|
1997 Chesley
|
Lumen 4
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
Nomination
|
1997 Chesley
|
Royal Assassin
|
Best Cover Illustration - Paperback |
Win
|
1997 Chesley
|
The Golden Key
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
Nomination
|
1997 BSFA
|
The Golden Key
|
Best Artwork |
1
|
1997 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
2
|
1997 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
Nomination
|
1997 SF Chronicle
|
|
Pro Artist |
3
|
1998 Locus
|
Something in My Eye: Excursions into Fear
|
Best Art Book |
Nomination
|
1998 Chesley
|
The Mageborn Traitor
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
1
|
1998 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
2
|
1998 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
Nomination
|
1999 Chesley
|
River of Blue Fire
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
1
|
1999 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
3
|
1999 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
Win
|
2000 Chesley
|
Mountain of Black Glass
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
Nomination
|
2000 Chesley
|
Peace
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
1
|
2000 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
2000 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Win
|
2001 Chesley
|
Reach
(variant of Kingdom of Cages)
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
Nomination
|
2001 Chesley
|
Tangled Up in Blue
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
2
|
2001 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
3
|
2001 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
Nomination
|
2002 Chesley
|
Lumen 6.2
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
Nomination
|
2002 Chesley
|
Sea of Silver Light
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
1
|
2002 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
2002 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
2003 Chesley
|
Bean Stalk
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
Nomination
|
2003 Chesley
|
Sorcery Rising
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
2
|
2003 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Win
|
2004 Chesley
|
She
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
1
|
2004 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
1
|
2006 Asimov's Readers'
|
Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2005
(variant of Sword and Sorceress XVI)
|
Best Cover Art |
2
|
2006 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
Nomination
|
2007 Chesley
|
Retrospection
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
2
|
2008 Asimov's Readers'
|
Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2007
(variant of L'Echelle)
|
Best Cover Art |
Nomination
|
2008 Chesley
|
Rising
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
Nomination
|
2009 Chesley
|
The Seawall
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
1
|
2009 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
2010 Chesley
|
Lumen 5
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
Nomination
|
2010 Chesley
|
The Little Sisters of Eluria
|
Best Interior Illustration |
11
|
2010 Locus
|
The Little Sisters of Eluria
|
Best Non-Fiction/Art |
19
|
2010 Goodreads
|
The Way of Kings
|
Coverart |
1
|
2010 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nominations Below Cutoff
|
2010 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
2011 Asimov's Readers'
|
Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2010
(variant of This Alien Shore)
|
Best Cover Art |
Win
|
2011 Chesley
|
The Way of Kings
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
Win
|
2011 Nebula
|
|
Solstice Award |
2
|
2011 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nominations Below Cutoff
|
2011 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
1
|
2012 Analog
|
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2012
|
Best Cover |
Nomination ⓘDragon*Con 2011 promo art & program book
|
2012 Chesley
|
Gift from the Sea
|
Best Product Illustration |
2
|
2012 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nominations Below Cutoff
|
2012 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
4
|
2013 Asimov's Readers'
|
Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2013
(variant of The Martian Chronicles)
|
Best Cover Art |
1
|
2013 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
2014 Chesley
|
A Memory of Light
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
1
|
2014 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nominations Below Cutoff ⓘ38 nominations
|
2014 Hugo
|
|
Best Professional Artist |
5
|
2015 Asimov's Readers'
|
Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2014
(variant of The Smoke Ring)
|
Best Cover Art |
2
|
2015 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Nomination
|
2015 Chesley
|
Words of Radiance
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
1
|
2016 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
2
|
2017 Asimov's Readers'
|
Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2016
(variant of Foundation's Edge)
|
Best Cover Art |
Win
|
2017 Chesley
|
In a World of Her Own
|
Best Color Work - Unpublished |
2
|
2017 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Preliminary Nominees
|
2018 Gemmell Award
|
The Witchwood Crown
|
Ravenheart Award |
3
|
2018 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
2
|
2019 Locus
|
Beyond Science Fiction: The Alternative Realism of Michael Whelan
|
Best Art Book |
Nominations Below Cutoff ⓘ24 nominations with 15.42 points.
The Hugo Administrator noted that had this nominee received enough points, it would have bee ineligible due to a 2017 publication date.
|
2019 Hugo
|
Beyond Science Fiction: The Alternative Realism of Michael Whelan
|
Best Art Book |
2
|
2019 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
3
|
2020 Asimov's Readers'
|
Asimov's Science Fiction, January-February 2019
(variant of Distant Stars)
|
Best Cover Art |
Nomination
|
2020 Chesley
|
Empire of Grass
|
Best Cover Illustration - Hardcover |
3
|
2020 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
3
|
2021 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
4
|
2022 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |
Finalists
|
2023 Locus
|
|
Best Artist |