COVER ILLUSTRATION, HARDCOVER

• Donato Giancola, for A Book of Wizards (by Marvin Kaye, ed.; SFBC)
• Stephan Martiniere, for The Dragons of Babel (by Michael Swanwick; Tor)
• Scott Fischer, for An Evil Guest (by Gene Wolfe; Tor)
• Stephen Hickman, for Ghost Quartet (by Marvin Kaye, ed.; Tor)
• Todd Lockwood, for Quofum (by Alan Dean Foster; Del Rey)
• Dan Dos Santos, for Stalking the Vampire (by Mike Resnick; Pyr)
• John Picacio, for Viewpoints Critical: Selected Stories (by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.; Tor)

COVER ILLUSTRATION, PAPERBACK

• John Picacio, for Fast Forward 2 (by Lou Anders, ed.; Pyr)
• Dan Dos Santos, for Cry Wolf (by Patricia Briggs; Ace)
• Michael Komarck, for Dragonforge (by James Maxey; Solaris)
• Paul Youll, for Hell and Earth (by Elizabeth Bear; Roc)
• Todd Lockwood, for The Stormcaller (by Tom Lloyd; Pyr)
• J.P. Targete, for The Turtle Moves! Discworld's Story Unauthorized (by Lawrence Watt-Evans; Benbella)

COVER ILLUSTRATION, MAGAZINE

• Matts Minnhagen, for Clarkesworld Magazine Apr 2008
• Bob Eggleton, for Asimov's Aug 2008
• David A. Hardy, for F&SF Jun 2008
• Maurizio Manzieri, for F&SF Apr 2008
• John Picacio, for Asimov's Sep 2008

INTERIOR ILLUSTRATION

• Donato Giancola, for "The Wraith" (by J. Robert Lennon; Playboy Nov 2008)
• John Picacio, for Elric: The Stealer of Souls (by Michael Moorcock; Del Rey)
• Adam Rex, for Frankenstein Takes the Cake (Harcourt)
• Shaun Tan, for Tales from Outer Suburbia (Allen & Unwin)
• Alan Lee, for Tales from the Perilous Realm (by J. R. R. Tolkien; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

COLOR WORK, UNPUBLISHED

• "The Gift", Simon Dominic (digital)
• "Gizmo", Omar Rayyan (watercolor)
• "Lorca's Cave", Raoul Vitale (oil)
• "Progeny", Donato Giancola (oil)
• "The Seawall", Michael Whelan (acrylic)
• "The Wave in Her Heart", Julie Bell (oil)

MONOCHROME WORK, UNPUBLISHED

• "Kraken", Simon Dominic (digital)
• "Chiroptera", Kate Lebherz-Gelinas (pencil)
• "Counterfeit", A. L. Ashbaugh (graphite)
• "Gwenevere", Rebecca Guay (pencil)
• "Hare", James Jean (oil)

THREE-DIMENSIONAL

• "Otherworldly Procession", Vincent Villafranca (bronze)
• "Dark Harpy", Forest Rogers (polyclay, copper foil, and gold leaf)
• "Heart of Art", Akihito Ikeda (mixed)
• "The Mushroom Gatherer", Laura Reynolds (mixed)
• "Wall-E", Brian Chan (origami - a single sheet of paper)

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

• Julie Bell
• Roger Dean
• Dan Dos Santos
• James Jean
• Stephan Martiniere
• Shaun Tan

ART DIRECTOR

• Lou Anders (Pyr Books)
• Matt Adelsperger (Wizards of the Coast)
• Scott Allie (Dark Horse Comics)
• Irene Gallo (Tor)
• Jeremy Jarvis (Wizards of the Coast)
• William Schafer (Subterranean Press)
• David Stevenson (Del Rey)

GAMING-RELATED ILLUSTRATION

• "Stoic Angel", Volkan Baga (Magic Card: Shards of Alara, Wizards of the Coast)
• "Angelic Benediction", Michael Komarck (Magic Card: Shards of Alara, Wizards of the Coast)
• "Cancel", David Palumbo (Magic Card: Shards of Alara, Wizards of the Coast)
• "Firestorm", Tom Fleming (VS System, Upper Deck)
• "Invincible Hymn", Matt Stewart (Magic Card: Shards of Alara, Wizards of the Coast)

PRODUCT ILLUSTRATION

• "Hellboy 2", Dan Dos Santos (promotional art for the film, Dark Horse & Universal Pictures)
• "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian", Justin Sweet (concept art for the film, Walt Disney Studios)
• "Cyber Angel", Patrick Jones (poster, IlluXCon)
• "False Magic", James Christensen (LE Canvas Print, Greenwich Workshop)
• "The Name of the Rose", Volkan Baga (box art & promotional art for the game, Ravensburger Spieleverlag)