Nebula Awards Records and Tallies

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Winners and
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Complete List by Nominee
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Record winners
Connie Willis has won the most Nebulas, 6. Greg Bear, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Robert Silverberg each have 5.

Losers Club (Most nominations with no wins)
Jack McDevitt and James Patrick Kelly finally won Nebulas in 2007, leaving the late Avram Davidson, with 10 nominations, the leader in this category, with Thomas M. Disch and Bruce Sterling following.

Never Won
Robert A. Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, R.A. Lafferty; Dan Simmons, Neal Stephenson, Tim Powers, Vernor Vinge, John Brunner

Never Even Nominated
Greg Egan, Paul J. McAuley, Stephen Baxter, Iain M. Banks, Christopher Priest, Rudy Rucker, Sheri S. Tepper


(Nebula tallies do not include recipients of the SFWA Grand Master award.)

Total Nebula Wins

6 Connie Willis
5 Greg Bear, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg
4 Samuel R. Delany
3 Poul Anderson, Philippa Boyens, Lois McMaster Bujold, Ted Chiang, Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, Peter Jackson, Nancy Kress, Fritz Leiber, Kelly Link, Vonda N. McIntyre, James Tiptree, Jr., Fran Walsh, Kate Wilhelm, Roger Zelazny
2 Isaac Asimov, Gregory Benford, Michael Bishop, Terry Bisson, Edward Bryant, Octavia E. Butler, Orson Scott Card, Gardner Dozois, Carol Emshwiller, Esther M. Friesner, Neil Gaiman, Charles L. Grant, Elizabeth Hand, George R. R. Martin, James Morrow, Pat Murphy, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Holland Rogers, John Varley, Walter Jon Williams, Gene Wolfe, Jane Yolen

Total Nebula Nominations
[Number of wins in brackets]

22 Robert Silverberg [5]
20 Gene Wolfe [2]
18 Kate Wilhelm [3]
17 Ursula K. Le Guin [5]
16 Harlan Ellison [3], Michael Swanwick [1]
15 Michael Bishop [2]
14 Jack McDevitt [1], Connie Willis [6], Roger Zelazny [3]
13 Jack Dann [1], George R. R. Martin [2]
12 Poul Anderson [3], Gregory Benford [2], Lucius Shepard [1]
11 Gardner Dozois [2], Nancy Kress [3], Fritz Leiber [3], Mike Resnick [1], Kim Stanley Robinson [2]
10 Avram Davidson, Samuel R. Delany [4], James Patrick Kelly [1], Frederik Pohl [2], Bruce Sterling, Walter Jon Williams [2]
9 Greg Bear [5], Orson Scott Card [2], Thomas M. Disch, Karen Joy Fowler [1], Joe Haldeman [5], Joanna Russ [1], James Tiptree, Jr. [3], John Varley [2], Howard Waldrop [1]
8 Lois McMaster Bujold [3], William Gibson [1], John Kessel [1], Vonda N. McIntyre [3], Larry Niven [1]

Nebula Never-Winners
Number of nominations without ever having won

10 Avram Davidson, Bruce Sterling
9 Thomas M. Disch
7 R. A. Lafferty, Maureen F. McHugh
6 Andy Duncan, Barry N. Malzberg, Norman Spinrad
5 Eleanor Arnason, Pat Cadigan, Adam-Troy Castro, Philip K. Dick, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Susan M. Shwartz
4 Richard Bowes, Lisa Goldstein, Robert A. Heinlein, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Keith Laumer, Jonathan Lethem, Geoff Ryman, James H. Schmitz, Vernor Vinge

Total Nebula Losses
Number of times nominated but lost [Number of wins in bracket]

18 Gene Wolfe [2]
17 Robert Silverberg [5]
15 Michael Swanwick [1], Kate Wilhelm [3]
13 Michael Bishop [2], Harlan Ellison [3], Jack McDevitt [1]
12 Jack Dann [1], Ursula K. Le Guin [5]
11 George R. R. Martin [2], Lucius Shepard [1], Roger Zelazny [3]
10 Gregory Benford [2], Avram Davidson, Mike Resnick [1], Bruce Sterling
9 Poul Anderson [3], Thomas M. Disch, Gardner Dozois [2], James Patrick Kelly [1], Kim Stanley Robinson [2]
8 Karen Joy Fowler [1], Nancy Kress [3], Fritz Leiber [3], Frederik Pohl [2], Joanna Russ [1], Howard Waldrop [1], Walter Jon Williams [2], Connie Willis [6]
7 Orson Scott Card [2], William Gibson [1], John Kessel [1], R. A. Lafferty, Maureen F. McHugh, Larry Niven [1], John Varley [2]
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