J.K. Rowling, Order of the Phoenix & Potter actors up for SyFy Genre awards
 

The nominations for the SyFy Genre awards have been announced. J.K. Rowling, Order of the Phoenix, Dan Radcliffe and Emma Watson have all been shortlisted for gongs.

Dan Radcliffe is up for Best Actor, for his performance in the fifth film and faces competition from Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr., Harrison Ford and Will Smith.

Emma Watson is up for Best Actress, for her performance in the fifth film and is up against Helena Bonham-Carter, Claire Danes, Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Order of the Phoenix is nominated for Best Movie alongside I am Legend, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Stardust and Iron Man.

J.K. Rowling is up for the Gene Roddenberry Lifetime Achievement award. She faces competition from Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke, Gene L. Coon and H.G. Wells.

Voting opens June 25th at SyFy Portal. Votes can be cast daily for 30 days up until July 25th. The winners will be announced on August 13th.

A video of the nominees can be watched here or below.

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Cool! Good for them!
I'll be first to vote!

P.S First to post!!! That's the second time this week!

Second to post!! :) That's really great!

another nomination!

in the best actor category, i love Dan, obviously, but could i possibly stress how much I think Will Smith rocks????

oooohhh......tough competition.....

That's some tough competition they have to face.

Good luck to them ^_^

Great!

Good luck to all of them!

I hope they'll win...

They'll get my vote.
Except Jo, unfortunately... No way I can vote for her if Douglas Adams is on that list.
And Arthur C. Clarke, too! *sigh* :(

What a difficult choice!
May the best person win.

that is TOTALLY WICKED!!!~ Of course J.K.Rowling is the best, but Johnny Depp is winning hands-down!!!~ Good Luck EMM!

That\'s some pretty tough competition they have. :yes: I\'m sure that they\'ll do well.

Good luck everyone!

Oh man, that is going to be so hard. Good Luck to them all, but I have a feeling that Emma will definetly win!

JK will definitely win! GO Dan & Emma!

Alot of Compition. Its hard to make a decission but of course i will vote for Dan thas a given.

Hmmm...tough competition...Jo might be able to pull it off but Emma & Dan have some sirius competitors there!

that\'s is tough, but they rock, hope they win, im gonna vote! =]

Please post a reminder on the 25th, so we run to vote!

Competition is as tough as it gets, but they really stand a chance.

as much as i would like JKR to get a lifetime achievement, she faces some pretty tough competition.

:hermy2: all of them-n the movie face tough competition...emma faces-helena too..dan faces Depp..n others..Jo faces Wells,Clarke..woahh..n ootp-indy jones etc..
best of luck-nominees!

i hope they win

sweet

woooow ! it seems pretty tough competition.
good luck for them ! hope they win !

go jo
good luck with the competition!