Editing Nebula Award for Best Script (section)

== Award statistics ==

During the 15 nomination years, 14 awards for Best Script have been given, including the special award given to ''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]]'' in 1978 but not including 1977, since no nominee was given the award. No winner was declared that year as "no award" received the highest number of votes.<ref name="DevoreHist"/> With three awards ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' film trilogy earned the most awards or nominations of any franchise. The [[Christopher Nolan]] [[Batman in film#The Dark Knight trilogy (2005–2012)|''Batman'' movies]], ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', and ''[[Doctor Who]]'' franchises have each had two nominations, but no wins. [[Hayao Miyazaki]], Christopher Nolan, [[Joss Whedon]], and ''The Lord of the Rings'' screenwriters have had the most nominations, with three each.