2024 Saturn Awards Winners

The 51st Annual Saturn Awards winners were revealed during a ceremony streamed from Los Angeles on February 4.

Avatar: The Way of Water brought home four awards in the film categories. Star Trek: Picard equaled the tally with four in the TV categories.

These Special Achievement Awards were also presented during the ceremony.

  • Life Career Award – Jodie Foster
  • Visionary Award – Christopher Nolan
  • George Pal Memorial Award – Dave Filoni
  • Lance Reddick Legacy Award – Keanu Reeves
  • Robert Forster Artist’s Award – Seth MacFarlane
  • Dan Curtis Legacy Award – The Walking Dead franchise
  • Lifetime Achievement Award – The Cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation

The complete list of winners follows the jump.

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(1) 2024 HUGO VOTING STALLED. The Glasgow 2024 Worldcon paused Hugo nomination voting on January 28, announcing in social media, “We are aware of an issue with nominations. We have taken that system offline as a precaution.” Their January 30 update said, “We committed to update you on the temporary pause of Hugo Award nominations. Our UK software provider is still working on a solution. We will provide you with our next status update no later than the 6th February.” At this time they do not expect to extend the nomination voting deadline.

(2) NEW STAR IN THE FIRMAMENT. Margaret Atwood appears as a guest star on the CBC series Murdoch Mysteries this coming Monday, February 5. She plays Loren Quinnell, Amateur Ornithologist. “Her and her feathered friends help crack the case…”

(3) NEW CLARION WEST SCHOLARSHIPS. The Salam Award and Clarion West Week One Instructor Usman T. Malik (CW ‘14) have offered two new scholarships for 2024 Students: “The Salam Award and the Malik Family Sponsor Scholarships for Pakistani and Palestinian Students”.

The Salam Award Scholarship: For the year 2024, The Salam Award has agreed to sponsor a student of Pakistani origin, whether a Pakistani resident of any ethnicity, or a Pakistani-origin student anywhere in the world up to USD $1,000. 

The Malik Sharif-Fehmida Anwar Scholarship: Usman T. Malik and his parents Malik Tanveer Ali and Shabnam Tanveer Malik have offered an annual travel scholarship to help fund travel up to USD $2,500 for a student of Palestinian-origin. The applicant should be Palestinian Arab-Muslim or Arab-Christian from Gaza, West Bank, or Golan Heights, or may be Palestinian diaspora located anywhere in the world. 

Through the generosity of our donors, Clarion West provides a number of scholarships for writers every year. Approximately 60-90% of our Six-Week Workshop participants receive full and partial-tuition scholarships. You must indicate your need for financial aid when you apply to the six-week workshop. Your application is reviewed without regard to your financial aid request.

You can learn more about scholarships for the Six-Week Workshop here

(4) WHAT WE DON’T TALK ABOUT. RedWombat took inspiration from the continuing Hugo controversy to pen these lyrics, shared in ha comment on File 770 today.

This only works if you pronounce it “Wisfuss,” but…

We don’t talk about WSFS, no no no
We don’t talk about WSFS

But!

It was Hugo nom day
(It was Hugo nom day)
We were running numbers
and there wasn’t much good to be found
Standlee stops by with a glint in his eye
(Trademark!)
You filking this thing or am I?
(Sorry, sorry, please go on)

Standlee says, “we can’t enforce…”
(Why did he say it?)
The lawyers are aghast, of course
(That’s not how you play it)
And MPC did not endorse
(Had to resign but nevermind…)

We don’t talk about WSFS, no no no
We don’t talk about WSFS

Hey, grew to live in fear of what the lawyers might find next
Feeling like the whole organization’s been hexed
I associate it with the sight of scathing posts
(Tsk tsk tsk)
It’s a heavy job sieving through this murk
Implicit contract no longer seems to work
Can’t rely on the Old SMOFs Network
Who’s gonna do the work?

M-P-C, taken aback
People still mad about the AO3 attack
How can you enforce this implicit contract?
Yeah, the lawyers scream and break into teams
(Hey)
We don’t talk about WSFS, no no no
We don’t talk about WSFS

We never should have asked about WSFS, no no no
Why did we talk about WSFS?

(I put that song in my head for the next year doing this, so if you’re going to complain, believe me, I have already been punished.)

(5) WRITERS AT GEN CON. The 2024 Gen Con Writers’ Symposium guests will include Linda D. Addison, Mikki Kendall, and quite a few featured speakers who are sff authors. Gen Con 2024 will be held August 1-4 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Gen Con Writers’ Symposium is a semi-independent event hosted by Gen Con and intended for both new and experienced writers of speculative fiction. All registration is handled through the Gen Con website.

(6) WHO ELSE HAD A STAKE IN DRACULA? Bobby Derie tells readers that H. P. Lovecraft claimed his friend Edith Miniter was offered the chance to revise Bram Stoker’s Dracula. What do we know about this claim? Find out! “Lovecraft, Miniter, Stoker: the Dracula Revision” at Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein.

In The Essential Dracula (1979), Bram Stoker scholars Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu revealed a letter (H. P. Lovecraft to R. H. Barlow, 10 Dec 1932) that had been drawn to their attention by horror anthologist and scholar Les Daniels, where H. P. Lovecraft claimed that an old woman he knew had turned down the chance to revise Stoker’s Dracula. The letter had not been published before this. Although Lovecraft’s claim had been made in print as early as 1938, and a letter with the anecdote was published in the first volume of Lovecraft’s Selected Letters from Arkham House in 1965, this seems to be the first time the Stoker scholar community became generally aware of the claim. The authors were intrigued by the possibilities…

(7) LDV NEWS. J. Michael Straczynski shared that Blackstone Indie has unveiled a webpage for The Last Dangerous Visions. It does not take preorders yet.

In 1973, celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with Again Dangerous Visions. But for reasons undisclosed, The Last Dangerous Visions was never completed.

Now, six years after Ellison’s passing, science fiction’s most famous unpublished book is here. And with it, the heartbreaking true story of the troubled genius behind it.

Provocative and controversial, socially conscious and politically charged, wildly imaginative yet deeply grounded, the thirty-two never-before published stories, essays, and poems in The Last Dangerous Visions stand as a testament to Ellison’s lifelong pursuit of art, representing voices both well-known and entirely new, including: David Brin, Max Brooks, James S. A. Corey, Dan Simmons, Cory Doctorow, and Adrian Tchaikovsky, among others.

With an introduction and exegesis by J. Michael Straczynski, and a story introduction by Ellison himself, The Last Dangerous Visions is an extraordinary addition to an incredible literary legacy.

(8) ANOTHER ENTRY FOR THE CAPTAIN’S LOG. The Visual Effects Society will honor Actor-Producer-Director William Shatner as the recipient of the VES Award for Creative Excellence in recognition of his valuable contributions to visual arts and filmed entertainment at its annual ceremony on February 21. “William Shatner Named as Recipient of the VES Award for Creative Excellence”.

(9) ST:TNG GETTING SATURN HONORS. “The Cast Of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ To Receive Special Lifetime Achievement Saturn Award” at TrekMovie.com.

…The cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation will receive The Lifetime Achievement Award at the 51st Annual Saturn Awards, being held in Los Angeles this Sunday. For 2024 the Academy is doing something different for the TNG cast with this award. A statement from the Academy to TrekMovie explains:

“The Lifetime Achievement Award is usually presented to an individual for their contributions to genre entertainment. Top luminaries like Stan Lee and Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock himself, have received this top honor. It’s not new, but we extended this award to cover the entire cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, due to its continued influence on the face of general television. It was originally doomed to failure since it was following in the footsteps of the original Star Trek, yet it carved its own identity, and its diverse cast was light years ahead of its time!”…

(10) TODAY’S BIRTHDAY.

[Written by Cat Eldridge.]

Born February 1, 1954 Bill Mumy, 70. Bill Mumy is best remembered of course for being on Lost in Space for three seasons (“Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!”) though he has a much more extensive performance resume.

At the rather tender age of seven, he makes his genre acting debut on The Twilight Zone as Billy Bayles in “Long Distance Call”.  He’d appear in two Twilight Zone episodes, “It’s A Good Life” as Anthony Fremont, a child with godlike powers and finally as the young Pip Phillips in “In Praise of Pip”.

He’d show up much later on in Twilight Zone: The Movie in one of the segments, not unsurprisingly a remake of “It’s A Good Life” which here is listed as being from a screenplay by Richard Matheson. Here he’s Tim. Whoever that is. 

He’d be on the reboot of the Twilight Zone in “It’s Still A Good Life” as the Adult Anthony Fremont.

Photo of Billy Mumy in 2013
Billy Mumy in 2013. Photo by Gage Skidmore.

He next had three appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, none genre. His next genre outing would be playing two different characters on BewitchedI Dream of Jeannie and the Munsters followed.

Then of course was the eighty-three episode, three season run on Lost in Space. He’d be eleven years old when it started. I know I’ve seen all of it at least once. No idea how the Suck Fairy would treat it nearly this long on, but I really liked it when I saw it at the time. 

Remember the 1990 Captain America? If you don’t, you’re not alone. In this WW II version, he plays a young boy, Tom Kimball, who photographs Captain America over the Capital building kicking a missile off after batting Red Skull so crashes in Alaska, burying itself and Steve Rogers under the ice. 12%, repeat 12%, is the rating audience reviewers gave it on Rotten Tomatoes. 

He showed up once in the first iteration of a Flash series, and then has three appearances as Tommy Puck in the Nineties Superboy series. The first I saw and quite like, the latter not a single episode have I encountered. 

The next thing that is quite worthy of note is his stellar role on Babylon 5 as Mimbari warrior monk, I think that’s the proper term,  Lennier. Of one hundred and ten episodes, he was in all but two. That’s right, just two. Or at least credited as being so. What an amazing role that was. I’ve watch this series including the six films at least twice straight through. No Suck Fairy dares comes near it. 

The last thing of note, and I’m not seen the series, was him playing Dr. Zachary Smith on the reboot of the Lost in Space series that came out just a few years ago for two episodes. Please, please don’t ask who he’s playing as my continuous headache got even worse when I tried to figure out who he really was. Really I did. What they with that series was a crime. 

(11) PUTTING THE BITE ON TOURISTS. [Item by Steven French.] If you’re ever in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Atlas Obscura recommends a visit to “Vampa: Vampire & Paranormal Museum”.

TUCKED AWAY IN THE SAME building as an antiques store in a small Pensylvania town lies a shockingly large collection of antique vampire-killing sets.

Covering the walls are the standard tools of the vampire hunter: the stake, the crucifix, the holy water bottle. But the stakes are far more than pointy, wooden sticks. Believed to date back centuries, all the weapons have been beautifully decorated with a variety of religious and allegorical carvings. They are spectacular objets d’art from every corner of the world, including several personal collections from actors who played Dracula in films. One wooden “traveling vampire hunter kit,” from around 1870 was owned by actor Carlos Villarias, who portrayed the famous count in a Spanish language Dracula….

(12) EARTH FARTS? Space reports that the “Mystery of Siberia’s giant exploding craters may finally be solved”.

The craters are unique to Russia’s northern Yamal and Gydan peninsulas and are not known to exist elsewhere in the Arctic, suggesting the key to this puzzle lies in the landscape, according to a preprint paper published Jan. 12 to the EarthArXiv database.

Researchers have proposed several explanations for the gaping holes over the years, ranging from meteor impacts to natural-gas explosions. One theory suggests the craters formed in the place of historic lakes that once bubbled with natural gas rising from the permafrost below. These lakes may have dried up, exposing the ground beneath to freezing temperatures that sealed the vents through which gas escaped. The resulting buildup of gas in the permafrost may eventually have been released through explosions that created the giant craters.

… But the historic-lake model fails to account for the fact that these “giant escape craters” (GECs) are found in a variety of geological settings across the peninsulas, not all of which were once covered by lakes, according to the new preprint, which has not been peer reviewed….

… Permafrost on the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas varies widely in its thickness, ranging from a few hundred feet to 1,600 feet (500 m). The soil likely froze solid more than 40,000 years ago, imprisoning ancient marine sediments rich in methane that gradually transformed into vast natural gas reserves. These reserves produce heat that melts the permafrost from below, leaving pockets of gas at its base.

Permafrost in Russia and elsewhere is also thawing at the surface due to climate change. In places where it is already thin on the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas, melting from both ends and the pressure from the gas may eventually cause the remaining permafrost to collapse, triggering an explosion.

This “champagne effect” would explain the presence of smaller craters around the eight giant craters, as huge chunks of ice propelled out by the explosions may have severely dented the ground, according to the preprint….

(13) HUNT TO EXTINCTION. The stories you hear from Brian Keene.

(14) NEW HEADSHOT. Scott Lynch introduced his new photo with a wry comment.

(15) COMING ATTRACTIONS. The “Next on Netflix 2024: The Series & Films Preview” sizzle reel includes clips from Bridgerton, Squid Game, Umbrella Academy and Rebel Moon.

(16) OCTOTHORPE. John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty respond to a letter of comment from Tobes Valois in episode 102 of the Octothorpe podcast, “I fully comprehend the mysteries”.  

Octothorpe 102 is here! We discuss the Hugo Awards debacle in some depth and SOLVE ALL THE ISSUES (no, really) but we book-end it with letters of comment and picks for those who need a bit of respite. Artwork by Alison Scott. Listen here!  

Alt text: Scooby, Velma and Daphne unmask the panda from last week’s cover art, and the person wearing the panda suit looks a lot like Dave McCarty. They say “It was old Mister McCarty all along!” and he says “And I would have gotten away with it too if it hadn’t been for you meddling Hugo finalists!” He is tied up with rope. The words “Octothorpe! 102” appear at the top of the image.

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, Chris Barkley, Cat Eldridge, SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie, Steven French, Mike Kennedy, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit belongs to File 770 contributing editor of the day Jon Meltzer.]

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(1) SATURN AWARDS NEWS. Keanu Reeves will be the inaugural recipient of the Lance Reddick Legacy Award when the 51st Saturn Awards take place on February 4. reports Variety.

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films has announced that Keanu Reeves will receive the inaugural Lance Reddick Legacy Award at the 51st Saturn Awards. The entire show will be dedicated to the memory of the late Reddick, who died at the age of 60 in March 2023.

Reeves, who was friends with Reddick, starred alongside him in the “John Wick” action-thriller franchise. Reddick appeared in all four movies as Charon, the concierge at the Continental hotel, where his character interfaced with Reeves’ titular hitman.

Academy president Robert Holguin and Saturn producers Bradley and Kevin Marcus released a statement on Reeves’ forthcoming honor: “This award symbolizes and celebrates not only a performer’s talent, but their character; someone who’s a true goodwill ambassador in the industry. From science fiction (‘The Matrix Trilogy’), fantasy (‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’/’Constantine’and horror (Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Dracula’/’The Devil’sAdvocate’), Keanu has done it all — not to mention ‘Speed’ and ‘Point Break.’”…

(2) SNUBBED? [Item by Dann.] The Hollywood Reporter has a story about the backlash to the backlash that protested the lack of Oscar nominations for Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie.  Media outlets from the New York Times to Slate offered rebuttals suggesting that it’s OK for a successful property to not win every award. “The ‘Barbie’ Oscar Snubs Backlash-Backlash: ‘Everyone Lost Their Minds’”.

The penultimate paragraph includes a quote from a genre fan-favorite:

And finally there was The View‘s Whoopi Goldberg, proclaiming, “[Saying somebody was snubbed] assumes someone else shouldn’t be in there. There are no snubs. That’s what you have to keep in mind: Not everybody gets a prize, and it is subjective. Movies are subjective. The movies you love may not be loved by the people who are voting.”

(3) EATING THE FANTASTIC. Scott Edelman invites listeners to “Munch MVP sandwiches with MVPs Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan” in Episode 217 of his Eating the Fantastic podcast.

Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan

Gary K. Wolfe is a science fiction critic, editor, and biographer who’s had a monthly review column in Locus since December 1991. He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work in 2006 for the book Soundings: Reviews 1992–1996, and again in 2011, for the book Bearings: Reviews 1997–2001. Over the years, he’s won the Eaton Award from the Eaton Conference on Science Fiction, the Pilgrim Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Science Fiction Research Association, the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and the British Science Fiction Association Award for nonfiction for the previously mentioned Soundings: Reviews 1992–1996. He’s also (among many other things) edited two wonderful volumes for the Library of America — American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-1956 and American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-1958.

Jonathan Strahan is a nineteen-time Hugo Award nominated editor and publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He’s won the Aurealis Award, the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism and Review, the Australian National Science Fiction Convention’s “Ditmar Award”, and the Peter McNamara Achievement Award. As a freelance editor, he’s edited or co-edited more than sixty original and reprint anthologies and seventeen single-author story collections and has been a consulting editor for Tordotcom Publishing and Tor.com since 2014, where he’s acquired and edited two novels, 36 novellas, and a selection of short fiction. Strahan won the World Fantasy Award (Special – Professional) in 2010 for his work as an editor, and his anthologies have won the Locus Award for Best Anthology four times (2008, 2010, 2013, 2021) and the Aurealis Award seven times. He has been Reviews Editor at Locus since 2002.

As the reason I’m with both of them is — together, they’ve been cohosts of The Coode Street Podcast since May 2010, which had 640 episodes live the last time I looked, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Fancast ten times, winning once.

We discussed why The Coode Street Podcast is “the Cheers of podcasts,” the foolish statement made during their first episode which meant there had to be more, the identity of the guest who was most resistant to appearing on their show, the reason the podcast made Paul Cornell want to run, the different interviewing techniques necessary when having conversations with the voluble vs. the reticent, the white whales whom they could never snare, how to make sure we’re speaking to more than just our own generations, their advice for anyone who wants to launch a podcast, the way to avoid getting canned responses out of guests, how their conversational methods have changed over 13 years, whether critiquing books or rejecting stories has ever affected relationships with a guest, and much more.

(4) PRESSURE FOR REGULATION. “The Sleepy Copyright Office in the Middle of a High-Stakes Clash Over A.I.” – the New York Times has the story.

For decades, the Copyright Office has been a small and sleepy office within the Library of Congress. Each year, the agency’s 450 employees register roughly half a million copyrights, the ownership rights for creative works, based on a two-centuries-old law.

In recent months, however, the office has suddenly found itself in the spotlight. Lobbyists for Microsoft, Google, and the music and news industries have asked to meet with Shira Perlmutter, the register of copyrights, and her staff. Thousands of artists, musicians and tech executives have written to the agency, and hundreds have asked to speak at listening sessions hosted by the office.

The attention stems from a first-of-its-kind review of copyright law that the Copyright Office is conducting in the age of artificial intelligence. The technology — which feeds off creative content — has upended traditional norms around copyright, which gives owners of books, movies and music the exclusive ability to distribute and copy their works.

The agency plans to put out three reports this year revealing its position on copyright law in relation to A.I. The reports are set to be hugely consequential, weighing heavily in courts as well as with lawmakers and regulators.

“We are now finding ourselves the subject of a lot of attention from the broader general public, so it is a very exciting and challenging time,” Ms. Perlmutter said.

The Copyright Office’s review has thrust it into the middle of a high-stakes clash between the tech and media industries over the value of intellectual property to train new A.I. models that are likely to ingest copyrighted books, news articles, songs, art and essays to generate writing or images. Since the 1790s, copyright law has protected works so an author or artist “may reap the fruits of his or her intellectual creativity,” the Copyright Office declares on its website.

That law is now a topic of hot debate. Authors, artists, media companies and others say the A.I. models are infringing on their copyrights. Tech companies say that they aren’t replicating the materials and that they consume data that is publicly available on the internet, practices that are fair use and within the bounds of the law. The fight has led to lawsuits, including one by The New York Times against the ChatGPT creator OpenAI and Microsoft. And copyright owners are pushing for officials to rein in the tech companies….

(5) RADIO SILENCE. Looking for comments from Kevin Standlee? We’re told he’s probably seeing the questions, but he’s been told he mustn’t say anything, so don’t be offended about getting no response to the Standlee Signal.

(6) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL. “Pharrell Williams: Lego Animated Biopic Coming From Focus Features” at Variety.

The musician and superproducer announced that he is teaming with The Lego Group, director Morgan Neville and Focus Features to create “Piece by Piece,” an animated film about his life using the famous toy blocks.

Per the press release, “Uninterested in making a traditional film about his life, Pharrell set out to tell his story in a way that would set audience’s imaginations free. Developed from his singular vision, ‘Piece by Piece’ defies genres and expectations to transport audiences into a Lego world where anything is possible.”…

(7) TODAY’S BIRTHDAY.

[Written by Cat Eldridge.]

Born January 26, 1979 Yoon Ha Lee, 44. A truly stellar writer.

His first work for us was “The Hundredth Question” story published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in the February 1999 issue. May I note that magazine has published some of the finest short fiction I’ve ever had the pleasure to read?

After “The Hundredth Question”, I count just over a hundred short stories and intriguingly nearly thirty pieces of poetry which is a fair amount of genre work I’d say.

Yoon Ha Lee

Quite interesting is that the stories have several series running there — one that runs off with “The Cat Who Forgot to Fly” and runs five stories (I went to read these); then there’s series of stories about dragons, librarians, mermaids, phoenixes and queens. 

So let’s talk about his novels. His Machineries of Empire space opera novels, well space opera is a gross understatement to it mildly, consisting of Ninefox GambitRaven Stratagem and Revenant Gun are splendid works indeed. As a follower of Asian folklore, the fact that these nicely use Korean folklore is a bonus. 

Ninefox Gambit was nominated for a Hugo at Worldcon 75, Raven Stratagem at Worldcon 76 and Revenant Gun at Dublin 2019. None alas won a Hugo.

He likes fox spirits, he really does. (As do I.) So The Thousand World series is a space opera, and yes time that is an accurate term, about thirteen-year-old Min, who comes from a long line of fox spirits. Oh there’s dragons and tigers, oh my here as well. 

I’ve not read his latest novel, Phoenix Extravagant, but magic fueled weaponized armored giants sounds potentially interesting. 

Remember all of those short stories? Well they have been collected,  well I thought most of them had in The Candlevine Gardener and Other Stories but it turned out that those are flash fiction, all sixty five of them as I just discovered, though available are free from his website here.

I just read “The Cat Who Forgot to Fly”. It read like a classic folklore story from well before the 1800s — charming, magical and everyone is fine at the end. All two pages. 

The longer stories can be found in Conservation of ShadowsThe Fox’s Tower and Other Tales and Hexarchate Stories.

(8) COMICS SECTION.

(9) SOMETHING ELSE YOU CAN’T SAY. [Item by Cat Eldridge.] Can we please stop calling it AI? They’re not actually artificial intelligences, they’re collections of algorithms doing routines based off them. None could pass a Turing test. “George Carlin’s Estate Sues Creators Of AI Version Of Comedy Icon” at Deadline.

Over 50 years ago, the late and great George Carlin listed off the seven words you couldn’t say on television. Based on a lawsuit from the iconic comedian’s estate filed in federal court in California today, at least two of those words may apply to the creators of an AI generated special that uses Carlin’s style and voice to a 2024 effect.

AKA: “a bastardization of Carlin’s real work,”  the copyright infringement complaint says.

“Defendants’ AI-generated “George Carlin Special” is not a creative work,” it goes on to exclaim. “It is a piece of computer-generated click-bait which detracts from the value of Carlin’s comedic works and harms his reputation.”… 

(10) THE END. Another one from Sam Sykes that tickled me.

(11) VIDEO OF A YEAR AGO. [Item by Danny Sichel.] German band Electric Callboy just (for values of ‘just’ that include ‘over a year ago’) released a very genre-intense video for their song ‘Spaceman’.

Warning: Electric Callboy’s style is a mix of bouncy energetic rave pop and thrashing deathcore growls. They are an extremely non-serious band.

(12) VIDEO OF THE DAY. “The Wicked Witch on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1975)”.

David Newell (Mr. McFeely) recollects Margaret Hamilton’s visit to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood filmed at WQED in Pittsburgh. In the episode on scary images, Fred Rogers meets the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in 1938 movie “The Wizard of Oz”.

[Thanks to Chris Barkley, Daniel Dern, Cat Eldridge, SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie, Dann, Danny Sichel, Kathy Sullivan, Steven French, Mike Kennedy, Andrew Porter, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit belongs to File 770 contributing editor of the day OGH.]

2023 Saturn Awards Nominations

The 2023 Saturn Award nominees were announced on December 6.

James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water received 12 nominations, surpassing the record he set back in 2010 when the original Avatar film garnered 10 nominations.

Other films leading the way are Christopher Nolan’s biopic, Oppenheimer, with 11 nominations, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (9), Barbie (8), Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (7).

The television field is led by Star Trek: Picard with 7 nominations, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows with 6 nominations. Lucasfilm’s/Disney+s’ series Andor has 5, as does The Last of Us.

The Saturn Awards have been presented each year since 1972 by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. 

The Saturn Awards winners will be revealed during a ceremony to be streamed from Los Angeles on February 4, 2024.

A complete list of nominees follows the jump.

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2022 Saturn Awards

The 2022 Saturn Awards were presented on October 25 by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. In honor of the organization’s 50 years (1972-2022), the 47th Saturn Awards were rebranded as The 50th Anniversary Saturn Awards.

The award honors the best in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other genres belonging to genre fiction in film, television, and home entertainment. The eligibility period for these Saturn Awards spanned almost two years.

Better Call Saul led with four wins, while Everything Everywhere at Once and Obi-Wan Kenobi each has three.

BEST SUPERHERO FILM

  • Spider-Man: No Way Home

BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM

  • Nope

BEST FANTASY FILM

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST HORROR FILM

  • The Black Phone

BEST ACTION / ADVENTURE FILM

  • Top Gun: Maverick

BEST THRILLER FILM

  • Nightmare Alley

BEST ACTOR IN A FILM

  • Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick)

BEST ACTRESS IN A FILM

  • Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A FILM

  • Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A FILM

  • Carrie Coon (Ghostbusters: Afterlife)

BEST YOUNGER ACTOR IN A FILM

  • Finn Wolfhard (Ghostbusters: Afterlife)

BEST FILM DIRECTION

  • Matt Reeves (The Batman)

BEST FILM WRITING

  • Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro, Kim Morgan)

BEST FILM PRODUCER DESIGNER

  • Dune (Patrice Vermette)

BEST FILM EDITING

  • Top Gun: Maverick (Eddie Hamilton)

BEST MUSIC IN A FILM

  • The Batman (Michael Giacchino)

BEST FILM COSTUME DESIGN

  • Cruella (Jenny Beavan)

BEST MAKE-UP IN A FILM

  • Dune (Donald Mowat, Love Larson, Eva Von Bahr)

BEST FILM VISUAL / SPECIAL EFFECTS

  • Spider-Man: No Way Home (Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein, Dan Sudick)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

  • RRR – Rise Roar Revolt

BEST INDEPENDENT FILM

  • Dual

BEST ANIMATED FILM

  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

BEST SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION SERIES NETWORK / CABLE

  • Superman & Lois

BEST FANTASY TELEVISION SERIES: NETWORK / CABLE

  • Shining Vale

BEST HORROR TELEVISION SERIES: NETWORK / CABLE

  • The Walking Dead

BEST ACTION/THRILLER TELEVISION SERIES NETWORK / CABLE

  • Better Call Saul

BEST ACTOR IN A NETWORK / CABLE SERIES

  • Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul)

BEST ACTRESS IN A NETWORK / CABLE SERIES

  • Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A NETWORK / CABLE SERIES

  • Jonathan Banks (Better Call Saul)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A NETWORK / CABLE SERIES

  • Lauren Cohan (The Walking Dead)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUNGER ACTOR: NETWORK / CABLE SERIES

  • Brec Bassinger (Stargirl)

BEST GUEST-STARRING PERFORMANCE: NETWORK / CABLE SERIES

  • Jennifer Tilly (Chucky)

BEST ANIMATED SERIES

  • Star Wars: The Bad Batch

BEST SCIENCE FICTION SERIES: (STREAMING)

  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

BEST FANTASY SERIES: (STREAMING)

  • Loki

BEST HORROR / THRILLER SERIES: (STREAMING)

  • Stranger Things

BEST ACTION / ADVENTURE SERIES: (STREAMING)

  • The Boys

BEST LIMITED EVENT SERIES: (STREAMING)

  • Obi-Wan Kenobi

BEST ACTOR IN A STREAMING SERIES

  • Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight)

BEST ACTRESS IN A STREAMING SERIES

  • Ming-Na Wen (The Book of Boba Fett)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A STREAMING SERIES

  • Elliott Page (Umbrella Academy)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A STREAMING SERIES

  • Moses Ingram (Obi-Wan Kenobi)

BEST GUEST STARRING PERFORMANCE IN A STREAMING SERIES

  • Hayden Christensen (Obi-Wan Kenobi)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUNGER ACTOR IN A STREAMING SERIES

  • Iman Vellani (Ms. Marvel)

HOME ENTERTAINMENT:

BEST CLASSIC FILM RELEASE

  • Theatre of Blood (Kino Lorber)

BEST TELEVISION SERIES RELEASE

  • Chucky (Season 1) (Universal)

BEST FILM COLLECTION RELEASE

  • Universal Classic Monsters – Icons of Horror Collection 4K (Universal)

BEST 4K SPECIAL EDITION FILM RELEASE

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once (Lionsgate)

LIFETIME CAREER AWARD

  • Kathryn Leigh Scott

ROBERT FORSTER ARTISTS’ AWARD

  • Cast of Better Call Saul

DAN CURTIS LEGACY AWARD

  • Julie Plec

PRODUCER’S SHOWCASE AWARD

  • Geoff Johns

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE AWARD

  • Amber Midthunder

2022 Saturn Awards Nominations

The 2022 Saturn Award nominees were announced on August 12.

Warner Bros/DC’s The Batman, directed by Matt Reeves, leads all films with 12. Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley runs second with 10.

Among television shows, AMC’s Better Call Saul tops the list with seven nominations.

The awards show will be live streamed on ElectricNow on October 25.

The complete list of nominees follows the jump.

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2021 Saturn Awards

The 46th annual Saturn Awards were presented October 26. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, which skipped 2020, extended the Saturn Awards eligibility period to allow works released from July 15, 2019-November 15, 2020 to contend.

The Star Wars franchise claimed seven prizes, for Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, Disney XD animated series The Clone Wars and Disney Plus’ The Mandalorian.

The complete list of winners follows the jump.

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Saturn Awards Names Special Honorees Ahead of Ceremony

The 46th annual Saturn Awards ceremony will take place October 26 at the L.A. Marriott Burbank Hotel with Bruce Campbell as emcee the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films revealed today.

The Academy also named the winners of its special awards who will be honored that night:

THE VISIONARY AWARD

  • Midnight Mass creator Mike Flanagan

THE DAN CURTIS LEGACY AWARD

  • The Flash showrunner Eric Wallace

LIFE CAREER AWARD

  • Young Frankenstein producer Michael Gruskoff

SPOTLIGHT AWARD

  • Amazon Studios and Alcon Entertainment’s sci-fi series The Expanse

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

  • Chucky producer David Kirschner

THE PRODUCERS SHOWCASE AWARD

  • Victoria Alonso, Marvel Studios’ President of Physical and Postproduction, Visual Effects, And Animation Production

The 2021 Saturn Awards Nominations were released in March. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, which skipped 2020, extended the Saturn Awards eligibility period to allow works released from July 15, 2019-November 15, 2020 to contend.

2021 Saturn Awards Nominations

The 46th annual Saturn Awards Nominations were unveiled on March 4. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, which skipped 2020, extended the Saturn Awards eligibility period to allow works released from July 15, 2019-November 15, 2020 to contend.

Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker leads all films with 12 nominations. TENET follows with 9 and Doctor Sleep with 8.

Television shows Better Call Saul, Outlander and The Walking Dead got five nominations apiece.

The organizers have yet to announce the date of the awards ceremony.

The complete list of nominees follows the jump.

FILM

Best Comic-to-Motion Picture Release

  • Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Bloodshot (Sony Pictures)
  • Joker (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • The New Mutants (20th Century Films / Walt Disney Studios)
  • The Old Guard (Netflix)

Best Science Fiction Release

  • Ad Astra (Searchlight Pictures)
  • Gemini Man (Paramount Pictures)
  • Lucy in the Sky (Searchlight Pictures)
  • Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm Ltd. / Walt Disney Studios)
  • Tenet (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Terminator: Dark Fate (Paramount Pictures)

Best Fantasy Film Release

  • Bill & Ted Face the Music (Orion Pictures)
  • Jumanji: The Next Level (Sony Pictures)
  • The Lion King (Walt Disney Studios)
  • Maleficent: The Mistress of Evil (Walt Disney Studios)
  • Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (Sony Pictures)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (Paramount Pictures)
  • The Witches (HBO Max)

Best Horror Film Release

  • Doctor Sleep (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Freaky (Universal Pictures)
  • The Invisible Man (Universal Pictures)
  • It Chapter Two (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Midsommar (A24)
  • Ready or Not (Searchlight Pictures)
  • Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (CBS Films / Lionsgate)

Best Action/Adventure Film Release

  • 1917 (Universal Pictures)
  • Bad Boys for Life (Columbia Pictures)
  • El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (Netflix)
  • Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (Universal Pictures)
  • The Gentlemen (STX Films)
  • Mulan (Walt Disney Studios / Disney Plus)

Best Thriller Film Release

  • Da Five Bloods (Netflix)
  • The Good Liar (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • The Irishman (Netflix)
  • Knives Out (Lionsgate)
  • Mank (Netflix)
  • Uncut Gems (A24)

Best Actor in a Film

  • Daniel Craig
    Knives Out (Lionsgate)
  • Delroy Lindo
    Da Five Bloods (Netflix)
  • Ewan McGregor
    Doctor Sleep (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Gary Oldman
    Mank (Netflix)
  • Aaron Paul
    El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (Netflix)
  • Joaquin Phoenix
    Joker (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • John David Washington
    Tenet (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Actress in a Film

  • Rebecca Ferguson
    Doctor Sleep (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Yifei Liu
    Mulan (Walt Disney Studios / Disney Plus)
  • Elisabeth Moss
    The Invisible Man (Universal Pictures)
  • Natalie Portman
    Lucy in the Sky (Searchlight Pictures)
  • Daisy Ridley
    Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm Ltd./Walt Disney Studios)
  • Margot Robbie
    Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Charlize Theron
    The Old Guard (Netflix)

Best Supporting Actor in a Film

  • Adam Driver
    Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm Ltd. /Walt Disney Studios)
  • Chris Evans
    Knives Out (Lionsgate)
  • Bill Hader
    It Chapter Two (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Ian McDiarmid
    Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm Ltd. /Walt Disney Studios)
  • Robert Pattinson
    Tenet (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Donnie Yen
    Mulan (Walt Disney Studios / Disney Plus)

Best Supporting Actress in a Film

  • Zazie Beetz
    Joker (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Ellen Burstyn
    Lucy in the Sky (Searchlight Pictures)
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
    Knives Out (Lionsgate)
  • Ana De Armas
    Knives Out (Lionsgate)
  • Linda Hamilton
    Terminator: Dark Fate (Paramount Pictures)
  • Amanda Seyfried
    Mank (Netflix)
  • Jurnee Smollett
    Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Film

  • Ella Jay Basco
    Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Julia Butters
    Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Sony Pictures)
  • Kyliegh Curran
    Doctor Sleep (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Roman Griffin Davis
    Jojo Rabbit (Searchlight Pictures)
  • Lexy Kolker
    Freaks (Well Go USA)
  • JD McCrary
    The Lion King (Walt Disney Studios)

Best Film Director

  • J.J. Abrams Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm Ltd./Walt Disney Studios)
  • Niki Caro
    Mulan (Walt Disney Studios / Disney Plus)
  • Mike Flanagan
    Doctor Sleep (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Christopher Nolan
    Tenet (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Gina Prince-Bythewood
    The Old Guard (Netflix)
  • Quentin Tarantino
    Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (Sony Pictures)
  • Leigh Whannell
    The Invisible Man (Universal Pictures)

Best Film Screenplay

  • Mike Flanagan
    Doctor Sleep (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Lauren Hynek, Elizabeth Martin
    Mulan (Walt Disney Studios / Disney Plus)
  • Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin-won
    Parasite (Neon)
  • Christopher Nolan
    Tenet (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
    Joker (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Quentin Tarantino
    Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (Sony Pictures)
  • Chris Terrio, J.J. Abrams
    Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm Ltd. /Walt Disney Studios)

Best Film Editing

  • Maryann Brandon, Stefan Grube
    Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm Ltd./Walt Disney Studios)
  • Bob Ducsay
    Knives Out (Lionsgate)
  • Mike Flanagan
    Doctor Sleep (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Jennifer Lame
    Tenet (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Fred Raskin
    Once Upon a Tim In Hollywood (Sony Pictures)
  • Jinmo Yang
    Parasite (Neon)

Best Film Production Design

  • Rick Carter, Kevin Jenkins
    Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm Ltd./Walt Disney Studios)
  • Nathan Crowley
    Tenet (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Mark Friedberg
    Joker (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Barbara Ling
    Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (Sony Pictures)
  • Patrick Tatopoulos
    Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (Walt Disney Studios)
  • Ra Vincent
    Jojo Rabbit (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Film Composer

  • Ludwig Goransson
    Tenet (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Nathan Johnson
    Knives Out (Lionsgate)
  • Jaeil Jung
    Parasite (Neon)
  • Thomas Newman
    1917 (Universal Pictures)
  • Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
    Mank (Netflix)
  • John Williams
    Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm Ltd./Walt Disney Studios)

Best Film Costume

  • Erin Benach
    Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Bina Daigeler
    Mulan (Walt Disney Studios / Disney Plus)
  • Michael Kaplan
    Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm Ltd./Walt Disney Studios)
  • Arianne Phillips
    Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (Sony Pictures)
  • Mayes C. Rubeo
    Jojo Rabbit (Searchlight Pictures)
  • Albert Wolsky
    Ad Astra (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Film Make-Up

  • Bill Corso, Dennis Liddiard, Stephen Kelly, Bianca Appice
    Bill & Ted Face the Music (Orion Pictures)
  • Robert Kurtzman, Bernadette Mazur
    Doctor Sleep (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Shane Zander, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr.
    It Chapter Two (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Arjen Tuiten, David White
    Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (Walt Disney Studios)
  • Norman Cabrera, Mike Hill, Mike Elizalde
    Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (CBS Films / Lionsgate)
  • Amanda Knight, Neal Scanlan
    Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm Ltd./Walt Disney Studios)

Best Film Visual / Special Effects

  • Scott R. Fisher, Allen Maris
    Ad Astra (Searchlight Pictures)
  • Mark Hawker, Yael Majors, Greg Steele
    Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Kristy Hollidge, Nicholas Brooks
    It Chapter Two (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Ken Egly, Robert Legato
    The Lion King (Walt Disney Studios)
  • Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach, Dominic Tuohy
    Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm Ltd./Walt Disney Studios)
  • Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley, Scott Fisher, Mike Chambers
    Tenet (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Neil Corbould, Eric Barba, Vinod Gundre, Sheldon Stopsack
    Terminator: Dark Fate (Paramount Pictures)

Best Independent Film Release

  • Angel of Mine (Lionsgate)
  • Encounter (Vega Baby)
  • The Aeronauts (Amazon)
  • Color Out of Space (RLJ Entertainment)
  • Freaks (Well Go USA)
  • Palm Springs (Neon)
  • Possessor (Neon / Elevation Pictures)

Best International Film Release

  • Jojo Rabbit (Searchlight Pictures)
  • The Nightingale (IFC Films)
  • Official Secrets (IFC Films)
  • Parasite (Neon)
  • Sputnik (IFC Midnight)
  • The Whistlers (Magnolia Pictures)

Best Animated Film Release

  • Abominable (Universal Pictures)
  • The Addams Family (United Artists Releasing)
  • Frozen II (Walt Disney Studios)
  • Onward (Walt Disney Studios)
  • Spies in Disguise (20th Century Pictures)
  • Trolls: World Tour (Universal Pictures)

TELEVISION

Best Superhero Adaptation Television Series

  • Batwoman (The CW)
  • The Boys (Amazon)
  • The Flash (The CW)
  • Stargirl (The CW)
  • Supergirl (The CW)
  • The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)
  • Watchmen (HBO)

Best Science Fiction Television Series

  • Doctor Who (BBC America)
  • Lost in Space (Netflix)
  • Pandora (The CW)
  • Raised by Wolves (HBO Max)
  • Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)
  • Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)
  • Westworld (HBO)

Best Fantasy Television Series

  • The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix)
  • For All Mankind (Apple TV)
  • Locke & Key (Netflix)
  • The Magicians (SyFy)
  • Outlander (Starz)
  • The Twilight Zone (CBS All Access)
  • The Witcher (Netflix)

Best Horror Television Series

  • Creepshow (Shudder)
  • Evil (CBS)
  • Fear the Walking Dead (AMC)
  • Lovecraft Country (HBO)
  • Servant (Apple TV)
  • The Walking Dead (AMC)
  • What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

Best Action/Thriller Television Series

  • Better Call Saul (AMC)
  • Castle Rock (Hulu)
  • The Outpost (The CW)
  • Pennyworth (Epix)
  • Riverdale (The CW)
  • Snowpiercer (TNT)
  • Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (Amazon)

Best Television Presentation (under 10 Episodes)

  • Amazing Stories (Apple TV)
  • Dracula (Netflix)
  • The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix)
  • His Dark Materials (HBO)
  • The Mandalorian (Disney Plus)
  • Perry Mason (HBO)

Best Animated Television Series

  • Bojack Horseman (Netflix)
  • Family Guy (Fox)
  • Primal (Adult Swim)
  • Rick and Morty (Adult Swim)
  • The Simpsons (Fox)
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Disney XD)

Best Film Presentation on Streaming Media

  • Enola Holmes (Netflix)
  • Extraction (Netflix)
  • Shirley (Hulu)
  • The Vast of Night (Amazon)

Best Actor on a Television Series

  • Henry Cavill
    The Witcher (Netflix)
  • Mike Colter
    Evil (CBS)
  • Grant Gustin
    The Flash (The CW)
  • Sam Heughan
    Outlander (Starz)
  • Jonathan Majors
    Lovecraft Country (HBO)
  • Bob Odenkirk
    Better Call Saul (AMC)
  • Patrick Stewart
    Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)

Best Actress on a Television Series

  • Caitriona Balfe
    Outlander (Starz)
  • Melissa Benoist
    Supergirl (The CW)
  • Regina King
    Watchmen (HBO)
  • Sonequa Martin-Green
    Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)
  • Thandie Newton
    Westworld (HBO)
  • Candice Patton
    The Flash (The CW)
  • Rhea Seehorn
    Better Call Saul (AMC)

Best Supporting Actor on a Television Series

  • Jonathan Banks
    Better Call Saul (AMC)
  • Tony Dalton
    Better Call Saul (AMC)
  • Michael Emerson
    Evil (CBS)
  • Doug Jones
    Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)
  • Richard Rankin
    Outlander (Starz)
  • Norman Reedus
    The Walking Dead (AMC)
  • Luke Wilson
    Stargirl (The CW)

Best Supporting Actress on a Television Series

  • Natasia Demetriou
    What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
  • Cynthia Erivo
    The Outsider (HBO)
  • Melissa McBride
    The Walking Dead (AMC)
  • Colby Minifie
    Fear The Walking Dead (AMC)
  • Danielle Panabaker
    The Flash (The CW)
  • Sophie Skelton
    Outlander (Starz)
  • Tessa Thompson
    Westworld (HBO)

Best Performance by a Younger Actor on a Television Series

  • Freya Allan
    The Witcher (Netflix)
  • Brec Bassinger
    Stargirl (The CW)
  • Isa Briones
    Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)
  • Maxwell Jenkins
    Lost in Space (Netflix)
  • Madison Lintz
    Bosch (Amazon)
  • Cassady McClincy
    The Walking Dead (AMC)
  • Erin Moriarty
    The Boys (Amazon)

Best Guest Starring Performance on Television

  • Jon Cryer
    Supergirl (The CW)
  • Giancarlo Esposito
    The Mandalorian (Disney Plus)
  • Mark Hamill
    What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan
    The Walking Dead (AMC)
  • Kate Mulgrew
    Mr. Mercedes (Audience)
  • Billy Porter
    The Twilight Zone (CBS All Access)
  • Jeri Ryan
    Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)

HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Best Classic Film DVD/BD Release

  • 4D Man
    Kino
  • The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Special Edition)
    Kino
  • Dr. Cyclops (Special Edition)
    Kino
  • Hercules in the Haunted World (Special Edition)
    Kino
  • The Magic Sword
    Kino
  • Robocop (Director’s Cut)
    Arrow
  • The War of the Worlds (1953)
    Criterion

Best Television Series DVD/BD Release

  • Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Complete Collection
    Kino Lorber
  • Creepshow: Season One
    Image Entertainment
  • The Librarians: The Complete Series
    Electric Entertainment
  • Mission: Impossible – The Original TV Series
    Paramount Home Entertainment
  • The Outsider: The First Season
    HBO
  • Shazam: The Complete Live Action Series
    Warner Archive Collection
  • The Simpsons: The Nineteenth Season
    20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Best Film Collection DVD/BD Release

  • Abbott & Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection
    Shout Factory
  • The Fly Collection
    Shout Factory
  • Gamera: The Complete Collection
    Arrow
  • Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954-1975
    Criterion Collection
  • Hitchcock: British International Pictures Collection
    Kino
  • Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations
    MVD Entertainment
  • Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman
    Criterion Collection

Best 4K Film Release

  • The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection
    Universal Home Entertainment
  • Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut
    Lionsgate
  • Flash Gordon Limited Edition
    Arrow
  • Jaws 45th Anniversary
    Universal Home Entertainment
  • Knives Out
    Lionsgate
  • Mad Max
    Kino Lorber
  • The Shining
    Warner
  • War of the Worlds (2005)
    Paramount Home Entertainment

LIVE STAGE PRODUCTION

Best Live Stage Production

  • Anastasia
    Segerstrom Center for the Arts
  • Frankenstein
    A Noise Within
  • Good Boys
    Pasadena Playhouse
  • Once
    Cerritos Center/3D Theatricals
  • Shrek Musical
    Cerritos Center/3D Theatricals
  • Witch
    Geffen Playhouse

2019 Saturn Awards

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films presented the 2019 Saturn Awards on September 13 at the historic Avalon Theater in Hollywood, California.

 “It’s Friday the 13th. it’s a full moon…and I’m the luckiest girl in the world,” said Jamie Lee Curtis of the Halloween film franchise, winner of the award for Best Film Actress.

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films is a non-profit corporation founded in 1972 by Dr. Donald A. Reed.  The organization is dedicated to honoring film and television genre entertainment.

Best Comic-to-Motion-Picture Release 

  • Avengers: Endgame

Best Science Fiction Film Release

  • Ready Player One 

Best Fantasy Film Release 

  • Toy Story 4 

Best Horror Film Release 

  • A Quiet Place 

Best Action/Adventure Film Release 

  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout 

Best Thriller Film Release 

  • Bad Times at The El Royale 

Best Animated Film Release 

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 

Best Independent Film Release 

  • Mandy 

Best International Film Release 

  • Burning 

Best Actor in a Film 

  • Robert Downey Jr., Avengers: Endgame

Best Actress in a Film 

  • Jamie Lee Curtis, Halloween

Best Supporting Actor in a Film 

  • Josh Brolin, Avengers: Infinity War 

Best Supporting Actress in a Film 

  • Zendaya, Spider-Man: Far From Home 

Best Performance by a Younger Actor

  • Tom Holland, Spider-Man: Far From Home 

Best Film Director

  • Jordan Peele — Us

Best Writing

  • A Quiet Place — Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and John Krasinski

Best Film Production Design 

  • Charles Wood — Avengers: Endgame  

Best Film Music

  • Marc Shaiman — Mary Poppins Returns

Best Editing

  • Jeffrey Ford and Matthew SchmidtAvengers: Endgame

Best Film Costume 

  • Michael Wilkinson — Aladdin

Best Makeup

  • John Blake and Brian SipeAvengers: Endgame

Best Film Special/Visual Effects 

  • Avengers: Endgame  

Best Superhero TV Series 

  • Supergirl

Best Science Fiction TV Series 

  • Westworld  (HBO)

Best Fantasy Television Series 

  • Game of Thrones  (HBO)

Best Horror Television Series 

  • The Walking Dead  {AMC)

Best Action/Thriller Television Series

  • Better Call Saul {AMC)

Best Animated Television Series 

  • Star Wars Resistance  (Disney Channel)

Best Actor on a Television Series 

  • Sam Heughan — Outlander (Starz)

Best Actress in a Television Series 

  • Emilia Clarke — Game of Thrones     (HBO)

Best Supporting Actor on a Television Series 

  • Peter Dinklage — Game of Thrones (HBO)

Best Supporting Actress on a Television Series 

  • Danai Gurira — The Walking Dead {AMC)

Best Performance by a Younger Actor on a Television Series 

  • Maisie Williams — Game of Thrones (HBO)

Best Guest-Starring Performance on a Television Series 

  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan — The Walking Dead  {AMC)

 Best Streaming Superhero Television Series 

  • Marvel’s Daredevil  (Netflix)

Best Streaming Fantasy, Sci-Fi, or Action/Thriller Television Series 

  • Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)

Best Streaming Horror and Thriller Series 

  • Stranger Things (Netflix)

Best Actor in Streaming Presentation 

  • Henry Thomas —  The Haunting of Hill House   (Netflix)

Best Actress in a Streaming Presentation 

  • Sonequa Martin-Green  — Star Trek: Discovery     (CBS All Access)

Best Supporting Actor in Streaming Presentation

  • Doug Jones — Star Trek: Discovery  (CBS All Access)

Best Supporting Actress in Streaming Series

  • Maya Hawke — Stranger Things (Netflix)

Best DVD or Blu-ray Special Edition Release

  • Waterworld

Stan Lee World Builder Award

  • Kevin Feige

Visionary Award

  • Jon Favreau

Dan Curtis Legacy Award

  • Jeph Loeb

Best Local Live State Performance

  • Puppet Up! Uncensored