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, and horror in film, but have since grown to reward other films belonging to

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, as well as television and home media releases. The Saturn Awards were created in 1973 and were originally referred to as Golden Scrolls.

History

The Saturn Awards were devised by Donald A. Reed in 1973, who felt that work in films in the genre of science fiction at that time lacked recognition within the established Hollywood film industry's award system. Initially, the award given was a Golden Scroll certificate. In the late 1970s, the award was changed to be a representation of the planet Saturn, with its ring(s) composed of film. The Saturn Awards are voted upon by members of the presenting Academy. The Academy is a non-profit organization with membership open to the public. Its president and executive producer is Robert Holguin, and producer/writers Bradley Marcus and Kevin Marcus. Its members include filmmakers J. J. Abrams, Bryan Singer, Steven Spielberg,

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, Vince Gilligan and James Cameron, among others. Although the Awards still primarily focus on films and television in the science fiction, fantasy and horror categories, the Saturns have also recognized productions in other dramatic genres. There are also special awards for lifetime achievement in film production.

Award categories

Film

Television

Streaming

Home video

* Best DVD or Blu-ray Release (since 2001) * Best DVD or Blu-ray Special Edition Release (since 2001) * Best Classic Film DVD Release (2002) * Best Television DVD Release (since 2002) * Best DVD or Blu-ray Collection (since 2003) * Best Retro Television Series on DVD (since 2014)

Special awards

* The George Pal Memorial Award *

The Life Career Award The Life Career Award is presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, in conjunction with their annual Saturn Award ceremony. Recipients Below is a list of recipients and the year the award was presented: 1970s *Fritz La ...

The President's Memorial Award The President's Memorial Award or President's Award is presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, in conjunction with their annual Saturn Award ceremony. The award is given for quality genre entertainment, and is named ...

Special Recognition Award The Special Recognition Award is presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, in conjunction with their annual Saturn Award ceremony. Recipients Below is a list of recipients and the year the award was presented: *''Marc ...

Breakthrough Performance Award The Saturn Award for Best Breakthrough Performance is presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, in conjunction with their annual award-ceremony. Recipients Below is a list of recipients and the year their award was pr ...

Discontinued awards

* Best Low-Budget Film (1980–1982) * Best Network Television Series (1988–2014) * Best Guest Starring Role on Television (2008-2021) * Best Performance by a Younger Actor on Television (2013-2021) * Best Streaming Science Fiction, Action & Fantasy Series (2019) * Best Streaming Superhero Series (2017-18) * Best Superhero Television Series (since 2014-2021) * Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series (1996–2014) * Best International Series (2007) * Best Youth-Oriented Television Series (2011–2014) * Best New Media Television Series (2015–2017) * Best Television Presentation (1994-2020)

Records

Notes

Year-by-year results

''The year indicates the year of release of the films eligible.'' * 1972:

1st Saturn Awards The 1st Saturn Awards were awarded to media properties and personalities deemed by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films to be the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror released in the year 1972. However, only science fic ...

* 1973:

2nd Saturn Awards The 2nd Saturn Awards were awarded to media properties and personalities deemed by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films to be the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror released in year 1974. They were awarded on January 7 ...

* 1974–1975:

3rd Saturn Awards The 3rd Saturn Awards were awarded to media properties and personalities deemed by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films to be the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror released in the year 1974 and 1975. They were award ...

* 1976:

4th Saturn Awards The 4th Saturn Awards were awarded to media properties and personalities deemed by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films to be the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror released in the year 1976 Events January ...

* 1977:

5th Saturn Awards The 5th Saturn Awards were awarded to media properties and personalities deemed by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films to be the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror released in the year 1977. It was held on January 1 ...

* 1978:

6th Saturn Awards The 6th Saturn Awards were awarded to media properties and personalities deemed by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films to be the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror released in the year 1979. They were awarded on Febr ...

* 1979: 7th Saturn Awards * 1980:

8th Saturn Awards The 8th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film in 1980, were held in July 1981. Winners and nominees Below is a complete list of nominees and winners. Winners are highlighted in bold. Film awards Specia ...

* 1981:

9th Saturn Awards The 9th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film in 1981, were held on July 27, 1982. It was hosted by Sandahl Bergman and Richard Lynch at the Director's Guild Theater Complex on Sunset Boulevard in Los An ...

* 1982:

10th Saturn Awards The 10th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film in 1982, were held on July 30, 1983. Winners and nominees Below is a complete list of nominees and winners. Winners are highlighted in bold. Film award ...

* 1983:

11th Saturn Awards The 11th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film in 1983, were held on March 24, 1984. ...

* 1984:

12th Saturn Awards The 12th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film in 1984, were held on June 9, 1985. Winners and nominees Below is a complete list of nominees and winners. Winners are highlighted in bold. Film awards ...

* 1985: 13th Saturn Awards * 1986:

14th Saturn Awards The 14th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film in 1986, were held on May 17, 1987.

* 1987:

15th Saturn Awards The 15th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film in 1987, were held on August 23, 1988. The nominations were announced on April 7, 1988. The science fiction action film '' RoboCop'' won five awards, includin ...

* 1988: 16th Saturn Awards * 1989–1990:

17th Saturn Awards The 17th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 1989 and 1990, were held on June 26, 1991.

* 1991:

18th Saturn Awards The 18th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 1991, were held on March 13, 1992. Winners and nominees Below is a complete list of nominees and winners. Winners are highlighted in bold. F ...

* 1992:

19th Saturn Awards The 19th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 1992, were held on June 8, 1993.20th Saturn Awards The 20th Saturn Awards, presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films and honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy, and horror belonging to genre fiction in film, television and home video in 1993, were held on Octo ...

* 1994:

21st Saturn Awards The 21st Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 1994, were held on June 26, 1995.22nd Saturn Awards The 22nd Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 1995, were held on June 25, 1996.23rd Saturn Awards The 23rd Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 1996, were held on July 23, 1997.24th Saturn Awards The 24th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 1997, were held on June 10, 1998.25th Saturn Awards The 25th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 1998, were held on June 9, 1999. Below is a complete list of nominees and winners. Winners are highlighted in bold. Winners and nominees Fil ...

* 1999:

26th Saturn Awards The 26th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 1999, were held on June 6, 2000.27th Saturn Awards The 27th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 2000, were held on June 12, 2001 at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles. Below is a complete list of nominees and winners. Winne ...

* 2001:

28th Saturn Awards The 28th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 2001, were held on June 10, 2002 at the St. Regis Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles. This year introduced categories that honored DVD release ...

* 2002:

29th Saturn Awards The 29th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 2002, were held on May 18, 2003 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, California. This ceremony revived the Best Animated Film c ...

* 2003:

30th Saturn Awards The 30th Saturn Awards, presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films and honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other genres belonging to genre fiction in film, television and home entertainment in 200 ...

* 2004:

31st Saturn Awards The 31st Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 2004, were held on May 3, 2005 at the Universal City Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California, United States. Below is a complete list of nomi ...

* 2005: 32nd Saturn Awards * 2006: 33rd Saturn Awards * 2007:

34th Saturn Awards The 34th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 2007 were presented on June 24, 2008 in Universal City Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Below is a complete list of nominees and winne ...

* 2008:

35th Saturn Awards The 35th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 2008 were presented on June 25, 2009, in Burbank, California. Below is a complete list of nominees and winners.36th Saturn Awards The 36th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 2009 were presented on June 24, 2010, in Burbank, California. The most awards of the night were won by ''Avatar'', winning all ten of its nomi ...

* 2010: 37th Saturn Awards * 2011:

38th Saturn Awards The 38th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 2011, were held on July 26, 2012 in Burbank, California. The awards are presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films ...

* 2012: 39th Saturn Awards * 2013:

40th Saturn Awards The 40th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 2013, was held on June 26, 2014, in Burbank, California. The awards were presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films ...

* 2014:

41st Saturn Awards The 41st Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy, horror and other genres in film and television in 2014, was held on June 25, 2015, in Burbank, California. The awards were presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantas ...

* 2015:

42nd Saturn Awards The 42nd Saturn Awards, presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films and honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other genres in film, television, home entertainment, and local theatre in 2015 and early ...

* 2016: 43rd Saturn Awards * 2017:

44th Saturn Awards The 44th Saturn Awards, presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films and honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other genres belonging to genre fiction in film, television, home entertainment and loca ...

* 2018–2019: 45th Saturn Awards * 2019–2020:

46th Saturn Awards The 46th Saturn Awards, presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, and honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other genres belonging to genre fiction in film, television, home media releases, and l ...

* 2021–2022:

47th Saturn Awards The 47th Saturn Awards, officially known as the 50th Anniversary Saturn Awards to celebrate the 50 years of the Saturn Awards (created in 1972), presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films and honoring the best in scien ...

References

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