The Saturn Award for Best Music is one of the annual awards given by the
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The
Saturn Awards
The Saturn Awards are American awards presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The awards were created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, but have since grown to reward other films be ...
, which are the oldest
film-specialized awards to reward
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...
,
fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and d ...
, and
horror achievements (the
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is given each year for theatrical films, television episodes, or other dramatized works related to science fiction or fantasy released in the previous calendar year. Originally the award covered both ...
is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the category for the first time as a juried award at the
2nd Saturn Awards in 1975, but was later given out competitively beginning with the
6th Saturn Awards in 1979 onward.
John Williams holds the record for the most nominations and wins with twenty and nine, respectively, including a juried double win in
1978.
Winners and nominees
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Multiple nominations
;20 nominations
* John Williams
;17 nominations
* Jerry Goldsmith
;16 nominations
* Danny Elfman
;13 nominations
* Howard Shore
* Alan Silvestri
;12 nominations
* Hans Zimmer
;10 nominations
* Michael Giacchino
;9 nominations
* James Horner
;8 nominations
* John Powell
;6 nominations
* Thomas Newman
* Christopher Young
;5 nominations
* Alan Menken
* John Ottman
;4 nominations
* John Carpenter
* James Newton Howard
;3 nominations
* David Arnold
* Alexandre Desplat
* Maurice Jarre
* Marc Shaiman
* Ken Thorne
;2 nominations
* Angelo Badalamenti
* John Barry
* Bruce Broughton
* Patrick Doyle
* Clint Eastwood
* Ludwig Göransson
* Harry Gregson-Williams
* Reinhold Heil
* Nathan Johnson
* Johnny Klimek
* Michael Nyman
* Trevor Rabin
* J. Peter Robinson
* Brian Tyler
Multiple wins
;9 awards
* John Williams
;7 awards
* Danny Elfman
;3 awards
* James Horner
* Alan Silvestri
* Hans Zimmer
;2 awards
* Michael Giacchino
* Alan Menken
* John Ottman
* Miklós Rózsa
* Howard Shore
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Music
Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...
Film music awards