Saturn Awards: ‘Spider-Verse,’ ‘Star Wars Resistance’ Win Animation Honors

Winners for the 45th annual Saturn Awards, honoring motion picture, television, home entertainment and live stage productions, were announced Friday at an exciting ceremony hosted by Aisha Tyler at the historic Avalon Theater in Hollywood and streamed across eight online platforms.

Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse took the Best Animated Film award, beating out Universal-Illumination’s The Grinch, DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World, Pixar’s The Incredibles 2, Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet and Pixar’s Toy Story 4 — which won the Best Fantasy Film category.

The Mouse also snagged Best Animated Series on Television with Disney Channel’s Lucasfilm saga Star Wars Resistance. Also contending were adult-targeted toons Archer (FXX), Family Guy (Fox) and The Simpsons (Fox) as well as Disney Channel’s DuckTales reboot.

Leading the way across all categories with six Saturn Award wins was Marvel/Walt Disney Studios’ Avengers: Endgame which took home the awards for Best Comic-to-Motion Picture Release, Best Actor in A Film (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Film Production Design, Best Film editing, Best Film Make-Up and Best Film Special/Visual Effects. Leading the way for television and streaming, HBO’s Game of Thrones took home four awards: Best Fantasy Television Series, Best Actress on a Television Series (Emilia Clarke), Best Supporting Actor on a Television Series (Peter Dinklage), and Best Performance by a Younger Actor on a Television Series (Maisie Williams).

An abbreviated list of winners follows. Visit www.saturnawards.com for more information.

FILM
BEST COMIC-TO-MOTION PICTURE RELEASE
Avengers: Endgame Marvel / Walt Disney Studios

BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM RELEASE
Ready Player One Warner Bros. Pictures

BEST FANTASY FILM RELEASE
Toy Story 4 Pixar Animation / Walt Disney Studios

BEST HORROR FILM RELEASE
A Quiet Place Paramount

BEST ACTION / ADVENTURE FILM RELEASE
Mission: Impossible – Fallout Paramount

BEST THRILLER FILM RELEASE
Bad Times at The El Royale 20th Century Fox

BEST ANIMATED FILM RELEASE
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sony Pictures

BEST FILM PRODUCTION DESIGN
Charles Wood Avengers: Endgame Marvel / Walt Disney Studios

BEST FILM SPECIAL/VISUAL EFFECTS
Avengers: Endgame Marvel / Walt Disney Studios

TELEVISION AND STREAMING
BEST SUPERHERO TELEVISION SERIES
Supergirl The CW

BEST SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION 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 SERIES ON TELEVISION
Star Wars Resistance Disney Channel

BEST STREAMING SUPERHERO TELEVISION SERIES
Marvel’s Daredevil Netflix

BEST STREAMING SCIENCE FICTION, ACTION, & FANTASY SERIES
Star Trek: Discovery CBS All Access

BEST STREAMING HORROR & THRILLER SERIES
Stranger Things Netflix