Nominations for the 45th annual Saturn Awards, honoring motion picture, television, home entertainment and live stage productions, have been announced. For the first time this year, the awards show will be available to global fans and creative colleagues around the world via a to-be-announced streaming partnership. The ceremony is set for Friday, September 13 at the historic Avalon Theater in Los Angeles.
Leading the way with 14 Saturn Award film nominations is Marvel/Walt Disney Studios’ Avengers: Endgame, and Walt Disney Studios’ Aladdin in second place with nine. For television and streaming, HBO’s Game of Thrones leads with nine nominations, with The Haunting of Hill House and The Walking Dead following second with six nominations each. As a studio overall, Disney leads with 44 nominations among 12 film and TV projects across its various companies, Marvel, Walt Disney Studios, Pixar, Lucasfilm and the Disney Channel.
Six films are competing in the Animated Film category: The Grinch, How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World, The Incredibles 2, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse (also nominated in Comic-To-Motion Picture) and Toy Story 4.
Nominated in the Animated Series on Television category are Archer, DuckTales, Family Guy, The Simpsons and Star Wars Resistance
To accommodate the show’s move from June to September, the eligibility window for this year’s nominations is based on a 16-month eligibility period (March 1, 2018 through July 7, 2019). The 46th annual Saturn Awards will be held at the end of summer/early fall 2020 and will resume a 12-month eligibility period.
A partial list of nominees follows. Learn more at thesaturnawards.com.
BEST ANIMATED FILM RELEASE
The Grinch Universal Pictures
How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World Universal Pictures
The Incredibles 2 Pixar Animation / Walt Disney Studios
Ralph Breaks the Internet Walt Disney Studios
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sony Pictures
Toy Story 4 Walt Disney Studios
BEST FILM SPECIAL/VISUAL EFFECTS
A Quiet Place Paramount
Aladdin Walt Disney Studios
Avengers: Endgame Marvel / Walt Disney Studios
Godzilla, King of the Monsters Warner Bros. / Legendary
Mission: Impossible – Fallout Paramount
Ready Player One Warner Bros.
Spider-Man: Far From Home Sony Pictures
BEST COMIC-TO-MOTION PICTURE RELEASE
Aquaman Warner Bros. Pictures
Avengers: Endgame Marvel / Walt Disney Studios
Avengers: Infinity War Marvel / Walt Disney Studios
Captain Marvel Marvel / Walt Disney Studios
Shazam! Warner Bros. Pictures
Spider-Man: Far From Home Sony / Marvel Studios
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sony Pictures
BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM RELEASE
Alita: Battle Angel 20th Century Fox
Bumblebee Paramount
Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom Universal Pictures
Ready Player One Warner Bros. Pictures
Solo: A Star Wars Story Lucasfilm Ltd. / Walt Disney Studios
Sorry to Bother You Mirror Releasing – Annapurna Pictures
Upgrade BH Tilt
BEST FANTASY FILM RELEASE
Aladdin Walt Disney Studios
Dumbo Walt Disney Studios
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Warner Bros. Pictures
Godzilla, King of the Monsters Warner Bros. / Legendary Pictures
Mary Poppins Returns Walt Disney Studios
Toy Story 4 Pixar Animation / Walt Disney Studios
Yesterday Universal Pictures
BEST ANIMATED SERIES ON TELEVISION
Archer FX
DuckTales Disney Channel
Family Guy Fox
The Simpsons Fox
Star Wars Resistance Disney Channel
BEST SUPERHERO TELEVISION SERIES
Arrow The CW
Black Lightning The CW
Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger Freeform
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow The CW
The Flash The CW
Gotham Fox
Supergirl The CW
BEST SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION SERIES
The 100 The CW
Counterpart Starz
Doctor Who BBC America
Krypton SyFy
Manifest NBC
The Orville Fox
Roswell, New Mexico The CW
Westworld HBO
BEST FANTASY TELEVISION SERIES
American Gods Starz
Charmed The CW
Game of Thrones HBO
The Good Place NBC
The Good Witch Hallmark Channel
The Magicians SyFy
Outlander Starz
The Outpost The CW
BEST STREAMING SUPERHERO TELEVISION SERIES
DC’s Doom Patrol DC Universe
DC’s Swamp Thing DC Universe
Marvel’s Daredevil Netflix
Marvel’s Jessica Jones Netflix
Marvel’s The Punisher Netflix
Marvel’s Runaways Hulu
The Umbrella Academy Netflix
BEST STREAMING SCIENCE FICTION, ACTION, & FANTASY SERIES
Black Mirror Netflix
The Expanse Amazon
Lost in Space Netflix
Good Omens Amazon
Russian Doll Netflix
Star Trek: Discovery CBS All Access
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Amazon
