Franchise fever continues to dominate the Saturn Awards

By Nathaniel R

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE © Warner Bros

The 52nd annual Saturn Awards are taking place this year on February 2nd and voting is happening right now (until the 15th). Dune Part Two (14 nominations) and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (13 noms) are in the lead this time around while Deadpool & Wolverine is lagging a bit behind in third with 10 noms. Those aren't the only franchises in play and we'll discuss how long some of these franchises that are up for prizes have been running (once since the 1950s!)...

Like the Spirit Awards, which also announced their nominations this week, you can vote for the winners if you're willing to fork out the membership fees! The Saturn Awards have historically been a mix of two separate years since they tended to not use the full calendar year. Given that their nominations are now in early December, you'd think they could wait just two more month and go full calendar year to make it less confusing! The Saturn ceremony will be streamed for the first time on the Roku channel in 2025. 

Okay lots to discuss about genre films and franchises and actors in the same after the jump.

It is not strictly the case that the Saturn Awards nominate everything that's eligible but given that they have 5 separate categories for Best Film and STILL feel the need to have 6 to 7 nominees in each division (Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Action/Adventure) -- for a total of 31 Best Film nominees -- it often feels that way.  They're more restrictive about the acting categories, because the acting categories are not divvied up by genre the way the "Best Films" are, so anyone in any of those five genres, is eligible in the same category. Because I like to waste time (argh) I tried briefly perusing the internet,  to see if I could find examples of things they did NOT nominate for a little context...

 DUNE PART TWO © Warner Bros

BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM:  

• Dune: Part Two

• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 

• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes                                     

• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

• Megalopolis 

• Venom: The Last Dance

 In the TV awards they have a separate category for superhero things but in the film categories, for some reason, they put them wherever so they might be in sci-fi or action/adventure or fantasy. It's a surprise each time. So Venom is placed here and Deadpool elsewhere. 

Films they skipped: Rebel Moon Part Two, Borderlands, The Fix, Atlas

POOR THINGS © Searchlight 

BEST FANTASY FILM:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice  

• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire  

• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire  

• My Old Ass   

• Poor Things  

• Wonka  

Poor Things and Wonka are late 2023 releases of course and Poor Things towers over the competition qualitatively speaking. Not that quality means that much in awards shows. It has a role but it is often not anywhere close to the top factor. 

Films they skipped: Damsel, Harold and the Purple Crayon, and we'll assume Wicked - Part 1 wasn't eligible given its November release but maybe for the 53rd the Saturns should finally embrace the calendar year (with a few stragglers from 2024) and get  Wicked - Part 2  in there as well? 

BEST HORROR FILM:

• Abigail 

• Alien: Romulus 

• The First Omen  

• In a Violent Nature  

• Longlegs 

• A Quiet Place: Day One  

• Smile 2 

 Best Horror Film is the most crowded "Best Film" category with seven instead of six nominees. But the horror genre remains so profitable given its generally lower budgets and a faithful audience to pay for them that there are far more than six released each year so they have a lot to choose from. 

While we can easily complain about the Saturn taste level in terms of nominations year after year (with so many nominees they're bound to include stinkers in each category) they are on a strong streak with this category. While they sadly pass over the 'elevated horror' title that critics often justifiably go crazy for (As crazy as it sounds Hereditary, It Follows, The Babadook, Train to Busan, and The VVitch all lost in their years)  in favor of a big (or blockbuster) hit, the general quality of the winners is at least high. The winners since since 2015 are Crimson Peak, Don't Breathe, Get Out, A Quiet Place, The Invisible Man, The Black Phone, and Talk To Me. 

Films they skipped: Azrael, Blackwater Lane, Camp Pleasant Lake, and many many slashers and cheapies. They nominated most of '24's most high profile or most acclaimed titles though they skipped a famous one from late 2023 Five Nights at Freddys.  

BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE FILM:

• Argylle  

• Deadpool & Wolverine 

• The Fall Guy   

• Fly Me to the Moon                                            

• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare  

• Twisters                                                              

 I wasn't aware that anyone liked Argylle! It's amusing to see Fly Me to the Moon (which I am a fan of) nominated for "Action" since it is basically a rom-com with a NASA setting mixed with a little heist film structure (not a heist but a hoax, but you get the drift). The only 'action' is waiting for Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum to kiss. It's worth the wait obviously; they both remain wonderful MOVIE STARS and we need more of those! 

This is such a vaguely defined genre so who knows what was eligible?! 

BEST THRILLER FILM:

• Blink Twice 

• Civil War  

• Saltburn 

• Strange Darling                                                        

• Speak No Evil 

• Wolfs 

The line between Thriller and Horror is sometimes unclear and sometimes obvious.  I thought Wolfs was a comedy? Once it failed to generate critical excitement or awards buzz i tuned out. It's always so hard to keep up this time of year so you have to cut some titles from the watch list.  

BEST INDEPENDENT FILM:

• Dream Scenario  

• Late Night with the Devil 

• MaXXXine 

• The Substance  

• Thelma  

• The Thicket 

Thelma nominated at the Saturn Awards is hilarious to me. It's only "genre" is comedy. I should write about the western thriller The Thicket which I feel like nobody has seen and which is surprisingly good. Dream Scenario is the only title from 2023 to make the list and this is not it's only nomination. 

MONKEY MAN © Universal Pictures

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

• Animal Kingdom (France, César nomination leader for 2023)

• Godzilla Minus One  (Japan, Oscar winner visual fx for 2023)

• Kill  (India)

• Monkey Man (UK/India)                                                   

• Oddity (Ireland)                                                       

• Society of the Snow (Spain's Oscar nominee for 2023)

I was hoping to love Monkey Man (rooting for Dev Patel) but alas I did not. Have any of you seen it?

Films they skipped: It's so hard to say. There were surely at least a hundred genre-leaning titles from all the movie industries abroad.  

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

• The Boy and the Heron  (Oscar winner for 2023)

• Despicable Me 4                                                     

• Inside Out 2                                                        

• Kung-Fu Panda 4                                        

• Spy x Family Code: White                                    

• Transformers: One       

• The Wild Robot                                                       

The Saturn Awards are hopelessly mainstream. With the exception of last year's Oscar winner and Spy x Family Code: White, both from Japan, these titles are all eligible for Best Animated Feature at the forthcoming Oscars. The Oscar race is surely shaping up to Wild Robot vs Inside Out. But Latvia's Flow (which just opened and therefore probably wasn't eligible for the Saturn Awards) deserves the gold --and quite easily at that -- from the film's I've screened thus far. Sorry adorable robots and neurotic emotions but that black cat and his assorted animal friends are the "should wins" this year. As a reminder here is this year's Animated Feature eligibility list. 

BEST ACTOR IN A FILM:

• Tom Blyth  -Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds Snakes 

• Nicolas Cage -Dream Scenario      

• Timothee Chalamet  -Dune: Part Two                    

• David Dastmalchian -Late Night with the Devil  

• Kyle Gallner  - Strange Darling   

• Michael Keaton  -Beetlejuice Beetlejuice    

• Ryan Reynolds   -Deadpool & Wolverine  

Seven nominees with three nominated again for reprisals of popular charaters.  Ryan Reynolds won this category for the original Deadpool (2016) but Timothée Chalamet lost to Tom Cruise for Top Gun Maverick (2022) for his first time with the sandy warfare of Dune (2021). Finally Michael Keaton lost to Robert Loggia for Big (1988) in Supporting Actor for the first conjuring of his 'ghost with the most', Beetlejuice.

Nicolas Cage's has been up for for three previous Saturn Awards. He won just last year in Supporting Actor for his inspired Dracula performance in the underrated Renfield (2023) and he has been in the Best Actor twice before with  Face/Off (1997) ...losing to Pierce Brosnan's Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies, and for  Mandy (2018) ...losing to Saturn favorite Robert Downey Jr in Avengers Endgame

No actor here will be happier about his nomination here than genre loyalist David Dastmalchian, who you know we've been cheering for since 2008. We're so pleased that he now pops up in everything. 

BEST ACTRESS IN A FILM:

• Willa Fitzgerald -Strange Darling     

• Demi Moore  -The Substance   

• Lupita Nyong’o  -A Quiet Place – Day One

• Winona Ryder  -Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 

• Naomi Scott  -Smile 2                                

• June Squibb -Thelma    

• Anya Taylor-Joy -Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Despite the Saturns having so many acting nominations from mostly-only genre films, Winona wasn't actually a nominee for her first crack at Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice (1988). But there are a three returning Saturn nominees here (just not for reprising a role they've already done): 

-Lupita Nyong'o for both Black Panther (2018) ... lost to Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman and  Us (2019)... lost to Jamie Lee Curtis doing her 27th Halloween movie 
-Winona Ryder for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) ... ost to Virginia Madsen in the original Candyman
-Anya Taylor-Joy for The Menu (2023)... lost to Robbie's Barbie

SNUBS: Poor Things (2023) was eligible this year at the Saturns so yes they've essentially snubbed Emma Stone's Oscar winning work which is.... questionable given the lineup they come up. The other major performance (in terms of acclaim) that they obviously watched since the film is nominated but skipped was Mia Goth in MaXXXine. 

I'm giggling that June Squibb (who is great fun as Thelma) is in the mix. Was there a time-travel or mutant manifestation or superpower subplot somewhere in that grandma comedy that I missed? There was a lot going on but we don't remember that.  

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A FILM:

• Emma Corrin  -Deadpool & Wolverine  

• Rebecca Ferguson  -Dune: Part Two     

• Barbara Hershey -Strange Darling     

• Juliette Lewis -The Thicket    

•  Margaret Qualley -The Substance 

• Cailee Spaeny  -Alien: Romulus  

•  Zendaya  -Dune: Part Two   

Why did no one tell me that Barbara Hershey is in Strange Darling?

For the record Juliette Lewis is incredible in The Thicket. Strangely it's only her second Saturn nomination (the first was for From Dusk til Dawn in the 1990s)  despite regularly exciting work in genre-leaning films and television. How was she passed over for Natural Born Killers AND Cape Fear AND Yellowjackets AND Kalifornia AND Strange Days at the Saturns? 

I do not want to talk about Cailee Spaeny being nominated for supporting, because... what? That's like saying that Sigourney Weaver isn't the lead in any of her Alien films. 

LONGLEGS © NEON

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A FILM:

• Josh Brolin -Dune: Part Two  

• Austin Butler - Dune: Part Two  

• Nicolas Cage  -Longlegs   

• Willem Dafoe -Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 

• Hugh Jackman  -Deadpool & Wolverine       

• David Johnsson  -Alien: Romulus  

• Owen Teague  -Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 

To nominate FIVE actors from Dune Part Two and not include Javier Bardem who is best in show for that particular installment is... puzzling. Initially I thought Austin Butler was best in show but had a come to jesus with myself with the reminder of how often Glenn Close's Oscar nomination for The Natural has been ridiculed. Acting awards are supposed to be about performances, not how well performers are lit, nay, worshipped by their DPs.  Not that Butler doesn't make a wonderful Feyd Rautha (he does!) but the costumes, lighting, editing, scoring, and framing are doing a lot of the work to make him a memorable villain. 

With Nicolas Cage's double nomination this year his Saturn tally is now at 6 nominations! To put it into perspective the most nominated male actors of all time at the Saturns are...

SATURN'S ALL TIME FAVOURITE MALE MOVIE* ACTORS
🔺= moving up the chart due to another nomination (or two) this year

* the nominations and wins here include their television work if they've done work there, too. If you included people who've only been nominated in the TV section of the awards this list changes a lot (since the person can be nominated repeatedly playing the same character even more than movie actors in franchises could ever be -- for instance Richard Dean Anderson and Michael C Hall both have 8 nominations and 1 win for Stargate and Dexter, respectively, which would put them above Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mark Hamill if you shoved them in here.

1. Tom Cruise (12/2)
2. Harrison Ford (10/3) + lifetime achievement
3. Robert Downey Jr (8/4) 
4. Arnold Schwarzenegger (7/0) + lifetime achievement
5. 🔺 Mark Hamill (6/3) - all wins as Luke Skywalker
6. Jeff Bridges (6/2)
   Robin Williams (6/2)
7. William Shatner (6/1) + lifetime achievement
8. 🔺Nicolas Cage (6/1)
   Will Smith (6/1)
9. Christian Bale (5/1)
   Hugh Jackman (5/1)
10. Johnny Depp (5/0)
    Viggo Mortensen (5/0)
    Christopher Reeve (5/0)
    Chris Evans (5/0)
11. Sir Ian McKellen (4/2)
    Andy Serkis (4/2)
12. Pierce Brosnan (4/1)
13. Alan Rickman (4/0)
    Bruce Willis (4/0)

BEST YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A FILM:

• Freya Allan -Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

• McKenna Grace -Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

• Kaylee Hottle  -Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 

• Calah Lane  -Wonka 

• Jenna Ortega -Beetlejuice Beetlejuice                   

• Alisha Weir  -Abigail  

• Rachel Zegler -Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 

What is the cutoff for "younger" -- Jenna Ortega and Rachel Zegler are 22 and 23 respectively. Were Cailee Spaeny and Zendaya/Anya Taylor-Joy too old for this category (nominated in the main categories) since they're in their mid or late 20s, respectively? In other words shouldn't you be ineligible for "young" categories once you're an adult so it's not so arbitrary? 

BEST FILM DIRECTION:

• Fede Alvarez  -Alien: Romulus

• Wes Ball  -Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

• Tim Burton -Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 

• Shawn Levy    -Deadpool & Wolverine

• JT Mollner  -Strange Darling

• Denis Villeneuve -Dune: Part Two  

• Takashi Yamazaki -Godzilla Minus One  

This is Tim Burton's 6th nomination but he has yet to win. The other returning nominee is Denis Villenuve who was previously nominated twice (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049) but weirdly not for Dune Part One! 

Finally, it's nice to see Yamazaki included here since the Saturn Awards tend to be very focused on mainstream American movies. 

BEST FILM SCREENWRITING:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice -Alfred Gough, Miles Millar   

• Deadpool & Wolverine-Shawn Levy, Ryan Reynolds 

• Dune: Part Two  -Denis Villenueve, Jon Spaihts    

• Godzilla Minus One -Takashi Yamazak                              

• Longlegs  -Osgood Perkins   

• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes  -Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa,Amanda Silver   

• Strange Darling -JT Mollner  

GODZILLA MINUS ONE © Toho Co., Ltd 

BEST VISUAL/SPECIAL EFFECTS:

• Alien: Romulus     

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice  

• Deadpool & Wolverine    

• Dune: Part Two     

• Godzilla Minus One  (Oscar winner last year in this category) 

• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 

• Twisters

Lots of returning franchises so let's take them in chronology of when the franchises first began....

1950s: Godzilla films began before the Saturn Awards existed (there have been 33 Japanese Godzilla films and 5 American Godzilla films). This is the first Japanese Godzilla film to receive Saturn love in this category.  American films Godzilla (1998), Godzilla King of Monsters (2019) and Godzilla Vs Kong (2021, which won) were all nominated in this category. Strangely the excellent and beautifully visualized Godzilla (2014) was not nominated for effects (though it had other Saturn nominations) and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) wasn't either but the latter makes more sense given the presence of that infinitely superior in every way known to man (or Kaiju) Godzilla picture direct from Japan. 
1960s: Planet of the Apes (which is now at film #10) also began before the Saturn Awards existed but just barely. The Saturns did a soft launch the year of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972, film #4) and got some competitive categories in year 2 when Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973, flim #5) arrived. But then the franchise went into hibernation until the Aughts. 
1970s: Aliens (which is at film #9 now, or #7 if you discount the Predator team-ups). Romulus is the first Alien film without Sigourney  (there were four with Lt Ellen Ripley) to be nominated for visual effects.  Alien (1979), Alien3 (1992), Alien Resurrection (1997), were all nominated in this category though Aliens (1986) is the only time the franchise won. 
1980s: Beetlejuice The original in 1988 was popular with Saturn voters but not in this category
1990s: Twisters The original Twister (1996) was nominated ... losing to Independence Day
2000s: Deadpool This is the first time any film with Deadpool in it (there have been four now) has been nominated for vfx

BEST FILM MUSIC

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice -Danny Elfman

• Dune Part Two -Hans Zimmer

• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire -Dario Marianelli

• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of… -James Newton Howard

• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes -John Paesano

• Smile 2 - Cristobal Tapia de Veer

Danny Elfman is second only to John Williams in popularity of composers at the Saturn Awards. This is his 17th nomination and he's won 7 times already: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mars Attacks!, Men in Black, Sleepy Hollow, Spider-Man, Frankenweenie, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse in Madness.

BEST FILM PRODUCTION DESIGN:

•  Alien: Romulus   -Naaman Marshall 

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice =Matt Scruton  

• Deadpool & Wolverine -Ray Chan 

•  Dune: Part Two  -Patrice Vermette  

• Longlegs   -Danny Vermette 

• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes -Daniel T. Dorrance

Are Patrice Vermette and Danny Vermette related? We don't actually know and can't find the info online. 

BEST FILM MAKE-UP:

• Alien: Romulus  

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice  

• Dune: Part Two  

• Longlegs  

• Smile 2  

• The Substance 

BEST FILM EDITING:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice -Jay Prychidny

• Civil War -Jake Roberts

• Deadpool & Wolverine  -Dean Zimmerman &Shane Reid 

• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga -Eliot Knapman &  Margaret Sixel 

• Strange Darling  -Christopher Robin Bell 

BEST FILM COSTUME:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice -Colleen Atwood  

• Deadpool & Wolverine -Graham Churchyard & Mayes C. Rubeo  

• Dune: Part Two -Jacqueline West

• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire  -Alex Fortes & Ruth Myers

• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes  -Trish Summerville 

• Wonka  -Lindy Hemming

TELEVISION CATEGORIES

BEST SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION SERIES:

• 3 Body Problem (season 1)

• Ahsoka (season 1)

• The Ark (season 2)

• Dark Matter (season 1) 

• Fallout   (season 1) 

• Star Trek: Discovery (season 5)

Star Trek Discovery is the only returning nominee having had 2 previous nominations and and a win in this category for seasons 3 (win) and 4. Star Trek programs have  won this prize for the past two consecutive years but for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Picard neither of which are the Star Trek series nominated this year. So many Star Trek series! So many many many.

BEST FANTASY TELEVISION SERIES:

• Avatar: The Last Airbender  (s1)

• For All Mankind (S4)

• House of the Dragon (s2) 

• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (s2) 

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians (s1)

• The Spiderwick Chronicles  (s1)

House of Dragons and the Rings of Power, both nominated for their second seasons lost on their first go round to another first season insta-hit, Wednesday on Netflix. For all Mankind won for its first season but wasn't nominated for seasons 2 or 3. 

BEST HORROR TELEVISION SERIES: 

• Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (s2)

• Creepshow  (s4) 

• Evil  (s4)

• From  (s3)

• Grotesquerie  (s1)

• Teacup  (s1)

• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (s2)

Evil, Creepshow, and Interview with the Vampire are all returning nominees but none have won the category.  

BEST ACTION/THRILLER TELEVISION SERIES:

• Bosch: Legacy (s2)

• Cobra Kai  (s6)

• Found (s1)

• High Potential  (s1)

• Presumed Innocent  (s1)

• True Detective: Night Country (s1)

• Tulsa King  (s1)

Bosch and Cobra Kai both on their second nominations were nominated against each other two years back. They lost to The Boys which the Saturns passed on for its newest season this time around... but maybe that's because it's now moved over into superhero television (below).  

BEST ADVENTURE TELEVISION SERIES:

• La Brea   

•  Monarch: Legacy of Monsters 

• Mr. & Mrs. Smith  

• Reacher  

• Shogun 

• Sugar

BEST SUPERHERO TELEVISION SERIES:

• Agatha All Along (s1)

• The Boys  

• Loki  

• The Penguin (s1)

• Superman & Lois 

• The Umbrella Academy 

Superman & Lois won last year. The Boys has won before. 

BEST TELEVISION PRESENTATION: 

• Apartment 7A  

• Don’t Move  

• The Fall of the House of Usher 

• Fargo 

• Ripley   

• Salem’s Lot   

• The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

This confusing category used to be for limited events and tv movies and then was renamed "Streaming Limited Event Television Series" and now it's been renamed again (and limited series are apparently now eligible in other categories given the nominations but are still showing up here -- So confusing! And for what purpose? There are plenty of other categories these shows could fit into! 

BEST GENRE COMEDY TELEVISION SERIES *NEW CATEGORY*

• Chucky  (S3)

• Ghosts (S3)

• Only Murders in the Building (S4)

• Resident Alien (S3)

• Ted   (S1)

• What We Do in the Shadows (S6)

This is a new category apparently replacing "Best New Genre TV Series" which was exclusively for first seasons. This category makes a lot more sense!

BEST ANIMATED TELEVISION SERIES

• Batman Caped Crusader

• Gremlins: The Wild Batch

• Kaiju No 8

• Star Trek: Lower Decks

• Star Wars: The Bad Batch

• X-Men ‘97

Star Wars: The Bad Batch won this category last year. The only other returning nominee is Star Trek: Lower Decks

BEST ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Colin Farrell -The Penguin  

• Walton Goggins  -Fallout   

• Jon Hamm  -Fargo 

• Andrew Lincoln   -The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live 

• Harold Perrineau -From   

• Norman Reedus  -The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon  

• Kurt Russell & Wyatt Russell -Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Harold Perrineau is the only actor returning from last year's lineup in this category. But of course Andrew Lincoln has been nominated many times (7 in point of fact) for playing "Rick Grimes" on the original Walking Dead series, winning twice, and Norman Reedus has 5 nominations now for playing "Daryl Dixon.

BEST ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Emma D’Arcy  -House of the Dragon 

• Rosario Dawson  -Ahsoka  

• Jodie Foster -True Detective: Night Country

• Danai Gurira -The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live 

• Kathryn Hahn  -Agatha All Along 

• Melissa McBride  -The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon 

• Ella Purnell  -Fallout 

Emma D'Arcy is the only actor returning from last year's lineup. Danai Gurira has won twice previously for playing "Michonne" albeit on the original Walking Dead series. Speaking of that undead (in both senses) franchise: Melissa McBridge's returns for her 8th Saturn nomination playing "Carol" though she's yet to win. 

This is Jodie Foster's 6th Saturn nomination. Her five previous nominations were all in Best Actress and she won twice (The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane and Contact). Yes, that's right she lost for Silence of the Lambs  but at least  she lost to someone who deserved recognition but wouldn't get it from other awards avenues: Linda Hamilton upping her game in an extraordinary character-evolution way in Terminator 2: Judgment Day

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

•  Matt Berry -What We Do in the Shadows 

• Lamorne Morris -Fargo     

• Aaron Moten - Fallout 

• Matt Smith  -House of the Dragon  

• Antony Starr  -The Boys 

• Henry Thomas  -The Fall of the House of Usher  

• Brandon Scott Jones -Ghosts

Matt Smith is the only actor returning from last year's nominee list. 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Jennifer Connelly  -Dark Matter

• Jennifer Jason Leigh  -Fargo

• Pollyanna McIntosh  -The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

• Cristin Milioti  -The Penguin

• Elizabeth Saunders  -From  

• Anna Sawai -Monarch: Legacy of Monsters  

• Rebecca Wisocky -Ghosts 

Nice to see Rebecca Wisocky nominated again (the only returning nominee from last year in this category). She is easily best-in-show every season of Ghosts. 

BEST GUEST STAR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Mark Hamill  The Fall of the House of Usher 

• Matthew Jeffers  The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Lived  

• Martin Kove  Cobra Kai 

• Kyle MacLachlan Fallout  

• Andrea Martin Evil                             

• Aubrey Plaza  Agatha All Along  

• Ke Huy Quan  Loki 

BEST YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

•  Zackary Arthur -Chucky                                                         

• Hannah Cheramy -From  

• Cameron Crovetti  -The Boys   

• Rhenzy Feliz  -The Penguin 

• Joe Locke  -Agatha All Along  

• Xolo Maridueña -Cobra Kai                                                

• Louis Puech Scigliuzzi  -The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon 

HOME VIDEO CATEGORIES

It's somehow comforting to know that there are still awards given for physical media releases. We believe in them (for preservation purposes -- things can just vanish from streaming or rights battles can make things disappear) even if we struggle to remember the last time we actually went out and bought one.

Best 4K Home Meda Release:

• Conan the Barbarian (Arrow Video)
• Crimson Peak (Arrow Video)
• The Crow (Paramount)
• Face Off (KL Studio Classics)
• The Monster Squad (KL Studio Classics)
• Saw X (Lionsgate Home Entertainment)

Best Film Home Media Release Collection:

• Batman 85th Anniversary Collection (Warner Home Video)
• Nature Run Amok Collection (Kino Cult)
• OSS-117 Five Film Collection (KL Studio Classics)
• Republic Pictures Horror Collection (KL Studio Classics)
• Rocky: Ultimate Knockout Collection (Warner Home Video)
• Sci Fi Chillers Collection (KL Studio Classics)

Best Classic Film Home Media Release:

• I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim (Criterion Collection)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (KL Studio Classics)
• The Lady Killers (KL Studio Classics)
• Nightmare on Elm Street, A (Warner Home Video)
• Repo Man (The Criterion Collection)
• Reptilicus (Vinegar Syndrome)

Best Television Home Media Release:

• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: The Complete Series (MPI)
• Columbo: The Return (KL Studio Classics)
• Farscape: The Complete Series (25th Anniversary Edition (Shout)
• Interview with the Vampire (Season 2) (RLJ Entertainment)
• La Brea: The Complete Series (Universal)
• Star Wars: Andor – The Complete First Season (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

Comments

[Robert G]

Saturn nominations are always an adventure. I think Strange Darling is going to take a lot of categories here. It's a genre darling right now. Smile 2 is going to surprise, too. Music is obvious, but I see Naomi Scott taking Best Actress. There have been so many horror media pieces on her giving one of the all-time great performances in the genre.

Surprised that Patti LuPone didn't get in for Supporting Actress in TV but Aubrey Plaza, Joe Locke, and Kathryn Hahn all got recognized in their categories. The new Genre Comedy category is a nice revamp considering how many horror and sci-fi shows right now are dark comedies or sitcoms.

[Frank Zappa]

BEST SUPERHERO TELEVISION SERIES:
Agatha All Along
The Penguin

Okay...

[NATHANIEL R]

Robert G -- totally agree. it's a good move on their part. I just wish they were more disciplined. If you're going to have a million categories make it 3 or 5 nominations in each to make it actually competitive to have the honor of being nominated! Now just "here are the 7 most high profile things"

In other words, though the Saturns are often silly, I'm glad there's an award focused on sci-fi fantasy and horror films.

Frank --superhero adjacent "supervillain shows"

[Wae Mest]

THELMA has action/noir elements, that's why it's here I assume.

[Mr Ripley79]

If they had to have Cailee in the mix why not for her undersung supporting role in Civil War,I am surprised she and Dunst aren't getting any traction for that film,bothe are superb in it.

Trivia time Sigourney was campaigned by Fox as Best Supporting Actress for the original 79 Alien,there's a FYC ad on the net if you want to look for it,category fraud has always been a thing.
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