Saturn Award Nominations

Honoring the best in genre filmmaking, here are the nominees for the 39th Annual Saturn Awards:

The Hobbit leads with 9 nominations

BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM
Chronicle
Cloud Atlas
The Hunger Games
Looper
Marvel's The Avengers
Prometheus

BEST FANTASY FILM
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Ruby Sparks
Snow White & the Huntsman
Ted

BEST HORROR/THRILLER FILM
Argo
The Cabin in the Woods
The Impossible
Seven Psychopaths
The Woman in Black
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE FILM
The Bourne Legacy
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Skyfall
Taken 2

BEST INDEPENDENT RELEASE
Hitchcock
Killer Joe
The Paperboy
Robot & Frank
Safety Not Guaranteed
Seeking a Friend For the End of the World

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Anna Karenina
Chicken with Plums
The Fairy
Headhunters
My Way
Pusher

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
Wreck-It-Ralph

BEST DIRECTOR
William Friedkin, Killer Joe
Peter Jackson, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Rian Johnson, Looper
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight Rises
Joss Whedon, Marvel's The Avengers 

BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale, The Dark Knight Rises
Daniel Craig, Skyfall
Martin Freeman, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Looper
Matthew McConaughey, Killer Joe

BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Ann Dowd, Compliance
Zoe Kazan, Ruby Sparks
Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem, Skyfall
Michael Fassbender, Prometheus
Clark Gregg, Marvel's The Avengers
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Dark Knight Rises
Ian McKellen, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Judi Dench, Skyfall
Gina Gershon, Killer Joe
Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
Charlize Theron, Snow White & the Huntsman

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUNGER ACTOR
CJ Adams, The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Tom Holland, The Impossible
Daniel Huttlestone, Les Miserables
Chloe Grace Moretz, Dark Shadows
Suraj Sharma, Life of Pi
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild     

BEST WRITING
The Cabin in the Woods
Django Unchained
Killer Joe
Life of Pi
Marvel's The Avengers
Seven Psychopaths

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Dark Shadows
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life of Pi

BEST FILM EDITING
The Bourne Legacy
Cloud Atlas
Life of Pi
Looper
Marvel's The Avengers    
Skyfall

BEST MUSIC
Anna Karenina
The Dark Knight Rises
Frankenweenie
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Skyfall

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Snow White & the Huntsman

BEST MAKE-UP
Cloud Atlas
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Impossible
Skyfall
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Battleship
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
John Carter
Life of Pi
Marvel's The Avengers
Snow White & the Huntsman