Saturn Award Winners

FILM

 

BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM: Marvel's The Avengers
BEST FANTASY FILM: Life of Pi
BEST HORROR/THRILLER FILM: The Cabin in the Woods
BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE FILM: Skyfall
BEST INDEPENDENT FILM: Killer Joe
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: Headhunters
BEST ANIMATED FILM: Frankenweenie

BEST DIRECTOR: Joss Whedon, Marvel's Avengers
BEST ACTOR: Matthew McConaughey, Killer Joe
BEST ACTRESS: Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Clark Gregg, Marvel's The Avengers
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises
BEST YOUTH PERFORMANCE: Suraj Sharma, Life of Pi
BEST WRITING: Django Unchained- Quentin Tarantino
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
BEST FILM EDITING: Cloud Atlas
BEST MUSIC: Frankenweenie
BEST COSTUMES: Les Miserables
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS: Marvel's The Avengers

TELEVISION

BEST NETWORK TELEVISION SHOW: Revolution

BEST TELEVISION PRESENTATION: Breaking Bad

BEST SYNDICATED CABLE TELEVISION SHOW: The Walking Dead

BEST YOUTH-ORIENTED SERIES: Teen Wolf

BEST ACTOR: (tie) Kevin Bacon, The Following; Bryan Cranstan, Breaking Bad

BEST ACTRESS: Anna Torv, Fringe

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jonathon Banks, Breaking Bad

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Yvonne Strahovski, Dexter

THEATER SHOWCASE AWARD: Silence! The Musical

DAN CURTIS LEGACY AWARD: Vince Gilligan

VISIONARY AWARD: Richard Matheson

LIFE CAREER AWARD: Jonathon Frakes

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: William Friedkin

The 39th Annual Saturn Awards are presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

MTV Movie Awards

Oh the MTV Movie Awards, were art thou ever cool?  I seem to remember back in my youth they were kind of neat, even a tad bit relevant in sorting out prizes in pop culture deemed too risque or cool or hip for the old-hat Academy.  Well, years of pandering to the Twilight crowd, and shilling endless airtime to the next wannabe blockbuster and the infuriating "the movies you've seen" plea made in the ubiquitous advertisements have all kind of killed that I assume.  The strangeness comes in the winners-- a scattered checklist of "hip" things.  Marvel's The Avengers was king (not a surprise for the biggest box office champ of last year), but Silver Linings Playbook cleaned up too, an odd fit...no?

MOVIE OF THE YEAR: Marvel's The Avengers
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE: Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE: Rebel Wilson, Pitch Perfect 
BEST ON-SCREEN DUO: Mark Wahlberg & Seth MacFarlane, Ted
BEST SCARED AS S**T PERFORMANCE: Suraj Sharma, Life of Pi
BEST SHIRTLESS PERFORMANCE: Taylor Lautner, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
BEST KISS: Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
BEST FIGHT: The Avengers vs. Loki, Marvel's The Avengers
BEST VILLAIN: Tom Hiddleston, Marvel's The Avengers
BEST MUSICAL MOMENT: Pitch Perfect- The Bellas
BEST HERO: Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
BEST WTF MOMENT: Django Unchained- Jamie Foxx & Samuel L. Jackson
--In an excruciating sequence, Foxx's Django blasts servile head-servant Stephen, played by Jackson, and sets the Candieland mansion ablaze with the strike of a match

GENERATION AWARD: Jamie Foxx
TRAILBLAZER AWARD: Emma Watson
COMEDIC GENIUS: Will Ferrell

A tip of the hat to the Best Shirtless Performance winner in Taylor Lautner, who showed up on the stage with a padded belly exclaiming that his recent legality has produced a lot of drinking, and that this award was his Oscar.  Totally staged, and the line readings were a bit flat, but the first sign of a sense of humor in the young actor makes this speech his single best performance to date.  Surprising that this was the only win of the night for The Twilight Saga's swan song.  Stranger so was that he managed to beat stiff shirtless competition from the likes of Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig.  Seriously, how could one have resisted the beefcake display of Magic Mike?!?!?

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