Saturn Awards

FILM AWARDS

BEST COMIC BOOK-TO-FILM: Guardians of the Galaxy
BEST SCIENCE FILM FILM: Interstellar
BEST FANTASY FILM: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
BEST HORROR FILM: Dracula Untold
BEST THRILLER FILM: Gone Girl
BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE: Unbroken
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: The Theory of Everything
BEST INDEPENDENT FILM: Whiplash
BEST ANIMATED FILM: The LEGO Movie

BEST ACTOR: Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy
BEST ACTRESS: Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Richard Armitage, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Rene Russo, Nightcrawler
BEST YOUTH PERFORMANCE: MacKenzie Foy, Interstellar

BEST DIRECTOR: James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy
BEST WRITING: Interstellar- Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan
BEST EDITING: Edge of Tomorrow
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Interstellar
BEST MUSIC: Interstellar
BEST COSTUMES: Dracula Untold
BEST MAKE-UP: Guardians of the Galaxy
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Interstellar

TELEVISION

BEST NETWORK SERIES: Hannibal
BEST CABLE SERIES: The Walking Dead
BEST LIMITED RUN SERIES: Game of Thrones
BEST SUPERHERO SERIES: The Flash
BEST YOUTH-ORIENTED SERIES: The 100

BEST ACTOR (tie): Hugh Dancy, Hannibal; Andrew Lincoln, The Walking Dead
BEST ACTRESS: Caitronia Balfe, Outlander
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Laurence Fishburne, Hannibal
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Melissa McBride, The Walking Dead
BEST YOUTH PERFORMANCE: Maisie Williams, Game of Thrones
BEST GUEST PERFORMER: Wentworth Miller, The Flash

BAFTA Nominations

The Grand Budapest Hotel leads with 11 BAFTA nominations

FILM
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything

BRITISH FILM
'71
The Imitation Game
Paddington
Pride
The Theory of Everything
Under the Skin

DIRECTOR
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Damien Chazelle, Whiplash
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
James Marsh, The Theory of Everything 

LEADING ACTOR
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything 

LEADING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, Big Eyes
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild 

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Imelda Staunton, Pride
Emma Stone, Birdman
Rene Russo, Nightcrawler

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Birdman- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas, Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo
Boyhood- Richard Linklater
The Grand Budapest Hotel- Wes Anderson
Nightcrawler- Dan Gilroy
Whiplash- Damien Chazelle

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
American Sniper- Jason Hall
Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn
The Imitation Game- Graham Moore
Paddington- Paul King
The Theory of Everything- Anthony McCarten

USC Scripter Award Nominations

Nominations for the 27th USC Scripter Award were unveiled.  Announced by the USC Libraries, the Scripter Award celebrates the best adapted screenplays of the year by honoring both the screenwriter and the writer of the original source material.

• Gone Girl- adapted by Gillian Flynn, based on Flynn's best-selling novel of the same name
• The Imitation Game- adapted by Graham Moore, based on the non-fiction book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
• Inherent Vice- adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon
• The Theory of Everything- adapted by Andrew McCarten, based on the non-fiction book Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking
• Wild- adapted by Nick Hornby, based on the memoir of the same name by Cheryl Strayed

Screen Actors Guild Nominations

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything

Analysis: Huge break for The Grand Budapest Hotel and a horrible showing for any late-breaking film-- Paramount couldn't get screeners out to SAG for Selma, which is an unfortunate loss, but no Unbroken or Into the Woods hurts too.  Curious, that Imitation Game and Theory (the two battling genius Brit pics) got in with such ease.

BEST ACTOR
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Analysis: Cumberbatch, Keaton and Redmayne are untouchable.  Big boost for Carell, considering a softening buzz for Foxcatcher and a much bigger one for Gyllenhaal.  Missing: David Oyelowo from Selma, Timothy Spall from Mr. Turner, Chadwick Boseman from Get On Up, Ralph Fiennes from The Grand Budapest Hotel, Jack O'Connell from Unbroken and Bill Murray from St. Vincent.

BEST ACTRESS
Jennifer Aniston, Cake
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Anaylsis: Aniston's late-entry work in Cake actually worked-- this is major (could Oscar be possible?), but Moore is likely so far ahead that she may prove unbeatable.  Curiously, Marion Cotillard's recent critical cred didn't catch on with SAG members.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

Analysis: Likely Oscar roster, including the lazy Duvall mention.  Simmons is likely frontrunner.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
Naomi Watts, St. Vincent

Analysis: Watts' mention is truly jarring (Murray couldn't have been that far behind in Lead Actor), but the rest seems pretty much in line with how things will go down including the default Streep mention.  Jessica Chastain's A Most Violent Year performance and Laura Dern's Wild role, not acknowledged by SAG, should take Watts' place with Oscar