Awards - The Saturn Awards - 1973-1981

Best Science Fiction Film

• Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
• Altered States
• Battle Beyond the Stars
• The Final Countdown
• Flash Gordon

Best Fantasy Film

• Somewhere in Time
• The Blue Lagoon
• Oh, God! Book II
• The Ninth Configuration
• Popeye

Best Horror Film

• The Howling
• Dressed to Kill
• Fade to Black
• The Shining
• The Fog

Best International Film

• Scanners
• Terror Train
• The Changeling
• Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
• Harlequin

Best Low-Budget Film

• Madhouse
• Forbidden Zone
• Human Experiments
• Maniac
• Ms .45

Best Director

• Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)
• Stanley Kubrick (The Shining)
• Ken Russell (Altered States)
• Brian De Palma (Dressed to Kill)
• Vernon Zimmerman (Fade to Black)

Best Writing

• William Peter Blatty (The Ninth Configuration)
• Paddy Chayefsky (Altered States)
• Lewis John Carlino (Resurrection)
• John Sayles (Alligator)
• Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)

Best Actor

• Mark Hamill (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)
• Christopher Reeve (Somewhere in Time)
• Dennis Christopher (Fade to Black)
• Kirk Douglas (The Final Countdown)
• Alan Arkin (Simon)

Best Actress

• Angie Dickinson (Dressed to Kill)
• Jamie Lee Curtis (Terror Train)
• Louanne (Oh, God! Book II)
• Jane Seymour (Somewhere in Time)
• Ellen Burstyn (Resurrection)

Best Supporting Actor

• Scatman Crothers (The Shining)
• Max von Sydow (Flash Gordon)
• Martin Gabel (The First Deadly Sin)
• Melvyn Douglas (The Changeling)
• Billy Dee Williams (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)

Best Supporting Actress

• Eve Brent (Fade to Black)
• Nancy Parsons (Motel Hell)
• Eva Le Gallienne (Resurrection)
• Stephanie Zimbalist (The Awakening)
• Linda Kerridge (Fade to Black)

Best Music

• Somewhere in Time (John Barry)
• Dressed to Kill (Pino Donaggio)
• The Shining (Béla Bartók)
• Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams)
• Resurrection (Maurice Jarre)

Best Costumes

• Jean-Pierre Dorléac (Somewhere in Time)
• Doris Bettencourt (Fade to Black)
• John Mollo (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)
• Danilo Donati (Flash Gordon)
• Durinda Wood (Battle Beyond the Stars)

Best Make-Up

• Scanners (Dick Smith)
• Altered States (Dick Smith)
• Fade to Black (Colin Booker)
• The Howling (Rick Baker, Rob Bottin)
• Battle Beyond the Stars (Sue Dolph, Michael Lavalley, Steve Neill, Rick Stratton)
• Zombie Flesh Eaters (Giannetto De Rossi)

Best Special / Visual Effects

• Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Richard Edlund, Brian Johnson)
• Battle Beyond the Stars (Chuck Comisky)
• Scanners (Gary Zeller)
• The Fog (Richard Albain, James F. Liles, Tommy Lee Wallace)
• The Howling (David Allen, Peter Kuran)

Best New Star Award

• Sam J. Jones

Golden Scroll of Merit (Outstanding Achievement)

• Sybil Danning (Battle Beyond the Stars)

Outstanding Film Award

• Harlequin

Executive Achievement Award

• Charles Couch

Life Career Award

• John Agar

Service Award

• Natalie Harris

Best Science Fiction Film

• Alien
• The Black Hole
• Moonraker
• Time After Time
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Best Fantasy Film

• The Muppet Movie
• Arabian Adventure
• Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet
• Nutcracker Fantasy
• The Last Wave

Best Horror Film

• Dracula
• Love at First Bite
• The Mafu Cage
• Phantasm
• The Amityville Horror

Best International Film

• Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet
• Circle of Iron
• Nosferatu the Vampyre
• Patrick
• Message from Space
• Starcrash

Best Film Produced for Under $1,000,000

• Planet of Dinosaurs
• The Clonus Horror

Best Director

• Ridley Scott (Alien)
• John Badham (Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula)
• Peter Weir (The Last Wave)
• Nicholas Meyer (Time After Time)
• Robert Wise (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

Best Writing

• Nicholas Meyer (Time After Time)
• Gerry Day, Jeb Rosebrook (The Black Hole)
• Robert Kaufman (Love at First Bite)
• Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl (The Muppet Movie)
• Dan O'Bannon (Alien)

Best Actor

• George Hamilton (Love at First Bite)
• Christopher Lee (Arabian Adventure)
• Malcolm McDowell (Time After Time)
• Frank Langella (Dracula)
• William Shatner (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

Best Actress

• Mary Steenburgen (Time After Time)
• Margot Kidder (The Amityville Horror)
• Sigourney Weaver (Alien)
• Persis Khambatta (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
• Susan Saint James (Love at First Bite)

Best Supporting Actor

• Arte Johnson (Love at First Bite)
• Donald Pleasence (Dracula)
• David Warner (Time After Time)
• Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
• Richard Kiel (Moonraker)

Best Supporting Actress

• Veronica Cartwright (Alien)
• Marcy Lafferty (The Day Time Ended)
• Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
• Jacquelyn Hyde (The Dark)
• Pamela Hensley (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

Best Music

• Time After Time (Miklós Rózsa)
• Arabian Adventure (Ken Thorne)
• The Black Hole (John Barry)
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Jerry Goldsmith)
• The Muppet Movie (Paul Williams)

Best Costumes

• Jean-Pierre Dorléac (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
• Jean-Pierre Dorléac (Battlestar Galactica)
• Gisela Storch (Nosferatu the Vampyre)
• Sal Anthony, Yvonne Kubis (Time After Time)
• Robert Fletcher (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

Best Make-Up

• Love at First Bite (William Tuttle)
• Dracula (Peter Robb-King)
• Dawn of the Dead (Tom Savini)
• Alien (Pat Hay)
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Ve Neill, Fred B. Phillips, Janna Phillips)

Best Special / Visual Effects

• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (John Dykstra, Douglas Trumbull, Richard Yuricich)
• The Black Hole (Peter Ellenshaw)
• The Muppet Movie (Robbie Knott)
• Alien (Nick Allder, Brian Johnson)
• Moonraker (John Evans, John Richardson)

Golden Scroll of Merit (Outstanding Achievement)

• William G. Wilson Jr.
• Robert V. Michelucci

Most Popular International Performer

• Roger Moore

Life Career Award

• Gene Roddenberry
• William Shatner

George Pal Memorial Award

• John Badham

Hall of Fame

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Best Science Fiction Film

• Superman
• Capricorn One
• The Boys from Brazil
• The Cat from Outer Space
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Best Fantasy Film

• Heaven Can Wait
• La Merveilleuse Visite
• The Lord of the Rings
• Watership Down
• The Wiz

Best Horror Film

• The Wicker Man
• Halloween
• The Medusa Touch
• Magic
• Piranha

Best Director

• Philip Kaufman (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
• Franklin J. Schaffner (The Boys from Brazil)
• Richard Donner (Superman)
• Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man)
• Warren Beatty, Buck Henry (Heaven Can Wait)

Best Writing

• Warren Beatty, Elaine May (Heaven Can Wait)
• Rosemary Ritvo, Alfred Sole (Alice, Sweet Alice)
• Heywood Gould (The Boys from Brazil)
• Cliff Green (Picnic at Hanging Rock)
• Anthony Shaffer (The Wicker Man)

Best Actor

• Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait)
• Christopher Lee (The Wicker Man)
• Christopher Reeve (Superman)
• Laurence Olivier (The Boys from Brazil)
• Donald Sutherland (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

Best Actress

• Margot Kidder (Superman)
• Ann-Margret (Magic)
• Diana Ross (The Wiz)
• Geneviève Bujold (Coma)
• Brooke Adams (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

Best Supporting Actor

• Burgess Meredith (Magic)
• James Mason (Heaven Can Wait)
• Michael Ansara (The Manitou)
• Leonard Nimoy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
• Michael Jackson (The Wiz)

Best Supporting Actress

• Dyan Cannon (Heaven Can Wait)
• Mabel King (The Wiz)
• Uta Hagen (The Boys from Brazil)
• Brenda Vaccaro (Capricorn One)
• Valerie Perrine (Superman)

Best Music

• Superman (John Williams)
• Heaven Can Wait (Dave Grusin)
• The Boys from Brazil (Jerry Goldsmith)
• Magic (Jerry Goldsmith)
• The Wicker Man (Paul Giovanni)

Best Cinematography

• Russell Boyd (Picnic at Hanging Rock)

Best Editing

• Joe Dante, Mark Goldblatt (Piranha)

Best Animation

• Watership Down

Best Costumes

• Theoni V. Aldredge (Eyes of Laura Mars)
• Patricia Norris (Capricorn One)
• Richard Bruno, Theadora Van Runkle (Heaven Can Wait)
• Yvonne Blake, Richard Bruno (Superman)
• Tony Walton (The Wiz)

Best Production Design

• Superman (John Barry)

Best Sound

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Mark Berger, Art Rochester, Andy Wiskes)

Best Make-Up

• The Fury (Rick Baker, William Tuttle)
• Eyes of Laura Mars (Vincent Callaghan, Lynn Donahue, Lee Harman)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Thomas R. Burman, Edouard F. Henriques)
• The Manitou (Thomas R. Burman, Joe McKinney)
• The Wiz (Stan Winston)

Best Special / Visual Effects

• Superman (Colin Chilvers)
• Capricorn One (Henry Millar)
• Omen II: Damien (Ira Anderson Jr.)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Russel Hessey, Dell Rheaume)
• The Wiz (Albert Whitlock)

Best Publicist

• Julian F. Myers

Best Television

• Space Academy (Eric Greene) (for juvenile acting)

Golden Scroll of Merit (Outstanding Achievement)

• Stanley Chase (Colossus: The Forbin Project) (for theatrical motion picture production)

Life Career Award

• Christopher Lee

Special Award

• Margaret Hamilton

Best Science Fiction Film

• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Twilight's Last Gleaming
• Demon Seed
• The Island of Dr. Moreau

Best Fantasy Film

• Oh, God!
• Pete's Dragon
• Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
• Wizards
• The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella

Best Horror Film

• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
• Kingdom of the Spiders
• Dogs
• The Sentinel

Best Director

• George Lucas (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
• Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
• Carl Reiner (Oh, God!)
• Don Taylor (The Island of Dr. Moreau)
• Nicolas Gessner (The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane)

Best Writing

• George Lucas (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
• Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
• Larry Gelbart (Oh, God!)
• Laird Koenig (The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane)
• Jeffrey Konvitz, Michael Winner (The Sentinel)

Best Actor

• George Burns (Oh, God!)
• Harrison Ford (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
• Mark Hamill (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
• Michael York (The Island of Dr. Moreau)
• William Shatner (Kingdom of the Spiders)
• Richard Dreyfuss (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

Best Actress

• Jodie Foster (The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane)
• Melinda Dillon (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
• Julie Christie (Demon Seed)
• Carrie Fisher (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
• Joan Collins (Empire of the Ants)

Best Supporting Actor

• Alec Guinness (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
• Peter Cushing (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
• Burgess Meredith (The Sentinel)
• Red Buttons (Pete's Dragon)
• Woody Strode (Kingdom of the Spiders)

Best Supporting Actress

• Susan Tyrrell (Bad)
• Joan Bennett (Suspiria)
• Alexis Smith (The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane)
• Margaret Whiting (Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger)
• Teri Garr (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

Best Music

• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (John Williams)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (John Williams)

Best Costumes

• John Mollo (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
• Chuck Keehne, Emily Sundby (Pete's Dragon)
• Richard La Motte (The Island of Dr. Moreau)
• Cynthia Tingey (Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger)
• Julie Harris (The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella)

Best Make-Up

• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (Rick Baker, Stuart Freeborn)
• Demon Seed (Thomas R. Burman)
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (John Chambers)
• The Sentinel (Dick Smith)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Thomas R. Burman, Carlo Rambaldi, Bob Westmoreland)

Best Special / Visual Effects

• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (John Dykstra, John Stears)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Douglas Trumbull)
• Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (Ray Harryhausen)
• Exorcist II: The Heretic (Chuck Gaspar, Albert Whitlock)

Outstanding Cinematographer

• Gilbert Taylor (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)

Outstanding Editing

• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (Richard Chew, Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas)

Outstanding Art Direction

• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (Leslie Dilley, Norman Reynolds)

Outstanding Set Decoration

• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (Roger Christian)

Outstanding Sound

• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (Ben Burtt, Don MacDougall, Sam F. Shaw)

Outstanding Stop Motion Animated Film

• Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

Outstanding Television Performance

• Jonathan Harris

Outstanding Executive Achievement

• Richard Albain Jr.

Outstanding Publicist

• Charles Lippincott

Outstanding Recording

• Caedmon Records

Life Career Award

• Carl Laemmle Jr.

Special Award

• Donald A. Reed

Hall of Fame

• The War of the Worlds (George Pal)

Best Science Fiction Film

• Logan's Run
• Embryo
• Futureworld
• God Told Me To
• Network
• Solaris
• The Man Who Fell to Earth

Best Fantasy Film

• The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
• At the Earth's Core
• Bugsy Malone
• The Blue Bird
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Best Horror Film

• Burnt Offerings
• Carrie
• Eaten Alive
• House of Mortal Sin
• Obsession
• The Food of the Gods
• The Omen

Best Director

• Dan Curtis (Burnt Offerings)

Best Writing

• Jimmy Sangster (for his career)

Best Actor

• David Bowie (The Man Who Fell to Earth)

Best Actress

• Blythe Danner (Futureworld)

Best Supporting Actor

• Jay Robinson (Train Ride to Hollywood)

Best Supporting Actress

• Bette Davis (Burnt Offerings)

Best Music

• David Raksin (for his career)

Best Cinematography

• Ernest Laszlo (Logan's Run)

Best Costumes

• Bill Thomas (Logan's Run)

Best Art Direction

• Dale Hennesy (Logan's Run)

Best Set Decoration

• Logan's Run (Robert De Vestel)

Best Make-Up

• Logan's Run (William Tuttle)

Best Special / Visual Effects

• L.B. Abbott (for his career)

Best Animator

• Chuck Jones (for his career)

Best Publicist

• Don Morgan

Executive Achievement Award

• Gene Roddenberry

Life Career Award

• Samuel Z. Arkoff

Special Award

• King Kong

Best Science Fiction Film

• Rollerball
• A Boy and His Dog
• The Stepford Wives

Best Fantasy Film

• Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze

Best Horror Film

• Young Frankenstein
• Black Christmas
• Phantom of the Paradise
• Bug
• Vampira
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Best Director

• Mel Brooks (Young Frankenstein)

Best Writing

• Ib Melchior (for his career)
• Harlan Ellison (for his career)

Best Actor

• Don Johnson (A Boy and His Dog)
• James Caan (Rollerball)

Best Actress

• Katharine Ross (The Stepford Wives)

Best Supporting Actor

• Marty Feldman (Young Frankenstein)

Best Supporting Actress

• Ida Lupino (The Devil's Rain)

Best Music

• Miklós Rózsa (for his career)

Best Cinematography

• Douglas Slocombe (Rollerball)

Best Set Decoration

• Young Frankenstein (Robert De Vestel, Dale Hennesy)

Best Make-Up

• Young Frankenstein (William Tuttle)

Best Special / Visual Effects

• Dark Star (John Carpenter, Douglas Knapp, Dan O'Bannon, Bill Taylor)

Best Stop Motion Animation

• Jim Danforth

Best Advertising

• Jaws (Clark Ramsey)

Outstanding Film Award

• Jaws

Life Career Award

• Fritz Lang

Best Science Fiction Film

• Soylent Green
• Battle for the Planet of the Apes
• Son of Blob
• The Day of the Dolphin
• Sssssss
• Sleeper
• The Neptune Factor
• Westworld

Best Fantasy Film

• The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

Best Horror Film

• The Exorcist
• Death Line
• Arnold
• Don't Look Now
• Schlock
• Blood Sisters
• Tales That Witness Madness
• Terror in the Wax Museum
• Terror at the Red Wolf Inn
• The Vault of Horror
• The Legend of Hell House
• Theatre of Blood

Best Writing

• William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist)

Best Music

• Bernard Herrmann (for his career)

Best Make-Up

• The Exorcist (Dick Smith)

Best Special / Visual Effects

• The Exorcist (Marcel Vercoutere)

Best Stop Motion Animation

• The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (Ray Harryhausen)

Special Award

• Charlton Heston
• Fay Wray
• George Pal
• Gloria Swanson
• Don Fanzo
• C. Dean Anderson

Special Achievement in Television

• Curtis Harrington (Killer Bees)

Best Science Fiction Film

• Slaughterhouse-Five

Best Horror Film

• Blacula