On December 4th, The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films announced the nominees for their 52nd Saturn Awards. Honoring the best in genre entertainment, the awards will be held on February 2nd, 2025 at The Hilton Universal City Hotel in Los Angeles.
For the first time in the Saturn Awards’ history, the ceremony will be will be exclusively streamed LIVE both on Electric Entertainment’s ElectricNOW platform and The Roku Channel. Viewers can stream The Roku Channel for free, with no subscription or sign-up required. Comedian/actor Joel McHale returns to host the Saturn Awards, and this year’s show is dedicated to the memory of producer Jon Landau, best known for producing blockbuster films such as Avatar and Titanic.
On the feature side, Dune: Part Two and Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice led the nominations, amassing 14 and 13 respectively.
For TV, the Amazon video game adaptation “Fallout” led with 5 nominations.
This year also sees the introduction of a new category, Best Genre Comedy Television Series, to highlight more offbeat, quirky and darkly humorous series such as “Chucky,” “Ghosts,” and “What We Do in the Shadows”.
Check out Temple of Geek’s coverage of last year’s awards HERE
View the complete list of nominees below:
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
Best Fantasy Film:
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
My Old Ass
Poor Things
Wonka
Best Horror Film:
A Quiet Place: Day One
Abigail
Alien: Romulus
First Omen The
In a Violent Nature
Longlegs
Smile 2
Best Thriller Film:
Blink Twice
Civil War
Saltburn
Speak No Evil
Strange Darling
Wolfs
Best Action / Adventure Film:
Argylle
Deadpool & Wolverine
Fall Guy The
Fly Me to the Moon
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Twisters
Best Actor in a Film:
Tom Blyth (The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes)
Nicolas Cage (Dream Scenario)
Timothée Chalamet (Dune: Part Two)
David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil)
Kyle Gallner (Strange Darling)
Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice)
Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool & Wolverine)
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)
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 Jonsson (Alien: Romulus)
Owen Teague (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes)
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)
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: Ballad of Sonbirds & Snakes)
Best Film Direction:
Fede Álvarez (Alien: Romulus)
Wes Ball (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes)
Tim Burton (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice)
Shawn Levy (Deadpool & Wolverine)
JT Mollner (Strange Darling)
Takashi Yamazaki (Godzilla: Minus One)
Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part Two)
Best Film Screenwriting:
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Alfred Gough Miles Millar)
Deadpool & Wolverine (Ryan Reynolds & Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick & Zeb Wells & Shawn Levy)
Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve Jon Spaihts)
Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki)
King of the Planet of the Apes (Josh Friedman)
Longlegs (Osgood Perkins)
Strange Darling (JT Mollner)
Best Film Visual / Special Effects:
Alien: Romulus (Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin, Shane Patrick)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Angus Bickerton, James Brennan-Craddock, Neal Scanlan, Stefano Pepin)
Deadpool & Wolverine (Swen Gillberg, Matthew Twyford, Vincent Papaix, Dominic Tuohy)
Dune: Part Two (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salacombe, Gerd Nefzer)
Godzilla Minus One (Masaki Takahashi, Tatsuiji Nojima, Kiyokk Shubuya, Takashi Yamazaki)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, Rodney Burke)
Twisters (TBD)
Best Film Music:
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Danny Elfman)
Dune: Part Two (Hans Zimmer)
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Dario Marianelli)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (John Paesano)
Smile 2 (Cristobal Tapia de Veer)
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (James Newton Howard)
Best Film Production Design:
Alien: Romulus (Naaman Marshall)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Matt Scruton)
Deadpool & Wolverine (Ray Chan)
Dune: Part Two (Patrice Vermette)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Daniel T. Dorrance)
Longlegs (Danny Vermette)
Best Film Make Up:
Alien: Romulus (Pam Smyth)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Neal Scanlan, Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener)
Dune: Part Two (Donald Mowat, Love Larson, Eva von Bahr)
Longlegs (Werner Pretorius, Felix Fox, Madelaine Hermans)
Smile 2 (Jeremy Selenfriend, Sasha Grossman, Alec Gillis)
The Substance (Pierre-Olivier Persin)
Best Film Editing:
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Jay Prychidny)
Civil War (Jake Roberts)
Deadpool & Wolverine (Dean Zimmerman & Shane Reid)
Dune: Part Two (Joe Walker)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Eliot Knapman & Margaret Sixel)
Strange Darling (Christopher Robin Bell)
Best Film Costume Design:
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Colleen Atwood)
Deadpool & Wolverine (Graham Churchyard & Mayes C. Rubeo)
Dune: Part Two (Jacqueline West)
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Alexis Forte & Ruth Myers)
Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes The (Trish Summerville)
Wonka (Linday Hemming)
Best Independent Film:
Dream Scenario
Late Night with the Devil
MaXXXine
The Substance
The Thicket
Thelma
Best International Film:
The Animal Kingdom (France)
Godzilla Minus One (Japan)
Kill (India)
Monkey Man (India)
Oddity (Ireland)
Society of the Snow (Spain)
Best Animated Film:
The Boy and the Heron
Despicable Me 4
Inside Out 2
Kung Fu Panda 4
Spy x Family Code: White
Transformers: One
The Wild Robot
Best Science Fiction Television Series:
3 Body Problem
Ark The
Dark Matter
Fallout
Star Trek: Discovery
Star Wars: Ahsoka
Best Fantasy Television Series:
Avatar: The Last Airbender
For All Mankind
House of the Dragon
Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Best Horror Television Series:
Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire
Creepshow
Evil
From
Grotesquerie
Teacup
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
Best Action / Thriller Television Series:
Bosch: Legacy
Cobra Kai
Found
High Potential
Presumed Innocent
True Detective: Night Country
Tulsa King
Best Adventure Television Series:
La Brea
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Reacher
Shogun
Sugar
Best Superhero Television Series:
Agatha All Along
Loki
Superman & Lois
The Boys
The Penguin
The Umbrella Academy
Best Television Presentation:
Apartment 7A
Don’t Move
Fall of the House of Usher The
Fargo
Ripley
Salem’s Lot
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
Best Genre Comedy Television Series:
Chucky
Ghosts
Only Murders in the Building
Resident Alien
Ted
What We Do in the Shadows
Best Animated Television Series or Special:
Batman: Caped Crusader
Gremlins: The Wild Batch
Kaiju No. 8
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
X-Men ’97
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)
Best Actress in a Television Series:
Emma D’Arcy (House of the Dragon)
Rosario Dawson (Ahoka)
Jodie Foster (True Detective: Night Country)
Dana Gurira (The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live)
Kathryn Hahn (Agatha All Along)
Melissa McBride (The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon)
Ella Purnell (Fallout)
Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series:
Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows)
Brandon Scott Jones (Ghosts)
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)
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)
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) Jeri Ryan (Star Trek Picard) Paul Wesley (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)
Best Young 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 Mariduena (Cobra Kai)
Louis Puech Scigliuzzi (The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon) Jenna Ortega (Wednesday)
Best 4K Home Media Release:
Conan the Barbarian (Arrow Video)
Crimson Peak (Arrow Video)
Face/Off (KL Studio Classics)
Saw X (Lionsgate Home Entertainment)
The Crow (Paramount)
The Monster Squad (KL Studio Classics) John Wick, Chapter 4 – 4K (Lionsgate)
Best Classic Film Home Media Release:
I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim (Criterion Collection)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (KL Studio Classics)
Nightmare on Elm Street A (Warner Home Video)
Repo Man (The Criterion Collection)
Reptilicus (Vinegar Syndrome)
The Lady Killers (KL Studio Classics) Invaders from Mars 4K (Ignite) Superman 1978-1987 4K Collection (Warner)
Best Film Home Media 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 Television Home Media Release:
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)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: The Complete Series (MPI) Night Gallery (Season Three) (Kino Lorber)
