Saturn Award for Best Director
The Saturn Award for Best Director (or Saturn Award for Best Direction) is one of the annual awards given by the American Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. The Saturn Awards, which are the oldest film-specialized awards to reward genre fiction achievements, in particular for science fiction, fantasy, and horror (the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the Best Director category for the first time at the 3rd Saturn Awards, for the 1974/1975 film years.[1]
| Saturn Award for Best Director | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best directing of the year for a genre film |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films |
| First awarded | 1974/1975 |
| Currently held by | Matt Reeves for The Batman (2021/2022) |
| Website | www |
History
The award is also the oldest to honor film directors in science fiction, fantasy and horror. It has been given 36 times, including a tie for the 1977 film year.
James Cameron holds the record of the most wins with five (for six nominations), while Steven Spielberg is the most nominated director with fourteen nominations (for four wins). Only three other directors have won the award more than once: Peter Jackson (three times), Bryan Singer and Ridley Scott (two times). At the 22nd Saturn Awards (for the 1995 film year), Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the award, 15 years before becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director.
Spielberg was also the first to win Best Director from both the Saturn Awards and the Academy Awards at the same year, but for different movies (Saturn Award for Jurassic Park, and Academy Award for Schindler's List, both in 1993); Peter Jackson was the first to win both for the same film (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, in 2003) while Alfonso Cuarón was the second (for Gravity in 2013).
Winners and nominees
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Multiple nominations
- 14 nominations
- Steven Spielberg
- 8 nominations
- Bryan Singer
- 7 nominations
- Peter Jackson
- Robert Zemeckis
- 6 nominations
- J. J. Abrams
- James Cameron
- Christopher Nolan
- 5 nominations
- Tim Burton
- Guillermo del Toro
- 4 nominations
- George Lucas
- Sam Raimi
- Matt Reeves
- Ridley Scott
- Quentin Tarantino
- Paul Verhoeven
- 3 nominations
- John Badham
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Joe Dante
- William Dear
- Clint Eastwood
- David Fincher
- Terry Gilliam
- Ron Howard
- George Miller
- Jordan Peele
- Anthony and Joe Russo
- David Yates
- 2 nominations
- Woody Allen
- Chris Columbus
- David Cronenberg
- Frank Darabont
- Roland Emmerich
- Jon Favreau
- William Friedkin
- Rian Johnson
- Randal Kleiser
- Ang Lee
- Frank Marshall
- Nicholas Meyer
- Leonard Nimoy
- Alex Proyas
- Guy Ritchie
- Martin Scorsese
- Zack Snyder
- Denis Villeneuve
- Peter Weir
- John Woo
- Zhang Yimou
Multiple wins
- 5 wins
- James Cameron
- 4 wins
- Steven Spielberg
- 3 wins
- Peter Jackson
- 2 wins
- J. J. Abrams
- Ridley Scott
- Bryan Singer
References
- "1975 Saturn Awards". The Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 2017-03-02. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
- Black, John. "And The Saturn Award Goes to ..." www.bostoneventguide.com. Archived from the original on 2021-01-27. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- Hammond, Pete (June 28, 2018). "'Black Panther' Tops 44th Saturn Awards With Five; 'Blade Runner 2049' , 'Shape Of Water', 'Get Out' Also Score". Archived from the original on June 28, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
- Long, Christian (September 13, 2019). "Marvel, Disney win big at the 45th annual Saturn Awards". SYFY WIRE. Archived from the original on September 22, 2019. Retrieved August 1, 2020.