Saturn Award for Best Writing
Saturn Award for Best Writing | |
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Awarded for | Best writing of the year for a genre film |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films |
First awarded | 1973 |
Currently held by | James Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver for Avatar: The Way of Water (2022/2023) |
Website | www |
The Saturn Awards for Best Writing is a Saturn Award presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.
Unlike most awards rewarding writing in films, it recognizes only the writer(s) of the screenplay, and not those of the story.
Winners and nominees
1970s
Year | Writer(s) | Motion Picture |
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1973 (2nd) | William Peter Blatty | The Exorcist |
1974/1975 (3rd) | Harlan Ellison (for his career) | |
Ib Melchior (for his career) | ||
1976 (4th) | Jimmy Sangster (for his career) | |
1977 (5th) | George Lucas | Star Wars |
Larry Gelbart | Oh, God! | |
Laird Koenig | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane | |
Steven Spielberg | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |
Michael Winner and Jeffrey Konvitz | The Sentinel | |
1978 (6th) | Elaine May and Warren Beatty | Heaven Can Wait |
Heywood Gould | The Boys from Brazil | |
Cliff Green | Picnic at Hanging Rock | |
Rosemary Ritvo and Alfred Sole | Alice, Sweet Alice (Communion) | |
Anthony Shaffer | The Wicker Man | |
1979 (7th) | Nicholas Meyer | Time After Time |
Jerry Juhl and Jack Burns | The Muppet Movie | |
Robert Kaufman | Love at First Bite | |
Dan O'Bannon | Alien | |
Jeb Rosebrook and Gerry Day | The Black Hole |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Year | Writer(s) | Film |
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2021/2022 (50th) | Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan | Nightmare Alley |
Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill | The Black Phone | |
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schienert | Everything Everywhere All at Once | |
Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers | Spider-Man: No Way Home | |
Jordan Peele | Nope | |
Matt Reeves and Peter Craig | The Batman | |
James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick | Scream | |
2022/2023 (51st) | James Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver | Avatar: The Way of Water |
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig | Barbie | |
Seth Reiss and Will Tracy | The Menu | |
Erik Jendresen and Christopher McQuarrie | Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | |
Christopher Nolan | Oppenheimer | |
Mia Goth and Ti West | Pearl |
Multiple nominations
- 7 nominations
- Guillermo del Toro
- Peter Jackson
- Quentin Tarantino
- Fran Walsh
- James Cameron
- 6 nominations
- Philippa Boyens
- Christopher Nolan
- 4 nominations
- Lawrence Kasdan
- David Koepp
- George Miller
- Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver
- 3 nominations
- J. J. Abrams
- William Peter Blatty
- Alex Garland
- Drew Goddard
- David Hayter
- John Logan
- George Lucas
- Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
- Nicholas Meyer
- Jordan Peele
- Andrew Stanton
- The Wachowskis
- Christopher McQuarrie
- 2 nominations
- Woody Allen
- Michael Arndt
- Brad Bird
- Jeffrey Boam
- C. Robert Cargill
- Joel and Ethan Coen
- Chris Columbus
- Frank Darabont
- Scott Derrickson
- Michael Dougherty
- Scott Frank
- Tony Gilroy
- Michael Goldenberg
- William Goldman
- David S. Goyer
- Michael Green
- Dan Harris
- James V. Hart
- Terry Hayes
- Tom Holland
- Spike Jonze
- Charlie Kaufman
- Steve Kloves
- Don Mancini
- Melissa Mathison
- Edward Neumeier
- Jonathan Nolan
- Dan O'Bannon
- Matt Reeves
- Matthew Robbins
- Gary Ross
- Eric Roth
- Steven Spielberg
- Wesley Strick
- Andrew Kevin Walker
- Joss Whedon
Multiple wins
- 4 wins
- James Cameron
- Christopher Nolan
- 3 wins
- William Peter Blatty
- 2 wins
- Lawrence Kasdan
- Jonathan Nolan
- Quentin Tarantino
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100209012608/http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html#writing
- https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000004/1975
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Saturn Award for Best Writing
- William Peter Blatty (1973)
- Ib Melchior/Harlan Ellison (1974/75)
- Jimmy Sangster (1976)
- George Lucas (1977)
- Elaine May and Warren Beatty (1978)
- Nicholas Meyer (1979)
- William Peter Blatty (1980)
- Lawrence Kasdan (1981)
- Melissa Mathison (1982)
- Ray Bradbury (1983)
- James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd (1984)
- Tom Holland (1985)
- James Cameron (1986)
- Michael Miner and Edward Neumeier (1987)
- Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg (1988)
- William Peter Blatty (1989/90)
- Ted Tally (1991)
- James V. Hart (1992)
- Michael Crichton and David Koepp (1993)
- Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick (1994)
- Andrew Kevin Walker (1995)
- Kevin Williamson (1996)
- Mike Werb and Michael Colleary (1997)
- Andrew Niccol (1998)
- Charlie Kaufman (1999)
- David Hayter (2000)
- Steven Spielberg (2001)
- Scott Frank and Jon Cohen (2002)
- Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (2003)
- Alvin Sargent (2004)
- Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer (2005)
- Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris (2006)
- Brad Bird (2007)
- Christopher and Jonathan Nolan (2008)
- James Cameron (2009)
- Christopher Nolan (2010)
- Jeff Nichols (2011)
- Quentin Tarantino (2012)
- Spike Jonze (2013)
- Christopher and Jonathan Nolan (2014)
- Lawrence Kasdan, J. J. Abrams, and Michael Arndt (2015)
- Eric Heisserer (2016)
- Rian Johnson (2017)
- Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski (2018/19)
- Quentin Tarantino (2019/20)
- Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan (2021/22)
- James Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (2022/23)