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40th Saturn Awards
The 40th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 2013, was held on June 26, 2014, in Burbank, California. The awards were presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The nominations were announced February 25, 2014. Overview In the film categories, ''Gravity'' won five of its eight nominations, including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón, and Best Actress for Sandra Bullock. In the television categories, '' Breaking Bad'' and '' The Walking Dead'' each won three awards, respectively. ''Breaking Bad'' won Best Television Presentation and ''The Walking Dead'' won Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series. Two new categories were added this year, Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture and Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series. Adaptations of comic-books were usually nominated in the fantasy or science fiction categories, while the Academy of Science Fict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burbank, California
Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank has a population of 107,337. The city was named after David Burbank, who established a sheep ranch there in 1867. Billed as the "Media Capital of the World" and only a few miles northeast of Hollywood, numerous media and entertainment companies are headquartered or have significant production facilities in Burbank, including Warner Bros. Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, The Burbank Studios, Cartoon Network Studios with the West Coast branch of Cartoon Network, and Insomniac Games. The broadcast network The CW is also headquartered in Burbank. The Hollywood Burbank Airport was the location of Lockheed's Skunk Works, which produced some of the most secret and technologically advanced airplanes, including the U-2 spy planes that uncovered Soviet Union missile components ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturn Award For Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture
The Saturn Award for Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture is one of the annual awards given by the American professional organization, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. The Saturn Awards, which are the oldest film-specialized awards to reward science fiction, fantasy, and horror achievements (the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, awarded by the World Science Fiction Society who reward science fiction and fantasy in various media, is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the category for the first time for the 2013 film year to specifically reward comic book adaptations in film, which were previously rewarded in categories such as Fantasy or Science Fiction. Seven winners so far were produced by Marvel Studios and belong to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. '' Attack on Titan: Part 1'' (2015) is the only nominee to be based on a manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturn Award For Best Actor
The Saturn Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video. The Saturn Awards were devised by Dr. Donald A. Reed, who felt that films within those genres were never given the appreciation they deserved. The physical award is a representation of the planet Saturn, surrounded with a ring of film. The award was initially and is still sometimes loosely referred to as a ''Golden Scroll''. The award for Best Actor was first introduced in 1976 for the 1974 and 1975 years, to reward a lead performance by a male actor in film. The record for most awards is held by Robert Downey, Jr. with four wins, followed by and Mark Hamill with three, with Jeff Bridges and Harrison Ford with two each. Tom Cruise is the most nominated actor in the category with twelve nominations, followed by Downey, Jr. and Arnold Schwarzenegger with seven. Arno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Downey Jr
Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor and producer. His career has been characterized by critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal troubles, before a resurgence of commercial success later in his career. In 2008, Downey was named by ''Time'' magazine among the 100 most influential people in the world, and from 2013 to 2015, he was listed by ''Forbes'' as Hollywood's highest-paid actor. At the age of five, he made his acting debut in his father Robert Downey Sr.'s film '' Pound'' in 1970. He subsequently worked with the Brat Pack in the teen films '' Weird Science'' (1985) and '' Less than Zero'' (1987). In 1992, Downey portrayed the title character in the biopic '' Chaplin'', for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a BAFTA Award. Following a stint at the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility on drug charges, he joined the TV series '' Ally McBeal'', for which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturn Award For Best Editing
The Saturn Award for Best Editing (originally Saturn Award for Outstanding Editing) is one of the annual awards given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The Saturn Awards, which are the oldest film-specialized awards to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film (the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the category for the first time at the 5th Saturn Awards. The award was discontinued after being awarded again at the following ceremony, but was reactivated for the 38th ceremony in 2012. Paul Hirsch, who won the inaugural award for ''Star Wars'' (1977), sharing the award with Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew Richard Franklin Chew (born June 28, 1940) is an American film editor, best known for his Academy Award-winning work on ''Star Wars'' (1977), alongside Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas. Other notable films include ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' ..., won it agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Original Series
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew. It later acquired the retronym of ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' (''TOS'') to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began. The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy, circa 2266–2269. The ship and crew are led by Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner), First Officer and Science Officer Spock ( Leonard Nimoy), and Chief Medical Officer Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley). Shatner's voice-over introduction during each episode's opening credits stated the starship's purpose: Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship ''Enterprise''. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. Norway Productions and Desilu Productions produced the series from September 1966 to December 1967. Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The George Pal Memorial Award
The George Pal Memorial Award is presented each year, by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, in conjunction with their annual Saturn Award ceremony. The award is given to those who have shown exemplary work in the respective film genres. It is named in honor of George Pal, a Hungarian-born United States, American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre. The latest honoree is screenwriter and film producer Simon Kinberg as of June 2022. Recipients Below is a list of recipients and the year the award was presented: 1970s * C. Dean Anderson (1975) * Don Fanzo (1975) * Gloria Swanson (1975) * Fay Wray (1975) 1980s * John Badham (1980) * Nicholas Meyer (1984) * Douglas Trumbull (1985) * Charles Band (1986) * Arnold Leibovit (1987) * Larry Cohen (1988) * David Cronenberg (1989) 1990s * William Friedkin (1991) * Gene Roddenberry (1992) * Frank Marshall (film producer), Frank Marshall (1993) * Wah Chang (1994) * Gene Warren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Nicotero
Gregory Nicotero (born March 15, 1963) is an American special make-up effects creator, television producer, and director. His first major job in special effects makeup was on the George A. Romero film ''Day of the Dead'' (1985), under the tutelage of Romero and make-up effects veteran Tom Savini. In 1988, along with Robert Kurtzman and Howard Berger, he formed KNB EFX Group, a special make-up effects studio which has gone on to work on over 400 film and television projects. KNB has won numerous awards, including an Emmy Award in 2001 for their work on the 2000 Sci Fi Channel miniseries ''Frank Herbert's Dune'' and an Academy Award in 2006 for achievement in makeup for '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''. He is currently working as an executive producer, special make-up effects supervisor, and primary director on the AMC TV series '' The Walking Dead'' and '' Fear the Walking Dead''. Nicotero has directed 31 episodes of ''The Walking Dead'' and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Life Career Award
The Life Career Award is presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, in conjunction with their annual Saturn Award ceremony. Recipients Below is a list of recipients and the year the award was presented: 1970s *Fritz Lang (1976) *Samuel Z. Arkoff (1977) *Christopher Lee (1979) 1980s *Gene Roddenberry (1980) *William Shatner (1980) *John Agar (1981) *Ray Harryhausen (1982) *Martin B. Cohen (1983) *Vincent Price (1986) *Leonard Nimoy (1987) *Roger Corman (1988) 1990s *Ray Walston (1990) *Arnold Schwarzenegger (1992) *David Lynch (1993) *Alfred Hitchcock (1994) *Steve Reeves (1994) *Whit Bissell (1994) *Joel Silver (1995) *Richard Fleischer (1995) *Sean Connery (1995) *Wes Craven (1995) *Albert R. Broccoli (1996) *Edward R. Pressman (1996) *Harrison Ford (1996) *Dino De Laurentiis (1997) *John Frankenheimer (1997) *Sylvester Stallone (1997) *James Coburn (1998) *James Karen (1998) *Michael Crichton (1998) *Nathan H. Juran (1999) 2000s *Dick Van Dyke (2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor; 13 June 1943) is a British actor, producer, and television presenter. He is best known for portraying Alex DeLarge in ''A Clockwork Orange.'' He was born in the Horsforth suburb of Leeds and raised in Liverpool. He later trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before embarking on an acting career that has spanned over 50 years. He is also known for playing the title character in ''Caligula'' (1979), and Mick Travis in the trilogy of '' if....'' (1968), ''O Lucky Man!'' (1973), and ''Britannia Hospital'' (1982). He has also appeared in films such as '' Time After Time'' (1979), '' Cat People'' (1982), ''Blue Thunder'' (1983), ''Star Trek Generations'' (1994), ''Tank Girl'' (1995), ''Gangster No. 1'' (2000), ''Easy A'' (2010), '' The Artist'' (2011) and '' Bombshell'' (2019). He also appeared as Dr. Samuel Loomis in the 2007 remake ''Halloween'' and its 2009 sequel, '' Halloween II''. McDowell has also had a string of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Fuller
Bryan Fuller (born July 27, 1969) is an American television writer and producer who has created a number of television series, including ''Dead Like Me'', ''Wonderfalls'', ''Pushing Daisies'', '' Hannibal'', and '' American Gods.'' Fuller worked as writer and executive producer on the '' Star Trek'' television series '' Voyager'' and '' Deep Space Nine''; he is also the co-creator of '' Star Trek: Discovery''. Early life Fuller was born in Lewiston, Idaho, but raised in Clarkston, Washington. He was brought up Roman Catholic. After graduating from Clarkston High School, Fuller attended Lewis–Clark State College in Lewiston. He later transferred to the USC School of Cinematic Arts, but dropped out and began working as an office temp. Career As a contributing writer, Fuller's work has been featured on several shows, including '' Star Trek: Voyager'' and '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', earning twenty-two episode writing credits for the '' Star Trek'' franchise. Fuller is himself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandler Riggs
Chandler Carlton Riggs (born June 27, 1999) is an American actor and DJ, best known for his regular role as Carl Grimes on the AMC horror-drama television series '' The Walking Dead'' (based on the comic book series of the same name) from 2010 to 2018. For his work on the series, Riggs won three Saturn Awards from five nominations and a Young Artist Award from three nominations. Riggs has appeared in the films '' Get Low'' (2009), ''Mercy'' (2014), '' Keep Watching'' (2017), ''Only'' (2019), and '' Inherit the Viper'' (2019). In late 2017, Riggs started releasing electronic music under his stage name, Eclipse. In early 2019, he began recurring on the ABC drama series ''A Million Little Things''. Early life Riggs was born on June 27, 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia to Gina Ann (née Carlton) and William Riggs. Riggs studied tap dancing for several years with ''So You Think You Can Dance'' finalist Zack Everhart. Career Beginnings Riggs began acting at age four. His early work includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
