35th Annual Saturn Awards – Nominees
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films has announced the nominations for their 35th Annual Saturn Awards.
Leading the charge was Christopher Nolan’s super-hero crime thriller “The Dark Knight” with 11 nominations. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “Iron Man” followed closely behind with 9 and 8 nominations, respectively. While “Valkyrie” spied 7 nominations, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” and “Changeling” received 6 nominations each.
In a showdown worthy of a company crossover, Batman and Iron Man will face off against each other in seven categories, including “Best Actor” (Christian Bale vs. Robert Downey Jr.), “Best Actress” (Maggie Gyllenhaal vs. Gwyneth Paltrow), “Best Supporting Actor” (Heath Ledger vs. Jeff Bridges), “Best Director” (Christopher Nolan vs. Jon Favreau), “Best Writing,” “Best Music” and “Best Special Effects.”
Adding to the strong comic book showing at this year’s awards are nods for “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” (up for two awards, including “Best Horror Film”) and “Wanted” (nominated for “Best Fantasy Film”).
The 35th Annual Saturn Awards will be announced on June 25, 2009
Here are the film nominees:
Best Science Fiction Film
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Eagle Eye
The Incredible Hulk
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Jumper
Best Fantasy Film
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hancock
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Twilight
Wanted
34th Saturn Awards’ Noms, ‘300′ Dominates
As the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films announced the nomination for the 34th Annual Saturn Awards, it was revealed that the Greek epic “300″ was leading the pack by garnering 10 nods. The action adventure drama based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel received gongs for almost all of the feature film categories, including for the action/adventure/thriller film.
In the action/adventure/thriller film’s category, “300″ will be contending against acclaimed crime dramas, “No Country for Old Men” and “There Will Be Blood” as well as other action films, “3:10 to Yuma”, “The Bourne Ultimatum”, “Live Free or Die Hard” and “Zodiac”. For the directing category, the film’s helmer Zack Snyder is going to be up against Tim Burton of “Sweeney Todd”, Frank Darabont of “The Mist”, Paul Greengrass of “Ultimatum”, Sam Raimi of “Spider-Man 3″ and David Yates of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”.
Apart from the two categories, the Warner Bros. Pictures’ film also grabbed nods for special effect, make-up, best costume, music and writing. On the performers’ group, “300″ landed Gerard Butler, David Wenham and Lena Headey for actor, supporting actor and supporting actress gongs respectively.
“300″ was not the only movie that successfully gathered multiple nominations for Saturn Awards. The footsteps of Butler’s film was closely followed by “Harry Potter V” and “Sweeney” which got 9 and 8 nominations in respective order. Further, “The Golden Compass”, “Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End” and “Spider-Man” also received 4 nominations each. The shocking twist coming from the announcement was that the movie critics’ favorite films “No Country” and “Blood” were only given three nomination slots along with “Ultimatum”, “Eastern Promises”, “Enchanted”, “Grindhouse”, “Mist” and “Stardust”. Continue Reading…
