Saturn Awards

The Saturn Award nominees are in (the final judgement will happen on May 2cnd) but here is a short list of the bigger nominees. Discuss this here.





BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM

Fantastic Four (20th Century Fox)
The Island (DreamWorks SKG)
The Jacket (Warner Independent)
Serenity (Universal)
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (20th Century Fox/Lucasfilm)
War of the Worlds (Paramount)

BEST FANTASY FILM

Batman Begins (Warner Bros.)
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (Warner Bros.)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Buena Vista)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Warner Bros.)
King Kong (Universal)
Zathura (Sony)

BEST HORROR FILM

Constantine (Warner Bros.)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (Screen Gems / Sony)
Land of the Dead (Universal)
Saw 2 (Lionsgate)
The Skeleton Key (Universal)
Wolf Creek (The Weinstein Co.)

BEST ACTION / ADVENTURE / THRILLER FILM

Flightplan (Buena Vista)
A History of Violence (New Line Cinema)
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Warner Bros.)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (20th Century Fox)
Old Boy (Tartan)
Red Eye (DreamWorks SKG)
Sin City (Dimension / Miramax)

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Chicken Little (Buena Vista)
Corpse Bride (Warner Bros.)
Hoodwinked (The Weinstein Co.)
Howl’s Moving Castle (Buena Vista)
Madagascar (DreamWorks SKG)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (DreamWorks SKG)

BEST ACTOR

Christian Bale (“Batman Begins”)
Pierce Brosnan (“The Matador”)
Hayden Christensen (“Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith”)
Tom Cruise (“War of the Worlds”)
Robert Downey Jr. (“Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang”)
Viggo Mortensen (“A History of Violence”)

BEST ACTRESS

Jodie Foster (“Flightplan”)
Laura Linney (“The Exorcism of Emily Rose”)
Rachel McAdams (“Red Eye”)
Natalie Portman “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith”)
Tilda Swinton (“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe”)
Naomi Watts (“King Kong”)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

William Hurt (“A History of Violence”)
Val Kilmer (“Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang”)
Ian McDiarmid (“Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith”)
Cillian Murphy (“Red Eye”)
Liam Neeson (“Batman Begins”)
Mickey Rourke (“Sin City”)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Jessica Alba (“Sin City”)
Jennifer Carpenter (“The Exorcism of Emily Rose”)
Summer Glau (“Serenity”)
Katie Holmes (“Batman Begins”)
Michelle Monaghan (“Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang”)
Gena Rowlands (“The Skeleton Key”)

BEST DIRECTION

Andrew Adamson (“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe”)
Peter Jackson (“King Kong”)
George Lucas (“Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith”)
Mike Newell (“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”)
Christopher Nolan (“Batman Begins”)
Steven Spielberg (“War of the Worlds”)

 

The fact that Mr. and Mrs. Smith were nominated for anything other than most attractive lead characters is fucking ridiculous. I finally spelled ridiculous right the first time. Yea me.

 

Did you actually watch it? I thought it was a pretty decent movie.

 

Exactly, pretty decent, nothing special about it whatsoever. How does that garner an award? Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie basically acted like themselves, they shoot guns, and stuff gets blown up. How does this constitute an award winning movie? On the other hand, the cinematography and directing in Sin City was awesome, even if the script and the plot were nothing special. In order to be worthy of an award it should be something new, fresh, innovative, or exceptionally well executed. Mr. and Mrs. Smith is none of those things. I have now cemented my image as a geek. Take that Steven Hawking.

 

I gotta disagree with the Sin City comment Dio, while the story itself was pretty simple, the dialogue was amazing. But Mr and Mrs Smith was pretty dull.

 

I'm not typically a fan of Frank Miller dialogue, Sin City was his best written work, although it has some exceptionally cool characters. Didn't Frank Miller do "Killing Joke" as well?

 

I really love Franks run on Daredevil, that was probably the best Daredevil ever written, with Kevin Smiths short run right behind him. Franks Old Wolverine stuff was well written too. His new run on Bat-Man is decent so far too. Killing Joke was Alan Moore though.

 

... and a fucking great band from the early eighties.

 

Hell yes it was.

 

Gotcha, never heard killingjoke the band, but I've read some things on them. I'll have to check them out, what's they're style, eighties thrash I'm guessing from the pictures.

 

All I remember is "Follow the Leader" on full blast with a bucket bong and whipping cream (nitrous oxide) bulbs is a high I've never matched since.

 

Good times. Hooray eighties.

 

I didn't see "The Island," but it didn't look like a sci/fi fantasy pic to me.

 

from what I understand the movie was based on the premise that a corporation was making clones of people, and using the clones to harvest organs when the original persons organs failed. That sounds like sci-fi to me.