Saturn_Award_for_Best_Writing
The Saturn Awards for Best Writing is a Saturn Award presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.
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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 | Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan for Nightmare Alley (2021/2022) |
Website | www |
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Unlike most awards rewarding writing in films, it recognizes only the writer(s) of the screenplay, and not those of the story.
1970s
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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 |
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1980s
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1990s
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2000s
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2010s
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2020s
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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 | |
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- 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
- 4 wins
- James Cameron
- Christopher Nolan
- 3 wins
- William Peter Blatty
- 2 wins
- Lawrence Kasdan
- Jonathan Nolan
- Quentin Tarantino