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 | Rian Johnson for Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2018) |
Website |
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The Saturn Award 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
"†" indicates an Academy Award-winning movie on the same category.
"‡" indicates an Academy Award-nominated movie on the same category.
1970s
Year | Writer(s) | Motion Picture |
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(2nd) |
William Peter Blatty | The Exorcist † |
(3rd) | ||
Ib Melchior (for his career) | ||
Harlan Ellison (for his career) | ||
(4th) | ||
Jimmy Sangster (for his career) | ||
(5th) | ||
George Lucas | Star Wars ‡ | |
Steven Spielberg | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |
Laird Koenig | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane | |
Larry Gelbart | Oh, God! | |
Michael Winner, Jeffrey Konvitz | The Sentinel | |
(6th) |
Elaine May, Warren Beatty | Heaven Can Wait ‡ |
Heywood Gould | The Boys from Brazil | |
Alfred Sole, Rosemary Ritvo | Alice, Sweet Alice (Communion) | |
Cliff Green | Picnic at Hanging Rock | |
Anthony Shaffer | The Wicker Man | |
(7th) |
Nicholas Meyer | Time After Time |
Dan O'Bannon | Alien | |
Jeb Rosebrook, Gerry Day | The Black Hole | |
Robert Kaufman | Love at First Bite | |
Jerry Juhl, Jack Burns | The Muppet Movie |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Multiple nominations
- 7 nominations
- 6 nominations
- 4 nominations
- 3 nominations
- 2 nominations
- J. J. Abrams
- Woody Allen
- Michael Arndt
- Brad Bird
- Jeffrey Boam
- Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- Chris Columbus
- Frank Darabont
- Michael Dougherty
- Scott Frank
- Tony Gilroy
- Drew Goddard
- Michael Goldenberg
- William Goldman
- David S. Goyer
- Michael Green
- Dan Harris
- David Hayter
- James V. Hart
- Terry Hayes
- Tom Holland
- Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver
- Spike Jonze
- Charlie Kaufman
- Steve Kloves
- Don Mancini
- Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
- Melissa Mathison
- Edward Neumeier
- Jonathan Nolan
- Dan O'Bannon
- Matthew Robbins
- Gary Ross
- Eric Roth
- Steven Spielberg
- Andrew Stanton
- Wesley Strick
- Andrew Kevin Walker
- Joss Whedon
Multiple wins
- 4 wins
- Christopher Nolan
- 3 wins
- William Peter Blatty
- James Cameron
- 2 wins
- Lawrence Kasdan
- Jonathan Nolan
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