52nd Saturn Awards

52nd Saturn Awards
Date	February 2, 2025
Site	Hilton Universal City, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by	Joel McHale
Highlights
Most nominations	Film: Dune: Part Two (14) Television: Fallout / The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (5)
Television coverage
Network	ElectricNOW The Roku Channel (streaming)

The 52nd Saturn Awards will be presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films to honor the best in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other genres belonging to genre fiction in film, television, and home entertainment.^[1] The eligibility period for nominations extended from October 2023 to October 31, 2024.^[2]

The ceremony will be held on February 2, 2025, at Hilton Universal City in Los Angeles, and will be live-streamed for the third consecutive year on Electric Entertainment's OTT app and FAST channel ElectricNow, and will be broadcast for the very first time on video streaming service The Roku Channel.^[1] Joel McHale will host the event for the third year in a row.^[3] Additionally, the 2025 ceremony will be dedicated to and held in memory of late film producer Jon Landau (1960–2024), long-time collaborator of multiple Saturn Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron.^[1][4][5]

The nominations were announced on December 5, 2024.^[1][6][7][8] The epic science fiction film Dune: Part Two (adapted from Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune and a continuation of the 2021 film Dune) led the film nominations with fourteen — nine more than what the first part received in 2022 — including Best Science Fiction Film and five acting nominations, followed by Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with thirteen and Deadpool & Wolverine with ten.^[1][6][7][8] For the television categories, Prime Video series Fallout (adapted from the role-playing video game franchise of the same name) and the AMC miniseries The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (the sixth spin-off and overall seventh television series in The Walking Dead franchise) led the nominations with five each.^[1][6][7][8]

Category changes

Introduced Best Action / Adventure / Thriller Television Series split into: Best Action / Thriller Television Series Best Adventure Television Series Renamed Best New Genre Television Series into Best Genre Comedy Television Series

Discontinued Best Superhero Film

Nominees

Film

Best Science Fiction Film	Best Fantasy Film
Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures) Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Warner Bros. Pictures) The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Lionsgate Films) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios) Megalopolis (Lionsgate Films / American Zoetrope) Venom: The Last Dance (Sony Pictures / Marvel)	Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Sony Pictures) Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures) My Old Ass (Amazon MGM Studios) Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures) Wonka (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Best Horror Film	Best Action / Adventure Film
Abigail (Universal Pictures) Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios) The First Omen (20th Century Studios) In a Violent Nature (IFC Films) Longlegs (Neon) A Quiet Place: Day One (Paramount Pictures) Smile 2 (Paramount Pictures)	Argylle (Apple Studios / Universal Pictures) Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel / Walt Disney Studios) The Fall Guy (Universal Pictures) Fly Me to the Moon (Apple Studios / Columbia Pictures) The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Lionsgate Films) Twisters (Universal Pictures)
Best Thriller Film	Best Animated Film
Blink Twice (Amazon MGM Studios) Civil War (A24) Saltburn (Amazon MGM Studios) Speak No Evil (Universal Pictures) Strange Darling (Miramax / Magenta Light Studios) Wolfs (Apple Studios)	The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS) Despicable Me 4 (Universal Pictures / Illumination Entertainment) Inside Out 2 (Pixar / Walt Disney Studios) Kung Fu Panda 4 (Universal Pictures / DreamWorks Animation) Spy × Family Code: White (Crunchyroll) Transformers One (Paramount Pictures) The Wild Robot (Universal Pictures / DreamWorks Animation)
Best Independent Film	Best International Film
Dream Scenario (A24) Late Night with the Devil (IFC Films / Shudder) MaXXXine (A24) The Substance (MUBI) Thelma (Magnolia Pictures) The Thicket (Tubi Movies)	The Animal Kingdom ( France) Godzilla Minus One ( Japan) Kill ( India) Monkey Man ( Canada /  United States) Oddity ( Ireland) Society of the Snow ( Spain)
Best Film Direction	Best Film Screenwriting
Fede Álvarez – Alien: Romulus Wes Ball – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Tim Burton – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Shawn Levy – Deadpool & Wolverine JT Mollner – Strange Darling Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two Takashi Yamazaki – Godzilla Minus One	Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Alfred Gough and Miles Millar Deadpool & Wolverine – Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Zeb Wells, and Shawn Levy Dune: Part Two – Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts Godzilla Minus One – Takashi Yamazaki Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – Josh Friedman Longlegs – Osgood Perkins Strange Darling – JT Mollner
Best Actor in a Film	Best Actress in a Film
Tom Blyth – The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes as Coriolanus "Coryo" Snow Nicolas Cage – Dream Scenario as Paul Matthews Timothée Chalamet – Dune: Part Two as Paul Atreides David Dastmalchian – Late Night with the Devil as Jack Delroy Kyle Gallner – Strange Darling as The Demon Michael Keaton – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as Betelgeuse Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool & Wolverine as Wade Wilson / Deadpool	Willa Fitzgerald – Strange Darling as The Lady Demi Moore – The Substance as Elisabeth Sparkle Lupita Nyong'o – A Quiet Place: Day One as Samira Winona Ryder – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as Lydia Deetz Naomi Scott – Smile 2 as Skye Riley June Squibb – Thelma as Thelma Post Anya Taylor-Joy – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga as Imperator Furiosa
Best Supporting Actor in a Film	Best Supporting Actress in a Film
Josh Brolin – Dune: Part Two as Gurney Halleck Austin Butler – Dune: Part Two as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen Nicolas Cage – Longlegs as Dale Ferdinand Kobble / Longlegs Willem Dafoe – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as Wolf Jackson Hugh Jackman – Deadpool & Wolverine as Logan / Wolverine David Jonsson – Alien: Romulus as Andy Carradine Owen Teague – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes as Noa	Emma Corrin – Deadpool & Wolverine as Cassandra Nova Rebecca Ferguson – Dune: Part Two as Lady Jessica Barbara Hershey – Strange Darling as Genevieve Juliette Lewis – The Thicket as Cut Throat Bill Margaret Qualley – The Substance as Sue Cailee Spaeny – Alien: Romulus as Rain Carradine Zendaya – Dune: Part Two as Chani
Best Younger Performer in a Film	Best Film Editing
Freya Allan – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes as Mae Mckenna Grace – Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire as Phoebe Spengler Kaylee Hottle – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire as Jia Calah Lane – Wonka as Noodle Jenna Ortega – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as Astrid Deetz Alisha Weir – Abigail as Abigail Rachel Zegler – The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes as Lucy Gray Baird	Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Jay Prychidny Civil War – Jake Roberts Deadpool & Wolverine – Dean Zimmerman and Shane Reid Dune: Part Two – Joe Walker Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Eliot Knapman and Margaret Sixel Strange Darling – Christopher Robin Bell
Best Film Music	Best Film Production Design
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Danny Elfman Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – Dario Marianelli The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – James Newton Howard Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – John Paesano Smile 2 – Cristobal Tapia de Veer	Alien: Romulus – Naaman Marshall Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Matt Scruton Deadpool & Wolverine – Ray Chan Dune: Part Two – Patrice Vermette Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – Daniel T. Dorrance Longlegs – Danny Vermette
Best Film Costume Design	Best Film Make Up
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Colleen Atwood Deadpool & Wolverine – Graham Churchyard and Mayes C. Rubeo Dune: Part Two – Jacqueline West Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – Alexis Fortes and Ruth Myers The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – Trish Summerville Wonka – Lindy Hemming	Alien: Romulus – Pam Smyth Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Neal Scanlan, Christine Blundell, and Lesa Warrener Dune: Part Two – Donald Mowat, Love Larson, Eva von Bahr, and Ruth Haney Longlegs – Felix Fox and Madelaine Hermans Smile 2 – Jeremy Selenfriend, Sasha Grossman, and Alec Gillis The Substance – Pierre-Olivier Persin
Best Film Visual / Special Effects
Alien: Romulus – Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin, and Shane Mahan Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Angus Bickerton, James Brennan-Craddock, Neal Scanlan, and Stefano Pepin Deadpool & Wolverine – Swen Gillberg, Matthew Twyford, Vincent Papaix, and Dominic Tuohy Dune: Part Two – Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, and Gerd Nefzer Godzilla Minus One – Masaki Takahashi, Tatsuji Nojima, Kiyoko Shibuya, and Takashi Yamazaki Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, and Rodney Burke Twisters – Ben Snow, Florian Witzel, Bill Georgiou, and Scott R. Fisher

Television

Programs

Best Science Fiction Television Series	Best Fantasy Television Series
3 Body Problem (Netflix) Ahsoka (Disney+) The Ark (Syfy) Dark Matter (Apple TV+) Fallout (Prime Video) Star Trek: Discovery (Paramount+)	Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix) For All Mankind (Apple TV+) House of the Dragon (Max) The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Prime Video) Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Disney+) The Spiderwick Chronicles (The Roku Channel)
Best Horror Television Series	Best Action / Thriller Television Series
Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC) Creepshow (Shudder) Evil (Paramount+) From (MGM+) Grotesquerie (FX) Teacup (Peacock) The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC)	Bosch: Legacy (Amazon Freevee) Cobra Kai (Netflix) Found (NBC) High Potential (ABC) Presumed Innocent (Apple TV+) True Detective: Night Country (Max) Tulsa King (Paramount+)
Best Adventure Television Series	Best Animated Television Series or Special
La Brea (NBC) Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+) Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Prime Video) Reacher (Prime Video) Shōgun (FX) Sugar (Apple TV+)	Batman: Caped Crusader (Prime Video) Gremlins: The Wild Batch (Max) Kaiju No. 8 (Crunchyroll) Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+) Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Disney+) X-Men '97 (Disney+)
Best Superhero Television Series	Best Television Presentation
Agatha All Along (Disney+) The Boys (Prime Video) Loki (Disney+) The Penguin (Max) Superman & Lois (The CW) The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)	Apartment 7A (Paramount+) Don't Move (Netflix) The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix) Fargo (FX) Ripley (Netflix) 'Salem's Lot (Max) The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)
Best Genre Comedy Television Series
Chucky (Syfy) Ghosts (CBS) Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) Resident Alien (Syfy) Ted (Peacock) What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

Acting

Best Actor in a Television Series	Best Actress in a Television Series
Colin Farrell – The Penguin as Oswald "Oz" Cobb / The Penguin (Max) Walton Goggins – Fallout as The Ghoul / Cooper Howard (Prime Video) Jon Hamm – Fargo as Sheriff Roy Tillman (FX) Andrew Lincoln – The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live as Rick Grimes (AMC) Harold Perrineau – From as Boyd Stevens (MGM+) Norman Reedus – The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon as Daryl Dixon (AMC) Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell – Monarch: Legacy of Monsters as Lee Shaw (Apple TV+)	Emma D'Arcy – House of the Dragon as Princess / Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen (Max) Rosario Dawson – Ahsoka as Ahsoka Tano (Disney+) Jodie Foster – True Detective: Night Country as Chief Liz Danvers (Max) Danai Gurira – The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live as Michonne (AMC) Kathryn Hahn – Agatha All Along as Agatha Harkness (Disney+) Melissa McBride – The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon as Carol Peletier (AMC) Ella Purnell – Fallout as Lucy MacLean (Prime Video)
Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series	Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series
Matt Berry – What We Do in the Shadows as Leslie "Laszlo" Cravensworth (FX) Brandon Scott Jones – Ghosts as Captain Isaac Higgintoot (CBS) Lamorne Morris – Fargo as Deputy Whitley "Witt" Farr (FX) Aaron Moten – Fallout as Maximus (Prime Video) Matt Smith – House of the Dragon as Prince / King Consort Daemon Targaryen (Max) Antony Starr – The Boys as Homelander (Prime Video) Henry Thomas – The Fall of the House of Usher as Frederick Usher (Netflix)	Jennifer Connelly – Dark Matter as Daniela Dessen (Apple TV+) Jennifer Jason Leigh – Fargo as Lorraine Lyon (FX) Pollyanna McIntosh – The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live as Jadis Stokes / Anne (AMC) Cristin Milioti – The Penguin as Sofia Falcone (Max) Elizabeth Saunders – From as Donna Raines (MGM+) Anna Sawai – Monarch: Legacy of Monsters as Cate Randa (Apple TV+) Rebecca Wisocky – Ghosts as Henrietta "Hetty" Woodstone (CBS)
Best Young Performer in a Television Series	Best Guest Star in a Television Series
Zackary Arthur – Chucky as Jake Wheeler (Syfy) Hannah Cheramy – From as Julie Matthews (MGM+) Cameron Crovetti – The Boys as Ryan (Prime Video) Rhenzy Feliz – The Penguin as Victor "Vic" Aguilar (Max) Joe Locke – Agatha All Along as Billy Maximoff / William Kaplan (Disney+) Xolo Maridueña – Cobra Kai as Miguel Diaz (Netflix) Louis Puech Scigliuzzi – The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon as Laurent Carriere (AMC)	Mark Hamill – The Fall of the House of Usher as Arthur Gordon Pym (Netflix) Matthew Jeffers – The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live as Nat (AMC) Martin Kove – Cobra Kai as John Kreese (Netflix) Kyle MacLachlan – Fallout as Hank MacLean (Prime Video) Andrea Martin – Evil as Sister Andrea (Paramount+) Aubrey Plaza – Agatha All Along as Death (Disney+) Ke Huy Quan – Loki as O.B. / A.D. Doug, Ph.D (Disney+)

Home Entertainment

Best 4K Home Media Release	Best Classic Film Home Media Release
Conan the Barbarian (Arrow Video) Crimson Peak (Arrow Video) The Crow (Paramount) Face/Off (KL Studio Classics) The Monster Squad (KL Studio Classics) Saw X (Lionsgate Home Entertainment)	I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim (Criterion Collection) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (KL Studio Classics) The Ladykillers (KL Studio Classics) A Nightmare on Elm Street (Warner Home Video) Repo Man (Criterion Collection) Reptilicus (Vinegar Syndrome)
Best Film Home Media Collection Release	Best Television Home Media Release
Batman: 85th Anniversary Collection (Warner Home Video) Nature Run Amok Collection (Kino Cult) OSS 117: Five Film Collection (KL Studio Classics) Republic Pictures Horror Collection (KL Studio Classics) Rocky: Ultimate Knockout Collection (Warner Home Video) Sci Fi Chillers Collection (KL Studio Classics)	The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: The Complete Series (MPI) Columbo: The Return (KL Studio Classics) Farscape: The Complete Series (25th Anniversary Edition) (Shout) Interview with the Vampire (Season 2) (RLJ Entertainment) La Brea: The Complete Series (Universal) Star Wars: Andor – The Complete First Season (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

Special Achievement Awards

• TBA

Multiple nominations

Film Nominations Film Genre Distributor(s) 14 Dune: Part Two Science Fiction Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures 13 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Fantasy Warner Bros. Pictures 10 Deadpool & Wolverine Action / Adventure Marvel / Walt Disney Studios 8 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Science Fiction 20th Century Studios 7 Alien: Romulus Horror Strange Darling Thriller Miramax / Magenta Light Studios 5 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Science Fiction Lionsgate Films Longlegs Horror Neon 4 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Fantasy Sony Pictures Godzilla Minus One Toho International Smile 2 Horror Paramount Pictures The Substance MUBI 3 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Science Fiction Warner Bros. Pictures Wonka Fantasy 2 Abigail Horror Universal Pictures Civil War Thriller A24 Dream Scenario Horror Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Fantasy Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures Late Night with the Devil Horror IFC Films / Shudder A Quiet Place: Day One Paramount Pictures Thelma Comedy Magnolia Pictures The Thicket Thriller Tubi Movies Twisters Action / Adventure Universal Pictures

Television Nominations Series Genre Network / Platform 5 Fallout Science Fiction Prime Video The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Horror AMC 4 Agatha All Along Superhero Disney+ Fargo Action / Thriller FX From Horror MGM+ The Penguin Superhero Max The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Horror AMC 3 The Boys Superhero Prime Video Cobra Kai Action / Thriller Netflix The Fall of the House of Usher Horror Ghosts Comedy CBS House of the Dragon Fantasy Max Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Adventure Apple TV+ 2 Ahsoka Science Fiction Disney+ Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire Horror AMC Chucky Comedy Syfy Dark Matter Science Fiction Apple TV+ Evil Horror Paramount+ La Brea Adventure NBC Loki Superhero Disney+ True Detective: Night Country Action / Thriller Max What We Do in the Shadows Comedy FX

References

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2. "Voting Procedures". Saturn Awards. Archived from the original on December 8, 2024. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
3. Patton, Tess (December 12, 2024). "Joel McHale Returns to Host 52nd Annual Saturn Awards". TheWrap. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
4. Shanfeld, Ethan (July 6, 2024). "Jon Landau, Oscar-Winning 'Titanic' and 'Avatar' Producer, Dies at 63". Variety. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
5. Garner, Glenn (July 6, 2024). "James Cameron Remembers Late 'Titanic', 'Avatar' Producer Jon Landau as He Mourns 'A Part of Myself'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
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External links

• Official Saturn Awards website