Saturn Award for Best Actress
| Saturn Award for Best Actress | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best performance of the year by a female in a leading role in a genre film |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films |
| First awarded | 1974/75 |
| Currently held by | Charlize Theron for Mad Max: Fury Road (2016) |
| Official website |
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The Saturn Award for Best Actress is one of the annual awards given by the American professional organization, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. The Saturn Awards are the oldest film-specialized awards to reward science fiction, fantasy, and horror achievements (the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, awarded by the World Science Fiction Society which rewards science fiction and fantasy in various media, is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films) and included the Best Actress category for the first time for the 1974 film year.
The Saturn Award for Best Actress is the oldest prize to reward actresses in science fiction, fantasy, and horror films: other awards such as the Academy and Golden Globe Awards, despite supposedly disregarding the genre, gave little recognition to acting quality at the time. In 1996 the Saturns began to reward both film and television acting, and created the Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television. For the first two years it was awarded there were no nominees announced.
The actresses with the most nominations are Jodie Foster, Natalie Portman, Naomi Watts and Sigourney Weaver, who are all tied with five. Foster, Portman, Watts and Sandra Bullock are the only actresses to have won it twice. Portman is also the only actress to win both the Saturn Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for the same film, while Weaver holds the most nominations for playing the same character (Ellen Ripley) with four.
Winners and nominees
Legend:
"†" indicates an Academy Award-winning performance in the same category.
"‡" indicates an Academy Award-nominated performance in the same category.
"§" indicates an Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Supporting Actress
1970s
| Year | Actress | Character | Film |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974/75 | Katharine Ross | Joanna Eberhart | The Stepford Wives |
| 1976 | Blythe Danner | Tracy Ballad | Futureworld |
| 1977 | Jodie Foster | Rynn Jacobs | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane |
| Julie Christie | Susan Harris | Demon Seed | |
| Joan Collins | Marilyn Fryser | Empire of the Ants | |
| Melinda Dillon § | Jillian Guiler | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |
| Carrie Fisher | Princess Leia Organa | Star Wars | |
| 1978 | Margot Kidder | Lois Lane | Superman: The Movie |
| Ann-Margret | Peggy Ann Snow | Magic | |
| Brooke Adams | Elizabeth Driscoll | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | |
| Geneviève Bujold | Dr. Susan Wheeler | Coma | |
| Diana Ross | Dorothy Gale | The Wiz | |
| 1979 | Mary Steenburgen | Amy Robbins | Time After Time |
| Susan Saint James | Cindy Sondheim | Love at First Bite | |
| Persis Khambatta | Lt. Ilia | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | |
| Margot Kidder | Kathy Lutz | The Amityville Horror | |
| Sigourney Weaver | Ripley | Alien |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Multiple nominations
Multiple awards
- 2 wins
- Sandra Bullock
- Jodie Foster
- Natalie Portman
- Naomi Watts
References
- ↑ "Saturn Award nominations". Saturn Awards. February 24, 2016.