'Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' is up for nine awards in total, while the shipwreck drama and the James Bond film bag eight and seven nods respectively.
- Feb 21, 2013
AceShowbiz - While the AMPAS is focusing itself on the 2013 Academy Awards this coming Sunday, February 24, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films decided to announce the nominees for the 39th annual Saturn Awards on Wednesday. In movie categories, Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" leads the pack with a total of nine nods.
The first chapter in the "Hobbit" trilogy is up for the coveted Best Fantasy Film award, competing with such films as "Life of Pi", "The Amazing Spider-Man", "Snow White and the Huntsman", "Ted" and "Ruby Sparks". The New Zealand-based film is also up for Best Actor (Martin Freeman), Best Supporting Actor (Ian McKellen), and Best Direction (Peter Jackson) and five other awards.
Trailing behind "Hobbit" is "Life of Pi" with eight nominations in total. In addition to Best Fantasy Film award, the Oscar-nominated shipwreck drama is up for Best Diretion for Ang Lee. Its Indian lead actor Suraj Sharma, meanwhile, is nominated for Best Performance by a Younger Actor prize. His competitors include the likes of Chloe Moretz ("Dark Shadows") and Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild").
"Skyfall" bags seven nods in total. The twenty-third James Bond movie is set to compete in the Best Action/Adventure Film category alongside "The Bourne Legacy", "The Dark Knight Rises", "Django Unchained", "Les Miserables" and "Taken 2". Its lead actor Daniel Craig is up for Best Actor award, while his co-star Javier Bardem is one of the strongest contenders in Best Supporting Actor category.
Fanboy and cult favorites such as "The Avengers", "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Prometheus" also score multiple nominations at the awards. Some other Oscar baits like "Les Miserables", "Django", "Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty (2012)" are additionally set to compete with a handful of 2012's box office giants.
The diversity of films which are nominated at this year's Saturns underscores "the ways in which genre filmmaking has expanded beyond its roots as niche entertainment," says the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in its announcement.
The winners will be revealed sometime in June. The exact date and location for the awards ceremony will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
The 39th Saturn Awards Nominations: Best Science Fiction Film:
- "The Avengers"
- "Chronicle"
- "Cloud Atlas"
- "The Hunger Games"
- "Looper"
- "Prometheus"
- "The Amazing Spider-Man"
- "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
- "Life of Pi"
- "Ruby Sparks"
- "Snow White and the Huntsman"
- "Ted"
- "Argo"
- "The Cabin in the Woods"
- "The Impossible"
- "Seven Psychopaths"
- "The Woman in Black"
- "Zero Dark Thirty (2012)"
- "Compliance"
- "Hitchcock"
- "Killer Joe"
- "The Paperboy"
- "Robot and Frank"
- "Safety Not Guaranteed"
- "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World"
- Christian Bale - "The Dark Knight Rises"
- Daniel Craig - "Skyfall"
- Martin Freeman - "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
- Hugh Jackman - "Les Miserables"
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt - "Looper"
- Matthew McConaughey - "Killer Joe"
- Jessica Chastain - "Zero Dark Thirty (2012)"
- Ann Dowd - "Compliance"
- Zoe Kazan - "Ruby Sparks"
- Jennifer Lawrence - "The Hunger Games"
- Helen Mirren - "Hitchcock"
- Naomi Watts - "The Impossible"
- Javier Bardem - "Skyfall"
- Michael Fassbender - "Prometheus"
- Clark Gregg - "The Avengers"
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt - "The Dark Knight Rises"
- Ian McKellen - "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
- Christoph Waltz - "Django Unchained"
- Judi Dench - "Skyfall"
- Gina Gershon - "Killer Joe"
- Anne Hathaway - "The Dark Knight Rises"
- Anne Hathaway - "Les Miserables"
- Nicole Kidman - "The Paperboy"
- Charlize Theron - "Snow White and the Huntsman"
- CJ Adams - "The Odd Life of Timothy Green"
- Tom Holland - "The Impossible"
- Daniel Huttlestone - "Les Miserables"
- Chloe Moretz - "Dark Shadows"
- Suraj Sharma - "Life of Pi"
- Quvenzhane Wallis - "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
- William Friedkin - "Killer Joe"
- Peter Jackson - "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
- Rian Johnson - "Looper"
- Ang Lee - "Life of Pi"
- Christopher Nolan - "The Dark Knight Rises"
- Joss Whedon - "The Avengers"
- Tracy Letts - "Killer Joe"
- David Magee - "Life of Pi"
- Martin McDonagh - "Seven Psychopaths"
- Quentin Tarantino - "Django Unchained"
- Joss Whedon - "The Avengers"
- Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard - "The Cabin in the Woods"
- Hugh Bateup, Uli Hanisch - "Cloud Atlas"
- Sarah Greenwood - "Anna Karenina"
- David Gropman - "Life of Pi"
- Rick Heinrichs - "Dark Shadows"
- Dan Hennah - "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
- Eve Stewart - "Les Miserables"
- Stuard and Kate Baird - "Skyfall"
- Alexander Berner - "Cloud Atlas"
- Bob Ducsay - "Looper"
- Jeffrey Ford, Lisa Lassek - "The Avengers"
- John Gilroy - "The Bourne Legacy"
- Tim Squyres - "Life of Pi"
- Mychael Danna - "Life of Pi"
- Danny Elfman - "Frankenweenie"
- Dario Marianelli - "Anna Karenina"
- Thomas Newman - "Skyfall"
- Howard Shore - "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
- Hans Zimmer - "The Dark Knight Rises"
- Jacqueline Durran - "Anna Karenina"
- Kym Barrett, Pierre-Yves Gayraud - "Cloud Atlas"
- Sharen Davis - "Django Unchained"
- Bob Buck, Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor - "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
- Paco Delgado - "Les Miserables"
- Colleen Atwood - "Snow White and the Huntsman"
- Heike Merker, Daniel Parker, Jeremy Woodhead - "Cloud Atlas"
- Gregory Nicotero, Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, Julie Hewett - "Hitchcock"
- Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater, Tami Lane - "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
- David Marti, Montse Ribe, Vasit Suchitta - "The Impossible"
- Naomi Donne, Donald Mowat, Love Larson - "Skyfall"
- Jean Ann Black, Fay Von Schroeder - "The Twilight Saga's Breaking Dawn Part II"
- Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, Dan Sudick - "The Avengers"
- Grady Cofer, Pablo Helman, Jeanie King, Burt Dalton - "Battleship"
- Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White - "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
- Chris Corbould, Peter Chiang, Scott R. Fisher, Sue Rowe - "John Carter"
- Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer, Donald R. Elliott - "Life of Pi"
- Cedric Nicholas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould, Michael Dawson - "Snow White and the Huntsman"
- "Anna Karenina"
- "Chicken with Plums"
- "The Fairy"
- "Headhunters"
- "My Way"
- "Pusher"
- "Brave"
- "Frankenweenie"
- "ParaNorman"
- "Wreck-It Ralph"
