The Saturn Awards for Best Writing is a Saturn Award presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.
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 |
Unlike most awards rewarding writing in films, it recognizes only the writer(s) of the screenplay, and not those of the story.
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 |
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 |