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Best Set Decoration?[edit]

There is, or was, also an award for Best Set Decoration. Robert De Vestel and Dale Hennesy won it for Young Frankenstein. TheMadBaron 03:25, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Citing IMDb. -82.80.205.29 (talk) 23:58, 12 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

the award[edit]

it looks like an (not very) artistic representation of sex...is that really awarded ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.153.19.101 (talk) 15:34, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How much of an honor is this award?[edit]

The article doesn't clearify how popular and prestiges this award is. --Nezek (talk) 21:35, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, glad I'm not the only one questioning the credibility of this award. It cracks me up when I read the following line: "Similar to other awards, like the Oscars, the Emmys and the Grammys, the Saturn Awards are voted on by members of the presenting Academy." Yeah right, that'll make people believe it's just like the Oscars. Take a look at the people who have received the award, you'll get an idea. A love fest for Hollywood bigshots -- Artoasis (talk) 13:14, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The prestige of the award were greatly enhanced if the presenters harkened back, and gave homage to the "founders" of "science fiction", fantasy, and horror. The names Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, Henry Rider Haggard, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Boroughs, Edward Abott Abott, Robert E.Howard, Abraham Stoker, Robert Heinlein; and more recently Irwin Allen, gene Roddenberry, Jack Kirby, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, and"Kenneth Robeson". --65.88.88.125 (talk) 14:14, 20 August 2014 (UTC)Veryverser[reply]

Status of an award is determined not by its winners (I might as well give This Guy's Award to James Cameron!), but by who chooses them. In that case, it is "Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films". However, list of its members does not look very impressive [1]. The masterpieces by Whedon, Del Toro, Jackson and Nolan are judged by Uwe Boll's screenwriter and a guy who played "Cop" and "Evil Twin #2"; and those are who at least have articles about them. Beaumain (talk) 05:32, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the early 80s, when the award was called the Golden Scroll, and handed out by the president of the Academy of Science Fiction, etc. (no celebrity presenters), they had to show a free movie before an award presentation to get people to show up. It doesn't seem to have become much more prestigious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.88.234.38 (talk) 16:02, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion[edit]

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Move discussion in progress[edit]

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Requested move 5 October 2019[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:22, 13 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Saturn Award → Saturn Awards – Conform with Academy Awards and Empire Awards. bd2412 T 01:58, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support for the same reasons I gave in this RM on Golden Globe Award(s). Per WP:NCPLURAL, the awards are a "group of specific things". Colin M (talk) 03:45, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Disagree this article does not have any content about the ceremonies but it has content about the award. --Frmorrison (talk) 23:12, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- There are numerous categories of awards under this name, however. bd2412 T 01:35, 10 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Self referential links[edit]

Seriously what's the point? I click the link for "Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Television Series" for example and am linked to the same part of the page. I could click it for a thousand years and get nowhere, it's totally useless and I argue any self-referential links be removed or redirect to the actor/ess that won said award. Ruby.Boulton (talk) 03:05, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Records[edit]

Which of those films won the most awards: Star Wars (1977) or Avatar (2009)? How legit is it is it to compare five special awards received by Star Wars with the competitive ones received by Avatar? For example, AMPAS only counted six wins for Star Wars while counting separately (in brackets) its one special award. So it seems that Avtar, with 10 competitive wins, and not Star Wars, with eight, is the most awarded single film in Saturn's history.

The same logic applies to the most awarded individuals: why count James Cameron's honorary awards (3) together with competitive ones (10). LordTort (talk) 19:52, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]