Saturn Award for Best Actress | |
Awarded For: | Best performance of the year by a female in a leading role in a genre film |
Presenter: | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films |
Country: | United States |
Year: | 1974/75 |
Holder: | Margot Robbie for Barbie (2022/2023) |
The Saturn Award for Best Actress is one of the annual Saturn Awards given by the American professional organization, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The Saturn Awards are the oldest film-specialized reward of achievements in science fiction, fantasy, and horror (another award, the Hugo Award is older but includes other genres and media). The Saturn Award included the Best Actress category for the first time in 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 Jamie Lee Curtis, Jodie Foster, Natalie Portman, Naomi Watts and Sigourney Weaver, who are all tied with five. Curtis, Foster, Portman, Watts and Sandra Bullock are the only actresses to have won it twice. Portman and Michelle Yeoh are the only actresses to win both the Saturn Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for the same film, while Weaver holds the record for most nominations for playing the same character (Ellen Ripley) with four. Foster is the youngest winner in this category, winning her first award in 1977 at age 13.
Legend:
width=7% | Year | width=31% | Actress | width=31% | Film | width=31% | Character |
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1974/1975 | Katharine Ross | The Stepford Wives | Joanna Eberhart | ||||
1976 | Blythe Danner | Futureworld | Tracy Ballad | ||||
1977 | Jodie Foster | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane | Rynn Jacobs | ||||
Julie Christie | Demon Seed | Susan Harris | |||||
Joan Collins | Empire of the Ants | Marilyn Fryser | |||||
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Jillian Guiler | ||||||
Carrie Fisher | Star Wars | Princess Leia Organa | |||||
1978 | Margot Kidder | Superman | Lois Lane | ||||
Brooke Adams | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Elizabeth Driscoll | |||||
Ann-Margret | Magic | Peggy Ann Snow | |||||
Geneviève Bujold | Coma | Dr. Susan Wheeler | |||||
Diana Ross | The Wiz | Dorothy Gale | |||||
1979 | Mary Steenburgen | Time After Time | Amy Robbins | ||||
Susan Saint James | Love at First Bite | Cindy Sondheim | |||||
Persis Khambatta | Lt. Ilia | ||||||
Margot Kidder | The Amityville Horror | Kathy Lutz | |||||
Sigourney Weaver | Alien | Ripley |
width=7% | Year | width=31% | Actress | width=31% | Film | width=31% | Character |
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1991 | Linda Hamilton | Sarah Connor | |||||
Misery | Annie Wilkes | ||||||
The Silence of the Lambs | Clarice Starling | ||||||
Julia Roberts | Sleeping with the Enemy | Laura Burney | |||||
Winona Ryder | Edward Scissorhands | Kim Boggs | |||||
Meryl Streep | Defending Your Life | Julia | |||||
1992 | Virginia Madsen | Candyman | Helen Lyle | ||||
Rebecca De Mornay | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | Peyton Flanders / Mrs. Mott | |||||
Sheryl Lee | Laura Palmer | ||||||
Winona Ryder | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Mina Harker / Elisabeta | |||||
Sharon Stone | Basic Instinct | Catherine Tramell | |||||
Meryl Streep | Death Becomes Her | Madeline Ashton | |||||
Sigourney Weaver | Alien 3 | Ellen Ripley | |||||
1993 | Andie MacDowell | Groundhog Day | Rita | ||||
Patricia Arquette | True Romance | Alabama Whitman | |||||
Laura Dern | Jurassic Park | Dr. Ellie Sattler | |||||
Michelle Forbes | Kalifornia | Carrie Laughlin | |||||
Anjelica Huston | Addams Family Values | Morticia Addams | |||||
Bette Midler | Hocus Pocus | Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson | |||||
Ally Sheedy | Man's Best Friend | Lori Tanner | |||||
1994 | Sandra Bullock | Speed | Annie Porter | ||||
Jamie Lee Curtis | True Lies | Helen Tasker | |||||
Mädchen Amick | Dream Lover | Lena Mathers | |||||
Helena Bonham Carter | Frankenstein | Elizabeth Frankenstein | |||||
Penelope Ann Miller | The Shadow | Margo Lane | |||||
Michelle Pfeiffer | Wolf | Laura Alden | |||||
1995 | Angela Bassett | Strange Days | Lornette "Mace" Mason | ||||
Kathy Bates | Dolores Claiborne | Dolores Claiborne | |||||
Nicole Kidman | To Die For | Suzanne Stone-Maretto | |||||
Sharon Stone | The Quick and the Dead | The Lady | |||||
Madeleine Stowe | 12 Monkeys | Kathryn Railly | |||||
Marina Zudina | Mute Witness | Billy | |||||
1996 | Neve Campbell | Scream | Sidney Prescott | ||||
Geena Davis | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Samantha Caine / Charlene Elizabeth "Charly" Baltimore | |||||
Gina Gershon | Bound | Corky | |||||
Helen Hunt | Twister | Dr. Jo Harding | |||||
Fargo | Marge Gunderson | ||||||
Penelope Ann Miller | The Relic | Dr. Margo Green | |||||
1997 | Jodie Foster | Contact | Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Ann Arroway | ||||
Neve Campbell | Scream 2 | Sidney Prescott | |||||
Pam Grier | Jackie Brown | Jackie Brown | |||||
Jennifer Lopez | Anaconda | Terri Flores | |||||
Mira Sorvino | Mimic | Dr. Susan Tyler | |||||
Sigourney Weaver | Ellen Ripley | ||||||
1998 | Drew Barrymore | Ever After | Danielle de Barbarac / Countess Nicole de Lancret | ||||
Gillian Anderson | The X-Files | Dana Scully | |||||
Jamie Lee Curtis | Laurie Strode / Keri Tate | ||||||
Meg Ryan | City of Angels | Maggie Rice | |||||
Jennifer Tilly | Bride of Chucky | Tiffany | |||||
Catherine Zeta-Jones | The Mask of Zorro | Elena De La Vega | |||||
1999 | Christina Ricci | Sleepy Hollow | Katrina Van Tassel | ||||
Heather Graham | Felicity Shagwell | ||||||
Being John Malkovich | Maxine Lund | ||||||
Carrie-Anne Moss | The Matrix | Trinity | |||||
Sigourney Weaver | Galaxy Quest | Gwen DeMarco / Lt. Tawny Madison | |||||
Rachel Weisz | The Mummy | Evelyn "Evie" Carnahan O'Connell |
width=7% | Year | width=31% | Actress | width=31% | Film | width=31% | Character |
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2021/2022 | Michelle Yeoh | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Evelyn Quan Wang | ||||
Cate Blanchett | Nightmare Alley | Dr. Lilith Ritter | |||||
Emily Blunt | A Quiet Place Part II | Evelyn Abbott | |||||
Zoë Kravitz | The Batman | Selina Kyle / Catwoman | |||||
Keke Palmer | Nope | Emerald "Em" Haywood | |||||
Emma Stone | Cruella | Estella / Cruella | |||||
Zendaya | MJ | ||||||
2022/2023 | Margot Robbie | Barbie | Barbie | ||||
Viola Davis | The Woman King | General Nanisca | |||||
Mia Goth | Pearl | Pearl | |||||
Amber Midthunder | Prey | Naru | |||||
Zoe Saldaña | Neytiri | ||||||
Anya Taylor-Joy | The Menu | Margot Mills / Erin |