THE SATURN AWARDS HAPPENED

What are these I don't even ...

The secret of Jonathan Nolan's ghost-directing uncovered!

And still, fucking Alice In Wonderland gets nominated and wins shit. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU HUMAN RACE?

Nice to see Garfield getting some recognition, even if it is from a somewhat niche awards show. That performance was a revelation.

A Saturn is the awards equivalent of your milkman complimenting you on your front doormat. I doubt he's doing jumping jacks.

Anything that gives Inception an award is fine by m...

What Alice in Wonderland wtf?

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Originally Posted by Andrew Merriweather 

A Saturn is the awards equivalent of your milkman complimenting you on your front doormat. I doubt he's doing jumping jacks.

That attitude is why people never compliment you on your doormat, man.

Yeah, as pretty much anyone even remotely connected to the old-tyme print-SF world will tell you, the "Saturn Awards" are largly personality-based popularity contests -- they are voted on by genre-focused fans, not by professionals in the field, and not even by actual science fiction fans. They have more direct correlation to TVQ ratings than to the actual material.

The "Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films" is not precisely one of our more august professional organizations; if you look at a roster of the original founders, you'll get some idea of what the initial aims and capacities were, even prior to the reorganization as a publicity outlet for the Syfy Channel.

At the time it was formed, the "Academy" was merely an organization of bandwagon-leaping academics who came to the genre too late to have any status, a batch of schlock film-production people whose work could not possibly expect any recognition outside the genre, and a bunch of genre-typecast performers hungry for any recognition at all.

The fact that the Saturns are so strongly associated with Syfy, now largely a purveyor of relatively mediocre product, and are paid zero attention by most professionals, should also be a bit indicative of just how important they are not.