Saturn Award ceremony 1978

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The 5th Saturn Award ceremony took place on January 14, 1978. This year the Saturn statue, which is still in use today, was awarded for the first time.

Most successful production with thirteen awards was Star Wars .

Nominations and winners

Movie

category Award winners Movie Nominations
Best science fiction film war of stars Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Devil's Seed
The Isle of Dr. Moreau
The ultimatum
Best horror film The girl at the end of the street Dogs
killer spiders
witch sabbath
Best fantasy film Oh God … Elliot, the smiley monster
Sindbad and the eye of the tiger
Cinderella's silver shoe
The world in 10 million years
Best stop-motion animated film Sindbad and the Eye of the Tiger no further nominations
Best director Steven Spielberg
George Lucas 		Close encounter of the third kind
of Star Wars 		Don Taylor for The Island of Dr. Moreau
Nicolas Gessner for The Girl at the End of the Street
Carl Reiner for Oh God ...
Best artistic director Norman Reynolds
Leslie Dilley 		war of stars no further nominations
Best script George Lucas war of stars Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Laird Koenig for The Girl at the End of the Street
Larry Gelbart for Oh God…
Michael Winner & Jeffrey Konvitz for Witches' Sabbath
Best cut Paul Hirsch
Marcia Lucas
Richard Chew 		war of stars no further nominations
Best tone Sam F. Shaw
Ben Burtt
Don MacDougall 		war of stars no further nominations
Best sound recording Caedmon Records no further nominations
Best special effects John Dykstra
John Stears 		war of stars Ray Harryhausen for Sindbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Chuck Gaspar & Albert Whitlock for Exorcist II - The Heretic
Douglas Trumbull for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Best performing work Richard Albain no further nominations
Best music John Williams Star Wars
Close encounters of the third kind 		no further nominations
Best equipment Roger Christian war of stars no further nominations
Best costume John Mollo war of stars Julie Harris for Cinderella's silver shoe
Cynthia Tingey for Sindbad and the eye of the tiger
Emily Sundby & Chuck Keehne for Elliot, the smiley monster
Richard La Motte for The Island of Dr. Moreau
Best make-up Rick Baker
Stuart Freeborn 		war of stars Carlo Rambaldi , Bob Westmoreland & Thomas R. Burman for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Thomas R. Burman for The Devil's Saat
John Chambers for The Isle of Dr. Moreau
Dick Smith for Witches Sabbath
Best Actor George Burns Oh God … Richard Dreyfuss for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
William Shatner for Killer Spiders
Harrison Ford for Star Wars
Mark Hamill for Star Wars
Michael York for The Isle of Dr. Moreau
Best main actress Jodie Foster The girl at the end of the street Melinda Dillon for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Julie Christie for The Devil's Saat
Joan Collins for In the Violence of Giant Ants
Carrie Fisher for Star Wars
Best supporting actor Alec Guinness war of stars Woody Strode for killer spiders
Peter Cushing for Star Wars
Burgess Meredith for Witches Sabbath
Red buttons for Elliot, the smiley monster
The best supporting actress Susan Tyrrell Andy Warhol's bathroom Margaret Whiting for Sindbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Teri Garr for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Alexis Smith for The Girl at the End of the Street
Joan Bennett for Suspiria

Prizes of honor

category Award winners Movie Nominations
Best TV Actor Jonathan Harris no further nominations
Best publicist Charles Lippincott no further nominations
Special award for outstanding camera work Gilbert Taylor war of stars
Special Award Donald A. Reed
Life Career Award Carl Laemmle, Jr.
Hall of Fame George Pal Battle of the Worlds (25th birthday)

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