The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works mainly in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video. The Saturn Awards were devised by Dr. Donald A. Reed in 1972, who felt that films within those genres were never given the appreciation they deserved at that time.^[1] The physical award is a representation of the planet Saturn, surrounded with a ring of film. The award was initially and is still sometimes loosely referred to as a Golden Scroll.

Similar to other awards, like the Oscars, the Emmys and the Grammys, the Saturn Awards are voted on by members of the presenting Academy. The academy is a non-profit organization with membership open to the public.^[2] The first awards were presented in 1972 by William Shatner.

Although the awards still primarily nominate films and TV in the science fiction, fantasy and horror categories, the Saturns have also recognized productions in standard dramatic genres. There are also special awards for lifetime achievement in the field. The 38th Saturn Awards will be held on June 20, 2012 in Burbank, California.^[3]

Award categories[link]

Special awards[link]

• The George Pal Memorial Award
• The Life Career Award
• The President's Memorial Award

Motion picture[link]

• Best Science Fiction Film
• Best Fantasy Film
• Best Horror or Thriller Film (formerly Best Horror Film)
• Best Action or Adventure Film (formerly Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film)
• Best Animated Film
• Best International Film
• Best Director
• Best Actor
• Best Actress
• Best Supporting Actor
• Best Supporting Actress
• Best Performance by a Younger Actor
• Best Writing
• Best Music
• Best Make-up
• Best Costume
• Best Special Effects
• Best Production Design

In addition there was an Award for Best Foreign Film in 1980, and an Award for Best Low-Budget Film from 1980 to 1982.

Television[link]

• Best Network Television Series
• Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series
• Best Television Presentation
• Best Actor on Television
• Best Actress on Television
• Best Supporting Actor on Television
• Best Supporting Actress on Television
• Best Guest Starring Role on Television

Home video[link]

• Best DVD Release
• Best DVD Special Edition Release
• Best DVD Classic Film Release
• Best DVD Movie Collection
• Best DVD Television Release
• Best Retro Television Series on DVD

Year-By-Year results[link]

• 2003: 30th Saturn Awards
• 2004: 31st Saturn Awards
• 2005: 32nd Saturn Awards
• 2006: 33rd Saturn Awards
• 2007: 34th Saturn Awards
• 2008: 35th Saturn Awards
• 2009: 36th Saturn Awards
• 2010: 37th Saturn Awards
• 2011: 38th Saturn Awards

See also[link]

• Hugo Award
• Scream Awards

References[link]

1. ^ IMDB page
2. ^ "The Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy & Horror Films". http://www.saturnawards.org/membership.html. Retrieved 15 February 2011. 
3. ^ Goldberg, Matt (February 29th, 2012). "Saturn Award Nominations Announced; HUGO and HARRY POTTER Lead with 10 Nominations Each". Collider. http://collider.com/saturn-award-nominations-2012/148931/. Retrieved March 1, 2012. 

External links[link]

• The Official Saturn Awards Site
• Saturn Awards on IMDb
• Saturn Awards 2009 at FEARnet

Jennifer Carpenter
Carpenter at the San Diego Comic-Con, 2009
Born	Jennifer Leann Carpenter (1979-12-07) December 7, 1979 (age 32) Louisville, Kentucky
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001–present
Notable work(s)	Debra Morgan on Dexter
Spouse	Michael C. Hall (m. 2008–2011) «start: (2008)–end+1: (2012)»"Marriage: Michael C. Hall to Jennifer Carpenter" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Jennifer_Carpenter)
Awards	Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television 2009 Dexter

Jennifer Leann Carpenter (born December 7, 1979) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Debra Morgan on the Showtime drama series Dexter, for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2009.

Early life and education[link]

Carpenter was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Catherine (née Mitchell) and Robert Carpenter.^[1] She attended St. Raphael the Archangel and then Sacred Heart Academy. She trained at the Walden Theatre Conservatory program,^[2] and later at New York City's Juilliard School (Drama Division Group 31: 1998–2002).^[3] Before graduation, she was cast in the 2002 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.^[4]

Career[link]

Carpenter first attracted critical attention for her performance in The Exorcism of Emily Rose.^{[citation needed]} She took home the 2006 MTV Movie Award for 'Best Frightened Performance', and also received a 'Hollywood Life Breakthrough Award'. She was also named 'Breakout Performer' at the 2006 Scream Awards.

Carpenter currently plays the role of Debra Morgan in the Showtime crime drama television series Dexter which premiered October 1, 2006. Her portrayal of the title character's sister has impressed some critics, with Australian journalist Jack Marx describing her portrayal of "cool and clumsy" Debra as "so perfect that many viewers appear to have mistaken the character's flaws for the actor's."^[5]

In 2011, she starred in the Off-Broadway play Gruesome Playground Injuries at Second Stage Theatre and made a guest appearance on the CBS drama The Good Wife.

On Saturday, March 17, 2012, she made an appearance on BBC cooking show, Saturday Kitchen Live.

Personal life[link]

In 2007, she began dating her Dexter co-star Michael C. Hall.^[6] They eloped on New Year's Eve, 2008 in California, and publicly appeared together for the first time as a married couple at the 66th Golden Globe Awards in January 2009.^[6] In December 2010, Hall and Carpenter released a statement announcing that they had filed for divorce after having been separated "for some time".^[7] The divorce was finalized in December 2011.^[8]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jennifer Carpenter

• Jennifer Carpenter at the Internet Movie Database

Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, January 23rd, 2010.
Born	Thomas Elliott III (1969-02-23) February 23, 1969 (age 43) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, Writer, Director, Producer
Years active	1986—present
Spouse	Aysha Hauer (1989-?) Patricia Arquette (m. 2006–2011) «start: (2006)–end+1: (2012)»"Marriage: Patricia Arquette to Thomas Jane" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Thomas_Jane)1 child
Website
thomasjane.com

Thomas Jane (born Thomas Elliott III;^[1] February 22, 1969) is an American actor known for his roles in the 1999 film Deep Blue Sea, the 2001 TV film 61*, the 2004 film The Punisher and the 2007 Stephen King adaptation The Mist. He also starred in the HBO comedy-drama series Hung.

Early life[link]

Jane was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Cynthia, an antiques dealer, and Michael Elliott, a biogenetic engineer.^[1][2] In 1987, he graduated from Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School in Montgomery County, Maryland.

At age 18, Jane relocated to Hollywood to pursue an acting career. He was initially homeless and lived out of his car.^[3] Regarding his time as a busker, Jane has noted "I had two songs in my repertoire that I hammered to death — 'Hey Joe' and 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door'....People used to pelt me with change just to shut me up."^[4]

Career[link]

Jane began his acting career with the Telugu film Padamati Sandhya Ragam (1986), directed by Jandhyala, a renowned filmmaker in Telugu Cinema. His early roles included Zeph in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). He had supporting roles in several high profile films, including The Crow: City of Angels (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), The Thin Red Line (1998), Thursday (1998) and Magnolia (1999). After receiving critical acclaim as baseball player Mickey Mantle in 61*, Jane began receiving leading roles such as that of Andre Stander in the 2003 South African film, Stander for which he gained further critical acclaim.

Jane, director Jonathan Hensleigh and Avi Arad have said in many interviews that Jane was the first and only actor to be asked to play the title role in the 2004 movie The Punisher. Jane initially turned down the role twice, as he did not have much interest in the superhero genre. Jane said that when they asked him the second time to play the Punisher it was Tim Bradstreet's artwork of the Punisher that piqued his interest. After finding out that the character was not a traditional superhero, but more of an anti-hero and a vigilante crime fighter, he accepted.^[5][6] He read as many Punisher comics as he could find and quickly became a fan. Jane trained for 6 or 7 months with Navy SEALs and gained more than twenty pounds of muscle for the part.^[7]

In addition to starring in the movie he contributed his voice to The Punisher and the Gun video games. He also co-owns RAW, an entertainment company he runs along with Steve Niles and Tim Bradstreet. RAW Studios, the company's comic book division, has released Bad Planet (written by Jane) through Image Comics. Jane would become a spokesperson for Steve Niles and in became the cover model for comic book character Cal McDonald in 2006, as depicted by their partner Bradstreet.

In addition to his screen work, Jane has appeared several times on stage, and received strong critical reviews as Tom in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, and as Chris in Arthur Miller's All My Sons. He has also portrayed a fictionalized version himself in the Fox television show Arrested Development in which the show's characters have not heard of him, and do not recognize him as the star actor that he is. In 2005, Marvel released The Punisher video game. The video game's storyline is compiled with different situations and enemies from the Punisher comics, and a character based upon Jigsaw also appeared in the 2005 Punisher video game but with an origin that ties directly into the 2004 Punisher film.

Jane did not return in the planned sequel to The Punisher. Lions Gate Entertainment had approved a direct sequel to be made due to the strong performance the film had on DVD. However, the project lingered in development for over 3 years. Jonathan Hensleigh completed a first draft of the script before pulling out around 2006. John Dahl was in talks to direct the film, but pulled out, saying he did not like the script, and that the studio was not willing to spend enough money on the project.^[8] In a statement on May 15, 2007 and in two audio interviews, Thomas Jane said that he pulled out of the project because of creative differences, and the budget of the film being cut.^[9]

What I won't do is spend months of my life sweating over a movie that I just don't believe in. I've always loved the Marvel guys, and wish them well. Meanwhile, I'll continue to search for a film that one day might stand with all those films that the fans have asked me to watch.

—Thomas Jane, ^[10]

Jane said in June 2007 that movie director Zack Snyder had expressed interest in casting him for the role of 'The Comedian' for the adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen,^[11] but because he was too busy, he turned down the role.^[12]

In 2007, Jane's directing debut was the film Dark Country in which he also played the main character.^[13][14][15]

It was reported on February 8, 2008 that Thomas Jane had joined movie director John McTiernan in the action/thriller movie Run.^[16] Although Thomas Jane did not signed on to the film and due to McTiernan's civil suit the film has been put on hold. On May 27, 2008 it was reported that Thomas Jane and actor Ving Rhames had joined the cast in the action film Give ‘em Hell, Malone with writer Mark Hosack and director Russell Mulcahy.^[15][17][18]

On December 18, 2008, HBO announced it was picking up the dark comedy Hung, and Jane was contracted to star in the show. He plays the character of Ray Drecker, a high school history teacher and baseball coach, who, after attending a self help class while being down on his luck, decides to market the large size of his penis as a path to success.^[19] The series was renewed for a second season which aired in the summer of 2010.^[20]

It is unknown when, but Thomas Jane will develop a mini series for the Syfy (Sci Fi) Channel called Voyage to Savage Planet. He is also planning on doing a World War II action horror film called The Devil's Commandos.^[21][22]

Jane appeared on the June/July 2010 cover of Men's Fitness magazine.^[23] Thomas Jane voiced the character Jonah Hex in an animated short as a companion piece on the Special Edition Blu-Ray and 2-Disc Special Edition DVD release of Batman: Under the Red Hood.^[24]

He was set to play the role of a cop in Sylvester Stallone's hitman action pic 'Headshot,'^[25] but then he was deemed not "ethnic" enough and let go. In a recent interview with Collider he mentions an upcoming film project called 'The Lycan.' Thomas Jane describes this project as a gothic werewolf romance set in a castle in the 18th century.^[26]

Personal life[link]

Jane is divorced from actress Aysha Hauer, the daughter of actor Rutger Hauer. He and Aysha starred in a number of movies together, including a short, "Picture This" by director Sean Ramsay, who was a UCLA student at the time. He was engaged to Olivia d'Abo from 1998 to 2001.

After meeting through mutual friends in 2001, Jane and actress Patricia Arquette became engaged in 2002. Their daughter Harlow Olivia Calliope was born on February 20, 2003. Jane and Arquette subsequently married on June 25, 2006 at the Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo in Venice, Italy.

On March 17, 2008, Thomas Jane was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol for driving at "an extremely high rate of speed" on I-5. Jane was arrested for DUI with a blood alcohol level higher than .08% in Kern County, California. Jane failed several field sobriety tests, including a breathalyzer. Police also said he was driving with a suspended license.

In January 2009, Arquette filed for divorce from Jane on the grounds of irreconcilable differences,^[27] but the couple soon reconciled and Arquette requested to abandon the divorce petition on July 9, 2009.^[28] However, on August 13, 2010, Jane's representative announced that Jane and Arquette had decided to proceed with a divorce.^[29] The divorce was finalized on July 1, 2011. The pair was granted joint custody of their child.^[30]

Filmography[link]

Actor[link]

Director credits[link]

Producer credits[link]

Writer credits[link]

Awards[link]

• 1998 Won, FFCC Award Best for Ensemble Cast for Boogie Nights.
• 1998 Nominated, for Outstanding Performance by a Cast for Boogie Nights.
• 2010 Nominated, for a Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Hung.
• 2011 Nominated, for a Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Hung.
• 2012 Nominated, for a Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Hung.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Thomas Jane

• Thomas Jane at the Internet Movie Database

Anna Torv
Torv at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2010
Born	(1978-06-15) 15 June 1978 (age 34) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2002–present
Spouse	Mark Valley (m. 2008–2009; divorced)

Anna Torv (born 15 June^[1] 1978) is an Australian actress known for her role as FBI agent Olivia Dunham on the Fox television series Fringe.^[2]

Early life[link]

Anna Torv was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Susan and Hans Torv^[3] and grew up on the Hinterlands of the Gold Coast, Queensland.^[4] Anna's father Hans Torv is of Estonian descent, but was born in Stirling, Scotland.^[5] She has been estranged from her father since the age of 8.^[6] She has one sibling, a younger brother, Dylan. Her paternal aunt is writer Anna Maria Torv Murdoch Mann, who was married for 31 years to billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch.^[6]

Career[link]

Education[link]

Torv graduated from Benowa State High School in 1996.^[7] She graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) with a degree in Performing Arts in 2001.^[6]

Acting career[link]

In 2004, Torv joined the cast of Australia's acclaimed television drama The Secret Life Of Us playing Nikki Martel.

Torv appeared in the BBC series Mistresses. She also played the voice and performed motion capture of the main character Nariko in the 2007 video game Heavenly Sword.^[8]

Torv plays FBI Agent Olivia Dunham in the American television series Fringe. She currently films Fringe in Vancouver, British Columbia since production moved there starting season 4.^[9] She received an Australians in Film Breakthrough award in 2009. Torv appeared as Virginia Grey on HBO's mini-series The Pacific. She also won the 2010 Saturn Award for the Best Television actress.^[10] Torv also recently played a role in a CollegeHumor Original video as a tyrannical traffic cop.^[11]

Personal life[link]

In December 2008, Torv married her Fringe co-star Mark Valley.^[12] They separated after one year of marriage.^[13]

Filmography[link]

Notable awards and nominations[link]

• 2008: Nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television for her role in Fringe
• 2009: Won an Australians in Film Breakthrough Award
• 2010: Won a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television for her role in Fringe
• 2010: Nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi for her role in Fringe
• 2011: Won a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television for her role in Fringe
• 2011: Won a Fantasy Horror Award for Best Actress for her role in Fringe
• 2011: Nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role in Fringe

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Anna Torv

• Anna Torv at the Internet Movie Database

Frank Darabont
Born	(1959-01-28) January 28, 1959 (age 53) Montbéliard, France
Other names	Frank A. Darabont Ardeth Bey
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter Producer
Years active	1981–present

Frank Darabont (born Darabont Ferenc, January 28, 1959) is a Hungarian-American^[1] film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe. He has directed the films The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist, all based on stories by Stephen King. In 2010 he developed, executive produced, and directed the pilot episode of the AMC's The Walking Dead. As of 2012, he is working on his newest project, L.A. Noir.

Early life[link]

Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbéliard, Doubs, France. His parents fled Hungary after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. When he was still an infant, his family moved to the United States, settling in Chicago. When Darabont was five the family moved to Los Angeles.^[2]

Career[link]

Early films[link]

By the age of 20, Darabont became involved in filmmaking. One of his first films was a short adaptation of Stephen King's The Woman in the Room, which made the semi-finalist list for Academy Award consideration in 1983, and was shown in its entirety in the 1986 syndicated television special, Stephen King's World of Horror.^{[citation needed]} The short, a "Dollar Baby", led to a close association with King, who granted him the "handshake deal" rights to another one of his shorter works, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption from the collection Different Seasons.

Prior to his directing career, Darabont was a successful screenwriter with work on genre films that included: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob, The Fly II and an unproduced sequel to Commando.^[3] Darabont made his feature length directorial debut with Buried Alive, a TV movie with a $2,000,000 budget that aired on the USA Network in 1990. Darabont followed with an extended run as writer for George Lucas's short-lived television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

Success[link]

Darabont became famous after making good on the deal with Stephen King by writing and directing The Shawshank Redemption, for which he was nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay at the 1995 Academy Awards. The film was also nominated for six other Academy Awards including Best Picture.

After a five-year hiatus, Darabont returned to the screen with the well-received The Green Mile (starring Tom Hanks), a film he directed, scripted and produced. Like The Shawshank Redemption, this film is also based on a Stephen King work. The film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture and Darabont was nominated for his second Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He followed this with The Majestic (starring Jim Carrey, Laurie Holden and Martin Landau) two years later in 2001 to considerably less fanfare. Following lukewarm reviews from critics, the film failed at the box-office, recouping only half of its $72 million budget internationally.

Darabont is known to have been a script doctor for Steven Spielberg films such as Saving Private Ryan. In 2002, he penned an early draft of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; while Spielberg reportedly loved it, George Lucas rejected it.

In 2005, Cemetery Dance Publications published Darabont's novella Walpuski's Typewriter in a limited edition. The story, originally written in his early twenties, first appeared in Jessie Horsting's magazine Midnight Graffiti.

In 2007, Darabont directed The Mist based on a Stephen King novel. The cast of this movie including Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden and Jeffrey DeMunn.

Darabont appeared in "First Class Jerk", the October 26, 2008, episode of Entourage in which he propositions Vincent Chase to star in a TV show he is executive producing. He appeared in a September 12, 2009, episode where he is now the director of the film about Enzo Ferrari, who Vince is portraying.

According to the Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion series by Titan Books, Darabont—a huge fan of the re-imagined series—was slated to direct "Islanded in a Stream of Stars", the penultimate episode of the show's final season. Due to scheduling conflicts, he was unable to take the job, which fell to series star (and previous helmer) Edward James Olmos.^[4]

Darabont executive-produced the first season of The Walking Dead, the AMC series based on Robert Kirkman's comic book of the same name,^[5][6] having written and directed the pilot.^[7][8] The series features a number of Darabont regulars, including Jeffrey DeMunn, Laurie Holden and Melissa McBride. In July 2011, Darabont stepped down from his position as showrunner for the series.^[9] Initial reports suggested that he was unable to adjust to the schedule of running a television series,^[9] however it was later confirmed that he was fired due to the show's reduced budget and his strained relationship with the executives of AMC.^[10]

Darabont is going to executive-produced a new series for TNT, L.A. Noir starring Neal McDonough, Jon Bernthal, Milo Ventimiglia, and Alexa Davalos as female lead.

Filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

Frank Darabont has been nominated for 3 Academy Awards and 1 Golden Globe, although he did not win any of these. Over his film career he has won many small awards but has yet to win a major one.

In 1994, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, for The Shawshank Redemption. For that same film he was nominated for his Golden Globe for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture which he also lost. 5 years later, in 1999, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film, and also the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, for his film The Green Mile. Both of his nominated films are based on novels by author Stephen King.

• Nominated: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (The Shawshank Redemption; 1994)
• Nominated: Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture (The Shawshank Redemption; 1994)
• Nominated: Academy Award for Best Film (The Green Mile; 1999)
• Nominated: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (The Green Mile; 1999)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Frank Darabont at the Internet Movie Database
• Cemetery Dance Publications, publisher of Darabont's first book
• EW
• Frank Darabont at FEARnet
• Lilja, Hans-Åke. Interview Lilja's Library - The World of Stephen King, February 6, 2007