Saturn Award for Best Writing

The Saturn Award for Best Writing is a Saturn Award presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for the best writing in any motion picture genre.

Year	Writer(s)	Film
1973	William Peter Blatty	The Exorcist
1974/75	Ib Melchior Harlan Ellison	(Career Winner)
1976	Jimmy Sangster
1977	George Lucas	Star Wars
1978	Elaine May Warren Beatty	Heaven Can Wait
1979	Nicholas Meyer	Time After Time
1980	William Peter Blatty	The Ninth Configuration
1981	Lawrence Kasdan	Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982	Melissa Mathison	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983	Ray Bradbury	Something Wicked this Way Comes
1984	James Cameron Gale Anne Hurd	The Terminator
1985	Tom Holland	Fright Night
1986	James Cameron	Aliens
1987	Michael Miner Edward Neumeier	RoboCop
1988	Gary Ross Anne Spielberg	Big
1989/90	William Peter Blatty	The Exorcist III
1991	Ted Tally	The Silence of the Lambs
1992	James V. Hart	Bram Stoker's Dracula
1993	Michael Crichton David Koepp	Jurassic Park
1994	Jim Harrison Wesley Strick	Wolf
1995	Andrew Kevin Walker	Seven
1996	Kevin Williamson	Scream
1997	Mike Werb Michael Colleary	Face/Off
1998	Andrew Niccol	The Truman Show
1999	Charlie Kaufman	Being John Malkovich
2000	David Hayter	X-Men
2001	Steven Spielberg	A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2002	Scott Frank Jon Cohen	Minority Report
2003	Fran Walsh Philippa Boyens Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004	Alvin Sargent	Spider-Man 2
2005	Christopher Nolan David S. Goyer	Batman Begins
2006	Michael Dougherty Dan Harris	Superman Returns
2007	Brad Bird	Ratatouille
2008	Christopher Nolan Jonathan Nolan	The Dark Knight
2009	James Cameron	Avatar
2010	Christopher Nolan	Inception
2011	Jeff Nichols	Take Shelter

Multiple winners

3 winners

• William Peter Blatty
• James Cameron
• Christopher Nolan

External links

• http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html#writing
• http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000004/1975