27TH ANNUAL SATURN AWARDS

PART 2: THE WINNERS

 

Photos and Text by ALBERT L. ORTEGA

 

June 12, 2001, Park Hyatt Hotel , Century City, CA.

Continuing our coverage of the Saturn Awards we focus on the winners of the 27th annual gala. On another note I would like to thank Roger Neal of Neal Public Relations for the pizza!

 

Best Science Fiction Film

X-MEN

 

Best Fantasy Film

FREQUENCY

 

Best Horror Film

FINAL DESTINATION

 

Best Action/Adventure/Thriller

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON

 

Best Director

Bryan Singer-X-MEN

 

Best Actor

Hugh Jackman-X-MEN

 

Best Actress

Tea Leoni-FAMILY MAN

 

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe-SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE

 

Best Younger Actor

Devon Sawa-FINAL DESTINATION

 

Best Supporting Actress

Rebecca Romijn-Stamos-X-MEN

 

Best Make-up for a Film

Rick Baker & Gail Ryan-THE GRINCH

 

Best Writing for a Film

David Hayter-X-MEN

 

Best Special Effects

Scott E. Anderson, Craig Hayes, Scott Stokdyk, Stan Parks-HOLLOW MAN

 

Best Musical Score

James Horner-THE GRINCH

 

Best Costumes

Louise Mingenbach-X-MEN

 

Best Television Network Series

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

 

Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series

FARSCAPE

 

Best Single Television Presentation

FAIL SAFE

 

Best Television Actor

Robert Patrick-THE X-FILES

 

Best Television Actress

Jessica Alba-DARK ANGEL

 

Best Supporting Actor

James Marsters-BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

 

Best Supporting Actress

Jeri Ryan-STAR TREK VOYAGER

 

Best Home Video Release

PRINCESS MONONOKE

 

Life Career Awards

Brian Grazer-Producer

Robert Englund-Actor

 

The George Pal Memorial Award

Sam Raimi

 

Special Achievement Award

SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE

 

The Service Award

Bob Burns

 

The President's Award

Dustin Lance Black

 

Ben Browder partook in the festivities as a presenter

Bill Paxton is one jolly fellow

Actor and producer Bob Burns was bestowed with the Service Award for his collection of props and artifacts he has stored from the genre

Universal CEO Ron Meyer presented the Life Achievement Award to Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer

Bruce Davidson shows off the picture of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine for whom he proudly accepted the award for Best Actor in a Film

Director Bryan Singer presented the President's Award to film maker Dustin Lance Black

Cheating death and looking a little evil himself was Devon Sawa from FINAL DESTINATION

Director Elias Merhige collected a Special Achievement Award for his film SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE

FINAL DESTINATION director James Wong enjoys a cocktail

Jennifer Blanc shows off one of her goodie bag presents a unique wooded purse in the form of a space teddy bear

DARK ANGEL castmates Jennifer Blanc and William Gregory Lee shared presenter duties

STAR TREK VOYAGER's Jeri Ryan, who is the voluptuous Borg, seven of nine picked up the Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series Award

Josh Ryan Evans, who played the Grinch as a child made his first Saturn Award appearance

Julie Benz as badgirl Darla keeps David Boreanaz on his toes weekly on ANGEL

Juliette Landau tries to tempt Michelle Tractenberg towards the darkside

SPACE ABOVE AND BEYOND star Kristen Cloke accompanied husband/producer Glen Morgan to collect his award for FINAL DESTINATION

"Look over there dumb ass!" Lucy Lawless commands her husband producer Rob Tapert as his partner Sam Raimi collects the George Pal Memorial Award with brother actor Ted Raimi presenting

Lucy Lawless was one of the show's highlights

Producer Marti Noxon accepted the award on behalf of her show BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

FX maestro Rick Baker adds another award to his ever expanding collection for his work on HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS

Robert Patrick is award for Best Actor in a Television series for portraying special agent John Doggett on THE X-FILES

Ben Browder hands FARSCAPE creator Rockne S. O'Bannon and producer David Kemper the award for Best Syndicated/Cable Show

Director Sam Raimi gets a laugh at the expense of his A SIMPLE PLAN actor Bill Paxton

"Gee maybe I should switch to a dandruff shampoo." THE INVISIBLE MAN secret agent himbo Vincent Ventresca ponders his folically challenged future

Walter Koenig narrowly makes his escape

 

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