By Valerie Milano and Juan Markos
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 2/5/24 – Sunday night’s 51st Saturn Awards was bittersweet for Keanu Reeves.
Reeves, who was among the honorees at the L.A. Mariott Burbank, picked up the inaugural Lance Reddick Legacy Award, which is named after Reeves’ late “John Wick” co-star, who died last March from heart disease at age 60.
“Star Trek: Picard” dominated the evening with four awards, including a Best Actor in a Television Series trophy for Sir Patrick Stewart. In all, the “Star Trek” franchise was honored six times Sunday as “Strange New Worlds” and the cast of “The Next Generation” each collected a special award
James Cameron was named Best Director for the sixth time in seven nominations for “Avitar: The Way of Water,” which also took home four awards Sunday.
Actor Carl Weathers, who passed away earlier this week at age 76, was remembered at the event as well. Weathers, best known for his role as Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” films, appeared in “The Mandalorian” as Greef Karga.
Documented as the highest-profile Saturn Awards celebration to date, presenters and winners included Nicolas Cage, Heather Graham, James Cameron, Norman Reedus, Stewart, Ernie Hudson, Henry Thomas, Rebecca De Mornay, Todd Stashwick, Paul Wesley, Lee Majors, Lindsay Wagner, Danai Gurira, Xolo Maridueña, Harvey Guillén among many, many others. All attended the Saturn Awards to not only present but to also support this very special community.
Other notable individual winners included Emily Blunt for Best Supporting Actress in a Film for her role in “Oppenheimer,” and Cage for Best Supporting Actor in a Film for his performance in “Renfield.”
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” won Best Animated Film while “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” collected the trophy for Best Superhero Film.
Other special achievement award winners included:
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Jodie Foster Jodie Foster, the Life Career Award
- Christopher Nolan, the Visionary Award
- Dave Filoni, George Pal Memorial Award
- Seth MacFarlane, Robert Forster Artist’s Award
- “The Walking Dead” franchise, the Dan Curtis Legacy Award
- The Cast of” Star Trek: The Next Generation,” the Lifetime Achievemt Award
Hosted for the second year in a row by actor/comedian Joel McHale, star of DC’s “Stargirl? and “Community,” the event was heavily attended by Hollywood stars supporting and contributing to honor the exceptional body of work and talent in these categories of entertainment, most often overlooked by other Award Shows.
The show was streamed live on Dean Devlin’s ElectricNow.TV, and will be rebroadcast throughout the month. ElectricNOW is the premium OTT app and FAST channel featuring Electric Entertainment’s own produced content such as fan-favorite TV series “Leverage,” “Leverage: Redemption,” “The Librarians,” “Almost Paradise,” and “The Outpost,” as well as acquired programming such as the feature films “Blackway” starring Anthony Hopkins and “The Book of Love” starring Jason Sudeikis and Maisie Williams.
The ElectricNOW Channel, available on numerous platforms including The Roku Channel, Samsung TV Plus, Amazon Freevee, Sling Freestream, Plex, STIRR, Local Now, TiVo Plus, Redbox, Vizio, XUMO, TCL Channel, Stremium, Distro TV, Vidgo, Hisense Vidaa, LG Channels, Glewed TV, MyBundle.com TV, and Select TV, is a one-stop shop for fans to enjoy all their favorite shows free, in a 24/7 streaming broadcast.
In addition to the free streaming content, the ElectricNOW App also includes special bonus feature content, a program guide, video-on-demand and pay-per-view components. The channel and app offer ElectricNOW Originals, which include such hit series as The Official Leverage: Redemption Aftershow: A Very Distinctive Podcast, Inglorious Treksperts, The 4:30 Movie, Best Movies Never Made, Cartoon Barroom, The Rebel and the Rogue, and Disco Nights in a line-up that includes podcasts devoted to Star Wars, Dr. Who and other sci-fi and entertainment industry-related topics.
The announcement to the winners is below and a link to photos can be found here.
Below is the full list of this year’s winners at the 51st Annual Saturn Awards:
Special Awards
- VISIONARY AWARD – Christopher Nolan
- ROBERT FORSTER ARTIST’S AWARD – Seth MacFarlane
- GEORGE PAL MEMORIAL AWARD – Dave Filoni
- THE DAN CURTIS LEGACY AWARD – The Walking Dead Franchise
- LANCE REDDICK LEGACY AWARD – Keanu Reeves
- LIFE CAREER AWARD – Jodie Foster
- LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – Star Trek: The Next Generation Cast
