5th Saturn Awards

5th Saturn Awards
Date	January 14, 1978
Site	California, U.S.

The 5th Saturn Awards was the fifth ceremony in which media properties and personalities considered to be the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror released in the year 1977 were awarded by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The ceremony was held on January 14, 1978.This was the first ceremony in which the norminees in the acting categories were more than just a single person and was also the first ceremony in which the category of Best Editing was introduced.

In this ceremony Star Wars won the most awards with 13 wins, including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Writing and Best Music, followed by Oh, God! with two wins only, Best Fantasy Film and Best Actor, and The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, with two wins also.

Winners and nominees

Below is a complete list of nominees and winners. Winners are highlighted in bold.

Film awards

Best Science Fiction Film	Best Fantasy Film
Star Wars Close Encounters of the Third Kind Demon Seed The Island of Dr. Moreau Twilight's Last Gleaming	Oh, God! Pete's Dragon Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella Wizards
Best Horror Film
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Dogs Kingdom of the Spiders The Sentinel
Best Actor	Best Actress
George Burns – Oh, God! as God Richard Dreyfuss – Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Roy Neary William Shatner – Kingdom of the Spiders as Robert "Rack" Hansen Harrison Ford – Star Wars as Han Solo Mark Hamill – Star Wars as Luke Skywalker Michael York – The Island of Dr. Moreau as Andrew Braddock	Jodie Foster – The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane as Rynn Jacobs Melinda Dillon – Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Jillian Guiler Julie Christie – Demon Seed as Susan Harris Joan Collins – Empire of the Ants as Marilyn Fryser Carrie Fisher – Star Wars as Princess Leia
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Alec Guinness – Star Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi Peter Cushing – Star Wars as Grand Moff Tarkin Burgess Meredith – The Sentinel as Charles Chazen Woody Strode – Kingdom of the Spiders as Walter Colby Red Buttons – Pete's Dragon as Hoagy	Susan Tyrrell – Bad as Mary Aiken Teri Garr – Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Veronica Neary Alexis Smith – The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane as Mrs. Hallet Margaret Whiting – Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger as Zenobia Joan Bennett – Suspiria as Madame Blanc
Best Director	Best Writing
George Lucas – Star Wars (tie) Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind (tie) Nicolas Gessner – The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Carl Reiner – Oh, God! Don Taylor – The Island of Dr. Moreau	George Lucas – Star Wars Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind Laird Koenig – The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Larry Gelbart – Oh, God! Michael Winner, Jeffrey Konvitz – The Sentinel
Best Music	Best Costumes
John Williams - Star Wars / Close Encounters of the Third Kind	John Mollo – Star Wars Chuck Keehne, Emily Sundby – Pete's Dragon Cynthia Tingey – Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger Julie Harris – The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella Richard La Motte – The Island of Dr. Moreau
Best Make-up	Best Special Effects
Rick Baker, Stuart Freeborn – Star Wars Bob Westmoreland, Thomas R. Burman, Carlo Rambaldi – Close Encounters of the Third Kind Thomas R. Burman – Demon Seed John Chambers – The Island of Dr. Moreau Dick Smith – The Sentinel	John Dykstra, John Stears – Star Wars Douglas Trumbull – Close Encounters of the Third Kind Albert Whitlock, Chuck Gaspar (Van der Veer Photo Effects) – Exorcist II: The Heretic Ray Harryhausen – Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

Outstanding Television Performance

• Jonathan Harris

Best Art Direction

• Star Wars - Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley

Best Editing

• Star Wars - Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew

Best Set Decoration

• Star Wars - Roger Christian

Outstanding Publicist

• Charles Lippincott

Special Award for Outstanding Cinematographer

• Star Wars - Gilbert Taylor

Special Honorary Award

• Donald A. Reed

Life Career Award

• Carl Laemmle Jr.

External links

• Official Saturn Awards website
• http://akas.imdb.com/event/ev0000004/1978