Avengers: Endgame, Aquaman Lead 2019 Saturn Award Nominations

At long last, the nominations for this year’s Saturn Awards show have been unveiled and surprising few, Avengers: Endgame and Aquaman lead to way with the most nominations. In total, Avengers: Endgame has over a dozen total nominations, including “Best Comic-to-Motion Picture Release,” a pair of “Best Actor in a Film” nods, and a few “Supporting Actor in a Film” nominations.

Aquaman earned to same “Comic-to-Motion Picture” honors as Endgame while Amber Heard earned a “Best Supporting Actress” nomination. The James Wan-helmed film tallied a total of six nominations. Some of the nominations for the bigger categories are as follows

Best Comic-to-Motion Picture Release:

• Aquaman (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Avengers: Endgame (Marvel / Walt Disney Studios)
• Avengers: Infinity War (Marvel / Walt Disney Studios)
• Captain Marvel (Marvel / Walt Disney Studios)
• Shazam! (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Spider-Man: Far From Home (Sony / Marvel Studios)
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)

Best Science Fiction Film Release:

• Alita: Battle Angel (20th Century Fox)
• Bumblebee (Paramount)
• Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom (Universal Pictures)
• Ready Player One (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Solo: A Star Wars Story (Lucasfilm Ltd. / Walt Disney Studios)
• Sorry to Bother You (Mirror Releasing – Annapurna Pictures)
• Upgrade (BH Tilt)

Best Fantasy Film Release:

• Aladdin (Walt Disney Studios)
• Dumbo (Walt Disney Studios)
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Godzilla, King of the Monsters (Warner Bros. / Legendary Pictures)
• Mary Poppins Returns (Walt Disney Studios)
• Toy Story 4 (Pixar Animation / Walt Disney Studios)
• Yesterday (Universal Pictures)

Best Horror Film Release:

• The Dead Don’t Die (Focus Features)
• Halloween (Universal Pictures)
• Hereditary (A24)
• Overlord (Paramount)
• Pet Sematary (Paramount)
• A Quiet Place (Paramount)
• Us (Universal Pictures)

Best Action / Adventure Film Release:

• Cold Pursuit (Lionsgate / Summit)
• Escape Room (Columbia Pictures/Sony)
• Glass (Universal)
• John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (Lionsgate / Summit)
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Paramount)
• Skyscraper (Universal Pictures)

Best Thriller Film Release:

• Bad Samaritan (Electric Entertainment)
• Bad Times at The El Royale (20th Century Fox)
• Destroyer (Mirror / Annapurna Pictures)
• Dragged Across Concrete (Lionsgate / Summit)
• Greta (Focus Features)
• Ma (Universal Pictures)
• Searching (Sony Pictures)

Best Animated Film Release:

• The Grinch (Universal Pictures)
• How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World (Universal Pictures)
• The Incredibles 2 (Pixar Animation / Walt Disney Studios)
• Ralph Breaks the Internet (Walt Disney Studios)
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)
• Toy Story 4 (Walt Disney Studios)

Best Actor in a Film:

• Jeff Bridges, Bad Times at The El Royale (20th Century Fox)
• Nicolas Cage, Mandy (RLJ Entertainment)
• Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Paramount)
• Chris Evans, Avengers: Endgame (Marvel / Walt Disney Studios)
• Robert Downey Jr., Avengers: Endgame (Marvel / Walt Disney Studios)
• Mel Gibson, Dragged Across Concrete (Lionsgate / Summit)
• Keanu Reeves, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (Lionsgate / Summit)

Best Actress in a Film:

• Emily Blunt, Mary Poppins Returns (Walt Disney Studios)
• Toni Collette, Hereditary (A24)
• Jamie Lee Curtis, Halloween (Universal)
• Nicole Kidman, Destroyer (Mirror / Annapurna Pictures)
• Brie Larson, Captain Marvel (Marvel / Walt Disney Studios)
• Lupita Nyong’o, Us (Universal Pictures)
• Octavia Spencer, Ma (Universal Pictures)

Best Supporting Actor in a Film:

• Josh Brolin, Avengers: Infinity War (Marvel / Walt Disney Studios)
• John Lithgow, Pet Sematary (Paramount)
• Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Poppins Returns (Walt Disney Studios)
• Lewis Pullman, Bad Times at The El Royale (20th Century Fox)
• Jeremy Renner, Avengers: Endgame (Marvel / Walt Disney Studios)
• Will Smith, Aladdin (Walt Disney Studios)
• Steven Yeun, Burning (Well Go USA)

Best Supporting Actress in a Film:

• Cynthia Erivo, Bad Times at The El Royale (20th Century Fox)
• Karen Gillan, Avengers: Endgame (Marvel / Walt Disney Studios)
• Amber Heard, Aquaman (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Scarlett Johansson, Avengers: Endgame (Marvel / Walt Disney Studios)
• Naomi Scott, Aladdin (Walt Disney Studios)
• Hailee Steinfeld, Bumblebee (Paramount)
• Zendaya, Spider-Man: Far From Home (Marvel / Sony Studios)

The full list of nominations can be seen here.

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Aquaman is now available wherever movies are sold. Avengers: Endgame will be available digitally July 30th ahead of a home media release on August 13th.