Poll: Saturn Award Winning Directors
The Saturn Awards were set up to honor genre films, especially Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Action. Which of these filmmakers who managed to win the Best Director Award is your favorite? Discuss here
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Mel Brooks
winner for Young Frankenstein (1974) -
Dan Curtis
winner for Burnt Offerings (1976) -
George Lucas
winner for Star Wars (1977) -
Steven Spielberg
winner for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Jurassic Park (1993); Minority Report (2002) -
Philip Kaufman
winner for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) -
Ridley Scott
winner for Alien (1979); The Martian (2015) -
Irvin Kershner
winner for Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) -
Nicholas Meyer
winner for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) -
John Badham
winner for WarGames (1983) -
Joe Dante
winner for Gremlins (1984) -
Ron Howard
winner for Cocoon (1985) -
James Cameron
winner for Aliens (1986); The Abyss (1989); Terminator 2 (1991); True Lies (1994); Avatar (2009) -
Paul Verhoeven
winner for Robocop (1987) -
Robert Zemeckis
winner for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) -
Francis Ford Coppola
winner for Dracula (1992) -
Kathryn Bigelow
winner for Strange Days (1995) -
Roland Emmerich
winner for Independence Day (1996) -
John Woo
winner for Face/Off (1997) -
Michael Bay
winner for Armageddon (1998) -
Lilly Wachowski
and Larry/Lana Wachowski: winner for The Matrix (1999) -
Bryan Singer
winner for X-Men (2000); Superman Returns (2006) -
Peter Jackson
winner for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003); King Kong (2005) -
Sam Raimi
winner for Spider Man 2 (2004) -
Zack Snyder
winner for 300 (2006) -
Jon Favreau
winner for Iron Man (2008) -
Christopher Nolan
winner for Inception (2010) -
J.J. Abrams
winner for Super 8 (2011) -
Joss Whedon
winner for The Avengers (2012) -
Alfonso Cuarón
winner for Gravity (2013) -
James Gunn
winner for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)