27th Saturn Awards

27th Saturn Awards
27th Saturn Awards
Date	June 12, 2001
Site	Century City, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Highlights
Most awards	X-Men (6)
Most nominations	X-Men (10)
	← 26th; Saturn Awards; 28th →;

The 27th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 2000, were held on June 12, 2001 at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles. The nominees were announced on April 4, 2001.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

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

Winners and nominees[edit]

Film[edit]

Bryan Singer, Best Director winner

Hugh Jackman, Best Actor winner

Téa Leoni, Best Actress winner

Willem Dafoe, Best Supporting Actor winner

Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Best Supporting Actress winner

Devon Sawa, Best Performance by a Younger Actor/Actress winner

David Hayter, Best Writing winner

Rick Baker, Best Make-up co-winner

James Horner, Best Music winner

Robert Patrick, Best Television Actor winner

Jessica Alba, Best Television Actress winner

James Marsters, Best Supporting Television Actor winner

Jeri Ryan, Best Supporting Television Actress winner

Best Science Fiction Film	Best Fantasy Film
X-Men The 6th Day The Cell Hollow Man Space Cowboys Titan A.E.	Frequency Chicken Run Dinosaur The Family Man How the Grinch Stole Christmas What Women Want
Best Horror Film	Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film
Final Destination Dracula 2000 The Gift Requiem for a Dream Urban Legends: Final Cut What Lies Beneath	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Charlie's Angels Gladiator The Patriot The Perfect Storm Traffic Unbreakable
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Hugh Jackman – X-Men* as Logan / Wolverine** Jim Carrey – How the Grinch Stole Christmas as Grinch Russell Crowe – Gladiator as Maximus Decimus Meridius Clint Eastwood – Space Cowboys as Colonel Frank Corvin Arnold Schwarzenegger – The 6th Day as Adam Gibson / Adam Gibson Clone Chow Yun-fat – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as Master Li Mu Bai (Lǐ Mùbái)	*Téa Leoni – The Family Man* as Kate Reynolds / Kate Campbell** Cate Blanchett – The Gift as Annabelle "Annie" Wilson Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream as Sara Goldfarb Jennifer Lopez – The Cell as Dr. Catherine Deane Michelle Pfeiffer – What Lies Beneath as Claire Spencer Michelle Yeoh – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as Yu Shu Lien (Yú Xiùlián)
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Willem Dafoe – Shadow of the Vampire* as Max Schreck** Jason Alexander – The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle as Boris Badenov Dennis Quaid – Frequency as Frank Sullivan Giovanni Ribisi – The Gift as Buddy Cole Will Smith – The Legend of Bagger Vance as Bagger Vance Patrick Stewart – X-Men as Professor Charles Xavier / Professor X	*Rebecca Romijn-Stamos – X-Men* as Mystique** Cameron Diaz – Charlie's Angels as Natalie Cook Lucy Liu – Charlie's Angels as Alex Munday Rene Russo – The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle as Natasha Fatale Hilary Swank – The Gift as Valerie Barksdale Zhang Ziyi – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as Jen Yu (Yù Jiāolóng)
Best Performance by a Younger Actor	Best Director
*Devon Sawa – Final Destination* as Alex Browning** Spencer Breslin – The Kid as Young Rusty Duritz Holliston Coleman – Bless the Child as Cody O'Connor Jonathan Lipnicki – The Little Vampire as Tony Thompson Taylor Momsen – How the Grinch Stole Christmas as Cindy Lou Who Anna Paquin – X-Men as Rogue	Bryan Singer – X-Men Clint Eastwood – Space Cowboys Ron Howard – How the Grinch Stole Christmas Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ridley Scott – Gladiator Robert Zemeckis – What Lies Beneath
Best Writing	Best Costumes
David Hayter – X-Men Toby Emmerich – Frequency David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson – Gladiator Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Kuo Jung Tsai – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Karey Kirkpatrick – Chicken Run Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson – The Gift	Louise Mingenbach – X-Men Caroline de Vivaise – Shadow of the Vampire Eiko Ishioka and April Napier – The Cell Rita Ryack and David Page – How the Grinch Stole Christmas Janty Yates – Gladiator Timmy Yip – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Best Make-up	Best Music
Rick Baker and Gail Rowell-Ryan – How the Grinch Stole Christmas Rick Baker and Nena Smarz – Nutty Professor II: The Klumps Ann Buchanan and Amber Sibley – Shadow of the Vampire Michèle Burke and Edouard F. Henriques – The Cell Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Jeff Dawn, and Charles Porlier – The 6th Day Gordon J. Smith and Ann Brodie – X-Men	James Horner – How the Grinch Stole Christmas Tan Dun and Yo-Yo Ma – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Jerry Goldsmith – Hollow Man James Newton Howard – Dinosaur Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard – Gladiator Hans Zimmer and John Powell – The Road to El Dorado
Best Special Effects	Best Home Video Release
Scott E. Anderson, Craig Hayes, Scott Stokdyk, and Stan Parks – Hollow Man Stefen Fangmeier, Habib Zargarpour, Tim Alexander, and John Frazier – The Perfect Storm Michael L. Fink, Michael J. McAlister, David Prescott, and Theresa Ellis Rygiel – X-Men Michael Lantieri and David Drzewiecki – The 6th Day Kevin Scott Mack, Matthew E. Butler, Bryan Grill, and Allen Hall – How the Grinch Stole Christmas	Princess Mononoke Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Godzilla 2000 The Ninth Gate The Prophecy 3: The Ascent Scream 3

Television[edit]

Programs[edit]

Best Network Television Series	Best Syndicated Cable Television Series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB) Angel (The WB) Dark Angel (Fox) Roswell (The WB) Star Trek: Voyager (UPN) The X-Files (Fox)	Farscape (Sci Fi) Andromeda (Syndicated) Beastmaster (Syndicated) The Invisible Man (Sci Fi) The Outer Limits (Showtime) Stargate SG-1 (Showtime)
Best Single Television Presentation
Fail Safe (CBS) Frank Herbert's Dune (Sci Fi) Jason and the Argonauts (NBC) Santa Who? (ABC) Sole Survivor (Fox) Witchblade (TNT)

Acting[edit]

Best Actor on Television	Best Actress on Television
*Robert Patrick – The X-Files* (Fox) as John Doggett** Richard Dean Anderson – Stargate SG-1 (Showtime) as Jack O'Neill Jason Behr – Roswell (The WB) as Max Evans David Boreanaz – Angel (The WB) as Angel Ben Browder – Farscape (Sci Fi) as John Crichton Kevin Sorbo – Andromeda (Syndicated) as Dylan Hunt	*Jessica Alba – Dark Angel* (Fox) as Max Guevara** Gillian Anderson – The X-Files (Fox) as Dana Scully Claudia Black – Farscape (Sci Fi) as Aeryn Sun Charisma Carpenter – Angel (The WB) as Cordelia Chase Sarah Michelle Gellar – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB) as Buffy Summers Kate Mulgrew – Star Trek: Voyager (UPN) as Kathryn Janeway
Best Supporting Actor on Television	Best Supporting Actress on Television
*James Marsters – Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (The WB) as Spike** Alexis Denisof – Angel (The WB) as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce Brendan Fehr – Roswell (The WB) as Michael Guerin Anthony Head – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB) as Rupert Giles Michael Shanks – Stargate SG-1 (Showtime) as Daniel Jackson Michael Weatherly – Dark Angel (Fox) as Logan Cale	*Jeri Ryan – Star Trek: Voyager* (UPN) as Seven of Nine** Alyson Hannigan – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB) as Willow Rosenberg Katherine Heigl – Roswell (The WB) as Isabel Evans Juliet Landau – Angel (The WB) as Drusilla Amanda Tapping – Stargate SG-1 (Showtime) as Samantha Carter Michelle Trachtenberg – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB) as Dawn Summers

Special awards[edit]

George Pal Memorial Award[edit]

Sam Raimi

Life Career Award[edit]

President's Award[edit]

Dustin Lance Black (for the direction of the documentary My Life with Count Dracula)

Service Award[edit]

Bob Burns III (for his efforts to house and restore props from classic genre films)

Special Award[edit]

Shadow of the Vampire (for its behind-the-scenes take on director F. W. Murnau's classic vampire movie Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens)

References[edit]

^ "'X-Men' Sweeps Saturn Awards". ABC News. June 15, 2001. Archived from the original on October 25, 2023. Retrieved June 5, 2022.
^ "Nominees for 27th annual Saturn Awards". UPI. April 4, 2001. Archived from the original on March 26, 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2022.
^ "'X-Men' leads with 10 Saturn nominations". UPI. April 4, 2001. Archived from the original on October 25, 2023. Retrieved June 5, 2022.
^ "Saturn Nominees Announced". Sci-Fi Wire. April 4, 2001. Archived from the original on June 16, 2008. Retrieved November 8, 2023.

External links[edit]

2001 Awards at IMDb
The Official Saturn Awards Site
Past Saturn Awards Archived 2011-10-19 at the Wayback Machine at Saturn Awards

[1] "'X-Men' Sweeps Saturn Awards". ABC News. June 15, 2001. Archived from the original on October 25, 2023. Retrieved June 5, 2022.

[2] "Nominees for 27th annual Saturn Awards". UPI. April 4, 2001. Archived from the original on March 26, 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2022.

[3] "'X-Men' leads with 10 Saturn nominations". UPI. April 4, 2001. Archived from the original on October 25, 2023. Retrieved June 5, 2022.

[4] "Saturn Nominees Announced". Sci-Fi Wire. April 4, 2001. Archived from the original on June 16, 2008. Retrieved November 8, 2023.

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v t e Saturn Awards
Film	Best Action / Adventure Film Release Best Actor in a Film Best Actress in a Film Best Animated Film Release Best Comic-to-Motion Picture Release Best Fantasy Film Release Best Film Costume Design Best Film Director Best Film Editing Best Film Make-up Best Film Music Best Film Production Design Best Film Special / Visual Effects Best Film Writing Best Horror Film Release Best Independent Film Release Best International Film Release Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Film Best Science Fiction Film Release Best Supporting Actor in a Film Best Supporting Actress in a Film Best Thriller Film Release
Television	Best Action / Thriller Television Series Best Actor on Television Best Actress on Television Best Actor in Streaming Television Series Best Actress in Streaming Television Series Best Animated Series on Television Best Fantasy Television Series Best Film Presentation in Streaming Media Best Guest Starring Performance in a Network or Cable Television Series Best Guest Starring Performance in a Streaming Television Series Best Horror Television Series Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Newtwork or Cable Television Series Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Streaming Television Series Best Science Fiction Television Series Best Streaming Horror/Thriller Series Best Supporting Actor on Television Best Supporting Actress on Television Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Television Series Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Television Series Best Television Presentation (under 10 Episodes)
Home Entertainment	Best 4K Film Release Best DVD / BD Classic Film Release Best DVD / BD Collection Best DVD / BD Television Movie or Series Release
Special awards	Artist Showcase Award Breakthrough Performance Award Dan Curtis Legacy Award Filmmaker's Showcase Award The George Pal Memorial Award Legion M Breakout Director Award The Life Career Award The President's Memorial Award Producer's Showcase Award Special Recognition Award Stan Lee World Builder Award Visionary Award
Retired awards	Best DVD or Blu-ray Release (2001–2018/19) Best DVD or Blu-ray Special Edition Release (2001–2018/19) Best Home Video Release (1991–2000) Best International Series (2007) Best Low-Budget Film (1980–1982) Best Network Television Series (1988–2014) Best New Media Television Series (2015–2017) Best Guest Starring Role on Television (2008-2021) Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series (2013-2021) Best Retro Television Series on DVD (2004–2008) Best Streaming Science Fiction, Action & Fantasy Series (2018/19) Best Superhero Adaptation Television Series (2015-2021) Best Streaming Superhero Series (2017–2018/19) Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series (1996–2014) Best Youth-Oriented Television Series (2011–2014)
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