The George Pal Memorial Award is presented each year, by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, in conjunction with their annual Saturn Award ceremony. The award is given to those who have shown exemplary work in the respective film genres. It is named in honor of George Pal, a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre.
| George Pal Memorial Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Exemplary work in science fiction, fantasy and horror films and television |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films |
| First awarded | 1975 |
| Website | saturnawards.org |
The latest honoree is screenwriter and film producer Dave Filoni as of February 2024.
Recipients edit
Below is a list of recipients and the year the award was presented:
1970s edit
- C. Dean Anderson (1975)
- Don Fanzo (1975)
- Gloria Swanson (1975)
- Fay Wray (1975)
1980s edit
- John Badham (1980)
- Nicholas Meyer (1984)
- Douglas Trumbull (1985)
- Charles Band (1986)
- Arnold Leibovit (1987)
- Larry Cohen (1988)
- David Cronenberg (1989)
1990s edit
- William Friedkin (1991)
- Gene Roddenberry (1992)
- Frank Marshall (1993)
- Wah Chang (1994)
- Gene Warren (1994)
- Stan Winston (1994)
- Robert Zemeckis (1995)
- John Carpenter (1996)
- Kathleen Kennedy (1997)
- Dean Devlin (1998)
- Ray Bradbury (1999)
2000s edit
- Douglas Wick (2000)
- Sam Raimi (2001)
- Samuel Z. Arkoff (2002)
- Ridley Scott (2004)
- Ray Harryhausen (2006)
- Guillermo del Toro (2008)
2010s edit
- Alex Kurtzman (2010)
- Roberto Orci (2010)
- Martin Scorsese (2012)
- Gregory Nicotero (2014)[1]
- Simon Kinberg (2015)
2020s edit
- Dave Filoni (2022/2023)
References edit
- ^ Academy Press Release, saturnawards.org. Retrieved May 26, 2014. (PDF)
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