Saturn Award for Best Thriller Film

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Saturn Award for Best Thriller Film
Awarded forBest motion picture of the year in the thriller genre
Country United States
Presented byAcademy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
First awarded 2013
Currently held by Oppenheimer (2022/2023)
Website www.saturnawards.org

The Saturn Award for Best Thriller Film is an award presented to the best film in the thriller genre by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. [1]

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The Saturn Awards originally recognized thriller films with the Best Action, Adventure or Thriller Film award from 1994 to 2010, and then with the award for Best Horror or Thriller Film. When Best Horror or Thriller Film was reverted to its previous form as Best Horror Film in 2013, the award for Best Thriller Film was created.

Winners and nominees

2010s

YearFilm
2013
(40th)
World War Z
The Call
The East
Now You See Me
The Place Beyond the Pines
Prisoners
2014
(41st)
Gone Girl
American Sniper
The Equalizer
The Guest
The Imitation Game
Nightcrawler
2015
(42nd)
Bridge of Spies
Black Mass
The Gift
The Hateful Eight
Mr. Holmes
Sicario
2016
(43rd)
10 Cloverfield Lane
The Accountant
The Girl on the Train
Hell or High Water
Jason Bourne
The Shallows
Split
2017
(44th)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Murder on the Orient Express
The Post
Suburbicon
Wind River
2018/2019
(45th)
Bad Times at the El Royale
Bad Samaritan
Destroyer
Dragged Across Concrete
Greta
Ma
Searching
2019/2020
(46th)
Knives Out
Da 5 Bloods
The Good Liar
The Irishman
Mank
Uncut Gems

2020s

YearFilm
2021/2022
(50th)
Nightmare Alley
Ambulance
The Northman
Old
The Outfit
Pig
2022/2023
(51st)
Oppenheimer
Don't Worry Darling
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Lesson
The Menu
Knock at the Cabin

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References

  1. "The Saturn Awards History". www.saturnawards.org. Retrieved 2017-07-08.