| Saturn Award for Best Writing | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best writing of the year for a genre film |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films |
| First award | 1973 |
| Currently held by | Oz Perkins for Longlegs (2023/2024) |
| Website | www |
The Saturn Awards for Best Writing is a Saturn Award presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.
Unlike most awards rewarding writing in films, it recognizes only the writer(s) of the screenplay, and not those of the story.
| Year | Writer(s) | Motion Picture |
|---|---|---|
1973 (2nd) | William Peter Blatty | The Exorcist |
1974/1975 (3rd) | Harlan Ellison (for his career) | |
| Ib Melchior (for his career) | ||
1976 (4th) | Jimmy Sangster (for his career) | |
1977 (5th) | George Lucas | Star Wars |
| Larry Gelbart | Oh, God! | |
| Laird Koenig | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane | |
| Steven Spielberg | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |
| Michael Winner and Jeffrey Konvitz | The Sentinel | |
1978 (6th) | Elaine May and Warren Beatty | Heaven Can Wait |
| Heywood Gould | The Boys from Brazil | |
| Cliff Green | Picnic at Hanging Rock | |
| Rosemary Ritvo and Alfred Sole | Alice, Sweet Alice (Communion) | |
| Anthony Shaffer | The Wicker Man | |
1979 (7th) | Nicholas Meyer | Time After Time |
| Jerry Juhl and Jack Burns | The Muppet Movie | |
| Robert Kaufman | Love at First Bite | |
| Dan O'Bannon | Alien | |
| Jeb Rosebrook and Gerry Day | The Black Hole | |