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donderdag 1 maart 2012

'Harry Potter', 'Hugo', 'Breaking Bad' lead Saturn Award nominations

'Harry Potter', 'Hugo', 'Breaking Bad' lead Saturn Award nominations

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 and Hugo have led the nominations for the 2012 Saturn Awards.

The movies are competing in a total of ten categories, including 'Best Fantasy Film', where they are up against Immortals, Thor, The Muppets and Midnight In Paris.

Super 8 - which will face Captain America: The First Avenger, Limitless, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and X-Men: First Class for 'Best Science Fiction Film' - is next with eight nominations.

Fast Five, The Lincoln Lawyer, Red Tails, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol and Steven Spielberg's War Horse are up for 'Best Action/Adventure Film'.

Spielberg and Bird will go head to head with Martin Scorsese (Hugo), JJ Abrams (Super 8) Rupert Wyatt (Apes) and David Yates (Harry Potter) for 'Best Director'.

Scorsese will also receive the George Pal Memorial Award "for his brilliant ode to the triumphant spirit of early cinema in Hugo".

In the television categories, AMC's Breaking Bad is the frontrunner with six nominations, while American Horror Story received five.

Torchwood: Miracle Day, Fringe, Game of Thrones, The Killing, Dexter and Leverage all have four nominations.

The Saturn Awards, voted for by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, will be handed out at a ceremony in Burbank on June 20.