Rogue One and Star Wars: Rebels Notch Four Wins at The Saturn Awards!
The past two weeks have been an interesting time to be a Star Wars fan. With all of the drama surrounding the departure of Lord and Miller from the untitled Han Solo film it can be hard to find a positive in all the negativity surrounding that project, until now.
Each year the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films has their Saturn Awards, which celebrates the past year’s best movies and TV shows that fall into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genre and of course, Rogue One and Star Wars: Rebels were big winners last night. Rogue One was nominated for 11 categories and came away with three highly prestigious awards:Best Science Fiction Release, Best Film Direction by Gareth Edwards, and as many would expect, Best Film Visual/Special Effects. After all the talk of reshoots that surrounded the film up until its release, its cool to see the people behind it getting some recognition for a great film. Kudos to Gareth and the entire team behind the Rogue One, and I would have given an award based solely on the Vader hallway scene. Movie magic at it’s scariest!
Finally Dave Filoni and everyone behind Rebels received an award for Best Animated Series or Film on Television, beating out established players like Family Guy and The Simpsons as well as new ones like The Little Prince and Trollhunters. In the words of the great Nic Cage, “That’s high praise?”, and is well deserved for Filoni and everyone over there on the story team.
Congratulations to everyone involved in the success of those projects and to everyone at Lucasfilm who made these stories come to life! Well done!
Here are some tweets from the event:
Triple win for #StarWars at the 43rd Saturn awards! Best animated series #starwarsrebels, best director & film #starwarsrogueone! pic.twitter.com/OXuxqb0pme
— Henry Gilroy (@HGilroy67) June 29, 2017
Wow!! @starwars Rebels!! #SaturnAwards @dave_filoni @carrieannebeck @Tcann13 pic.twitter.com/uVHQwICA2S
— Steve Blum (@blumspew) June 29, 2017
Star Wars Rebels at the #SaturnAwards!! Whoohooo!! @starwars pic.twitter.com/x3oGdKQagO
— Steve Blum (@blumspew) June 29, 2017
Guys. I just got to hand @dave_filoni a @SaturnAwards1!!
— janina gavankar (@Janina) June 29, 2017
So this happened. #SaturnAwards @starwars Colossal congrats to @dave_filoni and everyone at Lucasfilm. Thanks for letting us come play. pic.twitter.com/3ypF3N6enN
— Steve Blum (@blumspew) June 29, 2017
#saturnawards w @janina and @jetsterl https://t.co/lqI42trEFt pic.twitter.com/ndIhOvxRqF
— Jennifer Muro (@jennifermuro) June 29, 2017
You can see the full list of winners HERE.
Now Rebels is getting some awards after it is coming to an end ala TCW.
It’s a shame that both shows only really got recognition near the end of their life-spans.
There’s a category called ‘Best Film Direction by Gareth Edwards’, was anyone else up for it?
Seriously though props to Gareth. In my mind he deserves every accolade he receives.
Agreed. Yeah, the film could have been better, but to me; that movie honestly is my favorite so far of this disney Era SWs films.
Congrats to Star Wars Rebels and Rogue One for the win. ^_^
Well-deserved for both! Gareth Edwards made a very different but enjoyable film, and as usual, everything Dave Filoni touches turns to gold.
When I first watched Rogue One I thought that I enjoyed it more than The Force Awakens. I’ve rewatched both now that I have them for home viewing and found that I was able to watch the first 10 – 15 minutes of Rogue One before I had to skip to the Jedha scene… and then I had to fast forward on Jedha to the scene where Jyn is talking to Saw while Tarkin is talking to Krennic… and then I tried fast forwarding to the Scarif battle… and after a minute or two there I hopped to the Vader scene… and then I turned it off…
Rogue One was a good single watch in the theater but it really has no replay value for me. While I feel TFA is slow to build up… in the end I can watch it more because the characters actually have a future and there is still a story to be seen. At the end of the day I can’t replay any of them constantly like I can the OT… so kudos to Rogue One… but these standalone one off films are really just that… one off films. I don’t get any pleasure aside from seeing it once to check out what they did… and I love Star Wars to the point where I can still tear up at scenes in the OT and the TFA trailer.
Interesting. That is actually me with TFA, namely with me rewatching the Rey introduction sequence and fast-forwarding to the Kylo, Rey fight and her arriving at Luke. TFA had no replay value for me as it is incomplete. From the perspective of a standalone movie it fails and really I find that LOTRS Fellowship is a better example of what TFA wanted to be, but faltered.
RO; I can certaintly attest that it has issues, namely some pacing problems and the sheer fact that it is a plot-driven movie as opposed to a character driven one. But that said, I still enjoy the movie. I can watch it and feel completely satisfied by it as in my view it does a better job painting just how terrible the galaxy is in and how the efforts of Luke, Han and Leia helped turn that tide…mostly. Plus, I do love the characters of RO; namely Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor.
Haha you’re spot on. That was my biggest problem with TFA, that it takes so long to set up the main part of the film and even then the entire film really is a setup so it tends to fall short. My biggest reason I think I say I can enjoy TFA more than RO is that with the OT and to an extent the PT I can sit through and either rewatch them from start to finish or I sometimes will throw one on as background noise when I’m falling asleep because even without watching the screen all I need to hear is the dialogue and I can visualize everything as I lay in bed. I’ve found that I can do that with TFA but not RO and now that I reflect on it I think a major part is the characters and the music. I do enjoy the characters to an extent in RO, but they’re all kind of dreary upon rewatching, at least all but K2. Also there aren’t any great themes or pieces of music throughout, I think its more atmospheric stuff to set the scene instead of something to be attached to the character but I’m sure that’s probably because the composer came on pretty late into the game so its not his fault. But all in all I guess that even though the downfall of TFA is that its all setup, while I can’t rewatch it like the OT or even the PT regularly, I guess what makes it better than RO for me is that there is a future to these characters. That’s not to say that one off films don’t do well because their characters don’t have sequels… I just find myself wanting to watch ANH as soon as I throw on RO instead of sitting in it from start
“B-but it’s not an Oscar, where it really matters. Therefore, Saturn awards don’t count!”
– concern moviegoer on wanting the next Citizen Kane
Congratulations to both of them. They definitely deserve it.
Congrats!!
Awesome