‘Star Wars’ Wins Big at Saturn Awards, Including Best Limited Event Streaming Series
Star Wars had a huge night, bringing home a total of five wins, during this year’s Saturn Awards. Obi-Wan Kenobi won three of those, including Best Limited Event Streaming Series. The Bad Batch pulled off an upset, winning Best Animated Television Series. And Ming-Na Wen took the stage to accept her Best Actress nod for her role as Fennec Shand in The Book of Boba Fett.
Congrats to #SaturnAwards Best Actress in a Streaming Series –@MingNa – @bobafett pic.twitter.com/fHujPy6NRL
— The Official Saturn Awards! (@SaturnAwards) October 26, 2022
The other two Obi-Wan Kenobi wins went to Moses Ingram and Hayden Christensen for Best Supporting Actress and Best Guest-Starring Performance respectively. The Disney Plus series won the most awards out of the streaming categories, with the final season of Better Call Saul leading that show to four awards in the network/cable series categories. Everything Everywhere All at Once had three wins in the film categories.
Congrats to #SaturnAwards Best Limited Event Series (Streaming) –@ObiWanKenobi pic.twitter.com/6SNM65LvsD
— The Official Saturn Awards! (@SaturnAwards) October 26, 2022
As far as what didn’t win, there isn’t much that didn’t stay in-house. The Book of Boba Fett was also nominated for Best Limited Streaming Series, which went to Obi-Wan Kenobi. Ewan McGregor’s reprisal of the Jedi master was bested by Oscar Isaac’s nuanced Moon Knight role for Best Actor in a Streaming Series. Meanwhile, Rosario Dawson’s appearance as Ahsoka Tano fell to another Star Wars actor with Hayden Christensen’s win. The Mandalorian lost out to the surprising first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in the Best Science Fiction Television Series category.
And lastly, in the Best Performance by a Younger Actor category, Vivien Lyra Blair (Princess Leia in Obi-Wan Kenobi) lost to Iman Vellani (Kamala Khan in Ms. Marvel).
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The Bad Batch continues Star Wars animation’s stranglehold over Best Animated Series, a category in which the division has never lost, dating back to its Saturn Awards introduction in 2017. Star Wars Rebels won in the first two years, followed by Star Wars: Resistance in 2019. The final season of The Clone Wars took the prize last year when the awards returned after a pandemic-based hiatus. The Bad Batch faced heavy competition including Arcane, The Boys: Diabolical, Invincible, and Marvel’s What If…?
This year’s 47th Saturn Awards were branded as the 50th anniversary of the event, with the first edition of the awards, presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, held back in 1972. Congratulations to all the winners and those that were nominated!
Nate uses his love for Star Wars and movies in general as a way to cope with the pain of being a Minnesota sports fan. When he's not at the theater, you can usually find Nate reading a comic, listening to an audiobook, or playing a Mario video game for the 1,000th time.
