8th Saturn Awards

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Science Fiction Film

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Fantasy Film

• The Empire Strikes Back
• Altered States
• Battle Beyond the Stars
• The Final Countdown
• Flash Gordon

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• Somewhere in Time
• The Blue Lagoon
• The Ninth Configuration
• Oh, God! Book II
• Popeye

• The Howling
• Dressed to Kill
• Fade to Black
• The Fog
• The Shining

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• Scanners
• The Changeling
• Harlequin
• Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
• Terror Train

• Scared to Death
• Forbidden Zone
• Human Experiments
• Maniac
• Ms .45

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• Mark Hamill – The Empire Strikes Back as Luke Skywalker
• Alan Arkin – Simon as Simon Mendelssohn
• Dennis Christopher – Fade to Black as Eric Binford
• Kirk Douglas – The Final Countdown as Capt. Matthew Yelland
• Christopher Reeve – Somewhere in Time as Richard Collier

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• Angie Dickinson – Dressed to Kill as Kate Miller
• Ellen Burstyn – Resurrection as Edna Mae McCauley
• Jamie Lee Curtis – Terror Train as Alana Maxwell
• Louanne – Oh, God! Book II as Tracy Richards
• Jane Seymour – Somewhere in Time as Elise McKenna

• Scatman Crothers – The Shining as Dick Hallorann
• Melvyn Douglas – The Changeling as Joseph Carmichael
• Martin Gabel – The First Deadly Sin as Christopher Langley
• Max von Sydow – Flash Gordon as Emperor Ming the Merciless
• Billy Dee Williams – The Empire Strikes Back as Lando Calrissian

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• Eve Brent – Fade to Black as Stella Binford
• Linda Kerridge – Fade to Black as Marilyn O'Connor
• Eva Le Gallienne – Resurrection as Grandma Pearl
• Nancy Parsons – Motel Hell as Ida Smith
• Stephanie Zimbalist – The Awakening as Margaret Corbeck

• Irvin Kershner – The Empire Strikes Back
• Brian De Palma – Dressed to Kill
• Stanley Kubrick – The Shining
• Ken Russell – Altered States
• Vernon Zimmerman – Fade to Black

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• William Peter Blatty – The Ninth Configuration
• Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan – The Empire Strikes Back
• Lewis John Carlino – Resurrection
• Paddy Chayefsky (as Sidney Aaron) – Altered States
• John Sayles – Alligator

• John Barry – Somewhere in Time
• Pino Donaggio – Dressed to Kill
• John Williams – The Empire Strikes Back
• Maurice Jarre – Resurrection
• Béla Bartók – The Shining

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• Jean-Pierre Dorleac – Somewhere in Time
• Durinda Wood – Battle Beyond the Stars
• John Mollo – The Empire Strikes Back
• Doris Lynn – Fade to Black
• Danilo Donati – Flash Gordon

• Dick Smith – Altered States / Dick Smith – Scanners (TIE)
• Sue Dolph, Steve Neill, and Rick Stratton – Battle Beyond the Stars
• Colin Booker – Fade to Black
• Rob Bottin and Rick Baker – The Howling
• Giannetto De Rossi – Zombi 2

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• Brian Johnson and Richard Edlund – The Empire Strikes Back
• Chuck Comisky – Battle Beyond the Stars
• Richard Albain Jr., Tommy Lee Wallace, and James F. Liles – The Fog
• Dave Allen and Peter Kuran – The Howling
• Gary Zeller – Scanners