Saturn Award for Best Director

The Saturn Award for Best Director is one of the annual awards given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The Saturn Awards, which are the oldest film-specialized awards to reward genre fiction achievements, in particular for science fiction, fantasy, and horror, included the Best Director category for the first time at the 3rd Saturn Awards, for the 1974/1975 film years.

History

The award is also the oldest to honor film directors in science fiction, fantasy and horror. It has been given 36 times, including a tie for the 1977 film year.
James Cameron holds the record of the most wins with six, while Steven Spielberg is the most nominated director with fourteen nominations. Only three other directors have won the award more than once: Peter Jackson, Bryan Singer and Ridley Scott. As of 2024, Cameron is the only director to have won the award two years in a row. At the 22nd Saturn Awards, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the award, and is one of three female directors to win the award. Roland Emmerich became the first of four LGBTQ person to win the award at the 23rd ceremony, while John Woo became the first person of Asian descent to win the award at the 24th ceremony and Ryan Coogler became the first African-American to win the award at the 44th ceremony.

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