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40 free Saturn Awards trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Saturn Awards have honored science fiction, fantasy and horror since the early 1970s, when genre films were rarely taken seriously by Hollywood's bigger prize-givers. The Best Actress category reads like a roll call of screen heroines: final girls, starship survivors, superheroes, princesses and at least one mermaid. This quiz leans on that category. Most questions ask who won, for which film, or as which character, from the very first winner to recent ceremonies. Along the way you will meet the two-time winners, a famous tie, and the performances that won here and at the Oscars too. A handful of questions step outside the category to cover the awards themselves: who founded them, what the trophy looks like, which director and which leading man hold the records, and a few genre-film choices that still raise eyebrows. It is written for film fans who know their genre cinema, and for anyone looking up past Best Actress winners who would rather test themselves than read a list. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Who won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for Ghost and again decades later for The Substance?
Demi Moore
Demi Moore's two wins came 34 years apart, the widest gap between wins in the category. The second time she beat Winona Ryder's return in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Q 02Which Star Trek actor hosted the 1978 Saturn Awards and performed a much-parodied version of Rocket Man?
William Shatner
William Shatner delivered the Elton John hit seated on a stool with a cigarette, and the clip became a staple of comedy parodies. It was the first Saturn ceremony shown on television.
Q 03Sigourney Weaver, nominated four times as Ellen Ripley, won her only Saturn Award for Best Actress for which film?
Aliens
Aliens won eight Saturn Awards that night, and the same performance earned Weaver the first Best Actress Oscar nomination ever given for a science-fiction film.
Q 04Natalie Portman won both the Saturn Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for which 2010 film?
Black Swan
Black Swan made Portman the first actress to win both prizes for the same film. She had already taken the Saturn four years earlier for V for Vendetta.
Q 05Which Tom Hanks film, set across decades of real American history, won the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film?
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump beat The Lion King and The Mask to the fantasy prize, and Gary Sinise won Best Supporting Actor as Lieutenant Dan.
Q 06Anthony Hopkins won both the Saturn Award and the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing which character?
Hannibal Lecter
Hannibal Lecter made Hopkins the first actor to win both lead prizes for one role, and The Silence of the Lambs was also named Best Horror Film.
Q 07On the Saturn Award statuette, what object forms the ring around the planet?
A film reel
A film reel circles the planet on the statuette, which was introduced for the first televised ceremony in 1978. Before that, there was no trophy at all.
Q 08Which True Lies star shared the Saturn Award for Best Actress with Speed's Sandra Bullock in a rare tie?
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis shared the category's first tie, then won outright more than two decades later for returning to Halloween as Laurie Strode.
Q 09Which action star earned seven Saturn Award nominations for Best Actor between 1984 and 2000 without ever winning?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger has the most Best Actor nominations of anyone who never won. Even Terminator 2, which took Best Science Fiction Film, did not bring him the prize.
Q 10Margot Kidder won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for playing which reporter in the 1978 film Superman?
Lois Lane
Lois Lane brought Kidder the prize in a year when Superman was also named Best Science Fiction Film, and she was nominated again for the role in Superman II.
Q 11Who won both the Saturn Award and the Oscar for Best Actress as laundromat owner Evelyn Quan Wang?
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh won both for Everything Everywhere All at Once, more than two decades after her first Saturn nomination, for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Q 12Daryl Hannah won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for playing a mermaid named Madison in which comedy?
Splash
Splash was the first film released under Disney's grown-up Touchstone Pictures label, and Hannah beat Linda Hamilton's first turn in The Terminator to the award.
Q 13Sandra Bullock won her first Saturn Award for Best Actress for Speed and her second for which film?
Gravity
Q 21Who is the youngest winner of the Saturn Award for Best Actress, for The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane?
Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster won as a teenager for playing a mysterious girl who lives alone in a small town, then took the prize again 20 years later for Contact.
Q 22Who won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for playing Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Karen Allen
Karen Allen's prize was one of seven Saturn Awards for Raiders, which was honored as Best Fantasy Film. She was nominated again three years later for Starman.
Q 23Who won the Saturn Award for Best Actress as a woman stalked by an unseen ex in The Invisible Man?
Elisabeth Moss
Gravity gave Bullock a second win from only her second nomination, 19 years after Speed. The film was also named Best Science Fiction Film.
Q 14Who won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for playing Sidney Prescott in the 1996 slasher Scream?
Neve Campbell
Neve Campbell beat Frances McDormand, who won that season's Best Actress Oscar for Fargo. Scream was also named Best Horror Film.
Q 15Who won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for playing the Bride in Kill Bill: Volume 1?
Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman won for the first film and was nominated again for Kill Bill: Volume 2, when the prize went to Blanchard Ryan for the shark thriller Open Water.
Q 16Who won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for a fully computer-generated character, Neytiri in Avatar?
Zoe Saldaña
Zoe Saldaña's win was a rare one for an all-CG character, and Avatar took home every one of the ten Saturn Awards it was nominated for.
Q 17Charlize Theron won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for playing Imperator Furiosa in which film?
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road won where its prequel could not: Anya Taylor-Joy was nominated for playing the younger Furiosa nine years later but lost.
Q 18Gal Gadot won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for which 2017 superhero film directed by Patty Jenkins?
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman beat Sally Hawkins of The Shape of Water to the prize, in the season that fantasy romance won the Best Picture Oscar.
Q 19Who won the first Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television for playing Dana Scully in The X-Files?
Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson took the television prize in its first year, 1996, and was nominated in the film category two years later for The X-Files movie.
Q 20Which adaptation of a Kurt Vonnegut novel won the first Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film?
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five also won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Elisabeth Moss beat Rebecca Ferguson of Doctor Sleep and Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn, and The Invisible Man was also named Best Horror Film.
Q 24Amy Adams won the Saturn Award for Best Actress as a fairy-tale princess stranded in New York in which film?
Enchanted
Enchanted won three Saturn Awards, including Best Fantasy Film, and established Adams as a leading lady. She was nominated again nine years later for Arrival.
Q 25Naomi Watts won Saturn Awards for Best Actress for The Ring and for playing Ann Darrow in which remake?
King Kong
King Kong gave Watts her second win in three years, and Peter Jackson took Best Director for the same film.
Q 26Nicole Kidman won the Saturn Award for Best Actress as a mother guarding her light-sensitive children in which film?
The Others
The Others won three Saturn Awards, including Best Horror Film and a supporting prize for Fionnula Flanagan as the newly arrived housekeeper.
Q 27Who won the Saturn Award for Best Actress as bodyguard Mace in the 1995 thriller Strange Days?
Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett played a bodyguard and limousine driver in a lawless Los Angeles counting down to the year 2000, and beat Sharon Stone and Nicole Kidman to the prize.
Q 28Katharine Ross won the first Saturn Award for Best Actress for which 1975 thriller set in a Connecticut suburb?
The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives cast Ross as a newcomer who finds the town's women living in total subservience to their husbands. No other nominees were announced that year.
Q 29Andie MacDowell won the Saturn Award for Best Actress opposite Bill Murray in which 1993 comedy?
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day lost Best Fantasy Film to The Nightmare Before Christmas that night, and Bill Murray missed out on Best Actor, leaving MacDowell as its only winner.
Q 30Who won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for playing Amy Dunne in the thriller Gone Girl?
Rosamund Pike
Rosamund Pike beat Emily Blunt and Angelina Jolie to the Saturn, and the same role brought her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.