Annal:2009 Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film

Iron Man

Jon Favreau

• 2009 Saturn-Sci-Fi winner
• 2009 Hugo-Video nominee
• 2009 MTV-Movie nominee
• Score: 22.59

Oscar® nominee Robert Downey Jr. stars as Tony Stark/Iron Man in the story of a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man. Co-starring Oscar® winner Gwyneth Paltrow and Oscar® nominees Terrence Howard and Jeff Bridges, it’s a fantastic, high-flying journey that is “hugely entertaining” (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Scott Derrickson

• 2009 Saturn-Sci-Fi nominee
• Score: 6.59

A renowned scientist (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramifications of Klaatu’s claim that he is “a friend to the Earth.” Now she must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving—but it may be too late.

Eagle Eye

D.J. Caruso

• 2009 Saturn-Sci-Fi nominee
• Score: 6.59

The race-against-time thriller Eagle Eye reunites actor Shia LaBeouf, director D.J. Caruso and executive producer Steven Spielberg for the first time since their sleeper hit Disturbia. In Eagle Eye, Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and their family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move.

As the situation escalates, these two ordinary people become the country’s most wanted fugitives, who must now work together to discover what is really happening. Fighting for their lives, they become pawns of a faceless enemy who seems to have limitless power to manipulate everything they do.

The Incredible Hulk

Louis Leterrier

• 2009 Saturn-Sci-Fi nominee
• Score: 6.59

The Incredible Hulk (2008) kicks off an all-new, explosive and action-packed epic of one of the most popular Super Heroes of all time. In this new beginning, scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk. Living in the shadows—cut off from a life he knew and the woman he loves, Betty Ross (Liv Tyler)—Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit of his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt), and the military machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his power.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: 4th in Indiana Jones series

Steven Spielberg

• 2009 Saturn-Sci-Fi nominee
• Score: 6.59

This latest adventure begins in the Southwest desert in 1957—the height of the Cold War. Indy (Harrison Ford) and his sidekick Mac (Ray Winstone) have barely escaped a close scrape with nefarious Soviet agents on a remote airfield.

Now, Professor Jones has returned home to Marshall College, only to find things have gone from bad to worse. His close friend and dean of the college explains that Indy’s recent activities have made him the object of suspicion, and that the government has put pressure on the university to fire him. On his way out of town, Indiana meets rebellious young Mutt (Shia LeBeouf), who carries both a grudge and a proposition for the adventurous archaeologist—if he’ll help Mutt on a mission with deeply personal stakes, Indy could very well make one of the most spectacular archaeological finds in history—the Crystal Skull of Akator, a legendary object of fascination, superstition, and fear.

But as Indy and Mutt set out for the most remote corners of Peru—a land of ancient tombs, forgotten explorers and a rumored city of gold—they quickly realize they are…

Jumper

Doug Liman

• 2009 Saturn-Sci-Fi nominee
• Score: 6.59

David is a Jumper who can teleport himself anywhere in the world, which creates a fun and exciting life. But things turn deadly when David finds himself pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers. Forming an uneasy alliance with another Jumper he becomes a player in a war that has been raging for thousands of years.