The Star Trek franchise has a long history with the Saturn Awards, and this year will be another special one as the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror is honoring a Star Trek icon: William Shatner.
Shatner’s Saturn Lifetime
William Shatner will be honored at the 52nd Saturn Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 2. For the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films honors “individuals in either film and/or television for their outstanding work, to honor their illustrious careers as artists and icons and those who’ve helped further genre entertainment in the industry and beyond.” This year, that person is Star Trek’s first captain, William Shatner, described by the Academy in their announcement as a “living legend.”
Shatner has a long history with the Saturn Awards. He’s been nominated several times, and won for Best Actor in 1983 for his performance as James T. Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He also won as a guest star for the Syfy series Haven in 2016. This isn’t even Shatner’s first special Saturn award: In 1980, he was honored with a Life Career Award. Last year he was at the event to present the Robert Forster Artist’s Award to Seth MacFarlane.
The multi-talented showman hosted the televised Saturn Awards ceremony twice in the 1970s. It was at the 1978 ceremony when Shatner performed his famous rendition of the Elton John/Bernie Taupin song “Rocket Man.”
Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Discovery are also nominated for Saturn Awards this year.
This year’s ceremony will be held at the at The Hilton Universal City Hotel and livestreamed for free on both Electric Entertainment’s premium OTT app and FAST channel, ElectricNOW and The Roku Channel on Sunday, February 2nd. In light of the catastrophic fires in Los Angeles and the urgent need for support in the community, The Academy will be using the event to provide viewers nationwide and those attending the event with information on how to donate and support the rebuilding efforts in Los Angeles.
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Jiminy Cricket. That black and white photo made me think he was dead.
ST Beyond totally dropped the ball not having him in it to help celebrate the 50th
Will drop the ball again for the 60th
Trek Movie, I beg you, only color photos of living people please 😂
You got freaked out by a b&w pic 2nd down in the news feed? C’mon if it was the unthinkable it’d be headline news x1000, and trending literally everywhere on every platform, in fact the entire internet would break
Legend.
Well deserved and long overdue. Congratulations!
I hate to be that guy, but Jeffrey Hunter was the first Captain of the Enterprise in The Cage. Shatner was the second Captain. In before the Cage was a pilot and it’s not canon.