The George Pal Memorial Award is presented each year, by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, in conjunction with their annual Saturn Award ceremony. The award is given to those who have shown exemplary work in the respective film genres. It is named in honor of George Pal, a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre.
The latest honoree is the 1986 film Aliens as of March 2026.
Recipients Below is a list of recipients and the year the award was presented:
1970s C. Dean Anderson (1975) Don Fanzo (1975) Gloria Swanson (1975) Fay Wray (1975)
1980s John Badham (1980) Nicholas Meyer (1984) Douglas Trumbull (1985) Charles Band (1986) Arnold Leibovit (1987) Larry Cohen (1988) David Cronenberg (1989)
1990s William Friedkin (1991) Gene Roddenberry (1992) Frank Marshall (1993) Wah Chang (1994) Gene Warren (1994) Stan Winston (1994) Robert Zemeckis (1995) John Carpenter (1996) Kathleen Kennedy (1997) Dean Devlin (1998) Ray Bradbury (1999)
2000s Douglas Wick (2000) Sam Raimi (2001) Samuel Z. Arkoff (2002) Ridley Scott (2004) Ray Harryhausen (2006) Guillermo del Toro (2008)
2010s Alex Kurtzman (2010) Roberto Orci (2010) Martin Scorsese (2012) Gregory Nicotero (2014)Academy Press Release, saturnawards.org. Retrieved May 26, 2014. (PDF) Simon Kinberg (2015)
2020s Dave Filoni (2022/2023) Back to the Future (2023/2024) Aliens (2024/2025)
References
External links Official Saturn Awards website