Inception, Tron: Legacy And Let Me In Lead Saturn Award Nominations

Though it wound up missing out on a lot of Oscar nominations it deserved, and probably won't take home more than technical prizes on Sunday, Inception has racked up 9 nominations at the awards ceremony guaranteed to love it: The Saturn Awards. Awarded by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, the Saturns recognized Inception with 9 nominations including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Actress (Ellen Page), Best Supporting Actor (Tom Hardy) and Best Director.

Other top nominees included TV's The Walking Dead with six, plus seven nominations each for Tron: Legacy and Let Me In, the latter a film forgotten by nearly ever other awards-granting body. Because the Saturns reward four different top film categories-- Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror/Thriller and Action/Adventure-- the pack tends to get a little diluted; I never particularly needed to see The Wolf Man, Clash of the Titans, Robin Hood or Alice in Wonderland rewarded as "best" anything, know what I mean?

You can see a partial list of the nominees below. The Saturn Awards are handed out in June.

Best Science Fiction Film
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2
Never Let Me Go
Splice
Tron: Legacy

Best Fantasy Film
Alice in Wonderland
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Clash of the Titans
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Twilight: Eclipse

Best Horror/Thriller Film
The American
Black Swan
Kick-Ass
Let Me In
Shutter Island
The Wolf Man

Best Action/Adventure Film
The Expendables
The Green Hornet
Red
Robin Hood
Salt
True Grit
Unstoppable

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, Tron: Legacy
George Clooney, The American
Leonardo DiCaprio, Inception
Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island
Robert Downey, Jr., Iron Man 2
Ryan Reynolds, Buried

Best Actress
Cecile De France, Hereafter
Angelina Jolie, Salt
Carey Mulligan, Never Let Me Go
Ellen Page, Inception
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Noomi Rapace, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, The Fighter
Andrew Garfield, Never Let Me Go
Tom Hardy, Inception
Garrett Hedlund, Tron: Legacy
John Malkovich, Red
Mark Ruffalo, Shutter Island

Best Supporting Actress
Scarlett Johansson, Iron Man 2
Keira Knightley, Never Let Me Go
Mila Kunis, Black Swan
Helen Mirren, Red
Vanessa Redgrave, Letters to Juliet
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

Best Performance by a Younger Actor
Logan Lerman, Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Frankie/George McLaren, Hereafter
Kodi Smit McPhee, Let Me In
Chloe Grace Moretz, Let Me In
Will Poulter, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Charlie Tahan, Charlie St. Cloud

Best Director
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Clint Eastwood, Hereafter
Christopher Nolan, Inception
Matt Reeves, Let Me In
Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island
David Yates, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Best Writing
Michael Arndt, Toy Story 3
Alex Garland, Never Let Me Go
Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John McLaughlin, Black Swan
Peter Morgan, Hereafter
Christopher Nolan, Inception
Matt Reeves, Let Me In

Best Music
Daft Punk, Tron: Legacy
Clint Eastwood, Hereafter
Michael Giacchino, Let Me In
Gottfried Huppertz (as Conducted by Frank Strobel), The Complete Metropolis
John Powell, How to Train Your Dragon
Hans Zimmer, Inception