Looks like there are serious negotiations for Peter Jackson to take over as director on The Hobbit.

http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/06/peter-jackson-directing-hobbit-movies.html

There's also a L.A. Times report that Fox may be reading a big screen adaptation of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. A single film seems to be the wrong format to me. Flawed as it was, the NBC miniseries in 1980 was a better way to approach the project. Jamming all those stories into two or three hours would leave a lot of Bradbury's work out. Plus, Martian Chronicles is a much more intimate work. I don't think it absolutely needs the epic scale and scope of a big-screen 3D adaptation.

The 36th annual Saturn Awards were given out on June 24, 2010. The winners are below:

Best Science Fiction Film: AVATAR

Best Fantasy Film: WATCHMEN

Best Horror Film: DRAG ME TO HELL

Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film:  INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

Best Actor: SAM WORTHINGTON (Avatar)

Best Actress: ZOE SALDANA (Avatar)

Best Supporting Actor:  STEPHEN LANG (Avatar)

Best Supporting Actress: SIGOURNEY WEAVER (Avatar)

Best Performance by a Younger Actor:  SAOIRSE RONAN (The Lovely Bones)

Best Director:  JAMES CAMERON (Avatar)

Best Writer: JAMES CAMERON (Avatar)

Best Music: JAMES HORNER (Avatar)

Best Costume: MICHAEL WILKINSON (Watchmen)

Best Make-Up: BARNEY BURMAN, MINDY HALL, JOEL HARLOW  (Star Trek)

Best Production Design: RICK CARTER, ROBERT STROMBERG  (Avatar)

Best Special Effects: JOE LETTERI, STEPHEN ROSENBAUM, RICHARD BANEHAM, ANDREW R. JONES (Avatar)

Best International Film: DISTRICT 9

Best Animation Film: MONSTERS VS. ALIENS

Best Television Series: LOST

Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series: BREAKING BAD

Best Presentation on Television: TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH 

Best Actor on Television: JOSH HOLLOWAY (Lost)

Best Actress on Television: ANNA TORV  (Fringe)

Best Supporting Actor on Television: AARON PAUL (Breaking Bad)

Best Supporting Actress on Television: JULIE BENZ (Dexter)

Guest Starring Role on Television: LEONARD NIMOY (Fringe)

Best DVD Release: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

Best DVD Television Release: LOST (The Complete Fifth Season)

Best DVD Special Edition: WATCHMAN: THE ULTIMATE CUT

Best DVD Collection: Star Trek Original Motion Picture Collection

Best Local Stage Production: Fantasy/Musical: MARY POPPINS  (Ahmanson Theatre)

Best Local Stage Production: Play/Dramatic Musical: PARADE (Mark Taper Forum)

Best Local Stage Production: Small Theatre: FELLOWSHIP: THE MUSICAL (Falcon Theatre)

The Visionary Award: JAMES CAMERON

The George Pal Memorial Award: ROBERTO ORCI & ALEX KURTZMAN

The Producers Showcase Award: LAUREN SHULER DONNER

The Life Career Award: IRVIN KERSHNER

Come on, guys. Throw Moon a bone here. Avatar's impressive visually, but honest to Hulk, does it deserve every award? Best actor? Worthington's not bad, but most of the performance is filtered through the CGI of his Na'vi avatar. Sam Rockwell literally carries Moon by himself.

(The above would have gone up Friday but QuickBlogcast ate it.)

Concerning awards of a more literary forcus, the 2010 Locus Awards were given out 6/26. The winners were:

Best SF Novel: Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)

Best Fantasy Novel: The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)

Best First Novel: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)

Best Young Adult Book: Leviathan  Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

Best Novella: The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker (Subterranean)

Best Novelette: ‘‘By Moonlight’’, Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)

Best Short Story: ‘‘An Invocation of Incuriosity’’, Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth)

Best Anthology: The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos; HarperCollins Australia)

Best Collection: The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS)

Best Non-Fiction Book/Art Book: Cheek by Jowl, Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct)

Best Artist: Michael Whelan

Best Editor: Ellen Datlow

Best Magazine: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Best Book Publisher: Tor