- Award Category: SF Film Hall of Fame Award Category Record # 113
- Award Type: Balrog Award
| 1981 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Win | The Empire Strikes Back (IMDB) | George Lucas and Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan |
| Nomination | A Clockwork Orange (IMDB) | Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick |
| Nomination | Alien (IMDB) | Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon and David Giler and Walter Hill |
| Nomination | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (IMDB) | Steven Spielberg |
| Nomination | Dark Star (IMDB) | John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon |
| Nomination | Forbidden Planet (IMDB) | Alan J. Adler and Irving Block and Cyril Hume |
| Nomination | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (IMDB) | Jack Finney and W. D. Richter |
| Nomination | Metropolis (IMDB) | Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou |
| Nomination | Silent Running (IMDB) | Steve Bocho and Michael Cimino and Deric Washburn |
| Nomination | Superman (IMDB) | Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and Mario Puzo and David Newman and Leslie Newman and Robert Benton |
| Nomination | The Day the Earth Stood Still (IMDB) | Harry Bates and Edmund H. North |
| Nomination | The Lathe of Heaven (IMDB) | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Nomination | Things to Come (IMDB) | H. G. Wells |
| Nomination | War of the Worlds (IMDB) | Barre Lyndon and H. G. Wells |