- Award Category: SF Film Hall of Fame Award Category Record # 113
- Award Type: Balrog Award
| 1980 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Win | 2001: A Space Odyssey (IMDB) | Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick |
| Win | Star Wars (IMDB) | George Lucas |
| 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 | Planet of the Apes (IMDB) | Pierre Boulle and Rod Serling and Michael Wilson |
| Nomination | Silent Running (IMDB) | Steve Bocho and Michael Cimino and Deric Washburn |
| Nomination | Star Trek: The Motion Picture (IMDB) | Alan Dean Foster and Harold Livingston |
| Nomination | The Black Hole (IMDB) | Bob Barbash and Gerry Day and Richard H. Landau and Jeb Rosebrook |
| Nomination | The Day the Earth Stood Still (IMDB) | Harry Bates and Edmund H. North |
| Nomination | The Thing (IMDB) | John W. Campbell, Jr. and Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer |
| Nomination | Things to Come (IMDB) | H. G. Wells |
| Nomination | War of the Worlds (IMDB) | Barre Lyndon and H. G. Wells |
| 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 |
| 1982 | ||
| Win | Forbidden Planet (IMDB) | Alan J. Adler and Irving Block and Cyril Hume |
| 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 | Metropolis (IMDB) | Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou |
| Nomination | Raiders of the Lost Ark (IMDB) | George Lucas and Philip Kaufman and Lawrence Kasdan |
| Nomination | Silent Running (IMDB) | Steve Bocho and Michael Cimino and Deric Washburn |
| Nomination | Superman II (IMDB) | David Newman and Leslie Newman and Mario Puzo |
| Nomination | The Day the Earth Stood Still (IMDB) | Harry Bates and Edmund H. North |
| 1983 | ||
| Win | The Day the Earth Stood Still (IMDB) | Harry Bates and Edmund H. North |
| Nomination | Alien (IMDB) | Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon and David Giler and Walter Hill |
| Nomination | Blade Runner (IMDB) | Philip K. Dick and Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples |
| Nomination | Dark Star (IMDB) | John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon |
| Nomination | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (IMDB) | Melissa Mathison |
| Nomination | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (IMDB) | Harve Bennett and Jack B. Sowards |
| Nomination | The Thing (IMDB) | John W. Campbell, Jr. and Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer |
| Nomination | Tron (IMDB) | Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird |
| 1984 | ||
| Win | Blade Runner (IMDB) | Philip K. Dick and Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples |
| 1985 | ||
| Win | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (IMDB) | Melissa Mathison |
| Win | Starman (IMDB) | Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon |