Wednesday March 15 3:15 AM ET
'Hollow' Carves Most Saturn Awards Nominations
By Susanne Ault

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Scaring away potential rivals, Paramount Pictures' ``Sleepy Hollow'' has racked up the most nominations for the 26th annual Saturn Awards, which honor TV and film in the science fiction/horror genre.

Winners, including lifetime achievement recipients Dick Van Dyke and George Harris (designer of film and TV's Batmobile), will be named at a June ceremony in Century City.

``Sleepy Hollow'' scored 11 nominations from the Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Films -- including top horror picture; best actor, Johnny Depp; actress, Christina Ricci; director, Tim Burton; supporting actor, Christopher Walken; and supporting actress, Miranda Richardson.

The film bested last year's other high-profile science fiction efforts ``Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace'' and ``The Matrix''

But those films earned multiple nominations as well -- both received nods for best science fiction film; actor, Liam Neeson of ``Phantom'' and Keanu Reeves of ``Matrix''; and direction, George Lucas, and Andy and Larry Wachowski, respectively.

Nominees for best science fiction film also include Sony's ''The Thirteenth Floor'' Fine Line's ``eXistenZ,'' DreamWorks' ''Galaxy Quest'' and USA's ``Pitch Black.''

Those in the running for top fantasy film are New Line's ''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,'' USA's ``Being John Malkovich,'' Universal's ``The Mummy'' Sony's ``Stuart Little'' and Disney's ``Tarzan'' and ``Toy Story 2.''

Rounding out the most horrific are Artisan's ``The Blair Witch Project'' 20th Century Fox's ``Ravenous,'' Disney's ``The Sixth Sense'' MGM's ``Stigmata'' and Dimension/Miramax's ''Teaching Mrs. Tingle.''