13th Satellite Awards
13th Satellite Awards | |
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Date | December 14, 2008 |
Highlights | |
Best drama film | Slumdog Millionaire |
Best comedy/musical film | Happy-Go-Lucky |
Best television drama | Dexter |
Best television musical/comedy | Tracey Ullman's State of the Union |
Best director | Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire |
The 13th Satellite Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2008, were given on December 14, 2008.
Special achievement awards
Auteur Award (for his signature scope and style of filmmaking) – Baz Luhrmann
Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Louis Gossett Jr.
Nikola Tesla Award (for his innovative make-up, prosthetics, and creature effects in films) – Rick Baker
Outstanding New Talent – Brandon Walters
Motion picture winners and nominees
Best Actor – Drama
- Leonardo DiCaprio – Revolutionary Road
- Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
- Sean Penn – Milk
- Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
- Mark Ruffalo – What Doesn't Kill You
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy
- Josh Brolin – W.
- Michael Cera – Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
- Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges
- Sam Rockwell – Choke
- Mark Ruffalo – The Brothers Bloom
Best Actress – Drama
- Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
- Melissa Leo – Frozen River
- Meryl Streep – Doubt
- Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)
- Kate Winslet – The Reader
Best Actress – Musical or Comedy
Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
- Catherine Deneuve – A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël)
- Kat Dennings – Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
- Lisa Kudrow – Kabluey
- Debra Messing – Nothing like the Holidays
- Meryl Streep – Mamma Mia!
Best Animated or Mixed Media Film
Best Art Direction and Production Design
- Brideshead Revisited
- City of Ember
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Duchess
- Revolutionary Road
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Director
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
- Stephen Daldry – The Reader
- Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
- Tom McCarthy – The Visitor
- Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
- Gus Van Sant – Milk
Best Documentary Film
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (TIE)
Man on Wire (TIE)
- Encounters at the End of the World
- Pray the Devil Back to Hell
- Religulous
- Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)
Best Editing
Best Film – Drama
Best Film – Musical or Comedy
Best Foreign Language Film
- Caramel (Sekkar banat) • France / Lebanon
- The Class (Entre les murs) • France
- Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) • Sweden
- Padre Nuestro (Sangre de Mi Sangre) • Argentina
- Reprise • Norway
Best Original Score
Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman
- Australia – David Hirschfelder
- Horton Hears a Who! – John Powell
- Milk – Danny Elfman
- Quantum of Solace – David Arnold
- WALL-E – Thomas Newman
Best Original Song
"Another Way to Die" – Quantum of Solace
- "By the Boab Tree" – Australia
- "Down to Earth" – WALL-E
- "If the World" – Body of Lies
- "Jai Ho" – Slumdog Millionaire
- "The Wrestler" – The Wrestler
Best Screenplay – Adapted
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
- Doubt – John Patrick Shanley
- Elegy – Philip Roth
- The Reader – David Hare
- Revolutionary Road – Justin Haythe
- Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy
Best Screenplay – Original
- Australia – Baz Luhrmann
- Frozen River – Courtney Hunt
- Milk – Dustin Lance Black
- Seven Pounds – Grant Nieporte
Best Sound
Best Supporting Actor
Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
- Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
- James Franco – Milk
- Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
- Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumous)
- Rade Šerbedžija – Fugitive Pieces
Best Supporting Actress
Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married
- Beyoncé – Cadillac Records
- Penélope Cruz – Elegy
- Anjelica Huston – Choke
- Sophie Okonedo – The Secret Life of Bees
- Emma Thompson – Brideshead Revisited
Best Visual Effects
Television winners and nominees
Best Actor – Drama Series
- Gabriel Byrne – In Treatment
- Michael C. Hall – Dexter
- Jon Hamm – Mad Men
- Jason Isaacs – Brotherhood
- David Tennant – Doctor Who
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series
- Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock
- Danny DeVito – It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- David Duchovny – Californication
- Jonny Lee Miller – Eli Stone
- Lee Pace – Pushing Daisies
Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Film
- Benedict Cumberbatch – The Last Enemy
- Ralph Fiennes – Bernard and Doris
- Stellan Skarsgård – God on Trial
- Kevin Spacey – Recount
- Tom Wilkinson – Recount
Best Actress – Drama Series
- Glenn Close – Damages
- Kathryn Erbe – Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Sally Field – Brothers and Sisters
- Holly Hunter – Saving Grace
- Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer
Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series
Tracey Ullman – Tracey Ullman's State of the Union
- Christina Applegate – Samantha Who?
- America Ferrera – Ugly Betty
- Tina Fey – 30 Rock
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus – The New Adventures of Old Christine
- Mary-Louise Parker – Weeds
Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film
- Jacqueline Bisset – An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
- Laura Linney – John Adams
- Phylicia Rashad – A Raisin in the Sun
- Susan Sarandon – Bernard and Doris
- Julie Walters – Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Best Miniseries
Best Series – Drama
Best Series – Musical or Comedy
Tracey Ullman's State of the Union
Best Supporting Actor – Miniseries or TV Film
- Željko Ivanek – Damages
- Harvey Keitel – Life on Mars
- John Noble – Fringe
- John Slattery – Mad Men
- Jimmy Smits – Dexter
Best Supporting Actress – Miniseries or TV Film
Fionnula Flanagan – Brotherhood
- Kristin Chenoweth – Pushing Daisies
- Laura Dern – Recount
- Sarah Polley – John Adams
- Dianne Wiest – In Treatment
- Chandra Wilson – Grey's Anatomy
Best TV Film
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
New Media winners and nominees
Best Classic DVD
The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and The Godfather Part III (The Godfather Collection – The Coppola Restoration)
- Beetlejuice (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
- Diva
- Dracula (75th Anniversary Edition)
- High Noon (Two-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)
- The Mummy
- Psycho
- Road House
- Touch of Evil (50th Anniversary Edition)
- Young Frankenstein
Best DVD Extras
Iron Man (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- Across the Universe
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- The Bank Job
- Eight Men Out
- Gone Baby Gone
- High Noon (Two-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)
- Into the Wild
- WALL-E (Three-Disc Special Edition)
Best DVD Release of a TV Show
- 30 Rock (Season 2)
- The Tudors (The Complete First Season)
Outstanding Action/Adventure Game
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Outstanding Music/Rhythm Game
- Guitar Hero World Tour
- Patapon
- Rock Band
- SingStar
Outstanding Overall Blu-Ray
Sleeping Beauty (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition Blu-Ray and DVD)
- The Dark Knight
- The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and The Godfather Part III (The Godfather Collection – The Coppola Restoration)
- Iron Man
- WALL-E (Three-Disc Special Edition Blu-Ray and DVD)
Outstanding Overall DVD
- 3:10 to Yuma
- Atonement
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Juno
- Lars and the Real Girl
- Lust, Caution
- Michael Clayton
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Two-Disc Collection)
- The Visitor
Outstanding Puzzle/Strategy Game
- Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
- Professor Layton and the Curious Village
- Sid Meyer's Civilization Revolution
- Spore
Outstanding Sports/Racing Game
Outstanding Youth DVD
WarGames (25th Anniversary Edition)
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (Book 3 Fire, Vol. 4)
- Cars
- Enchanted
- Nim's Island
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Two-Disc Platinum Edition DVD)
- Sleeping Beauty (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition Blu-Ray and DVD)
- The Spiderwick Chronicles
- WALL-E (Three-Disc Special Edition)
- The Water Horse (Two-Disc Edition)
- Watership Down (Deluxe Edition)
Awards breakdown
Film
Winners:
- 3 / 6 Slumdog Millionaire: Best Director / Best Film – Drama / Best Original Score
- 3 / 9 Australia: Best Art Direction and Production Design / Best Cinematography / Best Visual Effects
- 2 / 2 Happy-Go-Lucky: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy / Best Film – Musical or Comedy
- 2 / 3 The Visitor: Best Actor – Drama / Best Screenplay – Original
- 1 / 1 Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer: Best Documentary Film
- 1 / 1 Ghost Town: Best Actor – Musical or Comedy
- 1 / 1 Gomorrah (Gomorra): Best Foreign Language Film
- 1 / 1 Man on Wire: Best Documentary Film
- 1 / 2 Changeling: Best Actress – Drama
- 1 / 2 Rachel Getting Married: Best Supporting Actress
- 1 / 3 The Duchess: Best Costume Design
- 1 / 3 Iron Man: Best Editing
- 1 / 4 WALL-E: Best Animated or Mixed Media Film
- 1 / 5 The Dark Knight: Best Sound
- 1 / 5 Frost/Nixon: Best Screenplay – Adapted
- 1 / 5 Quantum of Solace: Best Original Song
- 1 / 5 Revolutionary Road: Best Supporting Actor
Losers:
- 0 / 6 Milk
- 0 / 4 Brideshead Revisited, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Reader
- 0 / 3 Choke, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
- 0 / 2 City of Ember, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Doubt, Elegy, Horton Hears a Who!, In Bruges, Frozen River, Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir), The Wrestler
Television
Winners:
- 2 / 2 Cranford: Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film / Best Miniseries
- 2 / 2 Tracey Ullman's State of the Union: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series / Best Series – Musical or Comedy
- 2 / 2 True Blood: Best Actress – Drama Series / Best Supporting Actor – Miniseries or TV Film
- 1 / 1 Breaking Bad: Best Actor – Drama Series
- 1 / 2 Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story: Best TV Film
- 1 / 2 Weeds: Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series
- 1 / 3 Brotherhood: Best Supporting Actress – Miniseries or TV Film
- 1 / 3 Dexter: Best Series – Drama
- 1 / 4 John Adams: Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Film
Losers:
- 0 / 4 Recount
- 0 / 3 30 Rock, Bernard and Doris, In Treatment, Mad Men, Pushing Daisies
- 0 / 2 Damages, God on Trial, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Last Enemy, Life on Mars