13th Satellite Awards

The 13th Satellite Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2008, were given on December 14, 2008.

13th Satellite Awards
Date	December 14, 2008 (2008-12-14)
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

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

Danny Boyle, Best Director winner

Richard Jenkins, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama winner

Angelina Jolie, Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama winner

Ricky Gervais, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical winner

Sally Hawkins, Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical winner

Michael Shannon, Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture winner

Rosemarie DeWitt, Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture winner

Peter Morgan, Best Adapted Screenplay winner

Tom McCarthy, Best Original Screenplay winner

A. R. Rahman, Best Original Score winner

Jack White, Best Original Song winner

Best Actor – Drama

Richard Jenkins – The Visitor

• 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

Ricky Gervais – Ghost Town

• 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

Angelina Jolie – Changeling

• 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

WALL-E

• Bolt
• Horton Hears a Who!
• The Sky Crawlers
• The Tale of Despereaux
• Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)

Best Art Direction and Production Design

Australia

• Brideshead Revisited
• City of Ember
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Duchess
• Revolutionary Road

Best Cinematography

Australia

• Brideshead Revisited
• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Duchess
• Snow Angels

Best Costume Design

The Duchess

• Australia
• Brideshead Revisited
• City of Ember
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Sex and the City

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

Iron Man

• Australia
• The Dark Knight
• Frost/Nixon
• Quantum of Solace
• Slumdog Millionaire

Best Film – Drama

Slumdog Millionaire

• Frost/Nixon
• Frozen River
• Milk
• The Reader
• Revolutionary Road

Best Film – Musical or Comedy

Happy-Go-Lucky

• Choke
• In Bruges
• Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
• Tropic Thunder
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Foreign Language Film

Gomorrah (Gomorra) • Italy

• 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

Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan

• 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

The Visitor – Tom McCarthy

• Australia – Baz Luhrmann
• Frozen River – Courtney Hunt
• Milk – Dustin Lance Black
• Seven Pounds – Grant Nieporte

Best Sound

The Dark Knight

• Australia
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Iron Man
• Quantum of Solace
• WALL-E

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

Australia

• The Dark Knight
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Iron Man
• Quantum of Solace

Television winners and nominees

Bryan Cranston, Best Actor in a Drama Series winner

Anna Paquin, Best Actress in a Drama Series winner

Justin Kirk, Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical Series winner

Tracey Ullman, Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series winner

Paul Giamatti, Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film winner

Judi Dench, Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film winner

Nelsan Ellis, Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film winner

Fionnula Flanagan, Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film winner

Best Actor – Drama Series

Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad

• 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

Justin Kirk – Weeds

• 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

Paul Giamatti – John Adams

• 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

Anna Paquin – True Blood

• 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

Judi Dench – Cranford

• 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

Cranford

• John Adams
• The Last Enemy

Best Series – Drama

Dexter

• Brotherhood
• In Treatment
• Life on Mars
• Mad Men
• Primeval

Best Series – Musical or Comedy

Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

• 30 Rock
• The Colbert Report
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Pushing Daisies
• Skins

Best Supporting Actor – Miniseries or TV Film

Nelsan Ellis – True Blood

• 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

• 24: Redemption
• Bernard and Doris
• God on Trial
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter
• Recount

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

• Dead Space
• LittleBigPlanet
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Outstanding Music/Rhythm Game

Rock Band 2

• 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

No Country for Old Men

• 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

World of Goo

• Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
• Professor Layton and the Curious Village
• Sid Meyer's Civilization Revolution
• Spore

Outstanding Sports/Racing Game

NHL 09

• Burnout Paradise
• FIFA 09
• Mario Kart Wii
• MLB 08: The Show
• Wii Fit

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

External links

• Official website of the International Press Academy