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 director | Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire | |||
Best television drama | Dexter | |||
Best television comedy | Tracey Ullman's State of the Union | |||
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The winners of the 13th Annual Satellite Awards, honoring the best in film and television in 2008, were announced on December 14, 2008.
Auteur Award
- Baz Luhrmann for his signature scope and style of filmmaking.
Top 10 films
- Ballast
- Changeling
- Doubt
- The Dark Knight
- Frost/Nixon
- Frozen River
- Milk
- The Reader
- Revolutionary Road
- Slumdog Millionaire
Film categories
- Best Film - Drama
- Best Film - Musical or Comedy
- Choke
- In Bruges
- Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
- Tropic Thunder
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Best Foreign Language Film
Gomorrah • Italy
- Caramel • France/Lebanon
- The Class (Entre les murs) • France
- Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) • Sweden
- Reprise • Norway
- Sangre de mi sangre • Argentina
- Best Documentary Film
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
Man on Wire
- Encounters at the End of the World
- Pray the Devil Back to Hell
- Religulous
- Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)
- 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 and 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
- Kat Dennings - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
- Catherine Deneuve - A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël)
- Lisa Kudrow - Kabluey
- Debra Messing - Nothing Like the Holidays
- Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia!
- 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 Sherbedgia - Fugitive Pieces
- Best Supporting Actress
Rosemarie DeWitt - Rachel Getting Married
- Penélope Cruz - Elegy
- Anjelica Huston - Choke
- Beyoncé Knowles - Cadillac Records
- Sophie Okonedo - The Secret Life of Bees
- Emma Thompson - Brideshead Revisited
- Best Director
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
- Stephen Daldry - The Reader
- Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
- Thomas McCarthy - The Visitor
- Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
- Gus Van Sant - Milk
- 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 Editing
- 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
- "If the World" - Body of Lies
- "Jai Ho" - Slumdog Millionaire
- "Down to Earth" - WALL-E
- "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
The Visitor - Thomas McCarthy
- Australia - Baz Luhrmann
- Frozen River - Courtney Hunt
- Milk - Dustin Lance Black
- Seven Pounds - Grant Nieporte
- Best Sound (Mixing and Editing)
- Best Visual Effects
Television categories
- Best Series - Drama
- Brotherhood
- In Treatment
- Life on Mars
- Mad Men
- Primeval
- Best Series - Musical or Comedy
Tracey Ullman's State of the Union
- Best Miniseries
Cranford
- John Adams
- The Last Enemy
- Best TV Film
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
- 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
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
- Glenn Close - Damages
- Kathryn Erbe - Law and Order: Criminal Intent
- Holly Hunter - Saving Grace
- Sally Field - Brothers and Sisters
- 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 Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or TV Film
- Zeljko Ivanek - Damages
- Harvey Keitel - Life on Mars
- John Noble - Fringe
- John Slattery - Mad Men
- Jimmy Smits - Dexter
- Best Supporting Actress - Series, 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
Awards breakdown
Film
Winners:
- 3 / 6 Slumdog Millionaire: Best Director, Film-Drama and Original Score
- 3 / 9 Australia: Best Art Direction/Production Design, Cinematography and Visual Effects
- 2 / 2 Happy-Go-Lucky: Best Actress and Film-Musical or Comedy
- 2 / 3 The Visitor: Best Actor-Drama and Original Screenplay
- 1 / 1 Ghost Town: Best Actor-Musical or Comedy
- 1 / 1 Gomorrah: Best Foreign Language 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 / 3 WALL-E: Best Animated or Mixed Media Film
- 1 / 5 The Dark Knight: Best Sound
- 1 / 5 Frost/Nixon: Best Adapted Screenplay
- 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, Doubt, Frozen River, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, The Wrestler
- 0 / 2 The Day the Earth Stood Still, Elegy, In Bruges
Television
Winners:
- 2 / 2 Cranford: Best Actress-Miniseries or TV Film and Miniseries
- 2 / 2 Tracey Ullman's State of the Union: Best Actress and Series-Musical or Comedy
- 2 / 2 True Blood: Best Actress-Drama and Supporting Actor
- 1 / 1 Breaking Bad: Best Actor-Drama
- 1 / 2 Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story: Best TV Film
- 1 / 2 Weeds: Best Actor-Musical or Comedy Series
- 1 / 3 Dexter: Best Series-Drama
- 1 / 3 Brotherhood: Best Supporting Actress
- 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, Life on Mars