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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 |
| 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
- 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
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
- 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
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