# 13th Satellite Awards

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

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
### 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