# 1st Golden Satellite Awards

The 1st Golden Satellite Awards, given by the International Press Academy, were awarded on January 15, 1997. The ceremony was hosted by Stacy Keach.

## Special achievement awards

Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Rod Steiger
Outstanding Contribution to New Media – Bill Gates
Outstanding New Talent – Arie Verveen

## Motion picture winners and nominees
### Best Actor – Drama

Geoffrey Rush – Shine as David Helfgott (TIE) James Woods – Killer: A Journal of Murder as Carl Panzram (TIE)
* Christopher Eccleston – Jude as Jude Fawley
* Ralph Fiennes – The English Patient as László Almásy
* William H. Macy – Fargo as Jerry Lundergaard
* Billy Bob Thornton – Sling Blade as Karl Childers

### Best Actor – Musical or Comedy

Tom Cruise – Jerry Maguire as Jerry Maguire
* Nathan Lane – The Birdcage as Albert Goldman
* Eddie Murphy – The Nutty Professor as Sherman Klump
* Jack Nicholson – Mars Attacks! as President James Dale
* Stanley Tucci – Big Night as Secondo

### Best Actress – Drama

Frances McDormand – Fargo as Marge Gunderson
* Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies as Cynthia Purley
* Kristin Scott Thomas – The English Patient as Katharine Clifton
* Emily Watson – Breaking the Waves as Bess McNeill
* Robin Wright Penn – Moll Flanders as Moll Flanders

### Best Actress – Musical or Comedy

Gwyneth Paltrow – Emma as Emma Woodhouse
* Glenn Close – 101 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
* Shirley MacLaine – Mrs. Winterbourne as Grace Winterbourne
* Heather Matarazzo – Welcome to the Dollhouse as Dawn Wiener
* Bette Midler – The First Wives Club as Brenda Morelli-Cushman

### Best Animated or Mixed Media Film

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* James and the Giant Peach
* Mars Attacks!
* Muppet Treasure Island
* Space Jam

### Best Art Direction

Romeo + Juliet – Catherine Martin
* The English Patient
* Evita
* Hamlet
* The Portrait of a Lady

### Best Cinematography

The English Patient – John Seale
* Breaking the Waves
* Evita
* Hamlet
* Romeo + Juliet

### Best Costume Design

Evita – Penny Rose
* Hamlet
* Moll Flanders
* The Portrait of a Lady
* Ridicule

### Best Director

Joel Coen – Fargo
* Scott Hicks – Shine
* Mike Leigh – Secrets & Lies
* Anthony Minghella – The English Patient
* Lars von Trier – Breaking the Waves

### Best Editing

Independence Day – David Brenner
* The English Patient
* Fargo
* Mission: Impossible
* Romeo + Juliet

### Best Film – Drama

Fargo
* The English Patient
* Lone Star
* Secrets & Lies
* Shine
* Trainspotting

### Best Film – Musical or Comedy

Evita
* Cold Comfort Farm
* Everyone Says I Love You
* Flirting with Disaster
* Swingers

### Best Foreign Language Film

Breaking the Waves, Denmark
* Bitter Sugar (Azúcar amarga), Cuba
* A Judgement in Stone (Le cérémonie), France
* Kolya (Kolja), Czech Republic
* Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskiy plennik), Russia
* Ridicule, France

### Best Original Score

"The English Patient" – Gabriel Yared
* "Hamlet" – Patrick Doyle
* "Mars Attacks!" – Danny Elfman
* "Michael Collins" – Elliot Goldenthal
* "Sling Blade" – Daniel Lanois

### Best Original Song

"You Must Love Me" performed by Madonna – Evita
* "God Give Me Strength" performed by Kristen Vigard – Grace of My Heart
* "Kissing You" performed by Des'ree – Romeo + Juliet
* "That Thing You Do" performed by The Wonders – That Thing You Do!
* "Walls" performed by Tom Petty – She's the One

### Best Screenplay – Adapted

The English Patient – Anthony Minghella
* The Crucible – Arthur Miller
* Jude – Hossein Amini
* The Portrait of a Lady – Laura Jones
* Trainspotting – John Hodge

### Best Screenplay – Original

Lone Star – John Sayles (TIE) The People vs. Larry Flynt – Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (TIE)
* Fargo – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
* Shine – Jan Sardi
* Sling Blade – Billy Bob Thornton

### Best Supporting Actor – Drama

Armin Mueller-Stahl – Shine as Peter
* Steve Buscemi – Fargo as Carl Showalter
* Robert Carlyle – Trainspotting as Francis "Franco" Begbie
* Jeremy Irons – Stealing Beauty as Alex Parrish
* John Lynch – Moll Flanders as Jonathan
* Paul Scofield – The Crucible as Thomas Danforth

### Best Supporting Actor – Musical or Comedy

Cuba Gooding Jr. – Jerry Maguire as Rod Tidwell
* Woody Allen – Everyone Says I Love You as Joe Berlin
* Danny DeVito – Matilda as Harry Wormwood
* Gene Hackman – The Birdcage as Senator Kevin Keeley
* Ian McKellen – Cold Comfort Farm as Amos Starkader

### Best Supporting Actress – Drama

Courtney Love – The People vs. Larry Flynt as Althea Flynt
* Joan Allen – The Crucible as Elizabeth Proctor
* Stockard Channing – Moll Flanders as Mrs. Allworthy
* Miranda Richardson – The Evening Star as Patsy Carpenter
* Kate Winslet – Hamlet as Ophelia

### Best Supporting Actress – Musical or Comedy

Debbie Reynolds – Mother as Beatrice Henderson
* Lauren Bacall – The Mirror Has Two Faces as Hannah Morgan
* Goldie Hawn – Everyone Says I Love You as Skylar Dandridge
* Sarah Jessica Parker – The First Wives Club as Shelly Stewart
* Renée Zellweger – Jerry Maguire as Dorothy Boyd

### Best Visual Effects

Independence Day – Volker Engel and Douglas Smith
* Dragonheart
* Mars Attacks!
* Star Trek: First Contact
* Twister

## Television winners and nominees
### Best Actor – Drama Series

David Duchovny – The X-Files as Fox Mulder
* Andre Braugher – Homicide: Life on the Street as Frank Pembleton
* Anthony Edwards – ER as Mark Greene
* Hector Elizondo – Chicago Hope as Phillip Watters
* Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue as Andy Sipowicz

### Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series

John Lithgow – 3rd Rock from the Sun as Dick Solomon
* Michael J. Fox – Spin City as Mike Flaherty
* Michael Richards – Seinfeld as Cosmo Kramer
* Garry Shandling – The Larry Sanders Show as Larry Sanders
* Rip Torn – The Larry Sanders Show as Artie

### Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Film

Alan Rickman – Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny as Grigori Rasputin
* Beau Bridges – Hidden in America as Bill Januson
* Ted Danson – Gulliver's Travels as Lemuel Gulliver
* Eric Roberts – In Cold Blood as Perry Edward Smith
* James Woods – The Summer of Ben Tyler as Temple Rayburn

### Best Actress – Drama Series

Christine Lahti – Chicago Hope as Kate Austin
* Gillian Anderson – The X-Files as Dana Scully
* Kim Delaney – NYPD Blue as Diane Russell
* Julianna Margulies – ER as Carol Hathaway
* Kimberly Williams-Paisley – Relativity as Isabel Lukens

### Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series

Jane Curtin – 3rd Rock from the Sun as Mary Albright
* Fran Drescher – The Nanny as Fran Fine
* Helen Hunt – Mad About You as Jamie Buchman
* Cybill Shepherd – Cybill as Cybill Sheridan
* Lea Thompson – Caroline in the City as Caroline Duffy

### Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film

Helen Mirren – Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment
* Kirstie Alley – Suddenly
* Lolita Davidovich – Harvest on Fire
* Laura Dern – The Siege at Ruby Ridge
* Jena Malone – Hidden in America

### Best Miniseries or TV Film

Gulliver's Travels
* If These Walls Could Talk
* Pride and Prejudice
* The Siege at Ruby Ridge
* The Summer of Ben Tyler

### Best Series – Drama

The X-Files
* Chicago Hope
* ER
* Homicide: Life on the Street
* NYPD Blue

### Best Series – Musical or Comedy

The Larry Sanders Show
* 3rd Rock from the Sun
* Cybill
* Seinfeld
* Spin City

### Best Supporting Actor – (Mini)Series or TV Film

Stanley Tucci – Murder One
* Brian Dennehy – A Season in Purgatory
* Ian McKellen – Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
* Anthony Quinn – Gotti
* Treat Williams – The Late Shift

### Best Supporting Actress – (Mini)Series or TV Film

Kathy Bates – The Late Shift
* Cher – If These Walls Could Talk
* Gail O'Grady – NYPD Blue
* Greta Scacchi – Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
* Alfre Woodard – Gulliver's Travels

## New Media winners and nominees
### Best Home Entertainment Product/Game

Super Mario 64
* Die Hard Trilogy
* John Madden Football 1996 (Electronic Arts)
* Nights (Sega)
* Tekken 2

### CD-ROM Educational – Children

101 Dalmatians Storybook
* Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse
* Living Books: Sheila Rae, The Brave
* The Simpsons: Cartoon Studio
* Snoopy's Campfire Stories

### CD-ROM Entertainment

Cinemania 97
* Encarta 97 – Encyclopedia Deluxe
* Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe
* Inside Independence Day
* Leonardo da Vinci

### CD-ROM Game

Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail
* Descent II
* Goosebumps
* Quake
* Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal

## Awards breakdown
### Film

Winners:
    3 / 5 Evita: Best Costume Design / Best Film – Musical or Comedy / Best Original Song
    3 / 7 Fargo: Best Director / Best Actress & Film – Drama
    3 / 9 The English Patient: Best Adapted Screenplay / Best Cinematography / Best Original Score
    2 / 2 Independence Day: Best Editing / Best Visual Effects
    2 / 2 The People vs. Larry Flynt: Best Screenplay – Original / Best Supporting Actress – Drama
    2 / 3 Jerry Maguire: Best Actor & Supporting Actor – Musical or Comedy
    2 / 5 Shine: Best Actor & Supporting Actor – Drama
    1 / 1 Emma: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy
    1 / 1 The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Best Animated or Mixed Media Film
    1 / 1 Killer: A Journal of Murder: Best Actor – Drama
    1 / 1 Mother: Best Supporting Actress – Musical or Comedy
    1 / 2 Lone Star: Best Screenplay – Original
    1 / 4 Breaking the Waves: Best Foreign Language Film
    1 / 4 Romeo + Juliet: Best Art Direction
Losers:
    0 / 5 Hamlet
    0 / 4 Mars Attacks!, Moll Flanders
    0 / 3 The Crucible, Everyone Says I Love You, The Portrait of a Lady, Sling Blade, Secrets & Lies, Trainspotting
    0 / 2 The Birdcage, Cold Comfort Farm, The First Wives Club, Jude, Ridicule

### Television

Winners:
    2 / 3 3rd Rock from the Sun: Best Actor & Actress – Musical or Comedy Series
    2 / 3 The X-Files: Best Actor – Drama Series / Best Series – Drama
    1 / 1 Murder One: Best Supporting Actor – (Mini)Series or TV Film
    1 / 1 Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment: Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film
    1 / 2 The Late Shift: Best Supporting Actress – (Mini)Series or TV Film
    1 / 3 Chicago Hope: Best Actress – Drama Series
    1 / 3 Gulliver's Travels: Best Miniseries or TV Film
    1 / 3 The Larry Sanders Show: Best Series – Musical or Comedy
    1 / 3 Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny: Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Film
Losers:
    0 / 4 NYPD Blue
    0 / 3 ER
    0 / 2 Cybill, Hidden in America, Homicide: Life on the Street, If These Walls Could Talk, Seinfeld, The Siege at Ruby Ridge, Spin City, The Summer of Ben Tyler