# 23rd Satellite Awards

The 23rd Satellite Awards is an award ceremony honoring the year's outstanding performers, films, television shows, home videos and interactive media, presented by the International Press Academy.
The nominations were announced on November 28, 2018. The winners were announced on January 3, 2019, and the ceremony was held on February 22, 2019.
For this cycle of the Satellite Awards, the categories Best Film, Best Actor, and Best Actress were split into Drama and Comedy/Musical categories. Previously, they had been joined in one category since the 16th ceremony in 2011.

## Special achievement awards

* Auteur Award (for singular vision and unique artistic control over the elements of production) – Ryan Coogler
* Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Rade Šerbedžija
* Nikola Tesla Award (for visionary achievement in filmmaking technology) – Kevin Baillie
* Best First Feature – Rupert Everett (The Happy Prince)
* Ensemble: Motion Picture – The Favourite
* Ensemble: Television – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

## Motion picture winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
| Best Motion Picture – Drama | Best Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical |
| If Beale Street Could Talk Black Panther First Man Hereditary Mary Queen of Scots Widows | A Star Is Born Crazy Rich Asians The Favourite Green Book Mary Poppins Returns Nico, 1988 |
| Best Animated or Mixed Media Film | Best Director |
| Isle of Dogs Incredibles 2 Liz and the Blue Bird Mirai Ralph Breaks the Internet Ruben Brandt, Collector | Alfonso Cuarón – Roma Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born Peter Farrelly – Green Book Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman |
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama | Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama |
| Willem Dafoe – At Eternity's Gate as Vincent van Gogh Ben Foster – Leave No Trace as Will Ryan Gosling – First Man as Neil Armstrong Ethan Hawke – First Reformed as Ernst Toller Lucas Hedges – Boy Erased as Jared Eamons Robert Redford – The Old Man & the Gun as Forrest Tucker | Glenn Close – The Wife as Joan Castleman Yalitza Aparicio – Roma as Cleo Viola Davis – Widows as Veronica Rawlings Nicole Kidman – Destroyer as Erin Bell Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel Rosamund Pike – A Private War as Marie Colvin |
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy/Musical | Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy/Musical |
| Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born as Jackson Maine Lin-Manuel Miranda – Mary Poppins Returns as Jack Viggo Mortensen – Green Book as Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga Nick Robinson – Love, Simon as Simon Spier John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman as Ron Stallworth | Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Anne, Queen of Great Britain Emily Blunt – Mary Poppins Returns as Mary Poppins Trine Dyrholm – Nico, 1988 as Nico Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade as Kayla Day Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born as Ally Campana Maine Constance Wu – Crazy Rich Asians as Rachel Chu |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock Mahershala Ali – Green Book as Don Shirley Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy as Nic Sheff Russell Crowe – Boy Erased as Marshall Eamons Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman as Flip Zimmerman Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born as Bobby Maine | Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers Claire Foy – First Man as Janet Armstrong Nicole Kidman – Boy Erased as Nancy Eamons Margot Robbie – Mary Queen of Scots as Queen Elizabeth I Emma Stone – The Favourite as Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham Rachel Weisz – The Favourite as Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough |
| Best Original Screenplay | Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Roma – Alfonso Cuarón Eighth Grade – Bo Burnham The Favourite – Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara First Reformed – Paul Schrader Green Book – Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, and Peter Farrelly A Quiet Place – Scott Beck, John Krasinski, and Bryan Woods | Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty BlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Spike Lee The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, and Peter Fellows If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins Leave No Trace – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini A Star Is Born – Bradley Cooper and Eric Roth |
| Best Documentary Film | Best Foreign Language Film |
| Minding the Gap Crime + Punishment Free Solo RBG Three Identical Strangers Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Roma (Mexico) The Cakemaker (Israel) Cold War (Poland) The Guilty (Denmark) I Am Not a Witch (United Kingdom) Shoplifters (Japan) |
| Best Film Editing | Best Cinematography |
| Roma – Alfonso Cuarón BlacKkKlansman – Barry Alexander Brown First Man – Tom Cross If Beale Street Could Talk – Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders A Star Is Born – Jay Cassidy Widows – Joe Walker | A Star Is Born – Matthew Libatique Black Panther – Rachel Morrison Cold War – Łukasz Żal The Favourite – Robbie Ryan If Beale Street Could Talk – James Laxton Roma – Alfonso Cuarón |
| Best Original Score | Best Original Song |
| First Man – Justin Hurwitz BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard Colette – Thomas Adès If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell The Sisters Brothers – Alexandre Desplat Widows – Hans Zimmer | "Shallow" – A Star Is Born "All the Stars" – Black Panther "Can You Imagine That?" – Mary Poppins Returns "Requiem for a Private War" – A Private War "Revelation" – Boy Erased "Strawberries & Cigarettes" – Love, Simon |
| Best Costume Design | Best Art Direction and Production Design |
| The Favourite – Sandy Powell Black Panther – Ruth E. Carter Colette – Andrea Flesch Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Colleen Atwood Mary Queen of Scots – Alexandra Byrne A Star Is Born – Erin Benach | Mary Poppins Returns – John Myhre Black Panther – Hannah Beachler Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Stuart Craig The Favourite – Fiona Crombie First Man – Nathan Crowley Roma – Eugenio Caballero |
| Best Visual Effects | Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) |
| Black Panther Avengers: Infinity War Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Rampage Ready Player One | A Quiet Place Black Panther First Man Mary Poppins Returns Roma A Star Is Born |
| Best Independent Film | |
| BlacKkKlansman Eighth Grade First Reformed Leave No Trace Private Life A Private War | |

### Films with multiple nominations

| Nominations | Films |
| 11 | A Star Is Born |
| 9 | The Favourite |
| 8 | Roma |
| 7 | BlacKkKlansman |
| 7 | Black Panther |
| 7 | First Man |
| 7 | If Beale Street Could Talk |
| 6 | Mary Poppins Returns |
| 5 | Green Book |
| 4 | Boy Erased |
| 4 | Widows |
| 3 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? |
| 3 | Eighth Grace |
| 3 | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald |
| 3 | First Reformed |
| 3 | Leave No Trace |
| 3 | Mary Queen of Scots |
| 3 | A Private War |
| 2 | Cold War |
| 2 | Colette |
| 2 | Crazy Rich Asians |
| 2 | Love, Simon |
| 2 | Nico, 1988 |
| 2 | A Quiet Place |

### Films with multiple wins

| Wins | Films |
| 4 | Roma |
| 3 | A Star Is Born |
| 2 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? |
| 2 | The Favourite |
| 2 | If Beale Street Could Talk |

## Television winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
| Best Drama Series | Best Musical or Comedy Series |
| Homecoming – Amazon The Bold Type – Freeform The Handmaid's Tale – Hulu Mr. Mercedes – AT&T Succession – HBO This Is Us – NBC | Lodge 49 – AMC Arrested Development – Netflix Atlanta – FX Barry – HBO Black-ish – ABC The Good Place – NBC Insecure – HBO |
| Best Genre Series | Best Miniseries |
| The Terror – AMC Castle Rock – Hulu Counterpart – Starz Doctor Who – BBC The Man in the High Castle – Amazon | The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story – FX The Looming Tower – Hulu Patrick Melrose – Showtime Sharp Objects – HBO A Very English Scandal – Amazon |
| Best Actor in a Drama / Genre Series | Best Actress in a Drama / Genre Series |
| Brendan Gleeson – Mr. Mercedes as Bill Hodges Jason Bateman – Ozark as Marty Byrde Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul as Saul Goodman Matthew Rhys – The Americans as Philip Jennings J. K. Simmons – Counterpart as Howard Silk Billy Bob Thornton – Goliath as Billy McBride | Julia Roberts – Homecoming as Heidi Bergman Elisabeth Moss – The Handmaid's Tale as Offred / June Osborne Sandra Oh – Killing Eve as Eve Polastri Keri Russell – The Americans as Elizabeth Jennings Jodie Whittaker – Doctor Who as The Doctor |
| Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series | Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series |
| Bill Hader – Barry as Barry Berkman / Barry Block Anthony Anderson – Black-ish as Andre "Dre" Johnson Sr. Ted Danson – The Good Place as Michael Donald Glover – Atlanta as Earnest "Earn" Marks William H. Macy – Shameless as Frank Gallagher Thomas Middleditch – Silicon Valley as Richard Hendricks | Issa Rae – Insecure as Issa Dee Alison Brie – GLOW as Ruth "Zoya the Destroya" Wilder Christina Hendricks – Good Girls as Beth Boland Ellie Kemper – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as Kimmy Schmidt Niecy Nash – Claws as Desna Simms Tracee Ellis Ross – Black-ish as Rainbow "Bow" Johnson |
| Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Film | Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Film |
| Darren Criss – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story as Andrew Cunanan Daniel Brühl – The Alienist as Laszlo Kreizler Benedict Cumberbatch – Patrick Melrose as Patrick Melrose Jeff Daniels – The Looming Tower as John O'Neill Hugh Grant – A Very English Scandal as Jeremy Thorpe Jared Harris – The Terror as Francis Crozier | Amy Adams – Sharp Objects as Camille Preaker Laura Dern – The Tale as Jennifer Fox Dakota Fanning – The Alienist as Sara Howard Julia Roberts – Homecoming as Heidi Bergman Emma Stone – Maniac as Annie Landsberg |
| Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film | Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film |
| Hugo Weaving – Patrick Melrose as David Melrose Mark Duplass – Goliath as Tom Wyatt John Macmillan – King Lear as Edmund Édgar Ramírez – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story as Gianni Versace Paul Ready – The Terror as Harry Goodsir Ben Whishaw – A Very English Scandal as Norman Josiffe / Norman Scott | Sharon Stone – Mosaic as Olivia Lake Penélope Cruz – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story as Donatella Versace Jennifer Jason Leigh – Patrick Melrose as Eleanor Melrose Justine Lupe – Mr. Mercedes as Holly Gibney Nive Nielsen – The Terror as Lady Silence Emma Thompson – King Lear as Goneril |
| Best Television Film ||
| The Tale – HBO Cargo – Netflix Her Only Choice – BET King Lear – Amazon ||

### Series with multiple nominations

| Nominations | Series |
| 4 | The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story |
| 4 | Patrick Melrose |
| 4 | The Terror |
| 3 | Black-ish |
| 3 | Homecoming |
| 3 | King Lear |
| 3 | Mr. Mercedes |
| 3 | A Very English Scandal |
| 2 | The Alienist |
| 2 | The Americans |
| 2 | Atlanta |
| 2 | Barry |
| 2 | Counterpart |
| 2 | Doctor Who |
| 2 | Goliath |
| 2 | The Good Place |
| 2 | The Handmaid's Tale |
| 2 | Insecure |
| 2 | The Looming Tower |
| 2 | Sharp Objects |
| 2 | The Tale |

### Series with multiple wins

| Wins | Series |
| 2 | The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story |
| 2 | Homecoming |