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 EditingIron 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 ScoreSlumdog 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 – OriginalThe Visitor – Tom McCarthy Australia – Baz Luhrmann Frozen River – Courtney Hunt Milk – Dustin Lance Black Seven Pounds – Grant Nieporte
Best SoundThe 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 ExtrasIron 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 GameMetal 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 DVDNo 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
References
External links Official website