The 14th 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 at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles.
The nominations were announced on November 30, 2009. The winners were announced on December 20, 2009.
Special achievement awards Auteur Award (for his trademark style of imaginative special effects and plots) – Roger Corman
Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Michael York
Nikola Tesla Award (for his creative cinematography in films) – Roger Deakins
Outstanding Guest Star – Kristin Chenoweth (Glee)
Outstanding New Talent – Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Motion picture winners and nominees
Best Actor – Drama Jeremy Renner for The Hurt Locker Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart Hugh Dancy for Adam Johnny Depp for Public Enemies Colin Firth for A Single Man Michael Sheen for The Damned United
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Michael Stuhlbarg for A Serious Man George Clooney for Up in the Air Bradley Cooper for The Hangover Matt Damon for The Informant! Daniel Day-Lewis for Nine
Best Actress – Drama Shohreh Aghdashloo for The Stoning of Soraya M. Emily Blunt for The Young Victoria Abbie Cornish for Bright Star Penélope Cruz for Broken Embraces Carey Mulligan for An Education Catalina Saavedra for The Maid
Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia Sandra Bullock for The Proposal Marion Cotillard for Nine Zooey Deschanel for (500) Days of Summer Katherine Heigl for The Ugly Truth
Best Animated or Mixed Media Film Fantastic Mr. Fox Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince The Princess and the Frog Up Where the Wild Things Are
Best Art Direction and Production Design A Single Man 2012 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Public Enemies Red Cliff The Road
Best Cinematography Dion Beebe for Nine Roger Deakins for A Serious Man Zhang Li and Lü Yue for Red Cliff Guillermo Navarro and Erich Roland for It Might Get Loud Robert Richardson for Inglourious Basterds Dante Spinotti for Public Enemies
Best Costume Design Monique Prudhomme for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Colleen Atwood for Nine Consolata Boyle for Chéri Sandy Powell for The Young Victoria Tim Yip for Red Cliff
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker Neill Blomkamp for District 9 Jane Campion for Bright Star Lee Daniels for Precious Rob Marshall for Nine Lone Scherfig for An Education
Best Documentary Film Every Little Step The Beaches of Agnès The Cove It Might Get Loud The September Issue Valentino: The Last Emperor
Best Editing Chris Innis and Bob Murawski for The Hurt Locker David Brenner for 2012 Julian Clarke for District 9 Robert A. Ferretti, Yang Hongyu, Angie Lam, and David Wu for Red Cliff Greg Finton for It Might Get Loud Claire Simpson and Wyatt Smith for Nine
Best Film – Drama The Hurt Locker Bright Star An Education The Messenger Precious The Stoning of Soraya M. (Sangsâr Sorayâ M.)
Best Film – Musical or Comedy Nine The Informant! It's Complicated Julie & Julia A Serious Man Up in the Air
Best Foreign Language Film Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos) • Spain (TIE) The Maid (La Nana) • Chile (TIE) I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) • Canada Red Cliff (Chi bi) • China The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band) • Germany Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter) • Netherlands
Best Original ScoreUp in the Air – Rolfe Kent Amelia – Gabriel Yared The Informant! – Marvin Hamlisch Public Enemies – Elliot Goldenthal Up – Michael Giacchino Where the Wild Things Are – Carter Burwell and Karen O
Best Original Song"The Weary Kind" by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett from Crazy Heart "Almost There" by Randy Newman from The Princess and the Frog "Cinema Italiano" by Maury Yeston from Nine "Down in New Orleans" by Randy Newman from The Princess and the Frog "I Can See in Color" by Mary J. Blige from Precious "We Are the Children of the World" by Terry Gilliam from The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Best Screenplay – Adapted Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell for District 9 Nora Ephron for Julie & Julia Nick Hornby for An Education Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air
Best Screenplay – Original Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for (500) Days of Summer Mark Boal for The Hurt Locker Jane Campion for Bright Star Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for A Serious Man Pete Docter and Bob Peterson for Up
Best Sound 2012 It Might Get Loud Nine Red Cliff Terminator Salvation Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds Woody Harrelson for The Messenger James McAvoy for The Last Station Alfred Molina for An Education Timothy Spall for The Damned United
Best Supporting Actress Mo'Nique for Precious Emily Blunt for Sunshine Cleaning Penélope Cruz for Nine Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air Mozhan Marnò for The Stoning of Soraya M.
Best Visual Effects 2012 District 9 Fantastic Mr. Fox The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Red Cliff Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble Nine
Television winners and nominees
Best Actor – Drama Series Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad Gabriel Byrne – In Treatment Nathan Fillion – Castle Jon Hamm – Mad Men Lucian Msamati – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Bill Paxton – Big Love
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series Matthew Morrison – Glee Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock Jemaine Clement – Flight of the Conchords Stephen Colbert – The Colbert Report Danny McBride – Eastbound & Down Jim Parsons – The Big Bang Theory
Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Brendan Gleeson – Into the Storm Kevin Bacon – Taking Chance Kenneth Branagh – Wallander William Hurt – Endgame Jeremy Irons – Georgia O'Keeffe Ian McKellen – The Prisoner
Best Actress – Drama Series Glenn Close – Damages Stana Katic – Castle Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife Elisabeth Moss – Mad Men Jill Scott – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series Lea Michele – Glee Julie Bowen – Modern Family Toni Collette – United States of Tara Brooke Elliott – Drop Dead Diva Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie Tina Fey – 30 Rock Mary-Louise Parker – Weeds
Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Drew Barrymore – Grey Gardens Lauren Ambrose – Loving Leah Judy Davis – Diamonds Jessica Lange – Grey Gardens Janet McTeer – Into the Storm Sigourney Weaver – Prayers for Bobby
Best Miniseries Little Dorrit Collision Diamonds The Prisoner Wallander
Best Series – Drama Breaking Bad Big Love Damages The Good Wife In Treatment Mad Men
Best Series – Musical or Comedy Glee 30 Rock The Big Bang Theory Flight of the Conchords How I Met Your Mother Weeds
Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film John Lithgow – Dexter Chris Colfer – Glee Tom Courtenay – Little Dorrit Neil Patrick Harris – How I Met Your Mother John Noble – Fringe Harry Dean Stanton – Big Love
Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film Jane Lynch – Glee Cherry Jones – 24 Judy Parfitt – Little Dorrit Anika Noni Rose – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Chloë Sevigny – Big Love Vanessa Williams – Ugly Betty
Best Television Film Grey Gardens The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler Endgame Into the Storm Loving Leah Taking Chance
Outstanding Television Ensemble True Blood
New Media winners and nominees
Best Classic DVD North by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition) Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Edition) Paul Newman – The Tribute Collection (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Exodus, From the Terrace, Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, The Hustler, The Long, Hot Summer, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, The Towering Inferno, The Verdict, and What a Way to Go!) To Catch a Thief (The Centennial Collection) The Wizard of Oz (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Edition) Yentl (Two-Disc Director's Extended Edition)
Best Documentary DVD Every Little Step Days That Shook the World (The Complete Second Season) Food, Inc. Moving Midway Religulous Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music – The Director's Cut (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Edition)
Best DVD Extras Yentl (Two-Disc Director's Extended Edition) Across the Universe The Big Lebowski (10th Anniversary Edition) Dexter (The Complete Third Season) Hogan's Heroes (The Komplete Series – Kommandant's Kollection) Primal Fear (Hard Evidence Edition) Up (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition)
Best DVD Release of a TV Show True Blood (The Complete First Season) Ally McBeal (The Complete Series) Dollhouse (Season 1) Hogan's Heroes (The Komplete Series – Kommandant's Kollection) Project Runway (Season 5) Sons of Anarchy (Season One)
Best Overall Blu-Ray Star Trek (3-Disc Digital Copy Special Edition) Rocky: The Undisputed Collection (Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, and Rocky Balboa) Say Anything... (20th Anniversary Edition) South Pacific (50th Anniversary Edition) Up (4-Disc Combo Pack) The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition)
Best Overall DVD Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Edition) An American Werewolf in London (Special Edition) The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Up (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition)
Best Youth DVD The Wizard of Oz (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Edition) Bolt (Deluxe DVD Edition) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Double DVD Pack) Peanuts: 1960's Collection (A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown's All Stars!, He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown, and You're in Love, Charlie Brown) Sesame Street (40 Years of Sunny Days) Up (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition)
Awards breakdown
Film Winners: 4 / 5 The Hurt Locker: Best Actor – Drama / Best Director / Best Editing / Best Film – Drama 3 / 11 Nine: Best Cinematography / Best Film – Musical or Comedy / Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble 2 / 4 2012: Best Sound / Best Visual Effects 2 / 5 Precious: Best Screenplay – Adapted / Best Supporting Actress 1 / 1 Every Little Step: Best Documentary Film 1 / 2 (500) Days of Summer: Best Screenplay – Original 1 / 2 Broken Embraces: Best Foreign Language Film 1 / 2 Crazy Heart: Best Original Song 1 / 2 Fantastic Mr. Fox: Best Animated or Mixed Media Film 1 / 2 Inglourious Basterds: Best Supporting Actor 1 / 3 Julie & Julia: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy 1 / 3 A Single Man: Best Art Direction and Production Design 1 / 3 The Stoning of Soraya M.: Best Actress – Drama 1 / 4 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: Best Costume Design 1 / 4 A Serious Man: Best Actor – Musical or Comedy 1 / 5 Up in the Air: Best Original Score
Losers: 0 / 6 Red Cliff 0 / 5 An Education 0 / 4 Bright Star, District 9, It Might Get Loud, Public Enemies 0 / 3 The Informant!, The Princess and the Frog, Up 0 / 2 The Damned United, The Maid, The Messenger, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Young Victoria, Where the Wild Things Are
Television Winners: 4 / 5 Glee: Best Actor & Actress – Musical or Comedy Series / Best Series – Musical or Comedy / Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film 2 / 2 Breaking Bad: Best Actor – Drama Series / Best Series – Drama 2 / 3 Grey Gardens: Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film / Best Television Film 1 / 1 Dexter: Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film 1 / 1 True Blood: Outstanding Television Ensemble 1 / 2 Damages: Best Actress – Drama Series 1 / 3 Little Dorrit: Best Miniseries 1 / 3 Into the Storm: Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
Losers: 0 / 4 Big Love 0 / 3 30 Rock, Mad Men, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency