Satellite Awards 2006

The 11th US Satellite Awards , which the International Press Academy (IPA) awards each year in various film and media categories, took place on Monday, December 18, 2006 at the Le Méridien Hotel in Los Angeles . The nominations were announced on November 30, 2006. Films and series from 2006 were honored at the 11th Satellite Awards .

Film winners and nominees

Best Film (Drama)

Departed - Among enemies

• Babel
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Helped Nelson
• The Last King of Scotland - In the Clutches of Power
• Little Children
• The Queen

Best Film (Comedy / Musical)

Dream girls

• The devil Wears Prada
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Stranger than fiction
• Thank you for smoking
• Venus

Best Actor (Drama)

Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland - In the clutches of power

Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond

Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson

Joshua Jackson - Aurora Borealis

Derek Luke - Catch a Fire

Patrick Wilson - Little Children

Best Actress (Drama)

Helen Mirren - The Queen

Penélope Cruz - Volver - Return

Judi Dench - Diary of a Scandal

Maggie Gyllenhaal - SherryBaby

Gretchen Mol - The Notorious Bettie Page

Kate Winslet - Little Children

Best Actor (Comedy / Musical)

Joseph Cross - Crazy

Sacha Baron Cohen - Borate

Aaron Eckhart - Thank You for Smoking

Will Ferrell - Weird Than Fiction

Peter O'Toole - Venus

Best Actress (Comedy / Musical)

Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada

Annette Bening - Awesome

Toni Collette - Little Miss Sunshine

Beyoncé Knowles - Dreamgirls

Julie Walters - Driving Lessons - Full throttle into life

Jodie Whittaker - Venus

Best supporting actor

Leonardo DiCaprio - Departed - Among enemies

Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine

Adam Beach - Flags of Our Fathers

Brad Pitt - Babel

Donald Sutherland - Aurora Borealis

The best supporting actress

Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

Cate Blanchett - Diary of a Scandal

Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine

Blythe Danner - The Last Kiss

Rinko Kikuchi - Babel

Lily Tomlin - Robert Altman's Last Radio Show

Best documentary

Deliver Us from Evil

• An uncomfortable truth
• Jonestown - a sect's death craze
• Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
• The US vs. John Lennon
• The war tapes

Best foreign language film

Volver - Return (Volver) , Spain

• Apocalypto , USA
• Changing Times (Les temps qui changent) , France
• The life of others , Germany
• The Syrian Bride (Ha-Kala Ha-Surit) , Israel
• Water , Canada

Best film (animated film or real / animated film)

Pan's labyrinth

• Cars
• Flush and away
• Happy feet
• Ice Age 2: Now it's thawing

Best director

Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers Bill Condon - Dreamgirls

Pedro Almodóvar - Volver - Return

Stephen Frears - The Queen

Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel

Martin Scorsese - Departed - Among enemies

Best adapted script

William Monahan - Departed - Among enemies

• Dreamgirls - Bill Condon
• Flags of Our Fathers - William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis
• Little Children - Todd Field and Tom Perrotta
• Robert Altman's Last Radio Show - Garrison Keillor
• Thank You for Smoking - Jason Reitman

Best original script

Peter Morgan - The Queen

• Babel - Guillermo Arriaga and Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Changing Times - Pascal Bonitzer , Laurent Guyot and André Téchiné
• The House of Sand - Luiz Carlos Barreto , Elena Soarez and Andrucha Waddington
• Volver - Return - Pedro Almodóvar
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley - Paul Laverty

Best film score

Babel - Gustavo Santaolalla

• Brick - Nathan Johnson
• The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code - Hans Zimmer
• Flags of Our Fathers - Clint Eastwood
• The Lives of Others - Gabriel Yared
• Diary of a Scandal - Philip Glass

Best movie song

You Know My Name by Chris Cornell - Casino Royale

• Lists by Henry Krieger , Anne Previn , Scott Cutler, and Beyoncé Knowles - Dreamgirls
• Love You I Do by Henry Krieger and Siedah Garrett - Dreamgirls
• Never Let Go by Bryan Adams , Trevor Rabin and Eliot Kennedy - Every Second Counts - The Guardian
• Till the End of Time by DeVotchKa - Little Miss Sunshine
• Upside Down by Jack Johnson - Coco - The Curious Monkey

Best camera

Tom Stern - Flags of Our Fathers

• The Black Dahlia
• The curse of the golden flower
• The House of Sand
• The Fountain
• A good year
• X-Men: The Last Stand

Best visual effects

Pirates of the Caribbean 2 -John KnollandHal T. Hickel

• The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code
• Flags of Our Fathers
• The Fountain
• Pan's labyrinth
• V for Vendetta
• X-Men: The Last Stand

Best film editing

Mark Helfrich , Mark Goldblatt and Julia Wong - X-Men: The Last Stand

• Babel
• Dream girls
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Miami Vice

Best sound editing

Dream girls

• Babel
• The Da Vinci Code
• Flags of Our Fathers
• X-Men: The Last Stand

Best production design

Flags of Our Fathers -Henry Bumstead,Jack G. Taylor Jr.,andRichard C. Goddard

• Dream girls
• Pan's labyrinth
• Marie Antoinette
• V for Vendetta

Best costume design

The devil wears Prada - Patricia Field

• The Black Dahlia
• Dream girls
• The curse of the golden flower
• Marie Antoinette

Television winners and nominees

Best TV Series (Drama)

Dr. House

• 24
• Dexter
• Heroes
• Rescue Me
• The Wire

Best TV Series (Comedy / Musical)

Everything Betty!

• The Colbert Report
• Entourage
• Everyone hates Chris
• The office

Best miniseries

To The Ends of The Earth

• Bleak House
• Casanova
• Elizabeth I
• Thief

Best TV movie

A Little Thing Called Murder

• Gideon's Daughter
• High school musical
• In from the night
• Mrs. Harris - murder in the best circles

Best Actor in a Series (Drama)

Hugh Laurie - Dr. House

Michael C. Hall - Dexter

Denis Leary - Rescue Me

Bill Paxton - Big Love

Matthew Perry - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Bradley Whitford - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Best Actress in a Series (Drama)

Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer

Kristen Bell - Veronica Mars

Emily Deschanel - Bones

Sarah Paulson - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Amanda Peet - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Jeanne Tripplehorn - Big Love

Best Actor in a Series (Comedy / Musical)

James Spader - Boston Legal

Stephen Colbert - The Colbert Report

Steve Carell - The Office

Ted Danson - Help Me Help You

Jason Lee - My Name Is Earl

James Roday - Psych

Best Actress in a Series (Comedy / Musical)

Marcia Cross - Desperate Housewives

America Ferrera - Everything Betty!

Laura Kightlinger - The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman

Lisa Kudrow - Comeback

Julia Louis-Dreyfus - The New Adventures of Old Christine

Mary-Louise Parker - Weeds - Small deals among neighbors

Best Actor in a Miniseries or a TV Movie

Bill Nighy - Gideon's Daughter

Andre Braugher - Thief

Charles Dance - Bleak House

Hugh Dancy - Elizabeth I

Ben Kingsley - Mrs. Harris - Murder in the best circles

Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for TV

Judy Davis - A Little Thing Called Murder

Gillian Anderson - Bleak House

Annette Bening - Mrs. Harris - Murder in the best circles

Helen Mirren - Elizabeth I

Miranda Richardson - Gideon's Daughter

Best supporting actor

Tony Plana - Everything Betty!

Philip Baker Hall - The Loop

Michael Emerson - Lost

Robert Knepper - Prison Break

Jeremy Piven - Entourage

Forest Whitaker - The Shield - Law of Violence

The best supporting actress

Julie Benz - Dexter

Vanessa Williams - Everything Betty!

Elizabeth Perkins - Weeds - Small Neighborhood Deals

Jean Smart - 24

Fionnula Flanagan - Brotherhood

Laurie Metcalf - Desperate Housewives

Web links

• International Press Academy: Satellite Awards 2006 ( Memento of July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• The 11th Satellite Awards in the IMDb

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcements of the Satellite Awards 2006 ( version of July 19, 2011 ( memento of July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
2. ↑ Schedule of the Satellite Awards ( Version of July 2, 2007 ( Memento of July 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))