Satellite Awards 2008

The 13th US Satellite Awards , which the International Press Academy (IPA) awards each year in various film and media categories, took place on Sunday, December 14, 2008 in Los Angeles . Films and series from 2008 were honored at the 13th Satellite Awards .

Film winners and nominees

Best Film (Drama)

Slumdog millionaire

• Frost / Nixon
• Frozen River
• Milk
• The Reader
• Times of turmoil

Best Film (Comedy / Musical)

Happy-Go-Lucky

• Choke - the simulant
• See Bruges ... and die?
• Nick and Norah - One Night's Soundtrack
• Tropic Thunder
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Actor (Drama)

Richard Jenkins - A Summer in New York - The Visitor

Leonardo DiCaprio - Times of Turmoil

Frank Langella - Frost / Nixon

Sean Penn - Milk

Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Mark Ruffalo - What Doesn't Kill You

Best Actress (Drama)

Angelina Jolie - The Strange Son

Anne Hathaway - Rachel's Wedding

Melissa Leo - Frozen River

Meryl Streep - Question of Faith

Kristin Scott Thomas - I've loved you for so many years

Kate Winslet - The Reader

Best Actor (Comedy / Musical)

Ricky Gervais - Who the ghosts love

Josh Brolin - W. - A Misunderstood Life

Michael Cera - Nick and Norah - One Night's Soundtrack

Brendan Gleeson - See Bruges ... and die?

Sam Rockwell - Choke - The Simulant

Mark Ruffalo - Brothers Bloom

Best Actress (Comedy / Musical)

Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky

Kat Dennings - Nick and Norah - Soundtrack of One Night

Catherine Deneuve - Un conte de Noël

Lisa Kudrow - Kabluey

Debra Messing - Nothing Like the Holidays

Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia!

Best supporting actor

Michael Shannon - Times of Turmoil

Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder

James Franco - Milk

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Question of Faith

Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight

Rade Šerbedžija - Fugitive Pieces

The best supporting actress

Rosemarie DeWitt - Rachel's Wedding

Penélope Cruz - Elegy or the art of loving

Anjelica Huston - Choke - The Simulant

Beyoncé - Cadillac Records

Sophie Okonedo - The beekeeper

Emma Thompson - Reunion with Brideshead

Best documentary

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer Man on Wire

• Encounters at the End of the World
• Pray the Devil Back to Hell
• Religulous
• Waltz with Bashir

Best foreign language film

Gomorrah - Journey to the kingdom of Camorra (Gomorrah) , Italy

• Caramel (Sukkar banat) , France / Lebanon
• The class (Entre les murs) , France
• So dark the night (Låt den rara comma in) , Sweden
• Auf Anfang (recapitulation) , Norway
• Padre Nuestro , Argentina

Best film (animated film or real / animated film)

WALL · E - The last one is cleaning up the earth

• Bolt - a dog for all occasions
• Horton hears a who!
• The Sky Crawlers
• Despereaux - The little mouse hero
• Waltz with Bashir

Best director

Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire

Stephen Daldry - The Reader

Ron Howard - Frost / Nixon

Tom McCarthy - A Summer in New York - The Visitor

Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight

Gus Van Sant - Milk

Best adapted script

Frost / Nixon - Peter Morgan

• The Strange Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
• Question of Faith - John Patrick Shanley
• Elegy or the art of loving - Philip Roth
• The reader - David Hare
• Times of Turmoil - Justin Haythe
• Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy

Best original script

A Summer in New York - The Visitor - Tom McCarthy

• Australia - Baz Luhrmann
• Frozen River - Courtney Hunt
• Milk - Dustin Lance Black
• Seven Lives - Grant Nieporte

Best film score

Slumdog Millionaire - AR Rahman

• Australia - David Hirschfelder
• Horton hears a who! - John Powell
• Milk - Danny Elfman
• Quantum of Solace - David Arnold
• WALL · E - The last one is cleaning up the earth - Thomas Newman

Best movie song

Another Way to Die by Jack White - Quantum of Solace

• By the Boab Tree by Baz Luhrmann , Felix Meagher , Anton Monsted , Angela Little and Schuyler Weiss - Australia
• If the World by Axl Rose and Chris Pitman - The Man Who Never Lived
• Jai Ho from AR Rahman and Gulzar - Slumdog Millionaire
• Down to Earth by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman - WALL · E - The last one cleans up the earth
• The Wrestler by Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler

Best camera

Australia - Mandy Walker

• Goodbye to Brideshead
• The foreign son
• The strange case of Benjamin Button
• The Duchess
• Snow Angels

Best visual effects

Australia - Chris Godfrey , James E. Price and Diana Giorgiutti

• The Dark Knight
• The day the earth stood still
• Iron man
• Quantum of comfort

Best film editing

Iron Man - Dan Lebental and Glen Scantlebury

• Australia
• The Dark Knight
• Frost / Nixon
• Quantum of comfort
• Slumdog millionaire

Best sound editing

The Dark Knight - Richard King , Lora Hirschberg and Gary Rizzo

• Australia
• The day the earth stood still
• Iron man
• Quantum of comfort
• WALL · E - The last one is cleaning up the earth

Best production design

Australia - Catherine Martin , Ian Gracie , Karen Murphy and Beverley Dunn

• Goodbye to Brideshead
• City of Ember - Escape from the Dark
• The strange case of Benjamin Button
• The Duchess
• Times of turmoil

Best costume design

The Duchess - Michael O'Connor

• Australia
• Goodbye to Brideshead
• City of Ember - Escape from the Dark
• The strange case of Benjamin Button
• Sex and the City - The Movie

Television winners and nominees

Best TV Series (Drama)

Dexter

• Brotherhood
• In Treatment - The Therapist
• Life on Mars
• Mad Men
• Primeval - return of the primeval monsters

Best TV Series (Comedy / Musical)

Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

• 30 skirt
• The Colbert Report
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Pushing daisies
• Skins

Best miniseries

Cranford

• John Adams - Freedom for America
• The Last Enemy

Best TV movie

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

• The Memory Keeper's Daughter
• Bernard and Doris
• God on Trial
• Recount
• 24: Redemption

Best Actor in a Series (Drama)

Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad

Gabriel Byrne - In Treatment - The Therapist

Michael C. Hall - Dexter

Jon Hamm - Mad Men

Jason Isaacs - Brotherhood

David Tennant - Doctor Who

Best Actress in a Series (Drama)

Anna Paquin - True Blood

Glenn Close - Damages - In the web of power

Kathryn Erbe - Law and Order: Criminal Intent

Holly Hunter - Saving Grace

Sally Field - Brothers & Sisters

Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer

Best Actor in a Series (Comedy / Musical)

Justin Kirk - Weeds - Small deals among neighbors

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 Actress in a Series (Comedy / Musical)

Tracey Ullman - Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

Christina Applegate - Samantha Who?

America Ferrera - Everything Betty!

Tina Fey - 30 Rock

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

Paul Giamatti - John Adams - Freedom for America

Benedict Cumberbatch - The Last Enemy

Ralph Fiennes - Bernard and Doris

Stellan Skarsgård - God on Trial

Kevin Spacey - Recount

Tom Wilkinson - Recount

Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for TV

Judi Dench - Cranford

Jacqueline Bisset - An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving

Laura Linney - John Adams - Freedom for America

Phylicia Rashad - A Raisin in the Sun

Susan Sarandon - Bernard and Doris

Julie Walters - Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

Best supporting actor

Nelsan Ellis - True Blood

Željko Ivanek - Damages - In the network of power

Harvey Keitel - Life on Mars

John Noble - Fringe - Borderline cases of the FBI

John Slattery - Mad Men

Jimmy Smits - Dexter

The best supporting actress

Fionnula Flanagan - Brotherhood

Kristin Chenoweth - Pushing Daisies

Laura Dern - Recount

Sarah Polley - John Adams - Freedom for America

Dianne Wiest - In Treatment - The Therapist

Chandra Wilson - Grey's Anatomy

Web links

• International Press Academy: Satellite Awards 2008 (English)
• 2008 Satellite Awards videos
• The 13th Satellite Awards in the IMDb