13th Satellite Awards

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 Editing

Iron 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 Score

Slumdog 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 – Original

The Visitor – Tom McCarthy

Australia – Baz Luhrmann
Frozen River – Courtney Hunt
Milk – Dustin Lance Black
Seven Pounds – Grant Nieporte

Best Sound

The 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 Extras

Iron 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 Game

Metal 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 DVD

No 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