13th Satellite Awards

13th Satellite Awards
Date	December 14, 2008 (2008-12-14)
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Best drama film	Slumdog Millionaire
Best comedy/musical film	Happy-Go-Lucky
Best director	Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
Best television drama	Dexter
Best television comedy	Tracey Ullman's State of the Union
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The winners of the 13th Annual Satellite Awards, honoring the best in film and television in 2008, were announced on December 14, 2008.

Top 10 films

• Ballast
• Changeling
• Doubt
• The Dark Knight
• Frost/Nixon
• Frozen River
• Milk
• The Reader
• Revolutionary Road
• Slumdog Millionaire

Winners and nominees

Auteur Award

• Baz Luhrmann for his signature scope and style of filmmaking.

Film

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 and 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

• Kat Dennings - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
• Catherine Deneuve - A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël)
• 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
• Thomas McCarthy - The Visitor
• Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
• Gus Van Sant - Milk

Best Documentary Film

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 (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 and Norah's Infinite Playlist
• Tropic Thunder
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Foreign Language Film

Gomorrah • Italy

• Caramel • France/Lebanon
• The Class (Entre les murs) • France
• Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) • Sweden
• Reprise • Norway
• Sangre de mi sangre • Argentina

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
• "If the World" - Body of Lies
• "Jai Ho" - Slumdog Millionaire
• "Down to Earth" - WALL-E
• "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 - Thomas McCarthy

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

Best Sound (Mixing and Editing)

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 Sherbedgia - Fugitive Pieces

Best Supporting Actress

Rosemarie DeWitt - Rachel Getting Married

• Penélope Cruz - Elegy
• Anjelica Huston - Choke
• Beyoncé Knowles - Cadillac Records
• 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

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 and Order: Criminal Intent
• Holly Hunter - Saving Grace
• Sally Field - Brothers and Sisters
• 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 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 Miniseries

Cranford

• John Adams
• The Last Enemy

Best TV Film

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

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

Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or TV Film

Nelsan Ellis - True Blood

• Zeljko Ivanek - Damages
• Harvey Keitel - Life on Mars
• John Noble - Fringe
• John Slattery - Mad Men
• Jimmy Smits - Dexter

Best Supporting Actress - Series, 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

Awards breakdown

Film

Winners:

3 / 6 Slumdog Millionaire: Best Director, Film-Drama and Original Score

3 / 9 Australia: Best Art Direction/Production Design, Cinematography and Visual Effects

2 / 2 Happy-Go-Lucky: Best Actress and Film-Musical or Comedy

2 / 3 The Visitor: Best Actor-Drama and Original Screenplay

1 / 1 Ghost Town: Best Actor-Musical or Comedy

1 / 1 Gomorrah: Best Foreign Language 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 / 3 WALL-E: Best Animated or Mixed Media Film

1 / 5 The Dark Knight: Best Sound

1 / 5 Frost/Nixon: Best Adapted Screenplay

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, Doubt, Frozen River, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, The Wrestler

0 / 2 The Day the Earth Stood Still, Elegy, In Bruges

Television

Winners:

2 / 2 Cranford: Best Actress-Miniseries or TV Film and Miniseries

2 / 2 Tracey Ullman's State of the Union: Best Actress and Series-Musical or Comedy

2 / 2 True Blood: Best Actress-Drama and Supporting Actor

1 / 1 Breaking Bad: Best Actor-Drama

1 / 2 Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story: Best TV Film

1 / 2 Weeds: Best Actor-Musical or Comedy Series

1 / 3 Dexter: Best Series-Drama

1 / 3 Brotherhood: Best Supporting Actress

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, Life on Mars

External links

• Official website of the International Press Academy