Satellite Award Nominees

The International Press Academy has announced the nominees for the 13th Annual Satellite Awards. Before anybody panics, remember last year, the IPA failed to nominate There Will Be Blood (presumably for lack of having seen it yet), and in 2006 Letters From Iwo Jima wasn’t nominated (probably for the same reason).

Motion Picture, Drama

The Reader

Slumdog Millionaire

Revolutionary Road

Frost/Nixon

Milk

Frozen River

Director

Thomas McCarthy – The Visitor

Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon

Gus Van Sant – Milk

Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight

Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire

Stephen Daldry – The Reader

Actress In A Motion Picture, Drama

Melissa Leo – Frozen River

Angelina Jolie – Changeling

Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married

Kristin Scott Thomas РI’ve Loved You So Long

Meryl Streep – Doubt

Kate Winslet – The Reader

Actor In A Motion Picture, Drama

Mickey Rourke -The Wrestler

Mark Ruffalo – What Doesn’t Kill You

Richard Jenkins – The Visitor

Frank Langella -Frost/Nixon

Leonardo Dicaprio – Revolutionary Road

Sean Penn – Milk

(more nominees, after the cut)

Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical

Happy-Go-Lucky

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Tropic Thunder

In Bruges

Choke

Actress In A Motion Picture, Comedy Or Musical

Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky

Meryl Streep – Mamma Mia!

Lisa Kudrow – Kabluey

Kat Dennings РNick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Catherine Deneuve – A Christmas Tale

Debra Messing – Nothing Like the Holidays

Actor In A Motion Picture, Comedy Or Musical

Ricky Gervais – Ghost Town

Sam Rockwell – Choke

Josh Brolin – W.

Michael Cera РNick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges

Michael Cera РNick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Mark Ruffalo – The Brothers Bloom

Actress In A Supporting Role

Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married

Penelope Cruz – Elegy

Anjelica Huston – Choke

Sophie Okonedo – The Secret Life of Bees

Emma Thompson – Brideshead Revisited

Viola Davis – Doubt

Beyoncé Knowles РCadillac Records

Actor In A Supporting Role

Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road

Robert Downey, Jr. – Tropic Thunder

Rade Sherbedgia – Fugitive Pieces

James Franco – Milk

Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight

Philip Seymour – Hoffman Doubt

Motion Picture, Foreign Language Film

Let the Right One In – Sweden

The Class – France

Sangre de mi Sangre – Argentina

Reprise – Norway

Gomorrah – Italy

Caramel – Lebanon / France

Motion Picture, Animated Or Mixed Media

The Tale of Despereaux

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!

WALL-E

Bolt

Waltz With Bashir

The Sky Crawlers

Motion Picture, Documentary

Man on Wire

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Encounters at the End of the World

Religulous

Anita O’Day – The Life of a Jazz Singer

Waltz With Bashir

Screenplay, Original

Philip Roth – Elegy

Thomas McCarthy -The Visitor

Eric Roth, Robin Swicord – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Courtney Hunt – Frozen River

Baz Luhrmann, Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, Richard Flanagan – Australia

Dustin Lance Black – Milk

Screenplay, Adapted

John Patrick Shanley – Doubt

Peter Morgan – Frost/Nixon

David Hare – The Reader

Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire

Justin Haythe – Revolutionary Road

Original Score

David Arnold – Quantum of Solace

Thomas Newman – WALL-E

John Powell – Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!

A.R. Rahman – Slumdog Millionaire

David Hirschfelder – Australia

Danny Elfman – Milk

Original Song

”Another Way to Die”/Jack White РQuantum of Solace

“If the World‚Äù/Guns N’ Roses – Body of Lies

“Down to Earth‚Äù/Peter Gabriel – WALL-E

“By the Boab Tree”/Angela Little et al. РAustralia

“Jaiho”/ A.R. Rahman and Gulzar РSlumdog Millionaire

“The Wrestler”/Bruce Springsteen РThe Wrestler

Cinematography

Jess Hall – Brideshead Revisited

Gyula Pados – The Duchess

Mandy Walker – Australia

Tim Orr – Snow Angels

Tom Stern – Changeling

Claudio Miranda – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Visual Effects

Quantum of Solace

Iron Man

The Dark Knight

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Australia

Film Editing

Quantum of Solace

Iron Man

The Dark Knight

Australia

Slumdog Millionaire

Frost/Nixon

Sound (Mixing & Editing)

Quantum of Solace

Iron Man

The Dark Knight

Australia

WALL-E

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Art Direction & Production Design

Australia

Brideshead Revisited

The Duchess    Paramount Vantage

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

City of Ember

Revolutionary Road

Costume Design

The Duchess

Brideshead Revisited

Australia

Sex And The City

City of Ember

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Auteur Award

Baz Luhrmann

TOP 10 FILMS OF 2008 – [ listed alphabetically ]

BALLAST

CHANGELING

DOUBT

THE DARK KNIGHT

FROST / NIXON

FROZEN RIVER

MILK

THE READER

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE