Satellite Awards 2008 - Film Categories

Film Categories

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 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 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 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
• Angelica Huston - Choke
• Beyoncé Knowles - Cadillac Records
• Sophie Okonedo - The Secret Life of Bees
• Emma Thompson - Brideshead Revisited

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 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 Editing

Iron Man

• Australia
• The Dark Knight
• Frost/Nixon
• Quantum of Solace
• Slumdog Millionaire

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

Best Visual Effects

Australia

• The Dark Knight
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Iron Man
• Quantum of Solace