Monday, December 1, 2008

Satellite Award Nominees

The International Press Academy has announced the nominees for the 13th Annual Satellite Awards. They split the movies between drama and comedy/musical, and this is the years first spot to get a real clue as to how the awards season is going to go. Here are the nominations:

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 - I’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

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 - Nick 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 - Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
# Brendan Gleeson - In Bruges
# Michael Cera - Nick 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 - Cadillac 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

TOP 10 FILMS OF 2008 - [ listed alphabetically ]
# BALLAST
# CHANGELING
# DOUBT
# THE DARK KNIGHT
# FROST / NIXON
# FROZEN RIVER
# MILK
# THE READER
# REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
# SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I love award shows! You more.