Satellite Awards Nominations

Yesterday the International Press Association announced the nominees for the 14th Satellite Awards. The awards are usually awarded mid-December, so this is the 1st major precursor for the Oscar ceremony. Last year it correctly predicted Slumdog Millionaire for Best Picture, WALL-E as Best Animated Feature Film and Danny Boyle as Best Director. The acting awards were a completely different story however (Richard Jenkins and Angelina Jolie for Drama and Sally Hawkins and Ricky Gervais for Comedy) so we'll see how this year's winners will do. Here is the complete list of nominees:

BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Bright Star
An Education
The Hurt Locker
The Messenger
Precious
The Stoning of Soraya M.

BEST MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY/MUSICAL
The Informant!
It's Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine
A Serious Man
Up in the Air

BEST DIRECTOR
Jane Campion - Bright Star
Neill Blomkamp - District 9
Lone Scherfig - An Education
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Rob Marshall - Nine
Lee Daniels - Precious

BEST ACTRESS - DRAMA
Shohreh Aghdashloo - The Stoning of Soraya M.
Emily Blunt - The Young Victoria
Abbie Cornish - Bright Star
Penelope Cruz - Broken Embraces
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Catalina Saavedra - The Maid

BEST ACTOR - DRAMA
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
Hugh Dancy - Adam
Johnny Depp - Public Enemies
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker
Michael Sheen - The Damned United

BEST ACTRESS - COMEDY/MUSICAL
Sandra Bullock - The Proposal
Marion Cotillard - Nine
Zooey Deschanel - (500) Days of Summer
Katherine Heigl - The Ugly Truth
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

BEST ACTOR - COMEDY/MUSICAL
George Clooney - Up in the Air
Bradley Cooper - The Hangover
Matt Damon - The Informant!
Daniel Day-Lewis - Nine
Michael Stuhlbarg - A Serious Man

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Blunt - Sunshine Cleaning
Penelope Cruz - Nine
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Mozhan Marno - The Stoning of Soraya M.
Mo'Nique - Precious

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
James McAvoy - The Last Station
Alfred Molina - An Education
Timothy Spall - The Damned United
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Jane Campion - Bright Star
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber - (500) Days of Summer
Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - A Serious Man
Pete Docter & Bob Peterson - Up

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell - District 9
Nick Hornby - An Education
Nora Ephron - Julie & Julia
Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner - Up in the Air

BEST ANIMATED or MIXED MEDIA FEATURE FILM
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Princess and the Frog
Up
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Broken Embraces (Spain)
I Killed My Mother (Canada)
The Maid (Chile)
Red Cliff (China)
The White Ribbon (Austria)
Winter in Wartime (Netherlands)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Beaches of Agnes
The Cove
Every Little Step
It Might Get Loud
The September Issue
Valentino: The Last Emperor

BEST ART DIRECTION
Terry Gilliam, Dave Warren & Anastasia Masaro - The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nathan Crowley, Patrick Lumb & William Ladd Skinner - Public Enemies
Eddy Wong - Red Cliff
Chris Kennedy - The Road
Ian Philipps & Dan Bishop - A Single Man
Barry Chusid & Elizabeth Wilcox - 2012

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Robert Richardson - Inglourious Basterds
Guillermo Navarro & Erich Roland - It Might Get Loud
Dion Beebe - Nine
Dante Spinotti - Public Enemies
Lu Yue & Zhang Yi - Red Cliff
Roger Deakins - A Serious Man

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Consolata Boyle - Cheri
Monique Prudhomme - The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Colleen Atwood - Nine
Tim Yip - Red Cliff
Sandy Powell - The Young Victoria

BEST FILM EDITING
Julian Clarke - District 9
Chris Innis & Bob Murawski - The Hurt Locker
Greg Finton - It Might Get Loud
Claire Simpson & Wyatt Simpson - Nine
Angie Lam, Yang Hongyu & Robert A. Ferretti - Red Cliff
David Brenner & Peter S. Elliot - 2012

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Gabriel Yared - Amelia
Marvin Hamslich - The Informant!
Elliot Goldenthal - Public Enemies
Michael Giacchino - Up
Rolfe Kent - Up in the Air
Carter Burwell & Karen O - Where the Wild Things Are

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
'The Weary Kind' (T-Bone Burnett & Ryan Bingham) - Crazy Heart
'We Are the Children of the World' (Terry Gilliam) - The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
'Cinema Italiano' (Maury Yeston) - Nine
'I See in Color' (Mary J. Blige) - Precious
'Almost There' (Randy Newman) - The Princess and the Frog
'Down in New Orleans' (Randy Newman) - The Princess and the Frog

BEST SOUND (MIXING & EDITING)
It Might Get Loud
Nine
Red Cliff
Terminator Salvation
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2012

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
District 9
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Red Cliff
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2012

BEST ENSEMBLE
Nine

OUTSTANDING NEW TALENT
Gabourey Sidibe

AUTEUR AWARD
Roger Corman

TESLA AWARD (ACHEIVEMENT IN TECHNOLOGY)
Roger Deakins

MARY PICKFORD AWARD (OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION)
Michael York

TEN BEST FILMS OF 2009
Bright Star
An Education
(500) Days of Summer
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Precious
A Serious Man
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Up in the Air


Well you've probably noticed major absences from the nominations, notably The Lovely Bones and Avatar (we'll have to see the critics to see the buzz). Nine leads the way with 10 nominations so look for this to be the early favorite going into this year's award season. What do you think?