13th Satellite Awards
{{Infobox film awards
| number = 13
| award = Satellite Awards
| date = {{Start date|2008|12|14}}
| best_film_drama = Slumdog Millionaire
| best_film =
| best_film_musical_or_comedy = Happy-Go-Lucky
| best_direction = Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
| best_drama_series = Dexter
| best_musical_or_comedy_series = Tracey Ullman's State of the Union
| last = 12th
| next = 14th
}}
The 13th Satellite Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2008, were given on December 14, 2008.
Special achievement awards
Auteur Award (for his signature scope and style of filmmaking) – Baz Luhrmann
Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Louis Gossett Jr.
Nikola Tesla Award (for his innovative make-up, prosthetics, and creature effects in films) – Rick Baker
Outstanding New Talent – Brandon Walters
Motion picture winners and nominees
File:Danny Boyle Red Carpet T2 Trainspotting Berlinale 2017 02.jpg, Best Director winner]]
File:RichardJenkins2AAFeb09.jpg, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama winner]]
File:Angelina Jolie 2 June 2014 (cropped).jpg, Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama winner]]
File:Ricky Gervais 2010.jpg, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical winner]]
File:MJK35110 Sally Hawkins (Maudie, Berlinale 2017) (cropped).jpg, Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical winner]]
File:Michael Shannon (32205688420).jpg, Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture winner]]
File:Rosemarie DeWitt at TIFF 2014.jpg, Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture winner]]
File:Peter Morgan 2010.jpg, Best Adapted Screenplay winner]]
File:Tom McCarthy (cropped).jpg, Best Original Screenplay winner]]
File:A. R. Rahman.jpg, Best Original Score winner]]
File:Jack White Ottawa.jpg, Best Original Song winner]]
=Best Actor – Drama=
=Best Actor – Musical or Comedy=
=Best Actress – Drama=
=Best Actress – Musical or Comedy=
=Best Animated or Mixed Media Film=
=Best Art Direction and Production Design=
=Best Cinematography=
=Best Costume Design=
=Best Director=
=Best Documentary Film=
=Best Editing=
=Best Film – Drama=
=Best Film – Musical or Comedy=
=Best Foreign Language Film=
=Best Original Score=
=Best Original Song=
"Another Way to Die" – Quantum of Solace
- "By the Boab Tree" – Australia
- "Down to Earth" – WALL-E
- "If the World" – Body of Lies
- "Jai Ho" – Slumdog Millionaire
- "The Wrestler" – The Wrestler
=Best Screenplay – Adapted=
=Best Screenplay – Original=
=Best Sound=
=Best Supporting Actor=
=Best Supporting Actress=
=Best Visual Effects=
Television winners and nominees
File:Bryan Cranston by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg, Best Actor in a Drama Series winner]]
File:AnnaPaquinToronto2018.jpg, Best Actress in a Drama Series winner]]
File:Justin Kirk 2008.jpg, Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical Series winner]]
File:Tracey Ullman 1990.jpg, Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series winner]]
File:PaulGiamattiSept2013TIFF.jpg, Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film winner]]
File:Judi Dench at the BAFTAs 2007.jpg, Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film winner]]
File:Nelsan Ellis at True Blood premiere party (crop).jpg, Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film winner]]
File:Fionnula Flanagan cropped 2.jpg, Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film winner]]
=Best Actor – Drama Series=
=Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series=
=Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Film=
=Best Actress – Drama Series=
=Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series=
=Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film=
=Best Miniseries=
=Best Series – Drama=
=Best Series – Musical or Comedy=
=Best Supporting Actor – Miniseries or TV Film=
=Best Supporting Actress – Miniseries or TV Film=
=Best TV Film=
New Media winners and nominees
=Best Classic DVD=
The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and The Godfather Part III (The Godfather Collection – The Coppola Restoration)
- Beetlejuice (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
- Diva
- Dracula (75th Anniversary Edition)
- High Noon (Two-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)
- The Mummy
- Psycho
- Road House
- Touch of Evil (50th Anniversary Edition)
- Young Frankenstein
=Best DVD Extras=
Iron Man (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- Across the Universe
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- The Bank Job
- Eight Men Out
- Gone Baby Gone
- High Noon (Two-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)
- Into the Wild
- WALL-E (Three-Disc Special Edition)
=Best DVD Release of a TV Show=
- 30 Rock (Season 2)
- The Tudors (The Complete First Season)
=Outstanding Action/Adventure Game=
=Outstanding Music/Rhythm Game=
=Outstanding Overall Blu-Ray=
Sleeping Beauty (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition Blu-Ray and DVD)
- The Dark Knight
- The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and The Godfather Part III (The Godfather Collection – The Coppola Restoration)
- Iron Man
- WALL-E (Three-Disc Special Edition Blu-Ray and DVD)
=Outstanding Overall DVD=
=Outstanding Puzzle/Strategy Game=
=Outstanding Sports/Racing Game=
=Outstanding Youth DVD=
WarGames (25th Anniversary Edition)
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (Book 3 Fire, Vol. 4)
- Cars
- Enchanted
- Nim's Island
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Two-Disc Platinum Edition DVD)
- Sleeping Beauty (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition Blu-Ray and DVD)
- The Spiderwick Chronicles
- WALL-E (Three-Disc Special Edition)
- The Water Horse (Two-Disc Edition)
- Watership Down (Deluxe Edition)
Awards breakdown
=Film=
Winners:
: 3 / 6 Slumdog Millionaire: Best Director / Best Film – Drama / Best Original Score
: 3 / 9 Australia: Best Art Direction and Production Design / Best Cinematography / Best Visual Effects
: 2 / 2 Happy-Go-Lucky: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy / Best Film – Musical or Comedy
: 2 / 3 The Visitor: Best Actor – Drama / Best Screenplay – Original
: 1 / 1 Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer: Best Documentary Film
: 1 / 1 Ghost Town: Best Actor – Musical or Comedy
: 1 / 1 Gomorrah (Gomorra): Best Foreign Language Film
: 1 / 1 Man on Wire: Best Documentary 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 / 4 WALL-E: Best Animated or Mixed Media Film
: 1 / 5 The Dark Knight: Best Sound
: 1 / 5 Frost/Nixon: Best Screenplay – Adapted
: 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, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
: 0 / 2 City of Ember, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Doubt, Elegy, Horton Hears a Who!, In Bruges, Frozen River, Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir), The Wrestler
=Television=
Winners:
: 2 / 2 Cranford: Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film / Best Miniseries
: 2 / 2 Tracey Ullman's State of the Union: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series / Best Series – Musical or Comedy
: 2 / 2 True Blood: Best Actress – Drama Series / Best Supporting Actor – Miniseries or TV Film
: 1 / 1 Breaking Bad: Best Actor – Drama Series
: 1 / 2 Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story: Best TV Film
: 1 / 2 Weeds: Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series
: 1 / 3 Brotherhood: Best Supporting Actress – Miniseries or TV Film
: 1 / 3 Dexter: Best Series – Drama
: 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, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Last Enemy, Life on Mars
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111117163101/http://www.pressacademy.com/satawards/awards2008.shtml Official website of the International Press Academy]
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