25th Satellite Awards

{{Infobox film awards

| number = 25

| award = Satellite Awards

| date = {{Start date|2021|2|15}}

| best_film_drama = Nomadland

| best_film_musical_or_comedy = The Forty-Year-Old Version

| best_direction = Chloé Zhao for Nomadland

| best_drama_series = Better Call Saul

| best_musical_or_comedy_series = Schitt's Creek

| last = 24th

| next = 26th

}}

The 25th Satellite Awards is an award ceremony honoring the year's outstanding performers, films and television shows, presented by the International Press Academy.

The nominations were announced on February 1, 2021.{{cite web |url=https://www.pressacademy.com/news/25th-satellite-awards-nominees-for-motion-pictures-and-television-announced/ |title=25th Satellite Awards Nominees for Motion Pictures and Television Announced |last=Van Blaricom |first=Mirjana |date=February 1, 2021 |publisher=International Press Academy |access-date=February 1, 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://awardswatch.com/satellite-awards-mank-leads-film-nominations-the-crown-leads-television/ |title=Satellite Awards: 'Mank' leads film nominations; 'The Crown' leads television |last=Anderson |first=Erik |date=February 1, 2021 |publisher=AwardsWatch |access-date=February 1, 2021}} The winners were announced on February 15, 2021.{{cite web |url=https://www.pressacademy.com/2020-ipa-awards/ |title=2020 Winners |publisher=International Press Academy |access-date=February 15, 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://awardswatch.com/satellite-awards-winners-nomadland-forty-year-old-version-top-film-prizes-schitts-creek-better-call-saul-take-tv/ |title=Satellite Awards winners: 'Nomadland', 'Forty-Year Old Version' top film prizes; 'Schitt's Creek', 'Better Call Saul' take TV |last=Anderson |first=Erik |date=February 15, 2021 |publisher=AwardsWatch |access-date=February 15, 2021}}

Special achievement awards

Auteur Award (for singular vision and unique artistic control over the elements of production) – Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Humanitarian Award (for making a difference in the lives of those in the artistic community and beyond) – Mark Wahlberg
Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Tilda Swinton
Nikola Tesla Award (for visionary achievement in filmmaking technology) – Dick Pope
Best First Feature – Channing Godfrey Peoples (Miss Juneteenth)
Stunt Performance Award – Gaëlle Cohen
Ensemble: Motion Picture – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Ensemble: Television – The Good Lord Bird

Motion picture winners and nominees

File:Chloe Zhao by Gage Skidmore.jpg, Best Director winner]]

File:Riz Ahmed at the Rogue One - A Star Wars Story - World Premeire Red Carpet - DSC 0437 (31547570706) (cropped).jpg, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama winner]]

File:Frances McDormand 2015 (cropped).jpg, Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama winner]]

File:Sacha Baron Cohen, 2011.jpg, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical winner]]

File:Maria bakalova bts 1.jpg, Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical winner]]

File:Chadwick Boseman by Gage Skidmore July 2017 (cropped).jpg, Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture winner]]

File:Amanda Seyfried 2019 by Glenn Francis.jpg, Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture winner]]

File:Hampton3.jpg, Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner]]

File:Florian Zeller.jpg, Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner]]

File:Emerald Fennell, 2023 (1).jpg, Best Original Screenplay winner]]

File:Alexandre Desplat 2015.jpg, Best Original Score winner]]

File:Laura Pausini Inedito World Tour.jpg, Best Original Song co-winner]]

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

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style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Motion Picture – Drama

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical

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The Forty-Year-Old Version
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Hamilton
On the Rocks
Palm Springs
The Personal History of David Copperfield

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Animated or Mixed Media Film

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Director

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Wolfwalkers
Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train
No.7 Cherry Lane
Over the Moon
Soul

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Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
David Fincher – Mank
Darius Marder – Sound of Metal
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Florian Zeller – The Father

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

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Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Levee Green
Anthony Hopkins – The Father as Anthony
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods as Paul
Gary Oldman – Mank as Herman J. Mankiewicz
Steven Yeun – Minari as Jacob Yi

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Frances McDormand – Nomadland as Fern
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Ma Rainey
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman as Martha Weiss
Sophia Loren – The Life Ahead as Madame Rosa
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman as Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas
Kate Winslet – Ammonite as Mary Anning

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical

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Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm as Borat Sagdiyev
Lin-Manuel Miranda – Hamilton as Alexander Hamilton
Leslie Odom Jr. – Hamilton as Aaron Burr
Dev Patel – The Personal History of David Copperfield as David Copperfield
Andy Samberg – Palm Springs as Nyles

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Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm as Tutar Sagdiyev
Rashida Jones – On the Rocks as Laura Keane
Michelle Pfeiffer – French Exit as Frances Price
Margot Robbie – Birds of Prey as Harley Quinn
Meryl Streep – The Prom as Dee Dee Allen
Anya Taylor-Joy – Emma as Emma Woodhouse

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Supporting Actor

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Supporting Actress

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Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods as "Stormin'" Norman Earl Holloway
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Abbie Hoffman
Kingsley Ben-Adir – One Night in Miami... as Malcolm X
Brian Dennehy – Driveways as Del
Bill Murray – On the Rocks as Felix Keane
David Strathairn – Nomadland as David

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Amanda Seyfried – Mank as Marion Davies
Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman as Elizabeth Weiss
Olivia Colman – The Father as Anne
Nicole Kidman – The Prom as Angie Dickinson
Youn Yuh-jung – Minari as Soon-ja
Helena Zengel – News of the World as Johanna Leonberger / Cicada

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Original Screenplay

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Adapted Screenplay

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Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell
Mank – Jack Fincher
Minari – Lee Isaac Chung
Palm Springs – Andy Siara
Soul – Pete Docter, Mike Jones, and Kemp Powers
The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin

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The Father – Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
The Life Ahead – Edoardo Ponti
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Ruben Santiago-Hudson
News of the World – Luke Davies and Paul Greengrass
Nomadland – Jessica Bruder and Chloé Zhao
One Night in Miami... – Kemp Powers

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Documentary Film

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Foreign Language Film

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La Llorona ({{flag|Guatemala}})
Another Round ({{flag|Denmark}})
Atlantis ({{flag|Ukraine}})
I'm No Longer Here ({{flag|Mexico}})
Jallikattu ({{flag|India}})
My Little Sister ({{flag|Switzerland}})
A Sun ({{flag|Taiwan}})
Tove ({{flag|Finland}})
Two of Us ({{flag|France}})

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Cinematography

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Film Editing

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The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Alan Baumgarten
The Father – Yorgos Lamprinos
Mank – Kirk Baxter
Minari – Harry Yoon
Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
One Night in Miami... – Tariq Anwar

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Art Direction and Production Design

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Costume Design

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Mank – Donald Graham Burt, Chris Craine, Jan Pascale, and Dan Webster
The Midnight Sky – Jim Bissell and John Bush
Mulan – Anne Kuljian and Grant Major
One Night in Miami... – Page Buckner, Barry Robinson, and Mark Zuelzke
The Personal History of David Copperfield – Cristina Casali and Charlotte Dirickx
The Prom – Jamie Walker McCall and Gene Serdena

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The Personal History of David Copperfield – Suzie Harman and Robert Worley
Emma – Alexandra Byrne
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Ann Roth
Mank – Trish Summerville
Mulan – Bina Daigeler
One Night in Miami... – Francine Jamison-Tanchuck

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Original Score

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Original Song

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The Midnight Sky – Alexandre Desplat
Mank – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Minari – Emile Mosseri
News of the World – James Newton Howard
One Night in Miami... – Terence Blanchard
Tenet – Ludwig Göransson

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"Io sì (Seen)" – The Life Ahead (Niccolò Agliardi, Laura Pausini, and Diane Warren)
"Everybody Cries" – The Outpost (Larry Groupé, Rod Lurie, and Rita Wilson)
"Hear My Voice" – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Daniel Pemberton and Celeste Waite)
"The Other Side" – Trolls World Tour (Justin Timberlake)
"Rocket to the Moon" – Over the Moon (Christopher Curtis, Marjorie Duffield, and Helen Park)
"Speak Now" – One Night in Miami... (Sam Ashworth and Leslie Odom Jr.)

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Sound (Editing and Mixing)

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Visual Effects

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Sound of Metal – Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, and Carolina Santana
Mank – Ren Klyce, Drew Kunin, Jeremy Molod, Nathan Nance, and David Parker
The Midnight Sky – Todd Beckett, Danny Hambrook, Dan Hiland, Bjorn Ole Schroeder, and Randy Thom
Nomadland – Sergio Díaz, Zach Seivers, and M. Wolf Snyder
The Prom – David Giammarco, Gary Megregian, Steven A. Morrow, and Mark Paterson
Tenet – Willie D. Burton, Richard King, Kevin O'Connell, and Gary Rizzo

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Tenet – Scott R. Fisher and Andrew Jackson
Birds of Prey – Thrain Shadbolt and Kevin Souls
Greyhound – Peter Bebb and Nathan McGuinness
Mank – Simon Carr, Pablo Helman, James Pastorius, and Wei Zheng
The Midnight Sky – Matt Kasmir and Chris Lawrence
Mulan – Sean Andrew Faden

=Films with multiple nominations=

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! Nominations

! Films

style="text-align:center"| 11

| Mank

style="text-align:center"| 9

| One Night in Miami...

style="text-align:center"| 8

| Nomadland

style="text-align:center"| 7

| Minari

rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"| 6

| The Father

The Trial of the Chicago 7

rowspan="3" style="text-align:center"| 5

| Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

The Midnight Sky

Tenet

rowspan="4" style="text-align:center"| 4

| News of the World

The Personal History of David Copperfield

The Prom

Sound of Metal

rowspan="7" style="text-align:center"| 3

| Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Hamilton

The Life Ahead

Mulan

On the Rocks

Palm Springs

Promising Young Woman

rowspan="6" style="text-align:center"| 2

| Birds of Prey

Da 5 Bloods

Emma

Over the Moon

Pieces of a Woman

Soul

=Films with multiple wins=

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! Wins

! Films

rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"| 3

| Mank

Nomadland

rowspan="3" style="text-align:center"| 2

| Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Television winners and nominees

File:Bob Odenkirk by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg, Best Actor in a Drama / Genre Series winner]]

File:Olivia Colman at Moet BIFA 2014 (cropped).jpg, Best Actress in a Drama / Genre Series winner]]

File:Eugene Levy 2, 2012.jpg, Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series winner]]

File:Elle Fanning-1733 (cropped).jpg, Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series winner]]

File:Ethan Hawke 2018.jpg, Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film winner]]

File:Cate Blanchett Cannes 2018 2 (cropped 2).jpg, Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film winner]]

File:Jeff Wilbusch Berlinale 2018.jpg, Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film winner]]

File:Tracey Ullman 1990.jpg, Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film winner]]

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"\| Best Drama Series ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"\| Best Musical or Comedy Series
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valign="top" \| Better Call Saul – AMC Billions – Showtime The Crown – Netflix Killing Eve – BBC America Ozark – Netflix P-Valley – Starz \| valign="top" \| Schitt's Creek – Pop TV The Boys – Amazon Prime Video Dead to Me – Netflix Insecure – HBO Ramy – Hulu What We Do in the Shadows – FX
style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"\| Best Genre Series ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"\| Best Miniseries
valign="top" \| The Haunting of Bly Manor – Netflix Evil – CBS His Dark Materials – HBO The Mandalorian – Disney+ The Outsider – HBO Pennyworth – Epix \| valign="top" \| The Good Lord Bird – Showtime Mrs. America – FX on Hulu Normal People – Hulu The Queen's Gambit – Netflix Small Axe – BBC One / Prime Video The Undoing – HBO Unorthodox – Netflix
style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"\| Best Actor in a Drama / Genre Series ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"\| Best Actress in a Drama / Genre Series
valign="top" \| *Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul* as Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman / Gene Takavic** Jason Bateman – Ozark as Martin "Marty" Byrde Damian Lewis – Billions as Robert "Bobby" Axelrod Tobias Menzies – The Crown as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Regé-Jean Page – Bridgerton as Simon Basset Matthew Rhys – Perry Mason as Perry Mason \| valign="top" \| *Olivia Colman – The Crown* as Queen Elizabeth II** Caitriona Balfe – Outlander as Claire Fraser Phoebe Dynevor – Bridgerton as Daphne Bridgerton Laura Linney – Ozark as Wendy Byrde Sandra Oh – Killing Eve as Eve Polastri Maggie Siff – Billions as Wendy Rhoades
style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"\| Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"\| Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series
valign="top" \| *Eugene Levy – Schitt's Creek* as Johnny Rose** Dave Burd – Dave as himself Ricky Gervais – After Life as Tony Johnson Nicholas Hoult – The Great as Peter III of Russia Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso as Ted Lasso Ramy Youssef – Ramy as Ramy Hassan \| valign="top" \| *Elle Fanning – The Great* as Catherine the Great** Christina Applegate – Dead to Me as Jen Harding Linda Cardellini – Dead to Me as Judy Hale Zoë Kravitz – High Fidelity as Robyn "Rob" Brooks Catherine O'Hara – Schitt's Creek as Moira Rose Issa Rae – Insecure as Issa Dee
style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"\| Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"\| Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film
valign="top" \| *Ethan Hawke – The Good Lord Bird* as John Brown** John Boyega – Small Axe as Leroy Logan Bryan Cranston – Your Honor as Michael Desiato Hugh Grant – The Undoing as Jonathan Fraser Hugh Jackman – Bad Education as Frank Tassone Chris Rock – Fargo as Loy Cannon Mark Ruffalo – I Know This Much Is True as Dominick and Thomas Birdsey \| valign="top" \| *Cate Blanchett – Mrs. America* as Phyllis Schlafly** Shira Haas – Unorthodox as Esther "Esty" Shapiro Nicole Kidman – The Undoing as Grace Fraser Anya Taylor-Joy – The Queen's Gambit as Beth Harmon Letitia Wright – Small Axe as Altheia Jones-LeCointe Zendaya – Euphoria as Rue Bennett
style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"\| Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"\| Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film
valign="top" \| *Jeff Wilbusch – Unorthodox* as Moishe Lefkovitch** Joshua Caleb Johnson – The Good Lord Bird as Henry "Onion" Shackleford Josh O'Connor – The Crown as Charles, Prince of Wales Tom Pelphrey – Ozark as Ben Davis Donald Sutherland – The Undoing as Franklin Reinhardt Ben Whishaw – Fargo as Rabbi Milligan \| valign="top" \| *Tracey Ullman – Mrs. America* as Betty Friedan** Gillian Anderson – The Crown as Margaret Thatcher Jessie Buckley – Fargo as Oraetta Mayflower Emma Corrin – The Crown as Diana, Princess of Wales Hope Davis – Your Honor as Gina Baxter Noma Dumezweni – The Undoing as Haley Fitzgerald
colspan="2" style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"\| Best Television Film
valign="top" colspan="2" \| The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel – Lifetime Bad Education – HBO Sylvie's Love – Prime Video Uncle Frank – Prime Video