November 30, 2008

Nominations Announced for the Satellite Awards!

And I am very puzzled....
-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
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
-Screenplay, Original
Philip Roth - Elegy
Thomas McCarthy -The Visitor
Eric Roth, Robin Swicord - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Courtney Hunt - Frozen River
Baz Luhrmann, Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, Richard Flanagan - Australia
Dustin Lance Black - Milk
-Screenplay, Adapted
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt
Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
David Hare - The Reader
Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
Justin Haythe - Revolutionary Road
-Original Score
David Arnold - Quantum of Solace
Thomas Newman - WALL-E
John Powell - Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!
A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire
David Hirschfelder - Australia
Danny Elfman - Milk
-Original Song
”Another Way to Die”/Jack White - Quantum of Solace
“If the World”/Guns N’ Roses - Body of Lies
“Down to Earth”/Peter Gabriel - WALL-E
“By the Boab Tree”/Angela Little et al. - Australia
“Jaiho”/ A.R. Rahman and Gulzar - Slumdog Millionaire
“The Wrestler”/Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler
-Cinematography
Jess Hall - Brideshead Revisited
Gyula Pados - The Duchess
Mandy Walker - Australia
Tim Orr - Snow Angels
Tom Stern - Changeling
Claudio Miranda - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Visual Effects
Quantum of Solace
Iron Man
The Dark Knight
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Australia
-Film Editing
Quantum of Solace
Iron Man
The Dark Knight
Australia
Slumdog Millionaire
Frost/Nixon
-Sound (Mixing & Editing)
Quantum of Solace
Iron Man
The Dark Knight
Australia
WALL-E
The Day the Earth Stood Still
-Art Direction & Production Design
Australia
Brideshead Revisited
The Duchess Paramount Vantage
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
City of Ember
Revolutionary Road
-Costume Design
The Duchess
Brideshead Revisited
Australia
Sex And The City
City of Ember
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

-TOP 10 FILMS OF 2008
BALLAST
CHANGELING
DOUBT
THE DARK KNIGHT
FROST / NIXON
FROZEN RIVER
MILK
THE READER
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
-Overall, some rather surprising omissions, but some interesting inclusions, so it's nothing too special...this doesn't mean much in the long run...the NBR this week will be a helping hand, though if any trends from here continue, we'll certainly take note....thoughts?
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 30, 2008 at 7:50 PM

    The Satellite awards are fun to see what they nominated, but hardly have any real impact. I mean Best ORIGINAL Screenplay for Benjamin Button and Elegy?? And Ballast came into their Top 10 with no nominations...Although it was nice to see lots of stuff for The Reader (although no Ralph for anything?) and a nom for Kabluey. They also seem to really like Mark Ruffalo! I don't think most of them have seen all the movies nominated and just started writing them down.

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  2. Joey MagidsonNovember 30, 2008 at 9:31 PM

    exactly...it's good to get the precursors started, but their impact is minimal...plus they have some odd errors, like what you mentioned...some exclusions that make no sense...but it's nice to see Ruffalo get some notice

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  3. AnonymousDecember 1, 2008 at 2:07 AM

    A few errors in categorization, such as the screenplay confusion. Looks like they really loved The Reader and Frozen River. But I was surprised to see something so small and unknown like Frozen River (which had been all but forgotten) essentially stealing The Dark Knight's spot in the Best Film category.

    As far as precursors go, Satellite Awards are hardly even a blip on the proverbial Radar, but its nice to see the precursor season as a whole get started so we can move on from idle speculation and get a real sense for the direction this year's race is headed.

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  4. Matthew BarkerDecember 1, 2008 at 4:35 AM

    Where the hell is Benjamin Button?

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  5. AnonymousDecember 1, 2008 at 7:28 AM

    Hmm...seems strange to omit Benjamin Button and Dark Knight. And Tropic Thunder for best pic? Really??

    And on a personal note, hooray for Beyonce getting a Supporting Actress nod. I can't wait to see Cadillac Records.

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  6. AnonymousDecember 1, 2008 at 6:18 PM

    This award group are kind of dingy. Remember how they didn't even nomiante Day-Lewis and There Will Be Blood last year ? And how can you screw up the screenplay category ? CCBB is an adaptation. And to leave it off for best picture and no acting nods is suspect. It still remains my front runner for the most Oscar nomination's at no less than 10.
    And has anyone heard of Kabluey or Future Species ? The NBR will be more award worthy in their picks.

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  7. AnonymousDecember 1, 2008 at 6:54 PM

    Has Curious Case of Benjamin Button or The Reader been released?

    I am just a casual reader of this blog and I don't know how the Satellite Awards work so please excuse my question.

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  8. AnonymousDecember 2, 2008 at 1:10 AM

    I'm so glad Benjamin Button is so lacking on this list. It's not that I don't want that movie to be good, but I've just been perplexed this whole time, wondering why Awards Circuit thinks it's going to be so incredible. Sure, it looks cool and all, but I just don't see why they think it'll be the next Forrest Gump or something. I'd love to be proven wrong, but as of right now...

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  9. Joey MagidsonDecember 2, 2008 at 1:13 AM

    In the case of myself, I just think it's got a good combination of wonder and romance to it which could be a good mix come awards time...I make no claims that it's going to be anything incredible, we'll all judge for ourselves later on this month

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