23rd Satellite Awards explained

Number:	23
Award:	Satellite Awards
Best Film Drama:	If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Film Musical Or Comedy:	A Star Is Born
Best Direction:	Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
Best Drama Series:	Homecoming
Best Musical Or Comedy Series:	Lodge 49
Last:	22nd
Next:	24th

The 23rd Satellite Awards is an award ceremony honoring the year's outstanding performers, films, television shows, home videos and interactive media, presented by the International Press Academy.

The nominations were announced on November 28, 2018.^{[1] [2]} The winners were announced on January 3, 2019, and the ceremony was held on February 22, 2019.^{[3] [4]}

For this cycle of the Satellite Awards, the categories Best Film, Best Actor, and Best Actress were split into Drama and Comedy/Musical categories. Previously, they had been joined in one category since the 16th ceremony in 2011.

Special achievement awards

• Auteur Award (for singular vision and unique artistic control over the elements of production) – Ryan Coogler
• Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Rade Šerbedžija
• Nikola Tesla Award (for visionary achievement in filmmaking technology) – Kevin Baillie
• Best First Feature – Rupert Everett (The Happy Prince)
• Ensemble: Motion Picture – The Favourite
• Ensemble: Television –

Motion picture winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Best Motion Picture – Drama	Best Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical
If Beale Street Could Talk Black Panther First Man Hereditary Mary Queen of Scots Widows	A Star Is Born Crazy Rich Asians The Favourite Green Book Mary Poppins Returns Nico, 1988
Best Animated or Mixed Media Film	Best Director
Isle of Dogs Incredibles 2 Liz and the Blue Bird Mirai Ralph Breaks the Internet Ruben Brandt, Collector	Alfonso Cuarón – Roma Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born Peter Farrelly – Green Book Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama	Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Willem Dafoe – At Eternity's Gate as Vincent van Gogh Ben Foster – Leave No Trace as Will Ryan Gosling – First Man as Neil Armstrong Ethan Hawke – First Reformed as Ernst Toller Lucas Hedges – Boy Erased as Jared Eamons Robert Redford – The Old Man & the Gun as Forrest Tucker	Glenn Close – The Wife as Joan Castleman Yalitza Aparicio – Roma as Cleo Viola Davis – Widows as Veronica Rawlings Nicole Kidman – Destroyer as Erin Bell Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel Rosamund Pike – A Private War as Marie Colvin
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy/Musical	Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy/Musical
Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born as Jackson Maine Lin-Manuel Miranda – Mary Poppins Returns as Jack Viggo Mortensen – Green Book as Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga Nick Robinson – Love, Simon as Simon Spier John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman as Ron Stallworth	Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Anne, Queen of Great Britain Emily Blunt – Mary Poppins Returns as Mary Poppins Trine Dyrholm – Nico, 1988 as Nico Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade as Kayla Day Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born as Ally Campana Maine Constance Wu – Crazy Rich Asians as Rachel Chu
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock Mahershala Ali – Green Book as Don Shirley Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy as Nic Sheff Russell Crowe – Boy Erased as Marshall Eamons Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman as Flip Zimmerman Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born as Bobby Maine	Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers Claire Foy – First Man as Janet Armstrong Nicole Kidman – Boy Erased as Nancy Eamons Margot Robbie – Mary Queen of Scots as Queen Elizabeth I Emma Stone – The Favourite as Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham Rachel Weisz – The Favourite as Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón Eighth Grade – Bo Burnham The Favourite – Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara First Reformed – Paul Schrader Green Book – Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, and Peter Farrelly A Quiet Place – Scott Beck, John Krasinski, and Bryan Woods	Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty BlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Spike Lee The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, and Peter Fellows If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins Leave No Trace – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini A Star Is Born – Bradley Cooper and Eric Roth
Best Documentary Film	Best Foreign Language Film
Minding the Gap Crime + Punishment Free Solo RBG Three Identical Strangers Won't You Be My Neighbor?	Roma (Mexico) The Cakemaker (Israel) Cold War (Poland) The Guilty (Denmark) I Am Not a Witch (United Kingdom) Shoplifters (Japan)
Best Film Editing	Best Cinematography
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón BlacKkKlansman – Barry Alexander Brown First Man – Tom Cross If Beale Street Could Talk – Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders A Star Is Born – Jay Cassidy Widows – Joe Walker	A Star Is Born – Matthew Libatique Black Panther – Rachel Morrison Cold War – Łukasz Żal The Favourite – Robbie Ryan If Beale Street Could Talk – James Laxton Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
First Man – Justin Hurwitz BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard Colette – Thomas Adès If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell The Sisters Brothers – Alexandre Desplat Widows – Hans Zimmer	"Shallow" – A Star Is Born "All the Stars" – Black Panther "Can You Imagine That?" – Mary Poppins Returns "Requiem for a Private War" – A Private War "Revelation" – Boy Erased "Strawberries & Cigarettes" – Love, Simon
Best Costume Design	Best Art Direction and Production Design
The Favourite – Sandy Powell Black Panther – Ruth E. Carter Colette – Andrea Flesch – Colleen Atwood Mary Queen of Scots – Alexandra Byrne A Star Is Born – Erin Benach	Mary Poppins Returns – John Myhre Black Panther – Hannah Beachler – Stuart Craig The Favourite – Fiona Crombie First Man – Nathan Crowley Roma – Eugenio Caballero
Best Visual Effects	Best Sound (Editing and Mixing)
Black Panther Rampage Ready Player One	A Quiet Place Black Panther First Man Mary Poppins Returns Roma A Star Is Born
Best Independent Film
BlacKkKlansman Eighth Grade First Reformed Leave No Trace Private Life A Private War

Films with multiple nominations

Nominations	Films
11	A Star Is Born
9	The Favourite
8	Roma
7	BlacKkKlansman
	Black Panther
	First Man
	If Beale Street Could Talk
6	Mary Poppins Returns
5	Green Book
4	Boy Erased
	Widows
3	Can You Ever Forgive Me?
	Eighth Grace
	First Reformed
	Leave No Trace
	Mary Queen of Scots
	A Private War
2	Cold War
	Colette
	Crazy Rich Asians
	Love, Simon
	Nico, 1988
	A Quiet Place

Films with multiple wins

Wins	Films
4	Roma
3	A Star Is Born
2	Can You Ever Forgive Me?
	The Favourite
	If Beale Street Could Talk

Television winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Best Drama Series	Best Musical or Comedy Series
Homecoming – Amazon The Bold Type – Freeform The Handmaid's Tale – Hulu Mr. Mercedes – AT&T Succession – HBO This Is Us – NBC	Lodge 49 – AMC Arrested Development – Netflix Atlanta – FX Barry – HBO Black-ish – ABC The Good Place – NBC Insecure – HBO
Best Genre Series	Best Miniseries
The Terror – AMC Castle Rock – Hulu Counterpart – Starz Doctor Who – BBC The Man in the High Castle – Amazon	– FX The Looming Tower – Hulu Patrick Melrose – Showtime Sharp Objects – HBO A Very English Scandal – Amazon
Best Actor in a Drama / Genre Series	Best Actress in a Drama / Genre Series
Brendan Gleeson – Mr. Mercedes as Bill Hodges Jason Bateman – Ozark as Marty Byrde Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul as Saul Goodman Matthew Rhys – The Americans as Philip Jennings J. K. Simmons – Counterpart as Howard Silk Billy Bob Thornton – Goliath as Billy McBride	Julia Roberts – Homecoming as Heidi Bergman Elisabeth Moss – The Handmaid's Tale as Offred / June Osborne Sandra Oh – Killing Eve as Eve Polastri Keri Russell – The Americans as Elizabeth Jennings Jodie Whittaker – Doctor Who as The Doctor
Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series	Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series
Bill Hader – Barry as Barry Berkman / Barry Block Anthony Anderson – Black-ish as Andre "Dre" Johnson Sr. Ted Danson – The Good Place as Michael Donald Glover – Atlanta as Earnest "Earn" Marks William H. Macy – Shameless as Frank Gallagher Thomas Middleditch – Silicon Valley as Richard Hendricks	Issa Rae – Insecure as Issa Dee Alison Brie – GLOW as Ruth "Zoya the Destroya" Wilder Christina Hendricks – Good Girls as Beth Boland Ellie Kemper – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as Kimmy Schmidt Niecy Nash – Claws as Desna Simms Tracee Ellis Ross – Black-ish as Rainbow "Bow" Johnson
Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Film	Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Film
Darren Criss – as Andrew Cunanan Daniel Brühl – The Alienist as Laszlo Kreizler Benedict Cumberbatch – Patrick Melrose as Patrick Melrose Jeff Daniels – The Looming Tower as John O'Neill Hugh Grant – A Very English Scandal as Jeremy Thorpe Jared Harris – The Terror as Francis Crozier	Amy Adams – Sharp Objects as Camille Preaker Laura Dern – The Tale as Jennifer Fox Dakota Fanning – The Alienist as Sara Howard Julia Roberts – Homecoming as Heidi Bergman Emma Stone – Maniac as Annie Landsberg
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film	Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film
Hugo Weaving – Patrick Melrose as David Melrose Mark Duplass – Goliath as Tom Wyatt John Macmillan – King Lear as Edmund Édgar Ramírez – as Gianni Versace Paul Ready – The Terror as Harry Goodsir Ben Whishaw – A Very English Scandal as Norman Josiffe / Norman Scott	Sharon Stone – Mosaic as Olivia Lake Penélope Cruz – as Donatella Versace Jennifer Jason Leigh – Patrick Melrose as Eleanor Melrose Justine Lupe – Mr. Mercedes as Holly Gibney Nive Nielsen – The Terror as Lady Silence Emma Thompson – King Lear as Goneril
Best Television Film
The Tale – HBO Cargo – Netflix Her Only Choice – BET King Lear – Amazon

Series with multiple nominations

Nominations	Series
4
	Patrick Melrose
	The Terror
3	Black-ish
	Homecoming
	King Lear
	Mr. Mercedes
	A Very English Scandal
2	The Alienist
	The Americans
	Atlanta
	Barry
	Counterpart
	Doctor Who
	Goliath
	The Good Place
	The Handmaid's Tale
	Insecure
	The Looming Tower
	Sharp Objects
	The Tale

Series with multiple wins

Wins	Series
2
	Homecoming

External links

• International Press Academy website

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2018 Nominations Ballot . November 28, 2018 . . November 28, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181130052029/http://www.pressacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018_Press_Academy_NOMINATIONS.pdf . November 30, 2018 . dead .
2. Web site: 2018 Satellite Awards Nominations . Jazz . Tangcay . . November 30, 2018 . January 24, 2024 . January 24, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240124091628/https://www.awardsdaily.com/2018/11/29/2018-satellite-awards-nominations/ . live.
3. Web site: Roma, A Star Is Born, Set for Top Honors at 23rd Satellite Awards . Johnson . Quendrith . January 3, 2019 . . January 3, 2019.
4. Web site: The International Press Academy (IPA) Announces The 2018 Satellite Awards Winners . Matt . Neglia . Next Best Picture . January 4, 2019 . January 24, 2024 . January 24, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240124092812/https://nextbestpicture.com/the-international-press-academy-ipa-announces-the-2018-satellite-awards-winners/ . live.