19th Satellite Awards explained

Number:	19
Award:	Satellite Awards
Best Film:	Birdman
Best Direction:	Richard Linklater for Boyhood
Best Drama Series:	The Knick
Best Musical Or Comedy Series:	Transparent
Last:	18th
Next:	20th

The 19th 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 December 1, 2014. The winners were announced on February 15, 2015.

The film Birdman led all nominees with ten, including Best Film and Best Director (Alejandro G. Iñárritu), winning three.^[1]

Special achievement awards

• Auteur Award (for singular vision and unique artistic control over the elements of production) – Martyn Burke
• Humanitarian Award (for making a difference in the lives of those in the artistic community and beyond) – Sebastian Junger
• Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Ellen Burstyn
• Nikola Tesla Award (for visionary achievement in filmmaking technology) – Industrial Light & Magic
• Breakthrough Performance Award – Antoine Olivier Pilon (Mommy)
• Independent Producer of the Year Award – Shlomi Elkabetz

Motion picture winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Best Film	Best Director
Birdman Boyhood Gone Girl The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Love Is Strange Mr. Turner Selma The Theory of Everything Whiplash	Richard Linklater – Boyhood Damien Chazelle – Whiplash Ava DuVernay – Selma David Fincher – Gone Girl Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game
Best Actor	Best Actress
Michael Keaton – Birdman as Riggan Thomson / Birdman Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John du Pont Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler as Louis "Lou" Bloom David Oyelowo – Selma as Martin Luther King Jr. Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking Miles Teller – Whiplash as Andrew Neiman	Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Alice Howland Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya Anne Dorval – Mommy as Diane "Die" Després Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Hawking Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle as Dido Elizabeth Belle Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliot-Dunne Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terrence Fletcher Robert Duvall – The Judge as Joseph Palmer Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans Sr. Edward Norton – Birdman as Mike Shiner Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz Andy Serkis – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes as Caesar	Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans Laura Dern – Wild as Bobbi Grey Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke Emma Stone – Birdman as Sam Thomson Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer as Mason Katherine Waterston – Inherent Vice as Shasta Fay Hayworth
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy Birdman – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó Boyhood – Richard Linklater The Lego Movie – Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Love Is Strange – Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias Selma – Paul Webb	The Imitation Game – Graham Moore American Sniper – Jason Hall Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten Wild – Cheryl Strayed and Nick Hornby
Best Animated or Mixed Media Film	Best Foreign Language Film
Song of the Sea Big Hero 6 The Book of Life The Boxtrolls How to Train Your Dragon 2 The Lego Movie Wrinkles	Tangerines (Estonia) Force Majeure (Sweden) (Israel) Ida (Poland) Leviathan (Russia) Little England (Greece) Mommy (Canada) Timbuktu (Mauritania) Two Days, One Night (Belgium) Wild Tales (Argentina)
Best Documentary Film	Best Cinematography
Citizenfour Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq Art and Craft Finding Vivian Maier Jodorowsky's Dune Keep on Keepin' On Red Army Virunga	Mr. Turner – Dick Pope Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki Gone Girl – Jeff Cronenweth Inherent Vice – Robert Elswit Interstellar – Hoyte van Hoytema The Theory of Everything – Benoît Delhomme
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Birdman – Antonio Sánchez Fury – Steven Price Gone Girl – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat Interstellar – Hans Zimmer The Judge – Thomas Newman	"We Will Not Go" – Virunga "Everything Is Awesome" – The Lego Movie "I'll Get You What You Want (Cockatoo in Malibu)" – Muppets Most Wanted "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" – "Split the Difference" – Boyhood "What Is Love" – Rio 2
Best Visual Effects	Best Art Direction and Production Design
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Guardians of the Galaxy Interstellar Into the Woods Noah	The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock, and Stephan O. Gessler Birdman – George DeTitta Jr., Kevin Thompson, and Stephen H. Carter Fury – Andrew Menzies and Peter Russell The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic and Nick Dent Maleficent – Dylan Cole, Frank Walsh, and Gary Freeman Noah – Debra Schutt and Mark Friedberg
Best Film Editing	Best Sound (Editing and Mixing)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – William Hoy and Stan Salfas American Sniper – Gary Roach and Joel Cox Birdman – Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione Boyhood – Sandra Adair Fury – Dody Dorn and Jay Cassidy The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg	Whiplash Gone Girl Into the Woods Noah Snowpiercer
Best Costume Design	Best Ensemble – Motion Picture
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero Belle – Anushia Nieradzik Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard Noah – Michael Wilkinson Saint Laurent – Anais Romand	Into the Woods – Christine Baranski, Tammy Blanchard, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Lilla Crawford, Frances de la Tour, Johnny Depp, Daniel Huttlestone, Anna Kendrick, Billy Magnussen, MacKenzie Mauzy, Chris Pine, Lucy Punch, Meryl Streep, and Tracey Ullman

Television winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Best Drama Series	Best Musical or Comedy Series
The Knick – Cinemax The Affair – Showtime The Fall – BBC / Netflix Fargo – FX Halt and Catch Fire – AMC Hannibal – NBC House of Cards – Netflix True Detective – HBO	Transparent – Amazon Studios Alpha House – Amazon Studios The Big Bang Theory – CBS Brooklyn Nine-Nine – Fox Louie – FX Orange Is the New Black – Netflix Silicon Valley – HBO Veep – HBO
Best Miniseries	Best Television Film
Olive Kitteridge – HBO – Fox Endeavour – ITV – BBC America Happy Valley – BBC One / Netflix The Honourable Woman – BBC / Sundance TV The Roosevelts – PBS Sherlock – BBC / PBS The Spoils of Babylon – IFC	Return to Zero – Lifetime The Gabby Douglas Story – Lifetime The Normal Heart – HBO The Trip to Bountiful – Lifetime Turks & Caicos – BBC / PBS
Best Actor in a Drama Series	Best Actress in a Drama Series
Clive Owen – The Knick as Dr. John "Thack" Thackery Martin Freeman – Fargo as Lester Nygaard Woody Harrelson – True Detective as Detective Martin Hart Charlie Hunnam – Sons of Anarchy as Jax Teller Mads Mikkelsen – Hannibal as Dr. Hannibal Lecter Lee Pace – Halt and Catch Fire as Joe MacMillan Michael Sheen – Masters of Sex as Dr. William Masters Billy Bob Thornton – Fargo as Lorne Malvo	Keri Russell – The Americans as Elizabeth Jennings Gillian Anderson – The Fall as DSI Stella Gibson Lizzy Caplan – Masters of Sex as Virginia E. Johnson Eva Green – Penny Dreadful as Vanessa Ives Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife as Alicia Florrick Tatiana Maslany – Orphan Black as Various Characters Ruth Wilson – The Affair as Alison Bailey Robin Wright – House of Cards as Claire Underwood
Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series	Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series
Jeffrey Tambor – Transparent as Maura Pfefferman Louis C.K. – Louie as Louie John Goodman – Alpha House as Senator Gil John Biggs William H. Macy – Shameless as Frank Gallagher Thomas Middleditch – Silicon Valley as Richard Hendriks Jim Parsons – The Big Bang Theory as Dr. Sheldon Cooper	Mindy Kaling – The Mindy Project as Dr. Mindy Lahiri Zooey Deschanel – New Girl as Jessica "Jess" Day Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie as Jackie Payton, RN Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep as President Selina Meyer Emmy Rossum – Shameless as Fiona Gallagher Taylor Schilling – Orange Is the New Black as Piper Chapman
Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Film	Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Film
Mark Ruffalo – The Normal Heart as Ned Weeks Dominic Cooper – Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond as Ian Fleming Richard Jenkins – Olive Kitteridge as Henry Kitteridge Stephen Rea – The Honourable Woman as Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle David Suchet – Agatha Christie's Poirot as Hercule Poirot Kiefer Sutherland – 24: Live Another Day as Jack Bauer	Frances McDormand – Olive Kitteridge as Olive Kitteridge Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Honourable Woman as Nessa Stein Sarah Lancashire – Happy Valley as Catherine Cawood Cicely Tyson – The Trip to Bountiful as Mrs. Carrie Watts Kristen Wiig – The Spoils of Babylon as Cynthia Morehouse
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film	Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film
Rory Kinnear – Penny Dreadful as Caliban Matt Bomer – The Normal Heart as Felix Turner Peter Dinklage – Game of Thrones as Tyrion Lannister Christopher Eccleston – The Leftovers as Matt Jamison André Holland – The Knick as Dr. Algernon Edwards Jimmy Smits – Sons of Anarchy as Nero Padilla	Sarah Paulson – as Bette and Dot Tattler Ann Dowd – The Leftovers as Patti Levin Zoe Kazan – Olive Kitteridge as Denise Thibodeau Michelle Monaghan – True Detective as Maggie Hart Allison Tolman – Fargo as Deputy Molly Solverson Nicola Walker – Last Tango in Halifax as Gillian
Best Genre Series	Best Ensemble – Television Series
Penny Dreadful – Showtime – FX Game of Thrones – HBO Grimm – NBC The Leftovers – HBO Sleepy Hollow – Fox The Strain – FX The Walking Dead – AMC	The Knick – Michael Angarano, Jeremy Bobb, Leon Addison Brown, David Fierro, Matt Frewer, Eve Hewson, Grainger Hines, André Holland, Eric Johnson, Maya Kazan, Clive Owen, Juliet Rylance, Cara Seymour, and Chris Sullivan

New Media winners and nominees

Outstanding Overall Blu-ray/DVD	Outstanding Youth Blu-ray/DVD
The Swimmer – Box Office Spectaculars / Grindhouse Releasing / Sony Pictures Entertainment 12 Years a Slave – 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Complete Cases Collection – Acorn Media / RLJ Home Ent. Borgen: The Complete Series – MHz Networks Guardians of the Galaxy – Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment A Hard Day's Night – The Criterion Collection How I Met Your Mother: The Complete Series – 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment The Man with No Name Trilogy (Remastered) – MGM Home Entertainment Muscle Shoals – Magnolia Home Entertainment Napoleon Dynamite: 10th Anniversary Edition – 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Sons of Anarchy: The Complete Series – 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Swelter – Well Go USA Entertainment We Are the Best	– Magnolia Home Entertainment Young Frankenstein: 40th Anniversary Edition – 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment	How to Train Your Dragon 2 – 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment The Fault in Our Stars – 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Frozen – Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment The Lego Movie – Warner Home Video
Outstanding Mobile Game	Outstanding Platform Action/Adventure Game
for Mobile – 2K Games 80 Days – Inkle Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft – Blizzard Entertainment Monument Valley – Ustwo Games The Room Two – Fireproof Games Two Dots – Playdots, Inc.	Forza Horizon 2 – Microsoft Assassin's Creed Unity – Ubisoft Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel – 2K Games Dark Souls II – Bandai Namco / FromSoftware Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo Titanfall – Respawn Entertainment

Awards breakdown

Film

Winners:

3 / 10 Birdman: Best Actor / Best Film / Best Original Score

2 / 3 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Best Film Editing / Best Visual Effects

2 / 3 The Grand Budapest Hotel: Best Art Direction and Production Design / Best Costume Design

2 / 5 Whiplash: Best Supporting Actor / Best Sound (Editing and Mixing)

2 / 7 Boyhood: Best Director / Best Supporting Actress

1 / 1 Citizenfour: Best Documentary Film

1 / 1 Song of the Sea: Best Animated or Mixed Media Film

1 / 1 Still Alice: Best Actress

1 / 1 Tangerines: Best Foreign Language Film

1 / 2 Mr. Turner: Best Cinematography

1 / 2 Virunga: Best Original Song

1 / 2 Nightcrawler: Best Original Screenplay

1 / 4 Into the Woods: Best Ensemble – Motion Picture

1 / 8 The Imitation Game: Best Adapted Screenplay

Losers:

0 / 7 Gone Girl

0 / 5 The Theory of Everything

0 / 4 Noah, Selma

0 / 3 Fury, Inherent Vice, Interstellar, The Lego Movie, Wild

0 / 2 American Sniper, Belle, Foxcatcher, , The Judge, Love Is Strange, Maleficent, Mommy, Snowpiercer, , Two Days, One Night

Television

Winners:

3 / 4 The Knick: Best Actor in a Drama Series / Best Drama Series / Best Ensemble – Television Series

2 / 2 Transparent: Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series / Best Musical or Comedy Series

2 / 3 Penny Dreadful: Best Genre Series / Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film

2 / 4 Olive Kitteridge: Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Film / Best Miniseries

1 / 1 The Americans: Best Actress in a Drama Series

1 / 1 The Mindy Project: Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series

1 / 1 Return to Zero: Best Television Film

1 / 2 : Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film

1 / 3 The Normal Heart: Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Film

Losers:

0 / 4 Fargo

0 / 3 The Honourable Woman, The Leftovers, True Detective

0 / 2 , The Affair, Alpha House, The Big Bang Theory, The Fall, , Game of Thrones, Halt and Catch Fire, Hannibal, Happy Valley, House of Cards, Louie, Masters of Sex, Orange Is the New Black, Shameless, Silicon Valley, Sons of Anarchy, The Spoils of Babylon, The Trip to Bountiful, Veep

External links

• International Press Academy website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Satellite Awards (2014) . . December 1, 2014.