The 2009 Satellite Award Nominees

Every year, The International Press Academy hands out the Satellite Awards, which used to be the Golden Satellite Awards. The key in all of this is "Press Academy," meaning this may look similar to some Oscar nominees, but it's not at all the same groups of voters. There's one other caveat before we show you the nominees and the IPA's top ten movies of the year, which is that the Satellites share the Golden Globes dileniation between drama and musical/comedy films...but only in certain categories. That's still very annoying. Why not Best Director, Musical or Comedy if you have two acting awards and a Best Picture for that split? Be that as it may, there are a few movies you probably wouldn't expect to see and some you won't find here that you thought you would. Conspicuous by their absence are Invictus and The Lovely Bones. If you want to see the entire list, head over to Awards Daily. Ten Best Films of 2009 (in alphabetical order)
(500) Days of Summer
A Serious Man
An Education
Bright Star
Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
The Hurt Locker
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Up in the Air Motion Picture, Drama
The Hurt Locker
Bright Star
An Education
The Messenger
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
The Stoning of Soraya M. Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Julie & Julia
The Informant!
A Serious Man
It’s Complicated
Up in the Air
Nine Best Actress, Drama
Emily Blunt - The Young Victoria
Abbie Cornish - Bright Star
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Shohreh Aghdashloo - The Stoning of Soraya M.
Catalina Saavedra - The Maid
Penélope Cruz - Broken Embraces Actor In A Motion Picture, Drama
Johnny Depp - Public Enemies
Hugh Dancy - Adam
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
Michael Sheen - The Damned United
Colin Firth - A Single Man Actress In A Motion Picture, Comedy Or Musical
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
Zooey Deschanel - (500) Days of Summer
Katherine Heigl - The Ugly Truth
Sandra Bullock - The Proposal
Marion Cotillard - Nine Actor In A Motion Picture, Comedy Or Musical
Daniel Day-Lewis - Nine
Bradley Cooper -The Hangover
Matt Damon - The Informant!
Michael Stuhlbarg - A Serious Man
George Clooney - Up in the Air Actress In A Supporting Role
Emily Blunt - Sunshine Cleaning
Mozhan Marnò - The Stoning of Soraya M.
Mo’nique - Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Penélope Cruz - Nine Actor In A Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Alfred Molina - An Education
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
James McAvoy - The Last Station
Timothy Spall - The Damned United Motion Picture, Foreign Language Film
Red Cliff - China
The Maid - Chile
The White Ribbon - Germany
Broken Embraces - Spain
I Killed My Mother - Canada
Winter in Wartime - Netherlands Motion Picture, Animated Or Mixed Media
Up
Where the Wild Things Are
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Princess and the Frog
Fantastic Mr. Fox Fox
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Motion Picture, Documentary
Every Little Step
The Cove
It Might Get Loud
The September Issue
The Beaches of Agnès
Valentino: The Last Emperor Director
Neill Blomkamp - District 9
Rob Marshall - Nine
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Lee Daniels - Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Jane Campion - Bright Star
Lone Scherfig - An Education Screenplay, Original
Jane Campion - Bright Star
Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter - Up
Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber - (500) Days of Summer
Joel & Ethan Coen - A Serious Man Screenplay, Adapted
Nora Ephron - Julie & Julia
Nick Hornby - An Education
Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell - District 9
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner - Up in the Air

Comments

[SEAN]

Wow Bradley Cooper nominated for Best Actor .... thats dead wrong, what the hell? And no Zach anywhere, completely dont agree with this ...

They seem to really love 500 Days of Summer, a lot more than I expected, which is cool

Shohreh Aghdashloo - The Stoning of Soraya M.
= a huge surprise Ive heard many things about this movie and have been meaning to see it, seems very relevant especially given our current political climate, great pick especially given the went extremely under the radar