19th Satellite Awards

19th Satellite Awards
Date	February 15, 2015
Highlights
Best film	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Best director	Richard Linklater for Boyhood
Best television drama	The Knick
Best television comedy	Transparent

The 19th Satellite Awards is an award ceremony honoring the year's outstanding performers, films, and television shows, presented by the International Press Academy that took place on February 15, 2015.

The nominations were announced on December 1, 2014. The film Birdman lead all nominees with ten, including Best Film.^[1]

Special Achievement Awards

Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Ellen Burstyn

Nikola Tesla Award (for visionary achievement in filmmaking technology) – Industrial Light & Magic

Auteur Award (for singular vision and unique artistic control over the elements of production) – Martyn Burke

Independent Producer of the Year Award – Shlomi Elkabetz

Breakthrough Performance Award – Antoine Olivier Pilon in Mommy

Humanitarian Award (for making a difference in the lives of those in the artistic community and beyond) – Sebastian Junger

Motion picture winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Best Film	Best Director
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 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 or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game
Best Actor	Best Actress
Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Steve Carell – Foxcatcher Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler David Oyelowo – Selma Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything Miles Teller – Whiplash	Julianne Moore – Still Alice Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night Anne Dorval – Mommy Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl Reese Witherspoon – Wild
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash Robert Duvall – The Judge Ethan Hawke – Boyhood Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher Andy Serkis – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	Patricia Arquette – Boyhood Laura Dern – Wild Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer Katherine Waterston – Inherent Vice
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo Boyhood – Richard Linklater The Lego Movie – Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Love is Strange – Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias Selma – Ava DuVernay and 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) Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (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 Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me Jodorowsky's Dune Keep on Keepin' On Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles Red Army Virunga	Mr. Turner – Dick Pope Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – 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 or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – 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" – Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me "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 – Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri, and Matt Kutcher Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti Interstellar – Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Paul Franklin, and Scott Fisher Into the Woods – Christian Irles, Matt Johnson, and Stefano Pepin Noah – Ben Snow, Burt Dalton, Dan Schrecker, and Marc Chu Transformers: Age of Extinction – John Frazier, Patrick Tubach, Scott Benza, and Scott Farrar	The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock, and Stephan Gessler Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – 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 – Stan Salfas and William Hoy American Sniper – Gary Roach and Joel Cox Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione Boyhood – Sandra Adair Fury – Dody Dorn and Jay Cassidy The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg	Whiplash – Ben Wilkins, Craig Mann, and Thomas Curley Gone Girl – Ren Klyce and Steve Cantamessa Into the Woods – Blake Leyh, John Casali, Michael Keller, Michael Prestwoood Smith, and Renee Tondelli Noah – Craig Henighan, Ken Ishii, and Skip Lievsay Snowpiercer – Anna Behlmer, Mark Holding, Taeyoung Choi, and Terry Porter Transformers: Age of Extinction – Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van Der Ryn, and Peter J. Devlin
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 Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp, Lilla Crawford, Daniel Huttlestone, MacKenzie Mauzy, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Tammy Blanchard, Lucy Punch, Billy Magnussen, and Frances de la Tour

Films with multiple nominations

The following 30 films received multiple nominations:

• 10 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• 8 – The Imitation Game
• 7 – Boyhood and Gone Girl
• 5 – The Theory of Everything and Whiplash
• 4 – Into the Woods, Noah, and Selma
• 3 – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Fury, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Inherent Vice, Interstellar, The Lego Movie, and Wild
• 2 – American Sniper, Belle, Foxcatcher, Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, The Judge, Love is Strange, Maleficent, Mommy, Mr. Turner, Nightcrawler, Snowpiercer, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Two Days, One Night, and Virunga

Films with multiple wins

The following 5 films received multiple wins:

• 3 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• 2 – Boyhood, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Whiplash

Television winners and nominees

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 Alpha House – Amazon 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 24: Live Another Day – FOX Endeavour – ITV Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond – BBC America Happy Valley – BBC One, Netflix The Honourable Woman – BBC, SundanceTV 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 Genre Series
Penny Dreadful – Showtime American Horror Story: Freak Show – FX Game of Thrones – HBO Grimm – NBC The Leftovers – HBO Sleepy Hollow – FOX The Strain – FX The Walking Dead – AMC
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 (a.k.a. Morton 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 – American Horror Story: Freak Show 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
Satellite Award for Best Television Ensemble
The Knick – Clive Owen, André Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Michael Angarano, Chris Sullivan, Cara Seymour, Eric Johnson, David Fierro, Maya Kazan, Leon Addison Brown, Grainger Hines, and Matt Frewer

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 – The Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment A Hard Day's Night: The 50th Anniversary Edition – 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: The 10th Anniversary Edition – 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Sons of Anarchy: The Complete Series – 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Swelter – Well Go USA We Are the Best! – Magnolia Home Entertainment Young Frankenstein: 40th Anniversary – 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 – The Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment The Lego Movie – Warner Home Video
Outstanding Mobile Game	Outstanding Platform Action/Adventure Game
XCOM: Enemy Within for Mobile – 2K Games 80 Days – Inkle Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft – Blizzard Entertainment Monument Valley – Ustwo The Room Two – Fireproof Studios TwoDots – 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

References

1. "Satellite Awards (2014)". International Press Academy. IPA. December 2, 2014. pressacademy.com. Retrieved December 1, 2014.

External links

• International Press Academy website