19th Satellite Awards


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, winning three.

Special achievement awards

Auteur Award – Martyn Burke
Humanitarian Award – Sebastian Junger
Mary Pickford Award – Ellen Burstyn
Nikola Tesla Award – Industrial Light & Magic
Breakthrough Performance Award – Antoine Olivier Pilon
Independent Producer of the Year Award – Shlomi Elkabetz

Motion picture winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Best FilmBest Director

Birdman
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Best ActorBest Actress
Michael Keaton – Birdman
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Best Original ScreenplayBest Adapted Screenplay
Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy
The Imitation Game – Graham Moore
Best Animated or Mixed Media FilmBest Foreign Language Film
Song of the Sea
Tangerines
  • Force Majeure
  • '
  • Ida
  • Leviathan
  • Little England
  • Mommy
  • Timbuktu
  • Two Days, One Night
  • Wild Tales
Best Documentary FilmBest 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
Best Original ScoreBest Original Song
Birdman – Antonio Sánchez
"We Will Not Go" – Virunga
  • "Everything Is Awesome" – The Lego Movie
  • "I'll Get You What You Want " – Muppets Most Wanted
  • "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" – '
  • "Split the Difference" – Boyhood
  • "What Is Love" – Rio 2
Best Visual EffectsBest 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 EditingBest Sound
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – William Hoy and Stan Salfas
Whiplash
  • Gone Girl
  • Into the Woods
  • Noah
  • Snowpiercer
  • '
Best Costume DesignBest Ensemble – Motion Picture
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
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
  • Tracey Ullman

Television winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Best Drama SeriesBest Musical or Comedy Series

The Knick – Cinemax
Transparent – Amazon Studios
Best MiniseriesBest Television Film
Olive Kitteridge – HBO
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 SeriesBest Actress in a Drama Series
Clive Owen – The Knick as Dr. John "Thack" Thackery
Keri Russell – The Americans as Elizabeth Jennings
Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy SeriesBest Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series
Jeffrey Tambor – Transparent as Maura Pfefferman
Mindy Kaling – The Mindy Project as Dr. Mindy Lahiri
Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV FilmBest Actress in a Miniseries or TV Film
Mark Ruffalo – The Normal Heart as Ned Weeks
Frances McDormand – Olive Kitteridge as Olive Kitteridge
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV FilmBest Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film
Rory Kinnear – Penny Dreadful as Caliban
Sarah Paulson – ' as Bette and Dot Tattler
Best Genre SeriesBest 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
  • Chris Sullivan'

New Media winners and nominees

Awards breakdown

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