20th Satellite Awards

20th Satellite Awards
Date	February 21, 2016 (2016-02-21)
Site	InterContinental Hotel, Century City, California
Highlights
Best film	Spotlight
Best television drama	Better Call Saul
Best television musical/comedy	Silicon Valley
Best director	Tom McCarthy for Spotlight

The 20th 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, 2015. The winners were announced on February 21, 2016.

The film The Martian led all nominations with nine, including Best Film and Best Director (Ridley Scott).

Special achievement awards

Auteur Award (for singular vision and unique artistic control over the elements of production) – Robert M. Young

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

Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Louise Fletcher

Nikola Tesla Award (for visionary achievement in filmmaking technology) – HIVE Lighting Plasma Wizards

Breakthrough Performance Award – Jacob Tremblay (Room)

Special Award for Breakthrough Comedian – Amy Schumer

Motion picture winners and nominees

Tom McCarthy, Best Director winner and Best Original Screenplay co-winner

Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Actor in a Motion Picture winner

Saoirse Ronan, Best Actress in a Motion Picture winner

Christian Bale, Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture winner

Alicia Vikander, Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture winner

Aaron Sorkin, Best Adapted Screenplay winner

Lady Gaga, Best Original Song co-winner

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Best Film	Best Director
Spotlight The Big Short Black Mass Bridge of Spies Brooklyn Carol The Martian The Revenant Room Sicario	Tom McCarthy – Spotlight Lenny Abrahamson – Room Tom Hooper – The Danish Girl Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant Ridley Scott – The Martian Steven Spielberg – Bridge of Spies
Best Actor	Best Actress
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant Matt Damon – The Martian Johnny Depp – Black Mass Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs Tom Hardy – Legend Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl Will Smith – Concussion	Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn Cate Blanchett – Carol Blythe Danner – I'll See You in My Dreams Brie Larson – Room Carey Mulligan – Suffragette Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Christian Bale – The Big Short Paul Dano – Love & Mercy Benicio del Toro – Sicario Michael Keaton – Spotlight Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight Sylvester Stallone – Creed	Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl Elizabeth Banks – Love & Mercy Jane Fonda – Youth Rooney Mara – Carol Rachel McAdams – Spotlight Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs
Best Adapted Screenplay	Best Original Screenplay
Steve Jobs – Aaron Sorkin Black Mass – Jez Butterworth and Mark Mallouk The Danish Girl – Lucinda Coxon The Martian – Drew Goddard The Revenant – Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith Room – Emma Donoghue	Spotlight – Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen Inside Out – Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, and Meg LeFauve Love & Mercy – Michael Alan Lerner and Oren Moverman Straight Outta Compton – Andrea Berloff and Jonathan Herman Suffragette – Abi Morgan
Best Animated or Mixed Media Film	Best Documentary Film
Inside Out Anomalisa The Good Dinosaur The Peanuts Movie The Prophet Shaun the Sheep Movie	Amy (TIE) The Look of Silence (TIE) Becoming Bulletproof Best of Enemies Cartel Land Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief He Named Me Malala The Hunting Ground Where to Invade Next
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Cinematography
Son of Saul (Hungary) The Assassin (Taiwan) The Brand New Testament (Belgium) Goodnight Mommy (Austria) The High Sun (Croatia) Labyrinth of Lies (Germany) Mustang (France) A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Sweden) The Second Mother (Brazil) The Throne (South Korea)	Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale Bridge of Spies – Janusz Kamiński The Martian – Dariusz Wolski The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki Sicario – Roger Deakins Spectre – Hoyte van Hoytema
Best Art Direction and Production Design	Best Costume Design
Bridge of Spies – Adam Stockhausen Cinderella – Dante Ferretti The Danish Girl – Eve Stewart Macbeth – Fiona Crombie Mad Max: Fury Road – Colin Gibson Spectre – Dennis Gassner	The Assassin – Wen-Ying Huang Cinderella – Sandy Powell The Danish Girl – Paco Delgado Far from the Madding Crowd – Janet Patterson Macbeth – Jacqueline Durran The Throne – Hyun-seob Shim
Best Film Editing	Best Sound (Editing and Mixing)
Sicario – Joe Walker Bridge of Spies – Michael Kahn Carol – Affonso Gonçalves The Martian – Pietro Scalia Spectre – Lee Smith Steve Jobs – Elliot Graham	The Martian – Paul Massey, Mac Ruth, Oliver Tarney, and Mark Taylor Inside Out Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road Sicario Spectre
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Carol – Carter Burwell The Danish Girl – Alexandre Desplat Inside Out – Michael Giacchino The Martian – Harry Gregson-Williams Spectre – Thomas Newman Spotlight – Howard Shore	"Til It Happens to You" – The Hunting Ground "Cold One" – Ricki and the Flash "Love Me like You Do" – Fifty Shades of Grey "One Kind of Love" – Love & Mercy "See You Again" – Furious 7 "Writing's on the Wall" – Spectre
Best Visual Effects	Best Ensemble – Motion Picture
The Walk – Kevin Baillie, Jim Gibbs, Sébastien Moreau, and Viktor Muller Everest Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian Spectre	Spotlight Brian d'Arcy James Michael Keaton Rachel McAdams Mark Ruffalo Liev Schreiber John Slattery Stanley Tucci

Films with multiple nominations

Nominations	Films
9	The Martian
7	The Danish Girl
	Spectre
	Spotlight
6	Bridge of Spies
5	Carol
	The Revenant
	Sicario
4	Inside Out
	Love & Mercy
	Mad Max: Fury Road
	Room
	Steve Jobs
3	Black Mass
2	The Assassin
	The Big Short
	Brooklyn
	Cinderella
	The Hunting Ground
	Jurassic World
	Macbeth
	Suffragette
	The Throne

Films with multiple wins

Wins	Film
4	Spotlight

Television winners and nominees

Dominic West, Best Actor in a Drama Series winner

Claire Danes, Best Actress in a Drama Series winner

Jeffrey Tambor, Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series winner

Taylor Schilling, Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series winner

Mark Rylance, Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film winner

Christian Slater, Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film winner

Rhea Seehorn, Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film winner

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Best Drama Series	Best Musical or Comedy Series
Better Call Saul – AMC American Crime – ABC Bloodline – Netflix Deutschland 83 – Sundance TV Fargo – FX Mr. Robot – USA Network Narcos – Netflix Ray Donovan – Showtime	Silicon Valley – HBO Brooklyn Nine-Nine – Fox Jane the Virgin – The CW Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll – FX The Spoils Before Dying – IFC Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Netflix Veep – HBO
Best Miniseries	Best Television Film
Flesh and Bone – Starz The Book of Negroes – BET Saints & Strangers – Nat Geo Show Me a Hero – HBO Wolf Hall – BBC Two / PBS	Stockholm, Pennsylvania – Lifetime Bessie – HBO Killing Jesus – Nat Geo Nightingale – HBO
Best Actor in a Drama Series	Best Actress in a Drama Series
Dominic West – The Affair as Noah Solloway Kyle Chandler – Bloodline as John Rayburn Timothy Hutton – American Crime as Russ Skokie Rami Malek – Mr. Robot as Elliot Alderson Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul as Jimmy McGill Liev Schreiber – Ray Donovan as Ray Donovan	Claire Danes – Homeland as Carrie Mathison Kirsten Dunst – Fargo as Peggy Blumquist Lady Gaga – American Horror Story: Hotel as Elizabeth Johnson / The Countess Taraji P. Henson – Empire as Cookie Lyon Felicity Huffman – American Crime as Barbara "Barb" Hanlon Tatiana Maslany – Orphan Black as Various Characters 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 Will Forte – The Last Man on Earth as Phil Miller Colin Hanks – Life in Pieces as Greg Short Chris Messina – The Mindy Project as Dr. Danny Castellano Thomas Middleditch – Silicon Valley as Richard Hendricks	Taylor Schilling – Orange Is the New Black as Piper Chapman Jamie Lee Curtis – Scream Queens as Dean / Dr. Cathy Munsch Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep as President Selina Meyer Amy Poehler – Parks and Recreation as Leslie Knope Gina Rodriguez – Jane the Virgin as Jane Gloriana Villanueva Lily Tomlin – Grace and Frankie as Frankie Bergstein
Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film	Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film
Mark Rylance – Wolf Hall as Thomas Cromwell Martin Clunes – Arthur & George as Arthur Conan Doyle Michael Gambon – The Casual Vacancy as Howard Mollison Oscar Isaac – Show Me a Hero as Nick Wasicsko Damian Lewis – Wolf Hall as Henry VIII of England Ben Mendelsohn – Bloodline as Danny Rayburn David Oyelowo – Nightingale as Peter Snowden	Sarah Hay – Flesh and Bone as Claire Robbins Samantha Bond – Home Fires as Frances Barden Aunjanue Ellis – The Book of Negroes as Aminata Diallo Claire Foy – Wolf Hall as Anne Boleyn Queen Latifah – Bessie as Bessie Smith Cynthia Nixon – Stockholm, Pennsylvania as Marcy Dargon
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Christian Slater – Mr. Robot as Mr. Robot Jonathan Banks – Better Call Saul as Mike Ehrmantraut Peter Dinklage – Game of Thrones as Tyrion Lannister Elvis Nolasco – American Crime as Carter Nix Michael K. Williams – Bessie as Jack Gee	Rhea Seehorn – Better Call Saul as Kim Wexler Catherine Keener – Show Me a Hero as Mary Dorman Regina King – American Crime as Aliyah Shadeed Helen McCrory – Penny Dreadful as Evelyn Poole Mo'Nique – Bessie as Ma Rainey Julie Walters – Indian Summers as Cynthia Coffin
Best Genre Series	Best Ensemble – Television Series
The Walking Dead – AMC Game of Thrones – HBO Humans – AMC Into the Badlands – AMC Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – BBC America / BBC One The Leftovers – HBO Orphan Black – BBC America Penny Dreadful – Showtime	American Crime W. Earl Brown Richard Cabral Caitlin Gerard Felicity Huffman Timothy Hutton Regina King Benito Martinez Penelope Ann Miller Elvis Nolasco Johnny Ortiz

Series with multiple nominations

Nominations	Series
5	American Crime
4	Better Call Saul
	Wolf Hall
3	Bloodline
	Mr. Robot
2	Bessie
	The Book of Negroes
	Fargo
	Flesh and Bone
	Game of Thrones
	Jane the Virgin
	Nightingale
	Orphan Black
	Penny Dreadful
	Ray Donovan
	Show Me a Hero
	Silicon Valley
	Stockholm, Pennsylvania
	Veep

Series with multiple wins

Wins	Series
2	Better Call Saul
	Flesh and Bone

New Media winners and nominees

Outstanding Action/Adventure Game	Outstanding Blu-ray
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Square Enix Product) Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Activision) Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios) Halo 5: Guardians (Microsoft Studios) The Room Three (Fireproof Game Studios) Star Wars Battlefront (EA) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt)	Downton Abbey: Season 6 Downton Abbey: Season 5 Inside Out Masterpiece: Worricker – The Complete Series

External links

• International Press Academy website