The 13th Satellite Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2008, were given on December 14, 2008.

Special achievement awards

Auteur Award (for his signature scope and style of filmmaking) – Baz Luhrmann

Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Louis Gossett Jr.

Nikola Tesla Award (for his innovative make-up, prosthetics, and creature effects in films) – Rick Baker

Outstanding New Talent – Brandon Walters

Motion picture winners and nominees

Best Actor – Drama

Richard Jenkins – The Visitor

• Leonardo DiCaprio – Revolutionary Road
• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn – Milk
• Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
• Mark Ruffalo – What Doesn't Kill You

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy

Ricky Gervais – Ghost Town

• Josh Brolin – W.
• Michael Cera – Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
• Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges
• Sam Rockwell – Choke
• Mark Ruffalo – The Brothers Bloom

Best Actress – Drama

Angelina Jolie – Changeling

• Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
• Melissa Leo – Frozen River
• Meryl Streep – Doubt
• Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)
• Kate Winslet – The Reader

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy

Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky

• Catherine Deneuve – A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël)
• Kat Dennings – Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
• Lisa Kudrow – Kabluey
• Debra Messing – Nothing like the Holidays
• Meryl Streep – Mamma Mia!

Best Animated or Mixed Media Film

WALL-E

• Bolt
• Horton Hears a Who!
• The Sky Crawlers
• The Tale of Despereaux
• Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)

Best Art Direction and Production Design

Australia

• Brideshead Revisited
• City of Ember
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Duchess
• Revolutionary Road

Best Cinematography

Australia

• Brideshead Revisited
• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Duchess
• Snow Angels

Best Costume Design

The Duchess

• Australia
• Brideshead Revisited
• City of Ember
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Sex and the City

Best Director

Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire

• Stephen Daldry – The Reader
• Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
• Tom McCarthy – The Visitor
• Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
• Gus Van Sant – Milk

Best Documentary Film

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (TIE)
Man on Wire (TIE)

• Encounters at the End of the World
• Pray the Devil Back to Hell
• Religulous
• Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)

Best Editing

Iron Man

• Australia
• The Dark Knight
• Frost/Nixon
• Quantum of Solace
• Slumdog Millionaire

Best Film – Drama

Slumdog Millionaire

• Frost/Nixon
• Frozen River
• Milk
• The Reader
• Revolutionary Road

Best Film – Musical or Comedy

Happy-Go-Lucky

• Choke
• In Bruges
• Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
• Tropic Thunder
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Foreign Language Film

Gomorrah (Gomorra) • Italy

• Caramel (Sekkar banat) • France / Lebanon
• The Class (Entre les murs) • France
• Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) • Sweden
• Padre Nuestro (Sangre de Mi Sangre) • Argentina
• Reprise • Norway

Best Original Score

Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman

• Australia – David Hirschfelder
• Horton Hears a Who! – John Powell
• Milk – Danny Elfman
• Quantum of Solace – David Arnold
• WALL-E – Thomas Newman

Best Original Song

"Another Way to Die" – Quantum of Solace

• "By the Boab Tree" – Australia
• "Down to Earth" – WALL-E
• "If the World" – Body of Lies
• "Jai Ho" – Slumdog Millionaire
• "The Wrestler" – The Wrestler

Best Screenplay – Adapted

Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
• Doubt – John Patrick Shanley
• Elegy – Philip Roth
• The Reader – David Hare
• Revolutionary Road – Justin Haythe
• Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy

Best Screenplay – Original

The Visitor – Tom McCarthy

• Australia – Baz Luhrmann
• Frozen River – Courtney Hunt
• Milk – Dustin Lance Black
• Seven Pounds – Grant Nieporte

Best Sound

The Dark Knight

• Australia
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Iron Man
• Quantum of Solace
• WALL-E

Best Supporting Actor

Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road

• Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
• James Franco – Milk
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
• Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumous)
• Rade Šerbedžija – Fugitive Pieces

Best Supporting Actress

Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married

• Beyoncé – Cadillac Records
• Penélope Cruz – Elegy
• Anjelica Huston – Choke
• Sophie Okonedo – The Secret Life of Bees
• Emma Thompson – Brideshead Revisited

Best Visual Effects

Australia

• The Dark Knight
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Iron Man
• Quantum of Solace

Television winners and nominees

Best Actor – Drama Series

Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad

• Gabriel Byrne – In Treatment
• Michael C. Hall – Dexter
• Jon Hamm – Mad Men
• Jason Isaacs – Brotherhood
• David Tennant – Doctor Who

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series

Justin Kirk – Weeds

• Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock
• Danny DeVito – It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• David Duchovny – Californication
• Jonny Lee Miller – Eli Stone
• Lee Pace – Pushing Daisies

Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Film

Paul Giamatti – John Adams

• Benedict Cumberbatch – The Last Enemy
• Ralph Fiennes – Bernard and Doris
• Stellan Skarsgård – God on Trial
• Kevin Spacey – Recount
• Tom Wilkinson – Recount

Best Actress – Drama Series

Anna Paquin – True Blood

• Glenn Close – Damages
• Kathryn Erbe – Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• Sally Field – Brothers and Sisters
• Holly Hunter – Saving Grace
• Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series

Tracey Ullman – Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

• Christina Applegate – Samantha Who?
• America Ferrera – Ugly Betty
• Tina Fey – 30 Rock
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus – The New Adventures of Old Christine
• Mary-Louise Parker – Weeds

Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film

Judi Dench – Cranford

• Jacqueline Bisset – An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
• Laura Linney – John Adams
• Phylicia Rashad – A Raisin in the Sun
• Susan Sarandon – Bernard and Doris
• Julie Walters – Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

Best Miniseries

Cranford

• John Adams
• The Last Enemy

Best Series – Drama

Dexter

• Brotherhood
• In Treatment
• Life on Mars
• Mad Men
• Primeval

Best Series – Musical or Comedy

Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

• 30 Rock
• The Colbert Report
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Pushing Daisies
• Skins

Best Supporting Actor – Miniseries or TV Film

Nelsan Ellis – True Blood

• Željko Ivanek – Damages
• Harvey Keitel – Life on Mars
• John Noble – Fringe
• John Slattery – Mad Men
• Jimmy Smits – Dexter

Best Supporting Actress – Miniseries or TV Film

Fionnula Flanagan – Brotherhood

• Kristin Chenoweth – Pushing Daisies
• Laura Dern – Recount
• Sarah Polley – John Adams
• Dianne Wiest – In Treatment
• Chandra Wilson – Grey's Anatomy

Best TV Film

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

• 24: Redemption
• Bernard and Doris
• God on Trial
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter
• Recount

New Media winners and nominees

Best Classic DVD

The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and The Godfather Part III (The Godfather Collection – The Coppola Restoration)

• Beetlejuice (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
• Diva
• Dracula (75th Anniversary Edition)
• High Noon (Two-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)
• The Mummy
• Psycho
• Road House
• Touch of Evil (50th Anniversary Edition)
• Young Frankenstein

Best DVD Extras

Iron Man (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
• Across the Universe
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• The Bank Job
• Eight Men Out
• Gone Baby Gone
• High Noon (Two-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)
• Into the Wild
• WALL-E (Three-Disc Special Edition)

Best DVD Release of a TV Show

• 30 Rock (Season 2)
• The Tudors (The Complete First Season)

Outstanding Action/Adventure Game

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

• Dead Space
• LittleBigPlanet
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Outstanding Music/Rhythm Game

Rock Band 2

• Guitar Hero World Tour
• Patapon
• Rock Band
• SingStar

Outstanding Overall Blu-Ray

Sleeping Beauty (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition Blu-Ray and DVD)

• The Dark Knight
• The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and The Godfather Part III (The Godfather Collection – The Coppola Restoration)
• Iron Man
• WALL-E (Three-Disc Special Edition Blu-Ray and DVD)

Outstanding Overall DVD

No Country for Old Men

• 3:10 to Yuma
• Atonement
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Juno
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Lust, Caution
• Michael Clayton
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Two-Disc Collection)
• The Visitor

Outstanding Puzzle/Strategy Game

World of Goo

• Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
• Professor Layton and the Curious Village
• Sid Meyer's Civilization Revolution
• Spore

Outstanding Sports/Racing Game

NHL 09

• Burnout Paradise
• FIFA 09
• Mario Kart Wii
• MLB 08: The Show
• Wii Fit

Outstanding Youth DVD

WarGames (25th Anniversary Edition)

• Avatar: The Last Airbender (Book 3 Fire, Vol. 4)
• Cars
• Enchanted
• Nim's Island
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Two-Disc Platinum Edition DVD)
• Sleeping Beauty (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition Blu-Ray and DVD)
• The Spiderwick Chronicles
• WALL-E (Three-Disc Special Edition)
• The Water Horse (Two-Disc Edition)
• Watership Down (Deluxe Edition)

Awards breakdown

Film

Winners:

3 / 6 Slumdog Millionaire: Best Director / Best Film – Drama / Best Original Score

3 / 9 Australia: Best Art Direction and Production Design / Best Cinematography / Best Visual Effects

2 / 2 Happy-Go-Lucky: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy / Best Film – Musical or Comedy

2 / 3 The Visitor: Best Actor – Drama / Best Screenplay – Original

1 / 1 Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer: Best Documentary Film

1 / 1 Ghost Town: Best Actor – Musical or Comedy

1 / 1 Gomorrah (Gomorra): Best Foreign Language Film

1 / 1 Man on Wire: Best Documentary Film

1 / 2 Changeling: Best Actress – Drama

1 / 2 Rachel Getting Married: Best Supporting Actress

1 / 3 The Duchess: Best Costume Design

1 / 3 Iron Man: Best Editing

1 / 4 WALL-E: Best Animated or Mixed Media Film

1 / 5 The Dark Knight: Best Sound

1 / 5 Frost/Nixon: Best Screenplay – Adapted

1 / 5 Quantum of Solace: Best Original Song

1 / 5 Revolutionary Road: Best Supporting Actor

Losers:

0 / 6 Milk

0 / 4 Brideshead Revisited, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Reader

0 / 3 Choke, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

0 / 2 City of Ember, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Doubt, Elegy, Horton Hears a Who!, In Bruges, Frozen River, Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir), The Wrestler

Television

Winners:

2 / 2 Cranford: Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film / Best Miniseries

2 / 2 Tracey Ullman's State of the Union: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series / Best Series – Musical or Comedy

2 / 2 True Blood: Best Actress – Drama Series / Best Supporting Actor – Miniseries or TV Film

1 / 1 Breaking Bad: Best Actor – Drama Series

1 / 2 Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story: Best TV Film

1 / 2 Weeds: Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series

1 / 3 Brotherhood: Best Supporting Actress – Miniseries or TV Film

1 / 3 Dexter: Best Series – Drama

1 / 4 John Adams: Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Film

Losers:

0 / 4 Recount

0 / 3 30 Rock, Bernard and Doris, In Treatment, Mad Men, Pushing Daisies

0 / 2 Damages, God on Trial, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Last Enemy, Life on Mars