Awards -- INTERNATIONAL PRESS ACADEMY -- Golden Satellite Nominees

No true Oscar prognasticator should ever take these nominations seriously. But every year, they are the first group to announce, and it's always at the very least, interesting, to see where they put the glory. I especially love the fact that several films in the "Top Ten" list aren't even nominated in the picture categories. That right there tells you exactly how this group work. But whatever, so here they are...

Best Picture (Drama)
Bright Star
An Education
The Hurt Locker
The Messenger
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
The Stoning of Soraya M.

Best Picture (Musical/Comedy)
The Informant!
It's Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine
A Serious Man
Up in the Air

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow "The Hurt Locker"
Neill Blomkamp "District 9"
Jane Campion "Bright Star"
Lee Daniels "Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire"
Rob Marshall "Nine"
Lone Scherfig "An Education"

Best Actor (Drama)
Jeff Bridges "Crazy Heart"
Hugh Dancy "Adam"
Johnny Depp "Public Enemies"
Colin Firth "A Single Man"
Jeremy Renner "The Hurt Locker"
Michael Sheen "The Damned United"

Best Actor (Musical/Comedy)
George Clooney "Up in the Air"
Bradley Cooper "The Hangover"
Matt Damon "The Informant!"
Daniel Day-Lewis "Nine"
Michael Stuhlbarg "A Serious Man"

Best Actress (Drama)
Shohreh Aghdashloo "The Stoning of Soraya M."
Emily Blunt "The Young Victoria"
Abbie Cornish "Bright Star"
Penelope Cruz "Broken Embraces"
Carey Mulligan "An Education"
Catalina Saavedra "The Maid"

Best Actress (Musical/Comedy)
Sandra Bullock "The Proposasl"
Marion Cotillard "Nine"
Zooey Deschanel "(500) Days of Summer"
Katherine Heigl "The Ugly Truth"
Meryl Streep "Julie & Julia"

Best Supporting Actor
Woody Harrelson "The Messenger"
James McAvoy "The Last Station"
Alfred Molina "An Education"
Timothy Spall "The Damned United"
Christoph Waltz "Inglourious Basterds"

Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt "Sunshine Cleaning"
Penelope Cruz "Nine"
Anna Kendrick "Up in the Air"
Mozhan Marno "The Stoning of Soraya M."
Mo'nique "Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire"

Best Original Screenplay
(500) Days of Summer -- Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
Bright Star -- Jane Campion
The Hurt Locker -- Mark Boal
A Serious Man -- Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Up -- Bob Peterson & Pete Docter

Best Adapted Screenplay
District 9 -- Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell
An Education -- Nick Hornby
Julie & Julia -- Nora Ephron
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire -- Geoffrey Fletcher
Up in the Air -- Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner

Best Animated or Mixed Media
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Princess and the Frog
Up
Where the Wild Things Are

Best Cinematography
Inglourious Basterds
It Might Get Loud
Nine
Public Enemies
Red Cliff
A Serious Man

Best Film Editing
2012
District 9
The Hurt Locker
It Might Get Loud
Nine
Red Cliff

Best Art Direction & Production Design
2012
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Public Enemies
Red Cliff
The Road
A Single Man

Best Costume Design
Cheri
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Red Cliff
The Young Victoria

Best Sound (Mixing & Editing)
2012
It Might Get Loud
Nine
Red Cliff
Terminator: Salvation
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Best Visual Effects
2012
District 9
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Red Cliff
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Best Original Score
Amelia
The Informant!
Public Enemies
Up
Up in the Air
Where the Wild Things Are

Best Original Song
"Almost There" -- The Princess and the Frog
"Cinema Italiano" -- Nine
"Down in New Orleans" -- The Princess and the Frog
"I Can See in Color" -- Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
"We Are the Children of the World" -- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
"The Weary Kind" -- Crazy Heart

Best Foreign Language Film
Broken Embraces (Spain) (tie)
I Killed My Mother (Canada)
The Maid (Chile) (tie)
Red Cliff (China)
The White Ribbon (Germany)
Winter in Wartime (Netherlands)

Best Documentary
The Beaches of Agnes
The Cove
Every Little Step
It Might Get Loud
The September Issue
Valentino: The Last Emperor

Top Ten Films
(500) Days of Summer
Bright Star
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
A Serious Man
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Up in the Air

Tesla Award (Visionary Achievement)
Roger Deakins

Auteur Award
Roger Corman

Best Ensemble Film Cast
Nine

Best Ensemble TV Cast
True Blood

Outstanding Guest Star
Kristin Chenoweth "Glee"

Outstanding New Talent
Gabourey Sidibie "Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire"