Awards -- Golden Satellite Nominations

The International Press Academy have announced their nominees. This group never really holds any sway over the Oscar voters, but are always fun to look at. For one thing, they always have a bunch of nominees in almost every category. And I mean every category. They are one of the few groups who announce winners in all the traditional Oscar categories, as well as several extras (drama vs. comedy, etc...). Also, you can usually find more than a few choices that you will not see again for the rest of the year. Not saying their choices aren't deserving, they just rarely coincide with the choices of the more well-known awards group.

That said, Inception leads the way with 11 total nods, followed by 127 Hours with 9, The Social Network with 7, The King's Speech with 6, and Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan, The Kids Are All Right, The Town, and Unstoppable all garnered 5. See what I mean about a few "out there" choices? The fun begins...


BEST PICTURE (DRAMA)

• 127 Hours
• Animal Kingdom
• Blue Valentine


• Get Low


• The Ghost Writer


• Inception


• The King's Speech


• THE SOCIAL NETWORK


• The Town


• Winter's Bone

BEST PICTURE (COMEDY OR MUSICAL)

• Cyrus


• The Kids Are All Right


• Made In Dagenham


• The Other Guys


• Please Give


• Red


• SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD

BEST DIRECTOR

• Ben Affleck "The Town"


• Darren Aronofsky "Black Swan"


• Danny Boyle "127 Hours"


• Lisa Cholodenko "The Kids Are All Right"


• DAVID FINCHER "THE SOCIAL NETWORK"


• Debra Granik "Winter's Bone"


• Tom Hooper "The King's Speech"


• David Michod "Animal Kingdom"


• Christopher Nolan "Inception"


• Roman Polanski "The Ghost Writer"

BEST ACTOR (DRAMA)

• Javier Bardem "Biutiful"


• Leonardo DiCaprio "Inception"


• Michael Douglas "A Solitary Man"


• Robert Duvall "Get Low"


• Jesse Eisenberg "The Social Network"


• COLIN FIRTH "THE KING'S SPEECH"


• James Franco "127 Hours"


• Ryan Gosling "Blue Valentine"

BEST ACTOR (COMEDY OR MUSICAL)

• Steve Carell "Dinner for Schmucks"


• MICHAEL CERA "SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD"


• Romain Duris "Heartbreaker"


• Andy Garcia "City Island"


• Jake Gyllenhaal "Love and Other Drugs"


• John Malkovich "Red"


• John C. Reilly "Cyrus"

BEST ACTRESS (DRAMA)

• Nicole Kidman "Rabbit Hole"


• Jennifer Lawrence "Winter's Bone"


• Helen Mirren "The Tempest"


• Natalie Portman "Black Swan"


• NOOMI RAPACE "THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO"


• Tilda Swinton "I Am Love"


• Naomi Watts "Fair Game"


• Michelle Williams "Blue Valentine"

BEST ACTRESS (COMEDY OR MUSICAL)

• Annette Bening "The Kids Are All Right"


• ANNE HATHAWAY "LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS"


• Sally Hawkins "Made in Dagenham"


• Catherine Keener "Please Give"


• Julianne Moore "The Kids Are All Right"


• Mary-Louise Parker "Red"


• Marisa Tomei "Cyrus"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• CHRISTIAN BALE "THE FIGHTER"


• Pierce Brosnan "The Ghost Writer"


• Andrew Garfield "The Social Network"


• Tommy Lee Jones "The Company Men"


• Bill Murray "Get Low"


• Sean Penn "Fair Game"


• Jeremy Renner "The Town"


• Geoffrey Rush "The King's Speech"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Amy Adams "The Fighter"


• Marion Cotillard "Inception"


• Anne-Marie Duff "Nowhere Boy"


• Rosamund Pike "Barney's Version"


• Vanessa Redgrave "Letters to Juliet"


• Kristin Scott Thomas "Nowhere Boy"


• JACKI WEAVER "ANIMAL KINGDOM"


• Dianne Wiest "Rabbit Hole"

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Biutiful


• The Eclipse


• Get Low


• Inception


• The Kids Are All Right


• THE KING'S SPEECH


• Toy Story 3

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• 127 Hours


• Fair Game


• The Ghost Writer


• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World


• THE SOCIAL NETWORK


• The Town


• Winter's Bone

BEST ANIMATED OR MIXED MEDIA FILM

• Alice in Wonderland


• Despicable Me


• How to Train Your Dragon


• The Illusionist


• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole


• TOY STORY 3

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• 127 Hours


• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1


• I Am Love


• INCEPTION


• Salt


• Secretariat


• Shutter Island


• Unstoppable

BEST FILM EDITING

• Inception


• PLEASE GIVE


• Shutter Island


• The Social Network


• The Town


• Unstoppable

BEST ART DIRECTION & PRODUCTION DESIGN

• Alice in Wonderland


• Black Swan


• Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky


• I Am Love


• INCEPTION


• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World


• Shutter Island

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• ALICE IN WONDERLAND


• Black Swan


• Eat Pray Love


• The King's Speech


• Robin Hood

BEST SOUND (MIXING & EDITING)

• 127 Hours


• Inception


• Iron Man 2


• Nowhere Boy


• Secretariat


• Shutter Island


• UNSTOPPABLE

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• 127 Hours


• ALICE IN WONDERLAND


• Inception


• Iron Man 2


• Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole


• Unstoppable

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• 127 Hours


• Black Swan


• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1


• INCEPTION


• Salt


• The Social Network


• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse


• Unstoppable

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

• "Alice" -- Alice in Wonderland


• "Country Strong" -- Country Strong


• "Eclipse (All Yours)" -- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse


• "If I Rise" -- 127 Hours


• "What Part of Forever" -- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse


• "YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME" -- BURLESQUE

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Biutiful (Mexico)


• THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (SWEDEN)


• I Am Love (Italy)


• Mother (Korea)


• Outside the Law (Algeria)


• Soul Kitchen (Germany)


• White Material (France)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

• Behind the Burly Q


• Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer


• Countdown to Zero


• A Film Unfinished


• Inside Job


• Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work


• RESTREPO


• Sequestro


• The Tillman Story


• Waiting For 'Superman'