20th Satellite Awards

The 20th Satellite Awards is an award ceremony honoring the year's outstanding performers, films, and television shows, presented by the International Press Academy. It took place on February 21, 2016.

The nominations were announced on December 1, 2015. The film The Martian leads all nominees with nine, including Best Film.

Special achievement awards

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

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

Special Award for Breakthrough Comedian – Amy Schumer

Breakthrough Performance Award – Jacob Tremblay in Room

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

Motion picture winners and nominees

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 Michael Keaton – Spotlight Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight Sylvester Stallone – Creed Benicio del Toro – Sicario	Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl Elizabeth Banks – Love & Mercy Jane Fonda – Youth Rooney Mara – Carol Rachel McAdams – Spotlight Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Spotlight – Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen Inside Out – Pete Docter, Josh Cooley, and Meg LeFauve Love & Mercy – Michael Alan Lerner and Oren Moverman Straight Outta Compton – Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff Suffragette – Abi Morgan	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
Best Animated or Mixed Media Film	Best Foreign Language Film
Inside Out Anomalisa The Good Dinosaur The Peanuts Movie The Prophet Shaun the Sheep Movie	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)
Best Documentary Film	Best Cinematography
Amy The Look of Silence 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	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 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" (Lady Gaga and Diane Warren) – The Hunting Ground "Cold One" (Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice) – Ricki and the Flash "Love Me Like You Do" (Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Ali Payami, and Tove Nilsson) – Fifty Shades of Grey "One Kind of Love" (Brian Wilson) – Love & Mercy "See You Again" (DJ Frank E, Charlie Puth, Wiz Khalifa, and Andrew Cedar)– Furious 7 "Writing's on the Wall" (Sam Smith and Jimmy Napes) – Spectre
Best Visual Effects	Best Art Direction and Production Design
The Walk – Kevin Baillie, Jim Gibbs, Viktor Muller, and Sébastien Moreau Everest – Stefan Andersson, Dadi Einarsson, Arne Kaupang, and Richard Van Den Bergh Jurassic World – Tim Alexander, Glen McIntosh, Tony Plett, and Michael Meinardus Mad Max: Fury Road – Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver, and Andy Williams The Martian – Richard Stammers, Chris Lawrence, Anders Langlands, and Steven Warner Spectre – Steve Begg and Chris Corbould	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
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 – Mac Ruth, Paul Massey, Mark Taylor, and Oliver Tarney Inside Out – Michael Semanick, Tom Johnson, Doc Kane, Ren Klyce, and Shannon Mills Jurassic World – Christopher Boyes, Pete Horner, Kirk Francis, Al Nelson, and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle Mad Max: Fury Road – Ben Osmo, Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff, Scott Hecker, Mark Mangini, and David White Sicario – John T. Reitz, Tom Ozanich, William Sarokin, and Alan Robert Murray Spectre – Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Gregg Rudloff, Per Hallberg, and Karen Baker Landers
Best Costume Design	Best Ensemble – Motion Picture
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	Spotlight – Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian d'Arcy James, and Stanley Tucci

Television winners and nominees

Best Drama Series	Best Musical or Comedy Series
Better Call Saul – AMC American Crime – ABC Bloodline – Netflix Deutschland 83 – SundanceTV 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 Genre Series
The Walking Dead – AMC American Horror Story: Hotel – FX Game of Thrones – HBO Humans – AMC Into the Badlands – AMC Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – BBC One, BBC America The Leftovers – HBO Orphan Black – BBC America Penny Dreadful – Showtime
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 Hendriks	Taylor Schilling – Orange Is the New Black as Piper Chapman Jamie Lee Curtis – Scream Queens as Dean Cathy Munsch Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep as 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 TV Film	Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV 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 TV Film	Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film
Christian Slater – Mr. Robot as Mr. Robot / Edward Alderson 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
Satellite Award for Best Television Ensemble
American Crime – Felicity Huffman, Timothy Hutton, W. Earl Brown, Richard Cabral, Regina King, Caitlin Gerard, Benito Martinez, Penelope Ann Miller, Elvis Nolasco, and Johnny Ortiz

New Media

Outstanding Action/Adventure Game

Outstanding Blu-ray

Rise of the Tomb Raider – (Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, Nixxes Software, Square Enix, Microsoft Studios) The Room Three – (Fireproof Studios) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – (CD Projekt RED, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, BNEI, Spike Chunsoft) Call of Duty: Black Ops III – (Treyarch, Beenox, Mercenary Technology, Raven Software) Fallout 4 – (Bethesda Game Studios) Halo 5: Guardians – (343 Industries, Microsoft Studios) Star Wars Battlefront – (EA Digital Illusions CE, Lucasfilm)

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External links

• International Press Academy website