Satellite Award for Best Motion Picture

The Satellite Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the annual awards given to motion pictures by the International Press Academy. In 2011, the IPA pared down its Satellite nominations in the motion picture categories from 22 to 19 classifications; the change reflects the merger of drama and comedy under a general Best Picture heading, including the Best Actor/Actress headings and the Supporting headings. The former musical and comedy categories are included below.

Winners and nominees

Note: "†" indicates an Academy Award-winning film.

Musical or Comedy (1996–2010)

Year	Winners and nominees	Director(s)
1996	Evita	Alan Parker
	Cold Comfort Farm	John Schlesinger
	Everyone Says I Love You	Woody Allen
	Flirting with Disaster	David O. Russell
	Swingers	Doug Liman
1997	As Good as It Gets	James L. Brooks
	Deconstructing Harry	Woody Allen
	The Full Monty	Peter Cattaneo
	In & Out	Frank Oz
	My Best Friend's Wedding	P. J. Hogan
1998	Shakespeare in Love †	John Madden
	Little Voice	Mark Herman
	Pleasantville	Gary Ross
	Waking Ned	Kirk Jones
	You've Got Mail	Nora Ephron
1999	Being John Malkovich	Spike Jonze
	Bowfinger	Mark Herman
	Dick	Andrew Fleming
	Election	Alexander Payne
	An Ideal Husband	Oliver Parker
	Notting Hill	Roger Michell
2000	Nurse Betty	Neil LaBute
	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe
	Best in Show	Christopher Guest
	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Joel Coen
	State and Main	David Mamet
	Wonder Boys	Curtis Hanson
2001	Moulin Rouge!	Baz Luhrmann
	Bridget Jones's Diary	Sharon Maguire
	Gosford Park	Robert Altman
	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	John Cameron Mitchell
	The Royal Tenenbaums	Wes Anderson
2002	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	Joel Zwick
	About a Boy	Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz
	Adaptation.	Spike Jonze
	Igby Goes Down	Burr Steers
	Punch-Drunk Love	Paul Thomas Anderson
2003	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola
	American Splendor	Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
	Bad Santa	Terry Zwigoff
	Bend It Like Beckham	Gurinder Chadha
	A Mighty Wind	Christopher Guest
	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Gore Verbinski
2004	Sideways	Alexander Payne
	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	Wes Anderson
	The Merchant of Venice	Michael Radford
	Napoleon Dynamite	Jared Hess
	The Phantom of the Opera	Joel Schumacher
	Ray	Taylor Hackford
2005	Walk the Line	James Mangold
	Happy Endings	Don Roos
	Hustle & Flow	Craig Brewer
	Kung Fu Hustle	Stephen Chow
	Rent	Chris Columbus
	Shopgirl	Anand Tucker
2006	Dreamgirls	Bill Condon
	The Devil Wears Prada	David Frankel
	Little Miss Sunshine	Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
	Stranger than Fiction	Marc Forster
	Thank You for Smoking	Jason Reitman
	Venus	Roger Michell
2007	Juno	Jason Reitman
	Hairspray	Adam Shankman
	Knocked Up	Judd Apatow
	Lars and the Real Girl	Craig Gillespie
	Margot at the Wedding	Noah Baumbach
	Shoot ’Em Up	Michael Davis
2008	Happy-Go-Lucky	Mike Leigh
	Choke	Clark Gregg
	In Bruges	Martin McDonagh
	Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist	Peter Sollett
	Tropic Thunder	Ben Stiller
	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Woody Allen
2009	Nine	Rob Marshall
	The Informant!	Steven Soderbergh
	It's Complicated	Nancy Meyers
	Julie & Julia	Nora Ephron
	A Serious Man	Joel and Ethan Coen
	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman
2010	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World	Edgar Wright
	Cyrus	Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass
	The Kids Are All Right	Lisa Cholodenko
	Made in Dagenham	Nigel Cole
	The Other Guys	Adam McKay
	Please Give	Nicole Holofcener
	Red	Robert Schwentke

Drama (1996–2009)

1990s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director(s)
1996	Fargo	Joel Coen
	The English Patient †	Anthony Minghella
	Lone Star	John Sayles
	Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh
	Shine	Scott Hicks
	Trainspotting	Danny Boyle
1997	Titanic †	James Cameron
	Amistad	Steven Spielberg
	Boogie Nights	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Good Will Hunting	Gus Van Sant
	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson
1998	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick
	Elizabeth	Shekhar Kapur
	The General	John Boorman
	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon
	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg
1999	The Insider	Michael Mann
	American Beauty †	Sam Mendes
	Boys Don't Cry	Kimberly Peirce
	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Snow Falling on Cedars	Scott Hicks
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Anthony Minghella

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director(s)
2000	Traffic	Steven Soderbergh
	Billy Elliot	Stephen Daldry
	Dancer in the Dark	Lars von Trier
	Erin Brockovich	Steven Soderbergh
	Gladiator †	Ridley Scott
	Quills	Philip Kaufman
2001	In the Bedroom	Todd Field
	The Deep End	Scott McGehee and David Siegel
	Memento	Christopher Nolan
	The Others	Alejandro Amenábar
	Sexy Beast	Jonathan Glazer
2002	Far from Heaven	Todd Haynes
	Antwone Fisher	Denzel Washington
	The Hours	Stephen Daldry
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Peter Jackson
	The Quiet American	Phillip Noyce
	Road to Perdition	Sam Mendes
2003	In America	Jim Sheridan
	The Last Samurai	Edward Zwick
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King †	Peter Jackson
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Peter Weir
	Mystic River	Clint Eastwood
	Thirteen	Catherine Hardwicke
	Whale Rider	Niki Caro
2004	Hotel Rwanda	Terry George
	The Aviator	Martin Scorsese
	Kill Bill: Volume 2	Quentin Tarantino
	Kinsey	Bill Condon
	Maria Full of Grace	Joshua Marston
	Vera Drake	Mike Leigh
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee
	A History of Violence	David Cronenberg
	Capote	Bennett Miller
	Cinderella Man	Ron Howard
	Memoirs of a Geisha	Rob Marshall
	The War Within	Joseph Castelo
2006	The Departed †	Martin Scorsese
	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	Flags of Our Fathers	Clint Eastwood
	Half Nelson	Ryan Fleck
	The Last King of Scotland	Kevin Macdonald
	Little Children	Todd Field
	The Queen	Stephen Frears
2007	No Country for Old Men †	Joel and Ethan Coen
	3:10 to Yuma	James Mangold
	Away from Her	Sarah Polley
	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	Sidney Lumet
	Eastern Promises	David Cronenberg
	The Lookout	Scott Frank
2008	Slumdog Millionaire †	Danny Boyle
	Frost/Nixon	Ron Howard
	Frozen River	Courtney Hunt
	Milk	Gus Van Sant
	The Reader	Stephen Daldry
	Revolutionary Road	Sam Mendes
2009	The Hurt Locker †	Kathryn Bigelow
	Bright Star	Jane Campion
	An Education	Lone Scherfig
	The Messenger	Oren Moverman
	Precious	Lee Daniels
	The Stoning of Soraya M.	Cyrus Nowrasteh

Motion Picture (2010–present)

2010s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director(s)
2010	The Social Network	David Fincher
	127 Hours	Danny Boyle
	Animal Kingdom	David Michôd
	Blue Valentine	Derek Cianfrance
	Get Low	Aaron Schneider
	The Ghost Writer	Roman Polanski
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	The King's Speech †	Tom Hooper
	The Town	Ben Affleck
	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik
2011	The Descendants	Alexander Payne
	The Artist †	Michel Hazanavicius
	Drive	Nicolas Winding Refn
	The Help	Tate Taylor
	Hugo	Martin Scorsese
	Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen
	Moneyball	Bennett Miller
	Shame	Steve McQueen
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Tomas Alfredson
	War Horse	Steven Spielberg
2012	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell
	Argo †	Ben Affleck
	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Benh Zeitlin
	Les Misérables	Tom Hooper
	Life of Pi	Ang Lee
	Lincoln	Steven Spielberg
	Moonrise Kingdom	Wes Anderson
	Skyfall	Sam Mendes
	Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow
2013	12 Years a Slave †	Steve McQueen
	All Is Lost	J. C. Chandor
	American Hustle	David O. Russell
	Blue Jasmine	Woody Allen
	Captain Phillips	Paul Greengrass
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón
	Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel and Ethan Coen
	Philomena	Stephen Frears
	Saving Mr. Banks	John Lee Hancock
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Martin Scorsese
2014	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) †	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
	Boyhood	Richard Linklater
	Gone Girl	David Fincher
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson
	The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum
	Love Is Strange	Ira Sachs
	Mr. Turner	Mike Leigh
	Selma	Ava DuVernay
	The Theory of Everything	James Marsh
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
2015	Spotlight †	Tom McCarthy
	The Big Short	Adam McKay
	Black Mass	Scott Cooper
	Bridge of Spies	Steven Spielberg
	Brooklyn	John Crowley
	Carol	Todd Haynes
	The Martian	Ridley Scott
	The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
	Room	Lenny Abrahamson
	Sicario	Denis Villeneuve
2016	Captain Fantastic	Matt Ross
	Fences	Denzel Washington
	Hacksaw Ridge	Mel Gibson
	Hell or High Water	David Mackenzie
	Hidden Figures	Theodore Melfi
	Jackie	Pablo Larraín
	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
	Lion	Garth Davis
	Loving	Jeff Nichols
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins
	Nocturnal Animals	Tom Ford