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The 9th Golden Satellite Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2004, were presented by the International Press Academy on January 23, 2005.

Special achievement awards

Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Susan Sarandon

Nikola Tesla Award (for introducing video-assist and video playback techniques, which have become industry standards) – Jerry Lewis

Outstanding New Talent – Freddie Highmore

Motion picture winners and nominees

Best Actor – Drama

Don Cheadle – Hotel Rwanda

• Kevin Bacon – The Woodsman
• Javier Bardem – The Sea Inside (Mar adentro)
• Gael García Bernal – The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta)
• Johnny Depp – Finding Neverland
• Liam Neeson – Kinsey
• Sean Penn – The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy

Jamie Foxx – Ray

• Gerard Butler – The Phantom of the Opera
• Jim Carrey – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Paul Giamatti – Sideways
• Kevin Kline – De-Lovely
• Bill Murray – The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Best Actress – Drama

Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby

• Laura Linney – P.S.
• Catalina Sandino Moreno – Maria Full of Grace
• Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake
• Uma Thurman – Kill Bill: Volume 2
• Sigourney Weaver – Imaginary Heroes

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy

Annette Bening – Being Julia

• Jena Malone – Saved!
• Natalie Portman – Garden State
• Emmy Rossum – The Phantom of the Opera
• Kerry Washington – Ray
• Kate Winslet – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Animated or Mixed Media Film

The Incredibles

• The Polar Express
• Shrek 2
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
• Teacher's Pet
• Team America: World Police

Best Art Direction and Production Design

De-Lovely

• The Aviator
• House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• Vanity Fair

Best Cinematography

House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu) – Zhao Xiaoding

• The Aviator
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Spider-Man 2
• A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)

Best Costume Design

Vanity Fair – Beatrix Aruna Pasztor

• The Aviator
• De-Lovely
• House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Best Director

Mel Gibson – The Passion of the Christ

• Bill Condon – Kinsey
• Taylor Hackford – Ray
• Joshua Marston – Maria Full of Grace
• Alexander Payne – Sideways
• Martin Scorsese – The Aviator

Best Documentary Film

Super Size Me

• Born into Brothels
• The Fuente Family: An American Dream
• Lightning in a Bottle
• Touching the Void
• Tupac: Resurrection

Best Editing

Collateral – Jim Miller and Paul Rubell

• The Aviator
• Closer
• House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Spider-Man 2

Best Film – Drama

Hotel Rwanda

• The Aviator
• Kill Bill: Volume 2
• Kinsey
• Maria Full of Grace
• Vera Drake

Best Film – Musical or Comedy

Sideways

• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• The Merchant of Venice
• Napoleon Dynamite
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Ray

Best Foreign Language Film

The Sea Inside (Mar adentro), Spain

• Bad Education (La mala educación), Spain
• Don't Move (Non ti muovere), Italy
• House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu), China
• The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta), Argentina
• A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles), France

Best Original Score

"Napoleon Dynamite" – John Swihart

• "Alfie" – Mick Jagger, John Powell, and David A. Stewart
• "The Aviator" – Howard Shore
• "Finding Neverland" – Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
• "The Incredibles" – Michael Giacchino
• "Spider-Man 2" – Danny Elfman

Best Original Song

"Million Voices" written by Jerry Duplessis, Andrea Guerra, and Wyclef Jean – Hotel Rwanda

• "Believe" written by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri – The Polar Express
• "Blind Leading the Blind" written by Mick Jagger and David A. Stewart – Alfie
• "The Book of Love" written by Stephin Merritt – Shall We Dance
• "Learn to Be Lonely" written by Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Phantom of the Opera
• "Shine Ya Light" written by Robbie Robertson – Ladder 49

Best Screenplay – Adapted

Million Dollar Baby – Paul Haggis

• Closer – Patrick Marber
• The Phantom of the Opera – Joel Schumacher
• Sideways – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor

Best Screenplay – Original

Ray – James L. White

• The Aviator – John Logan
• Collateral – Stuart Beattie
• Hotel Rwanda – Terry George and Keir Pearson
• Kinsey – Bill Condon
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach

Best Sound

Collateral

• Code 46
• The Aviator
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Spider-Man 2

Best Supporting Actor – Drama

Christopher Walken – Around the Bend

• David Carradine – Kill Bill: Volume 2
• Jamie Foxx – Collateral
• Alfred Molina – Spider-Man 2
• Clive Owen – Closer
• Peter Sarsgaard – Kinsey

Best Supporting Actor – Musical or Comedy

Thomas Haden Church – Sideways

• Joseph Fiennes – The Merchant of Venice
• Jeremy Irons – Being Julia
• Peter Sarsgaard – Garden State
• Mark Wahlberg – I Heart Huckabees
• Patrick Wilson – The Phantom of the Opera

Best Supporting Actress – Drama

Gena Rowlands – The Notebook

• Cate Blanchett – The Aviator
• Daryl Hannah – Kill Bill: Volume 2
• Laura Linney – Kinsey
• Natalie Portman – Closer
• Kyra Sedgwick – The Woodsman

Best Supporting Actress – Musical or Comedy

Regina King – Ray

• Lynn Collins – The Merchant of Venice
• Minnie Driver – The Phantom of the Opera
• Cloris Leachman – Spanglish
• Virginia Madsen – Sideways
• Sharon Warren – Ray

Best Visual Effects

The Aviator (TIE)
House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu) (TIE)

• Collateral
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• Spider-Man 2

Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble

Sideways

Television winners and nominees

Best Actor – Drama Series

Matthew Fox – Lost

• Vincent D'Onofrio – Law & Order
• Anthony LaPaglia – Without a Trace
• James Spader – Boston Legal
• Treat Williams – Everwood

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series

Jason Bateman – Arrested Development

• Zach Braff – Scrubs
• Larry David – Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Bernie Mac – The Bernie Mac Show
• Damon Wayans – My Wife and Kids

Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Film

Jamie Foxx – Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

• Keith Carradine – Deadwood
• Mos Def – Something the Lord Made
• Alan Rickman – Something the Lord Made
• Geoffrey Rush – The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Best Actress – Drama Series

Laurel Holloman – The L Word

• Jennifer Garner – Alias
• Evangeline Lilly – Lost
• Joely Richardson – Nip/Tuck
• Amber Tamblyn – Joan of Arcadia

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series

Portia de Rossi – Arrested Development

• Marcia Cross – Desperate Housewives
• Lauren Graham – Gilmore Girls
• Teri Hatcher – Desperate Housewives
• Felicity Huffman – Desperate Housewives
• Maya Rudolph – Saturday Night Live

Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film

Dianne Wiest – The Blackwater Lightship

• Clea DuVall – Helter Skelter
• Angela Lansbury – The Blackwater Lightship
• Helen Mirren – Prime Suspect: The Last Witness
• Miranda Richardson – The Lost Prince

Best Miniseries

The Lost Prince

• The 4400
• American Family
• The Last King
• Prime Suspect: The Last Witness
• The Second Coming

Best Series – Drama

Nip/Tuck

• Boston Legal
• The L Word
• Lost
• The Shield

Best Series – Musical or Comedy

Desperate Housewives

• Arrested Development
• The Bernie Mac Show
• Gilmore Girls
• Scrubs

Best Supporting Actor – Miniseries or TV Film

Bill Nighy – The Lost Prince

• Brad Dourif – Deadwood
• Balthazar Getty – Traffic
• William H. Macy – Stealing Sinatra
• Keith McErlean – The Blackwater Lightship

Best Supporting Actress – Miniseries or TV Film

Anjelica Huston – Iron Jawed Angels

• Mary Stuart Masterson – Something the Lord Made
• Helen McCrory – Charles II: The Power and the Passion
• Gina McKee – The Lost Prince
• Emily Watson – The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Best TV Film

Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

• Helter Skelter
• Iron Jawed Angels
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
• Something the Lord Made

New Media winners and nominees

For the game categories, only nominees are listed; winners are unknown:

Best Classic DVD

La Dolce Vita

• The China Syndrome
• Easy Rider
• Fanny and Alexander
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Persuasion, Little Women, and Sense and Sensibility (for the Classic Masterpiece Book & DVD set)
• Ragtime
• The Snake Pit
• Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi (for the Star Wars Trilogy)
• Time Bandits (for the Divimax Special Edition)
• Zorba the Greek

Best Documentary DVD

Broadway: The American Musical

• Ancient Mysteries and Rise and Fall of the Spartans (for the "Troy – Unearthing the Legend" DVD)
• Brooklyn Bridge, The Statue of Liberty, Huey Long, The Congress, Thomas Hart Benton, Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, and The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (for the Ken Burns' America Collection)
• Capturing the Friedmans
• Fahrenheit 9/11
• In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
• It's All True
• Seven Up!, 7 Plus Seven, 21 Up, 28 Up, 35 Up, and 42 Up (for the "Up" film series)
• Spellbound
• Super Size Me

Best DVD Extras

Maria Full of Grace (for the documentary)

• Angel (for Season 4; for the commentary)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (for Season 6; for the commentary)
• Easy Rider (for the documentary)
• Ed Wood (for the commentary)
• La Dolce Vita (for the commentary)

Best DVD Release of TV Shows

Seinfeld

• 24 (for Season 3)
• Alias (for Season 3)
• Angel (for Season 4)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (for Season 6)
• Felicity (for Edition III)
• Frasier (for The Final Season)
• Sex and the City (for Season 6)
• Taxi (for The Complete First Season)
• Terrahawks

Outstanding Game Based on a Previous Medium

• The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
• GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• The Incredibles
• Rocky Legends
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
• X-Men Legends

Outstanding Overall DVD

Spider-Man 2

• Angel (for Season 4)
• Broadway: The American Musical
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (for Season 6)
• Dawn of the Dead (for the Ultimate Edition)
• Easy Rider
• La Dolce Vita
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, and The Animatrix (for The Ultimate Matrix Collection)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (for the 3-Disc Gift Set)
• Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi (for the Star Wars Trilogy)

Outstanding Platform Action/Adventure Game

• Call of Duty: Finest Hour
• Doom 3
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Halo 2
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
• Mortal Kombat: Deception

Outstanding Puzzle/Strategy Game

• The Guy Game
• Katamari Damacy
• Sid Meier's Pirates!
• Ultra Bust-A-Move X
• The Urbz: Sims in the City
• Worms 3D

Outstanding Sports Game

• ESPN NFL 2K5
• Major League Baseball 2005
• MX Unleashed
• NBA Ballers
• NFL Street
• Tony Hawk's Underground 2

Outstanding Youth DVD

The Iron Giant

• Aladdin (for the Special Platinum Edition)
• The Big Snooze, Beep, Beep, Bad Ol' Putty Tat, and Back Alley Oproar (for Looney Tunes: Golden Collection – Volume 2)
• Elf
• Ella Enchanted
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Mulan (for the Special Edition)
• Rocky and His Friends (for The Complete Second Season)
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (for the Warner Bros. Edition)
• SpongeBob SquarePants (for The Complete Second Season)
• Terrahawks

Awards breakdown

Film

Winners:

3 / 4 Hotel Rwanda: Best Actor & Film – Drama / Best Original Song

3 / 7 Ray: Best Actor – Musical or Comedy / Best Supporting Actress – Musical or Comedy / Best Screenplay – Original

3 / 7 Sideways: Best Film – Musical or Comedy / Best Supporting Actor – Musical or Comedy / Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble

2 / 2 Million Dollar Baby: Best Actress – Drama / Best Screenplay – Adapted

2 / 5 Collateral: Best Editing / Best Sound

2 / 6 House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu): Best Cinematography / Best Visual Effects

1 / 1 Around the Bend: Best Supporting Actor – Drama

1 / 1 The Notebook: Best Supporting Actress – Drama

1 / 1 The Passion of the Christ: Best Director

1 / 1 Super Size Me: Best Documentary Film

1 / 2 Being Julia: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy

1 / 2 The Incredibles: Best Animated or Mixed Media Film

1 / 2 Napoleon Dynamite: Best Original Score

1 / 2 The Sea Inside (Mar adentro): Best Foreign Language Film

1 / 2 Vanity Fair: Best Costume Design

1 / 3 De-Lovely: Best Art Direction and Production Design

1 / 11 The Aviator: Best Visual Effects

Losers:

0 / 11 The Phantom of the Opera

0 / 6 Kinsey, Spider-Man 2

0 / 4 Closer, Kill Bill: Volume 2

0 / 3 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Maria Full of Grace, The Merchant of Venice, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

0 / 2 Alfie, Finding Neverland, Garden State, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta), The Polar Express, Vera Drake, A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles), The Woodsman

Television

Winners:

2 / 2 Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story: Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Film / Best TV Film

2 / 3 Arrested Development: Best Actor & Actress – Musical or Comedy Series

2 / 4 The Lost Prince: Best Miniseries / Best Supporting Actor – Miniseries or TV Film

1 / 2 Iron Jawed Angels: Best Supporting Actress – Miniseries or TV Film

1 / 2 The L Word: Best Actress – Drama Series

1 / 2 Nip/Tuck: Best Series – Drama

1 / 3 The Blackwater Lightship: Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film

1 / 3 Lost: Best Actor – Drama Series

1 / 4 Desperate Housewives: Best Series – Musical or Comedy Series

Losers:

0 / 4 Something the Lord Made

0 / 3 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

0 / 2 The Bernie Mac Show, Boston Legal, Deadwood, Gilmore Girls, Helter Skelter, Prime Suspect: The Last Witness, Scrubs

References

1. "International Press Academy: Satellite Awards". International Press Academy. Archived from the original on 2009-12-21. Retrieved 2024-03-16.

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