The Edge of the Frame

This year’s Golden Satellite nominees have just been announced, and really…who could care less?

For those who don’t know what the Sats are, they are an award system given by the International Press Academy, a group of journalists from around the world who, sorry, really don’t know what they’re talking about. Wow, sounds kind of like the Golden Globes. Their awards are usually the most vague, broad nominations that can possibly be imagined, and this year is no different. I guess they do give an idea about what the awards season is going to be like, but really just reinforce what we already knew. They also jump the gun, before seeing everything. For Instance, you won’t see “True Grit” on here at all.

Anyway here goes. One thing’s for sure, “Inception” certainly isn’t going away any time soon. See the full list of nominations after the jump.

BEST MOTION 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 MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL or COMEDY
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 Arronofsky – Black Swan
Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids Are All Right
David Fincher – The Social Network
Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech
David Michod – Animal Kingdom
Christopher Nolan – Inception
Roman Polanski – The Ghost Writer
Debra Granik – Winter’s Bone

BEST ACTOR, DRAMA
Javier Bardem – Biutiful
Leonardo DiCaprio – Inception
Michael Douglas – 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, MUSICAL/COMEDY
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, MUSICAL/COMEDY
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
Tommy Lee Jones – The Company Men
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
Vanessa Redgrave – Letters to Juliet
Rosamund Pike – Barney’s Version
Kristen 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 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE
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 FEATURE
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

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
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 Hollows: Part I
I Am Love
Inception
Salt
Secretariat
Shutter Island
Unstoppable

BEST EDITING
Inception
Please Give
Shutter Island
The Social Network
The Town
Unstoppable

BEST ART DIRECTION
Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky
I Am Love
Inception
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Shutter Island

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Alice in Wonderland
The King’s Speech
Eat Pray Love
Black Swan
Robin Hood

BEST SOUND (MIXING and 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
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Unstoppable

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Eclipse
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part I
Inception
Salt
The Social Network
Unstoppable

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“If I Rise” – 127 Hours
“Alice” – Alice in Wonderland
“You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me” – Cher
“Country Strong” – Country Strong
“What Part of Forever” – Twilight Saga: Eclipse
“Eclipse” – Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Tomorrow, is the first REAL awards announcement of the year: the National Board of Review. Stay tuned. I will try to post as soon as I get word on the winners.