And with that, the Satellite Awards were done for the year. Two female-directed titles top the International Press Academy's lists for the best films of 2020: Chloe Zhao's Nomadland (also winning Zhao the Best Director award) and Radha Blank's debut The Forty-Year-Old Version - both fine choices. Elsewhere, there were choices equally fine and rather less so, but I'm still just chuckling at the presentation of the Humanitarian Award to Hollywood's most renowned humanitarian Mark Wahlberg... Check out the IPA's 2020 award nominations at this link.
Best Motion Picture, Drama
Nomadland
Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Best Director
Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Amanda Seyfried (Mank)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Chadwick Boseman (Da 5 Bloods)
Best Screenplay, Original
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Best Screenplay, Adapted
Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (The Father)
Best Cinematography
Erik Messerschmidt (Mank)
Best Film Editing
Alan Baumgarten (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Best Art Direction and Production Design
Donald Graham Burt, Chris Craine, Jan Pascale and Dan Webster (Mank)
Best Costume Design
Suzie Harmon and Robert Worley (The Personal History of David Copperfield)
Best Sound (Editing and Mixing)
Jamie Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Philip Bladh, Carlos Cortes, Michelle Couttolenc and Carolina Santana (Sound of Metal)
Best Visual Effects
Andrew Jackson (Tenet)
Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat (The Midnight Sky)
Best Original Song
"Io Si" (The Life Ahead)
Best Ensemble
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media
Wolfwalkers
Best Motion Picture, Documentary
Collective
Best Motion Picture, International
La Llorona
Best First Feature
Channing Godfrey Peoples (Miss Juneteenth)
Auteur Award
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Humanitarian Award
Mark Wahlberg
Mary Pickford Award
Tilda Swinton
Stunt Performance Award
Gaelle Cohen
Tesla Award
Dick Pope