- Leaving Kate out was too weird to be true.

- Talking about Little Children, it seems like the movie isn't dead yet, with 4 important noms.

- Ditto for Babel and Flags with 8 and 10 noms respectively, making me feel even more confident in predicting them for "the final two spots".

- 7 contenders for Best Drama, and United 93 is not in there. In fact, it was snubbed COMPLETELY. Not good.

- Half Nelson and Little Miss Sunshine seem to be fighting for the "indie" spot now.

Honestly, though...

Satellite Awards? Not so important.

I'm waiting for NBR.

Yeah, in grand scheme of things, Satellite counts basically nothing.

Love to see Gretchen Mol and Blythe Danner finally being thrown into the mix. But there should be a rule against main actors to be put into supporting categories and vice versa. Leo for Departed as supporting? Come on. I mean the Oscars have a rule which percentage of a mocie has to be animated to be eligible for animated Oscar and they threw out the Aviator score because only a certain percentage was original.
Why don't all awards implement a rule if someone's on the screen for more than XX% of the time, he's not supporting.

From Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr...ab4f504f320da13

"The Departed" and "Dreamgirls" were named best motion picture, drama and best motion picture, comedy or musical at the 11th annual Satellite Awards, which were announced Sunday by the International Press Academy.

"Dreamgirls" also earned awards for best director Bill Condon -- who tied for that honor with Clint Eastwood for "Flags of our Fathers" -- as well as supporting actor Jennifer Hudson, and sound (editing and mixing).

"The Departed" also earned best actor in a supporting role for Leonard DiCaprio, best adapted screenplay for William Monahan and best ensemble. Best dramatic acting honors went to Helen Mirren for "The Queen" and Forest Whitaker for "The Last King of Scotland." Top comedy acting awards went to Meryl Streep for "The Devil Wears Prada" and Joseph Cross for "Running with Scissors."

Other awards included: Best foreign language film, "Volver"; animated or mixed media, "Pan's Labyrinth"; documentary, "Deliver Us from Evil."

"Flags of Our Fathers" also earned awards for cinematography and art direction and production design.In the TV categories, "House" and "Ugly Betty" were named top dramatic and comedy series.

There's no full list yet that I can find.

Peace,
Mike.

Interesting that Flags cleans up the technicals (as well as Best Director), and yet Iwo Jima is the film being touted for awards. It's hard to analyze this because the IPA made their nominations before it was the "cool" thing to drop Flags and give support to Iwo Jima. I mean, they didn't give any mentions to Iwo Jima. I'm assuming the IPA didn't see Iwo Jima, right?

That being said, the Satellite's apparently aren't very relevant, so I'm not going to look too far into it.



Peace,
Mike.

I'm really starting to get sick of Mirren and Whitaker... they've won, like, everything now?

Peace,
Mike.

Joseph Cross, really?