Australia
After coming under a barrage of criticism from the critic when it premiered last week Baz Luhrman's epic Australia leads the 13th Annual Satellite Award nominations with nine nods.
However many of these nominations come in the technical areas and failed to make the Best Motion Picture Drama category. Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Milk, The Reader, Revolutionary Road and Slumdog Millionaire will all fight it out for the top prize.
Milk and British picture Slumdog Millionaire, which did well at the British Independent Film Awards earlier this week, both have six nominations each including appearances in Best Director and Best Actor for Sean Penn.
Meryl Streep has two acting awards in the two Best Actress categories as she finds herself nominated for both Doubt and musical Mamma Mia!
All the actresses that have been tipped to fight it out for Best Actress at the Oscars: Angelina Jolie, Kate Winslet, Kristen Scott Thomas and Anne Hathaway all joining Streep.
The Best Actor category was equally predictable as Mickey Rourke, Sean Penn, Frank Langella and Leonardo DiCaprio all get the nod.
However there were some notable movies missing as David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button received only a nomination for original screenplay while Che, a festival favourite, Defiance and Gran Torino were snubbed altogether.
There was also a posthumous nomination for Heath Ledger for his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight and an Oscar nomination is looking ever more likely.
The awards will be presented in on December 14th in Los Angeles.
Full List of Nominees
Motion Picture, Drama
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Revolutionary Road
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Frozen River
Director
Thomas McCarthy - The Visitor
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant - Milk
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
Actress In A Motion Picture, Drama
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Kristin Scott Thomas - I've Loved You So Long
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Winslet - The Reader
Actor In A Motion Picture, Drama
Mickey Rourke -The Wrestler
Mark Ruffalo - What Doesn't Kill You
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella -Frost/Nixon
Leonardo Dicaprio - Revolutionary Road
Sean Penn - Milk
Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Happy-Go-Lucky
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Tropic Thunder
In Bruges
Choke
Actress In A Motion Picture, Comedy Or Musical
Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky
Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia!
Lisa Kudrow - Kabluey
Kat Dennings - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Catherine Deneuve - A Christmas Tale
Debra Messing - Nothing Like the Holidays
Actor In A Motion Picture, Comedy Or Musical
Ricky Gervais - Ghost Town
Sam Rockwell - Choke
Josh Brolin - W.
Michael Cera - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Brendan Gleeson - In Bruges
Mark Ruffalo - The Brothers Bloom
Actress In A Supporting Role
Rosemarie DeWitt - Rachel Getting Married
Penelope Cruz - Elegy
Anjelica Huston - Choke
Sophie Okonedo - The Secret Life of Bees
Emma Thompson - Brideshead Revisited
Viola Davis - Doubt
Beyonce Knowles - Cadillac Records
Actor In A Supporting Role
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road
Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Rade Sherbedgia - Fugitive Pieces
James Franco - Milk
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Philip Seymour - Hoffman Doubt
Motion Picture, Foreign Language Film
Let the Right One In - Sweden
The Class - France
Sangre de mi Sangre - Mexico
Reprise - Norway
Gomorrah - Italy
Caramel - Lebanon / France
Motion Picture, Animated Or Mixed Media
The Tale of Despereaux
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!
WALL-E
Bolt
Waltz With Bashir
The Sky Crawlers
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw