Nine Bags Ten Satellite Award Nominations

04 December 2009

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Despite being overlooked at the National Board of Review it's musical Nine that is leading the way at the Satellite Awards.

The Daniel Day Lewis movie bagged eleven nominations including Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) as well as Best Director, Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Daniel Day Lewis, Best Actress in a Musical of Comedy Marion Cotillard and Best Supporting Actress for Penelope Cruz.

Penelope Cruz also finds her self in the Best Actress (Drama) category for her role in Broken Embraces, could she win an Oscar two years in a row?

But the movie faces tough competition in the Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) category with the likes of The Informant, A Serious Man and Up In The Air, which picked up a string of National Board of Review awards last night, all vying for the award.

These early movie awards have been giving us an indication as to which movies and performances will be battling it out for the Oscars at the beginning of next year, and we are already able to see some front runners.

The Hurt Locker, The Messenger, An Education, Precious and Up In The Air are already picking up nominations left right and centre while this is the first award recognition that has come the way of Nine at this early stage of the awards season.

Carey Mulliagan is the leading contender in the Best Actress (Drama) category after her win at the national Board of Review but faces competition from Emily Blunt, Penelope Cruz and Abbie Cornish.

The Best Actor category is packed with talent as Johnny Depp, Colin Firth, Michael Sheen and Jeff Bridges all find themselves nominated.

George Clooney finds himself in the Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy category alongside double Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis Matt Damon for The Informant and Bradley Cooper for The Hangover.

Best Director is also an interesting category as the likes of Peter Jackson for The Lovely Bones and Clint Eastwood for Invictus have been overlooked with Neill Blomkamp for District 9, Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker and Rob Marshall for Nine have all bee nominated.

Up leads the Best Motion Picture (Animated or Mixed Media) alongside Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, Fantastic Mr Fox and Where the Wild Things Are.

Up is bidding to be just the second animation movie in history to be nominated for Best Picture, the only one being Beauty and the Beast, and with the Best Picture category this year being extended to ten it has a major shot.

Full List of Nominees:

Best Motion Picture (Drama)

Bright Star
An Education
The Hurt Locker
The Messenger
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
The Stoning of Soraya M.

Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)

The Informant
It’s Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine
A Serious Man
Up in the Air

Best Director

Jane Campion - Bright Star
Neill Blomkamp - District 9
Lone Scherfig - An Education
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Rob Marshall -Nine
Lee Daniels - Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Best Actress (Drama)

Shohreh Aghdashloo - The Stoning of Soraya M.
Emily Blunt - The Young Victoria
Abbie Cornish - Bright Star
Penelope Cruz - Broken Embraces,
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Catalina Saavedra The Maid

Best Actor (Drama)

Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
Hugh Dancy - Adam
Johnny Depp - Public Enemies
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker
Michael Sheen - The Damned United

Best Actress (Comedy Or Musical)

Sandra Bullock - The Proposal
Marion Cotillard - Nine
Zooey Deschanel - (500) Days of Summer
Katherine Heigl - The Ugly Truth
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

Best Actor (Comedy Or Musical)

George Clooney - Up in the Air
Bradley Cooper - The Hangover
Matt Damon - The Informant!
Daniel Day-Lewis - Nine
Michael Stuhlbarg - A Serious Man

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