Satellite Awards 2010

Well, Satellite Awards revealed their nominees and it seems that the list is dominated by "star power" as usually happens in this award. Popularity and commercial sucess are some of the concepts that the Satellite seems to follow as the rule of "don't honor only the best productions". I see some indie films that were snubed here (like Sofia Coppola's Somewhere in general and Rabbit Hole outside acting categories) but others seem to have got all the glory they deserve (Animal Kindgom, Blue Valentine, among other bigger productions like The Social Network, The King's Speech and Inception). In spite of all the "Satellite's mistakes", the fact is that this awards have been a good indicator of who will be the Oscar winner in some categories, specially in the Best Picture one (movies like The Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, No Country for Old Men or The Departed won in the Best Motion Picture - Drama category and won the Oscar of Best Picture in last decade).
So, here's the list of this year's nominees with my winner predictions with a *.

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

Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)
- Cyrus
- The Kids Are All Right *
- Made in Dagenham
- The Other Guys
- Please Give
- Red
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Director
- Ben Affleck for The Town
- Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
- Danny Boyle for 127 Hours
- Lisa Cholodenko for The Kids Are All Right
- David Fincher for The Social Network *
- Tom Hooper for The King’s Speech
- David Michod for Animal Kingdom
- Christopher Nolan for Inception
- Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
- Debra Granik for Winter’s Bone

Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama)
- Javier Bardem for Biutiful
- Leonardo DiCaprio for Inception
- Michael Douglas for Solitary Man
- Robert Duvall for Get Low
- Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network *
- Colin Firth for The King’s Speech
- James Franco for 127 Hours
- Ryan Gosling for Blue Valentine

Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)
- Steve Carrell for Dinner for Schmucks
- Michael Cera for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Romain Duris for Heartbreaker
- Andy Garcia for City Island
- Jake Gyllenhaal for Love & Other Drugs
- John Malkovich for Red
- John C. Reilly for Cyrus *

Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama)
- Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole
- Jennifer Lawrence for Winter’s Bone
- Helen Mirren for The Tempest
- Natalie Portman for Black Swan *
- Noomi Rapace for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Tilda Swinton for I Am Love
- Naomi Watts for Fair Game
- Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine

Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)
- Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right *
- Anne Hathaway for Love & Other Drugs
- Sally Hawkins for Made in Dagenham
- Catherine Keener for Please Give
- Julianne Moore for The Kids Are All Right
- Mary-Louise Parker for Red
- Marisa Tomei for Cyrus

Actor in a Supporting Role
- Christian Bale for The Fighter
- Pierce Brosnan for The Ghost Writer
- Andrew Garfield, for The Social Network
- Tommy Lee Jones for The Company Men
- Bill Murray for Get Low
- Sean Penn for Fair Game
- Jeremy Renner for The Town
- Geoffrey Rush for The King’s Speech *

Actress in a Supporting Role
- Amy Adams for The Fighter
- Marion Cotillard for Inception
- Anne-Marie Duff for Nowhere Boy
- Vanessa Redgrave for Letters to Juliet
- Rosamund Pike for Barney’s Version
- Kristin Scott Thomas for Nowhere Boy
- Jacki Weaver for Animal Kingdom *
- Dianne Wiest for Rabbit Hole

Screenplay (Original)
- Biutiful
- The Eclipse
- Get Low
- Inception
- The Kids Are All Right *
- The King’s Speech
- Toy Story 3

Screenplay (Adapted)
- 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

Art Direction & Production Design
- Alice in Wonderland *
- Black Swan
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
- I Am Love
- Inception
- Scott Pilgrim vs the World
- Shutter Island

Cinematography
- 127 Hours
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- I Am Love
- Inception *
- Salt
- Secretariat
- Shutter Island
- Unstoppable

Costume Design
- Alice in Wonderland
- Black Swan
- Eat Pray Love
- The King’s Speech *
- Robin Hood

Film Editing
- Inception *
- Please Give
- Shutter Island
- The Social Network
- The Town
- Unstoppable

Original Score
- 127 Hours
- Black Swan
- The Eclipse
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Inception *
- Salt
- The Social Network
- Unstoppable

Original Song
- “If I Rise” from 127 Hours
- “Alice” from Alice in Wonderland *
- “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me” from Burlesque
- “Country Strong” from Country Strong
- “What Part of Forever” from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
- “Eclipse (All Yours)” from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Sound (Editing and Mixing)
- 127 Hours
- Inception *
- Iron Man 2
- Nowhere Boy
- Secretariat
- Shutter Island
- Unstoppable

Visual Effects
- 127 Hours
- Alice in Wonderland
- Inception
- Iron Man 2 *
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
- Unstoppable

Motion Picture (Foreign Language Film)
- Biutiful
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo *
- I Am Love
- Mother
- Outside the Law
- Soul Kitchen
- White Material

Motion Picture (Animated or Mixed Media)
- Alice in Wonderland
- Despicable Me
- How to Train Your Dragon
- The Illusionist
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
- Toy Story 3 *

Motion Picture (Documentary)
- 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 *

In my opinion, "The Facebook Movie"/The Social Network seems unstoppable in the major categories!