2015 Satellite Nominations Announced…Sort Of

Erik Anderson December 1, 2015

**Mirjana Van Blaricom (left), head of the International Press Academy**

Just when you thought the hottest mess of awards season was the phony Hollywood Film Awards, the International Press Academy has unveiled their list of 2015 Motion Picture nominees.

The IPA, which was founded in 1996 and is a group of domestic and foreign journalists who defected from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (who put on the Golden Globes) and captained by Mirjana Van Blaricom, as controversial a figure in the awards season race as their is. Year after year her awards are fraught with controversy that includes incomplete nominations lists (check out the TWO nominations in Adapted Screenplay this year), names that are later removed (which happened to Viola Davis for 2008’s Doubt), actors being listed as TV shows (I’m looking at your, Lizzy Caplan) but the biggest and most real controversy has been the group’s penchant for nominating films they haven’t even seen. In 2013 the IPA gave five nominations to Paramount’s The Wolf of Wall Street only to have Paramount themselves come back and say the group had definitely not seen the film. I believe the quote was “”She wasn’t there, and neither were 26 of her friends.” Van Blaricom fired back that she and dozens of her people had gotten into a guild screening but no evidence to that fact was ever uncovered.

Special awards were announced for Spotlight, which was awarded an Ensemble: Motion Picture Award; Amy Schumer for Trainwreck, an honorary Satellite for Breakthrough Comedian of the Year; and Jacob Tremblay for Room, Breakthrough Performance.

This year still seems a bit messy. There are more nominations and nominees that obviously need to be announced and by the look of it they didn’t see Joy or The Hateful Eight so at least they appear to be honest about that. But, you never know, both of those films could mysteriously pop up on their website at any moment. Anything to get those page clicks.

Anyways, for better or worse, here are the incomplete 2015 Motion Picture nominees (for now) from the International Press Academy:

Motion Picture
Black Mass
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Carol
The Martian
Room
The Revenant
Sicario
Spotlight

Director
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Tom Hooper, The Danish Girl
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant
Thomas McCarthy, Spotlight
Ridley Scott, The Martian
Steven Spielberg, Bridge of Spies

Actor in a Motion Picture
Matt Damon, The Martian
Johnny Depp, Black Mass
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Tom Hardy, Legend
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Will Smith, Concussion

Actress in a Motion Picture
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Blythe Danner, I’ll See You in My Dreams
Brie Larson, Room
Carey Mulligan, Suffragette
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn

Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Paul Dano, Love & Mercy
Michael Keaton, Spotlight
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Benicio Del Toro, Sicario

Actress in a Supporting Role
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Elizabeth Banks, Love & Mercy
Jane Fonda, Youth
Rooney Mara, Carol
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs

Screenplay, Original
Spotlight
Love & Mercy
Inside Out
Straight Outta Compton
Bridge of Spies
Suffragette

Screenplay, Adapted
Black Mass
The Danish Girl
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Steve Jobs

Film Editing
Bridge of Spies
Carol
The Martian
Sicario
Spectre
Steve Jobs

Art Direction and Production Design
Bridge of Spies
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Macbeth
Mad Max: Fury Road
Spectre

Costume Design
The Assassin
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Far From the Madding Crowd
Macbeth
The Throne

Cinematography
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Spectre

Original Score
Carol
The Danish Girl
Inside Out
The Martian
Spectre
Spotlight

Original Song
“Love Me Like You Do,” Fifty Shades of Grey
“See You Again,” Furious 7
“Til It Happens to You,” The Hunting Ground
“One Kind of Love,” Love & Mercy
“Cold One,” Ricki and the Flash
“Writing’s On the Wall,” Spectre

Sound (Editing and Mixing)
Inside Out
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Sicario
Spectre

Visual Effects
Everest
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Spectre
The Walk

Motion Picture, International Film
South Korea – The Throne
Brazil – The Second Mother
Croatia – The High Sun
Belgium – The Brand New Testament
Taiwan – The Assassin
Hungary – Son of Saul
France – Mustang
Germany – Labyrinth of Lies
Austria – Goodnight Mommy
Sweden – A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media
Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
Inside Out
The Peanuts Movie
The Prophet
Shaun The Sheep Movie

Documentary
Amy
Becoming Bulletproof
Best of Enemies
Cartel Land
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead:The Story of the National Lampoon
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
He Named Me Malala
The Hunting Ground
The Look of Silence
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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.