Satellite Award for Best Motion Picture

The Satellite Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the annual awards given to motion pictures by the International Press Academy. The category was gone through several changes since its inception, specially related to the genre of the film awarded.

Satellite Award for Best Film
Awarded for	Best Dramatic Film Best Comedy or Musical Film
Country	United States
Presented by	International Press Academy
First award	1996
Currently held by	Comedy or Musical: Anora (2024) Drama: The Brutalist (2024)

History

• From 1996 to 2010, two categories based on genre were presented, Best Drama Film and Best Comedy or Musical Film
• In 2011, the IPA pared down its Satellite Award nominations in the motion picture categories from 22 to 19 classifications; the change reflects the merger of drama and comedy under a general Best Picture heading, including the Best Actor/Actress headings and the Supporting headings.^[1]
• In 2016 and 2017, two winners were announced within the Best Motion Picture category, one for a major studio film and other for an independent film.
• In 2018, a stand-alone category for independent film was presented.

Since 2018, the two categories based on genre are presented replacing the Best Motion Picture category for the Best Drama Film and Best Comedy or Musical Film categories previously presented.

Winners and nominees

Comedy or Musical (1996–2010, 2018–present)

Year	Film	Director(s)
1996 [2]	Evita	Alan Parker
	Cold Comfort Farm	John Schlesinger
	Everyone Says I Love You	Woody Allen
	Flirting with Disaster	David O. Russell
	Swingers	Doug Liman
1997 [3]	As Good as It Gets	James L. Brooks
	Deconstructing Harry	Woody Allen
	The Full Monty	Peter Cattaneo
	In & Out	Frank Oz
	My Best Friend's Wedding	P. J. Hogan
1998 [4]	Shakespeare in Love	John Madden
	Little Voice	Mark Herman
	Pleasantville	Gary Ross
	Waking Ned	Kirk Jones
	You've Got Mail	Nora Ephron
1999 [5]	Being John Malkovich	Spike Jonze
	Bowfinger	Mark Herman
	Dick	Andrew Fleming
	Election	Alexander Payne
	An Ideal Husband	Oliver Parker
	Notting Hill	Roger Michell
2000 [6]	Nurse Betty	Neil LaBute
	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe
	Best in Show	Christopher Guest
	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Joel Coen
	State and Main	David Mamet
	Wonder Boys	Curtis Hanson
2001 [7][8]	Moulin Rouge!	Baz Luhrmann
	Bridget Jones's Diary	Sharon Maguire
	Gosford Park	Robert Altman
	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	John Cameron Mitchell
	The Royal Tenenbaums	Wes Anderson
2002 [9]	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	Joel Zwick
	About a Boy	Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz
	Adaptation.	Spike Jonze
	Igby Goes Down	Burr Steers
	Punch-Drunk Love	Paul Thomas Anderson
2003 [10]	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola
	American Splendor	Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
	Bad Santa	Terry Zwigoff
	Bend It Like Beckham	Gurinder Chadha
	A Mighty Wind	Christopher Guest
	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Gore Verbinski
2004 [11]	Sideways	Alexander Payne
	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	Wes Anderson
	The Merchant of Venice	Michael Radford
	Napoleon Dynamite	Jared Hess
	The Phantom of the Opera	Joel Schumacher
	Ray	Taylor Hackford
2005 [12]	Walk the Line	James Mangold
	Happy Endings	Don Roos
	Hustle & Flow	Craig Brewer
	Kung Fu Hustle	Stephen Chow
	Rent	Chris Columbus
	Shopgirl	Anand Tucker
2006 [13][14]	Dreamgirls	Bill Condon
	The Devil Wears Prada	David Frankel
	Little Miss Sunshine	Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
	Stranger than Fiction	Marc Forster
	Thank You for Smoking	Jason Reitman
	Venus	Roger Michell
2007 [15][16]	Juno	Jason Reitman
	Hairspray	Adam Shankman
	Knocked Up	Judd Apatow
	Lars and the Real Girl	Craig Gillespie
	Margot at the Wedding	Noah Baumbach
	Shoot 'Em Up	Michael Davis
2008 [17]	Happy-Go-Lucky	Mike Leigh
	Choke	Clark Gregg
	In Bruges	Martin McDonagh
	Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist	Peter Sollett
	Tropic Thunder	Ben Stiller
	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Woody Allen
2009 [18][19]	Nine	Rob Marshall
	The Informant!	Steven Soderbergh
	It's Complicated	Nancy Meyers
	Julie & Julia	Nora Ephron
	A Serious Man	Joel and Ethan Coen
	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman
2010 [20]	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World	Edgar Wright
	Cyrus	Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass
	The Kids Are All Right	Lisa Cholodenko
	Made in Dagenham	Nigel Cole
	The Other Guys	Adam McKay
	Please Give	Nicole Holofcener
	Red	Robert Schwentke
2018 [21]	A Star Is Born	Bradley Cooper
	Crazy Rich Asians	Jon M. Chu
	The Favourite	Yorgos Lanthimos
	Green Book	Peter Farrelly
	Mary Poppins Returns	Rob Marshall
	Nico, 1988	Susanna Nicchiarelli
2019 [22]	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino
	The Farewell	Lulu Wang
	Hustlers	Lorene Scafaria
	Knives Out	Rian Johnson
	Rocketman	Dexter Fletcher
	Uncut Gems	Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie
2020 [23][24]	The Forty-Year-Old Version	Radha Blank
	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm	Jason Woliner
	Hamilton	Thomas Kail
	On the Rocks	Sofia Coppola
	Palm Springs	Max Barbakow
	The Personal History of David Copperfield	Armando Iannucci
2021 [25]	tick, tick... BOOM!	Lin-Manuel Miranda
	Cyrano	Joe Wright
	The French Dispatch	Wes Anderson
	In the Heights	Jon M. Chu
	Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Respect	Liesl Tommy
2022
	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
	The Banshees of Inisherin	Martin McDonagh
	Elvis	Baz Luhrmann
	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery	Rian Johnson
	RRR	S. S. Rajamouli
	Triangle of Sadness	Ruben Östlund
2023	The Holdovers	Alexander Payne
	American Fiction	Cord Jefferson
	Barbie	Greta Gerwig
	Dream Scenario	Kristoffer Borgli
	Poor Things	Yorgos Lanthimos
	Scrapper	Charlotte Regan
2024	Anora	Sean Baker
	Ghostlight	Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson
	Hit Man	Richard Linklater
	LaRoy, Texas	Shane Atkinson
	A Real Pain	Jesse Eisenberg
	The Substance	Coralie Fargeat
	Thelma	Josh Margolin
	Wicked	Jon M. Chu

Drama (1996–2010, 2018–present)

Year	Film	Director(s)
1996	Fargo	Joel Coen
	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella
	Lone Star	John Sayles
	Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh
	Shine	Scott Hicks
	Trainspotting	Danny Boyle
1997	Titanic	James Cameron
	Amistad	Steven Spielberg
	Boogie Nights	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Good Will Hunting	Gus Van Sant
	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson
1998	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick
	Elizabeth	Shekhar Kapur
	The General	John Boorman
	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon
	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg
1999	The Insider	Michael Mann
	American Beauty	Sam Mendes
	Boys Don't Cry	Kimberly Peirce
	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Snow Falling on Cedars	Scott Hicks
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Anthony Minghella
2000	Traffic	Steven Soderbergh
	Billy Elliot	Stephen Daldry
	Dancer in the Dark	Lars von Trier
	Erin Brockovich	Steven Soderbergh
	Gladiator	Ridley Scott
	Quills	Philip Kaufman
2001	In the Bedroom	Todd Field
	The Deep End	Scott McGehee and David Siegel
	Memento	Christopher Nolan
	The Others	Alejandro Amenábar
	Sexy Beast	Jonathan Glazer
2002	Far from Heaven	Todd Haynes
	Antwone Fisher	Denzel Washington
	The Hours	Stephen Daldry
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Peter Jackson
	The Quiet American	Phillip Noyce
	Road to Perdition	Sam Mendes
2003	In America	Jim Sheridan
	The Last Samurai	Edward Zwick
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Peter Weir
	Mystic River	Clint Eastwood
	Thirteen	Catherine Hardwicke
	Whale Rider	Niki Caro
2004	Hotel Rwanda	Terry George
	The Aviator	Martin Scorsese
	Kill Bill: Volume 2	Quentin Tarantino
	Kinsey	Bill Condon
	Maria Full of Grace	Joshua Marston
	Vera Drake	Mike Leigh
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee
	A History of Violence	David Cronenberg
	Capote	Bennett Miller
	Cinderella Man	Ron Howard
	Memoirs of a Geisha	Rob Marshall
	The War Within	Joseph Castelo
2006	The Departed	Martin Scorsese
	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	Flags of Our Fathers	Clint Eastwood
	Half Nelson	Ryan Fleck
	The Last King of Scotland	Kevin Macdonald
	Little Children	Todd Field
	The Queen	Stephen Frears
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel and Ethan Coen
	3:10 to Yuma	James Mangold
	Away from Her	Sarah Polley
	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	Sidney Lumet
	Eastern Promises	David Cronenberg
	The Lookout	Scott Frank
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle
	Frost/Nixon	Ron Howard
	Frozen River	Courtney Hunt
	Milk	Gus Van Sant
	The Reader	Stephen Daldry
	Revolutionary Road	Sam Mendes
2009	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow
	Bright Star	Jane Campion
	An Education	Lone Scherfig
	The Messenger	Oren Moverman
	Precious	Lee Daniels
	The Stoning of Soraya M.	Cyrus Nowrasteh
2010	The Social Network	David Fincher
	127 Hours	Danny Boyle
	Animal Kingdom	David Michôd
	Blue Valentine	Derek Cianfrance
	Get Low	Aaron Schneider
	The Ghost Writer	Roman Polanski
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper
	The Town	Ben Affleck
	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik
2018	If Beale Street Could Talk	Barry Jenkins
	Black Panther	Ryan Coogler
	First Man	Damien Chazelle
	Hereditary	Ari Aster
	Mary Queen of Scots	Josie Rourke
	Widows	Steve McQueen
2019	Ford v Ferrari	James Mangold
	1917	Sam Mendes
	Bombshell	Jay Roach
	Burning Cane	Phillip Youmans
	Joker	Todd Phillips
	The Lighthouse	Robert Eggers
	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach
	The Two Popes	Fernando Meirelles
2020	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao
	The Father	Florian Zeller
	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	George C. Wolfe
	Minari	Lee Isaac Chung
	Miss Juneteenth	Channing Godfrey Peoples
	One Night in Miami...	Regina King
	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell
	Sound of Metal	Darius Marder
	Tenet	Christopher Nolan
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Aaron Sorkin
2021	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh
	CODA	Sian Heder
	Dune	Denis Villeneuve
	East of the Mountains	SJ Chiro
	King Richard	Reinaldo Marcus Green
	The Lost Daughter	Maggie Gyllenhaal
	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion
	Spencer	Pablo Larraín
2022
	Top Gun: Maverick	Joseph Kosinski
	Avatar: The Way of Water	James Cameron
	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	Ryan Coogler
	The Fabelmans	Steven Spielberg
	Living	Oliver Hermanus
	Tár	Todd Field
	Till	Chinonye Chukwu
	Women Talking	Sarah Polley
2023	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan
	Ferrari	Michael Mann
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Martin Scorsese
	Maestro	Bradley Cooper
	May December	Todd Haynes
	Past Lives	Celine Song
2024	The Brutalist	Brady Corbet
	Cabrini	Alejandro Gómez Monteverde
	Conclave	Edward Berger
	Dune: Part Two	Denis Villeneuve
	Nickel Boys	RaMell Ross
	The Order	Justin Kurzel
	Sing Sing	Greg Kwedar
	Young Woman and the Sea	Joachim Rønning

Motion Picture (2011–2015)

Year	Film	Director(s)
2011 [26][27]	The Descendants	Alexander Payne
	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
	Drive	Nicolas Winding Refn
	The Help	Tate Taylor
	Hugo	Martin Scorsese
	Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen
	Moneyball	Bennett Miller
	Shame	Steve McQueen
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Tomas Alfredson
	War Horse	Steven Spielberg
2012 [28][29]	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell
	Argo	Ben Affleck
	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Benh Zeitlin
	Les Misérables	Tom Hooper
	Life of Pi	Ang Lee
	Lincoln	Steven Spielberg
	Moonrise Kingdom	Wes Anderson
	Skyfall	Sam Mendes
	Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow
2013 [30][31]	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
	All Is Lost	J. C. Chandor
	American Hustle	David O. Russell
	Blue Jasmine	Woody Allen
	Captain Phillips	Paul Greengrass
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón
	Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel and Ethan Coen
	Philomena	Stephen Frears
	Saving Mr. Banks	John Lee Hancock
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Martin Scorsese
2014 [32][33]	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
	Boyhood	Richard Linklater
	Gone Girl	David Fincher
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson
	The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum
	Love Is Strange	Ira Sachs
	Mr. Turner	Mike Leigh
	Selma	Ava DuVernay
	The Theory of Everything	James Marsh
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
2015 [34]	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy
	The Big Short	Adam McKay
	Black Mass	Scott Cooper
	Bridge of Spies	Steven Spielberg
	Brooklyn	John Crowley
	Carol	Todd Haynes
	The Martian	Ridley Scott
	The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
	Room	Lenny Abrahamson
	Sicario	Denis Villeneuve

Motion Picture (Major / Independent) (2016–2017)

Year	Film	Director
2016 [35]	La La Land (Major)	Damien Chazelle
	Manchester by the Sea (Independent)	Kenneth Lonergan
	Captain Fantastic	Matt Ross
	Fences	Denzel Washington
	Hacksaw Ridge	Mel Gibson
	Hell or High Water	David Mackenzie
	Hidden Figures	Theodore Melfi
	Jackie	Pablo Larraín
	Lion	Garth Davis
	Loving	Jeff Nichols
	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins
	Nocturnal Animals	Tom Ford
2017 [36][37]	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Major)	Martin McDonagh
	God's Own Country (Independent)	Francis Lee
	The Big Sick	Michael Showalter
	Call Me by Your Name	Luca Guadagnino
	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan
	Get Out	Jordan Peele
	I, Tonya	Craig Gillespie
	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
	Mudbound	Dee Rees
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro

Independent (2018)

Year	Film	Director
2018	BlacKkKlansman	Spike Lee
	Eighth Grade	Bo Burnham
	First Reformed	Paul Schrader
	Leave No Trace	Debra Granik
	Private Life	Tamara Jenkins
	A Private War	Matthew Heineman

See also

• BAFTA Award for Best Film
• Academy Award for Best Picture
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Film
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy