1st Golden Satellite Awards

1st Golden Satellite Awards
Date	January 15, 1997 (1997-01-15)
Highlights
Best drama film	Fargo
Best comedy/musical film	Evita
Best television drama	The X-Files
Best television musical/comedy	The Larry Sanders Show
Best director	Joel Coen for Fargo
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The 1st Golden Satellite Awards, given by the International Press Academy, were awarded on January 15, 1997. The ceremony was hosted by Stacy Keach.

Special achievement awards[]

Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Rod Steiger

Outstanding Contribution to New Media – Bill Gates

Outstanding New Talent – Arie Verveen

Motion picture winners and nominees[]

Best Actor – Drama[]

Geoffrey Rush – Shine as David Helfgott (TIE)
James Woods – Killer: A Journal of Murder as Carl Panzram (TIE)

• Christopher Eccleston – Jude as Jude Fawley
• Ralph Fiennes – The English Patient as László Almásy
• William H. Macy – Fargo as Jerry Lundergaard
• Billy Bob Thornton – Sling Blade as Karl Childers

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy[]

Tom Cruise – Jerry Maguire as Jerry Maguire

• Nathan Lane – The Birdcage as Albert Goldman
• Eddie Murphy – The Nutty Professor as Sherman Klump
• Jack Nicholson – Mars Attacks! as President James Dale
• Stanley Tucci – Big Night as Secondo

Best Actress – Drama[]

Frances McDormand – Fargo as Marge Gunderson

• Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies as Cynthia Purley
• Kristin Scott Thomas – The English Patient as Katharine Clifton
• Emily Watson – Breaking the Waves as Bess McNeill
• Robin Wright Penn – Moll Flanders as Moll Flanders

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy[]

Gwyneth Paltrow – Emma as Emma Woodhouse

• Glenn Close – 101 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
• Shirley MacLaine – Mrs. Winterbourne as Grace Winterbourne
• Heather Matarazzo – Welcome to the Dollhouse as Dawn Wiener
• Bette Midler – The First Wives Club as Brenda Morelli-Cushman

Best Animated or Mixed Media Film[]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

• James and the Giant Peach
• Mars Attacks!
• Muppet Treasure Island
• Space Jam

Best Art Direction[]

Romeo + Juliet – Catherine Martin

• The English Patient
• Evita
• Hamlet
• The Portrait of a Lady

Best Cinematography[]

The English Patient – John Seale

• Breaking the Waves
• Evita
• Hamlet
• Romeo + Juliet

Best Costume Design[]

Evita – Penny Rose

• Hamlet
• Moll Flanders
• The Portrait of a Lady
• Ridicule

Best Director[]

Joel Coen – Fargo

• Scott Hicks – Shine
• Mike Leigh – Secrets & Lies
• Anthony Minghella – The English Patient
• Lars von Trier – Breaking the Waves

Best Editing[]

Independence Day – David Brenner

• The English Patient
• Fargo
• Mission: Impossible
• Romeo + Juliet

Best Film – Drama[]

Fargo

• The English Patient
• Lone Star
• Secrets & Lies
• Shine
• Trainspotting

Best Film – Musical or Comedy[]

Evita

• Cold Comfort Farm
• Everyone Says I Love You
• Flirting with Disaster
• Swingers

Best Foreign Language Film[]

Breaking the Waves, Denmark

• Bitter Sugar (Azúcar amarga), Cuba
• A Judgement in Stone (Le cérémonie), France
• Kolya (Kolja), Czech Republic
• Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskiy plennik), Russia
• Ridicule, France

Best Original Score[]

"The English Patient" – Gabriel Yared

• "Hamlet" – Patrick Doyle
• "Mars Attacks!" – Danny Elfman
• "Michael Collins" – Elliot Goldenthal
• "Sling Blade" – Daniel Lanois

Best Original Song[]

"You Must Love Me" performed by Madonna – Evita

• "God Give Me Strength" performed by Kristen Vigard – Grace of My Heart
• "Kissing You" performed by Des'ree – Romeo + Juliet
• "That Thing You Do" performed by The Wonders – That Thing You Do!
• "Walls" performed by Tom Petty – She's the One

Best Screenplay – Adapted[]

The English Patient – Anthony Minghella

• The Crucible – Arthur Miller
• Jude – Hossein Amini
• The Portrait of a Lady – Laura Jones
• Trainspotting – John Hodge

Best Screenplay – Original[]

Lone Star – John Sayles (TIE)
The People vs. Larry Flynt – Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (TIE)

• Fargo – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Shine – Jan Sardi
• Sling Blade – Billy Bob Thornton

Best Supporting Actor – Drama[]

Armin Mueller-Stahl – Shine as Peter

• Steve Buscemi – Fargo as Carl Showalter
• Robert Carlyle – Trainspotting as Francis "Franco" Begbie
• Jeremy Irons – Stealing Beauty as Alex Parrish
• John Lynch – Moll Flanders as Jonathan
• Paul Scofield – The Crucible as Thomas Danforth

Best Supporting Actor – Musical or Comedy[]

Cuba Gooding Jr. – Jerry Maguire as Rod Tidwell

• Woody Allen – Everyone Says I Love You as Joe Berlin
• Danny DeVito – Matilda as Harry Wormwood
• Gene Hackman – The Birdcage as Senator Kevin Keeley
• Ian McKellen – Cold Comfort Farm as Amos Starkader

Best Supporting Actress – Drama[]

Courtney Love – The People vs. Larry Flynt as Althea Flynt

• Joan Allen – The Crucible as Elizabeth Proctor
• Stockard Channing – Moll Flanders as Mrs. Allworthy
• Miranda Richardson – The Evening Star as Patsy Carpenter
• Kate Winslet – Hamlet as Ophelia

Best Supporting Actress – Musical or Comedy[]

Debbie Reynolds – Mother as Beatrice Henderson

• Lauren Bacall – The Mirror Has Two Faces as Hannah Morgan
• Goldie Hawn – Everyone Says I Love You as Skylar Dandridge
• Sarah Jessica Parker – The First Wives Club as Shelly Stewart
• Renée Zellweger – Jerry Maguire as Dorothy Boyd

Best Visual Effects[]

Independence Day – Volker Engel and Douglas Smith

• Dragonheart
• Mars Attacks!
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Twister

Television winners and nominees[]

Best Actor – Drama Series[]

David Duchovny – The X-Files as Fox Mulder

• Andre Braugher – Homicide: Life on the Street as Frank Pembleton
• Anthony Edwards – ER as Mark Greene
• Hector Elizondo – Chicago Hope as Phillip Watters
• Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue as Andy Sipowicz

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series[]

John Lithgow – 3rd Rock from the Sun as Dick Solomon

• Michael J. Fox – Spin City as Mike Flaherty
• Michael Richards – Seinfeld as Cosmo Kramer
• Garry Shandling – The Larry Sanders Show as Larry Sanders
• Rip Torn – The Larry Sanders Show as Artie

Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Film[]

Alan Rickman – Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny as Grigori Rasputin

• Beau Bridges – Hidden in America as Bill Januson
• Ted Danson – Gulliver's Travels as Lemuel Gulliver
• Eric Roberts – In Cold Blood as Perry Edward Smith
• James Woods – The Summer of Ben Tyler as Temple Rayburn

Best Actress – Drama Series[]

Christine Lahti – Chicago Hope as Kate Austin

• Gillian Anderson – The X-Files as Dana Scully
• Kim Delaney – NYPD Blue as Diane Russell
• Julianna Margulies – ER as Carol Hathaway
• Kimberly Williams-Paisley – Relativity as Isabel Lukens

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series[]

Jane Curtin – 3rd Rock from the Sun as Mary Albright

• Fran Drescher – The Nanny as Fran Fine
• Helen Hunt – Mad About You as Jamie Buchman
• Cybill Shepherd – Cybill as Cybill Sheridan
• Lea Thompson – Caroline in the City as Caroline Duffy

Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film[]

Helen Mirren – Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment

• Kirstie Alley – Suddenly
• Lolita Davidovich – Harvest on Fire
• Laura Dern – The Siege at Ruby Ridge
• Jena Malone – Hidden in America

Best Miniseries or TV Film[]

Gulliver's Travels

• If These Walls Could Talk
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Siege at Ruby Ridge
• The Summer of Ben Tyler

Best Series – Drama[]

The X-Files

• Chicago Hope
• ER
• Homicide: Life on the Street
• NYPD Blue

Best Series – Musical or Comedy[]

The Larry Sanders Show

• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• Cybill
• Seinfeld
• Spin City

Best Supporting Actor – (Mini)Series or TV Film[]

Stanley Tucci – Murder One

• Brian Dennehy – A Season in Purgatory
• Ian McKellen – Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
• Anthony Quinn – Gotti
• Treat Williams – The Late Shift

Best Supporting Actress – (Mini)Series or TV Film[]

Kathy Bates – The Late Shift

• Cher – If These Walls Could Talk
• Gail O'Grady – NYPD Blue
• Greta Scacchi – Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
• Alfre Woodard – Gulliver's Travels

New Media winners and nominees[]

Best Home Entertainment Product/Game[]

Super Mario 64

• Die Hard Trilogy
• John Madden Football 1996 (Electronic Arts)
• Nights (Sega)
• Tekken 2

CD-ROM Educational – Children[]

101 Dalmatians Storybook

• Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse
• Living Books: Sheila Rae, The Brave
• The Simpsons: Cartoon Studio
• Snoopy's Campfire Stories

CD-ROM Entertainment[]

Cinemania 97

• Encarta 97 – Encyclopedia Deluxe
• Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe
• Inside Independence Day
• Leonardo da Vinci

CD-ROM Game[]

Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail

• Descent II
• Goosebumps
• Quake
• Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal

Awards breakdown[]

Film[]

Winners:

3 / 5 Evita: Best Costume Design / Best Film – Musical or Comedy / Best Original Song

3 / 7 Fargo: Best Director / Best Actress & Film – Drama

3 / 9 The English Patient: Best Adapted Screenplay / Best Cinematography / Best Original Score

2 / 2 Independence Day: Best Editing / Best Visual Effects

2 / 2 The People vs. Larry Flynt: Best Screenplay – Original / Best Supporting Actress – Drama

2 / 3 Jerry Maguire: Best Actor & Supporting Actor – Musical or Comedy

2 / 5 Shine: Best Actor & Supporting Actor – Drama

1 / 1 Emma: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy

1 / 1 The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Best Animated or Mixed Media Film

1 / 1 Killer: A Journal of Murder: Best Actor – Drama

1 / 1 Mother: Best Supporting Actress – Musical or Comedy

1 / 2 Lone Star: Best Screenplay – Original

1 / 4 Breaking the Waves: Best Foreign Language Film

1 / 4 Romeo + Juliet: Best Art Direction

Losers:

0 / 5 Hamlet

0 / 4 Mars Attacks!, Moll Flanders

0 / 3 The Crucible, Everyone Says I Love You, The Portrait of a Lady, Sling Blade, Secrets & Lies, Trainspotting

0 / 2 The Birdcage, Cold Comfort Farm, The First Wives Club, Jude, Ridicule

Television[]

Winners:

2 / 3 3rd Rock from the Sun: Best Actor & Actress – Musical or Comedy Series

2 / 3 The X-Files: Best Actor – Drama Series / Best Series – Drama

1 / 1 Murder One: Best Supporting Actor – (Mini)Series or TV Film

1 / 1 Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment: Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film

1 / 2 The Late Shift: Best Supporting Actress – (Mini)Series or TV Film

1 / 3 Chicago Hope: Best Actress – Drama Series

1 / 3 Gulliver's Travels: Best Miniseries or TV Film

1 / 3 The Larry Sanders Show: Best Series – Musical or Comedy

1 / 3 Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny: Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Film

Losers:

0 / 4 NYPD Blue

0 / 3 ER

0 / 2 Cybill, Hidden in America, Homicide: Life on the Street, If These Walls Could Talk, Seinfeld, The Siege at Ruby Ridge, Spin City, The Summer of Ben Tyler

References[]

• Satellite Awards – IMDb