The 17th Satellite Awards is an award ceremony honoring the year's outstanding performers, films, television shows, home videos and interactive media, presented by the International Press Academy at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Century City, Los Angeles.
The nominations were announced on December 3, 2012. The winners were announced on December 16, 2012.
The film Silver Linings Playbook won the most film awards with five, including Best Film and Best Director (David O. Russell). On the television side, The Big Bang Theory and Homeland won the most awards, with each winning three.
Special achievement awards Auteur Award (for singular vision and unique artistic control over the elements of production) – Paul Williams Humanitarian Award (for making a difference in the lives of those in the artistic community and beyond) – Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild) Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Terence Stamp Nikola Tesla Award (for visionary achievement in filmmaking technology) – Walter Murch Honorary Satellite Award – Bruce Davison and Brian Edwards Newcomer Award – Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Motion picture winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
{| class=wikitable style="width="100%" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Film ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Director |- | valign="top" | Silver Linings Playbook Argo Beasts of the Southern Wild Les Misérables Life of Pi Lincoln Moonrise Kingdom The Sessions Skyfall Zero Dark Thirty | valign="top" | David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook Ben Affleck – Argo Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty Kim Ki-duk – Pietà Ben Lewin – The Sessions Steven Spielberg – Lincoln |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Actor ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Actress |- | valign="top" | Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio "Pat" Solitano Jr. Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as President Abraham Lincoln John Hawkes – The Sessions as Mark O'Brien Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables as Jean Valjean Joaquin Phoenix – The Master as Freddie Quell Omar Sy – The Intouchables as Bakary "Driss" Bassari Denzel Washington – Flight as Captain Whip Whitaker | valign="top" | Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell Laura Birn – Purge as Aliide Truu Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty as Maya Harris Émilie Dequenne – Our Children as Murielle Keira Knightley – Anna Karenina as Anna Arkadievna Karenina Laura Linney – Hyde Park on Hudson as Margaret "Daisy" Suckley Emmanuelle Riva – Amour as Anne Laurent |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Supporting Actor ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Supporting Actress |- | valign="top" | Javier Bardem – Skyfall as Raoul Silva Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio "Pat" Solitano Sr. John Goodman – Flight as Harling Mays Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master as Lancaster Dodd Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln as Congressman Thaddeus Stevens Eddie Redmayne – Les Misérables as Marius Pontmercy | valign="top" | Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables as Fantine Amy Adams – The Master as Peggy Dodd Samantha Barks – Les Misérables as Éponine Judi Dench – Skyfall as M Hélène Florent – Café de Flore as Carole Helen Hunt – The Sessions as Cheryl Cohen-Greene |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Original Screenplay ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Adapted Screenplay |- | valign="top" | Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal Flight – John Gatins The Intouchables – Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola Pietà – Kim Ki-duk | valign="top" | Life of Pi – David Magee Anna Karenina – Tom Stoppard Argo – Chris Terrio Lincoln – Tony Kushner The Sessions – Ben Lewin Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Animated or Mixed Media Film ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Documentary Film |- | valign="top" | Rise of the Guardians Brave Frankenweenie Ice Age: Continental Drift Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted ParaNorman Wreck-It Ralph | valign="top" | Chasing Ice Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry The Central Park Five The Gatekeepers Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present The Pruitt-Igoe Myth Searching for Sugar Man West of Memphis |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Foreign Language Film ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Art Direction and Production Design |- | valign="top" | The Intouchables (France) (TIE) Pietà (South Korea) (TIE) Amour (Austria) Beyond the Hills (Romania) Caesar Must Die (Italy) Kon-Tiki (Norway) Our Children (Belgium) A Royal Affair (Denmark) War Witch (Canada) | valign="top" | Lincoln – Curt Beech, Rick Carter, David Crank, and Leslie McDonald Anna Karenina The Dark Knight Rises Les Misérables The Master A Royal Affair |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Cinematography ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Costume Design |- | valign="top" | Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey Beasts of the Southern Wild – Ben Richardson Lincoln – Janusz Kamiński The Master – Mihai Mălaimare Jr. Skyfall – Roger Deakins | valign="top" | A Royal Affair – Manon Rasmussen Anna Karenina Cloud Atlas Farewell, My Queen Les Misérables Snow White and the Huntsman |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Original Score ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Original Song |- | valign="top" | Argo – Alexandre Desplat Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli Beasts of the Southern Wild – Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin Lincoln – John Williams The Master – Jonny Greenwood Skyfall – Thomas Newman | valign="top" | "Suddenly" – Les Misérables "Fire in the Blood/Snake Song" – Lawless "Learn Me Right" – Brave "Love Always Comes As a Surprise" – Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted "Skyfall" – Skyfall "Still Alive" – Paul Williams Still Alive |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Film Editing ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) |- | valign="top" | Silver Linings Playbook – Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers Cloud Atlas Flight Les Misérables The Sessions Zero Dark Thirty | valign="top" | Les Misérables – Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Lee Walpole, and John Warhurst Flight Kon-Tiki Life of Pi Prometheus Snow White and the Huntsman |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Visual Effects ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Ensemble – Motion Picture |- | valign="top" | Flight – Kevin Baillie, Jim Gibbs, Michael Lantieri, and Ryan Tudhope Cloud Atlas The Dark Knight Rises Life of Pi Prometheus Skyfall | valign="top" | Les Miserábles – Samantha Barks, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne, and Amanda Seyfried|}
Television winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
{| class=wikitable style="width="100%" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Drama Series ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Comedy or Musical Series |- | valign="top" | Homeland – Showtime Breaking Bad – AMC Downton Abbey – PBS Game of Thrones – HBO The Good Wife – CBS Justified – FX The Newsroom – HBO Nashville – ABC | valign="top" | The Big Bang Theory – CBS Community – NBC Girls – HBO Happy Endings – ABC Modern Family – ABC The Office – NBC Parks and Recreation – NBC Up All Night – NBC |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Miniseries or Television Film ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Genre Series |- | valign="top" | Hatfields & McCoys – History Birdsong – PBS The Crimson Petal and the White – BBC America Game Change – HBO Hemingway & Gellhorn – HBO Luther – BBC America Sherlock – PBS Wallander – PBS | valign="top" | The Walking Dead – AMC American Horror Story: Asylum – FX Arrow – The CW Fringe – Fox Grimm – NBC Once Upon a Time – ABC Revolution – NBC Supernatural – The CW |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Actor in a Drama Series ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Actress in a Drama Series |- | valign="top" | Damian Lewis – Homeland as Nicholas Brody Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad as Walter White Jeff Daniels – The Newsroom as Will McAvoy Jon Hamm – Mad Men as Don Draper Jonny Lee Miller – Elementary as Sherlock Holmes Timothy Olyphant – Justified as Raylan Givens | valign="top" | Claire Danes – Homeland as Carrie Mathison Connie Britton – Nashville as Rayna Jaymes Michelle Dockery – Downton Abbey as Lady Mary Crawley Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife as Alicia Florrick Hayden Panettiere – Nashville as Juliette Barnes Chloë Sevigny – Hit & Miss as Mia |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical Series ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series |- | valign="top" | Johnny Galecki – The Big Bang Theory as Dr. Leonard Hofstadter Will Arnett – Up All Night as Chris Brinkley Don Cheadle – House of Lies as Marty Kaan Louis C.K. – Louie as Louie Joel McHale – Community as Jeff Winger Jim Parsons – The Big Bang Theory as Dr. Sheldon Cooper | valign="top" | Kaley Cuoco – The Big Bang Theory as Penny Christina Applegate – Up All Night as Reagan Brinkley Laura Dern – Enlightened as Amy Jellicoe Lena Dunham – Girls as Hannah Horvath Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep as Vice President Selina Meyer Amy Poehler – Parks and Recreation as Leslie Knope |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film |- | valign="top" | Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock as Sherlock Holmes Kenneth Branagh – Wallander as Kurt Wallander Kevin Costner – Hatfields & McCoys as Devil Anse Hatfield Idris Elba – Luther as John Luther Woody Harrelson – Game Change as Steve Schmidt Clive Owen – Hemingway & Gellhorn as Ernest Hemingway | valign="top" | Julianne Moore – Game Change as Sarah Palin Gillian Anderson – Great Expectations as Miss Havisham Romola Garai – The Crimson Petal and the White as Sugar Nicole Kidman – Hemingway & Gellhorn as Martha Gellhorn Sienna Miller – The Girl as Tippi Hedren Sigourney Weaver – Political Animals as Elaine Barrish |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film |- | valign="top" | Neal McDonough – Justified as Robert Quarles Powers Boothe – Nashville as Lamar Wyatt Jim Carter – Downton Abbey as Charles Carson Peter Dinklage – Game of Thrones as Tyrion Lannister Giancarlo Esposito – Breaking Bad as Gus Fring Evan Peters – American Horror Story: Asylum as Kit Walker | valign="top" | Maggie Smith – Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham Mayim Bialik – The Big Bang Theory as Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler Christina Hendricks – Mad Men as Joan Harris Sarah Paulson – Game Change as Nicolle Wallace Maya Rudolph – Up All Night as Ava Alexander Mare Winningham – Hatfields & McCoys as Sally McCoy |- ! colspan="2" style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Ensemble – Television |- | colspan="2" valign="top" | The Walking Dead (AMC) – Sarah Wayne Callies, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Laurie Holden, Andrew Lincoln, Melissa McBride, David Morrissey, Norman Reedus, Chandler Riggs, Michael Rooker, Scott Wilson, and Steven Yeun|}
New Media winners and nominees {| class=wikitable style="width="100%" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Action / Adventure Game ! style="background:#EEDD82;" | Best Mobile Game |- | valign="top" | Dishonored (Arkane Studios) Assassin's Creed III (Ubisoft) Binary Domain (Yakuza Studio) Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (4J Studios / Mojang Studios) The Walking Dead (Episode: "No Time Left") (Telltale Games) | valign="top" | Super Monsters Ate My Condo (Adult Swim Digital) Amazing Alex (Rovio Entertainment) Horn (Phosphor Games) Huebrix (Yellow Monkey Studios) Wildblood (Gameloft)