1st Golden Satellite Awards

Special achievement awards

Motion picture winners and nominees

Best Actor – Drama

• Christopher Eccleston – Jude
• Ralph Fiennes – The English Patient
• William H. Macy – Fargo
• Billy Bob Thornton – Sling Blade''

  Best Actor – Musical or Comedy

• Nathan Lane – The Birdcage
• Eddie Murphy – The Nutty Professor
• Jack Nicholson – Mars Attacks!
• Stanley Tucci – Big Night

  Best Actress – Drama

• Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies
• Kristin Scott Thomas – The English Patient
• Emily Watson – Breaking the Waves
• Robin Wright Penn – Moll Flanders

  Best Actress – Musical or Comedy

• Glenn Close – 101 Dalmatians
• Shirley MacLaine – Mrs. Winterbourne
• Heather Matarazzo – Welcome to the Dollhouse
• Bette Midler – The First Wives Club

  Best Animated or Mixed Media Film

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

  Best Art Direction

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

  Best Cinematography

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

  Best Costume Design

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

  Best Director

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

  Best Editing

• The English Patient
• Fargo
• Romeo + Juliet

  Best Film – Drama

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

  Best Film – Musical or Comedy

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

  Best Foreign Language Film

• Bitter Sugar , Cuba
• A Judgement in Stone , France
• Kolya , Czech Republic
• Prisoner of the Mountains , Russia
• Ridicule, France

  Best Original Score

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

  Best Original Song

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

  Best Screenplay – Original

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

  Best Supporting Actor – Drama

• Steve Buscemi – Fargo
• Robert Carlyle – Trainspotting
• Jeremy Irons – Stealing Beauty
• John Lynch – Moll Flanders
• Paul Scofield – The Crucible

  Best Supporting Actor – Musical or Comedy

• Woody Allen – Everyone Says I Love You
• Danny DeVito – Matilda
• Gene Hackman – The Birdcage
• Ian McKellen – Cold Comfort Farm

  Best Supporting Actress – Drama

• Joan Allen – The Crucible
• Stockard Channing – Moll Flanders
• Miranda Richardson – The Evening Star
• Kate Winslet – Hamlet

  Best Supporting Actress – Musical or Comedy

• Lauren Bacall – The Mirror Has Two Faces
• Goldie Hawn – Everyone Says I Love You
• Sarah Jessica Parker – The First Wives Club
• Renée Zellweger – Jerry Maguire

  Best Visual Effects

• Dragonheart
• Mars Attacks!
• Twister

  Television winners and nominees

Best Actor – Drama Series

• Andre Braugher –
• Anthony Edwards – ER
• Hector Elizondo – Chicago Hope
• Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue

  Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series

• Michael J. Fox – Spin City
• Michael Richards – Seinfeld
• Garry Shandling – The Larry Sanders Show
• Rip Torn – The Larry Sanders Show

  Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Film

• Beau Bridges – Hidden in America
• Ted Danson – Gulliver's Travels
• Eric Roberts – In Cold Blood
• James Woods – The Summer of Ben Tyler

  Best Actress – Drama Series

• Gillian Anderson – The X-Files
• Kim Delaney – NYPD Blue
• Julianna Margulies – ER
• Kimberly Williams-Paisley – Relativity

  Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series

• Fran Drescher – The Nanny
• Helen Hunt – Mad About You
• Cybill Shepherd – Cybill
• Lea Thompson – Caroline in the City

  Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film

• 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

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

  Best Series – Drama

• Chicago Hope
• ER
• NYPD Blue

  Best Series – Musical or Comedy

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

  Best Supporting Actor – (Mini)Series or TV Film

• Brian Dennehy – A Season in Purgatory
• Ian McKellen –
• Anthony Quinn – Gotti
• Treat Williams – The Late Shift

  Best Supporting Actress – (Mini)Series or TV Film

• Cher – If These Walls Could Talk
• Gail O'Grady – NYPD Blue
• Greta Scacchi –
• Alfre Woodard – Gulliver's Travels

  New Media winners and nominees

Best Home Entertainment Product/Game

• Die Hard Trilogy
• John Madden Football 1996
• Nights
• Tekken 2

  CD-ROM Educational – Children

• Living Books: Sheila Rae, The Brave
• Snoopy's Campfire Stories

  CD-ROM Entertainment

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

  CD-ROM Game

• Descent II
• Goosebumps
• Quake

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Film

Television