18th Annual Satellite Awards’ nomination list released

A huge nomination list for the upcoming 18th season of Annual Satellite Awards has been released by the International Press Academy which is an alternative to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The frontrunners in the list are also the strongest contenders in the Oscar race but five nominations for yet-to-be-released The Wolf of Wall Street indicates at a slight possibility of foreign biasness.

The list is topped by Fox Searchlight's 12 Years a Slave with ten nominations followed by Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity and David O. Russell's American Hustle with eight, Working Title and Ron Howard'sRush with seven and Saving Mr. Banks and Inside Llewyn Davis with six. Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, Martin Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street and Captain Phillips have earned five each and Robert Redford-starrer All is Lost is happy with four. The awards ceremony is slated to take place on March 9, 2014. Here is the list of few of the nominations:

Motion Pictures:

Actress in a Motion Picture

• Amy Adams, American Hustle

• Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

• Sandra Bullock, Gravity

• Judi Dench, Philomen

• Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color

• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Enough Said

• Meryl Streep, August: Osage Count

• Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks

Actor in a Motion Picture

• Christian Bale, American Hustle

• Bruce Dern, Nebraska

• Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street

• Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

• Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips

• Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

• Robert Redford, All Is Lost

• Forest Whitaker, Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine

• Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

• Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave

• Julia Roberts, August: Osage County

• Léa Seydoux, Blue Is the Warmest Color

• June Squibb, Nebraska

• Emily Watson, The Book Thief

• Oprah Winfrey, Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Bradley Cooper, American Hustle

• Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave

• Harrison Ford, 42

• Ryan Gosling, The Place Beyond the Pines

• Jake Gyllenhaal, Prisoners

• Tom Hanks, Saving Mr. Banks

• Casey Affleck, Out of the Furnace

• Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Motion Picture:

• 12 Years a Slave

• All Is Lost

• American Hustle

• Blue Jasmine

• Captain Phillips

• Gravity

• Inside Llewyn Davis

• Philomena

• Saving Mr. Banks

• The Wolf of Wall Street

Motion Picture, International Film

• Bethlehem, Israel

• Blue Is the Warmest Color, France

• The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgium

• Circles, Serbia

• Four Corners, South Africa

• The Great Beauty, Italy

• The Hunt, Denmark

• Metro Manila, United Kingdom

• The Past, Iran

• Wadjda, Saudia Arabia

Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media

• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2

• The Croods

• Epic

• Ernest & Celestine

• Frozen

• Monsters University

• Turbo

• The Wind Rises

Director

• Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine

• Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis

• Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity

• Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips

• Ron Howard, Rush

• Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave

• David O. Russell, American Hustle

• Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Original Song

• Happy, Despicable Me 2

• Let It Go, Frozen

• Young and Beautiful, The Great Gatsby

• I See Fire, The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

• Please Mr. Kennedy, Inside Llewyn Davis

• So You Know What It’s Like, Short Term 12