The 11th Satellite Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2006, were given on December 18, 2006.
Special achievement awards
Auteur Award (for his visionary work as a filmmaker) – Robert Altman
Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) – Martin Landau
Nikola Tesla Award (for creating special effects on the 1978 film Superman that pre-dated contemporary computer-generated images) – Richard Donner
Outstanding Guest Star (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) – Jerry Lewis
Motion picture winners and nominees
Best Actor – Drama
Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
Leonardo DiCaprio – Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson
Joshua Jackson – Aurora Borealis
Derek Luke – Catch a Fire
Patrick Wilson – Little Children
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy
Joseph Cross – Running with Scissors
Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Aaron Eckhart – Thank You for Smoking Will Ferrell – Stranger than Fiction Peter O'Toole – Venus
Best Actress – Drama
Helen Mirren – The Queen
Penélope Cruz – To Return (Volver) Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal Maggie Gyllenhaal – Sherrybaby Gretchen Mol – The Notorious Bettie Page Kate Winslet – Little Children
Best Actress – Musical or Comedy
Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
Annette Bening – Running with Scissors
Beyoncé – Dreamgirls
Toni Collette – Little Miss Sunshine
Julie Walters – Driving Lessons
Jodie Whittaker – Venus
Best Animated or Mixed Media Film
Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) Cars Flushed Away Happy Feet Ice Age: The Meltdown
Best Art Direction and Production Design
Flags of Our Fathers – Henry Bumstead, Richard Goddard, and Jack G. Taylor Jr. Dreamgirls Marie Antoinette Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) V for Vendetta
Best Cinematography
Flags of Our Fathers – Tom Stern
The Black Dahlia
Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia) The Fountain A Good Year The House of Sand (Casa de Areia) X-Men: The Last Stand
Best Costume Design
The Devil Wears Prada – Patricia Field
The Black Dahlia
Dreamgirls
Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia) Marie Antoinette
Best Director
Bill Condon – Dreamgirls (TIE) Clint Eastwood – Flags of Our Fathers (TIE) Pedro Almodóvar – To Return (Volver) Stephen Frears – The Queen Alejandro González Iñárritu – Babel Martin Scorsese – The Departed