EMMYS 2014

[Henry Gale]

Outstanding Drama Series
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
House of Cards
Mad Men
True Detective

Outstanding Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory
Louie
Modern Family
Orange Is the New Black
Silicon Valley
Veep

Outstanding Miniseries
American Horror Story: Coven
Bonnie & Clyde
Fargo
Luther
Treme
The White Queen

Outstanding Television Movie
Killing Kennedy
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight
The Normal Heart
Sherlock: His Last Vow
The Trip to Bountiful

Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Matthew McConaughey, True Detective
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Woody Harrelson, True Detective
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Lizzie Caplan, Masters of Sex
Claire Danes, Homeland
Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Kerry Washington, Scandal
Robin Wright, House of Cards

Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dancing on the Edge
Idris Elba, Luthor
Martin Freeman, Fargo
Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart
Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo

Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Helena Bonham Carter, Burton and Taylor
Minnie Driver, Return to Zero
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Coven
Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Coven
Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
Kristen Wiig, The Spoils of Babylon

Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Louis CK, Louie
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Ricky Gervais, Derek
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
William H. Macy, Shameless
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory

Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Lena Dunham, Girls
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Melissa McCarthy, Mike & Molly
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Taylor Schilling, Orange Is the New Black

Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Jon Voight, Ray Donovan
Jim Carter, Downton Abbey
Mandy Patinkin, Homeland
Josh Charles, The Good Wife

Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad
Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Lena Headey, Game of Thrones
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife

Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Colin Hanks, Fargo
Jim Parsons, The Normal Heart
Alfred Molina, The Normal Heart
Martin Freeman, Sherlock
Joe Mantello, The Normal Heart
Matt Bomer, The Normal Heart

Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Frances Conroy, American Horror Story: Coven
Angela Bassett, American Horror Story: Coven
Ellen Burstyn, Flowers in the Attic
Kathy Bates, American Horror Story: Coven
Allison Tolman, Fargo
Julia Roberts, The Normal Heart

Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Fred Armisen, Portlandia
Adam Driver, Girls
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family
Tony Hale, Veep

Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Kate Mulgrew, Orange Is the New Black
Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory
Allison Janney, Mom
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live
Anna Chlumsky, Veep

Outstanding Variety Series
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Real Time with Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Outstanding Reality Competition Program
The Amazing Race
Dancing With the Stars
Project Runway
So You Think You Can Dance
Top Chef
The Voice

Everything else listed on one page here and PDF / Word doc'd here.

[Henry Gale]

Misc. thoughts / observations:

- Silicon Valley is something of a big surprise (to me) for Best Comedy. Without a single acting nomination, sadly meaning no posthumous appreciation for Christopher Evan Welch, but it did make a showing in four other categories including Mike Judge's direction of the pilot and Alec Berg's writing of the dick-joke compendium of a finale.

- No Hannibal or Eastbound & Down. Which isn't a shock, but... still fuckin' sucks. They're probably my two favourite shows not represented.

- The Variety Writing nominations have Inside Amy Schumer, Key & Peele and Portlandia, which subbed in for Variety Series stuff like Kimmel and Bill Maher) making a bigger case than ever for the talk/news and sketch Variety Series split to date in my mind.

- Similarly, the bid for all sketch show leads like Amy Schumer, Scott Aukerman, Reggie Watts, Carrie Brownstein, Nick Kroll, Key & Peele, etc. submitting themselves in Best Supporting - Comedy categories only paid off for Fred Armisen. But at least that's something!

- No Brooklyn Nine-Nine for Best Comedy or Lead Actor for Samberg (despite their obviously super important and always completely foretelling Golden Globes win halfway through its season). Yet Ricky Gervais got in for Derek.

- No Tatiana Maslany, further proving all of BBC America's Emmy muscle resides in Luther.

- Best Comedy Stunt Coordination looks more like what I'd want Best Comedy to with Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Community and It's Always Sunny in the mix.

- Justified's only nomination is in Art Direction. Didn't see this season, but still

- Adventure Time got nominated in Short-Form Animated Series!

- Archer and Bob's Burgers are now comfortably settled into the regular Animated category, with old pros South Park and Futurama (with The Simpsons not making a showing for the first time in... ever?).

I'm just going to leave these three very weird Special Class categories here, and celebrate the good stuff that got nominations through them while trying to wrap my head around the rest:

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Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama • FunnyOrDie.com
Childrens Hospital • Adult Swim
Parks And Rec In Europe • NBC.com
The Soup: True Detective • E!
Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show Starring Bruno Mars • FOX

(A Funny Or Die video vs. 13-episode fifth season of an Adult Swim TV series vs. an online exclusive addition to an NBC show vs. a 2-minute Soup sketch vs. a Superbowl halftime show... Yup, that checks out.)

Outstanding Short-Format Nonfiction Program
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee • Crackle.com
COSMOS: A National Geographic Deeper Dive • NationalGeographic.com
I Was There: Boston Marathon Bombings • History.com
Jay Leno’s Garage • NBC.com
Park Bench With Steve Buscemi • AOL
30 For 30 Shorts • ESPN

Outstanding Interactive Program
@midnight • Comedy Central (!!!)
Game of Thrones Premiere – Facebook Live and Instagram • HBO, Facebook and Instagram
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Digital Experience • NBC
The Voice • NBC.com

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Bottom line: The Cutties outshined it this year.

[ledfloyd]

So Fargo and American Horror Story are miniseries, but True Detective is a regular series? Also, how in the hell is Treme considered a miniseries?

And I'll never understand their obsession with The Big Bang Theory and Modern Family. Especially over things like Girls and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

[Mara]

The exclusion of Tatiana Maslany is absurd. Everyone's had a year to watch the show. There's no excuse.

In fact, there is zero crossover with Emmies and Cutties for best dramatic actress, which means they also excluded Elisabeth Moss and Keri Russell.

[number8]

So Fargo and American Horror Story are miniseries, but True Detective is a regular series? Also, how in the hell is Treme considered a miniseries?

It's up to the network to decide which category they want to apply to, not the Emmy voters. They're still operating under the pre-cable revolution guideline of anything under the standard 22 episode as not being a regular season, so basically cable shows can qualify for either category. They just have to choose one.

HBO actually got a lot of flak for their decision to submit TD as a regular series.

Submitting Treme's last season as a miniseries is shrewd as hell. They know that it'd have no chance to be nominated as a regular, so they took advantage of the fact that it was reduced to only 5 episodes to say that it was a miniseries.

[Gizmo]

The exclusion of Tatiana Maslany is absurd. Everyone's had a year to watch the show. There's no excuse.

I don't watch much tv, but I know that her exclusion is wrong wrong wrong. If I watched the Emmy's I'd think about boycotting them.

[Hugh_Grant]

And I'll never understand their obsession with The Big Bang Theory and Modern Family.

Amen. I have always found both shows painfully unfunny.

Orphan Black lost me this season, but Maslany's snub is inexcusable.

And Jeff Daniels?!?

On a happier note, I love that Key & Peele's Les Misérables parody song was nominated. "Why are we all facing the same way?"

[Irish]

To hazard a guess on Maslany & Orphan Black:

- It's Canadian
- It's on F/X
- It's sci-fi
- It's got a small audience

I wouldn't call this a snub so much as completely unsurprising.

The dual Big Bang and Modern Family noms are tedious. Those shows and their actors have received a number of noms and wins, and both shows have declined in quality in the past year or two.

But then-- this is an awards ceremony to advertise the industry to itself, to be broadcast on network TV, and they need to round out those ballots with some network shows. The only thing I don't understand is why Brooklyn 99 didn't get more noms.

[Hugh_Grant]

To hazard a guess on Maslany & Orphan Black:

- It's Canadian
- It's on F/X
- It's sci-fi
- It's got a small audience

I was going to add that it is on BBC America, but that didn't seem to hurt Luther, or The Hour. Must be the Canadian thing.

Agreed about Brooklyn Nine-Nine--the Emmy voters love Braugher, who was one of Homicide's rare winners during its long and most Emmy-less run, so I'm glad that he got a nod.

[Spinal]

Fred Armisen is a supporting actor on Portlandia? That makes very little sense.

[Henry Gale]

Fred Armisen is a supporting actor on Portlandia? That makes very little sense.

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- Similarly, the bid for all sketch show leads like Amy Schumer, Scott Aukerman, Reggie Watts, Carrie Brownstein, Nick Kroll, Key & Peele, etc. submitting themselves in Best Supporting - Comedy categories only paid off for Fred Armisen. But at least that's something!

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It was a weird strategic play for all cable sketch show actors who knew they had no chance going up against sitcom stars to make a play at supporting categories, even if they're people like Amy Schumer, Nick Kroll and Key & Peele who're virtually in every frame of their eponymous shows.

Plus their shows are still in the same categories as talk shows. #SplitVariety2015

[ledfloyd]

I guess the logic behind it is that they play several different characters per episode, none of which could be termed the "lead."

[Kurosawa Fan]

Are the Orange is the New Black nominations for the first season or the second?

[EyesWideOpen]

Are the Orange is the New Black nominations for the first season or the second?

I'm assuming both Derek and OitNB nominations are for season 1.

[Lucky]

I guess the logic behind it is that they play several different characters per episode, none of which could be termed the "lead."

Maybe Tatiana Maslany would have had better luck as a supporting actress with that logic.

[number8]

It's what Henry Gale said. Remember, there used to be a "Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program" category for awards show hosts, talk show hosts, stand up comedians, and sketch performers. They retired the award in 2008, but if it's still here today, that's where all those guys would presumably submit their ballot to. Since it's not, they're now submitting to Supporting so they don't have to compete with the sitcom players who are Emmy regulars.

NBC actually submits the entire cast of SNL in the Supporting category every year (even Seth Meyers as Weekend Update host), but usually only one standout cast members gets a nomination: Poehler, Wiig, Hader... Happy to see it being McKinnon this year.

[DavidSeven]

I'm assuming both Derek and OitNB nominations are for season 1.

That makes a lot more sense.

[number8]

Oh, and pretty cool to see Masters of Sex get those acting recognition. Beau Bridges and Alison Janney are absolutely terrific in it. Janney especially, who only showed up halfway into the season and yet immediately commandeered the attention. Every time her character is on screen, it feels like they created the show about her (although it's good that it's not).

[EyesWideOpen]

Ty Burrell? Seriously?

[slqrick]

Lol Modern Family and the Big Bang cleaning house as per usual.

[EyesWideOpen]

Do Emmy voters even watch these shows? I want to meet the person who after watching all those nominated lead actors shows picks Jim Parsons.

[DSNT]

Lol Modern Family and the Big Bang cleaning house as per usual.

Why oh why do they love those shows so much??

Haven't they heard? There is really good TV on now!

[EyesWideOpen]

I have never even heard of that show Mom.

[Dukefrukem]

Funny

http://www.gossipcop.com/seth-meyers...4-emmy-awards/

[slqrick]

Loool Chris Hardwick making sure you know he's not a douche.