Emmy Awards – The Showdown

Posted on Jul 17, 2009 @ 02:26PM

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The Emmy nominations were announced yesterday and it wouldn’t be an awards show if there weren’t some surprises and snubs. We know you can’t please everyone, but it’s shocking that True Blood was shut out! Come on, it easily could have fit in the Best Comedy or Best Drama categories—though any die hard fan knows those vampires have some of the darkest and snarkiest wit around. Family Guy made history as the first animated series to ever get nominated for Best Comedy. And some shows that have already gone off to die in TV heaven are getting their due with Christina Applegate receiving a nom for Samantha Who and Kristin Chenoweth getting one for Pushing Daisies. Grey’s Anatomy stars Chandra Wilson and Sandra Oh face off in the Best Supporting Actress in a Drama category for the second year in a row. Interesting that Katherine Heigl isn’t there as she just confirmed that she’s definitely returning to the show in the fall. It was touch and go if she would renew her contract but she did and we have to say that Katherine really gave Emmy worthy performances this season. She slept with ghosts, battled cancer, married her true love . . . but, if you recall, Katherine did win two years ago . . . but pulled her name out of the running last year because she wasn’t happy with the storylines (or lack thereof) that the writers gave her. 30 Rock dominates with a whopping 172 nominations including Best Comedy series and noms for Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, Jack McBrayer (yay!), Tracy Morgan and Jane Krakowski.. Will people finally start watching it now? Does this prove it’s a genius show? And, How I Met Your Mother finally gets its due with its first Best Comedy Series nomination. Could it be their lucky night since it’s star and Best Supporting Actor nominee Neil Patrick Harris is hosting the show? You’ll just have to catch all the drama and find out who the big winners are on September 20th. In the meantime, here’s a list of the major categories for your reference!

COMEDY

BEST COMEDY SERIES 
Entourage 
Family Guy
Flight of the Conchords 
How I Met Your Mother 
The Office 
30 Rock
Weeds

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES  
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock 
Steve Carell, The Office  
Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords  
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory 
Tony Shalhoub, Monk 
Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES 
Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?  
Toni Collette, United States of Tara 
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine
Tina Fey, 30 Rock 
Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds 
Sarah Silverman, The Sarah Silverman Program

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES 
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men 
Kevin Dillon, Entourage 
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother 
Jack McBrayer, 30 Rock 
Tracy Morgan, 30 Rock 
Rainn Wilson, The Office

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies 
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds 
Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live 
Kristin Wiig, Saturday Night Live 
Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty

DRAMA
BEST DRAMA SERIES  
Big Love
Breaking Bad 
Damages 
Dexter  
House  
Lost
Mad Men

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES 
Simon Baker, The Mentalist 
Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad  
Michael C. Hall, Dexter  
Jon Hamm, Mad Men 
Hugh Laurie, House

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES 
Glenn Close, Damages  
Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU 
Holly Hunter, Saving Grace
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES 
Christian Clemenson, Boston Legal 
Michael Emerson, Lost 
William Hurt, Damages
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad 
William Shatner, Boston Legal 
John Slattery, Mad Men

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES 
Rose Byrne, Damages 
Hope Davis, In Treatment 
Cherry Jones, 24 
Sandra Oh, Grey's Anatomy 
Dianne Wiest, In Treatment 
Chandra Wilson, Grey's Anatomy

REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM 
The Amazing Race 
American Idol 
Dancing With The Stars
Project Runway  
Top Chef

HOST FOR A REALITY OR REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM 
Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars
Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race
Heidi Klum, Project Runway
Padma Lakshmi (Host) and Tom Colicchio (Co-Host), Top Chef 
Jeff Probst, Survivor 
Ryan Seacrest, American Idol

REALITY SERIES 

Antiques Roadshow

Dirty Jobs 

Dog Whisperer

Intervention 

Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List 

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