The 2014 Emmys

[Dolfan in NYC]

The nominees are:

Best Comedy Series

"The Big Bang Theory"

"Louie"

"Modern Family"

"Orange Is the New Black"

"Silicon Valley"

"Veep"

Best Actress in a Comedy Series

Lena Dunham, "Girls"

Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie"

Julia Louis Dreyfus, "Veep"

Melissa McCarthy, "Mike & Molly"

Amy Poehler, "Parks & Recreation"

Taylor Schilling, "Orange Is the New Black"

Best Actor in a Comedy Series

Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory"

Ricky Gervais, "Derek"

Matt LeBlanc, "Episodes"

Don Cheadle, "House of Lies"

Louis C.K., "Louie"

William H. Macy, "Shameless"

Supporting Actor, Comedy Series

Andre Breaugher, "Brookiyn Nine-Nine"

Adam Driver, "Girls"

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, "Modern Family"

Ty Burrell, "Modern Family"

Fred Armisen, "Portlandia"

Tony Hale, "Veep"

Supporting Actress, Comedy Series

Mayim Bialik, "The Big Bang Theory"

Julie Bowen, "Modern Family"

Allison Janney, "Mom"

Kate Mulgrew, "Orange Is the New Black"

Kate McKinnon, "Saturday Night Live"

Anna Chlumsky, "Veep"

Best Drama Series

"Breaking Bad"

"Downton Abbey"

"Game of Thrones"

"House of Cards"

"Mad Men"

"True Detective"

Best Actress in a Drama Series

Lizzy Caplan, "Masters of Sex"

Claire Danes, "Homeland"

Michelle Dockery, "Downton Abbey"

Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife"

Kerry Washington, "Scandal"

Robin Wright, "House of Cards"

Best Actor in a Drama Series

Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"

Jeff Daniels, "The Newsroom"

Jon Hamm, "Mad Men"

Woody Harrelson, "True Detective"

Matthew McConaughey, "True Detective"

Kevin Spacey, "House of Cards"

Supporting Actor, Drama Series

Aaron Paul, "Breaking Bad"

Jim Carter, "Downton Abbey"

Peter Dinklage, "Game of Thrones"

Josh Charles, "The Good Wife"

Mandy Patinkin, "Homeland"

Jon Voight, "Ray Donovan"

Supporting Actress, Drama Series

Anna Gunn, "Breaking Bad"

Maggie Smith, "Downton Abbey"

Lena Headey, "Game of Thrones"

Christine Brananski, "The Good Wife"

Christina Hendricks, "Mad Men"

Joanne Froggatt, "Downton Abbey"

Best Miniseries or Movie

"American Horror Story: Coven"

"Bonnie & Clyde"

"Fargo"

"Luther"

"Treme"

"The White Queen"

Best Actress Miniseries or Movie

Jessica Lange, "American Horror Story: Coven"

Sarah Paulson, "American Horror Story: Coven"

Helena Bonham Carter, "Burton and Taylor"

Minnie Driver, "Return to Zero"

Kristen Wiig, "The Spoils of Babylon"

Cicely Tyson, "The Trip Bountiful"

Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie

Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Luther"

Martin Freeman, "Fargo"

Billy Bob Thornton, "Fargo"

Idris Elba, "Luther"

Mark Ruffalo, "The Normal Heart"

 

Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie

Colin Hanks, "Fargo"

Jim Parsons, "The Normal Heart"

Joe Mantello, "The Normal Heart"

Alfred Molina, "The Normal Heart"

Matt Bomer, "The Normal Heart"

Martin Freeman, "Sherlock: His Last Vow"

Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie

Frances Conroy, "American Horror Story: Coven"

Kathy Bates, "American Horror Story: Coven"

Angela Bassett, "American Horror Story: Coven"

Allison Tolman, "Fargo"

Ellen Burstyn, "Flowers In the Attic"

Julia Roberts, "The Normal Heart"

Outstanding Animated Program

"Archer"

"Bob's Burgers"

"Futurama"

"South Park"

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Project"

Outstanding Host: Reality-Competition Program

Betty White, "Betty White's Off Their Rockers"

Tom Bergeron, "Dancing with the Stars"

Jane Lynch, "Hollywood Game Night"

Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, "Project Runway"

Cat Deeley, "So You Think You Can Dance"

Anthony Bourdain, "The Taste"

Reality-Competition Program

"Cosmos" A SpaceTime Odyssey"

"The Oscars"

"Portlandia"

"Saturday Night Live"

"Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games Opening Ceremony"

"The Voice"

Variety Series

"The Colbert Report"

"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"

"Jimmy Kimmel Live"

"Real Time with Bill Maher"

"Saturday Night Live"

"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"

Holy crap is Drama series stacked 

[Jrag]

RUST VS WALT is too much!  Always so many great performances to chose from in the acting categories.  I still think Michael Sheen was snubbed a little bit, but who do you take off?

 

Masters of Sex did get some much deserved recognition in the other acting categories.  I'm loving the guest star nominations for Beau Bridges and Allison Janney.

 

They will surely give the big one to BB this year, right?  

[Matt D]

Wait Fargo is 10 episodes and True Detective is 8, with both having second seasons with different casts, and the former is a mini series and the latter is a full series? 

[Bustronaut]

Tatiana Maslany getting snubbed AGAIN is a tragedy

[odessasteps]

I believe its how shows submit themselves. Same issues in past with American Horror Story and Downton Abbey.

[E.J.]

The Voice and Portlandia in the same category is a bit much.

[Dolfan in NYC]

Something I didn't notice before, for the first time in its history*, The Simpsons is not nominated for Animated Program.

 

Volumes can, should, and probably will be written about how far the show has fallen, but this was still a bit jarring. 

 

* - 1993 & 1994 don't count because Fox submitted them to Outstanding Comedy Series

[Reed]

No Hannibal and Maslany pretty much proves it's mostly about marketing than rewarding actual merit. There's also apparently issues because they're made and funded overseas and emmy voters don't like to reward shows like that, or something.

 

Michael Pitt as Mason Verger is arguably as big a snub as Maslany, IMO. He was stunning in season 2 of Hannibal. Every other person seems to be doing watered down "Health Ledger as the Joker" rip offs these days; he meanwhile was playing it like a guy who saw The Dark Knight and figured he could go even more crazier and scary with it.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Not even cinematography or any design categories for Hannibal!  Mind boggling.

[Reed]

Not even cinematography or any design categories for Hannibal!  Mind boggling.

 

That was genuinely stunning.

[Phantom Lord]

Who keeps nominating Edie Falco? Emmy Rossmum got robbed. She should have gotten a nomination for her outstanding work on Shameless this season. Also wasn't Robin Wright more a supporting actress than lead on House of Cards?

 

I think the Emmys should really come up with new categories for cable. Have Best Acting in a Cable Series Drama and Comedy and Best drama and comedy series. Because there's quite a few network shows that get shafted when all the nominations go to HBO and now Netflix.

[EVA]

I try not to get worked up over the Emmys, because it's a product of so much politics and the hype game and old people making safe choices (DOWNTON ABBEY 4EVR), but, man, they are killing me this year.

Like, I understand how Maslany could've slipped under the radar last year, but there's simply no excuse for her not to be nominated this year.

Likewise, where are Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Michael Sheen, and Matthew Rhys? I know they can't all get nominated in a category that also has Cranston, Hamm, and the TD Bros, but I feel like we could've gotten someone a little stronger than Jeff Daniels in there, guys. Even if he is the inexplicable reigning trophy-holder.

As mentioned, HANNIBAL can't even get a damn nod for technical stuff, despite the fact that the show pushes the limits of TV in just about every category.

And how did Rian Johnson not get nominated for directing "Ozymandias?" This should not be possible.

Meanwhile, poor TREME dropped down to miniseries and still couldn't get any of its outstanding actors a nomination, because apparently it was important to nominate everyone who had a line in THE NORMAL HEART.

[Reed]

The overwhelmingly negative reaction to the Maslany snub reminds me a bit of the Ben Affleck/Argo stuff. Like everyone knows deep down its mostly politics and whatever, but sometimes they make an omission so glaring it taints the whole thing and reminds you it can't be taken that seriously.

 

Hannibal to a lesser extent too. I mean, I don't hate AHS: Coven, but there's no frigging way what was essentially Dynasty with witches should have 17 nominations and Hannibal doesn't have any.

[Kuetsar]

Plus Modern Family being nominated for anything at this point is bullshit, talk about washed up, its unwatchable anymore.

[Randy]

 

 

Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie

Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Luther"

 

Am I crazy because I don't remember Ejiofor being in the show?

[Control]

You're not crazy. He's nominated for a pretty interesting-looking miniseries called DANCING ON THE EDGE.

[Reed]

http://gawker.com/212401/ellen-burstyn-looks-to-break-the-14-second-performance-emmy-nomination-barrier

 

Just a reminder: a great deal of time the TV academy don't even watch what they're nominating. Literally, in this incident they nominated Burstyn simply because they saw her name on the credits for the movie and she was a veteran oscar-winning actress so naturally had to get nominated for something. They didn't watch the thing and realize she literally had two lines and was in one short scene. 

 

Heck, say what you want about the Oscars...even they wouldn't do something THAT idiotic.

[EVA]

If HOUSE OF CARDS was a movie, Kevin Spacey wouldn't get so much as a sniff of any kind of nomination. But since it's a TV show, he gets graded on the "Being a Movie Star" scale, so he's going to be blocking a more deserving actor from getting a nomination for as long as that dumb show runs.

[Petey]

I would vote for Rust over Walt in a heartbeat, but I think Cranston gets the nod over McConaughey as an apology due to last year's miscarriage of justice with Jeff Daniels stealing the award.

[Execproducer]

I liked this, especially the punchline.

 

[Technico Support]

RUST VS WALT is too much!  Always so many great performances to chose from in the acting categories.  I still think Michael Sheen was snubbed a little bit, but who do you take off?

 

 

I really enjoyed True Detective but, to me anyway, this isn't even close.  McConaughey was fun but so much of the role was based on dazzling the audience with a  bunch of flashy-sounding but shallow freshman dorm-level philosophy bullshit.  Cohle is a fun but ultimately one-note character.  I think Cranston was better in a single episode (Ozymandias) than McConaughey was in the whole season.

[Jrag]

McConaughey raised the writing up with his performance in my opinion.  All that cringey dialogue wouldn't have worked with a lesser actor.

 

That's not an argument for Rust over Walt necessarily, but I wouldn't be surprised by either taking the award.

[Technico Support]

McConaughey raised the writing up with his performance in my opinion.  All that cringey dialogue wouldn't have worked with a lesser actor.

 

That's not an argument for Rust over Walt necessarily, but I wouldn't be surprised by either taking the award.

 

That's a great point and one I recall from a very good review I read as well, that Cohle's dialogue, handled by a lesser actor, would have been laughable.  They need a special category just for actors turning chicken shit into chicken salad.  The "polishing a turd" award, as it were.

[Cristobal]

They're called "The People's Choice Awards"

[Jrag]

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