Just like the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences made their announcement of Oscar nominations earlier in the year the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced early Thursday morning the nominations for the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. It was at 5:30 a.m. (PT) the announcements were made by television stars Joel McHale from NBC’s Community and Sofia Vergara from ABC’s Modern Family that was streamed live to various media outlets. Sofia Vergara and Modern Family received Emmy nominations. Mad Men on AMC received 17 nominations while the new FOX series Glee obtained 19 nods. However, it was HBO’s stellar WWII miniseries The Pacific, which centered on the warfront in the Pacific theater of operations, who achieved the most nominations at 24.
For the most part it was nice to see some new shows being nominated for a change such as Glee. Yet it looked like another stamped set of the same old, same old shows and actors in their usual categories once again. There were some nice surprises added into the nominee mix. It was great seeing Conan O’ Brien get an Emmy nomination for his short-lived tenure on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, while Jay Leno was snubbed. Betty White at 88 received an Emmy nod for her outstanding hosting duties on Saturday Night Live making it one of their highest rated shows ever. Not only that, Saturday Night Live received 12 Emmys nominations and a grand total of 126 during its 35 season run. It has surpassed ER for their all-time record of 124 nods.
This year the telecast of the Primetime Emmy Awards will be Sunday, August 29th on NBC. The reason for its early date is not to conflict with the National Football League games slated for Sunday nights on the same network. Traditionally the Emmys have been presented in mid-September right before the new fall television season. Jimmy Fallon is the host of the Emmys where its to be broadcast “live” from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.
Here is a list of the major nominees as follows:
DRAMA
OUTSTANDING DRAMA:
Lost (ABC)
Breaking Bad (AMC)
Dexter (Showtime)
Mad Men (AMC)
True Blood (HBO)
The Good Wife (CBS)
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA:
Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife)
Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
Glenn Close (Damages)
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
January Jones (Mad Men)
Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights)
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA:
Jon Hamm (Mad Men)
Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights)
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
Hugh Laurie (House M.D.)
Michael C. Hall (Dexter)
Matthew Fox (Lost)
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA:
John Slattery (Mad Men)
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)
Martin Short (Damages)
Terry O’ Quinn (Lost)
Michael Emerson (Lost)
Andre Braugher (Men of a Certain Age)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA:
Sharon Gless (Burn Notice)
Christine Baranski (The Good Wife)
Christina Hendricks (Mad Men)
Rose Byrne (Damages)
Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife)
Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men)
COMEDY
OUTSTANDING COMEDY:
Glee (FOX)
Modern Family (ABC)
Nurse Jackie (Showtime)
30 Rock (NBC)
The Office (NBC)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY:
Lea Michele (Glee)
Tina Fey (30 Rock)
Toni Collette (The United States of Tara)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (The New Adventures of Old Christine)
Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie)
Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation)
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A COMEDY:
Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
Matthew Morrison (Glee)
Steve Carell (The Office)
Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory)
Tony Shalhoub (Monk)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY:
Chris Colfer (Glee)
Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family)
Jon Cryer (Two and A Half Men)
Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family)
Ty Burrell (Modern Family)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY:
Jane Lynch (Glee)
Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live)
Jane Krakowski (30 Rock)
Julie Bowen (Modern Family)
Sofia Vergara (Modern Family)
Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men)
REALITY
OUTSTANDING REALITY SHOW HOST:
Ryan Seacrest (American Idol)
Phil Keoghan (The Amazing Race)
Tom Bergeron (Dancing with the Stars)
Heidi Klum (Project Runway)
Jeff Probst (Survivor)
OUTSTANDING REALITY SHOW COMPETITION:
Project Runway (Bravo)
Top Chef (Bravo)
The Amazing Race (CBS)
Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
American Idol (FOX)
OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS)
Dirty Jobs (Discovery Channel)
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (ABC)
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List (Bravo)
MythBusters (Discovery Channel)
Undercover Boss (CBS)
VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY
OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SERIES:
The Colbert Report (Comedy Central)
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
Real Time With Bill Maher (HBO)
Saturday Night Live (NBC)
The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien (NBC)
MINISERIES:
The Pacific (HBO)
Return to Cranford (PBS)
OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE:
Endgame (PBS)
Georgia O’Keeffe (Lifetime)
Moonshot (History)
The Special Relationship (HBO)
Temple Grandin (HBO)
You Don’t Know Jack (HBO)
OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SERIES:
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien
OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC or COMEDY SPECIAL:
Bill Maher “…But I’m Not Wrong” (HBO)
Hope for Haiti Now
The Kennedy Center Honors (CBS)
Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction (HBO)
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert (HBO)
Wanda Sykes: I’ma Be Me (HBO)
For a complete list of all categores here is the Official Primetime Emmy Award Nominees.
SOURCES:
Anthony Venutolo, “2010 emmy nominations:’The Pacific’, ‘Glee’ and ‘Mad Men’ lead the pack”, NJ
Lynn Elber, “‘The Pacific’, ‘Glee,’ top Emmy Award nominees”, The Associated Press
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Emmys
