Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
PAUL GIAMATTI              John Adams                         "JOHN ADAMS"                  HBO

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
LAURA LINNEY               Abigail Adams                      "JOHN ADAMS"                  HBO

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
HUGH LAURIE               Gregory House                      "HOUSE"                           FOX

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
SALLY FIELD                 Nora Walker                          "BROTHERS & SISTERS"     ABC

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
ALEC BALDWIN             Jack Donaghy                       "30 ROCK"                         NBC

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
TINA FEY                      Liz Lemon                            "30 ROCK"                         NBC

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
"30 ROCK"                 NBC

SCOTT ADSIT               Pete Hornberger
ALEC BALDWIN            Jack Donaghy
KATRINA BOWDEN       Cerie
TINA FEY                     Liz Lemon
JUDAH FRIEDLANDER   Frank Rossitano
JANE KRAKOWSKI        Jenna Maroney
JACK McBRAYER          Kenneth Parcell
TRACY MORGAN          Tracy Jordan
MAULIK PANCHOLY      Jonathan
KEITH POWELL            Toofer

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
"MAD MEN"                              AMC

BRYAN BATT                              Salvatore Romano
ALISON BRIE                             Trudy Campbell
MICHAEL GLADIS                       Paul Kinsey
JON HAMM                                Don Draper
AARON HART                             Bobby Draper
CHRISTINA HENDRICKS             Joan Holloway
JANUARY JONES                        Betty Draper
VINCENT KARTHEISER               Pete Campbell
ROBERT MORSE                         Bertram Cooper
MARK MOSES                            Herman “Duck” Phillips
ELISABETH MOSS                      Peggy Olson
KIERNAN SHIPKA                       Sally Draper
JOHN SLATTERY                         Roger Sterling
RICH SOMMER                           Harry Crane
AARON STATON                         Ken Cosgrove
 

(Amazing – some of my favorites/picks actually won something!  Hooray for Hugh Laurie, Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Kate Winslet , Heath Ledger, Robert Morse, and Vincent Kartheiser, just to name a few…)

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Paul Giamatti as John Adams (HBO)

With 23 nominations, including Paul Giamatti’s nod as Lead Actor in a Mini-Series, HBO’s JOHN ADAMS mini-series was the overall frontrunner in 2008’s Emmy Awards announcements.

In a new twist, 2 basic cable shows, MAD MEN and DAMAGES, also managed to achieve Best Series nominations, something basic cable programs had never managed to do until now.

Here are just some of the 2008 nominees (with the ones I’d like to see win in red):

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In what I thought was an interesting twist, the 80th Annual Best Picture Oscar went to the movie featuring the Best Supporting Actor instead of the picture with the Best Actor. In fact, none of the lead actors of the Best Picture were nominated for their roles in it… (Tommy Lee Jones was nominated for a Best Actor, but for a different movie.)

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN took home 4 awards (Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor in a Supporting Role) making it the “winningest” movie of the year. It appears Javier Bardem’s performance helped push the movie to the top over THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Best Actor in a Lead Role, Best Cinematography).

An interesting note: all 4 major acting awards went to European actors this year: Daniel Day-Lewis (UK), Marion Cotillard (France), Javier Bardem (Spain), and Tilda Swinton (UK).

An another surprise came when Cate Blanchett got aced out of both the Actress in a Lead Role and Actress in a Supporting Role Oscars. She was only the 11th person to be nominated in both categories in the same year, with no one ever managing to grab both. Just like when 2 actors in the same movie getting nominated in the same category tend to cancel each out, getting nominated in 2 categories seems to do the same thing for the actor or actress in question…

Here’s how the major awards worked out:

BEST PICTURE
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

BEST DIRECTION
Ethan and Joel Coen – NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis – THERE WILL BE BLOOD

BEST ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard – LA VIE EN ROSE

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem – NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Tilda Swinton – MICHAEL CLAYTON

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
JUNO

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
ATONEMENT

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
RATATOUILLE

BEST ART DIRECTION
SWEENEY TODD THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE

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