Emmy snubs and nominations

July 17th, 2008 by adam arseneau | Emmys

Emmy! The 60th Emmy nominations have been released in full, with some surprises, some obvious selections, and some just plain craziness. For your viewing pleasure, here is a nice summation of the big categories (care of Popwatch) and their respective nominations:

Best Drama:
Boston Legal; Damages; Dexter; House; Lost; Mad Men.

Best Actor in a Drama:
Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment; Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad; Michael C. Hall, Dexter; Jon Hamm, Mad Men; Hugh Laurie, House; James Spader, Boston Legal.

Best Actress in a Drama:
Glenn Close, Damages; Sally Field, Brothers and Sisters; Mariska Hargitay, Law and Order: SVU; Holly Hunter, Saving Grace; Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer.

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama:
Ted Danson, Damages; Michael Emerson, Lost; Zeljko Ivanek, Damages; William Shatner, Boston Legal; John Slattery, Mad Men.

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama:
Candice Bergen, Boston Legal; Rachel Griffiths, Brothers and Sisters; Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy; Dianne Wiest, In Treatment; Chandra Wilson, Grey’s Anatomy.

Best Comedy:
Curb Your Enthusiasm; Entourage; The Office; 30 Rock; Two and a Half Men.

Best Actor in a Comedy:
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock; Steve Carell, The Office; Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies; Tony Shalhoub, Monk; Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men.

Best Actress in a Comedy:
Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?; America Ferrera, Ugly Betty; Tina Fey, 30 Rock; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, New Adventures of Old Christine; Mary Louise Parker, Weeds.

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy:
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men; Kevin Dillon, Entourage; Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother; Jeremy Piven, Entourage; Rainn Wilson, The Office.

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy:
Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies; Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live; Jean Smart, Samantha Who?; Holland Taylor, Two and a Half Men; Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty.

Some early observations from this humble critic:

Once again, The Wire fails to impress the Emmys, landing a paltry nomination for writing. For Boston Legal to make the best-series shortlist, and The Wire to get shafted is insane.

Mad Men and Damages make history as the first basic cable series to get best series nods. Good for them.

30 Rock cleans up with a frightening 17 nominations.

Ben Linus scored a nice nomination. Sweet!

Ted Danson got nominated for an Emmy. What year is this again?

To the Academy: Please stop nominating Two and a Half Men for Emmys. In fact, please stop making Two and a Half Men, period.

A complete list of Emmy nominations can be found at the Emmys website.

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