Your personal Emmy nominations...
Now that the main telelvision season is over, pick your favorite five (or six) performances of the year. Don't try to predict what will actually get a nomination at the real Emmys, just select your personal favorites. You can pick a winner, but only if you want to. I'll get the ball rolling...
Categories: Best Comedy Series: Arrested Development, Desperate Housewives, The Office (NBC), Scrubs, Two and a Half Men Best Drama Series: Lost, Veronica Mars, Without a Trace, Grey's Anatomy, Carnivale Best Actor, Comedy: Jason Bateman (Arrested Development), Zack Braff (Scrubs), Steve Carell (The Office), Seth Macfarlane (Family Guy), Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Man) Best Actress, Comedy: Pamela Anderson (Stacked), Paget Brewster (Huff), Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives), Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond), Reba McEntire (Reba) Best Supporting Actor, Comedy: Will Arnett (Arrested Development), Steven Culp (Desperate Housewives), Tony Hale (Arrested Development), John Krasinski (The Office), William Shatner (Boston Legal) Best Supporting Actress, Comedy: Candice Bergen (Boston Legal), Sarah Chalke (Scrubs), Marcia Cross (Deseprate Housewives), Drea de Matteo (Joey), Jessica Walter (Arrested Development) Best Actor, Drama: David Caruso (CSI Miami), Matthew Fox (Lost), Anthony LaPaglia (Without a Trace), Hugh Laurie (House), Ian McShane (Deadwood) Best Actress, Drama: Patricia Arquette (Medium), Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars), Jennifer Garner (Alias), Christine Lahti (Jack and Bobby), Ellen Pompeo (Grey's Anatomy) Best Supporting Actor, Drama: Alan Alda (West Wing), Teddy Dunn (Veronica Mars), John Glover (Smallville), Daniel Dae Kim (Lost), Terry O'Quinn (Lost) Best Supporting Actress, Drama: Jorja Fox (CSI), Yoon-jin Kim (Lost), Allison Mack (Smallville), Vanessa Marcil (Las Vegas), Poppy Montgomery (Without a Trace) Best Reality/Sports Personality Bo Bice (American Idol), Tom Buchanan (Survivor: Palau), Chris Daugherty (Survivor: Vanuatu), Eddie Guerrero (WWE Smackdown), Ty Pennington (Extreme Makeover: Home Ed) Best Episode, any category "Afternoon Delight" (Arrested Development), "The Alliance" (The Office), "Leave it to Beaver" (Veronica Mars), "Numbers" (Lost), "Walkabout" (Lost) (Note: I know I'm reallllly stretching in the Best Actress section, but outside of Reba and Teri, it was hard to think of other leading actress.) |
Best Comedy Series: Arrested Development, Desperate Housewives, The Office, Scrubs, Rescue Me(More of a comedy than DH is)
Best Drama Series: Lost, Veronica Mars, Deadwood, Law & Order: SVU, Carnivale, The Shield Best Actor, Drama: Clancy Brown (Carnivale), Michael Chiklas (The Shield), , Hugh Laurie (House), Ian McShane (Deadwood) Best Actress, Drama: Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars), Jennifer Garner (Alias), Christine Lahti (Jack and Bobby), Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: SVU), Bebe Neuwirth (Law & Order: TBJ) |
Best Comedy Series: Scrubs
Best Drama Series: Deadwood, Lost Boston Legal Best Actor, Drama: Ian McShane (Deadwood) Best Supporting Actor, Drama: William Shatner (Boston Legal), Terry O'Quinn (Lost) Best Episode, any: "Hired Guns" (Boston Legal) |
Originally Posted by Triple S
Best Reality/Sports Personality Bo Bice (American Idol) ) -rolleyes- |
Don't have Emmy nominations, but here's a smattering of my own lists.
Best shows: 1. Joe Schmo 2 2. Lost 3. Arrested Development 4. Gilmore Girls 5. Scrubs 6. life as we know it 7. Shield Most underrated shows: Real World/Road Rules Challenge and One Tree Hill - While these 2 shows belong to much maligned genres, reality and soaps, they both excel despite their genre's limitations. Most underwatched shows: The Days and Wonder Showzen - I don't know what the actual ratings for these 2 were, but I have a feeling most people don't even know that these 2 shows existed. Most overrated show: 24 - pretty good during it's first season, incredibly bad ever since Best use of music: Grey's Anatomy - While the OC has been using instrumental music from bands like the Album Leaf for some of their score, GA has taken it a step further. GA manages to seamlessly weave various songs throughout each episode. The OC and other shows often play songs at a really low volume so as not to interfere with dialogue. I don't know if they remix the songs on GA or what, but they often seem to have long instrumental parts when there's a bunch of dialogue and then the song will pick back up for a scene transition. Best episode of an otherwise unimpressive season: South Park - Woodland Critter Christmas - Everything about this episode was great. While the rest of the season was never bad, it was never that good either. Only good multi-camera show: Joey - I'll never understand why the sitcom gets so much respect. The sitcom is to comedy what daytime soaps are to drama. It's ironic that the only good one this season is also the one that seems to get bashed the most. Most ridiculous move by the networks: Renewing bad sitcoms with mediocre ratings while canceling good dramas with mediocre ratings. It's inexcusable to cancel shows like Eyes, Jack and Bobby, Joan of Arcadia, and, of course, life as we know it and The Days while so many insanely bad sitcoms continue to live. |
Originally Posted by Elldubtoo
-rolleyes-
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Originally Posted by Triple S
Best Reality/Sports Personality
The Emmy Awards totally lost me last year when they did not nominate Ian McShane. That was an inexcusable slight. I fully expect Terry O'Quinn to get the same this year, although he was excellent in "Lost". |
I'll probably forget something here. Also, keep in mind that eligibility runs from June 1 - May 31 so series that ran last summer are in the mix.
Drama: Rescue Me The Shield Deadwood Nip/tuck Law & Order SVU Drama Actor: Dennis Leary Michael Chiklis Ian McShane Julian McMahon Dennis Franz Drama Actress: Glenn Close Joely Richardson Bebe Neuwirth Mariska Hargitay Gail O'Grady Drama Supp Actor: Garrett Dillahunt Benito Martinez Terry O'Quinn Keith Robinson Bradley Whitford Drama Supp Actress: Paula Malcolmson CCH Pounder Brittney Snow Molly Parker Yoon-jin Kim Comedy: Boston Legal Desperate Housewives Arrrested Development Entourage Comedy Actor: James Spader Jason Bateman Kevin Connolly Tim Daly Comedy Actress: Candace Bergin Marcia Cross Teri Hatcher Felicity Huffman Comedy Supp Actor: Jeremy Piven William Shatner Will Arnett Tony Hale Rainn Wilson Comedy Supp Actress: Jessica Walter Portia de Rossi Eva Longoria Obviously, I have some holes in the comedy categories. Mainly this is due to the fact that there is a dearth of quality comedy. Second, I am a season behind on Gilmore Girls so assuming that S5 is anywhere near the quality of previous seasons, GG, Lauren Graham, Scott Patterson, and Kelly Bishop would be nominees in the applicable categories. On the flip side, it was really hard to make choices in the drama categories. I could have made things easier by putting Rescue Me in the comedy category, but my guess is that it will be submitted as a drama. |
You can tell which drama and comedy are my favorites. :D
<b>Drama Series:</b> Deadwood Lost The Shield *<i>Six Feet Under</i> 24 Alt: Alias <b>Lead Actor, Drama:</b> Michael Chiklis, The Shield Michael C. Hall, Six Feet Under *<i>Peter Krause, Six Feet Under</i> Ian McShane, Deadwood Keifer Sutherland, 24 Alt: Hugh Laurie, House <b>Lead Actress, Drama:</b> Glenn Close, The Shield *<i>Frances Conroy, Six Feet Under</i> Jennifer Garner, Alias Rachel Griffiths, Six Feet Under Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU Alt: Joely Richardson, Nip/Tuck <b>Supporting Actor, Drama</b> Alan Alda, The West Wing James Cromwell, Six Feet Under Freddy Rodriquez, Six Feet Under *<i>Terry O'Quinn, Lost</i> Richard Schiff, The West Wing Alts: Victor Garber, Alias / John Spencer, The West Wing <b>Supporting Actress, Drama</b> Shoreh Aghdashloo, 24 *<i>Lauren Ambrose, Six Feet Under</i> Yun-Jin Kim, Lost Justina Machado, Six Feet Under Robin Weigert, Deadwood Alt: Famke Janssen, Nip/Tuck ----------------------------------------- <b>Comedy Series</b> *<i>Arrested Development</i> Monk <b>Lead Actor, Comedy</b> *<i>Jason Bateman, Arrested Development</i> Tony Shalhoub, Monk <b>Lead Actress, Comedy</b> *<i>I have NO idea</i> <b>Supporting Actor, Comedy</b> Will Arnett, Arrested Development David Cross, Arrested Development Peter Boyle, Everybody Loves Raymond (the best on that show and the only one without an Emmy) Tony Hale, Arrested Development *<i>Jeffrey Tambor, Arrested Development</i> Alt: Michael Cera, Arrested Development <b>Supporting Actress, Comedy</b> *<i>Jessica Walter, Arrested Development</i> Portia de Rossi, Arrested Development Alia Shawkat, Arrested Development How sad is comedy on tv today? I only have two non-animated comedy series that are "must watch" for me. -ohbfrank- I did not watch Desperate Housewives this season (except for the Pilot). I have to catch up on that over the summer – they showed the pilot last night, so hopefully a lot of the episodes will be shown over the summer. |
Is Boston Legal really in the Comedy category? That is odd.
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You're missing the Latin Snake and Alfonso Gomez (The Contender) in the reality personality category. That's not a real category, is it?
Nice to see Daniel Dae Kim on there and Evangeline Lilly NOT on there. I hope The Office gets some nominations. |
Best Reality/Sports Personality-Amber Brkich :D
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Originally Posted by kvrdave
Is Boston Legal really in the Comedy category? That is odd.
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As does Triple_S.
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Originally Posted by kvrdave
As does Triple_S.
Originally Posted by conscience
Basing the nods on last year, it isn't. But I guess since it is personal nods, Red Dog and Triple_S personally thinks it's a comedy?
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I have a feeling it'll never happen, but they really need to add a dramedy category. For the people that complain about the lack of good comedy on TV, it's still there; it's just in hour-long shows now.
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Originally Posted by nny
I have a feeling it'll never happen, but they really need to add a dramedy category. For the people that complain about the lack of good comedy on TV, it's still there; it's just in hour-long shows now.
Then maybe Gilmore Girls,and in particular Lauren Graham, would finally get nominated for something major. |
Best Drama:
Rescue Me Deadwood Lost House Nip/Tuck Best Comedy: Scrubs Boston Legal Desperate Housewives Arrested Development Entourage Best Actor in a Drama: Dennis Franz Dennis Leary Ian McShane Hugh Laurie Julian McMahon Matt Long Best Actor in a Comedy: Zack Braff Donald Faison James Spader Jason Bateman Kevin Connolly Best Actress in a Drama: Emily Van Camp Joely Richardson Lauren Graham Maura Tierney Kristen Bell Best Actress in a Comedy: Sarah Chalke Candice Bergen Felicity Huffman Marcia Cross Best Supporting Actor in a Drama: Tom Amandes Victor Garber Terry O'Quinn Brad Dourif Goran Visnjic Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy: William Shatner John C. McGinley Will Arnett Jeremy Piven Ken Jenkins Best Supporting Actress in a Drama: Kelly Bishop Merrilyn Gann Yunjin Kim Molly Parker Paula Malcolmson Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy: Judy Reyes Christa Miller Lawrence Jessica Walter Portia De Rossi Eva Longoria |
Expect the cast of Raymond to sweep the comedy categories.
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Originally Posted by kvrdave
Is Boston Legal really in the Comedy category? That is odd.
It is clearly a comedy for me, no question. Don't know what genre the producers will submit contenders in. |
Originally Posted by conscience
Basing the nods on last year, it isn't.
Boston Legal didn't exist last year. Now if you are basing it on Spader's nomination last year - The Practice was a different show - in substance and tone. Can anyone seriously think BL is a drama before a comedy? I assume DEK is smart enough to place his entries in the comedy categories given the crowded field of dramas. This is what Desperate Housewives did for the Golden Globes and what I assume they will do for the Emmys. |
Originally Posted by MrX
Then maybe Gilmore Girls,and in particular Lauren Graham, would finally get nominated for something major.
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Originally Posted by Red Dog
Boston Legal didn't exist last year. Now if you are basing it on Spader's nomination last year - The Practice was a different show - in substance and tone.
Can anyone seriously think BL is a drama before a comedy? I assume DEK is smart enough to place his entries in the comedy categories given the crowded field of dramas. This is what Desperate Housewives did for the Golden Globes and what I assume they will do for the Emmys. But I just don't see it going into comedy (the Golden Globes even gave it a drama nod for Spader.) I am guessing it is some sort of this dramedy people are speaking of, and that's where the questions begin. I am just basing it on his placement from last year. |
Originally Posted by conscience
I am guessing it is some sort of this dramedy people are speaking of, and that's where the questions begin. I am just basing it on his placement from last year.
I never thought of The Practice as a dramedy. It was always a drama to me. BL, OTOH, is far more comedy than drama, and I think few would disagree. That is why I don't think what category Spader was in last year is all that relevant. I guess we'll have to wait and see what DEK submits it as. Yeah, it was a drama for the Globes, but given the crowded drama field, don't be surprised if DEK calls it a comedy. DEK thought Ally McBeal was a comedy, and BL is more like that than The Practice. |
Originally Posted by Red Dog
I never thought of The Practice as a dramedy. It was always a drama to me. BL, OTOH, is far more comedy than drama, and I think few would disagree. That is why I don't think what category Spader was in last year is all that relevant.
I guess we'll have to wait and see what DEK submits it as. Yeah, it was a drama for the Globes, but given the crowded drama field, don't be surprised if DEK calls it a comedy. DEK thought Ally McBeal was a comedy, and BL is more like that than The Practice. |
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