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2010 Emmy Coverage - The Winners!

By: Aug. 29, 2010
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The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards is airing live coast to coast tonight, on August 29 (8-11 p.m. EST) on NBC, originating from the Nokia Theatre L.A. in Los Angeles. The awards are being produced by Don Mischer and hosted by Jimmy Fallon

Amongst the nominations are Broadway vets Lea Michele and Matt Morrison for Best Actress and Actor in a Comedy and GLEE for Best Comedy Series. GLEE received a total of 19 noms including for guest stars Kristin Chenoweth, Neil Patrick Harris (who won at the creative arts awards ceremony) and Mike O'Malley.

Other theatre stars receiving nods included Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Hope Davis, Dame Judi Dench, Chris Colfer, Patrick Stewart, Michael Emerson, Dame Maggie Smith, Glenn Close, Al Pacino, Michael Sheen, Sir Ian McKellen, Michael C. Hall, Alec Baldwin, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Tony Shalhoub, Edie Falco, Martin Short, John Lithgow, Robert Morse, Eli Wallach, Alan Cumming, Christine Baranski, Lily Tomlin and more.

Click here for the complete list of Emmy Nominations and stay tuned to BroadwayWorld.com tonight for complete coverage. 

OUTSTANDING DRAMA
Lost
Breaking Bad
Dexter
Mad Men ***(WINNER)
True Blood
The Good Wife

OUTSTANDING COMEDY
Glee
Modern Family***(WINNER)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Nurse Jackie
30 Rock
The Office
Curb Your Enthusiasm

OUTSTANDING MINISERIES
The Pacific ***(WINNER)
Return to Cranford

OUTSTANDING MADE FOR TELEVISION MOVIE
Endgame
Moonshot
Georgia O'Keeffe
Temple Grandin ***(WINNER)
You Don't Know Jack
The Special Relationship

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
Steve Shill (Dexter) ***(WINNER)
Lesli Linka Glatter (Mad Men)
Michelle MacLaren (Breaking Bad)
Jack Bender (Lost)
Agnieszka Holland (Treme)

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA

Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife)
Mariska Hargitay (Special Victims Unit)
Glenn Close (Damages)
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) ***(WINNER)
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) ***(WINNER)
Hugh Laurie (House M.D.)
Michael C. Hall (Dexter)
Matthew Fox (Lost)

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) ***(WINNER)
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) ***(WINNER)
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) ***(WINNER)
Ty Burrell (Modern Family)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Jane Lynch (Glee) ***(WINNER)
Jane Krakowski (30 Rock)
Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live)
Sofia Vergara (Modern Family)
Julie Bowen (Modern Family)
Holland Taylor (Evelyn Harper)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
John Slattery (Mad Men)
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) ***(WINNER)
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) ***(WINNER)
Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men)

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
Michelle King and Robert King (The Good Wife)
Rolin Jones (Friday Night Lights)
Robin Veith and Matthew Weiner (Mad Men)
Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse (Lost)
Matthew Weiner and Erin Levy (Mad Men) ***(WINNER)

OUTSTANDING WRITING IN A COMEDY SERIES
Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd (Modern Family) ***(WINNER)
Matt Hubbard (30 Rock)
Greg Daniels and Mindy Kaling (The Office)
Tina Fey and Kay Cannon (30 Rock)
Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan (Glee)

OUTSTANDING REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM
Top Chef ***(WINNER)
American Idol
Amazing Race
Dancing with the Stars
Project Runway

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
Allen Coulter (Glee)
Don Scardino (30 Rock)
Ryan Murphy (Glee) ***(WINNER)
Paris Barclay (Glee)
Jason Winer (Modern Family)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SPECIAL
Joel Gallen (The 25th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert)
Glenn Weiss (63rd Annual Tony Awards)
Ron de Moraes (In Performance at the White House: A Celebration Of Music from the Civil Rights Movement)
Bucky Gunts (Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony) ***(WINTER)
Louis J. Horvitz (The Kennedy Center Honors)

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SPECIAL
Bill Maher...But I'm Not Wrong
 63rd Annual Tony Awards ***(WINNER)
Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me
The Kennedy Center Honors
82nd Annual Academy Awards

OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SERIES
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart ***(WINER)
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Claire Danes (Temple Grandin) ***(WINNER)
Hope Davis (The Special Relationship)
Dame Judi Dench (Return to Cranford)
Joan Allen (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Maggie Smith (Capturing Mary)

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Sir Ian McKellen (The Prisoner)
Dennis Quaid (The Special Relationship)
Jeff Bridges (A Dog Year)
Al Pacino (You Don't Know Jack) ***(WINNER)
Michael Sheen (The Special Relationship)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
David Nutter (The Pacific) ***(WINNER)
Barry Levinson (You Don't Know Jack)
Tim Van Patten (The Pacific)
Bob Balaban (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Mick Jackson (Temple Grandin)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Julia Ormond (Temple Grandin) ***(WINNER)
Susan Sarandon (You Don't Know Jack)
Catherine O'Hara (Temple Grandin)
Kathy Bates (Alice)
Brenda Vaccaro (You Don't Know Jack)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
David Strathairn (Temple Grandin) ***(WINNER)
Patrick Stewart (Hamlet- Great Performances)
Michael Gambon (Emma- Masterpiece)
John Goodman (You Don't Know Jack)
Jonathan Pryce (Return to Cranford)

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE, OR DRAMATIC SPECIAL
Adam Mazer (You Don't Know Jack) ***(WINNER)
Christopher Monger and William Merritt Johnson (Temple Grandin)
Robert Schenkkan and Michelle Ashford (The Pacific)
Peter Morgan (The Special Relationship)
Bruce C. McKenna and Robert Schenkkan (The Pacific)

Click here for the complete list of Emmy Nominations!




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