Awards

The Creative Arts Emmy Awards, bestowed in the categories Emmy has deemed not sexy enough for the big broadcast, were handed out tonight. It’ll have its own show on 8/24 on FXM if you’re interested. In the mean time here’s a complete list of winners:

Guest Actress In A Comedy Series: Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black

Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program: Jane Lynch, Hollywood Game Night

Unstructured Reality Program: Deadliest Catch

Structured Reality Program: Shark Tank

Variety Special: AFI Life Achievement Award, A Tribute to Mel Brooks

Writing For A Variety Series: The Colbert Report

Directing For A Variety Series: Saturday Night Live

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Clarence Moye: So, one day last week, some friends and I were having a conversation over sushi when my cell phone rang. Naturally, being obsessed with HBO’s Game of Thrones, my ring tone blasted the music that plays over the opening credits. I need not defend my choice as all of my friends are equally obsessed with the show and praised not only the music but also the imaginative opening credits, a kind of time-lapsed Legos on steroids. This conversation started me thinking about opening credits in general, and, especially appropriate given the Emmy season in play, was there even an opening credit category.

Turns out, there is. Here are this year’s nominees:

• Black Sails (Starz)
• COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey (FOX/NatGeo)
• Masters of Sex (Showtime)
• Silicon Valley (HBO)
• True Detective (HBO)

I did a little more digging and discovered that, yes indeed, Game of Thrones won the Emmy for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2011. It’s stiffest competition was really sister show Boardwalk Empire for its rock-themed liquor bottles washing onto the Jersey shore.

Of this year’s crop, though, I have to say, as much as I love Masters of Sex, I really hate the opening credits.

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Individual Achievement in Drama: Matthew McConaughey (“True Detective,” HBO)

Individual Achievement in Comedy: Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Veep,” HBO)

Outstanding Achievement in News and Information: “COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey” (FOX and National Geographic Channel)

Outstanding Achievement in Reality Programming: “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (LOGO)

Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming: “The Fosters” (ABC Family)

Outstanding New Program: “Orange Is the New Black” (Netflix)

Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Specials: “True Detective” (HBO)

Outstanding Achievement in Drama:  “The Good Wife” (CBS)

Outstanding Achievement in Comedy:  (Tie) “Veep” (HBO) and “Louie” (FX)

Career Achievement Award:  James Burrows

Heritage Award:  “Saturday Night Live” (NBC)

Program of the Year:  “Breaking Bad” (AMC)

It’s taken me a few hours to form any kind of reaction to today’s announcement of the 66th annual Primetime Emmy nominations. The nominations were neither incredibly perfect in their selections nor particularly surprising in their disappointments. Given the incredible level of quality on television today, there simply aren’t enough slots to go around and recognize everything that deserves it. Somebody has to go empty-handed.

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Game of Thrones leads with 19 nominations, followed by Fargo with 18, American Horror Story: Coven with 17, The Normal Heart with 16 — and Breaking Bad with 16 nods for its final season.

Outstanding Drama Series
“Breaking Bad”
“Downton Abbey”
“Game of Thrones”
“House of Cards”
“Mad Men”
“True Detective”

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Editor’s Note: Last but not least in Awards Daily TV’s Emmy Nominationpalooza, here are Megan McLachlan and Joey Moser’s predictions. They even predicted the guest categories! When you’re done here, be sure to check out my and Clarence’s predictions in Drama, Comedy, Movie/Miniseries and Reality/Variety/Animation. When all the crying is finished tomorrow, maybe we’ll tally things up, decide who got the most right and proclaim them Lord God Emperor of the Emmys. Or maybe we’ll all just go out for Scotch and pancakes.  Either way, read on for Megan and Joey’s picks!

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And here’s the fourth and final hunk of Emmy predictions from Clarence and me. Check out the comedy picks here, the movie/miniseries picks here and the variety/reality/animation picks here and don’t forget our very own McLachlan and Moser who made their picks here.

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Here’s part 3 of my and Clarence’s look at tomorrow’s Emmy nominations. Check out our movie/miniseries picks here, the variety/reality/animation picks here, the drama picks here and last but not least, Megan and Joey’s picks here.

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In case you’re just joining us, Clarence and I are in the middle of predicting tomorrow’s Emmy nominations. As soon as I sat down to make my own predictions, I instantly regretted suggesting we tackle the reality categories. But…. here we are. Check out our movie/miniseries predictions here, comedy predictions here, drama predictions here and of course complete predictions from Joey and Megan here.

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