Emmy Awards/2008
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The awards were presented in two ceremonies, a Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards Ceremony on September 13, 2008 (televised September 20, 2008 on E!) and a Primetime Emmy Awards Ceremony on September 21, 2008 (televised live on ABC).
[edit] Programs
[edit] Outstanding Comedy Series
Nominees:
[edit] Outstanding Drama Series
Nominees:
[edit] Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)
Nominees:
- Creature Comforts America: Don't Choke to Death, Please (CBS)
- King of the Hill: Death Picks Cotton (FOX)
- Robot Chicken: Robot Chicken: Star Wars (ADSM)
- The Simpsons: Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind (FOX)
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Inmates of Summer / Two Faces of Squidward (NICK)
[edit] Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour Or More)
Nominees:
- Family Guy: Blue Harvest (FOX)
- South Park: Imaginationland (CMDY)
- Justice League: The New Frontier (Warner Bros. On Demand)
[edit] Outstanding Made for Television Movie
Nominees:
- Bernard and Doris (HBO
- Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale (HBO)
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter (LIF)
- A Raisin in the Sun (ABC)
- Recount (HBO)
[edit] Outstanding Miniseries
Nominees:
[edit] Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series
Nominees:
- The Colbert Report (CMDY)
- The Daily Show (CMDY)
- Late Show with David Letterman (CBS)
- Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
- Saturday Night Live (NBC)
[edit] Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Special
Nominees:
- Bill Maher: The Decider (HBO)
- George Carlin: It's Bad For Ya! (HBO)
- James Taylor: One Man Band (PBS)
- Kathy Griffin: Straight To Hell (BRAV)
- Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (HBO)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A National Celebration of the Performing Arts (CBS)
[edit] Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
Nominees:
- The Amazing Race (CBS)
- American Idol (FOX)
- Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
- Project Runway (BRAV)
- Top Chef (BRAV)
[edit] Outstanding Reality Program
Nominees:
- Antiques Roadshow (PBS)
- Dirty Jobs (DISC)
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC)
- Intervention (A&E)
- Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List (BRAV)
[edit] Outstanding Non-Fiction Series
Nominees:
- American Masters (PBS)
- Biography (BIO)
- Deadliest Catch (DISC)
- Inside the Actors Studio (BRAV)
- This American Life (SHO)
[edit] Outstanding Non-Fiction Special
Nominees:
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies - 10th Anniversary Edition (CBS)
- Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq (HBO)
- Autism: The Musical (HBO)
- Pioneers of Television: Late Night: Johnny, Jack, Steve, and Merv (PBS)
- The Pixar Story (STRZ)
[edit] Outstanding Special Class Short Form Live Action
Nominees:
- 30 Rock: Kenneth the Web Page (nbc.com)
- Battlestar Galactica: Razor Featurette #4 (scifi.com)
- Friday Night Lights: Spotlight on Austin (nbc.com)
- Lost: Missing Pieces (abc.com)
- Sarah Silverman Progam Nugget (Comedycentral.com)
[edit] Acting and Performance
[edit] Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Nominees:
- Alec Baldwin for 30 Rock (NBC)
- Tony Shalhoub for Monk (USA)
- Steve Carell for The Office (NBC)
- Lee Pace for Pushing Daisies (ABC)
- Charlie Sheen for Two and a Half Men (CBS)
[edit] Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Nominees:
- James Spader for Boston Legal (ABC)
- Bryan Cranston for Breaking Bad (AMC)
- Michael C. Hall for Dexter (SHO)
- Hugh Laurie for House, M.D. (FOX)
- Gabriel Byrne for In Treatment (HBO)
- Jon Hamm for Mad Men (AMC)
[edit] Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Nominees:
- Ralph Fiennes for Bernard and Doris (HBO)
- Ricky Gervais for Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale (HBO)
- Paul Giamatti for John Adams (HBO)
- Kevin Spacey for Recount (HBO)
- Tom Wilkinson for Recount (HBO)
[edit] Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Nominees:
- Tina Fey for 30 Rock (NBC)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus for The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS)
- Christina Applegate for Samantha Who? (ABC)
- America Ferrera for Ugly Betty (ABC)
- Mary-Louise Parker for Weeds (SHO)
[edit] Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Nominees:
- Sally Field for Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
- Kyra Sedgwick for The Closer (TNT)
- Glenn Close for Damages (FX)
- Mariska Hargitay for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC)
- Holly Hunter for Saving Grace (TNT)
[edit] Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Nominees:
- Catherine Keener for An American Crime (SHO)
- Susan Sarandon for Bernard and Doris (HBO)
- Dame Judi Dench for Masterpiece Theatre: Cranford (PBS)
- Laura Linney for John Adams (HBO)
- Phylicia Rashad for A Raisin in the Sun (ABC)
[edit] Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Nominees:
- Jeremy Piven for Entourage (HBO)
- Kevin Dillon for Entourage (HBO)
- Neil Patrick Harris for How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
- Rainn Wilson for The Office (NBC)
- Jon Cryer for Two and a Half Men (CBS)
[edit] Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Nominees:
- William Shatner for Boston Legal (ABC)
- Ted Danson for Damages (FX)
- Zeljko Ivanek for Damages (FX)
- Michael Emerson for Lost (ABC)
- John Slattery for Mad Men (AMC)
[edit] Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Nominees:
- David Morse for John Adams (HBO)
- Stephen Dillane for John Adams (HBO)
- Tom Wilkinson for John Adams (HBO)
- Denis Leary for Recount (HBO)
- Bob Balaban for Recount (HBO)
[edit] Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Nominees:
- Kristin Chenoweth for Pushing Daisies (ABC)
- Jean Smart for Samantha Who? (ABC)
- Amy Poehler for Saturday Night Live (NBC)
- Holland Taylor for Two and a Half Men (CBS)
- Vanessa Williams for Ugly Betty (ABC)
[edit] Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Nominees:
- Candice Bergen for Boston Legal (ABC)
- Rachel Griffiths for Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
- Chandra Wilson for Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
- Sandra Oh for Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
- Dianne Wiest for In Treatment (HBO)
[edit] Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Nominees:
- Eileen Atkins for Masterpiece Theatre: Cranford (PBS)
- Ashley Jensen for Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale (HBO)
- Judy Davis for Pictures of Hollis Woods (CBS)
- Audra McDonald for A Raisin in the Sun (ABC)
- Laura Dern for Recount (HBO)
[edit] Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program
Nominees:
- Jon Stewart for 80th Annual Academy Awards (ABC)
- Stephen Colbert for The Colbert Report (CMDY)
- David Letterman for Late Show with David Letterman (CBS)
- Don Rickles for Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (HBO)
- Tina Fey for Saturday Night Live (NBC)
[edit] Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Nominees:
- Ryan Seacrest for American Idol (FOX)
- Tom Bergeron for Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
- Howie Mandel for Deal or No Deal (NBC)
- Heidi Klum for Project Runway (BRAV)
- Jeff Probst for Survivor (CBS)
[edit] Writing
[edit] Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
- Jack Burditt for 30 Rock, Rosemary's Baby (NBC)
- Tina Fey for 30 Rock, Cooter (NBC)
- James Bobin, Jemaine Clement & Bret McKenzie for Flight of the Conchords, Yoko (HBO)
- Lee Eisenberg & Gene Stupnitsky for The Office, Dinner Party (NBC)
- Bryan Fuller for Pushing Daisies, Pie-lette (ABC)
[edit] Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
- Michael Angeli for Battlestar Galactica, Six of One (SCIF)
- Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler & Daniel Zelman for Damages, Pilot (FX)
- Matthew Weiner for Mad Men, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (AMC)
- Matthew Weiner & Robin Veith for Mad Men, The Wheel (AMC)
- David Simon & Ed Burns for The Wire, -30- (HBO)
