First, the Winners:
Outstanding Drama Series: Mad Men
Outstanding Comedy Series: 30 Rock
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Glenn Close - Damages
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Toni Collette - United States of Tara
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Michael Emerson - Lost
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Jon Cryer - Two and a Half Men
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Cherry Jones - 24
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Kristin Chenoweth - Pushing Daisies
Outstanding Reality Competition Program: The Amazing Race
Outstanding Reality Program: Intervention
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program: Jeff Probst - Survivor
Outstanding Miniseries: Little Dorrit
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie: Brendan Gleeson - Into the Storm
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie: Jessica Lange - Grey Gardens
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie: Ken Howard - Grey Gardens
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie: Shohreh Aghdashloo - House of Saddam
Outstanding Made for Television Movie: Grey Gardens
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special: The Kennedy Center Honors
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series: Rod Holcomb, "And in the End" - ER
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series: "Meditations in an Emergency" - Mad Men
Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series: Jeff Blitz, "Stress Relief" - The Office
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series: "Reunion" - 30 Rock
Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Dearbhla Walsh - Little Dorrit (Part 1)
Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Little Dorrit
Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series: Bruce Gowers, "Show 833" (The Final Three) - American Idol
Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special: Bucky Gunts - Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony
Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special: Chris Rock - Kill The Messenger
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series: Michael J. Fox - Rescue Me
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series: Justin Timberlake - Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series: Ellen Burstyn - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series: Tina Fey - Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Special Class Program: Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony
And now for something completely different:
The Best:
- Neil Patrick Harris did a wonderful job hosting, from the opening song all the way through each little tease/remark. He looks particularly good after the disaster that was last year's Emmys.
- Sarah Silverman's fake moustache during the read-off of nominees for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. How she kept a straight face, I'll never know. Making it even funnier was the fact that before Justin Timberlake started listing the nominees, he mentioned how funny women were really sexy.
- Repeats in the top honors by Mad Men and 30 Rock.
- The show only ran overtime by 5 minutes, which is mind-blowing as far as award shows go.
- Ricky Gervais' rant about TV people being less attractive than big Hollywood movie stars. This man needs to host eventually.
- Jimmy Fallon floundering around stage with an Auto-Tuned microphone. That one moment is funnier than anything he's ever done on his talk show.
- Tina Fey and Justin Timberlake winning for Guest Actress/Actor in a Comedy Series. I'm thrilled for Timberlake, who was surprisingly hilarious when he hosted SNL.
- Shohreh Agdashloo and Brendan Gleeson winning Emmys in the Miniseries categories. No, I haven't seen either performance or the competition, but Shoreh Agdashloo and Brendan Gleeson are all sorts of awesome, so I don't really care.
- Christina Hendricks was there. End of story.
The In Between:
- Kristen Chenoweth beats out Kristen Wiig, Jane Krakowski, and Amy Poehler for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. I don't have any problems with Chenoweth's work on Pushing Daisies, but I would have been happier to see one of the other three get it (especially Wiig).
- The Amazing Race takes home ANOTHER Emmy for Best Reality Competition Program. Project Runway, anybody?
- Toni Collette wins Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Collette's done some great work on United States of Tara, but my heart belongs to Tina Fey, who just keeps topping herself in every consecutive season of 30 Rock.
- Once again, The Colbert Report loses to The Daily Show. *sigh*
The Bad:
- John Cryer wins Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for 2 and a Half Men. Any of the other nominees would have been leagues better, especially 30 Rock's Jack McBrayer, who is a constant scene stealer as NBC page Kenneth Parcell ("Science was always my favorite subject in high school...especially the Old Testament!").
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