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The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 18, 2005, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an eleven-time Emmy Award-winning United States Stand-up comedy, television hostess and actress. She hosts the award winning Television syndication talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show....
. The 2005 Primetime Emmy Award
Primetime Emmy Award

The Primetime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in United States primetime television programming....
s show was broadcast on CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
.

The show, which aired three weeks after Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest Atlantic hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest, in the history of the United States....
 hit, featured a mini-telethon for Habitat for Humanity and gave DeGeneres more opportunity to use the show to somberly remember the victims of the Gulf Coast
Gulf Coast of the United States

The Gulf Coast region of the United States comprises the coasts of states which border the Gulf of Mexico. The states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are known as the Gulf States....
. Opening the show was the famous 1970's band Earth Wind & Fire with a comedic version of "September", in collaboration with the Black Eyed Peas.






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The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 18, 2005, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an eleven-time Emmy Award-winning United States Stand-up comedy, television hostess and actress. She hosts the award winning Television syndication talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show....
. The 2005 Primetime Emmy Award
Primetime Emmy Award

The Primetime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in United States primetime television programming....
s show was broadcast on CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
.

The show, which aired three weeks after Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest Atlantic hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest, in the history of the United States....
 hit, featured a mini-telethon for Habitat for Humanity and gave DeGeneres more opportunity to use the show to somberly remember the victims of the Gulf Coast
Gulf Coast of the United States

The Gulf Coast region of the United States comprises the coasts of states which border the Gulf of Mexico. The states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are known as the Gulf States....
. Opening the show was the famous 1970's band Earth Wind & Fire with a comedic version of "September", in collaboration with the Black Eyed Peas. The show featured tributes to ABC-TV anchor Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings

Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, Order of Canada was a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer....
 (who died seven weeks earlier) presented by rival anchors Dan Rather
Dan Rather

Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is a journalist and former news presenter for the CBS Evening News and is now managing editor and anchor of a television news magazine, Dan Rather Reports, on the cable channel HDNet....
 and Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw

Thomas John "Tom" Brokaw is an American television journalist and author. Brokaw is best known as the former anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News....
 and to talk show host Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson

John William ?Johnny? Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years....
 (who died in January 2005) by close friend and Late Show
Late Show with David Letterman

The Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night television talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS. The show debuted on August 30, 1993, and is produced by Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants Incorporated....
 host David Letterman
David Letterman

David Michael Letterman is an United States comedian, known for hosting the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS since 1993. Letterman's Irony, often Surreal humour comedy is heavily influenced by former The Tonight Show hosts Steve Allen, Johnny Carson and Jack Paar....
. Also, the show featured Emmy Idol, five segments in which famous TV stars performed popular TV theme songs in a format like American Idol
American Idol

American Idol is an Television in the United States Singing airing on Fox network. It debuted on June 11, 2002, and has since become one of the most popular shows on American television....
.

The following is a partial list of nominees, with winners in bold:

Outstanding Comedy Series

  • Arrested Development, FOX
    Fox Broadcasting Company

    The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
  • Desperate Housewives
    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
    , ABC
  • Everybody Loves Raymond
    Everybody Loves Raymond

    Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005....
    , CBS
    CBS

    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
  • Scrubs, NBC
  • Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....
    , NBC


Outstanding Drama Series

  • Deadwood
    Deadwood (TV series)

    Deadwood is an United States Western –drama television series created, produced and almost entirely written by David Milch. The series aired on the premium television cable television HBO from 21 March 2004 to 27 August 2006, spanning List of Deadwood episodes....
    , HBO
  • Lost
    Lost (TV series)

    Lost is an American Serial television program. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Flight 815 flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the Oceania....
    , ABC
  • Six Feet Under, HBO
  • 24
    24 (TV series)

    24 is an United States serial action drama television series. Broadcast by Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes ....
    , FOX
    Fox Broadcasting Company

    The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
  • The West Wing
    The West Wing (TV series)

    The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2006. It was produced/written by Sorkin and also produced by Thomas Schlamme....
    , NBC


Outstanding Mini-Series

  • The 4400
    The 4400

    The 4400 is a science fiction TV series produced by CBS Paramount Network Television in association with British Sky Broadcasting, Renegade 83 and American Zoetrope for USA Network....
    , USA
    USA Network

    USA Network is an United States cable television channel launched in 1977. The channel shows a variety of original and second-run programming, from syndicated TV series to edited Film....
  • Elvis, CBS
    CBS

    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
  • Empire Falls, HBO
    Home Box Office

    HBO is a premium television programming subsidiary of Time Warner. It offers two 24-hour pay television services to over 38 million U.S. subscribers....
  • The Lost Prince
    The Lost Prince

    The Lost Prince is an acclaimed United Kingdom television drama, produced by Talkback Thames for the BBC and originally broadcast in two episodes on BBC One in January 2003....
    , PBS
    Public Broadcasting Service

    The Public Broadcasting Service is an United States non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States....


Outstanding Made for Television Movie

  • The Office
    The Office (UK TV series)

    The Office is a British Academy Television Awards, Golden Globe Award winning and Emmy-nominated United Kingdom television program comedy that first aired in the UK on BBC Two on 9 July 2001....
    , BBC
  • Lackawanna Blues
    Lackawanna Blues

    Lackawanna Blues is an United States play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson in 2001. It was later made into a television movie that aired in 2005....
    , HBO
    Home Box Office

    HBO is a premium television programming subsidiary of Time Warner. It offers two 24-hour pay television services to over 38 million U.S. subscribers....
  • The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 in film about the life of British comic actor Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers ....
    , HBO
    Home Box Office

    HBO is a premium television programming subsidiary of Time Warner. It offers two 24-hour pay television services to over 38 million U.S. subscribers....
  • Warm Springs
    Warm Springs (film)

    Warm Springs is a 2005 television movie about American President Franklin D. Roosevelt's struggle with polio, his discovery of the Warm Springs, Georgia spa town resort and his work to turn it into a center for the aid of polio victims, and his resumption of his political career....
    , HBO
    Home Box Office

    HBO is a premium television programming subsidiary of Time Warner. It offers two 24-hour pay television services to over 38 million U.S. subscribers....
  • The Wool Cap
    The Wool Cap

    The Wool Cap is a 2004 United States cable television television movie, an updated and Americanized version of the 1962 feature film Gigot starring Jackie Gleason, who wrote the original story....
    , TNT
    Turner Network Television

    TNT is an United States Cable television network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner....


Outstanding Reality-Competition Program

  • The Amazing Race 6
    The Amazing Race 6

    The Amazing Race 6 was the sixth installment of the reality television television program The Amazing Race. It premiered on November 16, 2004, and concluded on February 8, 2005....
    , CBS
    CBS

    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
  • American Idol
    American Idol

    American Idol is an Television in the United States Singing airing on Fox network. It debuted on June 11, 2002, and has since become one of the most popular shows on American television....
    , FOX
    Fox Broadcasting Company

    The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
  • The Apprentice
    The Apprentice (U.S. TV series)

    The Apprentice is an Television in the United States reality television hosted by Donald Trump, created by Mark Burnett and broadcast on NBC....
    , NBC
  • Project Runway
    Project Runway

    Project Runway is a Peabody Award-winning American reality television series on the Bravo which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum....
    , Bravo
    Bravo (television network)

    Bravo is a cable television network owned by NBC Universal. It is currently seen in more than 80 million homes and was the first service dedicated to film, drama, and the performing arts when it launched by Cablevision as an advertisement-free network in December 1980....
  • Survivor: Palau
    Survivor: Palau

    Survivor: Palau was the tenth season of the United States reality show Survivor . A preview of it was shown on the reunion of Survivor: Vanuatu....
    , CBS
    CBS

    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....


Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series

  • Da Ali G Show
    Da Ali G Show

    Da Ali G Show is the name of two related Satire TV series starring Great Britain comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and featuring the character Ali G....
    , HBO
  • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Comedy Central
    Comedy Central

    Comedy Central is an United States cable television and satellite television channel that carries predominantly comedy programming, both original and broadcast syndication....
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien
    Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    Late Night with Conan O'Brien was an United States late night television talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC from 1993 to 2009....
    , NBC
  • The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
    CBS

    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
  • Real Time with Bill Maher
    Real Time with Bill Maher

    Real Time with Bill Maher is a talk show that airs weekly on Home Box Office, hosted by stand-up comedy and political satire Bill Maher. Much like his previous show, Politically Incorrect on American Broadcasting Company , Real Time features a panel of guests that discuss current events in politics and the media....
    , HBO


Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

  • Hank Azaria
    Hank Azaria

    Hank Albert Azaria is an United States film and television actor, Film director, comedian and voice artist. He is noted for his long-running career as one of the principal voice actors on the animated television series The Simpsons....
     for playing Craig Huffstodt on Huff
    Huff (TV series)

    Huff was an United States, Emmy Award-winning television dramedy series produced by Sony Pictures Television for Showtime. The series was created by Bob Lowry and features Hank Azaria as Dr....
  • Hugh Laurie
    Hugh Laurie

    James Hugh Calum Laurie, Order of the British Empire is an English actor, comedian, writer and musician. He first reached fame as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner, Stephen Fry, and then as a cast member of Blackadder....
     for playing Gregory House
    Gregory House

    Gregory House, Doctor of Medicine, is a fictional character and protagonist of the United States medical drama House . Portrayed by Hugh Laurie, the character is a wiktionary:maverick medical genius who heads a team of diagnosis at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital....
     on House, M.D.
    House (TV series)

    House, also known as House, M.D., is an American medical drama that debuted on the Fox Broadcasting Company network on November 16, 2004....
  • Ian McShane
    Ian McShane

    Ian McShane is a Golden Globe-winning England actor. Although he has starred in a number of films, it is by his television roles that he is generally best known, particularly in the HBO Western drama Deadwood ; and will also appear in the upcoming NBC series Kings ....
     for playing Al Swearengen
    Al Swearengen

    Ellis Albert Swearengen, known as Al Swearengen, was a pimp and early entertainment entrepreneur in Deadwood, South Dakota, running the Gem Theater, a notorious brothel, for 22 years, and combining a reputation for brutality with an uncanny instinct for forging political alliances....
     on Deadwood
    Deadwood (TV series)

    Deadwood is an United States Western –drama television series created, produced and almost entirely written by David Milch. The series aired on the premium television cable television HBO from 21 March 2004 to 27 August 2006, spanning List of Deadwood episodes....
  • James Spader
    James Spader

    James Todd Spader is a three time Emmy Award-winning and Satellite Award-winning American actor. He is perhaps best known for his eccentric roles in film such as Pretty in Pink; Sex, Lies, and Videotape; Crash ; Stargate ; and Secretary ; as well as his portrayal of the colorful attorney Alan Shore on the television serie...
     for playing Alan Shore
    Alan Shore

    Alan Shore is a fictional character on the television series Boston Legal, played by James Spader. The character first appeared in the final season of The Practice....
     on Boston Legal
    Boston Legal

    Boston Legal is an American legal drama-comedy created by David E. Kelley, which originally ran on American Broadcasting Company from October 3, 2004 to December 8, 2008....
  • Kiefer Sutherland
    Kiefer Sutherland

    Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland is a Canadian actor, well-known for his lead role of Jack Bauer on the FOX Broadcasting Company thriller drama series 24 ....
     for playing Jack Bauer
    Jack Bauer

    Jack Bauer is the protagonist and anti-hero of the United States television series 24 , in which he has trained and worked in various capacities as a government agent, including US Army Delta Force, LAPD SWAT, CIA, and finally the 24 #Counter Terrorist Unit Los Angeles....
     on 24


Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

  • Jason Bateman
    Jason Bateman

    Jason Kent Bateman is a Golden Globe-winning and Emmy Award-nominated United States actor. After starring in several 1980s sitcoms, Bateman became known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development ....
     for playing Michael Bluth on Arrested Development
  • Zach Braff
    Zach Braff

    Zachary "Zach" Israel Braff is an United Statesn actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. During the 2000s, he became known for his role as J.D....
     for playing Dr. John "J.D." Dorian
    John Dorian

    Jonathan Michael "J.D." Dorian, Doctor of Medicine, is a fictional character on the American comedy-drama Scrubs , played by Zach Braff. For his portrayal of the doctor, Braff was nominated for a 2005 Emmy Award and received three consecutive Golden Globe nominations in 2005, 2006 and 2007....
     on Scrubs
  • Eric McCormack
    Eric McCormack

    Eric James McCormack is an Emmy Award-winning Canada-United States actor, musician, television producer and writer. He is best known for his role as Will Truman in the USA sitcom Will & Grace....
     for playing Will Truman
    Will Truman

    William "Will" Truman is a fictional character on the United States sitcom Will & Grace, portrayed by Eric McCormack. He is a gay lawyer living in New York City with his best friend, Grace Adler....
     on Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....
  • Ray Romano
    Ray Romano

    Raymond Albert "Ray" Romano is an United States actor, writer and stand-up comedian, best known for his role in the long running sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond....
     for playing Ray Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond
    Everybody Loves Raymond

    Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005....
  • Tony Shalhoub
    Tony Shalhoub

    Anthony Marcus ?Tony? Shalhoub is a three-time Emmy Award, two-time Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Awards winning United States actor, best known as star of the detective-drama Monk ....
     for playing Adrian Monk
    Adrian Monk

    Adrian Monk is the fictional character protagonist of the USA Network television series Monk . Tony Shalhoub portrays the character, who is sometimes referred to as Mr....
     on Monk
    Monk (TV series)

    Monk is an Television in the United States comedy-drama Television program created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the main character....


Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie

  • Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
    Jonathan Rhys-Meyers

    Jonathan Rhys Meyers is an Ireland actor and Model , best known internationally for his role in the 1998 film Velvet Goldmine. In the USA he is probably best known for his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries Elvis and as Henry VIII of England in historical drama The Tudors....
     for playing Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
     in Elvis
  • Ed Harris
    Ed Harris

    'Edward Allen "Ed" Harris' is an United States actor, film writer and film director, known for his performances in Appaloosa , Radio , The Rock , The Right Stuff , Enemy at the Gates, The Abyss, Glengarry Glen Ross , Apollo 13 , Pollock , A Beautiful Mind, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and Th...
     for playing Miles Roby in Empire Falls
  • Geoffrey Rush
    Geoffrey Rush

    Geoffrey Roy Rush is an Australian actor. He moved to Melbourne in the early 1990s via Brisbane and Sydney and currently lives in the suburb of Camberwell, Victoria....
     for playing Peter Sellers
    Peter Sellers

    'Richard Henry Sellers', Order of British Empire, commonly known as 'Peter Sellers' was a United Kingdom comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr....
     in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 in film about the life of British comic actor Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers ....
  • Kenneth Branagh
    Kenneth Branagh

    Kenneth Charles Branagh is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated actor and film director from Northern Ireland....
     for playing Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Warm Springs
    Warm Springs (film)

    Warm Springs is a 2005 television movie about American President Franklin D. Roosevelt's struggle with polio, his discovery of the Warm Springs, Georgia spa town resort and his work to turn it into a center for the aid of polio victims, and his resumption of his political career....
  • William H. Macy
    William H. Macy

    William Hall Macy, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated, double Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor. He is also a teacher and director in theater, film and television....
     for playing Gigot in The Wool Cap
    The Wool Cap

    The Wool Cap is a 2004 United States cable television television movie, an updated and Americanized version of the 1962 feature film Gigot starring Jackie Gleason, who wrote the original story....


Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

  • Patricia Arquette
    Patricia Arquette

    Patricia T. Arquette is an United Statesn actor, currently starring in the supernatural drama Medium ....
     for playing Allison DuBois
    Allison DuBois

    Allison DuBois is an American author and professed Mediumship. DuBois has claimed she uses her psychic abilities to help law enforcement agencies across the United States solve crimes, which formed the basis of the TV show Medium ....
     on Medium
    Medium (TV series)

    Medium is an American supernatural and dramatic television series which premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005. The series is about Allison DuBois who acts as a research medium for the Phoenix, Arizona, district attorney's office....
  • Glenn Close
    Glenn Close

    Glenn Close is an United States actress and singer of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction ....
     for playing Monica Rawling
    Monica Rawling

    Captain Monica Rawling is a fictional character from the FX television show The Shield, played by Glenn Close, who received an Emmy Award nomination of Best Actress in a drama for her performance....
     on The Shield
    The Shield

    The Shield was an United States drama television series which aired on FX in the U.S. and other networks internationally. Known for its controversial portrayal of corrupt police officers, it was originally advertised as "Rampart, Los Angeles, California" in reference to the true life Rampart Scandal, which the show's Strike Team was loos...
  • Frances Conroy
    Frances Conroy

    Frances Conroy is an Emmy Awards-nominated, Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning American actress....
     for playing Ruth Fisher on Six Feet Under
  • Jennifer Garner
    Jennifer Garner

    'Jennifer Anne Garner Affleck' is an United States actor. She is best known for her role as CIA agent Sydney Bristow on TV's Alias , as well as for her roles in the films Juno , Pearl Harbor , Dude, Where's My Car?, 13 Going on 30, Catch Me if You Can, Daredevil , Elektra , Catch and Release , and The King...
     for playing Sydney Bristow
    Sydney Bristow

    Sydney Anne Bristow , played by Jennifer Garner, is the main fictional character on the television program Alias .Sydney is depicted in the series as being strong both physically and emotionally....
     on Alias
    Alias (TV series)

    Alias is an United States action movie Television program created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on American Broadcasting Company for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006....
  • Mariska Hargitay
    Mariska Hargitay

    Mariska Magdolna Hargitay is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award- winning United States actress, best known for her role as Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit....
     for playing Olivia Benson
    Olivia Benson

    Detective Olivia Benson is a fictional character on the TV drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portrayed by Mariska Hargitay....
     on Law & Order: SVU


Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

  • Marcia Cross
    Marcia Cross

    Marcia Anne Cross is an Emmy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated American actress, currently starring as Bree Van de Kamp on the hit TV show Desperate Housewives....
     for playing Bree Hodge on Desperate Housewives
    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
  • Teri Hatcher
    Teri Hatcher

    Teri Lynn Hatcher is an United States actress. She portrayed Lois Lane in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman....
     for playing Susan Mayer Delfino on Desperate Housewives
    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
  • Patricia Heaton
    Patricia Heaton

    Patricia Helen Heaton is a two-time Emmy Award-winning United States actress best known for playing lead character and Ray Barone's wife Debra Barone on the CBS television sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond....
     for playing Debra Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond
    Everybody Loves Raymond

    Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005....
  • Felicity Huffman
    Felicity Huffman

    Felicity Kendall Huffman is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She is known for her role as Lynette Scavo, the hectic busy Super-Mom on the American Broadcasting Company hit show Desperate Housewives, which earned her an Emmy Award....
     for playing Lynette Scavo
    Lynette Scavo

    Lynette Scavo is a fictional character on the American Broadcasting Company television series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by actress Felicity Huffman, who won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the role in 2005....
     on Desperate Housewives
    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
  • Jane Kaczmarek
    Jane Kaczmarek

    Jane Frances Kaczmarek is an United States Actor. She is best known for playing the character of Lois Wilkerson on the television series Malcolm in the Middle....
     for playing Lois Wilkerson on Malcolm in the Middle
    Malcolm in the Middle

    Malcolm in the Middle is an United States sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series Premiere on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons....


Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

  • Blythe Danner
    Blythe Danner

    Blythe Katharine Danner is an United States Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow....
     for playing Rebecca Holmes Davitch in Back When We Were Grownups
    Back When We Were Grownups

    Back When We Were Grownups is a 2001 novel written by Anne Tyler in memory of her husband, who died in 1997.Tyler's 15th novel, set in Baltimore, Maryland like most of her work, opens with the sentence, "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person." The woman in question is Rebecca Davitch, a...
  • Debra Winger
    Debra Winger

    Debra Winger is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
     for playing Dawn Anna Townsend in Dawn Anna
    Dawn Anna

    Dawn Anna is a television movie that premiered on Lifetime Television in 2005 that is based on real events....
  • S. Epatha Merkerson
    S. Epatha Merkerson

    S. Epatha Merkerson is an United States Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild-, NAACP Image Award- and Emmy Award-winning actress. She has also received two Tony Award nominations....
     for playing Rachel Crosby in Lackawanna Blues
    Lackawanna Blues

    Lackawanna Blues is an United States play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson in 2001. It was later made into a television movie that aired in 2005....
  • Halle Berry
    Halle Berry

    Halle Berry is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2009, only woman of African-American descent to have won the a...
     for playing Janie Starks in Their Eyes Were Watching God
    Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005 television)

    Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 2005 television movie based upon Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God of the same name. The film was directed by Darnell Martin and produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions ....
  • Cynthia Nixon
    Cynthia Nixon

    Cynthia Ellen Nixon is a Tony Award-, two-time Emmy Award- and Grammy Award-winning United States actor, known for her portrayal of lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the popular Home Box Office series Sex and the City ....
     for playing Eleanor Roosevelt
    Eleanor Roosevelt

    Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D....
     in Warm Springs
    Warm Springs (film)

    Warm Springs is a 2005 television movie about American President Franklin D. Roosevelt's struggle with polio, his discovery of the Warm Springs, Georgia spa town resort and his work to turn it into a center for the aid of polio victims, and his resumption of his political career....


Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

  • Alan Alda
    Alan Alda

    Alan Alda is an Academy Award nominated, Emmy award-winning United States actor, television director and screenwriter. He is well known for his role as "Hawkeye Pierce" in the television series M*A*S*H ....
     for playing Arnold Vinick
    Arnold Vinick

    Arnold Vinick is a fictional character on the television series The West Wing played by Alan Alda....
     on The West Wing
  • Naveen Andrews
    Naveen Andrews

    Naveen William Sidney Andrews is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated British actor. He is known for his roles in Grindhouse and the television series Lost as Sayid Jarrah....
     for playing Sayid Jarrah
    Sayid Jarrah

    Sayid Hassan Jarrah is a fictional character on the American Broadcasting Company television series Lost , played by Naveen Andrews....
     on Lost
    Lost (TV series)

    Lost is an American Serial television program. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Flight 815 flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the Oceania....
  • Terry O'Quinn
    Terry O'Quinn

    Terrance "Terry" O'Quinn is an Emmy Award-winning United States actor. He made his debut in a 1980 TV Movie called F.D.R.: The Last Year, since then O'Quinn has had minor supporting roles in films and tv movies such as All the Right Moves, Silver Bullet, Places in the Heart and Between Two Women....
     for playing John Locke
    John Locke (Lost)

    John Locke is a fictional character on the American Broadcasting Company television series Lost played by Terry O'Quinn. In 2007, O'Quinn won the Emmy award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Drama Series for his portrayal of Locke....
     on Lost
    Lost (TV series)

    Lost is an American Serial television program. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Flight 815 flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the Oceania....
  • Oliver Platt
    Oliver Platt

    Oliver Platt is an Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominated United States stage, film, and television actor....
     for playing Russell Tupper on Huff
    Huff (TV series)

    Huff was an United States, Emmy Award-winning television dramedy series produced by Sony Pictures Television for Showtime. The series was created by Bob Lowry and features Hank Azaria as Dr....
  • William Shatner
    William Shatner

    William Alan Shatner is a Canadian double Emmy-, Golden Globe- and Saturn Award-winning actor and novelist. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T....
     for playing Denny Crane
    Denny Crane

    Dennis "Denny" Crane is a fictional character on the television series Boston Legal. He first appeared during the final season of The Practice, and is portrayed by William Shatner....
     on Boston Legal
    Boston Legal

    Boston Legal is an American legal drama-comedy created by David E. Kelley, which originally ran on American Broadcasting Company from October 3, 2004 to December 8, 2008....


Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

  • Peter Boyle
    Peter Boyle

    For the former Clyde FC and Australian international footballer, see Peter Boyle Peter Lawrence Boyle was an United States actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical Frankenstein's Monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein ....
     for playing Frank Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond
    Everybody Loves Raymond

    Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005....
  • Brad Garrett
    Brad Garrett

    Brad Garrett is an Emmy Award-winning United States, actor, voice acting and stand-up comedian. He is well-known for his sitcom roles on Everybody Loves Raymond and Til Death....
     for playing Robert Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond
    Everybody Loves Raymond

    Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005....
  • Sean Hayes
    Sean Hayes (actor)

    Sean Patrick Hayes is a six- time Golden Globe-nominated and Emmy award-winning United States actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Jack McFarland in the sitcom Will & Grace....
     for playing Jack McFarland
    Jack McFarland

    John Philip "Jack" McFarland was a fictional character on the United States television series sitcom Will & Grace, played by Sean Hayes . Based on South London born Greg Basquine who caught the eye of the writers whilst shopping for make up at Mac in Oxford Street....
     on Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....
  • Jeremy Piven
    Jeremy Piven

    Jeremy Samuel Piven is a three-time Emmy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. He is best known for his role as Ari Gold on the critically acclaimed HBO television series Entourage ....
     for playing Ari Gold
    Ari Gold (Entourage)

    Ariel A. "Ari" Gold is a character on the Dramedy television series Entourage . He is played by Jeremy Piven....
     on Entourage
  • Jeffrey Tambor
    Jeffrey Tambor

    Jeffrey Michael Tambor is an American actor, perhaps most known for his roles as George Bluth Sr. on the television series Arrested Development and Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show....
     for playing George Bluth Sr. on Arrested Development


Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie

  • Randy Quaid
    Randy Quaid

    Randall Rudy "Randy" Quaid is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-, Emmy Award-, and BAFTA Award-nominated American actor and comedian....
     for playing Tom Parker in Elvis
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman
    Philip Seymour Hoffman

    Philip Seymour Hoffman is an American stage and film actor and director.Hoffman began his professional acting career in television in 1991, and the following year began appearing in films....
     for playing Charlie Mayne in Empire Falls
  • Paul Newman
    Paul Newman

    Paul Leonard Newman was an United States actor, film director, entrepreneur, Humanitarianism, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations three Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a...
     for playing Max Roby in Empire Falls
  • Brian Dennehy
    Brian Dennehy

    Brian Mannion Dennehy is an American actor of film Theatre and television....
     for playing Father Dominic Spagnolia in Our Fathers
    Our Fathers

    Our Fathers is the debut novel by Scotland novelist Andrew O'Hagan. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize . It was also nominated for the Whitbread Book Awards and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award....
  • Christopher Plummer
    Christopher Plummer

    Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, Order of Canada is a Canadian theater, film and television acting. In a career that spans over five decades and includes substantial roles in film, television, and theater, Plummer is perhaps best known for the iconic role of Georg Ludwig von Trapp in The Sound of Music ....
     for playing Cardinal Bernard Law in Our Fathers
    Our Fathers

    Our Fathers is the debut novel by Scotland novelist Andrew O'Hagan. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize . It was also nominated for the Whitbread Book Awards and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award....


Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

  • Stockard Channing
    Stockard Channing

    Stockard Channing is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-nominated, three time Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning stage, film and television actress....
     for playing Abbey Bartlet
    Abbey Bartlet

    Abigail Anne 'Abbey' Barrington Bartlet, M.D. is a fictional character played by Stockard Channing on the television Serial drama The West Wing ....
     on The West Wing
  • Tyne Daly
    Tyne Daly

    Ellen Tyne Daly is an United States Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress....
     for playing Maxine Gray on Judging Amy
    Judging Amy

    Judging Amy is an United States television program drama that aired from September 19, 1999 until May 3, 2005 on CBS. The show stars Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly ....
  • Blythe Danner
    Blythe Danner

    Blythe Katharine Danner is an United States Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow....
     for playing Isabelle Huffstodt on Huff
    Huff (TV series)

    Huff was an United States, Emmy Award-winning television dramedy series produced by Sony Pictures Television for Showtime. The series was created by Bob Lowry and features Hank Azaria as Dr....
  • Sandra Oh
    Sandra Oh

    Sandra Oh is a Canadian actress. She is primarily known to American audiences for her role as Cristina Yang in the American Broadcasting Company series Grey's Anatomy....
     for playing Cristina Yang
    Cristina Yang

    Cristina Yang is a fictional character on the ABC television series Grey's Anatomy. The character is portrayed by actress Sandra Oh, who won a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award in 2006 for the role....
     on Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey?s Anatomy is an American primetime medical drama. It debuted on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement for Boston Legal on March 27, 2005, immediately following Desperate Housewives....
  • CCH Pounder
    CCH Pounder

    Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder is a three-time Primetime Emmy Award-nominated Guyanese-United States film and television actress. She is usually billed as CCH Pounder ....
     for playing Claudette Wyms
    Claudette Wyms

    Captain Claudette Wyms is a fictional character Los Angeles Police Department captain in the television drama series The Shield. Claudette is played by CCH Pounder....
     on The Shield
    The Shield

    The Shield was an United States drama television series which aired on FX in the U.S. and other networks internationally. Known for its controversial portrayal of corrupt police officers, it was originally advertised as "Rampart, Los Angeles, California" in reference to the true life Rampart Scandal, which the show's Strike Team was loos...


Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

  • Conchata Ferrell
    Conchata Ferrell

    Conchata Galen Ferrell is an United States actress, most recently known for her role as Berta the middle-aged housekeeper in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, for which she received a 2005 and a 2007 Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series....
     for playing Berta on Two and a Half Men
    Two and a Half Men

    Two and a Half Men is an Emmy Award- and Golden Globe Award-nominated United States television Situation comedy, which premiered on CBS on Monday, September 22, 2003 at 9:30 p.m., North American Eastern Time Zone/Pacific Time Zone....
  • Megan Mullally
    Megan Mullally

    Megan Mullally is an American actress, talk show host and singer.After working in theatre in Chicago, Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1981, and appeared in small or supporting roles in film and television productions....
     for playing Karen Walker
    Karen Walker (character)

    Karen Delaney St. Croix Popeil Walker Finster-Walker was a fictional character on the United States television sitcom Will & Grace . She was portrayed by actress and singer Megan Mullally....
     on Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....
  • Doris Roberts
    Doris Roberts

    Doris May Roberts is an United States five-time Emmy Award-winning actress, perhaps best known for playing Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond....
     for playing Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond
    Everybody Loves Raymond

    Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005....
  • Holland Taylor
    Holland Taylor

    Holland Taylor is an Emmy-Award winning United States actor, known for her film, television and theatre work. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Ruth Dunbar in Bosom Buddies, as Judge Roberta Kittleson in The Practice and as Evelyn Harper in Two and a Half Men....
     for playing Evelyn Harper on Two and a Half Men
    Two and a Half Men

    Two and a Half Men is an Emmy Award- and Golden Globe Award-nominated United States television Situation comedy, which premiered on CBS on Monday, September 22, 2003 at 9:30 p.m., North American Eastern Time Zone/Pacific Time Zone....
  • Jessica Walter
    Jessica Walter

    Jessica Walter is an United States Emmy Award-winning actor, best known for the film Play Misty for Me and for her role as Lucille Bluth on the acclaimed sitcom Arrested Development ....
     for playing Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development


Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie

  • Camryn Manheim
    Camryn Manheim

    Camryn Manheim is an United States Emmy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning actress known primarily for her roles as attorney Ellenor Frutt on American Broadcasting Company's The Practice and Delia Banks on CBS's Ghost Whisperer....
     for playing Gladys Presley in Elvis
  • Joanne Woodward
    Joanne Woodward

    Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an United States Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-, Emmy and Cannes Film Festival award-winning actress. Woodward, widow of Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer....
     for playing Francine Whiting in Empire Falls
  • Charlize Theron
    Charlize Theron

    Charlize Theron is an Academy Award-winning South African-American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She rose to fame in the late 1990s following her roles in 2 Days in the Valley, Mighty Joe Young , The Devil's Advocate , and The Cider House Rules ....
     for playing Britt Ekland
    Britt Ekland

    Britt Ekland is a Sweden actress long resident in the United Kingdom. Best known for her role as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun , her marriage to actor Peter Sellers, and for her high-profile social life....
     in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 in film about the life of British comic actor Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers ....
  • Jane Alexander
    Jane Alexander

    Jane Alexander is an award-winning American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen, Alexander has played a wide array of roles in both theater and film, and has committed herself to a variety of c...
     for playing Sara Delano Roosevelt in Warm Springs
    Warm Springs (film)

    Warm Springs is a 2005 television movie about American President Franklin D. Roosevelt's struggle with polio, his discovery of the Warm Springs, Georgia spa town resort and his work to turn it into a center for the aid of polio victims, and his resumption of his political career....
  • Kathy Bates
    Kathy Bates

    Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates is an Academy Awards-, two-time Golden Globe-, and two-time Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American theatrical, film and television actress, and a stage and television director....
     for playing Helena Mahoney in Warm Springs
    Warm Springs (film)

    Warm Springs is a 2005 television movie about American President Franklin D. Roosevelt's struggle with polio, his discovery of the Warm Springs, Georgia spa town resort and his work to turn it into a center for the aid of polio victims, and his resumption of his political career....


Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series

  • Red Buttons
    Red Buttons

    Red Buttons was an American comedy and actor....
     for playing Mr. Rubadoux on ER
    ER (TV series)

    ER is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States medical drama television series created by the late novelist Michael Crichton and airing on NBC....
  • Ray Liotta
    Ray Liotta

    Raymond Liotta is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated United States actor....
     for playing Charlie Metcalf on ER
    ER (TV series)

    ER is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States medical drama television series created by the late novelist Michael Crichton and airing on NBC....
  • Ossie Davis
    Ossie Davis

    Ossie Davis was an American film actor, film director, poet, playwright, writer, and activism....
     for playing Melvin Porter on The L Word
    The L Word

    The L Word was an American television drama series on Showtime that portrays the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual and transgender men and women and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles Area city of West Hollywood, California....
  • Charles Durning
    Charles Durning

    Charles Durning is an Academy Award- and Emmy Award-nominated United States actor of stage and screen....
     for playing Ernie Yost on NCIS
    NCIS (TV series)

    NCIS , aka Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service or NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the United Stat...
  • Martin Landau
    Martin Landau

    Martin Landau is an Academy Awards-winning United States film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the television series Mission: Impossible and Space: 1999 ....
     for playing Frank Malone on Without a Trace
    Without a Trace

    Without a Trace is an United States television program set in New York City. The show is about a fictitious full-time Federal Bureau of Investigation missing persons unit....


Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

  • Fred Willard
    Fred Willard

    Fred Willard is an American comedian and actor known for his improvisational comedy skills. He is best known for his roles in the Christopher Guest mockumentary films This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show , and A Mighty Wind....
     for playing Hank on Everybody Loves Raymond
    Everybody Loves Raymond

    Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005....
  • Alec Baldwin
    Alec Baldwin

    Alexander Rae Baldwin III is an United States film and television actor. Working as Alec Baldwin, he has appeared in prominent films such as Beetlejuice, as Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October , in the Martin Scorsese films The Aviator and The Departed....
     for playing Malcolm on Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....
  • Bobby Cannavale
    Bobby Cannavale

    Robert M. ?Bobby? Cannavale is an United States Emmy Award-winning actor noted for his role as Bobby Caffey on the critically acclaimed television series Third Watch....
     for playing Vince D'Angelo on Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....
  • Victor Garber
    Victor Garber

    Victor Joseph Garber is a six-time Emmy Award-nominated Canada film, stage and television actor and singer. Garber is perhaps best known for playing Jack Bristow in the television series Alias and Thomas Andrews in James Cameron's Titanic . As of 2008 he has a main role on the television series Eli Stone as Jordan Wethersby....
     for playing Peter Bovington on Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....
  • Jeff Goldblum
    Jeff Goldblum

    Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum is an Academy Award-nominated United Statesn actor. He often portrays quirky, intense or eccentric characters. He is also known for his distinctive appearance and staccato delivery of lines....
     for playing Scott Woolley on Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....


Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series

  • Swoosie Kurtz
    Swoosie Kurtz

    Swoosie Kurtz is an United States actress. She began her career in theater during the 1970s and shortly thereafter began a career in television, garnering ten nominations and winning one Emmy Award....
     for playing Madeline Sullivan on Huff
    Huff (TV series)

    Huff was an United States, Emmy Award-winning television dramedy series produced by Sony Pictures Television for Showtime. The series was created by Bob Lowry and features Hank Azaria as Dr....
  • Cloris Leachman
    Cloris Leachman

    Cloris Leachman is an United States actor of stage , film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award....
     for playing Aunt Olive on Joan of Arcadia
    Joan of Arcadia

    Joan of Arcadia is an Emmy-nominated American television fantasy/family drama, which originally aired on Fridays, 8-9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS from September 26, 2003 until April 22, 2005....
  • Angela Lansbury
    Angela Lansbury

    Angela Brigid Lansbury, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom actor and singer whose career has spanned six decades. She made her first film appearance in Gaslight , for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and expanded her repertoire to Broadway theatre and television in the 1950s....
     for playing Eleanor Duvall on Law & Order: SVU
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American drama television program about the Special Victims Unit in a fictional version of the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department....
  • Angela Lansbury
    Angela Lansbury

    Angela Brigid Lansbury, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom actor and singer whose career has spanned six decades. She made her first film appearance in Gaslight , for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and expanded her repertoire to Broadway theatre and television in the 1950s....
     for playing Eleanor Duvall on Law & Order: Trial by Jury
    Law & Order: Trial by Jury

    Law & Order: Trial by Jury is an United States television drama about criminal trials set in New York City. It is the fourth spin-off from the long-running Law & Order franchise....
  • Amanda Plummer
    Amanda Plummer

    Amanda Michael Plummer is an award-winning United States actress....
     for playing Miranda Cole on Law & Order: SVU
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American drama television program about the Special Victims Unit in a fictional version of the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department....
  • Jill Clayburgh
    Jill Clayburgh

    Jill Clayburgh is an United States actress....
     for playing Bobbie Broderick on Nip/Tuck
    Nip/Tuck

    Nip/Tuck is an United States Emmy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning television series medical drama series created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks....


Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

  • Kathryn Joosten
    Kathryn Joosten

    Kathryn Joosten is a two-time Emmy Award-winning United States television actor. Joosten did not begin to hone her craft until middle age in the 1980s, after taking acting classes in Chicago, Illinois....
     for playing Karen McCluskey
    Karen McCluskey

    Karen McCluskey is a fictional character on the American Broadcasting Company television series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by Kathryn Joosten, who won the Emmy Award twice for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series in 2005 and 2008....
     on Desperate Housewives
    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
  • Lupe Ontiveros
    Lupe Ontiveros

    Lupe Ontiveros is an American film and television actress. Ontiveros has acted in numerous films and television shows, most often playing a maid or, more recently, an all-knowing grandmother; the actress estimates she has played a maid between 150 and 300 times on screen....
     for playing Juanita Solis on Desperate Housewives
    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
  • Georgia Engel
    Georgia Engel

    Georgia Bright Engel is an American film and television actress....
     for playing Pat on Everybody Loves Raymond
    Everybody Loves Raymond

    Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005....
  • Cloris Leachman
    Cloris Leachman

    Cloris Leachman is an United States actor of stage , film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award....
     for playing Ida on Malcolm in the Middle
    Malcolm in the Middle

    Malcolm in the Middle is an United States sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series Premiere on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons....
  • Blythe Danner
    Blythe Danner

    Blythe Katharine Danner is an United States Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow....
     for playing Marilyn Truman on Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....


Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program

  • Jon Stewart
    Jon Stewart

    Jonathan "Jon" Stewart is an United States comedian, television host, and political satire. He is best known as host of The Daily Show, a news satire airing on Comedy Central....
    —The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
  • Jay Leno
    Jay Leno

    James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno is an Emmy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, television host and writer, who succeeded Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 1992....
    —The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an United States late night television talk show currently hosted by Jay Leno, on NBC. It made its debut on May 25, 1992, following Johnny Carson retirement as host of The Tonight Show....
  • Hugh Jackman
    Hugh Jackman

    Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor who is involved in film, musical theatre, and television.A singer, dancer and actor in stage musicals, principally The Boy From Oz, Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, his forte being action/superhero, period and romance characters....
    —The 58th Annual Tony Awards
  • Tracey Ullman
    Tracey Ullman

    Tracey Ullman is an United Kingdom-United States actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, screenwriter and author.Her early appearances were on British TV sketch comedy shows A Kick Up the Eighties and Three of a Kind ....
    —Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed
    Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed

    Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed is an HBO stand-up comedy special starring comedian Tracey Ullman. The stage show documents Ullman's life, with reenactments of her childhood, her early days as a dancer, her time on the stage, her music stint, and her television career....
  • Whoopi Goldberg
    Whoopi Goldberg

    Whoopi Goldberg is an United Statesn actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and media personality.She is one of only a handful of List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
    —Whoopi: Back to Broadway - The 20th Anniversary


Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series

  • Quentin Tarantino
    Quentin Tarantino

    Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, Film producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent film filmmaker whose films used nonlinear and aestheticization of violence....
    —CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American Police procedural television series. CSI premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The ninth season began airing on October 9, 2008 and currently airs in the United States of America on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m....
  • Gregg Fienberg—Deadwood
    Deadwood (TV series)

    Deadwood is an United States Western –drama television series created, produced and almost entirely written by David Milch. The series aired on the premium television cable television HBO from 21 March 2004 to 27 August 2006, spanning List of Deadwood episodes....
  • Peter Horton
    Peter Horton

    Peter Horton is an United States actor and Television director. He is perhaps best known for his role as Prof. Gary Shepherd on the popular television series Thirtysomething ....
    —Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey?s Anatomy is an American primetime medical drama. It debuted on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement for Boston Legal on March 27, 2005, immediately following Desperate Housewives....
  • Scott Winant
    Scott Winant

    Scott Winant is an American television director and producer of network and premium cable series. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and Producers Guild of America....
    —Huff
    Huff (TV series)

    Huff was an United States, Emmy Award-winning television dramedy series produced by Sony Pictures Television for Showtime. The series was created by Bob Lowry and features Hank Azaria as Dr....
  • J.J. Abrams
    J. J. Abrams

    Jeffrey Jacob "J.J." Abrams is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film producer and television producer, writer, actor, composer, director, and founder of Bad Robot Productions....
    —Lost
    Lost (TV series)

    Lost is an American Serial television program. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Flight 815 flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the Oceania....
  • Peter Tolan
    Peter Tolan

    Peter Tolan is an American television producer, director, actor, and screenwriter....
    —Rescue Me
    Rescue Me (TV series)

    Rescue Me is an United States television drama series created by Denis Leary and Peter Tolan. It premiered on the FX Networks in 2004. It is produced by the Cloudland Company, Apostle , DreamWorks Television and Sony Pictures Television....
  • Alex Graves
    Alex Graves

    Alex Graves is an American television writer, director and producer. He was producer, then supervising producer, then co-executive producer, then executive producer of The West Wing ....
    —The West Wing
    The West Wing (TV series)

    The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2006. It was produced/written by Sorkin and also produced by Thomas Schlamme....


Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series

  • Charles McDougall
    Charles McDougall

    Charles McDougall is a Great Britain Emmy Award and BAFTA-winning television director....
    —Desperate Housewives
    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
  • David Frankel
    David Frankel

    David Frankel is a United States film director, screenwriter and executive producer. He is the son of Max Frankel, a former executive editor of The New York Times....
    —Entourage
  • Gary Halvorson
    Gary Halvorson

    Gary Halvorson is an United States director of television shows and series....
    —Everybody Loves Raymond
    Everybody Loves Raymond

    Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005....
  • Randy Zisk—Monk
    Monk (TV series)

    Monk is an Television in the United States comedy-drama Television program created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the main character....
  • James Burrows
    James Burrows

    James Edward Burrows is an American television director who has been working in television since the 1970s....
    —Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....


Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special

  • Fred Schepisi
    Fred Schepisi

    Fred Schepisi Order of Australia is an award-winning Australian film director and scriptwriter. His credits include Last Orders , Roxanne , Plenty , and Six Degrees of Separation ....
    —Empire Falls
  • George C. Wolfe
    George C. Wolfe

    George Costello Wolfe is an American playwright and director of theater director and film director....
    —Lackawanna Blues
    Lackawanna Blues

    Lackawanna Blues is an United States play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson in 2001. It was later made into a television movie that aired in 2005....
  • Stephen Hopkins
    Stephen Hopkins

    Stephen Hopkins may refer to:* Stephen Hopkins , Mayflower passenger, First mayor of Plymouth, Father of only baby born on the Mayflower...
    —The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 in film about the life of British comic actor Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers ....
  • Joseph Sargent
    Joseph Sargent

    Joseph Sargent is an United States film director. He has directed many television movies, but his best known feature film works are probably White Lightning , MacArthur , Nightmares and Jaws: The Revenge, with his most popular film being The Taking of Pelham One Two Three....
    —Warm Springs
    Warm Springs (film)

    Warm Springs is a 2005 television movie about American President Franklin D. Roosevelt's struggle with polio, his discovery of the Warm Springs, Georgia spa town resort and his work to turn it into a center for the aid of polio victims, and his resumption of his political career....


Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program

  • Louis J. Horvitz—The 77th Annual Academy Awards
    77th Academy Awards

    The 77th Academy Awards honored the 2004 in film and were held on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by comedian Chris Rock....
  • James Bobin
    James Bobin

    James Bobin is a British film director, writer, and Film producer. He has worked as a director and writer on the The 11 O'Clock Show and Da Ali G Show, and helped create the characters of "Ali G", "Borat", and "Bruno ".....
    —Da Ali G Show
    Da Ali G Show

    Da Ali G Show is the name of two related Satire TV series starring Great Britain comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and featuring the character Ali G....
  • Chuck O'Neil—The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
  • Bucky Gunts—The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad - Opening Ceremony
    2004 Summer Olympics

    The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries....
  • Jerry Foley—The Late Show with David Letterman


Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

  • David Shore
    David Shore

    David Shore is a Canada-born writer, best known for his work writing and producing in television. As former lawyer, Shore became known for his work on Family Law and NYPD Blue....
    —House
    House (TV series)

    House, also known as House, M.D., is an American medical drama that debuted on the Fox Broadcasting Company network on November 16, 2004....
     (episode: "Three Stories")
  • J.J. Abrams
    J. J. Abrams

    Jeffrey Jacob "J.J." Abrams is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film producer and television producer, writer, actor, composer, director, and founder of Bad Robot Productions....
    , Damon Lindelof
    Damon Lindelof

    Damon Laurence Lindelof is an American television writer and executive, most recently noted as the co-creator and executive producer for the hit television series Lost ....
     & Jeffrey Lieber
    Jeffrey Lieber

    Jeffrey Lieber is a screenwriter for both television and film. He was born in Evanston, Illinois, Illinois, United States and attended Evanston Township High School....
    —Lost
    Lost (TV series)

    Lost is an American Serial television program. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Flight 815 flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the Oceania....
     (episode: "Pilot
    Pilot (Lost)

    "Pilot" constitutes the first and second episodes of the first season of Lost , that premiered on September 22, 2004 and September 29, 2004 at American Broadcasting Company ....
    ")
  • David Fury
    David Fury

    David Fury is an United States television screenwriter and television producer, best known for his work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Angel , Lost , and 24 ....
    —Lost
    Lost (TV series)

    Lost is an American Serial television program. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Flight 815 flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the Oceania....
     (episode: "Walkabout")
  • Peter Tolan
    Peter Tolan

    Peter Tolan is an American television producer, director, actor, and screenwriter....
     & Denis Leary
    Denis Leary

    Denis Colin Leary is a Golden Globe Award- and Emmy Award-nominated United States actor, comedian, writer and film director. He is known for his often angry comedic style, and his chain smoking....
    —Rescue Me
    Rescue Me (TV series)

    Rescue Me is an United States television drama series created by Denis Leary and Peter Tolan. It premiered on the FX Networks in 2004. It is produced by the Cloudland Company, Apostle , DreamWorks Television and Sony Pictures Television....
     (episode: "Pilot")
  • George Pelecanos
    George Pelecanos

    George Pelecanos is an United States author of detective fiction set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. He is also a film and television producer and a television writer....
     & David Simon—The Wire
    The Wire (TV series)

    The Wire is an United States television drama series set in Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland, where it was also produced. Created, Executive producer#Television, and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon, the series was broadcast by the premium television cable television HBO in the United States....
     (episode: "Middle Ground
    Middle Ground (The Wire episode)

    "Middle Ground" is the eleventh episode of the third season of the HBO original series, The Wire . The episode was written by George Pelecanos from a story by David Simon & George Pelecanos and was directed by Joe Chappelle....
    ")


Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

  • Barbara Feldman—Arrested Development (episode: "Sad Sack
    Sad Sack (Arrested Development episode)

    "Sad Sack" is the twenty-seventh episode aired of TV comedy series Arrested Development ....
    ")
  • Brad Copeland
    Brad Copeland

    Brad Copeland is an United States television writer and television producer, best known for his work on the Fox Broadcasting Company television series Arrested Development ....
    —Arrested Development (episode: "Sword of Destiny
    Sword of Destiny

    "Sword of Destiny" is the 37th episode aired of TV comedy series Arrested Development ....
    ")
  • Mitchell Hurwitz
    Mitchell Hurwitz

    Mitchell Hurwitz is an Emmy-winning United States television writer and producer. He is best known as the creator of the critically-acclaimed television sitcom, Arrested Development as well as the co-creator of The Ellen Show, and a contributor to The John Larroquette Show and The Golden Girls....
     & Jim Vallely
    Jim Vallely

    Jim Vallely is an American television producer, and screenwriter.External links...
    —Arrested Development (episode: "Righteous Brothers")
  • Marc Cherry
    Marc Cherry

    Marc Cherry is an United States writer and television producer. He is best known for being the creator of the show Desperate Housewives....
    —Desperate Housewives
    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
  • Philip Rosenthal
    Philip Rosenthal

    Philip Rosenthal is an United States television writer and Television producer who is best known as the creator, writer and Television producer for the long-running sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond ....
    , Ray Romano
    Ray Romano

    Raymond Albert "Ray" Romano is an United States actor, writer and stand-up comedian, best known for his role in the long running sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond....
    , Tucker Cawley
    Tucker Cawley

    Tucker Cawley is an American television comedy writer and producer....
    , Lew Schneider
    Lew Schneider

    Lew Schneider is an Emmy Award winning United States television producer, writer, actor, and stand-up comedian.Schneider grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, graduating from Brookline High School in 1979.....
    , Steve Skrovan
    Steve Skrovan

    Steve Skrovan works in the entertainment industry, notably as producer and writer for the television show Everybody Loves Raymond. Previously, he was the host for the first season of the game show That's My Dog! on Family , and had written for Seinfeld and The Home Court....
    , Jeremy Stevens, Mike Royce
    Mike Royce

    Mike Royce is an American television comedy writer. He was born in Syracuse, New York....
    , Aaron Shure
    Aaron Shure

    Aaron Shure is a TV writer/producer and two-time Emmy winner. Shure was an Executive Producer of Everybody Loves Raymond for which he won two Emmy awards in the "Outstanding Comedy Series" category....
    , Tom Caltabiano & Leslie Caveny
    Leslie Caveny

    Leslie Caveny is an Emmy Award-winning United States film writer and television writer and Television producer. She was a staff writer and producer for Everybody Loves Raymond for several years in which she shared the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series....
    —Everybody Loves Raymond
    Everybody Loves Raymond

    Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005....


Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special

  • Richard Russo
    Richard Russo

    File:Richard Russo.jpgRichard Russo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States novelist. Born in Johnstown, New York, and raised in nearby Gloversville, New York, he earned a Bachelor's degree , an Master of Fine Arts , and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Arizona....
    —Empire Falls
  • Scott Peters
    Scott Peters (writer)

    Scott Peters is a Canada television producer, television director and scriptwriter, most probably known for his involvement in writing, co-creating and producing for the science fiction television series The 4400....
     & René Echevarria
    René Echevarria

    Ren? Echevarria is a television writer and producer. He has written for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as well as the TV series Now and Again, Dark Angel and Medium , and is co-creator and writer of The 4400....
    —The 4400
    The 4400

    The 4400 is a science fiction TV series produced by CBS Paramount Network Television in association with British Sky Broadcasting, Renegade 83 and American Zoetrope for USA Network....
     ("Pilot
    Pilot (The 4400 episode)

    "Pilot" is the first episode of season one and the Television pilot of the science fiction television series The 4400. The episode aired July 11, 2004 on the USA Network....
    ")
  • Christopher Markus
    Christopher Markus

    Christopher Markus is an American screenwriter who frequently collaborates with Stephen McFeely....
     & Stephen McFeely
    Stephen McFeely

    Stephen McFeely is an American screenwriter who frequently collaborates with Christopher Markus....
    —The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 in film about the life of British comic actor Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers ....
  • Ricky Gervais
    Ricky Gervais

    Ricky Dene Gervais is an England comedian, author, actor, Television director, Television producer, screenwriter and former pop music musician....
     & Stephen Merchant
    Stephen Merchant

    Stephen James Merchant is a British Comedy Award-, BAFTA-, Emmy- and Golden Globe-award winning United Kingdom writer, director, and comic actor....
    —The Office
    The Office (UK TV series)

    The Office is a British Academy Television Awards, Golden Globe Award winning and Emmy-nominated United Kingdom television program comedy that first aired in the UK on BBC Two on 9 July 2001....
  • Margaret Nagle
    Margaret Nagle

    Margaret Nagle , Nagle wrote the script for the HBO film, Warm Springs , which won her the 2005 Writers Guild of America Award for Long Form Original Screenplay....
    —Warm Springs
    Warm Springs (film)

    Warm Springs is a 2005 television movie about American President Franklin D. Roosevelt's struggle with polio, his discovery of the Warm Springs, Georgia spa town resort and his work to turn it into a center for the aid of polio victims, and his resumption of his political career....


Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program

  • Da Ali G Show
    Da Ali G Show

    Da Ali G Show is the name of two related Satire TV series starring Great Britain comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and featuring the character Ali G....
  • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien
    Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    Late Night with Conan O'Brien was an United States late night television talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC from 1993 to 2009....
  • The Late Show with David Letterman
  • Real Time with Bill Maher
    Real Time with Bill Maher

    Real Time with Bill Maher is a talk show that airs weekly on Home Box Office, hosted by stand-up comedy and political satire Bill Maher. Much like his previous show, Politically Incorrect on American Broadcasting Company , Real Time features a panel of guests that discuss current events in politics and the media....