Critics’ Choice Television Award Winners

I’ve officially become too busy. I am just now seeing the list of winners from the first annual Television Critics’ Choice Awards, and just now writing about them. Here is the full winner list:

Best Drama Series
“Mad Men”

Best Actor in a Drama Series
Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”

Best Actress in a Drama Series
Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife”

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
John Noble, “Fringe”

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Tie: Christina Hendricks, “Mad Men”
and Margo Martindale, “Justified”

Best Reality Series
Tie: “Hoarders”
and “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”

Best Reality Series, Competition
“American Idol”

Best Reality Show Host
Mike Rowe, “Dirty Jobs”

Best Talk Show
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”

Best Comedy Series
“Modern Family”

Best Actor in a Comedy Series
Jim Parsons, “The Big Bang Theory”

Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Tina Fey, “30 Rock”

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Neil Patrick Harris, “How I Met Your Mother”

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Busy Philipps, “Cougar Town”

Most Exciting New Series
“Alcatraz”
“Apartment 23”
“Awake”
“Falling Skies”
“New Girl”
“Ringer”
“Smash”

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Frankly, I think they awarded a lot of safe winners. While the nominations were extremely cutting edge, the winners were all too predictable (but mostly deserving). This award show does get my respect for not awarding Glee, though. I’m really sick of Glee being awarded for being less than mediocre when it could have been great (it actually was great during most of the first season, but for some reason, the show has just settled for success instead of greatness, which is utterly disappointing).

For Best Drama Series, Boardwalk Empire, The Walking Dead, or Dexter would have been a better choice now that Mad Men is expected to win multiple awards now. And for Best Actor, obviously I would preferred Steve Buscemi to take the award.

The most interesting thing about this awards is the category for Most Exciting New Series. Its completely abnormal for an award show to peak into the future and I’m curious to find out the effect this award could have on future pilot seasons. Maybe other award shows will look into the future, maybe it will encourage creativity in upcoming shows. We’ll just have to see.

Art Directors Guild Nominations!

Art Directors are the unsung heroes of the film set. They hide in the backgrounds arguing with DPs (director of photography) over the lighting scheme. Like everyone else in Hollywoodland, they have a guild, and I’m guessing they have the best looking building of all the Hollywood guilds.

They have announced their award nominations this morning:

Period Film:

• True Grit (Designed by Jess Gonchor)
• The King’s Speech (Designed by Eve Stewart)
• Shutter Island (Designed by Dante Ferretti)
• Robin Hood (Designed by Arthur Max)
• Get Low (Designed by Geoffrey Kirkland)

Fantasy Film:

• Alice in Wonderland (Designed by: Robert Strombert)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Designed by Stuart Craig)
• Inception (Designed by Guy Hendrix Dyas)
• Tron: Legacy (Designed by Darren Gilford)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Designed by Barry Robison)

Contemporary Film:

• Black Swan (Designed by Therese DePrez)
• The Social Network (Designed by Donald Graham Burt)
• The Figher (Designed by Judy Becker)
• The Town (Designed by Sharon Seymour)
• 127 Hours (Designed by Suttirat Larlarb)

Single Camera Television Series:

• Mad Men
• True Blood
• Tudors
• 24
• Glee

Multi Camera Television Series:

• Modern Family
• 30 Rock
• Outsourced
• United States of Tara
• Community

The rest of the nominees are here.

The nominees in bold are my predictions/hopes for the winner. In the film categories, I think my picks are pretty solid, and if the winning went any other way, I’d be surprised.

One goal of mine this week is to watch more television, because my opinions in TV awards don’t mean much because I don’t watch 90% of shows on the air.

This ceremony occurs on February 5th.