The Emmy Awards are presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences each year to honor achievements in television programming.
We begin the list with the winners in the category for best Drama series. The show taking home the top honors in the category was AMC’s “Mad Men.” The breakdown for the Drama Series awards for individuals goes as follows:
• Actress, Drama Series: Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife,” CBS.
• Actor, Drama Series: Kyle Chandler, “Friday Night Lights,” DirecTV/NBC.
• Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Peter Dinklage, “Game of Thrones,” HBO.
• Supporting Actress, Drama Series: Margo Martindale, “Justified,” FX.
• Writing, Drama Series: Jason Katims, “Friday Night Lights,” NBC.
• Directing, Drama Series: Martin Scorsese, “Boardwalk Empire,” HBO.
Next, we take a look at the winners for one of the most popular categories, that of best Comedy Series. Taking home the Emmy Award for best Comedy Series in 2011 was “Modern Family,” from ABC. .” The individual Emmys for best Comedy Series went to:
• Actor, Comedy Series: Jim Parsons, “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS.
• Actress, Comedy Series: Melissa McCarthy, “Mike & Molly,” CBS.
• Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Julie Bowen, “Modern Family,” ABC.
• Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Ty Burrell, “Modern Family,” ABC.
• Writing, Comedy Series: Steven Levitan and Jeffrey Richman, “Modern Family,” ABC.
• Directing, Comedy Series: Michael Spiller, “Modern Family,” ABC.
Next, we take a look at the winners for one of the most popular categories, that of best Comedy Series. Taking home the Emmy Award for best Comedy Series in 2011 was “Modern Family,” from ABC. .” The individual Emmys for best Comedy Series went to:
Top Emmy, in a category which typically goes to big budget productions companies like HBO, was take home by PBS last night. In the category of best Miniseries or Movie, the Emmy Award went to “Downton Abbey” airing on PBS’s Masterpiece Theater.
In the same category individual honors were won by:
• Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Kate Winslet, “Mildred Pierce,” HBO.
• Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Barry Pepper, “The Kennedys,” ReelzChannel.
• Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Maggie Smith, “Downton Abbey” (“Masterpiece”), PBS.
• Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Guy Pearce, “Mildred Pierce,” HBO.
• Directing, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Brian Percival, “Downton Abbey” (“Masterpiece”), PBS.
• Writing, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Julian Fellowes, “Downton Abbey” (“Masterpiece”), PBS.
“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” took home two awards. One award for the best Variety, Music or Comedy Series, and the other Emmy was won for Best Writing in the same category. The award for Best Directing in that category was won by Saturday Night Lives’s Don Roy King for NBC.