DRAMA SERIES
NOMINEES:
- "Friday Night Lights"
- "Lost"
- "Mad Men"
- "The Sopranos"
- "The West Wing"
- "The Wire"
JUST MISSED:
- "24"
- "Battlestar Galactica"
- "Big Love"
- "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
- "Deadwood"
- "Grey’s Anatomy"
- "House"
- "Rescue Me"
- "The Shield"
COMMENT:
Two critics’ darlings perennially overlooked by the TV Acad, "Lights" and "Wire," made the cut, while two others ("Battlestar" and "Deadwood") barely lost out.
DRAMA ACTRESS
NOMINEES:
- Connie Britton "Friday Night Lights"
- Glenn Close "Damages"
- Edie Falco "The Sopranos"
- Allison Janney "The West Wing"
- Mary McDonnell "Battlestar Galactica"
- Kyra Sedgwick "The Closer"
JUST MISSED:
- Frances Conroy "Six Feet Under"
- Jennifer Garner "Alias"
- Sarah Michelle Gellar "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
- Rachel Griffiths "Six Feet Under" /"Brothers and Sisters"
- Sally Field "Brothers and Sisters"
- Holly Hunter "Saving Grace"
COMMENT:
Voters had the option to list different series with their nominees, allowing Griffiths to compile votes for her work on two shows.
DRAMA ACTOR
NOMINEES:
- Michael Chiklis "The Shield"
- Bryan Cranston "Breaking Bad"
- James Gandolfini "The Sopranos"
- Michael C. Hall "Dexter"
- Jon Hamm "Mad Men"
- Hugh Laurie "House"
JUST MISSED:
- Gabriel Byrne "In Treatment"
- Kyle Chandler "Friday Night Lights"
- Ian McShane "Deadwood"
- Denis Leary"Rescue Me"
- Martin Sheen "The West Wing"
- Kiefer Sutherland "24"
COMMENT:
Cranston also received consideration inthe comedy actor categoryfor "Malcolm in the Middle."
COMEDY SERIES
NOMINEES:
- "30 Rock"
- "Arrested Development"
- "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
- "The Daily Show"
- "Everybody Loves Raymond"
- "The Office"
JUST MISSED:
- "The Big Bang Theory"
- "Flight of the Conchords"
- "Frasier"
- "Freaks and Geeks"
- "Friends"
- "Sex and the City"
- "The Simpsons"
- "Two and a Half Men"
COMMENT:
Normally this category is for scripted programming, but when the outpouring of support emerged for "The Daily Show," who were we to say no?
COMEDY ACTRESS
NOMINEES:
- Tina Fey "30 Rock"
- Lauren Graham "Gilmore Girls"
- Patricia Heaton "Everybody Loves Raymond"
- Jane Kaczmarek "Malcolm in the Middle"
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "The New Adventures of Old Christine"
- Mary-Louise Parker, "Weeds"
- Sarah Jessica Parker, "Sex and the City"
JUST MISSED:
- Jennifer Aniston "Friends"
- America Ferrera "Ugly Betty"
- Jenna Fischer "The Office"
- Felicity Huffman Desperate Housewives"
- Lisa Kudrow "Friends"
/ "The Comeback" - Debra Messing "Will and Grace"
COMMENT:
A tie in the balloting forced a seventh nomination slot.
COMEDY ACTOR
NOMINEES:
- Alec Baldwin "30 Rock"
- Jason Bateman "Arrested Development"
- Steve Carell "The Office"
- Larry David "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
- Ricky Gervais "The Office"
- Kelsey Grammer "Frasier"
JUST MISSED:
- Zach Braff "Scrubs"
- Neil Patrick Harris "How I Met Your Mother"
- Jim Parsons "The Big Bang Theory"
- Ray Romano "Everybody Loves Raymond"
- Tony Shalhoub "Monk"
- Charlie Sheen "Two and a Half Men"
COMMENT:
Both the U.S. and U.K. stars of "The Office" got nods on a list that didn’t rely on thesps now on the air.