Primetime Emmy Nominations

July 24th, 2007

The Red Carpet is dusted off, vacuumed spotless, and ready to go for the 59^th Primetime Emmy Awards. I cannot wait until September 16^th to tune into Shrine Auditorium where the event is being hosted this year! The nominations came out recently as follows which include several returning faces:

Outstanding Animated Program (> than 60min):
1] Avatar: The Last Airbender
2] Robot Chicken
3] The Simpsons…Last years Winner
4] South Park
5] SpongeBob SquarePants
Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series:
1] Deadwood
2] Heroes
3] Rome…Took home the Gold Last year
4] Shark
5] The Tudors

I’m torn on this one; I love all of these shows. Personally, I will be rooting for Ugly Betty- nothing is funnier to me than fashion satires, but most likely Rome will be going home once again with the Emmy statuette.

Drama Series
1] Boston Legal
2] Grey’s Anatomy
3] Heroes
4] House…Hugh Laurie is the man of my dreams, just thought I should share!
5] The Sopranos
Comedy Series
1] Entourage
2] The Office
3] 30 Rock
4] Two and a Half Men
5] Ugly Betty
Lead Actor, Drama Series
1] James Gandolfini, The Sopranos
2] Hugh Laurie, House…You know who I’m rooting for
3] Denis Leary, Rescue Me
4] James Spader, Boston Legal
5] Kiefer Sutherland, 24
Supporting Actor, Drama Series
1] William Shatner, Boston Legal
2] T.R. Knight, Grey’s Anatomy
3] Masi Oka, Heroes
4] Michael Emerson, Lost
5] Terry O’Quinn, Lost
6] Michael Imperioli, The Sopranos
Lead Actor, Miniseries or Movie
1] Robert Duvall, Broken Trail
2] Tom Selleck, Jesse Stone: Sea Change
3] Jim Broadbent, Longford
4] William H. Macy, Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
5] Matthew Perry, The Ron Clark Story
Lead Actress in Comedy Series:
1] Felicity Huffman, Desperate Housewives
2] Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine
3] Tina Fey, 30 Rock
4] America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
5] Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds
Supporting Actress, Comedy Series
1] Jaime Pressly, My Name Is Earl
2] Jenna Fischer, The Office
3] Holland Taylor, Two and a Half Men
4] Conchata Ferrell, Two and a Half Men
5] Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty
6] Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds
Lead Actress, Drama Series
1] Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
2] Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
3] Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
4] Patricia Arquette, Medium
5] Minnie Driver, The Riches
6] Edie Falco, The Sopranos
Supporting Actress, Drama Series
1] Rachel Griffiths, Brothers & Sisters
2] Katherine Heigl, Grey’s Anatomy
3] Chandra Wilson, Grey’s Anatomy
4] Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy
5] Aida Turturro, The Sopranos
6] Lorraine Bracco, The Sopranos
Lead Actress, Miniseries or Movie
1] Queen Latifah, Life Support
2] Helen Mirren, Prime Suspect: The Final Act
3] Mary-Louise Parker, The Robber Bride
4] Debra Messing, The Starter Wife
5] Gena Rowlands, What If God Were the Sun
Lead Actor, Comedy Series
1] Ricky Gervais, Extras
2] Tony Shalhoub, Monk
3] Steve Carell, The Office
4] Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
5] Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men
Supporting Actor, Comedy Series
1] Kevin Dillon, Entourage
2] Jeremy Piven, Entourage
3] Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
4] Rainn Wilson, The Office
5] Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men

The Saprano’s was the talk of the nomination announcement evening, though, with a whopping fifteen nominations! As entertaining as the Primetime Emmy’s have been year after year, I truly am glued to my seat most at the arrival of the Celebs. Nothing intrigues me more than to see what trends hit the Carpet, and maybe in part to see which A-Listers need to enroll into Fashion 101 after a wardrobe catastrophe airs live nationally; it sounds a little conniving, but admit it you were thinking the same thing! I hope to see many of the starlets donning spectacular gowns like the stunning Off White and Silver embroidered evening dress Katherine Heigl sported in 2006. I would love for one of Carmen Marc Valvo’s Couture Gowns to show up on screen this year because he is so under-credited for his amazing work. I fell in love with a yummy Black Nude Stripped Beaded Gown by Valvo which I came across during my recent window shopping visit (it seemed much more like a tour though) to Neiman Marcus. I’m sure we’ll be seeing lots of Ferretti, Dior, and Cavalli, of course, both for gowns and handbag accesorization, but I’m not complaining because without them the Red Carpet can’t possibly look as glamorous as it does. Speaking of Cavalli and evening events; I have a new handbag that I am totally crushing over. I could swear that when I first laid eyes on it, I drooled just a lil bit! Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but the bag is breathtakingly fab!