14th annual cadet tv awards 2009

drama series

Winner:
Madmen

Nominees:
Galactica
Big Love
Breaking Bad
Damages
Lost

comedy series

Winner:
Big Bang Theory

Nominees:
3O Rock
Flight of the Conchordes
How I met your mother
The Office
United States of Tara

tv movie/mini-series

Winner:
Generation Kill – HBO

Nominees:
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story – TNT
Grey Gardens – HBO
House of Saddam – HBO
Little Dorrit – PBS

variety series

Winner:
Saturday Night Live – NBC

Nominees:
Little Britain USA – HBO
Real Time with Bill Maher – HBO
Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union – Showtime
The View – ABC

reality/non-fiction series

Top Chef – Bravo

Nominees:
Cities of the Underworld – History Channel
Project Runway – Bravo
The Real Housewives of New Jersey – Bravo
Survivor – CBS

variety/reality/non-fiction special

Winner:
81st Annual Academy Awards – ABC

Nominees:
2008 Tony Awards – CBS
Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger – HBO
Michael J Fox: …Incurable Optimist – ABC
Ricky Gervais: Out of England – HBO

new series
not nominated as best series

Winner:
Fringe – Fox

Nominees:
Dollhouse – Fox
The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – HBO
Party Down – Starz
True Blood – HBO
Worst Week – CBS

breakthrough performance
not nominated elsewhere

Winner:
Aaron Paul – Breaking Bad

Nominees:
Anna Torv – Fringe
Alison Pill – In Treatment
Jill Scott – The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Ryan Kwanten – True Blood
Rutina Wesley – True Blood

lead actor, drama series

Winner:
Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad

Nominees:
Michael C. Hall – Dexter
Kyle Chandler – Friday Night Lights
Gabriel Byrne – In Treatment
Jon Hamm – Mad Men
Denis Leary – Rescue Me
Michael Chiklis – The Shield

lead actress, drama series

Winner:
Glenn Close – Damages

Nominees:
Mary McDonnell – Battlestar Galactica
Ginnifer Goodwin – Big Love
Chloë Sevigny – Big Love
Jeanne Tripplehorn – Big Love
January Jones – Mad Men

supporting actor, drama series

Winner:
John Noble – Fringe

Nominees:
James Callis – Battlestar Galactica
Josh Holloway – Lost
Steven Pasquale – Rescue Me
John Scurti – Rescue Me
Walton Goggins – The Shield

supporting actress, drama series

Winner:
Christina Hendricks – Mad Men

Nominees:
Amanda Seyfried – Big Love
Anna Gunn – Breaking Bad
Rose Byrne – Damages
Connie Britton – Friday Night Lights
Callie Thorne – Rescue Me

guest actor, drama series

Winner:
John DeLancie – Breaking Bad

Nominees:
Mark Margolis – Breaking Bad
John Doman – Damages
Patton Oswalt – Dollhouse
Patrick Fischler – Mad Men
Alexander Skarsgard – True Blood

guest actress, drama series

Winner:
Adina Porter – True Blood

Nominees:
Kate Vernon – Battlestar Galactica
Ellen Burstyn – Big Love
Margo Martindale – Dexter
Melinda McGraw – Mad Men
Lois Smith – True Blood

directing, drama series

Winner:
Michael Rymer – Battlestar Galactica – “Daybreak, Part 2”

Nominees:
Daniel Attias – Big Love – “Come, Ye Saints”
Charles Haid – Breaking Bad – “Grilled”
Brad Anderson – Fringe – “There’s More Than One of Everything”
Paris Barclay – In Treatment – “Gina: Week 4”
Anthony Minghella – The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – Pilot
Alan Ball – True Blood – “Strange Love”

writing, drama series

Winner:
Ronald D. Moore – Battlestar Galactica – “Daybreak, Part 2”

Nominees:
Vince Gilligan – Breaking Bad – “ABQ”
Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler & Daniel Zelman – Damages – “I Lied, Too”
David Hudgens – Friday Night Lights – “Hello, Goodbye”
Matthew Weiner & Kate Gordon – Mad Men – “Meditations in an Emergency”
Andre Jacquemetton & Maria Jacquemetton – Mad Men – “Three Sundays”
Denis Leary & Peter Tolan – Rescue Me – “Perspective”

 

lead actor, comedy series

Winner:
Jim Parsons – The Big Bang Theory

Nominees:
Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock
Steve Carell – The Office
David Duchovny – Californication
Ken Marino – Party Down
Kyle Bornheimer – Worst Week

lead actress, comedy series

Winner:
Toni Collette – United States of Tara

Nominees:
Tina Fey – 30 Rock
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – New Adventures of Old Christine
Amy Poehler – Parks & Recreation
Christina Applegate – Samantha Who?
Mary-Louise Parker – Weeds

supporting actor, comedy series

Winner:
John Krasinski – The Office

Nominees:
Simon Helberg – The Big Bang Theory
Neil Patrick Harris – How I Met Your Mother
Jason Segel – How I Met Your Mother
Justin Kirk – Weeds
Kurtwood Smith – Worst Week

supporting actress, comedy series

Winner:
Jenna Fischer – The Office

Nominees:
Cobie Smulders – How I Met Your Mother
Jane Lynch – Party Down
Kristin Chenoweth – Pushing Daisies
Jean Smart – Samantha Who?
Rosemarie DeWitt – United States of Tara

guest actor, comedy series

Winner:
Albert Brooks – Weeds

Nominees:
Alan Alda – 30 Rock
Jon Hamm – 30 Rock
Idris Elba – The Office
J.K. Simmons – Party Down
Rob Corddry – United States of Tara

guest actress, comedy series

Winner:
Christine Baranski – The Big Bang Theory

Nominees:
Sara Gilbert – The Big Bang Theory
Sarah Wynter – Flight of the Conchords
Laura Prepon – How I Met Your Mother
Kristin Johnston – New Adventures of Old Christine
Kristin Bell – Party Down

directing, comedy series

Winner:
James Bobin – Flight of the Conchords – “The Tough Brets”

Nominees:
Beth McCarthy – 30 Rock – “Reunion”
Michel Gondry – Flight of the Conchords – “Unnatural Love”
Jeff Blitz – The Office – “Stress Relief”
Adam Kane – Pushing Daisies – “Bzzzzzzz!”
Adam Bernstein – Worst Week – Pilot

writing, comedy series

Winner:
Paul Lieberstein – The Office – “Stress Relief”

Nominees:
Tina Fey – 30 Rock – “The Bubble”
Jack Burditt & Robert Carlock – 30 Rock – “Kidney Now!”
Stephen Engel, Eric Kaplan, Bill Prady and Richard Rosenstock – The Big Bang Theory – “The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis”
Jennifer Celotta & Paul Lieberstein – The Office -“Company Picnic”
Diablo Cody – United States of Tara – Pilot

 

lead actor, tv movie/mini-series

Winner:
Igal Naor – House of Saddam

Nominees:
Alexander Skarsgard – Generation Kill
Cuba Gooding Jr. – Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Brendan Gleeson – Into the Storm
Kenneth Branagh – Wallander: One Step Behind

lead actress, tv movie/mini-series

Winner:
Sigourney Weaver – Prayers for Bobby

Nominees:
Anna Paquin – The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Drew Barrymore – Grey Gardens
Jessica Lange – Grey Gardens
Claire Foy – Little Dorrit

supporting actor, tv movie/mini-series

Winner:
James Ransone – Generation Kill

Nominees:
Stark Sands – Generation Kill
Lee Tergesen – Generation Kill
Philip Arditti – House of Saddam
Tom Courtenay – Little Dorrit

supporting actress, tv movie/mini-series

Winner:
Shohreh Aghdashloo – House of Saddam

Nominees:
Marcia Gay Harden – Courageous Heart Irena Sendler
Kimberley Elise – Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Jeanne Tripplehorn – Grey Gardens
Janet McTeer – Into the Storm

directing, tv movie/mini-series

Winner:
Susanna White & Simon Cellan-Jones – Generation Kill

Nominees:
Alex Holmes & Jim O’Hanlon – House of Saddam
Thaddeus O’Sullivan – Into the Storm
Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh & Diarmuid Lawrence – Little Dorrit
Niall MacCormick – Wallander: One Step Behind

writing, tv movie/mini-series

Winner:
David Simon & Ed Burns – Generation Kill

Nominees
John Pielmeier – Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Alex Holmes & Stephen Butchard – House of Saddam
Hugh Whitemore – Into the Storm
Andrew Davies – Little Dorrit

australian program

Winner:
Packed to the Rafters – Seven

Nominees:
Masterchef Australia – Ten
Project Runway Australia – Arena
So You Think You Can Dance Australia – Ten
Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities – Nine

performance, australian program

Winner:
Claudia Karvan – Saved – SBS

Nominees:
Diana Glenn Carla Cametti PD – SBS
Don Hany East West 101 – SBS
Rebecca Gibney Packed to the Rafters – Seven
Hugh Sheridan Packed to the Rafters – Seven

individual performance, variety/music program

Winner:
Tina Fey – Saturday Night Live

Nominees:
Hugh Jackman – 81st Annual Academy Awards
Justin Timberlake – Saturday Night Live
Kristin Wiig – Saturday Night Live
Tracey Ullman – Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union

host/presenter/judge, reality/non-fiction program

Winner:
Jeff Probst – Survivor

Nominees:
Simon Cowell – American Idol
Phil Keoghan – The Amazing Race
Mike Rowe – Dirty Jobs
Tim Gunn – Project Runway

directing, variety/music or reality/non-fiction program

Winner:
Survivor – CBS

Nominees:
The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon – NBC
Little Britain USA – HBO
The Real Housewives of New Jersey – Bravo
Top Chef – Bravo

writing, variety/music or reality/non-fiction program

Winner:
Saturday Night Live – NBC

Nominees:
81st Annual Academy Awards – ABC
Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger – HBO
Little Britain USA – HBO
Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union – Showtime

ensemble, drama series

Winner:
Rescue Me – FX – Adam Ferrara, Denis Leary, Mike Lombardi, Larenz Tate, Tatum O’Neal, Steven Pasquale, Andrea Roth, John Scurti, Daniel Sunjata, Callie Thorne.

Nominees:
Battlestar Galactica – Sci-Fi – Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Michael Hogan, Mary McDonnell, Edward James Olmos, Grae Park, Tahmoh Penikett, Katee Sackhoff.

Big Love HBO – Daveigh Chase, Bruce Dern, Shawn Doyle, Patrick Fabian, Garrett Grey, Ginnifer Goodwin, Keegan Holst, Branka Katic, Brian Kerwin, Tina Majorino, Joel McKinnon Miller, Bill Paxton, Mary Kay Place, Matt Ross, Chloe Sevigny, Amanda Seyfried, Douglas Smith, Harry Dean Stanton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Melora Walters, Jolean Wejbe, Grace Zabriskie.

In Treatment – HBO – Gabriel Byrne, Hope Davis, John Mahoney, Alison Pill, Aaron Shaw, Russell Hornsby, Sherri Saum, Dianne Wiest.

Mad Men – NBC – Bryan Batt, Michael Gladis, Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, January Jones, Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, Maggie Siff, John Slattery, Rich Sommoer, Aaron Staton.

True Blood – HBO – Chris Bauer, Kristin Bauer, Nelsan Ellis, Ryan Kwanten, Stephen Moyer, Anna Paquin, Jim Parrack, Carrie Preston, Michael Raymond-James, William Sanderson, Sam Trammell, Rutina Wesley.

 

ensemble, comedy series

The Office – NBC – Leslie David Baker, Brian Baumgartner, Creed Bratton, Steve Carell, David Denman, Jenna Fischer, Kate Flannery, Melora Hardin, Ed Helms, Mindy Kaling, Angela Kinsey, John Krasinski, Paul Lieberstein, B.J. Novak, Oscar Nunez, Phyllis Smith, Rainn Wilson.

Nominees:
The Big Bang Theory – CBS – Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Jim Parsons.

Entourage – HBO – Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon, Adrian Grenier, Jerry Ferrara, Rex Lee, Jeremy Piven, Perrey Reeves.

How I Met Your Mother – CBS – Alyson Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders.

Samantha Who? – ABC – Christina Applegate, Kevin Dunn, Jennifer Esposito, Melissa McCarthy, Tim Russ, Jean Smart, Barry Watson.

Weeds – Showtime – Alexander Gould, Allie Grant, Justin Kirk, Kevin Nealon, Mary-Louise Parker, Hunter Parrish, Elizabeth Perkins.

ensemble, tv movie/mini-series

Winner:
House of Saddam – HBO – Shohreh Aghdashloo, Saïd Amadis, Philip Arditti, Uri Gavriel, Shivani Ghai, Makram Khoury, Akbar Kurtha, Daniel Lundh, Mounir Margoum, Igal Naor, Amber Rose Revah, Agni Scott, Christine Stephen-Daly, Saïd Taghmaoui, Amr Waked.

Nominees:
Generation Kill – HBO
Grey Gardens – HBO
Into the Storm – HBO
Little Dorrit – PBS

ensemble, variety/music or reality/non-fiction program

Winner:
Saturday Night Live – NBC – Fred Armisen, Abby Elliott, Will Forte, Bill Hader, Darrell Hammond, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, Michaela Watkins, Kristen Wiig, Casey Wilson.

Nominees:
81st Annual Academy Awards – ABC
Project Runway – Bravo
Survivor – CBS
Top Chef – Bravo

voiceover performance

Winner:
Seth McFarlane – Family Guy

Nominees:
Brenda Strong – Desperate Housewives
Alex Borstein – Family Guy
Hank Azaria – The Simpsons
Harry Shearer – The Simpsons

casting

Winner:
Lost

Nominees:
Mad Men
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Survivor
United States of Tara

song (original or adapted)

Winner:
“Motherlover” – Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, Andy Samberg, Justin Timberlake, Asa Taccone, Drew Campbell – Saturday Night Live – “Justin Timberlake”

Nominees:
“Negro Y Azul” – Los Cuates de Sinaloa – Breaking Bad – “Negro Y Azul”
“Carol Brown” – James Bobin, Bret McKenzie, Jemaine Clement – Flight of the Conchords – “Unnatural Love”
“Hurt Feelings” – James Bobin, Bret McKenzie, Jemaine Clement – Flight of the Conchords – “The Tough Brets”
“Sugalumps” – James Bobin, Bret McKenzie, Jemaine Clement –
Flight of the Conchords – “New Cup”

music composition/score

Winner:
Gabriel Yared – The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – “Pilot”

Nominees:
Bear McCreary – Battlestar Galactica – “Daybreak, Part 2”
|Daniel Licht – Dexter – “Do You Take Dexter Morgan?”
Michael Giacchino, Chad Seiter & Chris Tilton – Fringe – “There’s More Than One of Everything”
Michael Giacchino – Lost – “Dead is Dead”

main title theme music

Winner:
Marty Davich – Southland

Nominees:
John Lunn – Little Dorrit
Bob Thiele, Dave Kushner, Curtis Stigers, Kurt Sutter – Sons of Anarchy
Bill Sherman – Storymakers
Jace Everett – True Blood
Tim DeLaughter – United States of Tara

main titles sequence

Winner:
True Blood

Nominees:
Crash
Fringe
The No.1 Ladies’
Detective Agency
United States of Tara

film editing

Winner:
Damages – “I Lied, Too”

Nominees:
Dexter – “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
Friday Night Lights – “Hello, Goodbye”
Generation Kill – “Bomb in the Garden”
The Shield – “Family Meeting”

cinematography

Breaking Bad – “4 Days Out”

Nominees:
Battlestar Galactica – “Blood on the Scales”
Big Love – “Come, Ye Saints”
Fringe – “The Arrival”
Lost – “The Incident”

production design

Winner:
Pushing Daisies – “Bzzzzzzz!”

Nominees:
81st Annual Academy Awards
Little Dorrit – “Episode 1”
Mad Men – “The Jet Set”
True Blood – “Burning House of Love”

costume design

Winner:
Mad Men – “Three Sundays”

Nominees:
Life on Mars – “Pilot”
The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – “Pilot”
The Tudors – “207”
United States of Tara – “Pilot”

makeup/hairstyling

Winner:
Little Britain USA – “105”

Nominees:
Fringe – “Pilot”
How I Met Your Mother – “The Front Porch”
Little Dorrit – “Episode 1”
Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union – “205”

sound mixing

Winner:
Big Love – “Come, Ye Saints”

Nominees:
Battlestar Galactica – “Daybreak, Part 2”
Breaking Bad – “Grilled”
Damages – “Trust Me”
Dollhouse – “Omega”

sound editing

Winner:
True Blood – “Escape From Dragon House”

Nominees:
Dexter – “Finding Freebo”
Generation Kill – “The Cradle of Civilization”
Lost – “The Incident”
Rescue Me – “Sheila”

visual effects

Winner:
Battlestar Galactica – “Daybreak, Part 2”

Nominees:
Battlestar Galactica – “Blood on the Scales”
Fringe – “Pilot”
Generation Kill – “The Cradle of Civilization”
True Blood – “I Don’t Wanna Know”

stunt co-ordination/ensemble

Winner:
Dollhouse – “A Spy in the House of Love”

Nominees:
Burn Notice – “Lesser Evil”
Southland – “Pilot”
Fringe – “Pilot”
Lost – “The Incident”

animated series

Winner:
Family Guy

 

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top 14 scenes of the 2008-2009 television season (alphabetical order)

Winner:
30 Rock – “Kidney Now!” – “Milton Green Needs a Kidney”

Battlestar Galactica – “Blood on the Scales” – Laura Roslin defiantly proclaims:
“No. Not now, not ever. Do you hear me?
I will use every cannon, every bomb, every bullet,
every weapon I have down to my own eye teeth to end you!
I swear it! I’m coming for all of you!”

Battlestar Galactica – “Daybreak, Part 2” – 150,000 Years Later

Breaking Bad – “Grilled” – Ding!

Friday Night Lights – “It Aint Easy Being JD McCoy” – Jason Street sings to his baby boy:
“There’s a hole in my bucket dear Liza, dear Liza
there’s a hole in my bucket dear Liza, a hole.”

Fringe – “The Arrival” – Meet the Observer

Fringe – “There’s More Than One of Everything” – The Final Scene

The Office – “Casual Friday” – Kevin’s Famous Chili

The Office – “Company Picnic” – Pam explains her volleyball talents to camera:
“Maybe I played a little in junior high.
And in high school. Maybe a little in college…
And went to volleyball camp most summers.”

The Office – “Company Picnic” – The Good News

Rescue Me – “Sheila” – The Interview

Saturday Night Live – “Paul Rudd” – Single Ladies

Saturday Night Live – “Company Picnic” – Vice-Presidential Debate

The Shield – “Family Meeting” – The End of Vic Mackey

wins tally

Saturday Night Live – 5 – up 5

Breaking Bad – 4 – up 2
Generation Kill – 4
The Office – 4 – up 2

Battlestar Galactica – 3 – down 2
The Big Bang Theory – 3 – up 3
House of Saddam – 3
Mad Men – 3 – down 2
True Blood – 3

Damages – 2 – down 4
Family Guy – 2 – up 1
Fringe – 2
Survivor – 2 – up 2

81st Annual Academy Awards – 1 – up 1
Big Love – 1 – up 1
Dollhouse – 1
Flight of the Conchords – 1 – even
Little Britain USA – 1
Lost – 1 – down 1
The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – 1
Packed to the Rafters – 1
Prayers for Bobby – 1
Pushing Daisies – 1 – down 1
Rescue Me 1 – 1 – up 1
Saved – 1
Southland – 1
Top Chef – 1 – even
United States of Tara – 1
Weeds – 1 – up 1

network wins tally

HBO – 14 – up 4
NBC – 10 – up 5
AMC – 7 – even
CBS – 5 – up 4
Fox – 5 – up 1
FX – 3 – down 3
Sci-Fi – 3 – down 2
ABC – 2 – down 2
Showtime – 2 – down 6
Bravo – 1 – down 1
Lifetime – 1 – up 1

network nominations tally

HBO – 77 – up 24
NBC – 34 – up 5
CBS – 29 – up 15
AMC – 25 – up 4
Showtime – 24 – down 9
Fox – 22 – up 4
FX – 20 – up 5
ABC – 17 – down 9
Sci-Fi – 14 – down 5
PBS – 11 – up 3
Bravo – 8 – even
Starz – 6 – up 6
DirecTV – 5 – up 5
TNT – 4 – even
Discovery – 1 – up 1
History – 1 – down 3
Lifetime – 1 – up 1
USA – 1 – up 1

multiple nominations tally

Battlestar Galactica – 14 – down 3

True Blood – 13

Breaking Bad – 12 – up 7
Fringe – 12
Mad Men – 12 – down 4
The Office – 12 – up 8

Generation Kill 11

Big Love – 10 – up 3

30 Rock – 9 – down 2
Saturday Night Live – 9 – up 4
United States of Tara – 9

Rescue Me – 8 – up 7

The Big Bang Theory – 7 – up 3
Damages – 7 – down 7
Flight of the Conchords – 7 – even
House of Saddam – 7
How I Met Your Mother – 7 – up 2
Little Dorrit – 7
Lost – 7 – down 1
The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – 7

81st Annual Academy Awards – 5 – up 4
Dexter – 5 – down 1
Friday Night Lights – 5 – down 1
Grey Gardens – 5
Into the Storm – 5
Party Down – 5
Survivor – 5 – up 1

Dollhouse – 4
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story – 4
In Treatment – 4 – even
Little Britain USA – 4
The Shield – 4 – even
Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union – 4 – down 1
Weeds – 4 – even
Worst Week – 4

Family Guy – 3 – even
Project Runway – 3 – down 1
Pushing Daisies – 3 – down 7
Samantha Who? – 3 – up 3
Top Chef – 3 – even

Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger – 2
Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler – 2
Little Dorrit – 2
New Adventures of Old Christine – 2 – down 1
Real Housewives of New Jersey – 2
The Simpsons – 2 – up 2
Southland – 2
Wallander: One Step Behind – 2