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2013 Emmy Award Winners and Nominees

Breaking Bad, Modern Family and Behind the Candelabra take it home

by RT Staff | Sunday, Sep. 22 2013
49 comments
The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, took place on September 22nd at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. The big winners of the evening were Breaking Bad, Modern Family and Behind the Candelabra, who won Best Drama Series, Best Comedy and Best Miniseries or TV Movie, respectively. Check out the complete list of winners and nominees below.

All | Drama | Comedy | Miniseries Or TV Movie | Reality & Variety

    Writing for a Comedy Series


  • 30 Rock
    "Hogcock!", Jack Burditt & Robert Carlock
    93%

  • 30 Rock
    "Last Lunch", Tina Fey & Tracey Wigfield
    93%

  • Episodes
    "Episode 209", David Crane & Jeffrey Klarik
    86%

  • Louie
    "Daddy's Girlfriend (Part 1)", Louis C.K. & Pamela Adlon
    100%

  • The Office
    "Finale", Greg Daniels
    81%

    Directing for a Comedy Series


  • 30 Rock
    "Hogcock!"/ "Last Lunch", Beth McCarthy-Miller
    93%

  • Girls
    "On All Fours", Lena Dunham
    93%

  • Glee
    "Diva", Paris Barclay
    69%

  • Louie
    "New Year's Eve", Louis C.K.
    100%

  • Modern Family
    "Arrested", Gail Mancuso
    67%

    Variety Series


  • Jimmy Kimmel Live
    ABC

  • Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
    NBC

  • Real Time With Bill Maher
    HBO

  • Saturday Night Live
    NBC

  • The Colbert Report
    Comedy Central

  • The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
    Comedy Central

Comments

Stephen Gehly

Stephen Gehly

That Jim Parsons won is a crime.

Sep 22 - 06:13 PM

Chris Mizerak

Chris Mizerak

Amen to that. Louie C.K. deserved that award much more than Parsons.

Sep 22 - 06:22 PM

Stephen Gehly

Stephen Gehly

Absolutely.

Sep 22 - 06:48 PM

Sebastian O.

Sebastian Ochoa

I concur.

Sep 22 - 07:57 PM

Brad and Netflix

Bradly Martin

I agree as well but I got tired of the running joke in BIG BANG THEORY after 1 season. I hear it's great if you don't get tired of the running joke.

Sep 22 - 08:45 PM

Vladimir Sconochev

Vladimir Sconochev

LCK wins EVERY year. They probably wanted a change.

Sep 26 - 04:54 PM

Lance Reeder

Lance Reeder

Jim Parson's is hilarious as Sheldon and it's not like both haven't been given love in the past. There are much worse sins than this at award shows.

Sep 22 - 07:40 PM

Harry McDonough

Harry McDonough

Yeah, like the fact that The Big Bang Theory is nominated for anything.

Sep 22 - 07:55 PM

Sebastian O.

Sebastian Ochoa

I'm not saying he's a bad actor, cuz he isn't, but there were much more deserving nominees than Jim Parsons, such as Louis CK and Matt LeBlanc.

Sep 22 - 08:02 PM

Lance Reeder

Lance Reeder

I've not watched much of Matt LeBlanc's new show, but it seems like he's not doing much more than playing an exaggerated version of himself ala James VanDerBeek, NPH or Bob Saget on Entourage.

Sep 24 - 06:12 PM

Cole Jaeger

Cole Jaeger

I don't even watch the other nominees, but why did Louie not win actor, writing, or directing?

Sep 22 - 06:38 PM

Lance Reeder

Lance Reeder

The Emmy's are notoriously fickle with comedies that aren't funny. Not a knock on Louie, but it does stretch the boundaries of what's considered a comedy. The Emmy's are always weird for me because I very rarely agree with the Emmy Darlings i.e. I think Homeland is atrocious outside of Mandy Patankin, very soapish and I find Claire Danes portrayal laughable. The SNL skits about it are far more enjoyable than the show itself for me.

Sep 22 - 07:36 PM

David Hardison

David Hardison

Louie is hilarious! Maybe if it had a laugh track, or "live studio audience" more simpletons would find it as funny as Big Bang.

Sep 22 - 08:31 PM

Brad and Netflix

Bradly Martin

Louie has won before though and has won a lot of awards regarding his Stand up and Show. So don't take Modern family winning (again...meh) as a knock on Louie C.K.

Sep 22 - 08:52 PM

Colin Behnke

Colin Behnke

Well overall this was a pretty nonsensical Emmy's.

Jeff Daniels winning Best actor in a Drama? (Even he was surprised)
Jim Parsons winning best actor in a Comedy?
Modern Family winning best comedy?

Sep 22 - 08:16 PM

bustermanzero

Peter Dawson

Well Modern Family winning has become a norm, like how it was for Mad Men to win best drama for a while. Parsons, well, people clearly seem to like him and his performance, and being liked as a person around the academy can come in handy (my only explanation for how Jimmy Fallon gets nominated). Daniels is a tricky one... Maybe people just really liked the fact he was able to knock so many Sorkin monologues out of the park despite his character basically being Tony Soprano as a news anchor?

Sep 26 - 05:31 AM

David Hardison

David Hardison

I've seen a few episodes of Big Bang, and it does have a few laughs, but it doesn't come close to shows like Louie or Arrested Development. The writing is a constant regurgitation of "smart guys being socially inept." Jim Parsons plays a character with no range either. Louis CK and Alec Baldwin were much more deserving of the award.

Sep 22 - 08:24 PM

Lance Reeder

Lance Reeder

You can't really appreciate a show only seeing a few episodes of it. What Jim Parsons does have going for him is he took a subsidiary Latka type character and made it into the centerpiece of the show and maintained and grown that popularity for 7 seasons now. I think a lot of the Big Bang backlash is because it committed the cardinal geek sin of becoming popular.

Sep 24 - 06:14 PM

bustermanzero

Peter Dawson

Well there's also the fact that even after so many seasons they still play with tired and arguably inaccurate geek stereotypes, despite managing to have started to move beyond that after the first season.

Sep 26 - 05:32 AM

Brad and Netflix

Bradly Martin

They went really heavy on awarding what people don't watch. What's crazy is that Newsroom is critically panned as pretentious shitty garbage. I tried watching it but I figured I didn't like it because my belief that American News teams are putrid slimy cowards (Fox and MSNBC).

Sep 22 - 08:46 PM

Pralhad Shrestha

Pralhad Shrestha

bryan cranston and aaron paul .give them some.ALWAYS PARSON winning is getting awfully unexciting .

Sep 22 - 09:10 PM

Lance Reeder

Lance Reeder

Parsons doesn't always win. In that category alone 4 of the 5 other competitors have won it previously. A couple of them multiple times. All this hate for a show that happens to be the most popular comedy on TV. Where's the hate for American Horror Story? A show that wouldn't even be mentioned outside of Jessica Lange if it didn't exploit a loophole and pass itself off as a Mini-Series.

Sep 24 - 06:26 PM

Conner Nielsen

Conner Nielsen

Parsons won over Jason Bateman? And Louis C.L.? And Don Cheedle? Hell, even Alec Baldwin? What the hell?

Sep 23 - 12:26 AM

Lance Reeder

Lance Reeder

Yep, whooped'em all. Arrested hasn't been the same since it's return, Louie C.K. is good, but this last season wasn't the shows best, Personally I don't see the appeal of Don Cheedles new show and would question if it's even a comedy. and Alec Baldwin has been playing the same character in movies and TV for going on 30 years now. It's a fun character, but he has a lot of help in making that show great. He's probably my 5th favorite character on his own show.

Sep 24 - 06:23 PM

David Miranda Lopez

David Miranda Lopez

Jim Parsons :D

Sep 23 - 12:59 AM

inka s.

inka s

I am just mad that Orphan Black is nowhere to be found in this year's Emmy. The show is so good, and Tatiana Maslany could fill at least 4 spots of best actress nomination.

Sep 23 - 03:56 AM

bustermanzero

Peter Dawson

I think it was a timing issue. Orphan Black started airing pretty late so if it does pop up it'll probably be next year (like what happened with The Newsroom).

Sep 26 - 05:34 AM

Carl Latin

Carl Latin

Reality/competition categories? Really? Why don't they just put on here a category for game show hosts? What an insult.

Sep 23 - 08:20 AM

Sean Kenney

Sean Kenney

office shoulda won

Sep 23 - 09:13 AM

Dean W.

Dean Wirth

Bates Motel is best drama series and it didn't win a single Emmy??? Vera Farmiga should have won at least>

Sep 23 - 10:19 AM

Lance Reeder

Lance Reeder

Lot of competition in that category. In most categories actually we live in a very good time for TV.

Sep 24 - 06:15 PM

Alec K.

Alec Kant

I love Breaking Bad but honestly Maise Williams is better than Gunn by a considerable margin. In fact, that whole category was botched as far as nominations go. Louis got shafted as well, it's quite clear the Emmys appeal to popularity more than anything else.

Sep 23 - 12:27 PM

John Matrix

John Matrix

I tried watching the Emmy's once a few years ago. Then they gave an award to Jon Cryer over Louis C.K. and I gave up. Looking over these winners most of these winners, particularly in the comedy category, I think I made the right choice.

Sep 23 - 08:41 PM

Jesus Christ

Thornclaw Braveheart

Give Clarke and Dinklage their Emmies.

Sep 24 - 03:16 AM

Jakub Podgajniak

Jakub Podgajniak

So much hate here towards Big Bang - its not a high-brow show and it uses extreme stereotypes for getting laughs, but its fun to watch - at least for enough people to get it considered. Parsons is a good actor and I think he deserved his award - he plays incredibly annoying character and he managed to make me like someone whom I probably would strangle in real life. Louie on other hand makes more mature comedy that falls into niche of people who find that humour hilarious - he is not an Emmy candidate, and thats not a bad thing.

Sep 24 - 03:16 AM

Lance Reeder

Lance Reeder

I don't really get the perception that Big Bang is some kind of show for mouth breathing dullards, it's popular yes, but it also counts amongst it's fans the likes of Leonard Nimoy, Stephen Hawking and Steve Wozniak. Basically I'm gonna take the opinion of the smartest guy on the planet over a bunch of internet posters. Big Bang is written by some of the smartest guys in Hollywood, just listen to Bill Prady speak some time about pretty much any topic. We really need to move past violently lashing out at anything that doesn't fit a small particular niche.

Sep 24 - 06:19 PM

Ray Murphy

Ray Murphy

Breaking Bad, Louis CK and Game of Thrones especially got shafted. Why do we even care about the Emmys? If I had a friend who tried to argue that Jeff Daniels was better than Bryan Cranston or that Sheldon is better than Louis CK, I'd punch him in the face.

Sep 24 - 04:21 AM

Joseph Camp

Joseph Camp

When I saw that Daniels won over Cranston, I had to look again.... and then a third time. I didn't know that was possible! Daniels is pretty one dimensional in his role, whereas Cranston continuously portrays a character who is dangerous, complex, and conflicted (although not as conflicted as he was in earlier seasons).

Sep 25 - 01:00 PM

Anirban Chakraborty

Anirban Chakraborty

Bryan Cranston robbed! Is Emmy too going the Oscar way??

Sep 24 - 07:12 AM

Monkey Ninja

Will W

At least Colbert finally (deservedly) won.

Sep 24 - 02:34 PM

Alex H.

Alex Haines

Really, Game of Thrones wins nothing. Did they not watch the Rains of Castamere.

Sep 24 - 06:07 PM

Lance Reeder

Lance Reeder

That's a bingo, don't get why they're so in love with Homeland and Claire Danes ugly crying.

Sep 25 - 08:51 PM

Tory Lee

Tory Lee

Of all the good things to complain about, you picked the one thing I wouldn't argue with seeing as she is a fucking brilliant actress, especially in that role. Just saying.

Sep 29 - 08:08 AM

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