Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Final Predictions for the 2014 Emmy Nominations

COMEDY

OUTSTANDING WRITING:

* "Beach House" (Girls)
* "Can't Fix Crazy" (Orange Is The New Black)
* "I Wasn't Ready" (Orange Is The New Black)
* "London" (Parks and Recreation)
* "Pamela 3" (Louie)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: Poor

OUTSTANDING DIRECTION:

* Beth McCarthy-Miller (Modern Family)
* Gail Mancuso (Modern Family)
* Lena Dunham (Girls)
* Louis C.K. (Louie)
* Michael Trim (Orange Is The New Black)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: Medium

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

* Allison Janney (Mom)
* Anna Chlumsky (Veep)
* Julie Bowen (Modern Family)
* Kate Mulgrew (Orange Is The New Black)
* Merritt Weaver (Nurse Jackie)
* Sophia Vergara (Modern Family)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: High, even though no Mayim Bialik scares me

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR:

* Adam Driver (Girls)
* Andre Braugher (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
* Ed O'Neill (Modern Family)
* Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family)
* Tony Hale (Veep)
* Ty Burrell (Modern Family)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: I got one wrong, don't know which one

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS:

* Anna Faris (Mom)
* Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation)
* Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie)
* Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep)
* Lena Dunham (Girls)
* Taylor Schilling (Orange Is The New Black)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: High

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR:

* Andy Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
* Don Chedle (House of Lies)
* Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory)
* Johnny Galecki (The Big Bang Theory)
* Louis C.K. (Louie)
* Matt LeBlanc (Episodes)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: Johnny Galecki is wrong, everything else is correct

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES

* Girls (HBO)
* Louie (FX)
* Modern Family (ABC)
* Orange Is The New Black (Netflix)
* The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
* Veep (HBO)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: High

DRAMA

OUTSTANDING WRITING

* "Felina" (Breaking Bad)
* "The Monolith" (Mad Men)
* "The Secret Fate of All Life" (True Detective)
* "To'hajiilee" (Breaking Bad)
* "Waterloo" (Mad Men)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: Outside of "Felina" and True Detective, it's just a crap shoot

OUTSTANDING DIRECTION:

* Alex Graves (Game of Thrones)
* Cary Joji Fukanaga (True Detective) 
* Rian Johnson (Breaking Bad)
* Tim Van Patten (Boardwalk Empire)
* Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: If Michelle MacLaren's "To'hajiilee" gets the nomination over Rian Johnson's "Ozymandias" then I'm going to murder someone in the desert. Everything else is correct. 

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

* Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad)
* Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife)
* Christine Baranski (The Good Wife)
* Joanna Froggatt (Downton Abbey)
* Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey)
* Michelle Monaghan (True Detective)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: Well, I'm at least confident previous nominees Christina Hendricks, Emilia Clarke, and Morena Baccarin won't get nominations....

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR:

* Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)
* Dean Norris (Breaking Bad)
* Jeffrey Wright (Boardwalk Empire)
* Jon Voight (Ray Donovan)
* Mandy Patinkin (Homeland)
* Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: Medium. No Downton Abbey here scares me.

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS:

* Claire Danes (Homeland)
* Connie Britton (Nashville)
* Elizabeth Moss (Mad Men)
* Kerry Washington (Scandal)
* Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex)
* Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey)
* Robin Wright (House of Cards)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: Poor. Also, I'm pretty sure if one of the clones doesn't kill me for predicting against Tatiana Maslany, then the Orphan Black fan girls will.

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR:

* Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
* Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey)
* Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom)
* Jon Hamm (Mad Men)
* Kevin Spacey (House of Cards)
* Matthew McConaughey (True Detective)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: Medium

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES:

* Breaking Bad (AMC)
* Downton Abbey (PBS)
* Game of Thrones (HBO)
* House of Cards (Netflix)
* Mad Men (AMC)
* True Detective (HBO)

CONFIDENCE LEVEL: Medium/High


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