Based on nominating ballots from many GoldDerby members over the past few weeks, here are the 2009 GoldDerby TV Awards nominees. Please read through the following rules and instructions before sending your nomination ballot.
2009 GOLDDERBY TV AWARDS RULES & INSTRUCTIONS:
1. The complete list of nominees is listed in the post below. Any television program released in the United States for the first time June 1, 2008 through May 31, 2009 is eligible for these awards.
2. You may vote in as many or as few categories as you choose. If you choose to vote in a given category, you MUST offer exactly ONE (1) choice as your final vote in that category. Any more will cause that category to be ruled invalid on your ballot.
3. The top vote recipient in each category will officially become the 2009 GoldDerby TV Award winner in that category.
4. Please send your complete ballot by Private Message (PM) to one of the following people. If your GoldDerby nickname begins with A-G, please send by PM to andrew. If your GoldDerby nickname begins with H-P, please send by PM to Rob L. If your GoldDerby nickname begins with Q-Z or a symbol/number, please send by PM to Boomer. The Private Message function can be located in your Personal Zone area. I am asking that each of these moderators post in this thread so that you can easily click on their name to send the PM.
5. All ballots must be received by midnight on Friday, July 31. The nominees will be announced in a Chat Room ceremony and in a thread in the Emmys forum on a date to be announced later.
6. Please feel free to campaign for a few of your favorite choices in this thread. Please only list a small limited number of your favorites. DO NOT POST YOUR ENTIRE BALLOT IN THIS THREAD OR ANYWHERE PUBLICLY ON GOLDDERBY.
7. Thanks for your participation and one final encouragement... These are your votes for your favorites. Don't feel so locked into what you think others want you to choose or what you think is "appropriate". Your votes will be private and will not be made public.
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COMEDY SERIES: Chuck (NBC) How I Met Your Mother (CBS) The Office (NBC) Pushing Daisies (ABC) 30 Rock (NBC)
COMEDY LEAD ACTRESS: Toni Collette as Tara Gregson on United States of Tara Tina Fey as Liz Lemon on 30 Rock Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Christine Campbell on New Adventures of Old Christine Eva Longoria Parker as Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin on Weeds Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope on Parks & Recreation
COMEDY LEAD ACTOR: Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock Steve Carell as Michael Scott on The Office Zachary Levi as Chuck Bartowski on Chuck Lee Pace as Ned on Pushing Daisies Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory
COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook on Pushing Daisies Jenna Fischer as Pam Beesley on The Office Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney on 30 Rock Elizabeth Perkins as Celia Hodes on Weeds Vanessa Williams as Wilhelmina Slater on Ugly Betty
COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTOR: Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother John Krasinski as Jim Halpert on The Office Jack McBrayer as Kenneth Parcell on 30 Rock Chi McBride as Emerson Cod on Pushing Daisies Tracy Morgan as Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock
COMEDY GUEST ACTRESS: Jennifer Aniston as Claire Harper on 30 Rock Christine Baranski as Dr. Beverly Hofstadter on The Big Bang Theory Courteney Cox as Dr. Taylor Maddox on Scrubs Amy Ryan as Holly Flax on The Office Elaine Stritch as Colleen Donaghy on 30 Rock
COMEDY GUEST ACTOR: Alan Alda as Milton Green on 30 Rock Will Arnett as Devon Banks on 30 Rock Beau Bridges as Eli Scruggs on Desperate Housewives Albert Brooks as Lenny Botwin on Weeds Jon Hamm as Dr. Drew Baird on 30 Rock Steve Martin as Gavin Volure on 30 Rock
COMEDY EPISODE OF THE YEAR: Desperate Housewives for “The Best Thing That Ever Could Have Happened” directed by Larry Shaw; written by Marc Cherry & Bob Daily The Office for “Stress Relief” directed by Jeffrey Blitz; written by Paul Lieberstein 30 Rock for “Apollo, Apollo” directed by Millicent Shelton; written by Robert Carlock 30 Rock for “Believe in the Stars” directed by Don Scardino; written by Robert Carlock 30 Rock for “Reunion” directed by Beth McCarthy Miller; written by Matt Hubbard
DRAMA SERIES: Battlestar Galactica (SCI-FI) Breaking Bad (AMC) Friday Night Lights (NBC) Lost (ABC) Mad Men (AMC)
DRAMA LEAD ACTRESS: Glenn Close as Patty Hewes on Damages Calista Flockhart as Kitty Walker on Brothers & Sisters January Jones as Betty Draper on Mad Men Mary McDonnell as President Laura Roslin on Battlestar Galactica Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse on True Blood Ellen Pompeo as Dr. Meredith Grey on Grey’s Anatomy
DRAMA LEAD ACTOR: Kyle Chandler as Eric Taylor on Friday Night Lights Bryan Cranston as Walter White on Breaking Bad Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan on Dexter Jon Hamm as Don Draper on Mad Men Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House on House
DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Connie Britton as Tami Taylor on Friday Night Lights Katherine Heigl as Dr. Izzie Stevens on Grey’s Anatomy Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway on Mad Men Elizabeth Mitchell as Dr. Juliet Burke on Lost Alison Pill as April on In Treatment
DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTOR: Michael Emerson as Benjamin Linus on Lost Walton Goggins as Det. Shane Vendrell on The Shield Josh Holloway as James “Sawyer” Ford on Lost John Mahoney as Walter on In Treatment Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman on Breaking Bad
DRAMA GUEST ACTRESS: Carol Burnett as Birdie Sulloway on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Ellen Burstyn as Bernie Stabler on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Melinda McGraw as Bobbie Barrett on Mad Men Bernadette Peters as Sarabeth Breyers on Grey’s Anatomy Susan Sarandon as Nora on E.R.
DRAMA GUEST ACTOR: Ted Danson as Arthur Frobisher on Damages Patrick Fischler as Jimmy Barrett on Mad Men Michael J. Fox as Dwight on Rescue Me Zeljko Ivanek as Jason on House Jimmy Smits as Miguel Prado on Dexter
DRAMA EPISODE OF THE YEAR: Battlestar Galactica for “Daybreak” directed by Michael Rymer; written by Ronald D. Moore Lost for “The Incident” Directed Jack Bender; written by Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof Mad Men for “Meditations in an Emergency” directed by Matthew Weiner; written by Kater Gordon & Matthew Weiner Mad Men for “A Night to Remember” directed by Lesli Linka Glatter; written by Robin Veith & Matthew Weiner The Shield for “Family Meeting“ directed by Clark Johnson; written by Shawn Ryan
TV MOVIE OR MINISERIES: Generation Kill (HBO) Grey Gardens (HBO) House of Saddam (HBO) Prayers for Bobby (Lifetime) Taking Chance (HBO)
TV MOVIE/MINI ACTRESS: Shohreh Aghdashloo as Sajida Khairallah Talfah on House of Saddam Drew Barrymore as “Little Edie" Bouvier Beale on Grey Gardens Sarah Chalke as Clarissa Alpert on Maneater Jessica Lange as “Big Edie" Bouvier Beale on Grey Gardens Sigourney Weaver as Mary Griffith on Prayers for Bobby
TV MOVIE/MINI ACTOR: Kevin Bacon as Lt. Col. Mike Strobl on Taking Chance Kenneth Branagh as Kurt Wallander on Wallander: One Step Behind Brendan Gleeson as Sir Winston Churchill on Into the Storm Ian McKellen as King Lear on King Lear Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer on 24: Redemption
VARIETY SPECIAL: Kathy Griffin: She’ll Cut a Bxxxx (Bravo) 2008 Kennedy Center Honors (CBS) Lisa Lampanelli: Long Live the Queen (HBO) Ricky Gervais: Out of England (HBO) Will Ferrell: You’re Welcome America (HBO)
VARIETY SERIES: Chelsea Lately (E!) The Colbert Report (Comedy) The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy) Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC) Saturday Night Live (NBC)
VARIETY PERFORMER: Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report Chelsea Handler on Chelsea Lately Amy Poehler on Saturday Night Live Jon Stewart on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Kristen Wiig on Saturday Night Live
REALITY OR COMPETITION PROGRAM: The Amazing Race (CBS) American Idol (Fox) Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List (Bravo) Survivor (CBS) Top Chef (Bravo)
ANIMATED SERIES: American Dad (Fox) Family Guy (Fox) Robot Chicken (Cartoon) The Simpsons (Fox) South Park (Comedy)
SPECIAL CLASS PROGRAM: 2009 Academy Awards (ABC) The Deadliest Catch (Discovery) King Lear (PBS) Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony (NBC) 2008 Tony Awards (CBS)
PERFORMER OF THE YEAR: Person with the biggest impact on television Steve Carell Stephen Colbert Bryan Cranston Tina Fey Amy Poehler
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR: Person with the biggest career advancement Chelsea Handler January Jones Aaron Paul Alison Pill Billie Piper
ENSEMBLE OF THE YEAR: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (NBC) Connie Britton, Kyle Chandler, Gaius Charles, Kim Dickens, Zach Gilford, Minka Kelly, Taylor Kitsch, Brad Leland, D.W. Moffett, Adrianne Palicki, Jesse Plemons, Scott Porter, Jeremy Sumpter, Aimee Teegarden, Janine Turner LOST (ABC) Naveen Andrews, Nestor Carbonell, Henry Ian Cusick, Alan Dale, Jeremy Davies, Michael Emerson, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim, Ken Leung, Evangeline Lilly, Rebecca Mader, Elizabeth Mitchell, Terry O’Quinn MAD MEN (AMC) Bryan Batt, Michael Gladis, Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, January Jones, Vincent Kartheiser, Robert Morse, Mark Moses, Elisabeth Moss, Joel Murray, John Slattery, Rich Sommer, Aaron Staton THE OFFICE (NBC) Leslie David Baker, Brian Baumgartner, Creed Bratton, Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, Kate Flannery, Ed Helms, Mindy Kaling, Angela Kinsey, John Krasinski, Paul Lieberstein, B. J. Novak, Oscar Nunez, Phyllis Smith, Rainn Wilson 30 ROCK (NBC) Scott Adsit, Alec Baldwin, Katrina Bowden, Kevin Brown, Grizz Chapman, Tina Fey, Judah Friedlander, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer, Tracy Morgan, Maulik Pancholy, Keith Powell
LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (PERFORMER): (please vote for 2 people in this category) Alan Alda Edward Asner Angela Lansbury Cloris Leachman Bob Newhart Dick Van Dyke
LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (OTHER): (please vote for 2 people in this category) Tom Brokaw James Burrows Dick Clark Larry Gelbart Garry Marshall Carl Reiner
SERIES WITH MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS: 30 Rock with 17 Mad Men with 10 The Office with 8 Lost with 6 Breaking Bad with 5 Friday Night Lights with 4 Pushing Daisies with 4 Battlestar Galactica with 3 Desperate Housewives with 3 Grey’s Anatomy with 3 In Treatment with 3 Weeds with 3 Big Bang Theory with 2 Chuck with 2 Damages with 2 Dexter with 2 House with 2 How I Met Your Mother with 2 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit with 2 Parks & Recreation with 2 The Shield with 2
NOMINATION TOTALS BY NETWORK: NBC with 44 ABC with 19 AMC with 18 HBO with 17 CBS with 9 FOX with 8 SHOWTIME with 8 COMEDY with 6 FX with 5 BRAVO with 3 E! with 3 LIFETIME with 3 PBS with 3 SCI-FI with 3 CARTOON with 1 DISCOVERY with 1
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Don't like the fact that January Jones and Alison Pill were snubbed in Performer of the Year. They were ten times better than Carell and Colbert, SORRY!
Good nominees. "Breaking Bad" managed more nods than I was expecting, which is great. "Big Love" deserved at least a nod for Chloe Sevigny, so I'm sad it got nothing. And Gabriel Byrne should be in the drama actor category over Hugh Laurie (or Jon Hamm, for that matter).
I like these nominees, alot! A couple of my favs got snubbed (i.e. Rachel Griffiths ) but overall they are pretty good. I am so glad that Kristin Chenoweth was not forgotten and I hope the Emmys remember her too.
For Your Grammy Consideration: Kristin Chenoweth - in all eligible categories
I don't know if there's a sense to vote for comedy categories because they are already sewn up by "30 Rock". WTF?! "The Big Bang Theory" was snubbed?! Guess, most people here don't get nerd-type humour... This is probably the last time I see January Jones (and Billie Piper) nominated for anything, so I vote for my ladies.
Extremely shocked and disappointed to see "Breaking Bad" not represented at all in Best Dramatic Episode, Gabriel Byrne for Lead Drama Actor, and the ghastly "American Dad" somehow making it in over the vastly superior "King of the Hill."
"In Treatment" in general was underrepresented, but I'm glad it got in where it counted: John Mahoney and Alison Pill. Now I guess I'll watch while Katherine Heigl takes it.
No nominations for "Big Love"? For shame!
And where is Margo Martindale, who gave one of the best performances of the year in her two episodes of "Dexter."
Happy to see "Pushing Daisies" get a fair share of love, though I think it's slightly appalling that Anna Friel was beaten out by Eva Longoria. What warm, beautiful, tender performances Friel gave!
Yay for "Friday Night Lights"!
"A movie is not good because it arrives at conclusions you share, or bad because it does not. A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it: about the way it considers its subject matter, and about how its real subject may be quite different from the one it seems to provide." - Roger Ebert, from the introduction to "Awake in the Dark" (2006)
no love for rescue me or big love but at least breaking bad gots some. im telling you cranstons gonna win another emmy this year and aaron paul is at least gettin a nom and i wouldnt be suprised to see it get a best drama series nomination
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The best comedy of this season, completely shut out of the running; Party Down. Not even a nod to Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan, Martin Starr or Jane Lynch? Or Kristen Bell? The fact Starz is getting their feet wet in series production should not be held against it. Even the mighty HBO and Showtime had to start somewhere. The talent and quality are there, in front and behind the camera. So Chuck off, then. :| I'll put PD's ensemble against ANY show on TV.
A better fate, somewhat, for BSG. But Olmos, Sackhoff, Helfer, Park, Hogan - all hosed. Paquin's Oscar half a lifetime ago still pays dividends. Sarah Michelle Gellar did this genre a hell of a lot better than Paquin ever can or will. But since Paquin's on HBO, free pass-a-palooza.
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Posts: 4233 | Location: SE Pennsylvania | Registered: May 27, 2005
Originally posted by PaulHan: The best comedy of this season, completely shut out of the running; Party Down. Not even a nod to Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan, Martin Starr or Jane Lynch? Or Kristen Bell? The fact Starz is getting their feet wet in series production should not be held against it. Even the mighty HBO and Showtime had to start somewhere. The talent and quality are there, in front and behind the camera. So Chuck off, then. :| I'll put PD's ensemble against ANY show on TV.
A better fate, somewhat, for BSG. But Olmos, Sackhoff, Helfer, Park, Hogan - all hosed. Paquin's Oscar half a lifetime ago still pays dividends. Sarah Michelle Gellar did this genre a hell of a lot better than Paquin ever can or will. But since Paquin's on HBO, free pass-a-palooza.
I watched "Party Down" on Netflix because I do not have Starz and I do not know anyone who has Starz. I think it did not get nominated because no enough people saw it. Personally it did not make my three nominees, and yes- "Chuck" did, but might have made my line-up if we voted for five.
Posts: 27154 | Location: Phoenix, AZ | Registered: February 02, 2003
Most of you are some of the most negative people I have ever run across! Why do you always focus on things that you dislike when there are obviously a few that you like? This goes for every type of award, not just the ones we offer here for fun. You must be a blast to hang around on a daily basis in your real life. Focus your life on the positives, not the negatives.
And by the way, YOU are the ones that actually voted for these nominees (most of you anyway... some of the ones complaining right now didn't even vote).
Yeah, I didn't vote, I didn't notice the board that was up to vote. I did send in my vote though for picking the winners. I'm happy about some nominee's, the only thing that upset me was the gabillion nominations of 30 rock, that's enough to make me puke, but other than that I enjoyed the nominations.
I got swamped and didn't vote this year. Although, I did not post any complaints. I posted what I was happy about. And here's some more:
Hooray that January Jones is nominated for Drama Lead Actress! Love that Breaking Bad got in for Drama Series. I was worried that me not voting would hurt its chances. LOL. Love that Pushing Daises, Chenoweth, Pace and McBride were all nominated. Also thrilled that Patrick Fischler made it in for Drama Guest Actor.
) but overall they are pretty good. I am so glad that Kristin Chenoweth was not forgotten and I hope the Emmys remember her too.
WTF?! "The Big Bang Theory" was snubbed?! Guess, most people here don't get nerd-type humour...
