61st Primetime Emmy Awards nominees

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Last July 16, Emmy Awards announced its nominees for the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards.

Here are some of the nominees for the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards:

Outstanding Drama Series

• Big Love
• Breaking Bad
• Damages
• Dexter
• House
• Lost
• Mad Men

Outstanding Comedy Series

• Entourage
• Family Guy
• Flight of the Conchords
• How I Met Your Mother
• The Office
• 30 Rock
• Weeds

Outstanding Lead Actor in Drama Series

• Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad
• Michael C. Hall - Dexter
• Hugh Laurie - House
• Gabriel Byrne - In Treatment
• Jon Hamm - Mad Men
• Simon Baker - The Mentalist

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series

• Steve Carell, as Michael Scott
  
  
  The Office - NBC
  
  
  
  
• Tony Shalhoub, as Adrian Monk
  
  
  Monk - USA
  
  
  
  
• Jemaine Clement, as Jemaine
  
  
  Flight Of The Conchords - HBO
  
  
  
  
• Jim Parsons, as Sheldon Cooper
  
  
  The Big Bang Theory - CBS
  
  
  
  
• Alec Baldwin, as Jack Donaghy
  
  
  30 Rock - NBC
  
  
  
  
• Charlie Sheen, as Charlie Harper
  
  
  Two And A Half Men - CBS
  
  
  
  

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

• Sally Field - Brothers & Sisters
• Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer
• Glenn Close - Damages
• Mariska Hargitay - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Elisabeth Moss - Mad Men
• Holly Hunter - Saving Grace

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series

• Sarah Silverman, as Sarah Silverman
  
  
  The Sarah Silverman Program - Comedy Central
  
  
  
  
• Mary-Louise Parker, as Nancy Botwin
  
  
  Weeds - Showtime
  
  
  
  
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, as Christine
  
  
  The New Adventures Of Old Christine - CBS
  
  
  
  
• Toni Collette, as Tara Gregson
  
  
  United States Of Tara - Showtime
  
  
  
  
• Christina Applegate, as Samantha Newly
  
  
  Samantha Who? - ABC
  
  
  
  
• Tina Fey, as Liz Lemon
  
  
  30 Rock - NBC
  
  
  
  

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

• William Shatner - Boston Legal
• Christian Clemenson - Boston Legal
• Aaron Paul - Breaking Bad
• William Hurt - Damages
• Michael Emerson - Lost
• John Slattery - Mad Men

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

• Kevin Dillon - Entourage
• Neil Patrick Harris - How I Met Your Mother
• Rainn Wilson - The Office
• Tracy Morgan - 30 Rock
• Jack McBrayer - 30 Rock
• Jon Cryer - Two and a Half Men

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

• Rose Byrne - Damages
• Sandra Oh - Grey's Anatomy
• Chandra Wilson - Grey's Anatomy
• Dianne Wiest - In Treatment
• Hope Davis - In Treatment
• Cherry Jones - 24

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

• Kristin Chenoweth - Pushing Daisies
• Amy Poehler - Saturday Night Live
• Kristen Wiig - Saturday Night Live
• Jane Krakowski - 30 Rock
• Vanessa Williams - Ugly Betty
• Elizabeth Perkins - Weeds

View full list here

Watch 61^st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 20 NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE, Los Angeles and the 2009 Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, September 12 also at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE, Los Angeles.