We may have a record breaker at the the 2012 Emmy Awards!
“Mad Men” has the potential to win it’s 5th straight Emmy. The cable show is nominated in the “Outstanding Drama Series” category. But the competition is stiff. It’s going up against “Boardwalk Empire,” “Breaking Bad,” “Homeland,” “Downton Abbey” and “Game of Thrones.” But if “Mad Men” pulls it off, it will be the first time a show has ever won five Emmys in the outstanding drama category. Currently tying “Mad Men” with four outstanding drama wins are “Hill Street Blues,” ” L.A. Law,” and “The West Wing.”
The 2012 Primetime Emmy nominees were announced on Thursday. The actual awards ceremony will be held at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on September 23, and 7pm eastern time. It will be shown live on ABC, and be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
So we have about two months of speculation over just who the winners will be. Besides the outstanding drama best drama category (listed above), here are some particular categories we’ll be watching closely:
Outstanding Comedy Series – 30 Rock, The Big Bang Theory, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Girls, Modern Family, Veep.
Outstanding Miniseries or TV Movie – American Horror Story, Game Change, Hatfields & McCoys, Hemingway & Gellhorn, Luther, Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia.
Outstanding Reality-Competition Program – The Amazing Race, Dancing with the Stars, Project Runway, So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef, The Voice.
Outstanding Children’s Program – Degrassi, Good Luck Charlie, iCarly, Victorious,
Wizards of Waverly Place.
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series – Hugh Bonneville (Robert, Earl of Grantham) in Downton Abbey, Steve Buscemi (Enoch “Nucky” Thompson) in Boardwalk Empire, Bryan Cranston (Walter White) in Breaking Bad, Michael C. Hall (Dexter Morgan) in Dexter,
Jon Hamm (Don Draper) in Mad Men, Damian Lewis (Nicholas Brody) in Homeland.
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series – Phil Abraham/Mad Men (The Other Woman), Michael Cuesta/Homeland (Pilot), Vince Gilligan/Breaking Bad (Face Off), Brian Percival/Downton Abbey (Episode 7), Tim Van Patten/Boardwalk Empire (To the Lost).
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