Friday, June 15, 2012

NOMINATIONS: PAAFTJ Television Awards - MAD MEN, GAME OF THRONES, DOWNTON ABBEY

The Pan-American Association of Film & Television Journalists (PAAFTJ), a newly founded organization representing over 500 journalists from all across the Americas, announced on Thursday nominations for the inaugural edition of the PAAFTJ Television Awards, honoring the finest achievement in US television programming in the 2011/12 TV season. The winners of the PAAFTJ Television Awards will be announced on July 8, 2012.

Nominations were spread across a total of 85 shows from all major broadcast networks plus 15 cable channels and two British networks. Leading the list is the NBC comedy "Community" with 10 nominations, followed by ABC's MODERN FAMILY with 9. In the drama field, AMC's MAD MEN and Showtime new show HOMELAND lead with 8 nominations each. Other multiple nominees this year include FX animated series ARCHER and HBO period miniseries HEMINGWAY & GELHORN, among others.

The full list of nominees for the 1st PAAFTJ Television Awards is as follows:

BEST DRAMA SERIES
Awake NBC
Boardwalk Empire HBO
Boss Starz
Breaking Bad AMC
Fringe Fox
Game of Thrones HBO
Homeland Showtime
House Fox
Justified FX
Mad Men AMC

BEST COMEDY SERIES
30 Rock NBC
Community NBC
Cougar Town ABC
Curb Your Enthusiasm HBO
Happy Endings ABC
Louie FX
The Middle ABC
Modern Family ABC
Parks and Recreation NBC
Veep HBO

BEST MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
American Horror Story FX
Game Change HBO
Hatfields & McCoys History Channel
Hemingway & Gellhorn HBO
The Hour BBC
Sherlock BBC

BEST ANIMATED SERIES
Adventure Time Cartoon Network
The Amazing World of Gumball Cartoon Network
Archer FX
Bob’s Burgers Fox
Family Guy Fox
The Legend of Korra Nickelodeon
Mad Cartoon Network
Regular Show Cartoon Network
South Park Comedy Central
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Cartoon Network

BEST VARIETY SERIES
Conan TBS
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Comedy Central
Jimmy Kimmel Live! ABC
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson CBS
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon NBC
Saturday Night Live NBC

BEST DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
Boardwalk Empire Allen Coulter for Under God’s Power She Flourishes
Boss Gus Van Sant for Listen
Downton Abbey Ashley Pearce for Episode One
Game of Thrones Neil Marshall for Blackwater
Homeland Michael Cuesta for Pilot
Mad Men Jennifer Getzinger for A Little Kiss

BEST DIRECTING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
30 Rock Beth McCarthy Miller for Live From Studio 6H
Community Tristam Shapeero for Pillows and Blankets
Modern Family James Bagdonas for Disneyland
Parks and Recreation Amy Poehler for The Debate
Suburgatory Alex Hardcastle for Thanksgiving
Veep Armando Ianucci for Baseball

BEST DIRECTING FOR A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
American Horror Story Ryan Murphy
Game Change Jay Roach
Great Expectations Brian Kirk
Hatfields & McCoys Kevin Reynolds
Hemingway & Gellhorn Philip Kaufman
Titanic Jon Jones

BEST DIRECTING FOR AN ANIMATED SERIES
Adventure Time Larry Leichliter for Fionna and Cake/What Was Missing
The Amazing World of Gumball Ben Marsaud for The Microwave/The Meddler
Archer Adam Reed for Space Race
The Legend of Korra Joaquim dos Santos & Ki Hyun Ryu for Welcome to Republic City
The Simpsons Matthew Nastuk for At Long Last Leave
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Brian Kalin O’Connel for Slaves of the Republic

BEST LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Bryan Cranston for Breaking Bad (Episode: Crawl Space)
Kelsey Grammer for Boss (Episode: Swallow)
Jason Isaacs for Awake (Episode: Say Hello to My Little Friend)
Hugh Laurie for House (Episode: Everybody Dies)
Damian Lewis for Homeland (Episode: Representative Brody)
Timothy Olyphant for Justified (Episode: Slaughterhouse)

BEST LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Alec Baldwin for 30 Rock (Episode: Live From Studio 6H)
Louis C.K. for Louie (Episode: Come On, God)
Garret Dillahunt for Raising Hope (Episode: Kidnapped)
Larry David for Curb Your Enthusiasm (Episode: Palestinian Chicken)
Joel McHale for Community (Episode: Contemporary Impressionists)
Jim Parsons for The Big Bang Theory (Episode: The Friendship Contraction)

BEST LEAD ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Kevin Costner for Hatfields & McCoys
Benedict Cumberbatch for Sherlock
Idris Elba for Luther
Woody Harrelson for Game Change
Bill Nighy for Page Eight
Clive Owen for Hemingway & Gellhorn

BEST LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Claire Danes for Homeland (Episode: The Vest)
Ginnifer Goodwin for Once Upon A Time (Episode: Snow Falls)
Julianna Margulies for The Good Wife (Episode: Blue Ribbon Panel)
Elisabeth Moss for Mad Men (Episode: The Other Woman)
Katey Sagal for Sons Of Anarchy (Episode: Hands)
Anna Torv for Fringe (Episode: One Night in October)

BEST LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Zooey Deschanel for New Girl (Episode: Pilot)
Lena Dunham for Girls (Episode: All Adventurous Women Do)
Patricia Heaton for The Middle (Episode: Thanksgiving III)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus for Veep (Episode: Nicknames)
Melissa McCarthy for Mike & Molly (Episode: Bachelor/Bachelorette)
Amy Poehler for Parks and Recreation (Episode: I’m Leslie Knope)

BEST LEAD ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Patricia Clarkson for Five
Nicole Kidman for Hemingway & Gellhorn
Melissa Leo for The Space Between
Julianne Moore for Game Change
Emma Thompson for The Song of Lunch
Emily Watson for Appropriate Adult

BEST WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
Awake Kyle Killen for Pilot
Breaking Bad George Mastras & Sam Catlin for Crawl Space
Homeland Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon & Chip Johannessen for Marine One
House David Shore, Peter Blake & Eli Attie for Everybody Dies
Mad Men Matthew Weiner for Lady Lazarus
Smash Theresa Rebeck for Pilot

BEST WRITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
30 Rock Robert Carlock & Vali Chandrasekaran for Murphy Brown Lied to Us
Community Chris McKenna for Remedial Chaos Theory
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret David Cross & Shaun Pye & Mark Chappell for Conclusion
Louie Louis C.K. for Duckling
Veep Armando Ianucci & Simon Blackwell for Fundraiser
Wilfred David Zuckerman for Identity

BEST WRITING FOR A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Appropriate Adult Neil McKay
Game Change Danny Strong
Hemingway & Gellhorn Jerry Stahl & Barbara Turner
The Hour Abi Morgan
Page Eight David Hare
Sherlock Steven Moffat & Steve Thompson & Mark Gatiss

BEST WRITING FOR AN ANIMATED SERIES
Archer Adam Reed for Bloody Ferlin
Bob’s Burgers Nora Smith for Beefsquatch
Family Guy Mark Hentemann for Back to the Pilot
The Penguins of Madagascar Bill Motz & Bob Roth for Operation: Big Blue Marble
Regular Show Benton Connor & Hilary Florido for Weekend at Benson’s
South Park Trey Parker for 1%

BEST WRITING FOR A VARIETY SERIES
Conan TBS
The Colbert Report Comedy Central
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Comedy Central
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson CBS
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon NBC
Saturday Night Live NBC

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Peter Dinklage for Game of Thrones (Episode: Garden of Bones)
Giancarlo Esposito for Breaking Bad (Episode: Hermanos)
Vincent Kartheiser for Mad Men (Episode: Signal 30)
John Noble for Fringe (Episode: Worlds Apart)
Nick Nolte for Luck (Episode: Ace Pitches a Deal)
Michael Pitt for Boardwalk Empire (Episode: To The Lost)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ty Burrell for Modern Family (Episode: Disneyland)
Tony Hale for Veep (Episode: Baseball)
Nick Offerman for Parks and Recreation (Episode: Ron and Tammys)
Danny Pudi for Community (Episode: Virtual Systems Analysis)
Jim Rash for Community (Episode: Documentary Filmmaking: Redux)
James Van Der Beek for Don’t Trust The B--- in Apartment 23 (Episode: Making Rent)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Ralph Fiennes for Page Eight
Martin Freeman for Sherlock
Ed Harris for Game Change
Martin Landau for Have a Little Faith
Tony Shaloub for Hemingway & Gellhorn
Ray Winstone for Great Expectations

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Christina Hendricks for Mad Men (Episode: Mystery Date)
Anjelica Huston for Smash (Episode: The Coup)
Kathryn Joosten for Desperate Housewives (Episode: Finishing the Hat)
Regina King for Southland (Episode: Wednesday)
Lana Parrilla for Once Upon A Time (Episode: The Thing You Love Most)
Maggie Smith for Downton Abbey (Episode: Episode One)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Julie Bowen for Modern Family (Episode: Little Bo Bleep)
Diane Ladd for Enlightened (Episode: Consider Helen)
Busy Philipps for Cougar Town (Episode: Down South)
Eden Sher for The Middle (Episode: The Concert)
Sofia Vergara for Modern Family (Episode: Egg Drop)
Kristen Wiig for Saturday Night Live (Episode: Mick Jagger)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Gillian Anderson for Great Expectations
Ellen Burstyn for Coma
Judy Davis for Page Eight
Jessica Lange for American Horror Story
Sarah Paulson for Game Change
Lara Pulver for Sherlock

BEST VOICE ACTOR IN AN ANIMATED SERIES
Jeff Bennett for The Penguins of Madagascar (Episode: Loathe at First Sight)
H. Jon Benjamin for Archer (Episode: Skin Game)
Jeremy Irons for The Simpsons (Episode: Moe Goes from Rags to Riches)
Daran Norris for The Fairly OddParents (Episode: Timmy’s Secret Wish)
Neil Patrick Harris for Adventure Time (Episode: Fionna and Cake)
J. G. Quintel for Regular Show (Episode: Eggcellent)

BEST VOICE ACTRESS IN AN ANIMATED SERIES
Lady Gaga for The Simpsons (Episode: Lisa Goes Gaga)
Judy Greer for Archer (Episode: The Limited)
Katey Sagal for Futurama (Episode: Yo Leela Leela)
Kristen Schaal for Bob’s Burgers (Episode: The Belchies)
Tara Strong for The Fairly OddParents (Episode: Timmy’s Secret Wish)
Jessica Walter for Archer (Episode: The Man From Jupiter)

BEST GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Jere Burns for Justified (Episode: Slaughterhouse)
Giancarlo Esposito for Once Upon A Time (Episode: Fruit of the Poisonous Tree)
Michael Gambon for Luck (Episode: Ace Meets with a Colleague)
Robert Morse for Mad Men (Episode: Christmas Waltz)
Matthew Perry for The Good Wife (Episode: Blue Ribbon Panel)
Jeffrey Wright for House (Episode: Nobody’s Fault)

BEST GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Bobby Cannavale for Modern Family (Episode: Send Out the Clowns)
Jimmy Fallon for Saturday Night Live (Episode: Jimmy Fallon/Michael Bublé)
John Goodman for Community (Episode: Advanced Gay)
Jon Hamm for 30 Rock (Episode: Live From Studio 6H)
Michael J. Fox for Curb Your Enthusiasm (Episode: Larry vs. Michael J. Fox)
Justin Long for New Girl (Episode: Bad in Bed)

BEST GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Joan Allen for Luck (Episode: Ace and Claire Tour a Horse Farm)
Loretta Devine for Grey’s Anatomy (Episode: Hope for the Hopeless)
Louise Fletcher for Shameless (Episode: Parenthood)
Lucy Liu for Southland (Episode: Fallout)
Bernadette Peters for Smash (Episode: The Workshop)
Uma Thurman for Smash (Episode: The Movie Star)

BEST GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Kathy Bates for Two and a Half Men (Episode: Why We Gave Up Women)
Whoopi Goldberg for Glee (Episode: Choke)
Kathryn Hahn for Parks and Recreation (Episode: Campaign Shake-Up)
Melissa McCarthy for Saturday Night Live (Episode: Melissa McCarthy/Lady Antebellum)
Chlöe Moretz for 30 Rock (Episode: Standards and Practices)
Katy Perry for Raising Hope (Episode: Single White Female Role Model)

BEST CAST IN A DRAMA SERIES
Breaking Bad Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, Bob Odenkirk, Giancarlo Esposito, Jonathan Banks; casting by Sharon Bialy & Sherry Thomas
Downton Abbey Hugo Bonneville, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Siobhan Finneran, Joanne Froggatt, Thomas Howes, Rob James-Collier, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Sophie McShera, Lesley Nicol, Amy Nuttall, Maggie Smith, Dan Stevens, Penelope Wilton; casting by Jill Trevellick
Game of Thrones Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley, Emilia Clarke, Aidan Gillen, Iain Glen, Kit Harington, Charles Dance, Liam Cunningham, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Richard Madden, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Jack Gleeson, Alfie Allen, John Bradley, Rory McCann, Natalie Dormer, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, James Cosmo, Sibel Kekilli, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill; casting by Nina Gold & Robert Sterne
Homeland Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Morena Baccarin, David Harewood, Diego Klattenhoff, Jackson Pace, Morgan Saylor, Mandy Patikin; casting by Judy Henderson
Luck Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina, John Ortiz, Richard Kind, Kevin Dunn, Ian Hart, Ritche Coster, Jason Gedrick, Kerry Condon, Gary Stevens, Tom Payne, Jill Hennessy, Nick Nolte, Michael Gambon, Ted Levine; casting by Rebecca Mangieri & Wendy Weidman
Smash Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Katharine McPhee, Christian Borle, Megan Hilty, Anjelica Huston, Raza Jeffrey, Brian D’Arcy James, Jaime Cepero; casting by Tiffany Little Canfield & Bernard Telsey

BEST CAST IN A COMEDY SERIES
Community Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Jim Rash, Ken Jeong, Chevy Chase; casting by Dava Waite & Juel Bestrop
Cougar Town Courteney Cox, Christa Miller, Busy Philipps, Dan Byrd, Josh Hopkins, Ian Gomez, Brian Van Holt; casting by Debby Romano & Brett Benner
Girls Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Adam Driver, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Christopher Abbott, Alex Carpovsky; casting by Jennifer Euston
Happy Endings Eliza Coupe, Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton, Adam Pally, Damon Wayans Jr., Casey Wilson; casting by Susan Vash
Modern Family Ed O’Neil, Sofia Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet, Rico Rodriguez, Nolan Gould, Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter; casting by Jeff Greenberg
Veep Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott, Sufe Bradshaw, Tony Hale, Timothy Simons, Matt Walsh; casting by Allison Jones

BEST CAST IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
American Horror Story Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, Taissa Farmiga, Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Denis O’Hare; casting by Eric Dawson & Carol Kritzer & Robert J. Ulrich
Game Change Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ed Harris, Ron Livingston, Sarah Paulson, Peter MacNicol, Tiffany Thornton, Jamey Sheridan, Alex Hyde-White, Melissa Farman, Brian d’Arcy James, Bruce Altman; casting by Kathleen Chopin & Richard Hicks & David Rubin
Hatfields & McCoys Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton, Matt Barr, Tom Berenger, Powers Boothe, Andrew Howard, Jena Malone, Sarah Parish, Lindsay Pulsipher, Ronan Vibert, Joe Absolom, Noel Fisher, Boyd Holbrook, Tom McKay, Mare Winningham; casting by Fern Champion & Laura Grosu & Amy Hubbard
Hemingway & Gellhorn Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, Rodrigo Santoro, Robert Duvall, Connie Nielsen, Parker Posey, Molly Parker, Tony Shalhoub, David Strathairn, Jeffrey Jones, Mark Pellegrino, Lars Ulrich, Diane Baker, Brooke Adams, Santiago Cabrera; casting by Victoria Thomas
Page Eight Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Tom Hughes, Michael Gambon, Judy Davis, Ralph Fiennes, Saskia Reeves, Felicity Jones; casting by Fiona Weir
Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Loo Brealey, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Scott, Vinette Robinson, Jonathan Aris, Lara Pulver, Russell Tovey; casting by Kate Rhodes James

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN IN A DRAMA SERIES
Boardwalk Empire Bill Groom for 21
Downton Abbey Donal Woods for Episode One
Game of Thrones Gemma Jackson for Garden of Bones
Mad Men Dan Bishop for A Little Kiss
Pan Am Bob Shaw for 1964
Smash Cabot McMullen for Bombshell

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN IN A COMEDY SERIES
Community Denise Pizzini Virtual Systems Analysis
The Middle Randy Ser for The Map
Modern Family Richard Berg for Tableau Vivant
Raising Hope John Zachary for Sabrina’s New Jimmy
Suburgatory Joseph P. Lucky for Pilot
Veep Laura Ballinger for Tears

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
American Horror Story Mort Worthington
Great Expectations David Roger
Hatfields & McCoys Derek R. Hill
Hemingway & Gellhorn Geoffrey Kirkland
The Hour Eve Stewart
Titanic Rob Harris

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A DRAMA SERIES
Boardwalk Empire Jonathan Freeman for 21
Boardwalk Empire David Franco for To The Lost
Downton Abbey Nigel Willoughby for Episode Seven
Luck John L. Grillo for Two Prized Colts Go Head-to-Head
Pan Am John Lindley for Pilot
The Walking Dead Rohn Schmidt for Pretty Much Dead Already

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A COMEDY SERIES
Bored to Death Vanja Cernjul for Forget the Herring
Californication Michael Weaver for Hell Ain’t a Bad Place To Be
Girls Matthew J. Santo for Welcome to Bushwick AKA The Crackcident
Veep Jay Feather for Baseball
Weeds Steven H. Smith for Cats! Cats! Cats!
Wilfred Brad Lipson for Anger

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
American Horror Story John B. Aronson & Michael Goi
Firelight Frank Prinzi
Great Expectations Florian Hoffmeister
Page Eight Martin Ruhe
The River John R. Leonetti
Titanic Adam Suschitzky

BEST EDITING IN A DRAMA SERIES
Awake Jordan Goldman & Paul Trejo for Pilot
Boardwalk Empire Tim Streeto for To The Lost
Breaking Bad Skip MacDonald for Face Off
Homeland Jordan Goldman & David Latham for Pilot
Justified Keith Henderson for The Devil You Know
Person Of Interest Ray Daniels for Firewall

BEST EDITING IN A COMEDY SERIES
30 Rock Ken Eluto for Queen of Jordan 2: The Mystery of the Phantom Pooper
Community Jeff Hall for Pillows and Blankets
Cougar Town John Michel for Ways to be Wicked
Curb Your Enthusiasm Steve Rasch for Palestinian Chicken
Modern Family Ryan Case for Aunt Mommy
Parks and Recreation John M. Valerio & Ivan Victor for The Debate

BEST EDITING IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Game Change Lucia Zucchetti
Great Expectations Guy Bensley & Victoria Boydell
Hemingway & Gellhorn Walter Murch
The Hour Gareth C. Scales & Xavier Russell & Nick Arthurs & Paul Machliss
Luther Tania Reddin & Katie Weiland & Victoria Boydell
Sherlock Charlie Phillips

BEST MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC
Great Expectations BBC
Homeland Showtime
The Hour BBC
Magic City Starz
The Secret Circle The CW
Touch Fox

BEST MAIN TITLE DESIGN
American Horror Story FX
Boss Starz
NYC 22 CBS
The Hour BBC
Magic City Starz
Great Expectations BBC

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