The 2014 Emmy Nominations Are Out, Did Your Favorites Make the Cut?

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This morning the 2014 Primetime Emmy nominations were announced. We have the full list so you can check and see if your favorite shows are on there, but a quick look shows us that a lot of people are likely to be disappointed — especially if you’re a clone.

The live stream of the announcement is still going on. Yahoo! is checking it with some of the nominees at the moment. We assume a replay of the full presentation will be available after the fact.

First, here are the big categories:

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad
Kevin Spacey – House of Cards
Jon Hamm – Mad Men
Jeff Daniels – The Newsroom
Woody Harrelson – True Detective
Matthew McConaughey – True Detective

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Michelle Dockery – Downton Abbey
Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife
Claire Danes – Homeland
Robin Wright – House of Cards
Lizzy Caplan – Masters of Sex
Kerry Washington – Scandal

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie

Chiwetel Ejiofor – Dancing on the Edge
Martin Freeman – Fargo
Billy Bob Thornton – Fargo
Idris Elba – Luther
Mark Ruffalo – The Normal Heart
Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock: His Last Vow

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie

Jessica Lange – American Horror Story: Coven
Sarah Paulson – American Horror Story: Coven
Helena Bonham Carter – Burton and Taylor
Minnie Driver – Return to Zero
Kristen Wiig – The Spoils of Babylon
Cicely Tyson – The Trip to Bountiful

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Jim Parsons – The Big Bang Theory
Ricky Gervais – Derek
Matt LeBlanc – Episodes
Don Cheadle – House of Lies
Louis C.K. – Louie
William H. Macy – Shameless

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Lena Dunham – Girls
Melissa McCarthy – Mike & Molly
Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie
Taylor Schilling – Orange is the New Black
Amy Poehler – Parks and Recreation
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program

The Amazing Race
Dancing with the Stars
Project Runway
So You Think You Can Dance
Top Chef
The Voice

Outstanding Variety Series

The Colbert Report
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Jimmy Kimmel Live

Real Time with Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Outstanding Miniseries

American Horror Story: Coven
Bonnie & Clyde
Fargo
Luther
Treme
The White Queen

Outstanding Television Movie

Killing Kennedy
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight
The Normal Heart
Sherlock: His Last Vow
The Trip to Bountiful

Outstanding Comedy Series

The Big Bang Theory
Louie
Modern Family
Orange is the New Black
Silicon Valley
Veep

Outstanding Drama Series

Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
House of Cards
Mad Men
True Detective

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

Moira Walley-Beckett – Breaking Bad
Vince Gilligan – Breaking Bad
David Benioff, D.B. Weiss – Game of Thrones
Beau Willimon – House of Cards
Nic Pizzolatto – True Detective

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

David Crane, Jeffrey Klarik – Episodes
Louis C.K. – Louie
Liz Friedman, Jenji Kohan – Orange is the New Black
Alec Berg – Silicon Valley
Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche, Armando Iannucci – Veep

Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special

Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk – American Horror Story: Coven
Noah Hawley – Fargo
Neil Cross – Luther
Larry Kramer – The Normal Heart
Steven Moffat – Sherlock: His Last Vow
David Simon, Eric Overmyer – Treme

Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series

The Colbert Report
The Daily Show with John Stewart
Inside Amy Schumer
Key & Pele
Portlandia
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special

The Beatles: The Night That Changed America
Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays
The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards
Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles
67th Annual Tony Awards

Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey
JFK (American Experience)
The World Wars
Years of Living Dangerously

Here’s the full list from the Emmys site if you want to see any additional categories.

(via Emmys)

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