The winners of the 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards have been announced and the big winners are
"Homeland" (6 wins out of 9 nominations) and
"Modern Family" (5 wins out of 14 nominations). The latter has won the award for Outstanding Comedy Series for a third consecutive year.
"Homeland" was something of a surprise hit, bringing home the awards for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series, Lead Actor (
Damian Lewis), Lead Actress (
Claire Danes) and Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series (for the Pilot episode). Add the two Golden Globes that the series won at the beginning of this year and the expectations for the upcoming season have just blown the roof off.
On the other hand,
"Modern Family" was something of a sure thing. The comedy series won, besides the Best Series award, Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series, Supporting Actor (
Eric Stonestreet) and Supporting Actress (
Julie Bowen). For Stonestreet and Bowen this is their second win in the supporting category.
Other Emmy winners include
Julia Louis-Dreyfus for
"Veep",
Jon Cryer for
"Two and a Half Men",
Aaron Paul for
"Breaking Bad",
Maggie Smith for
"Downton Abbey" and
Jessica Lange for her insanely delicious/creepy supporting turn in
"American Horror Story".
In the miniseries category, the HBO political drama
"Game Change" won 5 major awards, including the awards for Outstanding Miniseries, Directing (
Jay Roach), Writing and Lead Actress (
Julianne Moore). Tied with
"Game Change", but lacking in major awards, is
"Hatfields & McCoys", which took home 3 technical awards (Editing, Makeup and Sound Mixing) as well as Outstanding Lead Actor (
Kevin Costner) and Supporting Actor (
Tom Berenger).
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