My Emmy Picks

     This is my list of Emmy picks that I am doing on my own ballot, for fun.  The picks do not necessarily reflect who I think deserves it, but who I think will get it.  As per the rules I created for my own house, I am submitting first, second, and third choices for each category.  If you wish to play the same way at your home, each first place pick that you get right earns you three points, each second place win earns two points, and each third place choice wins one point.  Get it?  Good.  I have chosen to leave off categories that I don't know much about and / or care about.  Here are my choices:

Outstanding Drama Series:
1st Choice: The Good Wife
2nd Choice: Mad Men
3rd Choice: Dexter 

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama:
1st Choice: Hugh Laurie as Dr. House (House)
2nd Choice: Michael C. Hall as Dexter (Dexter)
3rd Choice: Kyle Chandler as Coach Eric Taylor (Friday Night Lights)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama:
1st Choice: Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick (The Good Wife)
2nd Choice: Connie Britton as Principal Tami Taylor (Friday Night Lights)
3rd Choice: Mariska Hargitay as Det. Olivia Benson (Law & Order: SVU)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama:
1st Choice: Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)
2nd Choice: Martin Short as Leonard Winstone (Damages)
3rd Choice: Andre Braugher as Owen (Men of a Certain Age)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama:
1st Choice: Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart  (The Good Wife)
2nd Choice: Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife)
3rd Choice: Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris (Mad Men) 

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama:
1st Choice: John Lithgow as Arthur Mitchell (Dexter - "Road Kill")
2nd Choice: Gregory Itzen as Charles Logan (24 - "1:00 PM - 2:00 PM")
3rd Choice: Alan Cumming as Eli Gold (The Good Wife - "Fleas") 

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama:
1st Choice: Shirley Jones as Lola Zellman (The Cleaner - "Does Everybody Have a Drink?")
2nd Choice: Lily Tomlin as Marilyn Tobin (Damages - "Your Secrets Are Safe")
3rd Choice: Ann-Margret as Rita Wills (Law & Order: SVU - "Bedtime")

Outstanding Comedy Series:
1st Choice: Glee
2nd Choice: Modern Family
3rd Choice: Nurse Jackie


Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy:
1st Choice: Matthew Morrison as Will Schuester (Glee)
2nd Choice: Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
3rd Choice: Tony Shaloub as Det. Adrian Monk (Monk)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy:
1st Choice: Edie Falco as Nurse Jackie Peyton (Nurse Jackie)
2nd Choice: Lea Michele as Rachel Berry (Glee)
3rd Choice: Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy:
1st Choice: Eric Stonestreet as Camerson (Modern Family)
2nd Choice: Chris Colfer as Kurt Hummel (Glee)
3rd Choice: Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy (Modern Family)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy:
1st Choice: Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester (Glee)
2nd Choice: Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy (Modern Family)
3rd Choice: Sofia Vergara as Gloria (Modern Family) 

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy:
1st Choice: Mike O'Malley as Burt Hummel (Glee - "Wheels")
2nd Choice: Eli Wallach as Bernard Zimberg (Nurse Jackie - "Chicken Soup")
3rd Choice: Fred Willard as Franky Dunphy (Modern Family - "Travels With Scout") 

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy:
1st Choice: Betty White as Host (Saturday Night Live - "Host: Betty White")
2nd Choice: Christine Baranski as Beverly Hofstadter (The Big Bang Theory - "The Maternal Congruence")
3rd Choice: Kathryn Joosten as Karen McCluskey (Desperate Housewives - "The Chase")

Outstanding Miniseries: (only 2 nominees, so only one pick, worth 3 points)
The Pacific

Outstanding Made for Television Movie:
1st Choice: The Special Relationship
2nd Choice: Temple Grandin
3rd Choice: You Don't Know Jack

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie:
1st Choice: Michael Sheen as Tony Blair (The Special Relationship)
2nd Choice: Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Kevorkian (You Don't Know Jack)
3rd Choice: Jeff Bridges as Jon Katz (A Dog Year) 

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie:
1st Choice: Claire Danes as Temple Grandin (Temple Grandin)
2nd Choice: Hope Davis as Hillary Clinton  (The Special Relationship)
3rd Choice: Dame Judi Dench as Miss Matty (Return to Cranford)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie:
1st Choice: Michael Gambon as Mr. Woodhouse (Emma)
2nd Choice: David Strathairn as Dr. Carlock (Temple Grandin)
3rd Choice: Patrick Stewart as Ghost / Claudius (Hamlet) 

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie:
1st Choice: Catherine O'Hara as Aunt Ann (Temple Grandin)
2nd Choice: Susan Sarandon as Janet Good (You Don't Know Jack)
3rd Choice: Julia Ormond as Eustacia (Temple Grandin)

Outstanding Animated Program:
1st Choice: The Ricky Gervais Show, Knob at Night (HBO)
2nd Choice: South Park, 200/201 (Comedy Central)
3rd Choice: The Simpsons, Once Upon a Time in Springfield (Fox)

Outstanding Voice-Over Performance:
1st Choice: Dane Castellaneta as Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson (The Simpsons)
2nd Choice: Hank Azaria as Moe Syzlak, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon (The Simpsons)
3rd Choice: H. Jon Benjamin as Sterling Archer (Archer)

Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series:
1st Choice: The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien
2nd Choice: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
3rd Choice: Real Time With Bill Maher


Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special:
1st Choice: Bill Maher "...But I'm Not Wrong"
2nd Choice: Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction
3rd Choice: Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me


Outstanding Host For a Reality or Reality-Competition Program:
1st Choice: Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars
2nd Choice: Heidi Klum, Project Runway
3rd Choice: Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race

Outstanding Reality Program:
1st Choice: Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
2nd Choice: Undercover Boss
3rd Choice: Dirty Jobs

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program:
1st Choice: Top Chef
2nd Choice: Dancing With the Stars
3rd Choice: Project Runway