2012 Emmy Awards – the winners

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2012 Emmy Awards – the winners

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The cast and crew of Modern Family, winner of the award for outstanding comedy series, pose backstage at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

The cast and crew of Modern Family, winner of the award for outstanding comedy series, pose backstage at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

The 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards have been held in Los Angeles.

Below is a list of the nominees and winners for each category – winners highlighted in red.

View photos from the event.

COMEDY SERIES

The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
Girls
(HBO)
Modern Family
(ABC) (VIDEO)
30 Rock (NBC)
Veep
(HBO)

LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY

Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory
Larry David as Himself in Curb Your Enthusiasm
Don Cheadle as Marty Kaan in House of Lies
Louis C.K. as Louie in Louie
Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy in 30 Rock
Jon Cryer as Alan Harper in Two and a Half Men

LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath in Girls
Melissa McCarthy as Molly Flynn in Mike & Molly
Zooey Deschanel as Jess Day in New Girl
Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton in Nurse Jackie
Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope in Parks and Recreation
Tina Fey as Liz Lemon in 30 Rock
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer in Veep

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY

Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett in Modern Family
Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett in Modern Family

Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy in Modern Family
Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker in Modern Family (VIDEO)
Max Greenfield as Schmidt in New Girl
Bill Hader as various characters in Saturday Night Live

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

Mayim Bialik as Amy Farrah Fowler in The Big Bang Theory
Kathryn Joosten as Karen McCluskey in Desperate Housewives
Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy in Modern Family (VIDEO)
Sofia Vergara as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in Modern Family

Merritt Wever as Zoey Barkow in Nurse Jackie
Kristen Wiig as various characters in Saturday Night Live

DRAMA SERIES

Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
Breaking Bad
(AMC)
Downton Abbey
(PBS)
Game of Thrones
(HBO)
Homeland (Showtime) (VIDEO)
Mad Men (AMC)

LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA

Glenn Close as Patty Hewes in Damages
Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary Crawley in Downton Abbey
Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick in The Good Wife
Kathy Bates as Harriet Korn in Harry's Law
Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in Homeland (VIDEO)
Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson in Mad Men

LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA

Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson in Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston as Walter White in Breaking Bad
Michael C Hall as Dexter Morgan in Dexter
Hugh Bonneville as Robert, Earl of Grantham in Downton Abbey

Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody in Homeland (VIDEO)
Jon Hamm as Don Draper in Mad Men

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA

Anna Gunn as Skyler White in Breaking Bad
Maggie Smith as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey (VIDEO)
Joanne Froggatt as Anna in Downton Abbey
Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma in The Good Wife
Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart in The Good Wife
Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway Harris in Mad Men

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA

Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad
Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo 'Gus' Fring in Breaking Bad
Brendan Coyle as John Bates in Downton Abbey
Jim Carter as Mr. Carson in Downton Abbey
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones
Jared Harris as Lane Pryce Mad Men

MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE

American Horror Story (FX)
Game Change (HBO)
Hatfields & McCoys
(History)
Hemingway & Gellhorn
(HBO)
Luther
(BBC America)
Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
(PBS)

LEAD ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE

Connie Britton as Vivien Harmon in American Horror Story
Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin in Game Change (VIDEO)
Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn in Hemingway & Gellhorn
Ashley Judd as Rebecca Winstone in Missing
Emma Thompson as She in The Song of Lunch

LEAD ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE

Woody Harrelson as Steve Schmidt in Game Change
Kevin Costner as 'Devil' Anse Hatfield in Hatfields & McCoys
Bill Paxton as Randall McCoy in Hatfields & McCoys
Clive Owen as Ernest Hemingway in Hemingway & Gellhorn
Idris Elba as John Luther in Luther
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE

Frances Conroy as Moira in American Horror Story
Jessica Lange as Constance Langdon in American Horror Story (VIDEO)
Sarah Paulson as Nicolle Wallace Game Change
Mare Winningham as Sally McCoy in Hatfields & McCoys
Judy Davis as Jill Tankard in Page Eight

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE

Denis O'Hare as Larry Harvey in American Horror Story
Ed Harris as John McCain in Game Change
Tom Berenger as Jim Vance in Hatfields & McCoys
David Strathairn as John Dos Passos in Hemingway & Gellhorn
Martin Freeman as Dr John Watson in Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia

VARIETY SERIES

The Colbert Report (Comedy Central)
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
(Comedy Central)
Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC)

Late Night With Jimmy
Fallon (NBC)
Real Time With Bill Maher
(HBO)
Saturday Night Live
(NBC)

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