The Biggest Night in Television Show - Prime time Emmy Award Nominations - Full List Of Nominees With World Box Office News 2012

Prime time biggest night in television is just two months away — and now we know which stars and shows will be going head-to-head at the 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards! Jimmy Kimmel and Kerry Washington were on hand bright and early July 19 to announce the nominees, and here they are

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The nominations for the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced in Los Angeles this morning. Read on to see if your favorite shows made the cut:

The 1960s-themed AMC show "Mad Men," which has won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series every year since it premiered in 2007, earned another nod in the category, racking up a total of 17 nominations in total. The FX mini-series "American Horror Story" earned 17 nods as well - the most given to a program in the genre in a single year since "Roots" garnered 37 in 1977.

The PBS series "Downton Abbey" is also nominated for the title and has a total of 16 nominations this year. Stars Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery earned their first nods for their role as Robert, Earl of Grantham and Lady Mary Crawley.

Other first-time nominees include Zooey Deschanel of the FOX comedy series "New Girl," "Blossom" alum Mayim Balik who stars in "The Big Bang Theory," Damian Lewis of Showtime's "Homeland," Lena Dunham of HBO's "Girls," Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton of the History Channel mini-series "Hatfields & McCoys" and Benedict Cumberbatch of the PBS mini-series "Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia (Masterpiece).

Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen of the HBO movie "Hemingway & Gellhorn" and Julianne Moore, who played Sarah Palin in the HBO film "Game Change," also earned their first Emmy nods. "Hemingway & Gellhorn" received a whopping 15 nods.

"American Idol" did not earn an Emmy nomination this year for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program, while it's competitor, the NBC singing contest "The Voice," earned its first nod.

Outstanding Drama Series Full List Of Nominees:

Boardwalk Empire

Breaking Bad

Downton Abbey

Game Of Thrones

Homeland

Mad Men

Outstanding Comedy Series Full List Of Nominees:

The Big Bang Theory

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Modern Family

Girls

30 Rock

Veep 

Lead Actor in a Drama Series Full List Of Nominees:

Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire

Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad

Michael C. Hall, Dexter

Hugh Bonneville, Downton Abbey

Damian Lewis, Homeland

Jon Hamm, Mad Man

Lead Actress in a Drama Series Full List Of Nominees:

Glenn Close, Damages

Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey

Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife

Kathy Bates, Harry’s Law

Claire Danes, Homeland

Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men

Full List Of Nominees Lead Actor in a Comedy Series:

Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock

Don Cheadle, House of Lies

Louie C.K., Louie

John Cryer, Two and a Half Men

Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm

Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory

Full List Of Nominees Lead Actress in a Comedy Series:

Lena Dunham, Girls

Melissa McCarthy, Mike and Molly

Zooey Deschanel, New Girl

Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie

Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation

Julia Louis Dreyfus, Veep

Full List Of Nominees Supporting Actor in a Drama Series:

Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad

Giancarlo Esposito, Breaking Bad

Brendan Coyle, Downton Abbey

Jim Carter, Downton Abbey

Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones

Jared Harris, Mad Men

Full List Of Nominees Supporting Actress in a Drama Series:

Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad

Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey

Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey

Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife

Christine Baranski, The Good Wife

Christina Hendricks, Mad Men

Full List Of Nominees Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series:

Ed O’Neill, Modern Family

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family

Ty Burrell, Modern Family

Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family

Max Greenfield, New Girl

Bill Hader, Saturday Night Live

Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Full List Of Nominees:

Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory

Kathryn Joosten, Desperate Housewives

Julie Bowen, Modern Family

Sofia Vergara, Modern Family

Merritt Weaver, Nurse Jackie

Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live

Full List Of Nominees Outstanding Reality Program:

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution

MythBusters

Antique’s Roadshow

Shark Tank

Undercover Boss

Who Do You Think You Are? 

Full List Of Nominees Outstanding Reality-Competition Program:

The Amazing Race

Dancing with the Stars

Project Runway

So You Think You Can Dance

Top Chef

The Voice 

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