Who needs Emmys when you've got me?

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As threatened promised, I'm making up my own list of Emmy nominees, and y'all can choose your favorites. :)

Notes:

1. Each actor submitted themselves in the category of their choice. If you think someone is in the wrong category, don't blame me. The full list, again, is here.

2. This is totally and utterly biased toward the shows I watch and the actors I like. Yes, I may have left out superb actors because I have no idea who they are and/or have never seen their show. You don't like it, make your own awards! :-P

3. No write-in votes. I tried to stick to six nominees per category, and let me tell you, it was REALLY HARD. The supporting actor/actress categories in particular, I probably could've filled a whole second poll.

4. In some categories, I chose people I didn't know or hadn't seen just to get six options. Apparently, I don't watch enough TV movies/miniseries. I did kinda try to keep it to shows I theoretically wanted to see - and who knows, if they get a lot of votes, it might motivate me!

5. Feel free to explain/defend/campaign for your choices in the comments!

Poll #7301 Laura's Emmy Poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

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Lead Actor in a Comedy

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Steve Carell (The Office)
1 (11.1%)

Zachary Levi (Chuck)
3 (33.3%)

Rob Lowe (Parks & Recreation)
2 (22.2%)

Joel McHale (Community)
3 (33.3%)

Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother)
0 (0.0%)

James Roday (Psych)
0 (0.0%)

Lead Actor in a Drama

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Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights)
3 (30.0%)

Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice)
0 (0.0%)

Michael C. Hall (Dexter)
6 (60.0%)

Jon Hamm (Mad Men)
1 (10.0%)

Timothy Hutton (Leverage)
0 (0.0%)

Peter Krause (Parenthood)
0 (0.0%)

Lead Actor in a Miniseries/Movie

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Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey)
0 (0.0%)

Bruce Campbell (Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe)
0 (0.0%)

Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock: A Study in Pink)
7 (70.0%)

Ian McShane (The Pillars of the Earth)
2 (20.0%)

Eddie Redmayne (The Pillars of the Earth)
0 (0.0%)

Patrick Stewart (Macbeth)
1 (10.0%)

Lead Actress in a Comedy

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Courteney Cox (Cougar Town)
0 (0.0%)

Tina Fey (30 Rock)
4 (50.0%)

Mary Louise Parker (Weeds)
0 (0.0%)

Billie Piper (Secret Diary of a Call Girl)
2 (25.0%)

Amy Poehler (Parks & Recreation)
2 (25.0%)

Jordana Spiro (My Boys)
0 (0.0%)

Lead Actress in a Drama

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Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights)
2 (22.2%)

Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries)
1 (11.1%)

Sally Field (Brothers & Sisters)
1 (11.1%)

Lauren Graham (Parenthood)
0 (0.0%)

Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men)
1 (11.1%)

Anna Torv (Fringe)
4 (44.4%)

Lead Actress in a Miniseries/Movie

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Hayley Atwell (The Pillars of the Earth)
0 (0.0%)

Kate Fleetwood (Macbeth)
0 (0.0%)

Katie Holmes (The Kennedys)
0 (0.0%)

Jane Kaczmarek (Reviving Ophelia)
1 (20.0%)

Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey)
3 (60.0%)

Kate Winslet (Mildred Pierce)
1 (20.0%)

Supporting Actor in a Comedy

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Aziz Ansari (Parks & Recreation)
1 (11.1%)

Donald Glover (Community)
1 (11.1%)

Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
5 (55.6%)

Dule Hill (Psych)
1 (11.1%)

Nick Offerman (Parks & Recreation)
0 (0.0%)

Danny Pudi (Community)
1 (11.1%)

Supporting Actor in a Drama

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Max Burkholder (Parenthood)
0 (0.0%)

Aldis Hodge (Leverage)
0 (0.0%)

Michael B. Jordan (Friday Night Lights)
0 (0.0%)

John Noble (Fringe)
5 (62.5%)

John Slattery (Mad Men)
1 (12.5%)

Ian Somerhalder (The Vampire Diaries)
2 (25.0%)

Supporting Actor in a Miniseries/Movie

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Brendan Coyle (Downton Abbey)
0 (0.0%)

Martin Freeman (Sherlock: A Study in Pink)
8 (80.0%)

Guy Pearce (Mildred Pierce)
2 (20.0%)

Adrian Scarborough (Upstairs Downstairs)
0 (0.0%)

Rufus Sewell (The Pillars of the Earth)
0 (0.0%)

Donald Sutherland (The Pillars of the Earth)
0 (0.0%)

Supporting Actress in a Comedy

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Alison Brie (Community)
2 (25.0%)

Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother)
4 (50.0%)

Aubrey Plaza (Parks & Recreation)
0 (0.0%)

Amy Ryan (The Office)
1 (12.5%)

Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother)
0 (0.0%)

Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck)
1 (12.5%)

Supporting Actress in a Drama

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Julie Benz (No Ordinary Family)
3 (33.3%)

Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter)
3 (33.3%)

Christina Hendricks (Mad Men)
2 (22.2%)

Beth Riesgraf (Leverage)
0 (0.0%)

Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men)
1 (11.1%)

Mae Whitman (Parenthood)
0 (0.0%)

Supporting Actress in a Miniseries/Movie

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Eileen Atkins (Upstairs Downstairs)
1 (16.7%)

Stockard Channing (Sundays at Tiffany's)
1 (16.7%)

Cynthia Nixon (Too Big To Fail)
0 (0.0%)

Sarah Parish (The Pillars of the Earth)
0 (0.0%)

Alison Pill (The Pillars of the Earth)
0 (0.0%)

Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey)
4 (66.7%)

Guest Actor in a Comedy

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Nestor Carbonell (Psych)
1 (12.5%)

Timothy Dalton (Chuck)
2 (25.0%)

Cary Elwes (Psych)
0 (0.0%)

Jorge Garcia (How I Met Your Mother)
3 (37.5%)

John Lithgow (How I Met Your Mother)
1 (12.5%)

Jim Rash (Community)
1 (12.5%)

Guest Actor in a Drama

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Richard Chamberlain (Leverage)
0 (0.0%)

John Corbett (Parenthood)
0 (0.0%)

Michael Emerson (Parenthood)
1 (12.5%)

Tim Matheson (Burn Notice)
1 (12.5%)

Andre Royo (Fringe)
5 (62.5%)

Peter Weller (Dexter)
1 (12.5%)

Guest Actress in a Comedy

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Kristin Chenowith (Glee)
4 (50.0%)

Mo Collins (Parks & Recreation)
0 (0.0%)

Jennifer Morrison (How I Met Your Mother)
0 (0.0%)

Megan Mullally (Parks & Recreation)
3 (37.5%)

Parker Posey (Parks & Recreation)
0 (0.0%)

Ally Sheedy (Psych)
1 (12.5%)

Guest Actress in a Drama

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Cara Buono (Mad Men)
1 (14.3%)

Mary McDonnell (The Closer)
0 (0.0%)

Gretchen Mol (Boardwalk Empire)
1 (14.3%)

Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights)
0 (0.0%)

Jessica Pare (Mad Men)
0 (0.0%)

Julia Stiles (Dexter)
5 (71.4%)

Comments

[snickfic]

You should probably be aware that I voted without having seen the the most recent season of any of these shows (except for Sherlock). As your mood, so my mood is also.

(Also: dude! Lots of nifty guest stars in things recently!)

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Haha, that's cool! This is a totally biased and unscientific poll. :)

[mcmegan]

Apparently all I watch is comedies, because I just picked people I had heard of for other ones. I think I've watched Fringe before, so that's why I picked a bunch of those.

However, I did watch "Reviving Ophelia" on one of our lazy Saturdays at the intern house where we watched 3 lifetime movies in a row.

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Heh, well, I basically picked people from all my favorite shows, so you can take this as recommendations. :)

Was "Reviving Ophelia" any good?

[mcmegan]

It was standard lifetime movie. Decent though. Probably the best of what we watched that day. But that's not saying much.

[urania_calliope]

After Neil Patrick Harris' performance at the Tony's he should win every award everywhere.

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YES. I also want him to be in everything everywhere. (I have mentally cast him in at least three of my favorite musicals. It is awesome in my head.)

[seapealsh]

That was fun. Thank you for including the Fringe actors. They blow me away but will probably be ignored for the Emmys.

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Oh, definitely. My favorites usually are! :-P

[ever_neutral]

\o/ \o/ \o/

I voted for my bbs Nina and Ian, obviously, considering that by sheer virtue of the CW they will never, ever be given such recognition. Le sigh.

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Such is the curse of the CW.

[chaymberlaine]

Ooh, fun voting on things! :D

There are a few things I haven't watched so I picked rather arbitrarily in some categories, but there were a lot of terrific choices - it was hard! LOL

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Haha, it's so weird how some categories I could've included double the choices, and others I was scrounging to fill the category.

[eilowyn1]

Voted for Kyle and Connie to finally get some recognition.

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They SO deserve it. It's ridiculous how the best actors get ignored because they're on such little-known shows.