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Risks may have been taken, but the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards tonight played it very safe - for the most part picking familiar winners from previous years in many categories rather than rewarding some of the more critically acclaimed fare out there.

The final season of "Breaking Bad" dominated the drama category, nabbing almost all the awards in it including Best Drama series, three acting nods, and best writing. In fact the only major awards for drama it missed out on were best actress which went to Juliana Marguiles in "The Good Wife" and best directing which went to "True Detective".

Speaking of "True Detective," HBO took a gamble by opting to play it as a nominee for drama series rather than a mini-series where it would've dominated. It lost that gamble, but its loss proved to be a win for the BBC's "Sherlock" which took three of the awards...

Find out who won the 2014 Emmys awards.

It's television's biggest night! Yes, on a Monday but more on that here. Check out the complete list of winners below!

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Outstanding Drama Series: Breaking Bad

Outstanding Comedy Series: Modern Family

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama: Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife

Oustanding Supporting Actress in a Drama: Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series: Moira Walley-Beckett, Breaking Bad

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series: Cary Joji Fukunaga, True Detective

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep

Oustanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Allison Janney, Mom

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Ty Burrell, Modern Family

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series: Louis C.K., [link...

First stop, the Annie Awards which honor excellence in the animated world. And the winners are:

Best Animated Feature:

Frozen, Walt Disney Animation Studios

Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production:

Chipotle Scarecrow, Chipotle Creative Department, Moonbot Studios

Best Animated Short Subject:

Get A Horse!,Walt Disney Animation Studios

Best Animated TV/Broadcast Commercial:

Despicable Me 2, Cinemark - Universal Pictures

Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children:

Disney Sofia the First - Disney Television Animation

Best Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Children.s Audience:

Adventure Time, Cartoon Network Studios

Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production:

Futurama,20th Century Fox Television

Best Animated Video Game:

The Last of Us, Naughty Dog

Best Student Film

Wedding Cake, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Viola Baier, Iris Frisch

Animated Effects in an Animated Production:

Jeff Budsberg, Andre Le Blanc, Louis Flores, Jason Mayer, The Croods, DreamWorks Animation

Animated Effects in a Live Action Production:

Michael Balog,...

Taking to the stage yet again for more movie honors, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill attended the 18th Annual Art Directors Guild Awards in Beverly Hills.

Glammed up for the affair, "The Wolf of Wall Street" stars sported night black tuxedos as they took the stage on Saturday (February 8).

Films "Her," "Gravity" and "The Great Gatsby" took the biggest awards from the event, and Martin Scorsese put in a few words after receiving of the Cinematic Imagery Award award for "The Wolf of Wall Street," saying, "How does one even separate cinema from Pd? You can’t. We have images in our mind, pictures in our head, but yours are the ones I look to to get those images on the screen. You’ve never let me down. This [award] is for you."

And the winners are:

Contemporary Film

K.K. Barrett, "Her"

Fantasy Film

Andy Nicholson, "Gravity"

Period Film

Catherine Martin,...

The Art Directors Guild (Adg) tonight announced winners of its 18th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, Presented by Kohler Co., in ten categories of film, television, commercials and music videos during the black-tie ceremony in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The awards took place before an audience of more than 800, including guild members, industry executives and press. Adg Council Chair John Shaffner presided over the awards ceremony with comedian Owen Benjamin serving as host. Martin Scorsese received the Guild’s prestigious Cinematic Imagery Award presented to him by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, his stars of The Wolf of Wall Street, which is currently nominated for five Academy Awards® including Best Picture and Best Director. Production Designer Rick Carter was recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Kohler, which created a special award for the occasion. Adg President Mimi Gramatky and Production...

Woot woot! My pick to win Best Director at the Oscars took home the Feature Film trophy at the recently concluded Directors Guild of America awards. And it's truly deserving! Cuaron defied gravity, yes pun intended, to create "Gravity," a movie grounded in sci-fi realism that many directors before him (including James Cameron) were saying that it would be hard to do. But Cuaron did it, and did it extremely well! So hats off to "Gravity" and Cuaron's direction!

Here's the complete list of winners of the DGA awards and right after the jump, check out my interview with Cuaron for "Gravity" that we conducted back in October. Oh, and take a look at my interview with the lovely Sandra Bullock as well.

Feature Film:

Winner: Alfonso Cuaron ("Gravity")

Paul Greengrass ("Captain Phillips")

Steve McQueen ("12 Years a Slave")

David O. Russell ("American Hustle")

Martin Scorsese ("The Wolf of Wall Street...

Honoring the behind-the-scenes folks that shape our viewing experience, the 66th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards were held on Saturday night (January 25).

The big winner this year was Alfonso Cuarón, whose film "Gravity" won the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film prize.

After accepting the honor from presenter Ben Affleck, he spoke about the movie, saying, "We saw all these photographs of earth from space, and it’s absolutely beautiful; hues of greens and blues. Everything seems so organic. Those silly lines and boundaries we put on political maps, you can’t see that from space. It’s a bizarre experiment of nature, that is the human experience. And it’s what we as directors try to sort out as filmmakers."

Notable winners include Vince Gilligan for "Breaking Bad," Beth McCarthy-Miller for "30 Rock," and Steven Soderbergh for "Behind the Candelabra," who also nabbed the Robert B. Aldrich Service Award.

The 2014 Directors Guild Awards were handed out earlier this evening, and Alfonso Cuaron took the top prize for Gravity, launching him (and the film) into frontrunner status heading into the Oscars. The DGA winner is a very solid predictor of the eventual Oscar winner for the Best Director category, as the two have only failed to match up seven times in the past 65 years. Moreover, the DGA winner’s film has won the Best Picture Oscar on all but 13 occasions. We’ve known it’s going to be a very tight race since the PGA split its top award between Gravity and 12 Years a Slave, but this DGA win for Gravity puts it ever so slightly ahead. Elsewhere at the DGA Awards, Steven Soderbergh took home the Miniseries/TV Movie prize for Behind the Candelabra and Vince Gilligan won TV Drama for the series finale of Breaking Bad, beating out...

Tonight, the Directors Guild of America unveiled their choices for outstanding directorial achievement in 2013, and as expected, Alfonso Cuarón took home their top prize for his brilliant work on Gravity, making him the most likely winner of the Best Director Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards.

The question now becomes: Will this be enough to tip Best Picture in Gravity‘s favor? After all, how could you give a film so many Oscars (including Best Director and Best Film Editing) and Not give it Best Picture? Granted, it’s happened before, but rarely to a film receiving this many awards. If the Academy should pass the film over for the top honor, it would become the most honored film not to win the big prize since Cabaret (1972), which won eight Oscars (including Best Director and Best Film Editing) before losing Best Picture to The Godfather.

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Updated: Gravity does not seem to be falling on the awards circuit. Alfonso Cuarón walked away with the top honor at the Directors Guild of America Awards Saturday night in Los Angeles, beating out Martin Scorsese, David O. Russell, Paul Greengrass, and Steve McQueen.

“This is truly an honor and I am humbled by it,” Cuarón said to the audience of his peers after last year’s winner Ben Affleck presented him with the award. But Gravity was not the work of just one mind, and no one knows that more keenly than Cuarón. “Directing is about the work of your collaborators,...

The Art Directors Guild (Adg) has announced nominations in 10 categories of Production Design for movies, television, commercials, and music videos. They are all vying for the Art Directors Guild's 18th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards. Winners will be revealed on Feb. 8 from the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills with comedian Owen Benjamin serving as host.

Here's your complete list of nominees:

Nominees For Excellence In Production Design For A Feature Film In 2013:

Period Film

American Hustle - Production Designer: Judy Becker

The Great Gatsby - Production Designer: Catherine Martin

Inside Llewyn Davis - Production Designer: Jess Gonchor

Saving Mr. Banks - Production Designer: Michael Corenblith

12 Years A Slave - Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen

Fantasy Film

Elysium - Production Designer: Philip Ivey

Gravity - Production Designer: Andy Nicholson

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug - Production Designer: Dan Hennah

Oblivion - Production Designer: Darren Gilford...

Now that Breaking Bad is over, Bryan Cranston can pursue his side career full-time. The actor picked up two Directors Guild television nominations on Thursday: one for directing an episode of Bb, and one for Modern Family.

Winners will be announced at the DGA Awards dinner on Feb. 25. Check out all the film nominees here, and the full list of TV nominees below:

Movies For Television And Mini-series

Stephen Frears, Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight

David Mamet. Phil Spector

Beth McCarthy-miller and Rob Ashford, The Sound of Music Live!

Nelson McCormick, Killing Kennedy

Steven Soderbergh, Behind the Candelabra

Dramatic Series

Bryan Cranston,...

The Art Directors Guild and the Costume Designers Guild have become the latest groups to announce their nominees for 2013. They may not be considered as big or as important as the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild, or the Writers Guild, but they are still a pretty good prognosticator for who will eventually take home the Oscar in their respective categories.

The Art Directors split their categories up into Period, Fantasy, and Contemporary Films (along with various TV categories), but the main one of importance here is the Period, where we find the more fanciful, eye-catching designs. Here, we find what was mostly expected: American Hustle, The Great Gatsby, Inside Llewyn Davis, Saving Mr. Banks, and 12 Years a Slave. If I had to venture a guess, I’d say that The Great Gatsby has this one in the bag. There were those who didn’t enjoy the film (I actually found...

Three of the four top acting awards went to African-Americans during "The 67th Annual Tony Awards" Sunday night.

Cicely Tyson took home her first Tony Award for "The Trip to Bountiful" and Patina Miller won for her amazing turn as ringmaster in the revival of "Pippin."

Billy Porter won the Tony for best man in a musical for his sassy, outrageous Lola in "Kinky Boots" wearing hip-high boots and an attitude only found in drag queens.

"When I think of the moment when I stand before you, this moment I cannot help but remember all of the thumbprints that has touched this being during the course of her career," Tyson said.

"I didn't want to be greedy," Tyson said. "I just wanted one more."

"Please wrap it up it says," Tyson said, reading from the teleprompter toward the end of her allotted time. "And that's exactly what it did for...

The 67th Annual Tony Awards dazzled and delighted from beginning to end in New York's City Radio City Music Hall on Sunday.

The show, broadcast on CBS, commenced with an extravagant opening number from fourth-time host Neil Patrick Harris, which rendered an extensive standing ovation from the audience.

Pics: 2013 Tony Awards' Glitzy Fashion

During the number, Harris guaranteed a "truly legendary show," was joined by one-man-show Mike Tyson, and sarcastically thanked Shia Labeouf for allowing him to host.

After uniting with him on stage, How I Met Your Mother actor poked fun at the former undisputed heavyweight boxing champion frequently throughout the show, joking that he was giving the cast of Matilda The Musical face tattoos backstage amongst other quips.

Although Harris was on-point the entire show, from French kissing a dog to his closing-number rap, the show was ultimately about the awards—and moreover, the musical performances.

Video: Cyndi Lauper Explains Her Infamous Ky Derby Flub

Among...

The 67Th Annual Tony Awards are being broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall, tonight, June 9th 800-1100 Pm, live ETdelayed Pt on the CBS Television Network. The show returns to Radio City Music Hall after two years at the Beacon Theatre. Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris returns as host. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you the winners' speeches Live Scroll down to read each winner's acceptance speech...

On TV this Sunday: The Game of Thrones finale ties up loose ends, Nph suits up for the Tony Awards, Falling Skies‘ Tom has a new gig and Army Wives make some big decisions. As a supplement to TVLine’s original features, here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.

7 pm The Next Food Network Star (Food Network) | Repeat to Revisit: In case you missed last week’s Season 9 premiere, here’s your chance to meet the 12 contestants vying for a show on The Food Network. (My money’s on The Pie Man, if only for his funny nickname.)

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On Twitter Watch, Neil Patrick Harris wrote 'Recording vocals for the Opening Number of the Tony Awards. Couldn't be more excited or stress free The 67Th Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall, Sunday, June 9 800-1100 Pm, live ETdelayed Pt on the CBS Television Network. The show returns to Radio City Music Hall after two years at the Beacon Theatre. Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris returns as host. Click herefor the complete list of nominees.'...

Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal will be a presenter at this Sunday’s Tony Awards at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall, EW has learned.

The 32-year-old star made his Off Broadway debut last fall in the drama If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, earning a Lucille Lortel Award nomination as Outstanding Featured Actor. He joins a swelling list of celebs who will appear at Broadway’s premiere awards show, including Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jesse Eisenberg, Jon Cryer, and Martha Plimpton.

The 67th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, will air on CBS at 8 p.

Get out your original cast albums and sing to the rafters, theater lovers. It’s almost Tony time! Until you can hear a lovable little redhead dream about tomorrow (it’s only a day away), perk your ears up as a slightly more polarizing redhead makes fun of Justin Bieber. Before you grab some nachos during the Best Play section (fingers crossed they’ll figure out how to not make it boring this year), check out thespians from the Whedonverse perform Shakespeare at Joss’s own house. Before you scope out your next Broadway crush, check out your favorite superboy all grown up.

Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Jesse Eisenberg, Jon Cryer, and Martha Plimpton will present at this year’s Tony Awards, the American Theatre Wing announced today. Hanks, et al. join host Neil Patrick Harris (returning for the fourth time) and each has a connection to the Great White Way.

Hanks will also be competing for a Best Actor in a Play Tony, for his leading turn in Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy, while Johansson, who won a Tony for Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge in 2010, Gooding, Jr., Cryer, and Eisenberg have all turned up on stage recently.

The 67Th Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall, Sunday, June 9 800-1100 Pm, live ETdelayed Pt on the CBS Television Network. The show returns to Radio City Music Hall after two years at the Beacon Theatre. Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris returns as host. In the video below, go behind the scenes of a special promo shoot for the Tony Awards, featuring Cyndi Lauper, Laura Osnes, Lilla Crawford, Richard Kind and more...