Best Motion Picture - Drama: Manchester By The Sea

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: La La Land

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture- Drama: Amy Adams (Arrival)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama: Casey Affleck (Manchester By The Sea)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Emma Stone (La La Land)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Ryan Gosling (La La Land)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture: Michelle Williams (Manchester By The Sea)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture: Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)

Best Director - Motion Picture: Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture: Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Best Motion Picture - Animated: Moana

Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language: Toni Erdmann

Best Original Score - Motion Picture: Justin Hurwitz (La La Land)

Best Original Song - Motion Picture: "City of Stars", Justin Hurwitz (La La Land)

Best Television Series - Drama: Game of Thrones

Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy: Atlanta

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: The Night Manager

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Sarah Paulson (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Tom Hiddleston (The Night Manager)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama: Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama: Rami Malek (Mr. Robot)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy: Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep)

Best Performance By an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy: Donald Glover (Atlanta)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television: Lena Headey (Game of Thrones)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television: Hugh Laurie (The Night Manager)

Wow, my predictions were awful (as I expected as someone who focuses more on movies than television).  I ended up picking 4 out of 21 choices correctly.  That is pretty embarrassing, but it was a good year for television with a lot of fantastic choices for every nomination.  My proudest pick was Kate McKinnon winning the Supporting Actress in a Comedy award for her work on SNL.  She truly deserves that Emmy as did a lot of the other winners in their respective categories.  Now, I will leave you with a full list of winners below:

Best Drama Series: Game of Thrones

Best Comedy Series: Veep

Best Mini-Series or Movie: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Best TV Movie: Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

Best Variety Talk Series: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

Best Variety Sketch Series: Key & Peele

Actress in a Comedy Series: Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Actor in a Comedy Series: Jeffrey Tambor

Actress in a Drama Series: Tatiana Maslany

Actor in a Drama Series: Rami Malek

Actor in a Mini-Series or Movie: Courtney B. Vance

Actress in a Mini-Series or Movie: Sarah Paulson

Supporting Actress in a Drama: Maggie Smith

Supporting Actor in a Drama: Ben Mendelsohn

Supporting Actress in a Comedy: Kate McKinnon

Supporting Actor in a Comedy: Louie Anderson

Supporting Actress in a Mini-Series or Movie: Regina King

Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie: Sterling K. Brown

Reality Host: RuPaul Charles

Reality Competition Program: The Voice

Writing for a Comedy Series: Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang

Writing for a Drama Series: David Benioff and D.B. Weiss

Writing for a Mini-Series or Movie: D.V. DeVincentis

Writing for a Variety Special: Patton Oswalt

Writing for a Variety Series: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

Directing for a Comedy Series: Jill Soloway

Directing for a Drama Series: Miguel Sapochnik

Directing for a Mini-Series or Movie: Susanne Bier

Directing for a Variety Series: Ryan McFaul

Directing for a Variety Special: Thomas Kail and Alex Rudzinski

Guest Actor in a Drama Series: Hank Azaria

Guest Actress in a Drama Series: Margo Martindale

Guest Actor in a Comedy Series: Peter Scolari

Guest Actress in a Comedy Series: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

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Tomorrow dawns the Emmy awards for 2016, so I decided to try and predict the winners that will be announced.  As many of you know, I am more of a movie guy than I am a television guy.  I expect that maybe a quarter of these predictions will be correct, but I will just have to wait and see tomorrow night.  Let me know your predictions if you want via Facebook or you can leave them in the comments below.  I am a bit disappointed that Mozart in the Jungle does not have any big nominations this year, considering it is one of my favorite recent shows.  Maybe the show will return to the spotlight next year though!  Without further ado, here are my predictions:


Best Drama Series: Mr. Robot

Best Comedy Series: Transparent

Best Actor in a Drama Series: Rami Malex

Best Actress in a Drama Series: Claire Danes

Best Actor in a Comedy Series: Jeffrey Tambor

Best Actress in a Comedy Series: Amy Schumer

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Kit Harington

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Emilia Clarke

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Keegan-Michael Key

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Kate McKinnon

Best Limited Series: The Night Manager

Best Television Movie: Confirmation

Best Actor in a Limited Series or a Television Movie: Idris Elba

Best Actress in a Limited Series or a Television Movie: Kirsten Dunst

Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Television Movie: John Travolta

Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Television Movie: Kathy Bates

Best Variety Talk Series: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Best Variety Sketch Series: Key & Peele

Best Reality-Competition Program: American Ninja Warrior

Best Writing for a Drama Series: Mr. Robot, "eps1.0_hellofriend.mov", Written by Sam Esmail

Best Writing for a Comedy Series: Silicon Valley, "The Uptick" (HBO), Written by Alec Berg

1.  Ricky Gervais is hilarious.
His type of comedy may not be for everyone.  It certainly may not be good for NBC.  But, I loved his monologue with his cracks at certain films and certain people in the film industry.  

2.  Sorry Ennio Morricone
I'm sorry that the acceptance speech that Tarantino made in your honor was a bit crude and somewhat distasteful.  Surely, you deserved better than that.

3.  What was that Jonah Hill?
Everything that I heard Jonah Hill say was funny.  Too bad NBC could only air like three words out of your mouth.

4.  Maybe I should watch The Martian.
This might just be the Ridley Scott movie I have been waiting for.  I can't say that I have liked a lot of his past work.

5.  Wait, did you say Brie Larson?
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.  Brie Larson won!  Can she win the Oscar though?  Probably not.  I'd like to thank The Academy in advance for even nominating her.

6.  Stallone = win of the night
Stallone, you are the real MVP.  You redeemed the Rocky series for me with your superb acting in Creed and I cannot wait for the next film of the franchise.

7.  Mel Gibson returns.  
I can't say I missed him much, but I guess Ricky Gervais couldn't either so its ok.

8.  Denzel Washington, The Smoothest Speaker Around.
That was a pretty bad acceptance speech, but somehow it flowed so well because Washington is such a smooth talker. 

9.  So many TV shows, so little money...
I want to watch all of the TV shows nominated.  Its quite unfortunate that they are almost all on different streaming services.  Come on, I don't have that much money!

10.  Now I am ready for Oscar season.