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Today's award is Outstanding Directing of a Limited/Anthology Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... ALEXANDRA BRODSKI, Half Man "Episode 2" (HBO) ANTHONY HEMINGWAY, Love Story "Search and Recovery" (FX) GILLIAN ROBESPIERRE, Love Story "The Wedding" (FX) MATT ROSS, Death By Lightning JAKE SZYMANSKI, Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (Prime Video) LEE SUNG JIN, Beef "Oh the Comfort, the Inexpressable Comfort" (Netflix) And the Winner Is... JAKE SZYMANSKI Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (Prime Video) There might not be a show I've been more impressed with in recent memory than Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat . First of all, it's impressive enough that they made it all work again with an equally or more compelling "hero." But to do it in a less-controlled environment where a lot more could go wrong really was something to behold. I credi...

Today's award is Outstanding Writing of a Comedy Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... LUCIA ANIELLO & PAUL W. DOWNS & JEN STATSKY, Hacks "Hacks" (HBO Max) LANG FISHER, The Four Seasons "Maratona" (Netflix) BRETT GOLDSTEIN, Shrinking "Happiness Mission" (Apple TV) STEPHANIE KOENING, English Teacher "Grant's Dinner Party" (FX) CHAD MORTON, Abbott Elementary "Mall" (ABC) BEN SMITH & ELLA ROBINSON BROOKS, Only Murders in the Building "After You" (Hulu) SANAZ TOOSSI, Adults "Roast Chicken" (FX) And the Winner Is... BRETT GOLDSTEIN Shrinking "Happiness Mission" (Apple TV) I debated quite a bit on this award because the Shrinking episode "Happiness Mission" is far from the funniest script for a comedy category. But it did have my favorite scene in the entire TV season when Jessica Williams' Gaby to...

Today's award is Outstanding Writing of a Drama Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... AYO EDEBIRI & LIONEL BOYCE, The Bear "Worms" (FX/Hulu) BRAD INGELSBY, Task (HBO) KRISTEN PIERRE-GEYFMAN & R. SCOTT GEMMELL, The Pitt "1:00 P.M." (HBO Max) OLIVIA PURNELL, The Lowdown "This Land?" (FX) CHRISTOPHER STORER, The Bear "Goodbye" (FX/Hulu) ALISON TATLOCK & GORDON SMITH, Pluribus "La Chica o El Mundo" (Apple TV) SCOTT TEEMS, The Lowdown "Dinosaur Memories" (FX) And the Winner Is... BRAD INGELSBY Task (HBO) It doesn't quite seem fair to pit the writer of an entire season against individual episodes but it's the rule I've gone with so Brad Ingelsby gets the award for his writing throughout the first season of  Task . I really appreciated how Task broke some usual conventions of its type of show. The main characters, played by ...

Today's award is Outstanding Writing of a Limited/Anthology Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... STEVEN CONRAD, DTF St. Louis (HBO) ISIS DAVIS & SMITA BHIDE, The Girlfriend "Episode 4" (Prime Video) RICHARD GADD, Half Man (HBO) MIKE MAKOWSKY, Death By Lightning (Netflix) KIM ROSENSTOCK, Love Story "Battery Park" (FX) LEE SUNG JIN AND ANNA OUYANG MOENCH & GREG HONG, Beef "The Increasing Flimsiness of Any Certainties About the Future" (Netflix) And the Winner Is... MIKE MAKOWSKY Death By Lightning (Netflix) One of my biggest gripes with Limited Series since I started doing these awards is how often they feel inflated. Even though I like longer seasons for on-going series like The Pitt , there have been way too many starry limited series that just don't have enough story to tell over eight or ten episodes but also can't detour in the way an ongoing ...

Today's award is Outstanding Guest Actor or Actress in a Comedy Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... CONNIE BRITTON as Elizabeth in Rooster (HBO) D'ARCY CARDEN as Luciana in Loot (Apple TV) JEFF DANIELS as Randy in Shrinking (Apple TV) TARAJI P. HENSON as Vanetta in Abbott Elementary (ABC) CHERRY JONES as Kelly Kilpatrick in Hacks (HBO Max) KAITLIN OLSON as DJ Vance in Hacks (HBO Max) MICAH STOCK as Gil in English Teacher (FX) And the Winner Is... D'ARCY CARDEN Loot (Apple TV) I've watched three seasons of Loot and this is the first award I've nominated it for. D'Arcy Carden is a treasure in most everything she's in but I'm not sure she's ever been funnier. When she immediately switched from the voluptuous Italian to her real persona - a trashy Delaware girl - I was laughing out loud. She was goofy with the Italian accent but the scenes with her act...

Today's award is Outstanding Guest Actor or Actress in a Drama Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... STEVE BUSCEMI as Simon Carroll in Elsbeth (CBS) JAMIE LEE CURTIS as Donna Berzatto in The Bear (FX/Hulu) PETER DINKLAGE as Wendell in The Lowdown (FX) COLMAN DOMINGO as Ali in Euphoria (HBO) MARY MCCORMACK as Dr. Linda Conley in The Pitt (HBO Max) BRADLEY WHITFORD as Todd Penn in The Diplomat (Netflix) SHAILENE WOODLEY as Annie Clay in Paradise (Hulu) And the Winner Is... PETER DINKLAGE The Lowdown (FX) Because I wasn't a Game of Thrones watcher, I wasn't very familiar with Peter Dinklage's work (except for Elf and Wicked ) when he appeared on The Lowdown . By the end of the episode, I wanted an entire buddy cop series starring him and Ethan Hawke. Playing frenemies, Dinklage and Hawke were electric on screen together. You got the sense that those two...