The Broadcast Television Journalists Association announced their nominees this morning for the 3rd Annual Critics Choice Television Awards. They are below.

Best Comedy Series:

The Big Bang Theory
Louie
The Middle
New Girl
Parks and Recreation
Veep

Best Drama Series:

The Americans
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
Homeland

Best Actor In A Comedy Series:

Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Louis C.K., Louie
Jake Johnson, New Girl
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Adam Scott, Parks and Recreation
Jeremy Sisto, Suburgatory

Best Actor In A Drama Series:

Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Damian Lewis, Homeland
Andrew Lincoln, The Walking Dead
Timothy Olyphant, Justified
Matthew Rhys, The Americans
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

Best Actress In A Comedy Series:

Laura Dern, Enlightened
Zooey Deschanel, New Girl
Lena Dunham, Girls
Sutton Foster, Bunheads
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation

Best Actress In A Drama Series:

Claire Danes, Homeland
Vera Farmiga, Bates Motel
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Keri Russell, The Americans

Best Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series:

Max Greenfield, New Girl
Simon Helberg, The Big Bang Theory
Alex Karpovsky, Girls
Adam Pally, Happy Endings
Chris Pratt, Parks and Recreation
Danny Pudi, Community

Best Supporting Actor In A Drama Series:

Jonathan Banks, Breaking Bad
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones
Michael Cudlitz, Southland
Noah Emmerich, The Americans
Walton Goggins, Justified
Corey Stoll, House of Cards

Best Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series:

Carly Chaikin, Suburgatory
Kaley Cuoco, The Big Bang Theory
Sarah Hyland, Modern Family
Melissa Rauch, The Big Bang Theory
Eden Sher, The Middle
Casey Wilson, Happy Endings

Best Supporting Actress In A Drama Series:

Jennifer Carpenter, Dexter
Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones
Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad
Regina King, Southland
Monica Potter, Parenthood
Abigail Spencer, Orphan Black

Best Guest Performer In A Comedy Series:

Melissa Leo, Louie
David Lynch, Louie
Bob Newhart, The Big Bang Theory
Patton Oswalt, Parks and Recreation
Molly Shannon, Enlightened
Patrick Wilson, Girls

Best Guest Performer In A Drama Series:

Jim Beaver, Justified
Jane Fonda, The Newsroom
Martha Plimpton, The Good Wife
Carrie Preston, The Good Wife
Diana Rigg, Game of Thrones
Jimmy Smits, Sons of Anarchy

Best Movie/Miniseries:

American Horror Story: Asylum
Behind The Candelabra
The Crimson Petal and the White
The Hour
Political Animals
Top of the Lake

Best Actor In A Movie/Miniseries:

Benedict Cumberbatch, Parade's End
Matt Damon, Behind The Candelabra
Michael Douglas, Behind The Candelabra
Toby Jones, The Girl
Al Pacino, Phil Spector
Dominic West, The Hour

Best Actress In A Movie/Miniseries:

Angela Bassett, Betty and Coretta
Romola Garai, The Hour
Rebecca Hall, Parade's End
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Asylum
Elisabeth Moss, Top of the Lake
Sigourney Weaver, Political Animals

Best Supporting Actor In A Movie/Miniseries:

James Cromwell, American Horror Story: Asylum
Peter Mullan, Top of the Lake
Zachary Quinto, American Horror Story: Asylum
Sebastian Stan, Political Animals
David Wenham, Top of the Lake
Thomas M. Wright, Top of the Lake

Best Supporting Actress In A Movie/Miniseries:

Ellen Burstyn, Political Animals
Sienna Miller, The Girl
Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Asylum
Lily Rabe, American Horror Story: Asylum
Imelda Staunton, [b]The Girl
Alfre Woodard, Steel Magnolias

Best Reality Series:

Duck Dynasty
The Moment
Pawn Stars
Push Girls
Small Town Security
Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan

Best Reality Series - Competition:

Chopped
Face Off
Shark Tank
So You Think You Can Dance
Survivor
The Voice

Best Reality Host:

Tom Bergeron, Dancing With The Stars
Cat Deeley, So You Think You Can Dance
Gordon Ramsay, Hell's Kitchen/Masterchef
RuPaul, RuPaul's Drag Race
Ryan Seacrest, American Idol
Kurt Warner, The Moment

Best Talk Show:

Conan
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Marie

Best Animated Series:

Conan
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Marie

Andrew Lincoln! Casey Wilson!

A lot of these noms are really, really terrific, but how do you snub Aaron Paul? Come on.

To be fair, Aaron Paul didn't really have a standout scene last season. Same for Peter Dinklage this year. Then again, the three locks for supporting emmy locks like Mandy Patikon, and as mentioned Aaron Paul and Dinklage are missing from the list. Either way, happy for Nikolaj for getting a nod. He's probably going places with his movie and tv career plus being dashingly handsome.

And geez, is Mad Men getting that big of a backlash? First it misses last years Golden Globe and now the Critics Choice.

It's good to see 'Justified' getting recognized, it should've been nominated in the Drama category over 'The Americans'.





Maybe everyone else has caught up to 'Mad Men' ......

You mean the part where Don Draper always up to his womanizing ways and being a douchebag?

haha

Modern Family also only got 1 nomination here, for Sarah Hyland.

I think it's vulnerable at the Emmys in terms of winning Best Comedy Series again. Which is funny, because this was the best season of the show since the first. But I feel like something else is going to swoop in there. Not sure what, though.

Louie seems to have the highest acclaim of all the comedies but it really lack social media buzz and viewership to probably dethrone MF. God help us if Big Bang Theory wins, I hope not.

Pretty cool that someone finally recognized Sarah Hyland on Modern Family. Though are these legit awards or just awards to make critics feel better about their favorite shows being snubbed by the Emmys?

Also, no The Office at all? Boo.

New Girl should be the show that comes in there and wins the Best Comedy award. I think it has a strong chance of being nominated and picking up several acting nods, I just don't know if it can actually win the award. Might be a bit too "young" for the Emmys.

Veep, maybe?

That'd be a great choice. But it's a very mean-spirited and biting show, not sure that would sit well with a large enough contingent of voters to get the win.

Yay! At nearly everyone from the main cast in AHS:A getting nominated, lol

Yay! At nearly everyone from the main cast in AHS:A getting nominated, lol

These are cool. Adam Pally and Casey Wilson? Hopefully USA decides to pick up this fantastic gem of a show.

Carly Chaikin is brilliant on Suburgatory. Great to see her nominated.

Vera Farmiga is amazing on Bates Motel. Also nice to see Bunheads get some attention for Sutton Foster (come on ABC Family and renew this!!!!!).

Plenty to love here.

No love for Mad Men and Boardwalk = bullshit.

lolz Bunheads nomination.

Still no Craig Ferguson for Talk Show? Shame people, shame!

Watching the live stream of these and they are already horrid because Big Bang Theory has won everything so far.

Big Bang won Comedy Series.

Turning these off.

Tatiana Maslany winning Best Actress in a Drama Series makes this the best awards show ever.

This happened after I went to sleep. So happy for her!

And the full results?

I'm becoming increasingly convinced The Big Bang Theory is Modern Family's main challenger at the Emmys. I feel like it's just TOO popular to never win a Best Comedy Series Emmy, and this year feels as likely as any other. It was a fairly strong season creatively and they'll have good tapes, especially since the show's actors other than Jim Parsons have been getting more attention. I dunno.

I like Kaley Cuoco on the show a lot but it's a tad bit odd she is submitting herself in Supporting Actress. I'd consider her lead, which is where I think she used to submit herself, and I dunno why she's competing against her female co-stars.

So happy for Monica Potter again. Next stop, Emmys!