Best of the Emmy Awards: Contenders - Best Directing in a Comedy Series

Father Knows Best – Medal for Margaret

Jack Benny Hour Specials

The Danny Thomas Show

Car 54, Where Are You?

The Dick Van Dyke Show

Bewitched

The Monkees – Royal Flush

Get Smart – Maxwell Smart, Private Eye

The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Toulouse Lautrec Is One Of My Favorite Artists

All in the Family – Sammy’s Visit

The Mary Tyler Moore Show – It’s Whether You Win or Lose

M*A*S*H – Carry On, Hawkeye

The Carol Burnett Show

M*A*S*H – O.R.

M*A*S*H – Welcome to Korea

M*A*S*H – Dear Sigmund

All in the Family – Ediths 50^th Birthday

Barney Miller – The Harris Incident

Taxi – Louie and the Nice Girl

Taxi – Elaine’s Strange Triangle

One Day at a Time – Barbara’s Crisis

Cheers – Showdown Part II

Kate & Allie – A Very Loud Family

The Cosby Show – The Younger Woman

The Cosby Show  - Denise’s Friend

The Golden Girls – Isn’t It Romatic

Hooperman – Pilot

The Wonder Years – Our Miss White

The Wonder Years – Good-bye

Cheers – Woody Interruptus

Murphy Brown – Birth 101

Dream On – For Peter’s Sake

Frasier – The Good Son

Frasier – The Matchmaker

Friends – The One After the Super Bowl
Frasier – To Kill a Talking Bird

The Larry Sanders Show – Flip

Sports Night – Pilot

Malcolm in the Middle – Pilot

Malcolm in the Middle – Bowling

Sex and the City – The Real Me

Curb Your Enthusiasm – Krazee-Eyez Killas

Arrested Development – Pilot

Desperate Housewives – Pilot

My Name is Earl – Pilot

Ugly Betty – Pilot

Pushing Daisies – Pie-lette

The Office – Stress Relief  

Glee – Pilot

Modern Family – Halloween

Modern Family – Baby on Board

Best of the Emmy Awards: Contenders - Best Directing in a TV Movie/Miniseries

The Moon and Sixpence

Death of a Salesman

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Rich Man, Poor Man – Episode 8

Roots – Part 1

Holocaust

Eleanor and Franklin

Eleanor and Franklin – The White House Years

The Defection of Simas Kudrika

Friendly Fire

Attica

Kent State

Inside the Third Reich

Who Will Love My Children?

Concealed Enemies

Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story

Love is Never Silent

Promise
Gore Vidal’s Lincoln

Lonesome Dove

Caroline?

The Josephine Baker Story

Miss Rose White

Sinatra

Against the Wall

The Burning Season

Andersonville

The Odyssey

George Wallace

The Temptations

The Corner

Wit

Band of Brothers

Door to Door

Angels in America

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Elizabeth I

Prime Suspect: The Final Act

Recount

Little Dorrit

Temple Grandin
Downton Abbey

Game Change

Best of the Emmy Awards: Contenders - Best Writing in a Drama Series

Studio One – Twelve Angry Men

The Twilight Zone

The Defenders – The Madman

Mission: Impossible – Mission: Impossible

CBS Playhouse – Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

CBS Playhouse -   The People Next Door

My Sweet Charlie

The Bold Ones: “The Senator” – To Taste of Death But Once

Columbo – Death Lends a Hand

The Waltons – The Scholar

The Waltons – The Thanksgiving Story

Lou Grant – Dying

Lou Grant – Cop

Hill Street Blues – Hill Street Station

Hill Street Blues – Freedom’s Last Stand

Hill Street Blues – Trial by Fury

St. Elsewhere – The Women

Cagney & Lacey – Who Said It’s Fair: Part II

St. Elsewhere – Time Heals

L.A. Law – The Venus Butterfly

thirtysomething – Business as usual 

thirtysomething – First Day/Last Day

L.A. Law - Blood, Sweat, and Fears

L.A. Law – On the Toad Again

Northern Exposure – Seoul Mates

Homicide: Life on the Street – Three Men and Adena

NYPD Blue – Steroid Roy

ER – Love’s Labor Lost

The X-Files – Clyde Bruckman’s Final Response

NYPD Blue – Where’s Swaldo?

NYPD Blue – Lost Israel

The Sopranos – College

The West Wing – In Excelsis Deo 

The Sopranos – Employee of the Month

24 – 12:00 AM to 1 AM

The Sopranos – White Caps

The Sopranos – Long Term Parking

House – Three Stories

The Sopranos – Members Only

The Sopranos – Made in America

Mad Men – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Mad Men – Meditations in an Emergency

Mad Men – Shut the Door. Have a Seat

Friday Night Lights – Always

Homeland – Pilot

Best of the Emmy Awards: Contenders - Best Writing in a Comedy Series

The George Gobel Show

The Phil Silvers Show

The Jack Benny Show

The Red Skeleton Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show – Coast to Coast Big Mouth

Get Smart – Ship of Spies Parts 1 and 2

He and She – The Coming Out Party

The Mary Tyler Moore Show – Support Your Local Mother

All in the Family – Edith’s Problem

All in the Family – The Bunkers and the Swingers

The Mary Tyler Moore Show – The Lou and Edie Story

The Mary Tyler Moore Show – Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?

The Mary Tyler Moore Show – Chuckles Bites the Dust

The Mary Tyler Moore Show – The Last Show

All in the Family – Cousin Liz

Barney Miller – Photograph

Taxi – Tony’s Sister and Jim

Taxi – Elegant Iggy

Cheers – Give Me a Ring Sometime

Cheers – Old Flames

The Cosby Show – Pilot

The Golden Girls – A Little Romance

Family Ties – A, My Name is Alex

Frank’s Place – The Bridge

Murphy Brown – Pilot

The Wonder Years – Good-bye

Murphy Brown – Jingle Hell, Jingle Hell, Jingle All the Way

Seinfeld – The Fix-Up

Seinfeld – The Contest

Frasier – The Good Son

Frasier – An Affair to Forget

Frasier – Moon Dance

Ellen – The Puppy Episode

The Larry Sanders Show – Flip

Frasier – Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz

Malcolm in the Middle – Pilot

Malcolm in the Middle – Bowling

The Bernie Mac Show – Pilot

Everybody Loves Raymond – Baggage

Arrested Development – Pilot

Arrested Development – Righteous Brothers

My Name is Earl – Pilot

The Office – Gay Witch Hunt

30 Rock – Cooter

30 Rock – Reunion

Modern Family – Pilot

Modern Family – Caught in the Act

Louie – Pregnant

Best of the Emmy Awards: Contenders - Best Writing in a Miniseries or TV Movie

These include those miniseries or movies that won for drama writing where there were not two separate categories. The actual writers will be included in the nomination list.

My Sweet Charlie

Benjamin Franklin: The Ambassador

The Adams Chronicles – John Adams: Lawyer

Roots: Part II

Holocaust

The Jericho Mile

Off the Minnesota Strip

Playing for Time

Bill

Special Bulletin

Something About Amelia

Do You Remember Love

An Early Frost

Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy

Promise

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Andre’s Mother

House of Cards

I’ll Fly Away

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

David’s Mother

Serving in Silence

Gulliver’s Travels

Old Man

Don King: Only in America

A Lesson Before Dying

The Corner

Conspiracy

The Gathering Storm

Door to Door

Angels in America

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

The Girl in the Café

Prime Suspect: The Final Act

John Adams – Independence

Little Dorrit

You Don’t Know Jack

Downton Abbey

Game Change

Harvey Gears Up for 2014 Oscars

The Weinstein Co. has printed its scheduled release dates for its many projects coming up through the year. It could still pick up some contenders, but it already has a good many projects with Oscar prospects.

The Sapphires - March 22nd
Kon-Tiki - April 19th
Unfinished Song - June 21st
Populaire - July 19th
Haute Cuisine - August 16th
Satanic - August 30th
Fruitvale - October 18th
August: Osage County - November 18th
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - Novermber 29th
Grace of Monaco - December 27th

The last four are particularly important for the Oscar race. Fruitvale, the Sundance hit, will probably hit Venice/Telluride/Toronto before its release date, bringing Oscar buzz, particularly to its two stars Octavia Spencer and Michael B. Jordan. August: Osage County is a beloved play, and with names like Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, and Juliette Lewis, it is bound to be in the conversation. Let's just hope it doesn't go the awards way of Carnage. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Grace of Monaco will probably be big players in the acting race, as we all know that the Academy loves biopics, and loves actors who transform themselves into a famous figure. So both Naomi Watts and Idris Elba will probably be players in this year's race.

Best of the Emmy Awards: Contenders - Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series

Patrick McGoohan “Columbo”

Gordon Jackson “Upstairs, Downstairs”
Louis Gossett Jr. “Roots”

Barnard Hughes “Lou Grant”

John Lithgow “Amazing Stories”

Joe Spano “Midnight Caller”

David Opatoshu “Gabriel’s Fire”

Laurence Fishburne “Tribeca”
Richard Kiley “Picket Fences”

Paul Winfield “Picket Fences”

Peter Boyle “The X-Files”

Pruitt Taylor Vance “Murder One”

John Larroquette “The Practice”

Edward Herrmann “The Practice”

James Whitmore “The Practice”

Michael Emerson “The Practice”

Charles S. Dutton “The Practice”

Charles S. Dutton “Without a Trace”

William Shatner “The Practice”

Ray Liotta “ER”

Christian Clemenson “Boston Legal”

John Goodman “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”

Glynn Turman “In Treatment”

Michael J. Fox “Rescue Me”

John Lithgow “Dexter”

Paul McCrane “Harry’s Law”

Jeremy Davies “Justified”

Best of the Emmy Awards: Contenders - Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series

Zohra Lampert “Kojak”

Fionnula Flanagan “Rich Man, Poor Man”

Beulah Bondi “The Waltons”
Rita Moreno “The Rockford Files”

Alfre Woodard “L.A. Law”

Shirley Knight “thirtysomething”

Kay Lenz “Midnight Caller”

Viveca Lindfors “Life Goes On”

Peggy McKay “The Trials of Rosie O’Neill”

Elaine Stritch “Law & Order”

Faye Dunaway “Columbo”

Shirley Knight “NYPD Blue”

Amanda Plummer “The Outer Limits”

Dianne Wiest “Road to Avonlea”

Cloris Leachman “Promised Land”

Debra Monk “NYPD Blue”

Beah Richards “The Practice”

Sally Field “ER”

Patricia Clarkson “Six Feet Under”

Alfre Woodard “The Practice”

Sharon Stone “The Practice”

Amanda Plummer “Law & Order: SVU”

Leslie Caron “Law & Order: SVU”

Cynthia Nixon “Law & Order: SVU”

Ellen Burstyn “Law & Order: SVU”

Ann-Margaret “Law & Order: SVU”

Loretta Devine “Grey’s Anatomy”

Martha Plimpton “The Good Wife”

Best of the Emmy Awards: Contenders - Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Roscoe Lee Browne “The Cosby Show”

John Cleese “Cheers”

Cleavon Little “Dear John”

Jay Thomas “Murphy Brown”

David Clennon “Dream On”

Martin Sheen “Murphy Brown”

Carl Reiner “Mad About You”

Tim Conway “Coach”

Mel Brooks “Mad About You”

Bruce Willis “Friends”

Derek Jacobi “Frasier”

Anthony LaPaglia “Frasier”

Gene Wilder “Will & Grace”

John Turturro “Monk”

Bobby Cannavale “Will & Grace”

Leslie Jordan “Will & Grace”

Stanley Tucci “Monk”

Tim Conway “30 Rock”

Justin Timberlake “Saturday Night Live”

Neil Patrick Harris “Glee”

Jimmy Fallon “Saturday Night Live”

Best of the Emmy Awards: Contenders - Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

Beah Richard “Frank’s Place”

Cloris Leachman “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”

Zohra Lampert “Kojak”

Colleen Dewhurst “Murphy Brown”

Swoosie Kurtz “Carol & Company”

Tracey Ullmann “Love & War”

Eileen Heckart “Love & War”

Cyndi Lauper “Mad About You”

Betty White “The John Larroquette Show”

Carol Burnett “Mad About You”

Emma Thompson “Ellen”

Tracey Ullmann “Ally McBeal”

Jean Smart “Frasier”

Cloris Leachman “Malcolm in the Middle”

Christina Applegate “Friends”
Laura Linney “Frasier”

Kathryn Joosten “Desperate Housewives”
Elaine Stritch “30 Rock”

Tina Fey “Saturday Night Live”

Betty White “Saturday Night Live”

Gwyneth Paltrow “Glee”

Kathy Bates “Two and a Half Men”