2013 Primetime Emmy Awards: The Winners

2013 Emmy Winners
Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul in 'Breaking Bad' (Photo Credit: Frank Ockenfels 3/AMC)

Emmy voters went a bit crazy with this year’s votes and the list of winners is loaded with surprises revealed during an otherwise mediocre show. Neil Patrick Harris gave it his best, but the 2013 Primetime Emmy Awards just didn’t have any energy or flow. What it did have were some of the biggest upsets in recent Emmy memory.

The show kicked off with Nurse Jackie‘s Merritt Wever winning in the Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series category, and most certainly Wever didn’t expect to be taking the stage to accept an award. In fact, the only thing Wever could manage to say on stage was, “Oh, my God. Thank you. Thanks so much. Thank you so much. I’ve got to go. Bye.”

Also pulling off surprise wins were Stephen Colbert toppling Jon Stewart’s reign in the Outstanding Variety Series category, The Voice beating Emmy-favorite The Amazing Race to take home the Outstanding Reality-Competition Program Emmy, and Jeff Daniels collecting the Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series for The Newsroom over Bryan Cranston for Breaking Bad, Hugh Bonneville for Downton Abbey, Damian Lewis for Homeland, Jon Hamm for Mad Men, and Kevin Spacey for House of Cards.

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
MERRITT WEVER for Nurse Jackie

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
TINA FEY and TRACEY WIGFIELD for 30 Rock

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
TONY HALE for Veep

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS for Veep

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
GAIL MANCUSO for Modern Family

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
JIM PARSONS for The Big Bang Theory

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR A MOVIE
LAURA LINNEY for The Big C: Hereafter

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
HENRY BROMELL for Homeland

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
ANNA GUNN for Breaking Bad

OUTSTANDING REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
THE VOICE

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
BOBBY CANNAVALE for Boardwalk Empire

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
JEFF DANIELS for HBO The Newsroom

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
CLAIRE DANES for Homeland

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
DAVID FINCHER for House Of Cards

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A VARIETY SERIES
OPUS MORESCHI for The Colbert Report

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY SERIES
DON ROY KING for Saturday Night Live

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
DEREK HOUGH for Dancing With The Stars

OUTSTANDING VARIETY SERIES
THE COLBERT REPORT

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR A DRAMATIC SPECIAL
ABI MORGAN for The Hour

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR A MOVIE
JAMES CROMWELL for American Horror Story: Asylum

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR A DRAMATIC SPECIAL
STEVEN SODERBERGH for Behind The Candelabra

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR A MOVIE
ELLEN BURSTYN for Political Animals

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR A MOVIE
MICHAEL DOUGLAS for Behind The Candelabra

OUTSTANDING MINISERIES OR MOVIE
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
BREAKING BAD

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
MODERN FAMILY

Wins By Network (2 or more, televised and not televised)

HBO 27
CBS 16
NBC 11
Showtime 7
ABC 4
Comedy Central 4
AMC 3
Cartoon Network 3
Disney.com 3
FX Networks 3
Netflix 3
Nickelodeon 3
PBS 3
CNN 2
Discovery Channel 2
Fox 2
History 2
Starz 2

Wins By Program (2 or more, televised and not televised)

Behind the Candelabra 11
Boardwalk Empire 5
66th Annual Tony Awards 4
Saturday Night Live 4
The Big Bang Theory 3
Breaking Bad 3
Disney Mickey Mouse Croissant de Triomphe 3
House of Cards 3
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God 3
30 Rock 2
The 55th Annual Grammy Awards 2
American Horror Story: Asylum 2
American Masters 2
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown 2
The Colbert Report 2
Da Vinci’s Demons 2
Deadliest Catch 2
Game of Thrones 2
Homeland 2
How I Met Your Mother 2
The Kennedy Center Honors 2
The Men Who Built America 2
Modern Family 2
Nurse Jackie 2
Veep 2
The Voice 2