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2012 Primetime Emmy awards: popcorn pack

Written by TVSA Team from the blog News on 24 Sep 2012
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The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards took place at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday night (23 September) and aired live on M-Net in the early hours of the morning, with a delayed broadcast on Monday night.

Grab some popcorn and chew on our snack pack of news, photos and highlight videos from the evening, starting with the red carpet build-up and leading into the winners ...

As you'll see, Homeland was the big winner of the night, grabbing wins in starring categories including Best Drama Series and Best Actor and Actress in a Drama Series. The show returns to M-Net for Season 2 on Wednesday, 10 October at 21h30.

Without further adieu, the action:

RED CARPET MOMENTS:

Heidi Klum who was notice'ably Seal'less.

Tracy Morgan reaches for Padma Lakshmi's butt?

Glenn Close who was nominated as Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Patty Hewes in Damages. She lost to Claire Danes in Homeland.

Big Bang Theory's Kunal Nayyar.

Ashley Judd wears an umbrella for the heat.

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Ellen and Portia DeGeneres.

Cat Deeley who was nominated in the Outstanding Reality Host category for So You Think You Can Dance. She lost to Tom Bergeron, host of Dancing With The Stars.

Giuliana Rancic who co-hosted the red carpet coverage on E! Entertainment.

Kelly Osbourne who also co-hosted the red carpet for E!

Hayden Panattiere: currently filming a new series called Nashville.

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Modern Family's Sofía Vergara.

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Lena Dunham of Girls and Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson cellsnapping themselves in their seats.

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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban who continue to remain silent about Tom Cruise, with Alec Baldwin.

THE WINNERS:

In the main categories

Outstanding Drama Series

Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
Homeland
Mad Men

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Kathy Bates as Harriet Korn, Harry's Law
Glenn Close as Patty Hewes, Damages
Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, Homeland
Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary Crawley, Downton Abbey
Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, The Good Wife
Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson, Mad Men

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Hugh Bonneville as Robert, Earl of Grantham, Downton Abbey
Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston as Walter White, Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan, Dexter
Jon Hamm as Don Draper, Mad Men
Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody, Homeland

Outstanding Miniseries or Movie

American Horror Story
Game Change
Hatfields & McCoys
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Luther
Sherlock

Outstanding Lead Actress in Miniseries or Movie

Connie Britton as Vivien Harmon, American Horror Story
Ashley Judd as Rebecca Winstone, Missing
Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway & Gellhorn
Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, Game Change
Emma Thompson as She, The Song of Lunch

Outstanding Lead Actor in Miniseries or Movie

Kevin Costner as 'Devil' Anse Hatfield, Hatfields & McCoys
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock
Idris Elba as John Luther, Luther
Woody Harrelson as Steve Schmidt, Game Change
Clive Owen as Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway & Gelhorn
Bill Paxton as Randall McCoy, Hatfields & McCoys

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series

Anna Gunn as Skyler White, Breaking Bad
Maggie Smith as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, Downton Abbey (wasn't at the ceremony to accept her award)
Joanne Froggatt as Anna, Downton Abbey
Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma, The Good Wife
Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart, The Good Wife
Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway Harris, Mad Men

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series

Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman, Breaking Bad
Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo 'Gus' Fring, Breaking Bad
Brendan Coyle as John Bates, Downton Abbey
Jim Carter as Mr. Carson, Downton Abbey
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, Game Of Thrones
Jared Harris as Lane Pryce, Mad Men

Outstanding Host for Reality or Reality Competition Program

Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars
Cat Deeley, So You Think You Can Dance
Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race
Ryan Seacrest, American Idol
Betty White, Betty White's Off Their Rockers

Outstanding Reality Competition Program

The Amazing Race : Season 20 (Season 19's currently on SONY)
Dancing With the Stars
Project Runway
So You Think You Can Dance
Top Chef
The Voice

Outstanding Variety Series

The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Reality Program

Antiques Roadshow
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
MythBusters
Shark Tank
Undercover Boss
Who Do You Think You Are?

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Zooey Deschanel as Jess Day, New Girl
Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath, Girls
Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton, Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey as Liz Lemon, 30 Rock
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss as Selina Meyer, Veep
Melissa McCarthy as Molly Flynn, Mike and Molly
Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock
Don Cheadle as Marty Kaan, House of Lies
Louis C.K.as Louie, Louis
Jon Cryer as Alan Harper, Two and a Half Men
Larry David as himself, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Jim Parsons asSheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series

Mayim Bialik as Amy Fowler, The Big Bang Theory
Kathryn Joosten as Karen McCluskey, Despeate Housewives
Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy, Modern Family
Sofia Vergara as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, Modern Family
Merritt Wever as Zoey Barkow, Nurse Jackie
Kristen Wiig as various characters, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series

Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett, Modern Family
Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett, Modern Family
Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy, Modern Family
Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker, Modern Family
Max Greenfield as Schmidt, New Girl
Bill Hader as various characters, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Comedy Series

The Big Band Theory
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Girls
Modern Family
30 Rock
Veep

Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music

Great Expectations
Martin Phipps, Composer

Hell On Wheels
Theme by Gustavo Santaolalla

Homeland
Music by Sean Callery

Page Eight
Music by Paul English

Touch
Theme by Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin

Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score)

The Borgias • The Confession • Showtime • Showtime Presents, In association with Take 5 Productions and Octagon Films
Music by Trevor Morris

Downton Abbey • Episode 6 • PBS • A Carnival / Masterpiece Co-Production
Music by John Lunn

Pan Am • Pilot • ABC • Jack Orman Productions, Out of the Blue Entertainment and Shoe Money Productions in association with Sony Pictures Television
Music by Blake Neely

Smash • Publicity • NBC • Universal Television in association with DreamWorks Television and Madwoman in the Attic
Marc Shaiman, Original Music by
Score by Christian Bacon

30 Rock • The Tuxedo Begins • NBC • Broadway Video, Little Stranger, Inc. in association with Universal Television
Music by Jeff Richmond

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS:

Cereony host Jimmel Kimmel ousts his parents from the ceremony and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss accidentally reads the wrong speech while accepting her award: