GRcade USTV Awards 2011-2012 Voting Thread

[Memento Mori]

Welcome to Phase Two of the

GRCADE USTV AWARDS 11/12


First of all may I say thank you again to everyone who nominated. You generated some interesting and extremely close nominations and now it's time to narrow down the shortlist even further to what GRcade considers the best USTV of the 2011/2012 USTV season. Before I reveal who those finalists are you might be interested to see every nominee that was received in every category:

Best Drama
Breaking Bad
Homeland
Boardwalk Empire
Southland
Justified
Dexter
Game of Thrones
Person of Interest
The Borgias
Spartacus Vengeance
Mad Men
Damages
True Blood
The Walking Dead
Fringe
Castle
House
Sons of Anarchy
Alphas
Suits
Dallas


Best Comedy(includes Animated series)
IASIP
Archer
Veep
Impractical Jokers
Community
Futurama
South Park
TBBT
Workaholics
The League
Louie
Nurse Jackie
Modern Family
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Californication
The Ricky Gervais Show
Parks and Recreation
Episodes
The Office
Wilfred
American Dad
Cougar Town
New Girl
Beavis and Butthead
HIMYM
30 Rock
The Simpsons


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Best Actor in a Drama
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
Timothy Olyphant (Justified)
Jeremy Irons
Jon Hamm
Damian Lewis
Michael Cudlitz (Southland)
Ron Pearlman
Jeffrey Combs
Jim Caviezel
Kelsey Grammar
Nathan Fillion
Hugh Laurie
Charlie Hunnam
Steve Buscemi
Jason Isaacs
Josh Henderson (Dallas)
Jesse Metcalfe (Dallas)
Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men)



Best Actor in a Comedy
Charlie Day (IASIP)
Rob McElhenney (IASIP)
Stephen Mangan (Episodes)
Rainn Wilson
Don Cheadle
Trey Parker
Louis CK
Danny McBride
Bobby Cannavale (Nurse Jackie)
Glenn Howerton (IASIP)
Matt Stone
Stephen Colbert
David Duchovny
H. Jon Benjamin (Archer)
Alec Baldwin
Jason Gann
Elijah Wood
Matt Walsh (Veep)
Jon Stewart
Matt LeBlanc
Josh Hopkins (Cougar Town)
Karl Pilkington
Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation)



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Best Actress in a Drama
Claire Danes (Homeland)
Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad)
Anna Torv (Fringe)
Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter)
Glenn Close
Holliday Grainger (Borgias)
Jessica Pare (Mad Men)
Lucy Lui (Southland)
Katie Segal
Sumalee Montano
Elizabeth Moss
Juliana Marguilies
Stana Katic
Rose Byrne
Julie Gonzalo (Dallas)
Jordana Brewster (Dallas)


Best Actress in a Comedy
Tamsin Greig (Episodes)
Natasha McElhone
Laura Dern
Zoooooey
MLP
Kaitlin Olsen
Julia Louis Dreyfuss
Edie Falco
Kaley Cuoco
Amy Poehler
Lena Dunham
Tina Fey
Jessica Walter
Courtney Cox (Cougar Town)
Christina Applegate (Up All Night)






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Best Supporting Actor in a drama
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)
John Noble (Fringe)
Michael Stuhlbarg (Boardwalk Empire)
Michael Kenneth Williams (Boardwalk Empire)
Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire)
Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire)
Jacob Pitts (Justified)
Neal McDonough (Justified)
Giancarlo Esposito
Bob Odenkirk
Jonathan Banks
Peter Dinklage
Robert Carlyle (Once Upon a Time)
Danny Huston (Magic City)
John Slattery
Michael Pitt (Boardwalk Empire)
Mark Margolis (Breaking Bad)
Mandy Patinkin (Homeland)
Dean Norris
Jack Gleeson
Ryan Kwanten
Chris Bauer
Benjamin McKenzie
Joshua Jackson
Jared Harris
Walton Goggins
Ray McKinnon
Dayton Callie (Sons of Anarchy)
Charles Dance
Mischa Collins
Robert Sean leonard
Jesse Spencer
Samwell Tarly
T-Dog in Walking Dead
Patrick Duffy (Dallas)
Jerome Flynn
Lance Reddick
Norman Reedus
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau



Best Supporting Actor in a comedy
David Hornsby (IASIP)
Jim Rash (Community)
Nick Offerman
Jason Mantzoukas (The League)
Jonathan Lajoe (The League)
Danny DeVito
Justin Kirk (Weeds)
David Lynch (Louie)
Ed O'Neill (Modern Family)
Peter Facinelli (Nurse Jackie)
James Van Der Beek
Eric Stonestreet
Trey Parker
Matt Stone
Evan Handler
Adam Driver
Ty Burrell
Max Greenfield
Donald Glover
Danny Pudi
Bill hader
Chris Pratt
NPH
Jim O'Heir (Parks and Rec)
Creed Bratton
Aziz Ansari
Brian Van Holt (Cougar Town)
Dan Byrd (Cougar Town)
Ian Gomez (Cougar Town)
Chris Parnell
Nolan Gould
Adam Reed (archer)
George Coe - (Woodhouse) Archer
Lucky Yates - (Dr Kreiger) Archer
Simon Helberg (TBBT)
Jake Johnson (New Girl)
Jason Beghe (Californication)


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Best Supporting Actress in a drama
Laura Fraser (Breaking Bad)
Natalie Zea (Justified)
Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones)
Betsy Brandt
Lena Headey
Christina Hendricks
Joanne Whalley (The Borgias)
Deborah Ann Woll
Morgan Saylor
Lauren Cohan
Archie Panjabi
Kiernan Shipka
Jessica Lange
Kelly Macdonald
Gretchen Mol
Emilia Clarke
Odette Anabel (House)
Brenda Strong (Dallas)
Blair Brown
Jasika Nicole
Joelle Carter
Julia Ormond (Mad Men)
Laura Allen (Awake)



Best Supporting Actress in a comedy
Jillian Bell (Workaholics)
Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation)
Maribeth Monroe (Workaholics)
Katie Aselton (The League)
Merritt Wever (Nurse Jackie)
Julie Bowen
Sofia Vergara and her tits
Anna Chlumsky
Alison Brie
Gillian Jacobs
Parker Posey
Kristen Bell
Alison Wiliams
Kristen Wiig
Christina Miller
Rashida Jones
Busy Phillips (Cougar Town)
Aisha Tyler
Judy Greer
Retta (Parks and Recreation)
Hannah Simone (New Girl)





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Best New Show
Homeland
Veep
Person of Interest
Once Upon a Time
Hell on Wheels
Magic City
Boss
Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23
Awake
Girls
New Girl
Enlightened
Luck
House of Lies
Dallas



Best Finale(applies to both season and series finales)
Breaking Bad
Homeland
Boardwalk Empire
Spartacus Vengeance
The Borgias
Once Upon A Time
Falling Skies
Nurse Jackie
Damages
Game of Thrones
The Walking Dead
True Blood
Transformers Prime
Awake
Fringe
Person of Interest
Parks and Recreation
Justified
House
Castle
Episodes
The Vampire Diaries
Wilfred
Sons of Anarchy
TBBT
Archer
Cougar Town
Southland
Rescue Me



Best Music
Breaking Bad
Sons of Anarchy
Homeland
Boardwalk Empire
Fringe
Hell On Wheels
Star Wars The Clone Wars
Dexter
Game of Thrones
Louie
Transformers Prime
Eastbound and Down
The Walking Dead
The Killing
Damages
Boss
Awake
Cougar Town
Archer
Person of Interest

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Most Overrated Show
The Office
Dexter
Weeds
Boardwalk Empire
Big Bang Theory
Glee
2.5 Men
HIMYM
American Horror Story
Modern Family
Mad Men
IASIP
30 Rock
True Blood
The Walking Dead
Boss
Family Guy
Homeland
Fringe
Game of Thrones




Worst Finale(applies to both season and series finales)
Sons of Anarchy
Dexter
Homeland
American Horror Story
Damages
Weeds
House
True Blood
HIMYM
The Office
Community
Big Bang Theory
The Walking Dead



Worst Actor(applies to all genres)
David Zayas (Dexter)
Colin Hanks (Dexter)
Edward James Olmos (Dexter)
Jim Parsons
Asian guy from 2 Broke Girls
Russian guy from 2 Broke Girls
Indian guy from Big Bang Theory
Alexander Gould (Weeds)
Stephen Moyer
Jon Cryer
Cast of The Inbetweeners
Johnny Galecki
Simon Helberg (TBBT)
Chandler Riggs
Josh Radnor
Charlie Sheen
Jeffrey DeMunn (Walking Dead)
Ashton Kutcher
Scott Michael Foster (Californication)
Pretty much everyone in SOA except Ron Perlman



Worst Actress(applies to all genres)
Lauren Vélez (Dexter)
Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead)
Charlyne Yi
Kat Dennings
Sofia Vergara
Whitney Cummings
Anna Paquin
Laurie Holden
Rutina Wesley
Catherine Tate
Alyson Hannigan
Duchovny's daughter in Californication
Maggie Siff (Sons of Anarchy)
Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad)
Dorian Brown (Wilfred)


Best Character on USTV (all genres)
Walter White (Breaking Bad)
Arnold Rothstein (Boardwalk Empire)
Robert Quarles (Justified)
Huel (Breaking Bad)
Rafi (The League)
Roger Sterling (Mad Men)
Bohannon (Hell on Wheels)
Micheletto (The Borgias)
Ben Diamond (Magic City)
Tyrion Lannister
Tywin Lannister
Gustavo Fring
Louie
Carrie Mathison
Jesse Pinkman
Jason Stackhouse
Joffrey Baratheon
Walter Bishop
Reese (Person of Interest)
Bronn
Ron Swanson
Karl Pilkington
Gregory House
Richard Castle
Raylan Givens
Kate Beckett (Castle)
Abed
Jimmy Darmody
Don Draper
Jax Teller
Daryl Dixon
Richard Harrow
Castiel
Jessica (Suits)
Pam (archer)
Lesley Knope
Archer
Mallory Archer
Tom Haverford
Saul Goodman BITCH
Bobby Cobb (Cougar Town)
Laurie Keller (Cougar Town)
Phil Dunphy
Barney Stinson
Boyd Crowder
Eric Northman
Varys
Nicholas Brody (Homeland)
Jessica Tang (Southland)


Worst character on USTV (all genres)
Maria LaGuerta
Angel Batista
1cmanny1
Todd (Breaking Bad)
Skyler White
Henry (Once Upon A Time)
Sookie (True Blood)
Josh (Terra Nova)
Jake (Touch)
TBBT cast
Tara Thornton
Dale Horvath (Walking Dead)
Lori Grimes (Walking Dead)
Andrea (Walking Dead)
T-Dog (Walking Dead)
The entire cast of the Walking Dead)
The entire cast of Glee
Lily Aldrin
Catherine Tate in The Office
The entire cast of HIMYM
Leo Houston (Smash)
Kristen Newman (Wilfred)
Nancy Botwin
Sheldon Cooper
Leonard (TBBT)
Howard (TBBT)
Raj (TBBT)
Carl Grimes
Robert California
Ted Moseby
The entire cast of 2.5 Men
Debra Morgan
Senor Chang (Community)
JR's eyebrows (Dallas)
Carol (Walking Dead)
Jason Stackhouse
Pam Halpert (The Office)
Jim Halpert (The Office)



Saddest Cancellation
Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil
Blue Mountain State
Bored to Death
Hung
Damages
Luck
How to Make it in America
Awake
The Ricky Gervais Show
The Killing
Terra Nova
Alcatraz
House



Ongoing show in most need of cancellation
The Office
The Simpsons
South Park
CSI
True Blood
2.5 Men
HIMYM
TBBT
Glee
Touch
The Cleveland Show
Grey's Anatomy
Dexter
Two Broke Girls
Whitney
The Inbetweeners
Community
Family Guy
The Walking Dead

And now to the finalists. . When you vote this time you can only vote for up to 3 in each category. Make sure to put your No. 1 choice at the top. Your top pick will get three points, 2nd will get two and 3rd will get one. Obviously whomever gets the most points wins that category. I'm tentatively going to leave the voting open for one week today but once again I may close the competition slightly earlier. All votes must be PMed to me please.

And so in alphabetical order we have the finalists of the GRcade USTV Awards 2011/2012:

Best Drama

Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
Homeland
Justified
Mad Men


Best Comedy(includes Animated series)

Archer
Community
IASIP
Louie
Parks and Recreation







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Best Actor in a Drama
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
Jon Hamm (Mad Men)
Jason Issacs (Awake)
Damian Lewis (Homeland)
Timothy Olyphant (Justified)



Best Actor in a Comedy

H. Jon Benjamin (Archer)
Louis CK (Louie)
David Duchovny (Californication)
Jason Gann (Wilfred)
Matt LeBlanc (Episodes)
Rob McElhenney (IASIP)






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Best Actress in a Drama

Rose Byrne (Damages)
Glenn Close (Damages)
Claire Danes (Homeland)
Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad)
Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife)
Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men)
Katey Sagal (Sons of Anarchy)
Anna Torv (Fringe)



Best Actress in a Comedy
Julia Louis Dreyfuss (Veep)
Tina Fey (30 Rock)
Kaitlin Olsen (IASIP)
Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation)
Jessica Walter (Archer)
Zooooooey (New Girl)



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Best Supporting Actor in a drama

Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad)
Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones)
Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad)
Walton Goggins (Justified)
John Noble (Fringe)
Mandy Patinkin (Homeland)
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)

Best Supporting Actor in a comedy

Ty Burrell (Modern Family)
Max Greenfield (New Girl)
Donald Glover (Community)
NPH (HIMYM)
Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation)
Ed O'Neill (Modern Family)
Jim Rash (Community)



Best Supporting Actress in a drama

Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones)
Laura Fraser (Breaking Bad)
Lena Headey (Game of Thrones)
Christina Hendricks (Mad Men)
Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife)
Maisie Williams (GOT)
Natalie Zea (Justified)


Best Supporting Actress in a comedy

Kristen Bell (House of Lies)
Alison Brie (Community)
Gillian Jacobs (Community)
Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation)
Christina Miller (Cougar Town)



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Best New Show

Awake
Homeland
New Girl
Person of Interest
Veep

Best Finale(applies to both season and series finales)

Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
Damages
Game of Thrones
Homeland



Best Music


Breaking Bad
Fringe
Game of Thrones
Homeland
Louie
Sons of Anarchy

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Most Overrated Show

The Big Bang Theory
Boardwalk Empire
Dexter
HIMYM
Mad Men
The Walking Dead


Worst Finale(applies to both season and series finales)

Dexter
Homeland
How I Met your Mother
Sons of Anarchy
Weeds


Worst Actor(applies to all genres)

Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men)
Johnny Galecki (The Big Bang Theory)
Ashton Kutcher (Two and a Half Men)
Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory)
Charlie Sheen (Anger Management)



Worst Actress(applies to all genres)

Sarah Wayne Callies (Walking Dead)
Alyson Hannigan (How I met your mother)
Madeleine Martin (Californication)
Small, monotonous mushroom looking girl (House)
Catherine Tate (The Office)
Sofia Vergara (Modern Family)







Best Character on USTV (all genres)

Archer (Archer)
Walter Bishop (Fringe)
Bronn (Game of Thrones)
Gustavo Fring (Breaking Bad)
Raylan Givens (Justified)
Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
Walter White (Breaking Bad)


Worst character on USTV (all genres)

Lily Aldrin (HIMYM)
Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
The Entire Cast (Glee)
Lori Grimes (The Walking Dead)
Catherine Tate (The Office)
T-Dog (The Walking Dead)




Saddest Cancellation

Awake
Bored to Death
Damages
How to Make it in America
Hung
Luck
The Ricky Gervais Show



Ongoing show in most need of cancellation

The Big Bang Theory
Dexter
How I Met your Mother
The Simpsons
Two and a Half Men

[Drumstick]

Not a single Castle finalist, you strawberry floaters.

Also, I'm calling total bullshit on Neal McDonough's exclusion. Guy was strawberry floating incredible in Justified this year, even better than Goggins.

Edit: Also, was Giancarlo Esposito in something other than Breaking Bad? Otherwise I don't know why people are nominating him seeing as he doesn't appear in season five of BB.

[Memento Mori]

Neal McDonough missed getting to the finals by just one vote. On your second point these awards cover September 1st 2011 to August 31st 2012 and Breaking Bad season four finished October 2011.

[Grumpy David]

Some seriously tough choices for a few of those categories. Just OM'd.

at "The entire Glee cast"

[Memento Mori]

The Glee cast
The male Sons of Anarchy cast
The Two and a Half Men cast
The Big Bang Theory cast
The Walking Dead cast

There are a lot of disliked casts on USTV.

[HM]

Most Overrated Show
Fringe
Game of Thrones

Worst character on USTV (all genres)
1cmanny1
The entire cast of the Walking Dead

EDIT- majorly struggling to get Best Character down to just 3, let alone order them

[Mockmaster]

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama
T-Dog in Walking Dead

Someone needs a slap.

[Foxhound]

The Glee cast
The male Sons of Anarchy cast
The Two and a Half Men cast
The Big Bang Theory cast
The Walking Dead cast

There are a lot of disliked casts on USTV.

In fairness, I only nominated the living characters in The Walking Dead. The dead themselves are fine.

No Lucy Liu? strawberry float all of y'all.

Also, what Drummy said about Neal McDonough. Screw Castle though

[Memento Mori]

Lucy Liu also missed the finals by just one vote. The nominations were very close this year.

[Frank]

Am I the only person who watched Dallas, then?

[Memento Mori]

You're the only person who nominated Dallas. I've seen a few eps on channel 5.

[Mockmaster]

Votes submitted.

[Monkey Man]

My votes are in, suprisingly easier to do than I thought.

[melatonin]

Ctrl+F treme

1 result found, because Memento used the word "extremely"

[Crimson]

Ctrl+F treme

1 result found, because Memento used the word "extremely"

Pretty sure Season 2 was part of last year's awards. If not, I've made a terrible mistak by excluding it.

And Season 3 won't be eligible till next year because it started late.

[chalkitdown]

I voted Tremé for best soundtrack. Looks like nobody else did, though.

[satriales]

I completely forgot about Luck.

That deserves many awards.

[Memento Mori]

Ctrl+F treme

1 result found, because Memento used the word "extremely"

Pretty sure Season 2 was part of last year's awards. If not, I've made a terrible mistak by excluding it.

And Season 3 won't be eligible till next year because it started late.

Correct. Treme was ineligible for these awards as it didn't air between the dates September 1st 2011- August 31st 2012. You can vote for it in next year's awards.

[chalkitdown]

You mummy strawberry floater...

[Memento Mori]

If David Simon can't film a ten episode TV show in a year, he must face the consequences.