# What would your Emmy ballot look like?

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**Created:** [June 12, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-emmy-ballot-look-like/308001 "2005-06-12T20:55:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-emmy-ballot-look-like/308001/1 "2005-06-12T20:55:18Z")

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Ok. Emmy nomination ballots just went out to voters. If you’re like me, they didn’t send you one!

Let’s see your picks. We’ll say you get a top three in each category.

The categories:

BEST DRAMA:

BEST COMEDY:

BEST ACTOR (DRAMA):

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (DRAMA):

BEST ACTOR (COMEDY):

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (COMEDY):

BEST ACTRESS (DRAMA):

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (DRAMA):

BEST ACTRESS (COMEDY):

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (COMEDY):

BEST WRITING (DRAMA):

BEST WRITING (COMEDY):

Not that it is an Emmy category, but:

THE MAKEUP AWARD (GIVE AN EMMY TO A PERSON OR SHOW NO LONGER ON THE AIR THAT GOT HOSED:

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**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-emmy-ballot-look-like/308001/2 "2005-06-12T21:10:24Z")

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My ballot:

BEST DRAMA:

1. Lost
2. Survivor: Vanuatu (I know that it has its own category, but I put it here as well)

BEST COMEDY:

1. Scrubs
2. Arrested Development
3. South Park

BEST ACTOR (DRAMA):

1. Matthew Fox (Lost)
2. Keifer Sutherland (24)
3. Hugh Laurie (House)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (DRAMA):

1. Terry O’Quinn (Lost)  
(A gap to show how far ahead TOQ is)
2. Josh Holloway (Lost)
3. Jorge Garcia (Lost)

BEST ACTOR (COMEDY):

1. Jason Bateman (AD)
2. Zach Braff (Scrubs)
3. Topher Grace (T70Show)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (COMEDY):

1. Will Arnett (AD)
2. Michael Cera (AD)
3. Tony Hale (AD)

BEST ACTRESS (DRAMA):

1. Evangeline Lilly (Lost)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (DRAMA):

1. Yoon-Jin Kim (Lost)

BEST ACTRESS (COMEDY):

1. Lauren Graham (The Gilmore Girls)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (COMEDY):

1. Jessica Walter (AD)
2. Eva Longoria (DH)- They claim it is a comedy…
3. Portia De Rossi (AD)

BEST WRITING (DRAMA):

1. Lost  
BEST WRITING (COMEDY):
2. Arrested Development
3. Scrubs
4. South Park

Not that it is an Emmy category, but:

THE MAKEUP AWARD (GIVE AN EMMY TO A PERSON OR SHOW NO LONGER ON THE AIR THAT GOT HOSED:

1. John Mahoney (Frasier)
2. Freaks and Geeks (Best Writing)
3. Jason Alexander (Seinfeld)