MAD MEN won it's third straight award for best drama, completing a sweep along with its Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards, also three years in a row for each. It is quite simply the most addictive drama on tv. MODERN FAMILY replaced 30 ROCK after its three wins in a row as best comedy.
Bryan Cranston won his third in a row for lead actor in BREAKING BAD, while his co-star Aaron Paul got his first for supporting actor. (Don't know about you but this Paul guys gives me the creeps..)
HBO's film TEMPLE GRADIN won five Emmys, including best actress for lead Clare Danes; it's her first Emmy, maybe her first major award. Temple herself, an autistic vet, shared the stage when it won for outstanding movie.
The Tom Hanks-Steven Spielberg co-produced war series THE PACIFIC, a counterpart to their BAND OF BROTHERS miniseries about WW2 in Europe, won for outstanding miniseries. (Don't know what they spent on this, but Band's budget was reportedly 100 million).
THE DAILY SHOW with Jon Stewart won it's 8th Emmy in a row.
John Lithgow's especially creepy homicidal performance on DEXTER was rewarded, as was director Steve Shill.
Primetime Emmy Winners 2010
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A COMEDY: Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory)
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY: Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY: Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY: Jane Lynch (Glee)
OUSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY: Betty White (SNL)
OUSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY: Neil Patrick Harris (Glee)
OUTSTANDING COMEDY: Modern Family
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION IN A COMEDY: Ryan Murphy (Glee)
OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A COMEDY: Christopher Lloyd and Stephen Levitan (Modern Family)
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA: Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA: Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA: Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA: Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA: John Lithgow (Dexter)
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA: Ann Margaret (Law & Order: SVU)
OUTSTANDING DRAMA: Mad Men
OUTSTANDING WRITING IN A DRAMA: Erin Levy and Matthew Weiner (Mad Men)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION IN A DRAMA: Steve Shill (Dexter)
OUTSTANDING WRITING IN A VARIETY SHOW: Dave Boone and Paul Greenberg (The 2010 Tony Awards)
OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SERIES: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION IN A VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SPECIAL: Bucky Gunts (The Winter Olympics)
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A TV MOVIE, MINISERIES OR DRAMATIC SPECIAL: Al Pacino (You Don't Know Jack)
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A TV MOVIE, MINISERIES OR DRAMATIC SPECIAL: Claire Danes (Temple Gradin)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION IN A TV MOVIE, MINISERIES OR DRAMATIC SPECIAL: Mick Jackson (Temple Grandin)
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A SUPORTING ROLE IN A TV MOVIE, MINISERIES OR DRAMATIC SPECIAL: David Strathairn (Temple Grandin)
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A SUPORTING ROLE IN A TV MOVIE, MINISERIES OR DRAMATIC SPECIAL: Julia Ormand (Temple Grandin)
OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE: Temple Grandin (HBO)
OUTSTANDING MINISERIES: The Pacific (HBO)
OUTSTANDING WRITING IN A TV MOVIE, MINISERIES OR DRAMATIC SPECIAL: Adam Mazer (You Don't know Jack)
OUTSTANDING REALITY SHOW COMPETITION: Top Chef
BOB HOPE HUMANITARIAN AWARD: George Clooney