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[Dan]

Nominees list
Full winner's list

SCREEN WINNERS

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, Story by Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth, Focus Features

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Sideways, Screenplay by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor, Based on the novel by Rex Pickett, Fox Searchlight Pictures


TELEVISION WINNERS

EPISODIC DRAMA

THE SUPREMES (The West Wing), Written by Debora Cahn; NBC

EPISODIC COMEDY (tie)

PIER PRESSURE (Arrested Development), Written by Jim Vallely & Mitchell Hurwitz; Fox

IDA'S BOYFRIEND (Malcolm in the Middle), Written by Neil Thompson; FOX

LONG FORM - ORIGINAL

SOMETHING THE LORD MADE, Written by Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell; HBO

LONG FORM - ADAPTED

ANGELS IN AMERICA, Teleplay by Tony Kushner, Based on the play by Tony Kushner; HBO

ANIMATION

CATCH 'EM IF YOU CAN (The Simpsons), Written by Ian Maxtone-Graham; FOX

COMEDY/VARIETY - (including talk) SERIES

LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN, Written by Mike Sweeney, Chris Albers, Jose Arroyo, Andy Blitz, Kevin Dorff, Dan Goor, Michael Gordon, Brian Kiley, Michael Koman,Demetri Martin, Brian McCann, Guy Nicolucci, Conan O'Brien, Allison Silverman, Robert Smigel, Brian Stack, Andrew Weinberg; NBC

Okay, cheers to Eternal Sunshine and Sideways winning! Also great to see Arrested Development grab a win, especially for one of my top couple favorite episodes!

But now here's what gets me. What's the deal with the television animated category? Check this out:

ANIMATION — any length — one airing time

TODAY I AM A CLOWN (The Simpsons), Fox
Written by Joel H. Cohen

FRAUDCAST NEWS (The Simpsons), Fox
Written by Don Payne

STARCROSSED (Justice League), Cartoon Network
Written by Rich Fogel, John Ridley, Dwayne McDuffie, Story by Rich Fogel

MILHOUSE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (The Simpsons), Fox
Written by Julie Chambers & David Chambers

CATCH ‘EM IF YOU CAN (The Simpsons), Fox
Written by Ian Maxtone-Graham

Now I've only seen three or four episodes of The Simpsons over the last season and a half and I don't believe any of these... but c'mon! I find it extremely hard to believe that The Simpsons has had four brilliant episodes that tops everything else being done in animation. Is this some bullshit where all the good shows and writers are somehow ineligible? Where's South Park, or even the last four episodes of Samurai Jack, especially the Tale of X9 episode? This just seems so incredibly sad to me. I don't care so much that it won, as maybe that episode was a diamond in the rough, but FOUR nominations? That seems ludicrous.

 

[DMczaf]

STARCROSSED (Justice League), Cartoon Network
Written by Rich Fogel, John Ridley, Dwayne McDuffie, Story by Rich Fogel

Woo!!

 

[Ghost]

Catch 'em if you can did actually look really good but thats hardly reason for it to win a writers award, i guess in the days with no Futurama, or Seth MacFarlane productions on the air, its a one horse race, and the horse had serious birth defects and 3 lame legs, and a sumo wrestler for a jockey.

 

[Shinobi]

Too bad Starcrossed didn't win, but it's good to see it was nominated.

 

[Flynn]

Catch 'em if you can did actually look really good but thats hardly reason for it to win a writers award, i guess in the days with no Futurama, or Seth MacFarlane productions on the air, its a one horse race, and the horse had serious birth defects and 3 lame legs, and a sumo wrestler for a jockey.

A crack smoking sumo wrestler jockey.