And The 2014 EMMY Nominees Are...

Announced this morning by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, these are the writing nominees for 66th Primetime EMMY awards:

 

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

Vince Gilligan for BREAKING BAD

Moira Walley-Beckett for BREAKING BAD

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for GAME OF THRONES

Beau Willimon for HOUSE OF CARDS

Nic Pizzolatto for TRUE DETECTIVE

 

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik for EPISODES

Louis C.K. for LOUIE

Liz Friedman and Jenji Kohan for ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK

Alec Berg for SILICON VALLEY

Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche, and Armando Iannucci for VEEP

 

Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special

Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN

Noah Hawley for FARGO

Neil Cross for LUTHER

Steven Moffat for SHERLOCK: HIS LAST VOW

Larry Kramer for THE NORMAL HEART

David Simon and Eric Overmyer for TREME

 

Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series

Jessi Klein, Amy Schumer, Emily Altman, Jeremy Beiler, Neil Casey, Kurt Metzger, Kyle Dunnigan, Christine Nangle, and Daniel Powell for INSIDE AMY SCHUMER

Jay Martel, Ian Roberts, Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, Alex Rubens, Rebecca Drysdale, Colton Dunn, Rich Talarico, and Charlie Sanders for KEY & PEELE

Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Jonathan Krisel, Graham Wagner, and Karey Dornetto for PORTLANDIA

Opus Moreschi, Stephen Colbert, Tom Purcell, Richard Dahm, Barry Julien, Michael Brumm, Rob Dubbin, Jay Katsir, Frank Lesser, Glenn Eichler, Meredith Scardino, Max Werner, Eric Drysdale, Paul Dinello, Nate Charny, Sam Kim, Aaron Cohen, Gabe Gronli, and Matt Lappin for THE COLBERT REPORT

Elliott Kalan, Tim Carvell, Steve Bodow, Dan Amira, Travon Free, Hallie Haglund, JR Havlan, Matt Koff, Dan McCoy, Jo Miller, Zhubin Parang, Daniel Radosh, Lauren Sarver, Jon Stewart, and Rory Albanese for THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART

AD Miles, Patrick Borelli, Gerard Bradford, Luke Cunningham, Mike DiCenzo, Mike Drucker, Jess Dweck, Dicky Eagan, Jimmy Fallon, John Haskel, Josh Lieb, Arthur Meyer, Chase Mitchell, Dan Opsal, Gavin Purcell, Jon Rineman, Albertina Ross, Jason Ross, David Young, and Michael Jann for THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON

 

Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special

David Boone and Paul Greenberg for 67th ANNUAL TONY AWARDS

Billy Crystal for BILLY CRYSTAL: 700 SUNDAYS

Sarah Silverman for SARAH SILVERMAN: WE ARE MIRACLES

Barry Adelman, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Jon Macks, Dave Boone, Alex Baze, Robert Carlock, Sam Means, Seth Meyers, and Mike Shoemaker for THE 71st ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS

Ken Ehrlich and David Wild for THE BEATLES: THE NIGHT THAT CHANGED AMERICA

 

You can see the full list of EMMY nominees here.

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