The Hollywood Reporter hosted a Drama Showrunner Emmy Roundtable with television showrunners Lee Daniels (Empire), Damon Lindelof (The Leftovers), Alex Gansa (Homeland), Sarah Treem (The Affair), Michelle King (The Good Wife), and Beau Willimon (House of Cards).
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.