Best Mini-Series
Grey Gardens

Best Actress, Mini-Series
Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens premiered on HBO last April 2009 with Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange in the title roles as Edith Bouvier Beale. Drew Barrymore played Little Edie and Jessica Lange played Big Edie, Little Edie’s mom. Little Edie is Jacqueline Onassis’ real-life cousin. The film follows the isolated lifestyle of both mother and daughter, who were raised as Park Avenue debutantes but withdrew from the New York elite society. They retreated to their Long Island summer home, Grey Gardens.

This mini-series continues to run on HBO and has been nominated and won many awards, including Outstanding Achievement Mini-Series by the Television Critics Association and numerous awards from the Emmys, including Outstanding Made-for-Television Movie, Directing, Acting and Writing.

Best Actor, Mini-Series
Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance

Also premiered on HBO, Taking Chance is the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl (played by Kevin Bacon), as he accompanies fallen Marine Lance Corporal Chance Phelps, who was killed in hostile fire in Iraq, back to his home in Wyoming. In a personal, first-hand account he is required to provide for the Marines, he witnesses the support and respect the fallen Marine earned while stationed in Iraq. From the groundskeeper to the cargo handlers at the airport, Strobl witnessed it all.

Best Supporting Actress, TV
Chloe Sevigny, Big Love

Chloe Sevigny plays one of Bill Paxton’s wives in HBO Original Series, Big Love. Bill Paxton plays modern polygamist Bill Henricksen, who juggles, along with his church duties, three wives, played by Jeanne Triplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin and Sevigny. This season marks it fourth as Bill tries to deal with his family duties and problems, church duties, their new Mormon-friendly casino he is about to open with Native American partners and a public campaign. On top of that, he also has to deal with the dramas of his two oldest children, his brother, father and mother.

Sunday, 9pm, HBO

Best Supporting Actor, TV
John Lithgow, Dexter

John Lithgow appeared in the fourth season of the award-winning show, Dexter, starring Michael C. Hall. In Season 4, which ended last December 2009, Dexter is now a married man, having married Rita in the season 3 finale, and a proud daddy to Harrison, as well as Rita’s two older kids, Aster and Cody. They now have moved to the suburbs, and Dexter struggles to keep his secret identity secret from his new family while trying to live a normal life. New season premieres this September 2010.

Sunday, 10p/9c, Showtime