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Nominations for the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today by Grey’s Anatomy star Chandra Wilson and Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons.

Televisions premier awards ceremony, to be hosted by How I Met Your Mother star Neil Harris, will take place at Los Angeles’ NOKIA Theatre September 20, from 8pm to 11pm and be broadcast live on CBS.

The complete list of nominees for the 2009 Emmy Awards are:

Drama Series:
Big Love, HBO; Breaking Bad, AMC; Damages, FX Networks; Dexter, Showtime; House, Fox; Lost, ABC; Mad Men, AMC.

Comedy Series:
Entourage, HBO; Family Guy, Fox; Flight of the Conchords, HBO; How I Met Your Mother, CBS; The Office, NBC; 30 Rock, NBC; Weeds, Showtime.

Miniseries:
Generation Kill, HBO; Little Dorrit PBS.
Made-for-TV Movie: Coco Chanel, Lifetime; Grey Gardens, HBO; Into the Storm, HBO; Prayers for Bobby, Lifetime; Taking Chance, HBO.

Actor, Drama Series:
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad, AMC; Michael C. Hall, Dexter, Showtime; Hugh Laurie, House, Fox; Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment, HBO; Jon Hamm, Mad Men, AMC; Simon Baker, The Mentalist, CBS.

Actress, Drama Series:
Sally Field, Brothers&Sisters, ABC; Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer, TNT; Glenn Close, Damages, FX Networks; Mariska Hargitay, Law&Order: Special Victims Unit, NBC; Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men, AMC; Holly Hunter, Saving Grace, TNT.

Supporting Actor, Drama Series:
William Shatner, Boston Legal, ABC; Christian Clemenson, Boston Legal, ABC; Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad, AMC; William Hurt, Damages, FX Networks; Michael Emerson, Lost, ABC; John Slattery, Mad Men, AMC.

Supporting Actress, Drama Series:
Rose Byrne, Damages, FX Networks; Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy, ABC; Chandra Wilson, Grey’s Anatomy, ABC; Dianne Wiest, In Treatment, HBO; Hope Davis, In Treatment, HBO; Cherry Jones, 24, Fox.

Actor, Comedy Series:
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory, CBS; Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords, HBO; Tony Shalhoub, Monk, USA; Steve Carell, The Office, NBC; Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock, NBC; Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men, CBS.

Actress, Comedy Series:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine, CBS; Christina Applegate, Samantha Who? ABC; Sarah Silverman, The Sarah Silverman Program, Comedy Central; Tina Fey, 30 Rock, NBC; Toni Collette, United States of Tara, Showtime; Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds, Showtime.

Supporting Actor, Comedy Series:
Kevin Dillon, Entourage, HBO; Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother, CBS; Rainn Wilson, The Office, NBC; Tracy Morgan, 30 Rock, NBC; Jack McBrayer, 30 Rock, NBC; Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men, CBS.

Supporting Actress, Comedy Series:
Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies, ABC; Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live, NBC; Kristin Wiig, Saturday Night Live, NBC; Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock, NBC; Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty, ABC; Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds, Showtime.

Actor, Miniseries or Movie:
Kevin Kline, Cyrano de Bergerac, PBS; Brendan Gleeson, Into the Storm, HBO; Ian McKellen, King Lear, PBS; Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance, HBO; Kiefer Sutherland, 24: Redemption, Fox; Kenneth Branagh, Wallander: One Step Behind, PBS.

Actress, Miniseries or Movie:
Chandra Wilson, Accidental Friendship, Hallmark Channel; Shirley MacLaine, Coco Chanel, Lifetime; Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens, HBO; Jessica Lange, Grey Gardens, HBO; Sigourney Weaver, Prayers for Bobby, Lifetime.

Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie:
Ken Howard, Grey Gardens, HBO; Len Cariou, Into the Storm, HBO; Bob Newhart, The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice, TNT; Tom Courtenay, Little Dorrit, PBS; Andy Serkis, Little Dorrit, PBS.

Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie:
Marcia Gay Harden, The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, CBS; Jeanne Tripplehorn, Grey Gardens, HBO; Shohreh Aghdashloo, House of Saddam, HBO; Janet McTeer, Into the Storm, HBO; Cicely Tyson, Relative Stranger, Hallmark Channel.