65th Primetime Emmy Awards

Breaking Bad

COMEDY SERIES
SERIES: Modern Family
ACTOR: Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
ACTRESS: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Tony Hale, Veep
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Merritt Weaver, Nurse Jackie
DIRECTING: Modern Family- Gail Mancuso
WRITING: 30 Rock- Tina Fey & Tracey Wigfield

DRAMA SERIES
SERIES: Breaking Bad
ACTOR: Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom
ACTRESS: Claire Danes, Homeland
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Bobby Cannavale, Boardwalk Empire
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad
DIRECTING: House of Cards- David Fincher
WRITING: Homeland- Henry Bromwell

MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES
MOVIE: Behind the Candelabra
ACTOR: Michael Douglas, Behind the Candelabra
ACTRESS: Laura Linney, The Big C: Hereafter
SUPPORTING ACTOR: James Cromwell, American Horror Story: Asylum
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Ellen Burstyn, Political Animals
DIRECTING: Behind the Candelabra- Steven Soderbergh
WRITING: The Hour- Abi Morgan

VARIETY SERIES
SERIES: The Colbert Report
DIRECTING: Saturday Night Live- Don Roy King
WRITING: The Colbert Report

TIFF Stats

The People's Choice Award win for 12 Years a Slave for the 2013 Toronto Film Festival raises its awards profile times ten.  Past winners of the award include The King's Speech and Slumdog Millionaire.  Here's a look back at the history of the award and how it correlates with the big dog:

2013: 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
2012: Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)- nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Picture; won Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence)
2011: Where Do We Go Now (Nadine Labaki)
2010: The King's Speech (Tom Hooper)- won 4 Academy Awards including Picture.
2009: Precious (Lee Daniels)- nominated for 6 Academy Awards; won 2 including Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique)
2008: Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)- won 8 Academy Awards including Picture
2007: Eastern Promises (David Croenberg)- nominated for Best Actor (Viggo Mortensen)
2006: Bella (Alejandro Monteverde)
2005: Tsotsi (Gavin Hood)- won Best Foreign Language Film Oscar
2004: Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)- nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Actor (Don Cheadle)
2003: The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano)
2002: Whale Rider (Nikki Caro)- nominated for Best Actress (Keisha Castle-Hughes)
2001: Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)- nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Original Screenplay and Foreign-Language Film
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)- nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture; won 4 Oscars including Foreign-Language Film
1999: American Beauty (Sam Mendes)- won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture
1998: Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)- nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Picture; won 3 Oscars including Actor (Benigni) and Foreign Film.
1997: The Hanging Garden (Thom Fitzgerald)
1996: Shine (Scott Hicks)- nominated for 7 Oscars including Picture; won Best Actor (Geoffrey Rush)
1995: Antonia's Line (Marleen Gorris)- won Best Foreign Language Film
1994: Priest (Antonia Bird)
1993: The Snapper (Stephen Frears)
1992: Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann)
1991: The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam)- nominated for 5 Oscars; won Supporting Actress (Mercedes Ruehl)

1990: Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)- nominated for 5 Oscars including Foreign Film and Best Actor (Gerard Depardieu); won Costume Design
1989: Roger & Me (Michael Moore)
1988: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almódovar)- nominated for Best Foreign Film
1987: The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)- nominated for Best Original Song
1986: The Decline of the American Empire (Denys Arcand)- nominated for Best Foreign Film
1985: The Official Story (Luis Puenzo)- nominated for 2 Oscars including Original Screenplay; won Best Foreign Film
1984: Places in the Heart (Robert Benton)- nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture; won 2 including Best Actress (Sally Field-- her famous "you like me" speech)
1983: The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasden)- nominated for 3 Oscars including Picture
1982: Tempest (Paul Mazursky)
1981: Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)- nominated for 7 Oscars; won 4 including Picture
1980: Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (Nicholas Roeg)
1979: Best Boy (Ira Wohl)
1978: Girlfriends (Claudia Weill)

Creative Arts Emmy Award Winners

ACTING
GUEST ACTOR (DRAMA): Dan Bucatinsky, Scandal
GUEST ACTRESS (DRAMA): Connie Preston, The Good Wife
GUEST ACTOR (COMEDY): Bob Newhart, The Big Bang Theory
GUEST ACTRESS (COMEDY): Melissa Leo, Louie
VOICE PERFORMANCE: Lily Tomlin, An Apology to Elephants

ANIMATED PROGRAM: South Park
VARIETY SPECIAL: Kennedy Center Honors
REALITY PROGRAM: Undercover Boss
SPECIAL CLASS PROGRAMMING: The Tony Awards

ART DIRECTION
SINGLE CAMERA SERIES: Boardwalk Empire
MINI-SERIES/MOVIE: Behind the Candelabra

CASTING
DRAMA SERIES: House of Cards
COMEDY SERIES: 30 Rock
MINI-SERIES/MOVIE: Behind the Candelabra

CINEMATOGRAPHY
MULTIPLE CAMERA SERIES: How I Met Your Mother
SINGLE CAMERA SERIES: House of Cards
MINI-SERIES OR MOVIE: Top of the Lake

COSTUME DESIGN
SERIES: The Borgias
MINI-SERIES OR MOVIE: Behind the Candelabra

EDITING
SINGLE CAMERA PICTURE EDITING (DRAMA): Breaking Bad
SINGLE CAMERA PICTURE EDITING (COMEDY): The Office
MULTIPLE CAMERA PICTURE EDITING (COMEDY): How I Met Your Mother
SINGLE CAMERA PICTURE EDITING (MOVIE): Behind the Candelabra
PICTURE EDITING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING: Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

HAIRSTYLING
MULTI-CAMERA SERIES OF SPECIAL: Saturday Night Live

SINGLE CAMERA SERIES: Boardwalk Empire
MINI-SERIES OR MOVIE: Behind the Candelabra

MAKE-UP
MULTIPLE CAMERA SERIES OR SPECIAL: Saturday Night Live
SINGLE CAMERA SERIES: Game of Thrones
MINI-SERIES OR MOVIE: Behind the Candelabra

SOUND EDITING
SERIES: Boardwalk Empire
MINI-SERIES OR MOVIE: American Horror Story: Asylum

Full list here.

Toronto Film Festival Winners

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
12 Years a Slave (US)- directed by Steve McQueen

runners-up:
Philomena (UK)- directed by Stephen Frears
Prisoners (US)- directed by Denis Villeneuve

PEOPLE'S CHOICE DOCUMENTARY AWARD
The Square (Egypt/US)- directed by Jehane Noujaim

runners-up:
Hi-Ho Mistahey! (Canada)- directed by Alanis Obomsawin
Between the Edge (Canada)- directed by Leanne Pooley

PEOPLE'S CHOICE MIDNIGHT MADNESS AWARD
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (Japan)- directed by Shion Sono

runners-up:
Oculus (US)- directed by Mike Flanagan
Witching & Bitching (Spain/France)- directd by Álex de la Iglesia

PRIZE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRITICS
Ida (Poland)- directed by Pawel Pawlikowski

Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, perhaps the only undisputed champion of the fall festivals on terms of salivating reviews, joins the ranks of previous Best Picture winners Chariots of Fire, American Beauty, Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech by winning the coveted People's Choice Award.  Other recent winners have included Precious and Silver Linings Playlist.

Wadjda

The significance of Wadjda was fully cemented long before it appeared in movie theaters.  The first movie to be filmed in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a nation where movie houses themselves are banned and the cinematic art form itself is considered corrupt, the achievement of Haifaa Al-Mansour's warm and gentle debut film would be considered a triumph even if the end result wasn't nearly half as strong as it is.  To boot, Al-Monsour is a woman, and Wadjda is a film about women set in a culture that vehemently suppresses the feminine experience .  The searing behind-the-scenes machinations are enough reasoning to rejoice-- not dissimilar to that of Jafar Panahi's vibrant Iranian protest documentary This Is Not a Film released stateside last year-- in short, that Wadjda exists at all is worthy of global celebration, and a firm embrace of the power, the magnitude and scope of the medium itself.  Wadjda is even the first movie in history that Saudi Arabia has entered into submission for the foreign language Academy Award, signaling the hopeful chorus of a nation, one without a single commercial theater of its own, hoping to open up and tell its enriching stories.

The backstory provides enough drama, so Wadjda employs a relatively simple narrative in setting to provide a small, but immersive experience set in Riyadh, the capital and largest city within Saudi Arabia's borders.  Wadjda (charmingly played by twelve-year-old Waad Mohammed in her film debut) is a precocious, slightly rebellious ten-year girl-- she wears inappropriate tennis shoes and likes Western-ized pop music and regularly faces discipline at school for not hiding her face.  She wants for nothing more than a bicycle of her own, a vehicle for a smidgen of independence in her isolated community, but more to pal around with the local boy she's taken with.  Unfortunately, bikes are play toys that are not afforded to young girls.  Al-Mansour tracks the cinematic trope of children and their bikes on similar roads well-traveled before by De Sica's The Bicycle Thief to the Dardenne Brothers' The Kid With the Bike.  Wadjda may be a slight and modestly scaled variant but holds a charm and deliberate pace all its own.  Wadjda's master scheme is to enlist in a Koran recitation competition that offers a cash prize.