Awards

Breaking Bad Wins Saturn Award

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On Thursday, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films held its 37th annual Saturn Awards in Burbank, California, and Breaking Bad was honored to take home the prize for Best Syndicated/Cable Series.

Breaking Bad -- which also won the category last year along with Aaron Paul, who won Best Supporting Actor on Television -- faced heavy competition for this year's award: TNT's The Closer and Leverage, Showtime's Dexter, SyFy's Eureka, Starz' Spartacus: Blood and Sand and HBO's True Blood were also nominated.

Also a big winner at last night's ceremony was AMC's drama The Walking Dead, which walked home with the trophy for Best Television Presentation. In addition, the series' Writer/Director/Executive Producer Frank Darabont received the prestigious George Pal Memorial Award for his twenty-five year body of genre work. Click here to learn more about The Walking Dead's awards.

Breaking Bad Season 4 premieres Sun., Jul. 17 at 10PM | 9C on AMC.

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Breaking Bad Nabs Two Satellite Awards

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On Sun., Dec. 19 the International Press Academy announced the winners for their 15th annual Satellite Awards, and for the second year in a row AMC's Breaking Bad was the recipient of the Drama Series Award, while the show's Emmy-winning star Bryan Cranston picked up his third straight trophy for Actor in a Drama Series.

Breaking Bad faced stiff competition for this year's award in the form of HBO's Boardwalk Empire, Showtime's Dexter and The Tudors, NBC's Friday Night Lights, CBS's The Good Wife and AMC's own Mad Men.

Cranston's competitors were no less fierce: He beat out Friday Night Lights' Kyle Chandler, The Good Wife's Josh Charles, Dexter's Michael C. Hall, True Blood's Stephen Moyer and Mad Men's Jon Hamm to take home the trophy.

Click here to read an interview with Bryan Cranston for Season 3

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AFI Honors Breaking Bad as Outstanding TV Show for 2010

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AFI lauded Breaking Bad as one of its Television Programs of the Year for 2010. This marks the second time that the AMC drama has been honored by the American Film Institute. The awards were created as a way to preserve and honor America's cultural legacy in the moving image arts (i.e., film and television). Also recognized among the Television Programs of the Year category  were two other shows from AMC -- Mad Men and The Walking Dead -- as well as The Big C (Showtime), Boardwalk Empire (HBO), Glee (Fox), Modern Family (ABC), The Pacific (HBO), Temple Grandin (HBO) and 30 Rock (NBC). AFI's Movies of the Year for 2010 were Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, 127 Hours, The Social Network, The Town, Toy Story 3, True Grit and Winter's Bone.

The AFI will celebrate the honorees at a luncheon on Fri., Jan. 14.

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Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston Win Emmys for Breaking Bad

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Breaking Bad won twice in a big way at the 62nd Emmy awards, taking home statues for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, too.

Bryan Cranston beat the competition (and the odds) by winning the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the third year in a row. "During the time it took me to walk up here I'm venturing there were two hundred text messages to my fellow nominees saying you were robbed, and I cannot argue with that," Cranston said, accepting the award. "I'm so humbled and amazed to be in your company." He also thanked Vince Gilligan and the writing staff saying, "It feels like all I have to do is hold on tight and you'll take us where we need to go." (Read a Season 3 interview with Bryan Cranston here.)

The first Breaking Bad win of the evening, however, went to Aaron Paul for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. It was his second nomination for his portrayal of Jesse Pinkman and his first Emmy win. "I know you're crying at home watching, mom," Paul said, accepting the award, "It's ok. I love you." (Read a season three interview with Aaron Paul here.)

AMC's Mad Men won for Outstanding Drama series, beating out Breaking Bad, Dexter, The Good Wife, Lost and True Blood. (Click here to read more about Mad Men's Emmy wins.)

AMCtv.com congratulates Breaking Bad and Mad Men for all their successes.

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Breaking Bad Wins TCA Award for Outstanding Drama

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Last weekend the Television Critics Association announced the winners for the 26th Annual TCA Awards during a reception at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and Breaking Bad was honored with the statue for Outstanding Achievement in Drama.

Breaking Bad tied with the final season of ABC's Lost for this distinction, facing down stiff competition from FX's Sons of Anarchy, CBS's The Good Wife and AMC's own Mad Men (which won in both 2008 and 2009).

The 2010 TCA Awards, presented by the Television Critics Association, recognize outstanding television programming in the 2009-2010 season, as selected by the association's 200-plus member critics and journalists.

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Breaking Bad Nabs 7 Emmy Nominations

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The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards this morning, and Breaking Bad scored nominations for Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Lead Actor, Outstanding Supporting Actor, Outstanding Directing, Outstanding Cinematography, Outstanding Picture Editing and Outstanding Sound Editing.

The series, in its second nomination for Outstanding Drama, will be up against Dexter, The Good Wife, Lost, AMC's Mad Men (which earned 17 nominations) and True Blood.

Bryan Cranston, going for his third straight win for Outstanding Actor, shares the category with Michael C. Hall of Dexter, Kyle Chandler of Friday Night Lights, Hugh Laurie of House, Matthew Fox of Lost and Mad Men's Jon Hamm.

Aaron Paul, nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor for the second straight year, for his portrayal of Jesse Pinkman goes up against Martin Short of Damages, Terry O'Quinn of Lost, Michael Emerson of Lost, Jon Slattery of Mad Men, and Andre Braugher of Men of a Certain Age.

The show also received four other nominations. Michael Slovis was nominated for Outstanding Cinematography for the second straight year, Michelle MacLaren for Outstanding Directing, Skip MacDonald for Single-Camera Picture Editing and Nick Forshager, Kathryn Madsen, Mark Cookson, Cormac Funge, Jason Boegel, Jason Newman and Gregg Barbanell for Outstanding Sound Editing. Click here to see a complete list of nominations for AMC.

The Emmys will air on Sun., Aug. 29 @ 8PM | 7C.

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Breaking Bad Wins Two Saturn Awards

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The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films last night announced their winners for the 36th Annual Saturn Awards, and Breaking Bad was honored with statues for the Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series and for Best Supporting Actor on Television (which went to Aaron Paul).

Breaking Bad faced stiff competition for the award, in the form of SyFy's Battlestar Galactica, TNT's The Closer and Leverage, Showtime's Dexter and HBO's True Blood. Aaron Paul's co-nominees were no less formidable: The young actor beat out Lost's Jeremy Davies and Michael Emerson, Leverage's Aldis Hodge, Fringe's John Noble and True Blood's Alexander Skarsgard to take home the statue.

Click here to read an interview with Aaron Paul for Season 3

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Breaking Bad Season 2 Wins Prism Award

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The 14th Annual Prism Awards were held yesterday, honoring productions that realistically show substance abuse, addiction and mental health issues. This year, AMC's Breaking Bad was awarded in the Drama Series Multi-Episode Storyline category, beating ABC's Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice, HBO's In Treatment and Showtime's Nurse Jackie. This is Breaking Bad's second Prism win.

Click here for a complete list of winners.

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Editor Lynne Willingham Wins Second Consecutive ACE Award

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The good news just keeps on coming for Breaking Bad editor Lynne Willingham. On the heels of her second-consecutive Emmy win, the American Cinema Editors have awarded her an Eddie award for best-edited one-hour series for commercial television, for which she was nominated and also won last year.

Willingham, who won the Emmy in September for her work on the Season 2 Finale, beat out 24's Leon Ortiz, E.R.'s Randy Jon Morgan and Jacque Toberen, Law & Order: SVU's Karen Stern and Lost's Christopher Nelson for the prestigious award.

Click here to read an interview with Lynne Willingham

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Breaking Bad Writer George Mastras Wins PEN USA Literary Award

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Break out the champagne! PEN USA -- the West Coast center for the renowned writers' organization International PEN -- has unveiled the winners of its prestigous 2009 Literary Awards, and taking home the prize for Best Teleplay is Breaking Bad's own writer/producer George Mastras.

Mastras was honored for his work on Episode 6 of Season 1, "Crazy Handful of Nothin'." Other winners this year included Dustin Lance Black, who won for penning the Sean Penn vehicle Milk, as well as Kim Barnes who won for her novel A Country Called Home.

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and executive producer Mark Johnson will present Mastras with the award at the 19th Annual Literary Awards Festival, to be held Wednesday, Dec. 2 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in California.

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