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.

Bryan Cranston has done it again: Breaking Bad's Emmy-winning actor picked up his second consecutive trophy as Best Actor in a Drama Series at the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy awards Sunday night. "Lee Trevino was struck by lightning twice," Cranston said, accepting the award. "Now I know how he feels."

The veteran actor faced stiff competition for the honor: Dexter's Michael C. Hall, House's Hugh Laurie, In Treatment's Gabriel Byrne, The Mentalist's Simon Baker and AMC's own Jon Hamm of Mad Men. (Click here to read more about Mad Men's Emmy wins.)

The award was Breaking Bad's second of the year, the first of which went to Lynne Willingham, who picked up the best editing trophy -- her second consecutive as well -- at the Creative Arts Emmys last week.

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

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Chalk another one up for Breaking Bad's Emmy-winning editor Lynne Willingham. For the second year in a row, she has picked up an Emmy from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series.

The prestigious award was presented tonight at a ceremony in Los Angeles. Willingham beat out 24's Scott Powell, Battlestar Galactica's Andrew Seklir, Julius Ramsay and Michael O'Halloran, Lost's Stephen Semel, Mark Goldman and Chris Nelson and AMC's own Cindy Mollo of Mad Men

Mad Men was also honored at the ceremony, taking home the award for Hairstyling. (Click here for more details.)

Breaking Bad is still eligible for three more Emmys -- including best series, best actor (Bryan Cranston) and best supporting actor (Aaron Paul) -- at the Primetime ceremony next Sunday.

Click here to read AMCtv.com's recent exclusive interview with Lynne Willingham about the nomination and her work on Season 2.

Breaking Bad's Emmy-winning star can now add another plaudit to his resume: The Television Critics Association honored him with the Outstanding Achievement in Drama award during a ceremony at the Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena Saturday night.

Bryan beat out fellow nominees Glenn Close (Damages), Hugh Laurie (House), Walton Groggins (The Shield) and AMC's own Jon Hamm (Mad Men) for the award.

AMC's sister show, Mad Men, received top honors as well, taking home the Outstanding Achievement in Drama award, for which Breaking Bad was also nominated.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced today their nominees for the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards, and Breaking Bad received five nominations in the Best Drama, Outstanding Lead Actor, Outstanding Supporting Actor, Outstanding Cinematography and Outstanding Editing categories.

In the Outstanding Drama category, Breaking Bad shares a nomination with HBO's Big Love, FX's Damages, Showtime's Dexter, Fox's House, ABC's Lost and AMC's own Mad Men (click here for more info).

Returning champion Bryan Cranston (click here to read an exclusive interview) is once again nominated in the Outstanding Lead Actor Category, sharing a nomination with Mad Men's Jon Hamm. The two AMC leads will be up against heavies like Dexter's Michael C. Hall, House's Hugh Laurie, In Treatment's Gabriel Byrne and The Mentalist's Simon Baker.

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Breaking Bad was honored at the 12th Annual Prism Awards for its accurate portrayal of addiction and mental health. The awards -- produced by the Entertainment Industries Council in collaboration with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration -- honor actors, movies, music and television shows that accurately depict and bring attention to substance abuse and mental health issues.

Other television series to receive honors this year included Boston Legal, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and The Office. Breaking Bad's Emmy-winning star Bryan Cranston was present at the ceremony, held yesterday at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles.

The University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications announced today that Breaking Bad has been selected to receive a Peabody Award. This year's eclectic list of 36 recipients, ranging from ABC's Lost to the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony, represents what the University calls "the best in electronic media."

"Bleak, harrowing, sometimes improbably funny," the presenters said of Vince Gilligan's "thorny" AMC drama, "the series chronicled the consequences of a mild-mannered, dying science teacher's decision to secure his family's future by cooking methamphetamine."

The award will be presented at a ceremony in New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on May 18.

Breaking Bad's Emmy-winning editor Lynne Willingham received an Eddie for the best one-hour series for commercial television on Feb. 15 at the American Cinema Editors awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

Willingham, whose work on the pilot episode won her an Emmy in September, beat out Boston Legal's Craig Bench and Law & Order: SVU's Karen Stern for the prestigious award.

Season 1's pilot episode, for which Ms. Willingham was once again awarded, has been hailed by Time Magazine as one of the best hours of television of the year, and last week received a WGA award as the best episodic drama of the year.

To read an interview with Lynne Willingham, click here.

The Writers Guild of America has awarded Breaking Bad's Season 1 Pilot, written by creator Vince Gilligan, as the best episodic drama of the year. The show beat out Fox's House, USA's Burn Notice, ABC's Eli Stone and Showtime's Dexter for this prestigious award, which was based on voting by the 12,000 WGA members. Breaking Bad's first season episode "Gray Matter", written by Patty Lin, was also nominated in this category.

AMC's Mad Men also won a WGA award for best dramatic series.

Click here to watch the Season 1 Pilot in full screen high definition.

Awards season is steaming ahead, and Breaking Bad continues to pile on the plaudits.

The American Film Institute recognized the drama as one of the best TV programs of the year, placing Breaking Bad in good company with In Treatment, John Adams, Life, Lost, The Office, Recount, The Shield, The Wire and AMC's other original series, Mad Men.

Not to be outdone, the International Press Academy gave Breaking Bad's star, Emmy winner Bryan Cranston, a Satellite Award for best actor in a dramatic series. Cranston beat out In Treatment's Gabriel Byrne, Dexter's Michael C. Hall, Doctor Who's David Tennant, Brotherhood's Jason Isaacs and Mad Men's Jon Hamm for this prestigious award.