The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA), a new offshoot of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, today announced the winners of the first-ever Critics' Choice Television Awards and Mad Men was honored with three wins across the Best Drama, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories.

Mad Men faced stiff competition in the Drama category: In addition to AMC's own The Killing and The Walking Dead, the drama faced down shows like HBO's Boardwalk Empire and FX's Justified to win the award. The acting categories were no less fierce: Jon Hamm beat out Boardwalk Empire's Steve Buscemi and Dexter's (Showtime) Michael C. Hall for the Best Actor statuette, while Christina Hendricks tied for Best Supporting Actress along with Justified's Margo Martindale against actresses like The Killing's Michelle Forbes and Big Love's (HBO) Chloe Sevigny.

After the jump is a partial list of the inaugural Critics' Choice Television Awards winners. For a full list, visit the Critics' Choice website.

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Time Magazine has named Mad Men series creator Matthew Weiner as one of the world's 100 Most Influential People of 2011, and fans of the series are thrilled. In the article written by Elisabeth Moss (Peggy), Weiner is described as a genius, poet, artist and "a seeker of truth." Read below to see what Maddicts have to say about Time's selection.

•"He deserves to be in that list. I think of Matt as a modern genius, it's so brilliant that it is hard to explain it with words. Thanks for ALL Mr. Weiner."-- Pepe Silva

• "Matt Weiner is creative genius for Mad Men." -- Nancy Orjala

• "Matthew Weiner is brilliant! ... He sure knows how to recreate the mood and authenticity of the '60s. ... So legitimate -- so truthful -- so accurate." -- Heather Hunter

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The Art Directors Guild held its annual awards show last night, and Mad Men pulled off a four-peat. The ADG named Mad Men the Best Single-Camera Television Series for the fourth consecutive year, honoring production designer Dan Bishop for his work on the Season 4 premiere, "Public Relations." In order to pull off the win, Mad Men had to defeat True Blood (HBO), The Tudors (Showtime), 24 (Fox), and Glee (Fox).

For more details on the Art Directors Guild Awards for 2011, visit the ADG Web site.

At last night's Writers Guild Awards, Mad Men earned two wins in the top television categories. For the third year in a row, the WGA named Mad Men the Best TV Drama Series, honoring writers Jonathan Abrahams, Lisa Albert, Keith Huff, Jonathan Igla, André Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Brett Johnson, Janet Leahy, Erin Levy, Tracy McMillan, Dahvi Waller, and Matthew Weiner. The competing nominees were Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Dexter, and Friday Night Lights.

The WGA also singled out "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword," written by Erin Levy, as the Best Episodic Drama, beating out episodes from The Good Wife, House M.D., and Breaking Bad.

Below is a partial list of the Writers Guild winners for 2011. For a full list, visit the WGA Web site.

Best Original Screenplay: Inception

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Social Network

Best Documentary Screenplay: Inside Job

Best TV Drama Series: Mad Men

Best TV Comedy Series: Modern Family

Best New Series: Boardwalk Empire

Best Episodic Drama: "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword," Mad Men

Best Episodic Comedy: "When It Rains, It Pours," 30 Rock

Congratulations are in order: Mad Men just won the top prize for Best TV Drama Series at the Producers Guild of America Awards -- for the third year in a row. To take home the award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama, the series beat out fellow nominees Breaking Bad (AMC), Dexter (Showtime), Lost (ABC), and True Blood (HBO). For more info on the evening and to find out about other big winners, check out the Producers Guild of America's Web site.

AFI lauded Mad Men as one of its Television Programs of the Year for 2010. This marks the fourth 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 -- Breaking Bad 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.