Tuesday, August 26, 2008

AFT Awards: Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series


This is the first category of the 2nd Annual AFT Television Awards to be announced, my personal choices for the best in television this past season. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them.

Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series


Runners-up: Gabriel Byrne works hard to deal with out-there patients on “In Treatment”, while Denis Leary persists despite a ludicrous plotline on “Rescue Me”. Bryan Cranston is subdued and impressive as a high school science teacher who cooks meth on “Breaking Bad”, and Edward James Olmos might have made the top five had he been in more of this season of “Battlestar Galactica”. And while Peter Krause could never get as good a role as Nate Fisher from “Six Feet Under”, but he tries his very best as the only sane person on “Dirty Sexy Money”.

The nominees:

Michael C. Hall turns in an amazing performance in the second season of “Dexter”. Jon Hamm creates a fascinating ad man in Don Draper on AMC’s freshmen drama “Mad Men”. Eddie Izzard keeps his character perfectly grounded in an even more frantic season of “The Riches”. Jason Isaacs and Jason Clarke are terrific as brothers on opposite sides of the law in “Brotherhood”.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My fingers are crossed for HUGH LAURIE. He is an AMAZING actor, can do comedy and drama equally as well, and carries HOUSE.
He deserves to finally win after 4 seasons.

WE LOVE YOU, HUGH!!!