5th Critics' Choice Television Awards

Silicon Valley (HBO)

• Broad City (Comedy Central)
• Jane the Virgin (The CW)
• Mom (CBS)
• Transparent (Amazon Video)
• Veep (HBO)
• You're the Worst (FX)

The Americans (FX)

• Empire (Fox)
• Game of Thrones (HBO)
• The Good Wife (CBS)
• Homeland (Showtime)
• Justified (FX)
• Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)

Bessie (HBO)

• Killing Jesus (Nat Geo)
• Nightingale (HBO)
• A Poet in New York (BBC America)
• Stockholm, Pennsylvania (Lifetime)

Olive Kitteridge (HBO)

• 24: Live Another Day (Fox)
• American Crime (ABC)
• The Book of Negroes (BET)
• The Honourable Woman (SundanceTV)
• Wolf Hall (PBS)

Archer (FX)

• Bob's Burgers (Fox)
• Gravity Falls (Disney Channel)
• The Simpsons (Fox)
• South Park (Comedy Central)
• Star Wars Rebels (Disney XD)

• American Crime Story (FX)
• Aquarius (NBC)
• Blindspot (NBC)
• Minority Report (Fox)
• The Muppets (ABC)
• Scream Queens (Fox)
• Supergirl (CBS)
• UnREAL (Lifetime)

The Walking Dead (AMC)

• American Horror Story: Freak Show (FX)
• Empire (Fox)
• Game of Thrones (HBO)
• Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)
• Vikings (History)

Jeffrey Tambor as Maura Pfefferman – Transparent

• Anthony Anderson as Andre "Dre" Johnson, Sr. – Black-ish
• Will Forte as Phil Miller – The Last Man on Earth
• Johnny Galecki as Dr. Leonard Hofstadter – The Big Bang Theory
• Chris Messina as Dr. Danny Castellano – The Mindy Project
• Thomas Middleditch as Richard Hendriks – Silicon Valley

Amy Schumer as Various Characters – Inside Amy Schumer

• Ilana Glazer as Ilana Wexler – Broad City
• Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish – The Comeback
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer – Veep
• Gina Rodriguez as Jane Villanueva – Jane the Virgin
• Constance Wu as Jessica Huang – Fresh Off the Boat

T.J. Miller as Erlich Bachman – Silicon Valley

• Tituss Burgess as Titus Andromedon – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
• Jaime Camil as Rogelio de la Vega – Jane the Virgin
• Adam Driver as Adam Sackler – Girls
• Tony Hale as Gary Walsh – Veep
• Cameron Monaghan as Ian Gallagher – Shameless

Allison Janney as Bonnie Plunkett – Mom

• Mayim Bialik as Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler – The Big Bang Theory
• Carrie Brownstein as Various Characters – Portlandia
• Judith Light as Shelly Pfefferman – Transparent
• Melanie Lynskey as Michelle Pierson – Togetherness
• Eden Sher as Sue Heck – The Middle

Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman – Better Call Saul

• Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates – Bates Motel
• Charlie Hunnam as Jax Teller – Sons of Anarchy
• Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens – Justified
• Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings – The Americans
• Aden Young as Daniel Holden – Rectify

Taraji P. Henson as Cookie Lyon – Empire

• Viola Davis as Professor Annalise Keating, J.D. – How to Get Away with Murder
• Vera Farmiga as Norma Bates – Bates Motel
• Eva Green as Vanessa Ives – Penny Dreadful
• Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick – The Good Wife
• Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings – The Americans

Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut – Better Call Saul

• Christopher Eccleston as Matt Jamison – The Leftovers
• Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder – Justified
• Ben Mendelsohn as Danny Rayburn – Bloodline
• Craig T. Nelson as Zeek Braverman – Parenthood
• Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson – Homeland

Lorraine Toussaint as Yvonne "Vee" Parker – Orange Is the New Black

• Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart – The Good Wife
• Joelle Carter as Ava Crowder – Justified
• Carrie Coon as Nora Durst – The Leftovers
• Mae Whitman as Amber Holt – Parenthood
• Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha – Vikings

David Oyelowo as Peter Snowden – Nightingale

• Michael Gambon as Howard Mollison – The Casual Vacancy
• Richard Jenkins as Henry Kitteridge – Olive Kitteridge
• James Nesbitt as Tony Hughes – The Missing
• Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell – Wolf Hall
• Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer – 24: Live Another Day

Frances McDormand as Olive Kitteridge – Olive Kitteridge

• Aunjanue Ellis as Aminata – The Book of Negroes
• Maggie Gyllenhaal as Nessa Stein – The Honourable Woman
• Felicity Huffman as Barbara "Barb" Hanlon – American Crime
• Jessica Lange as Elsa Mars – American Horror Story: Freak Show
• Queen Latifah as Bessie Smith – Bessie

Bill Murray as Jack Kennison – Olive Kitteridge

• Jason Isaacs as Ben McKay – Stockholm, Pennsylvania
• Elvis Nolasco as Carter Nix – American Crime
• Jonathan Pryce as Thomas Wolsey – Wolf Hall
• Cory Michael Smith as Kevin Coulson – Olive Kitteridge
• Finn Wittrock as Dandy Mott – American Horror Story: Freak Show

Sarah Paulson as Bette and Dot Tattler – American Horror Story: Freak Show

• Khandi Alexander as Viola – Bessie
• Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn – Wolf Hall
• Janet McTeer as Dame Julia Walsh – The Honourable Woman
• Mo'Nique as Ma Rainey – Bessie
• Cynthia Nixon as Marcy Owens – Stockholm, Pennsylvania

Bradley Whitford as Marcy May – Transparent

• Becky Ann Baker as Loreen Horvath – Girls
• Josh Charles as Coach – Inside Amy Schumer
• Susie Essman as Bobbi Wexler – Broad City
• Peter Gallagher as Larry Brown – Togetherness
• Laurie Metcalf as Mary Cooper – The Big Bang Theory

Sam Elliott as Avery Markham – Justified

• Walton Goggins as Venus Van Dam – Sons of Anarchy
• Linda Lavin as Joy Grubeck – The Good Wife
• Julianne Nicholson as Dr. Lillian DePaul – Masters of Sex
• Lois Smith as Betty Turner – The Americans
• Cicely Tyson as Ophelia Harkness – How to Get Away with Murder

Shark Tank (ABC)

• Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CNN)
• Deadliest Catch (Discovery Channel)
• Married at First Sight (A&E)
• MythBusters (Discovery Channel)
• Undercover Boss (CBS)

Face Off (Syfy)

• The Amazing Race (CBS)
• America's Got Talent (NBC)
• Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
• MasterChef Junior (Fox)
• The Voice (NBC)

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)

• The Graham Norton Show (BBC America)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC)
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
• The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS)
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC)

Cat Deeley – So You Think You Can Dance

• Tom Bergeron – Dancing with the Stars
• Anthony Bourdain – Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
• Phil Keoghan – The Amazing Race
• James Lipton – Inside the Actors Studio
• Betty White – Betty White's Off Their Rockers