5th Critics' Choice Television Awards

Date: 31 May 2015
Host: Cat Deeley

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Best Series

Best Drama Series

• The Americans (FX)

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


Best Comedy Series

• Silicon Valley (HBO)

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

Best Movie

• Bessie (HBO)

Killing Jesus (National Geographic Channel)
Nightingale (HBO)
A Poet in New York (BBC America)
Stockholm, Pennsylvania (Lifetime)


Best Limited Series

• Olive Kitteridge (HBO)

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


Best Animated Series 

• Archer (FX)

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


Most Exciting New Series 

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

Most Bingeworthy Show

• The Walking Dead (AMC)

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

Best Acting in a Comedy Series

Best Actor 

• 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)


Best Actress

• 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)


Best Supporting Actor 

• 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)


Best Supporting Actress

• 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)

Best Acting in a Drama Series

Best Actor

• 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)


Best Actress

• 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)


Best Supporting Actor 

• 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)


Best Supporting Actress

• 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)

Best Acting in a Movie/Limited Series

Best Actor

• 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)


Best Actress

• 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)


Best Supporting Actor 

• 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)


Best Supporting Actress

• 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)

Best Guest Performing

Best Guest Performer – Comedy

• Bradley Whitford as Marcy May (Transparent)

Becky Ann Baker as Loreen Horvath (Girls)
Josh Charles as Various Characters (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)


Best Guest Performer – Drama

• 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)

Reality & Variety

Best Reality Series 

• Shark Tank (ABC)

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


Best Reality Series – Competition

• Face Off (Syfy)

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


Best Talk Show 

• The Daily Show (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)


Best Reality Show Host

• 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)


Shows with multiple wins

• Olive Kitteridge (3)

Better Call Saul (2)
Silicon Valley (2)
Transparent (2)


Shows with multiple nominations

• Justified (5)
• Olive Kitteridge (5)

American Horror Story: Freak Show (4)
The Americans (4)
Bessie (4)
The Good Wife (4)
Transparent (4)
Wolf Hall (4)
American Crime (3)
The Big Bang Theory (3)
Broad City (3)
Empire (3)
The Honourable Woman (3)
Jane the Virgin (3)
Orange Is the New Black (3)
Silicon Valley (3)
Stockholm, Pennsylvania (3)
Veep (3)
24: Live Another Day (2)
The Amazing Race (2)
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2)
Bates Motel (2)
Better Call Saul (2)
The Book of Negroes (2)
Dancing with the Stars (2)
Game of Thrones (2)
Girls (2)
Homeland (2)
How to Get Away with Murder (2)
Inside Amy Schumer (2)
The Leftovers (2)
Mom (2)
Nightingale (2)
Parenthood (2)
Sons of Anarchy (2)
Togetherness (2)
Vikings (2)