Hollywood Reporter's Emmys live blog

In reverse chronological order:

-- Weiner backstage on what show he thought was going to win instead of "Mad Men": "I thought actually that 'Breaking Bad' might win since they had such an outstanding season, and like a lot of people I thought 'Lost' might win, going off the air and being such a landmark in television." Weiner said he would, firmly, want to set an end date, but doesn't know what it is yet.

Top network tallies: HBO (25 -- including Creative Arts), ABC (18), Fox (11), CBS (10), NBC (8 ... but just one during its primetime telecast), PBS (7), Showtime (7), AMC (6)...

Top series tallies: "The Pacific" (8), "Temple Grandin" (7), "Modern Family" (6), "Disney Prep and Landing" (4), "Glee" (4), "Mad Men" (4), SNL (3), "24" (2), "Breaking Bad" (2), "CSI" (2), "Dancing With the Stars" (2), "Dexter" (2)...

"Modern Family" wins comedy series! This is the first ABC sitcom to win the series Emmy since "The Wonder Years" in 1988. 

OUTSTANDING COMEDY

Glee

Modern Family

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Nurse Jackie
30 Rock
The Office
Curb Your Enthusiasm

As expected, AMC's "Mad Men" wins for outstanding drama series. For AMC, this marks the first cable network to ever win the drama award for three consecutive years. "So where was I?" asks Matthew Weiner, riffing off his previous speech that was cut a bit short. Tweets one critic: "Matthew Weiner is to the Emmys what James Cameron is to the Oscars." Pacino and Weiner should have

OUTSTANDING DRAMA

Lost

Breaking Bad
Dexter

Mad Men
True Blood
The Good Wife

-- Clooney on celebrities doing humanitarian efforts: "All we are trying to say is if there’s going to be a tremendous amount of attention placed on us, it’s too much. We can try and deflect some of it onto people who can really use it. That’s all it is. If you can do it with out harming people along the way, it’s a good thing." He called using the spotlight to help a cause the "celebrity credit card."

OUTSTANDING MADE FOR TV MOVIE
Endgame

Georgia O'Keeffe
Moonshot
The Special Relationship
Temple Grandin
You Don't Know Jack

-- Outstanding miniseries: C'mon, "Pacific," you only have to beat one other project this time. And it does. "There is no economic model that says you should do a ten-part miniseries," Tom Hanks says, praising HBO.

-- Al Pacino for lead actor in movie/min -- "You Don't Know Jack." Wow. Pacino could make the cast of "Jersey Shore" with that tan. Does his usual "I'm too big of a star to be concise or emotional" thing.

-- Mick Jackson wins for directing "Temple Gradin." Not to take anything away from "Temple," it was really well executed, but you have to wonder if multiple "Pacific" episode noms canceled each other out.

-- Backstage, Clooney praises "Breaking Bad" and "Modern Family" and opines, "Jimmy Fallon is just killing it out there."

-- Ready for the movie/mini categories to be over. Like, for serious.

-- In the theater: Leave it to Amy Poehler to heckle fellow SNL alum Jimmy Fallon during his Emmy hosting gig. The new mom keeps razzing her pal from the front row of the awards, yelling "Hey, Jimmy! Jimmy!" as he's about to come back from each commercial break. A slightly frantic and laughing Fallon tries to hush his friend and compose himself before returning to live TV.

-- Claire Danes wins for lead actress in movie/mini, "Temple Grandin." HBO having its expected long-form sweep. "Thank you HBO, like, for serious."

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN MINI OR MOVIE
Maggie Smith (Capturing Mary )
Joan Allen (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Dame Judi Dench (Return To Cranford )

Hope Davis (The Special Relationship)

Claire Danes (Temple Grandin)

-- Movie/mini's seven-category stretch continues: "You Don't Know Jack" beats "The Pacific" for outstanding writing. Adam Mazer: "The end of life debate is not going away... Jack Kevorkian, you're my friend, but I'm glad you're not my physician."

-- George Clooney comes backstage. TV reporters perk up -- a movie star.

-- Death reel.

-- David Strathairn for supporting actor, mini movie ..."Temple Grandin"

-- Aaron Paul backstage: "Vince was going to kill Jesse off the first season. Hopefully this will give me some longevity ... [on how scary it is to take the stage]  ... you have no idea buddy. I was losing my mind. When they called my name I didn't believe it. I didn't stand up for a minute. I'm sure i looked like an idiot."

-- Kyra Sedgwick backstage on winning after five nominations: "There are so many amazing people who never won Emmy so i started to placate myself with that. Martin Sheen never won for 'West Wing,' how crazy is that?"

-- First-time winners are dominating... See THR's overall story here.

-- Julia Ormond wins for outstanding supporting actress in movie/mini for "Temple Grandin."

-- An outstanding movie/mini Emmy for "The Pacific" is surely the safest bet of the night...perhaps the one safe bet other than Lynch...

-- "That is bullshit! I'm not eligible next year?" -- Bryan Cranston in mock anger backstage about "Breaking Bad" season four being pushed back out of the eligibility  period.

-- Don't know how it's playing at home, but in the press room telecast has looked  well produced, with plenty of deserving surprises among the winners list.

-- Edie Falco backstage: "I'm not playing coy here. I'm really dumbfounded by the events of this evening."

-- Jon Stewart trumps Conan O'Brien for the eighth "Daily Show" victory. (And with this, I think I just hit my first correct Emmy prediction). The clip for O'Brien's "Tonight" abruptly cuts to a building collapsing.

OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SERIES

The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Real Time With Bill Maher

Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien

-- NBC's Winter Olympics opening ceremony coverage wins for something. It's the long, dark tea-time of the Emmys. Also notable for being NBC's first Emmy win tonight during its own Emmy telecast.

-- Padma Lakshmi backstage on "Top Chef" victory: "I thought Amazing Race was going to win again. In fact, I was really, really mean to the host on the red carpet. I think I hit him twice with my purse!"

-- Ricky Gervias on lack of alcohol backstage: "What's the worst that's going to happen? Go mental and [smash each other]. There's no tough guys. There's no Russell Crowe. Mel Gibson? C'mon. I'm not going to have a go at him. He's been through a lot. Not as much as the Jews. Who wants a beer?"

-- Jim Parsons backstage: "I hope that everybody is happy that we brought some gold to the show but it would still be nice to be here together as one," he said. As for the show’s move from Monday to Thursday, Parsons said he was excited to be moving to a big night for comedy. "Thursday night comedy is something I was weaned on as a child. Knock on wood, we have such a loyal fan base, they’ll be happy to watch it where ever it is."

-- Eric Stonestreet backstage when asked if it will be awkward winning against his co-stars. "This win is a win for our show. We're proud of our show love our jobs. It won't be awkward at all."

-- Outstanding writing for variety show, winner for Tony Awards praises Jay Leno for "writing more checks to comedy writers than anyone I know."

-- Showtime has just broken its record for # of Emmy wins with 7 and counting.. Most the network has won in its 34 years.

-- OK, NBC has been really agreeable in allowing late-night shakeup jokes. It's practically a running theme among the prepared material.

-- Fifth time is the charm for Kyra Sedgwick, who finally wins for "The Closer," the most-watched drama on cable TV for many years running. 

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife)

Mariska Hargitay (Special Victims Unit)

Glenn Close (Damages)

Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)

January Jones (Mad Men)

Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Sharon Gless (Burn Notice)

Christine Baranski (The Good Wife)
Christina Hendricks (Mad Men)

Rose Byrne (Damages)

Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife)

Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men)

-- "Dexter" wins an Emmy. Steve Shill wins for director in a drama series.

"My first thought, during the time it took me to walk up here, I'm venturing there were 200 text messages to my fellow nominees saying, 'You were robbed,'" said Cranston.

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Jon Hamm (Mad Men)
Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights)
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)

Hugh Laurie (House M.D.)

Michael C. Hall (Dexter)
Matthew Fox (Lost)

Yes! Love that Aaron Paul won. And love that Paul basically seems like the same person as his character. Bit disappointed for Terry O'Quinn. 

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA

Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)
Martin Short (Damages)
Terry O'Quinn (Lost)
Michael Emerson (Lost)
John Slattery (Mad Men)

Writing for drama: "Mad Men." Matthew Weiner gets played off. Was considered a good shot for "Lost" final season to win something.

Fallon: "These two ['Law & Order: SVU' stars] teamed up for the most special victim of all -- the 10 p.m. time period on NBC."

Writing in a drama series next...

Big shock: "Top Chef" just took out "Amazing Race." The siege is over. After seven years of consecutive "Race" wins, there's finally another victor in this category. The fantastically edited Bravo cooking competition won for its outstanding Las Vegas season. Even some rivals who lost are going to cheer this -- pretty much everybody in reality outside the "Race" camp have been itching to see another show claim this category.

Accepting the award, exec prod Dan Cutforth said fellow showrunner Jane Lipsitz couldn't attend, the first time in six years she wasn't able to go and they finally won.

OUTSTANDING REALITY SHOW COMPETITION

Project Runway

Top Chef
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The Amazing Race
Dancing with the Stars

American Idol

NPH thanks the Academy for having a gay host two years in a row, cut to Fallon ... coming from NPH, it works, but I think the Emmys are hitting is nearing its gay jokes limit ...

In what's sure to be quoted plenty tomorrow, Falco declares "I'm not funny" after winning outstanding actress in a comedy for "Nurse Jackie." Probably not the most reassuring thing to hear if you're a comedy actress who just lost an Emmy to her...

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Lea Michele (Glee)

Tina Fey (30 Rock)

Toni Collette (The United States of Tara)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (The New Adventures of Old Christine)

Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie)
Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation)

Parsons wins his first Emmy. Well deserved. 

-- OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)

Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
Matthew Morrison (Glee)

Steve Carell (The Office)

Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory)
Tony Shalhoub (Monk)

-- OK, I'm trying to be snarky here. But these interstitial clips are quite funny ...

-- Directing for comedy series next... another "Glee" vs. "Modern Family" opportunity... Ryan Murphy wins for "Glee." He keeps it short.

-- Lynch: "We [are actors] because we're compelled to do it, or because we have no other choice or marketable skills." On her young co-stars: "When I'm not seething with jealously I'm so proud of you."

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

Jane Lynch (Glee)
Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live)

Jane Krakowski (30 Rock)
Julie Bowen (Modern Family)

Sofia Vergara (Modern Family)

Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men)

-- Next is writing for comedy series, a possible barometer of who's going to win the comedy series category... hmm, would they really have Sofia read off "Glee"? .... Nope! ... "Modern Family" wins...

Steve Levitan: Thanks Steve McPherson and "everybody still at ABC." "Big thanks to our wives without whom we'd be dating around a lot. 'I just won an Emmy' pretty good opening line."

-- "Modern Family" takes the first Emmy. Eric Stonestreet thanks his parents and says he's giving them the trophy -- "You can go to bed every night and see what you made possible."

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY

Chris Colfer (Glee)
Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family)

Jon Cryer (Two and A Half Men)

Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family)
Ty Burrell (Modern Family)

-- Bit early for a clips package, let's toss out a few Emmys before the bathroom break material....

-- The first Conan vs. NBC joke of the evening is made by ... Jimmy Fallon! "NBC asked a late-night host to go to LA and host another show ... what could possibly go wrong?" -- cut to Conan O'Brien ... who gives a slight ... smile/smirk, but really doesn't look too amused...

-- "Glee" provided a pretty ideal concept for opening the show... "Born to Run" probably not best song choice, bit heavy, but ... otherwise played well in the press room ...

-- First categories announced will be: supporting actor in a comedy series...writing for comedy series...supporting actress in comedy series...comedy directing ... lead actor in a comedy series  ... lead actress in comedy ... outstanding reality competition....

-- From the pre-show: Billy Bush to Kate Gosselin: "Real quick: Dating anyone yet?" Her reply was, well, just like this http://youtu.be/NxGKUujCBJs

-- From the pre-show: Billy Bush to Sofia Vergara: "A lot of people want to see you naked [tries to fix] I'm not one of them [tries to fix] Not entirely naked"

OK ... test... test... getting ready for blast off.. refresh for latest!

-- With contributions from Lindsay Powers, Alex Ben Block and Lesley Goldberg