Awards & Recognition News

Unfortunately, Sandra Oh and Chandra Wilson came up short again in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 2009 Emmy Awards.

Both looked fantastic at last night's presentation, however, as did former co-star and current Private Practice leading lady Kate Walsh. Great to see them all in attendance!

Which Grey's Anatomy star (past or present) looked the best at the annual, star-studded Emmy Awards? Vote in our little survey below and let us know what you think ...

Who looked the best at the Emmys?

Candidates for the 2009 Emmy Awards were announced this morning, and Grey's Anatomy stars Sandra Oh and Chandra Wilson were both very deservingly nominated for top honors in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

It is the fourth consecutive year Chandra Wilson has been nominated in the category, while Sandra Oh has been in the running for the last five - or every year since Grey's Anatomy debuted in the Spring of 2005. Quite an amazing run for these two ...

Congratulations to these two talented women!

Hopefully this season, one or the other wins the award. So far, neither of them has - although co-star Katherine Heigl won the Outstanding Supporting Actress Emmy in 2007.

Follow the jump for a full list of this year's major Emmy nominees ...

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After a firestorm of controversy erupted around Katherine Heigl's decision to remove herself from Emmy Awards consideration in 2008, citing a lack of exceptional material, the Grey's Anatomy heroine and lightning rod has reentered the derby this year, EW reports.

Heigl critics may claim that the 2007 Outstanding Supporting Actress winner is back in the race because of tensions that allegedly sprung up between her and series creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes after she took herself out of the running in '08.

The budding movie starlet (27 Dresses, Knocked Up, The Ugly Truth), fans may recall, said at the time that she didn't have material with which she could compete.

But some believe it's likelier that Katherine knows, whether viewers loved or loathed the Izzie-brain tumor story, that she did a heck of a job with her character.

Katherine Heigl has already earned one high-profile endorsement - Rhimes'.

"I think she did beautiful work," Rhimes raved in an interview last week, immediately following the season finale. "I think she always does beautiful work."

Besides, if it turns out Izzie did take the Seattle Grace elevator straight up to heaven, a second Emmy in three years would make a lovely parting gift, no?

Grey's Anatomy creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes wants to set the record straight: T.R. Knight and Katherine Heigl are not leaving the show.

"That was a very interesting rumor," Rhimes said Thursday night at the 40th NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles. "And it's not true."

Rhimes was referring to a recent comment in the press attributed to Grey's Anatomy cast member James Pickens, Jr., in which the actor was said to be confirming the long-rumored departure of both Heigl and Knight, two of the series' original stars.

"That was absolutely taken out of context," said Rhimes.

"Things happen, and ... I think rumors become fact very easily. And you know I don't like to tell you what's going to happen on the show - but that is a rumor."

These two are the subject of many rumors.

For his part, Pickens says he meant to wish the pair well in general.

"We've been living with these rumors for a long time," he said. "When the question was posed to me, I was more trying to congratulate Katie and T.R. on whatever they were going to do."

"But, yeah, I don't have any special info about it either way."

ABC's Grey's Anatomy took home three awards, including Chandra Wilson's win for outstanding actress in a drama series. Wilson said she was looking forward to the show's upcoming 100th episode – and insisted things were all good on the set.

"We're laughing at the rumors, as we always do," Wilson said before the ceremony. "Stories come out, and [there are] these big quotes, and we go, 'But that's not exactly what I said.' So, we're busy doing our jobs, doing our work."

Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl looked terrific last night at the People's Choice Awards. The 30-year-old actress picked up an award for her recent Denny love story line. Just kidding. Katherine actually won for Favorite Comedy Movie for 27 Dresses!

This news is a few weeks old, but we're only learning of and reporting it now. Better late than never, right? Right. Especially when it comes to McDreamy news.

In case you weren't aware, Patrick Dempsey is hot. So much so, in fact, that the Grey's Anatomy star topped AOL TV's list of the 50 Hunkiest TV Stars of all time!

He isn't about to tousle his own gorgeous hair, however.

"Well, there's always going to be somebody else who's going to come along and be the next handsome person," the married father of three says.

"It's all very subjective," Dempsey said. "And there are also a lot of people out there who aren't being recognized, maybe just because they're not on a hit show or something right now. So you have to kind of take it all with a grain of salt."

So modest as always. As for being the leading man of so many adoring Grey's Anatomy fans, the dimpled TV doctor is grateful for the spotlight ... to a degree.

"It's certainly great having the attention," Patrick Dempsey admits, "It's always good for one's ego, but at the end of day, it really is quite an empty statement if you don't have family around you. Because there is no way you can live up to it."

The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards has released a final list of presenters for the awards show this coming Sunday evening and Grey's Anatomy stars Patrick Dempsey and Sandra Oh are officially among the celebrities in the lineup.

Sandra Oh is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series alongside fellow amazing Grey's Anatomy cast member Chandra Wilson.

Unfortunately, McDreamy was not nominated for an award this year, but at least he will be on hand as a presenter at the show in all his handsomeness.

We don't care too much for individual awards - Grey's Anatomy is a total team effort - but we'd love to see either Chandra Wilson or Sandra Oh win an Emmy Award Sunday for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

Amazingly, this marks the fourth consecutive nomination for Oh (Cristina) and the third straight for Wilson (Bailey). Last year, Katherine Heigl was also nominated - and ended up winning the award. Then this year ... you know.

Competing in the same category, only one can possibly win. And while there's no wrong answer, we're bringing back our poll from earlier this summer to gauge which Grey's Anatomy cast member you think best deserves it.

The nominations for the 2008 ALMA (American Latino Media Arts) Awards are in, and Grey's Anatomy star Sara Ramirez (Callie Torres) has been given a nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Television Series!

Sara's competition in the category include:

• Valerie Cruz (The Dresden Files)
• Roselyn Sanchez (Without A Trace)
• Cote de Pablo (NCIS)

Sara Ramirez was also nominated last year in the category of Outstanding Actress – Television Series, Mini-Series, or TV Movie.

The ALMA Awards have rearranged categories slightly this year. In '07, Sara represented Grey's Anatomy and went up against the likes of America Ferrera (the winner, for Ugly Betty), Constance Marie (George Lopez) and Alexa Vega (Walkout).

We're happy to see Sara Ramirez get recognized - and with the exciting Callie and Erica developments in Season 5 of Grey's Anatomy, perhaps a Golden Globe or Emmy Award nomination isn't out of the question for next year at this time!

For the first time in three full seasons (Season One was only nine episodes long and therefore not eligible), Grey's Anatomy has been left off the final list of nominees for Outstanding Drama Series at the forthcoming Emmy Awards.

Up for the honor are Boston Legal, Damages, Dexter, House, Lost and Mad Men. Grey's Anatomy was among 10 semifinalists but missed the final cut.

A pair of Grey's Anatomy cast members, Sandra Oh and Chandra Wilson, received nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series.

Impressively, this marks the fourth consecutive nomination for Sandra Oh (Cristina Yang) and the third straight for Chandra Wilson (Miranda Bailey).

Last year, Katherine Heigl (Izzie Stevens) was nominated and won the Emmy Award for that category. This season... well, you know the details.

What do you think about this? Should Grey's Anatomy have been among the top six - or was Season Four really not up to par?