Best Of TV Awards 2015 - WINNER - Best Director - CHRIS FISHER "If-Then-Else" (Person Of Interest)2/22/2016  Photo Credit - IMDB The 2015 Best Of TV Awards Winner for Best Director is Chris Fisher "If-Then-Else" (Person Of Interest). For the first time ever, Best Director & Best Episode are a match. Chris Fisher directed the Best Episode winner "If-Then-Else" from Person Of Interest. The 11th episode of the season for POI garnered a lot of attention from everywhere. The comparisons to Groundhog Day, the kiss between the two shows lead females and the suspense of if they killed off a main character or not had a lot of people talking about this episode all year. Mixed in was slow-mo replays that showed the viewers how fast the Machine was thinking through all possible outcomes. Maybe my favorite little gag in it was when the Machine decided the simulation needed to go faster, so instead of us hearing each characters dialogue, we got them telling us a literal description of what they would have been saying. Fisher frequently had to film the same scenarios multiple times, but make them look "very similar, but slightly different" each time. All in all, a spectacular episode all around. His victory comes at the cost of the 2 time winner Jensen Ackles from Supernatural trying for his 3rd Directing award for "The Bad Seed". Both Ackles and Lexi Alexander "Beyond Redemption" from Arrow who nabbed 3rd marking the 2nd consecutive 3rd place finish for an Arrow director, had leads earlier on. Fisher took over the lead permanently in the final two days of the vote. In 4th, for a 2nd consecutive year Thomas J. Wright from Supernatural , this time for "Baby". Garry A. Brown "Melinda" Agents Of SHIELD nabbed 5th. Michael W Watkins "Tom Connolly" The Blacklist was 6th, Greg Nicotero "Conquer" The Walking Dead was 7th . John Fawcett "History Yet To Be Written" Orphan Black was 8th. Steve Shill "The Darkness And The Light" The Flash was 9th. Gregory Smith "Home Run" Rookie Blue got 10th. Complete Results 1st CHRIS FISHER "If-Then-Else" (Person Of Interest) 695 2nd JENSEN ACKLES "The Bad Seed" (Supernatural) 621 3rd LEXI ALEXANDER "Beyond Redemption" (Arrow) 354 4th THOMAS J. WRIGHT "Baby" (Supernatural) 283 5th GARRY A BROWN "Melinda" (Agents Of SHIELD) 182 6th MICHAEL W. WATKINS "Tom Connolly" (The Blacklist) 113 7th GREG NICOTERO "Conquer" (The Walking Dead) 83 8th JOHN FAWCETT "History Yet To Be Written" (Orphan Black) 76 9th STEVE SHILL "The Darkness And The Light" (The Flash) 72 10th GREGORY SMITH "Home Run" (Rookie Blue) 60 11th JENNIFER CHAMBERS-LYNCH "Spend" (The Walking Dead) 54 12th FRED TOYE "Asylum" (Person Of Interest) 51 13th MICHAEL RYMER "The Wrath Of The Lamb" (Hannibal) 41 14th ADAM KANE "Digestivo" (Hannibal) 35 15th GUILLERMO NAVARRO "The Number Of The Beast Is 666" (Hannibal) 23 To see the winners for all categories, you can find them on the 2015 BOTVA page HERE or on the all-time Best OF TV Awards winners page here. 
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 Photo Credit - CBS The 2015 Best Of TV Awards Winner for Best Writing is Person Of Interest. This years winner for Best Writing is Person Of Interest, a show that was not even a finalist last year. The team, consisting of show creator Jonathan Nolan, as well as Denise The, Greg Plagerman, & many others managed to take this years award despite not being on the air for 1/2 of the year. In 2nd was last years 3rd place finalist Castle. In 3rd was first time finalist in this category The 100. Last years 4th place finisher remained there this year, Supernatural, just ahead of 5th place finalist, last years Winner of this category Arrow. Lost Girl dropped from 2nd to 6th this year, Hannibal dropped from 5th to 7th. Once Upon A Time finished 8th in its inaugural final in this category. The Blacklist creeped up 1 spot from 10th last year to 9th this year. Agents Of SHIELD made the finals for the 1st time in 10th. Game Of Thrones in 11th was down 3 spots from last years 8th. Newcomer Daredevil finished 12th. The Big Bang Theory finished 13th, 1 spot below their 12th place finish a year before. The Walking Dead dropped 5 spots from 9th down to 14th this year. Newcomer Agent Carter was 15th. While Doctor Who slipped 5 spots from 11th to 16th this year. Orange Is The New Black & the currently on hiatus Sherlock, were the only finalists last year not to make this years finals. Complete Results 1st Person Of Interest 1,180 2nd Castle 773 3rd The 100 525 4th Supernatural 455 5th Arrow 448 6th Lost Girl 242 7th Hannibal 228 8th Once Upon A Time 157 9th The Blacklist 101 10th Agents Of SHIELD 90 11th Game Of Thrones 90 12th Daredevil 76 13th The Big Bang Theory 71 14th The Walking Dead 62 15th Agent Carter 61 16th Doctor Who 53 To see the winners for all categories, you can find them on the 2015 BOTVA page HERE or on the all-time Best OF TV Awards winners page here.   Photo Credit - Arrow (CW)/ Warner Bros, DC Comics. The 2015 Best Of TV Awards Winner for Best Stunts is Arrow. Last years inaugural winner of the Best Stunts awards narrowly defended their award in a pretty remarkable comeback. Arrow wins their 2nd consecutive Best Stunts Award. The team, led by James Bamford and Eli Zagoudakis as the stunt co-ordinators mainly consists of stunt actors Simon Burnett, Atlin Mitchell, Melissa Jin, and many others. Not to mention the shows star Stephen Amell has been known to do some of his own stunts. Arrow wins by 2 votes over Person of Interest, well up from their 9th place finish last year. With less than an hour left, POI had passed Arrow narrowly, then Arrow retook the lead in the last 20 minutes. Definitely the most closely contested award this year. Well back in 3rd was Once Upon A Time in their 1st finals in this category. Game Of Thrones was up 1 spot from last year going from 5th to 4th. The Walking Dead made the finals this year for the first time. New show Daredevil nabbed 6th just ahead of last years 3rd place finalist Lost Girl in 7th. Agents Of SHIELD tumbled along with Lost Girl 4 spots down from the 4th place last year to 8th this year. Hawaii Five-0 dropped from 6th to 9th this year, and The Flash dropped from 7th to 10th. Complete Results 1st Arrow 930 2nd Person Of Interest 928 3rd Once Upon A Time 227 4th Game Of Thrones 215 5th The Walking Dead 202 6th Daredevil 191 7th Lost Girl 181 8th Agents Of SHIELD 171 9th Hawaii Five-0 140 10th The Flash 139 To see the winners for all categories, you can find them on the 2015 BOTVA page HERE or on the all-time Best OF TV Awards winners page here.   Photo credit - CBS The 2015 Best Of TV Awards Winner for Best Episode is If-Then-Else "Person Of Interest". This was the 1st time Person of Interest had any episodes in the finals of this category, and lo & behold, If-Then-Else, the 11th episode of their season, and first of 2015, wins. Directed by Chris Fisher, in the episode we find Reese, Finch, Fusco & Root known by its fans as Team Machine heading to the New York Stock Exchange after a crippling attack on it by Samaratan, while their other member Shaw tracks a man on a subway that is considered key to all of whats going on. In a bit of a nod to Groundhog Day, The Machine plays thru various scenarios when the team ends up in trouble to find the best of the bad options they have and takes the viewers on a ride as it plays out each scenario before rewinding right back to the start of their troubles. Shaw ends up in the middle of a suicide attempt on the train & has to deviate from her original plan to assure no one ends up dead. We get a couple of scenes of Root flirting heavily with Shaw in the episode, with Shaw eventually telling Root that "yeah Root, maybe someday". Eventually Shaw makes it to the NYSE just in time to help her team & improve the teams chances. In the end the machine helps the team escape, but they are left with a terrible decision in the end. One of them will have to stay behind to trigger the button to help the elevator they have escaped to to go. Root tries to stop Shaw, before Shaw gives her a big kiss & then pushes her back away from the door as she closes it & goes to the button as Root is left yelling at the cage door. The episode ends with the elevator door closing and the survival of Shaw unknown at the time with Samaratan operative Martine standing over top of Shaw with a gun pointed at her. After last years Win, Arrow nabs 2nd place this year with their mid-season finale "Dark Waters". In 3rd is "Mr & Mrs. Castle" from Castle. The episode "Out Of Time" from The Flash nabbed 4th. "Just My Imagination" from the 3X Winning show Supernatural took 5th. Supernatural also took 6th with the Impala-centric episode "Baby". Newcomer to the finals Outlander took 7th with "The Devils Mark". "Rise" & "End Of Faes" from Lost Girl took 8th and 9th, and the 3rd Supernatural finalist "Brothers Keeper" rounded out the top 10. Shows making the finals for the 1st time include - Agents Of SHIELD, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Daredevil, Galavant, Glee, Hannibal, iZombie, Minority report, Mr. Robot, Orphan Black, Rookie Blue, The Big Bang Theory, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. With 1, 334 votes If-Then-Else sets a new category record for votes, breaking the previous mark of 952 last year by "Arrow" The Secret Origins Of Felicity Smoak. With 377 vote margin of victory, it also sets a new category record, breaking the previous record of 193 from last year. Best Episode 1st If-Then-Else "Person Of Interest" 1,334 2nd Dark Waters "Arrow" 957 3rd Mr. & Mrs. Castle "Castle" 593 4th Out Of Time "The Flash" 395 5th Just My Imagination "Supernatural" 287 6th Baby "Supernatural" 245 7th The Devils Mark "Outlander" 170 8th Rise "Lost Girl" 109 9th End Of Faes "Lost Girl" 96 10th Brothers Keeper "Supernatural" 85 11th SOS Part 2 "Agents of SHIELD" 75 12th XY "Castle" 60 13th Melinda "Agents of SHIELD" 58 14th The Opening Night Excitation "The Big Bang Theory" 51 15th The Return "Arrow" 47 16th Dead From New York "Castle" 44 17th Fast Enough "The Flash" 42 18th YHWH "Person Of Interest" 40 19th Home Run "Rookie Blue" 38 20th (tie) In Plane Sight "Castle 34 20th (tie) JSS "The Walking Dead" 34 22nd Thank You "The Walking Dead" 33 23rd (tie) Daredevil "Daredevil" 32 23rd (tie) Pilot "iZombie" 32 25th (tie) Beyond Redemption "Arrow" 31 25th (tie) Dark Dynasty "Supernatural" 31 27th (tie) Suicidal Tendencies "Arrow" 30 27th (tie) Haunted "Arrow" 30 27th (tie) Face The Raven "Doctor Who" 30 30th (tie) The Wrath Of The Lamb "Hannibal" 27 30th (tie) eps1.0_hellofriend.mkv "Mr. Robot" 27 30th (tie) History Yet To Be Written "Orphan Black" 27 30th (tie) The Man Who Saved Central City "The Flash" 27 34th (tie) Halloween, Part III "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" 26 34th (tie) Like Hell Part 1 "Lost Girl" 26 36th Maternity Liv "iZombie" 25 37th Digestivo "Hannibal" 23 38th (tie) Conquer "The Walking Dead" 23 30th (tie) Kimmy Makes Waffles "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" 23 40th M.I.A "Person of Interest" 21 41st Pilot "Galavant" 19 42nd Kimmy Goes Outside "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" 17 43rd (tie) World on Fire "Daredevil" 15 43rd (tie) Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Rat "iZombie" 15 45th (tie) Nelson V Murdock "Daredevil" 14 45th (tie) The Magicians Apprentice "Doctor Who" 14 45th (tie) What The World Needs Now "Glee" 14 45th (tie) The Number of The Beast is 666 "Hannibal" 14 49th Kimmy Goes To School "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" 12 50th Johnny And Dora "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" 11 51st The President "Minority Report" 9 52nd The Witch's Familiar "Doctor Who" 8 To see the winners for all categories, you can find them on the 2015 BOTVA page HERE or on the all-time Best OF TV Awards winners page here.   Photo credit - CBS The 2015 Best Of TV Awards Winner for Best Couple Samantha Groves/Root & Sameen Shaw (Amy Acker & Sarah Shahi) "Person Of Interest". This years Best Couple winner is technically not even a couple.... but met the categories dynamics (something a specific fan base in the opening round had trouble understanding). Samantha Groves, aka Root and another member of Team Machine Sameen Shaw won the Best Couple based off the 1 kiss they shared last year in episode 411 after a lot of suggestions from Root that they should be together, which till that moment Shaw had ignored. While the deranged "couple" still havent found each other since then, the fans of the couple known as "Shoot" (reasonably named considering the duos penchant for guns & just happens to be a combination of Shaw & Root) havent stopped hoping. In 2nd was last years super couple, the 2014 BOTVA winners Oliver Queen & Felicity Smoak "Arrow". The popularity of this couple, known as Olicity with a select part of the shows fandom is not in dispute. In 3rd was the 2012 Winners Richard Castle & Kate Beckett "Castle", known as Caskett by their fans. In 4th was Robin Hood & Regina Mills "Once Upon A Time" in their 1st ever finals in this category known as Outlaw Queen with their fandom. Clarke Griffin & Lexa The Commander "The 100" in their 1st ever finals in this category Clexa as they are known by the fans finished 5th. 6th place found the 2011 & 2013 Winners Bo Dennis & Lauren Lewis "Lost Girl" in their 5th consecutive finals. Doccubus had never finished worse than 2nd prior to this year. In 7th was Barry Allen & Iris West "The Flash" known as WestAllen by the fans. This is the 2nd finals in a row for Barry Allen, who made it last year with Felicity Smoak, while Iris West is here for the 1st time. Another "Once Upon A Time" couple in 8th as Captain Hook & Emma Swan. "Captain Swan" finished 4th last year. In 9th is the on again off again couple of Steve McGarrett & Catherine Rollins "Hawaii Five-0" down 1 spot from where McRoll finished last year. 10th was Sheldon Cooper & Amy Farrah Fowler "The Big Bang Theory" The couple known as ShAmy were finalists in 2012 & 2013, but missed last years finals. Prince Charming & Snow White "Once Upon A Time" were back for a 3rd time. Snowing made the finals prior in 2011 and 2013. Thea Queen & Roy Harper "Arrow" made the finals for a 2nd consecutive year. Sam Swarek & Andy McNally "Rookie Blue" known as McSwarek by the fans made the finals for the 1st time. Santana Lopez and Brittany Pierce "Glee" known as Brittana to the fans, made the finals in the shows last year of eligibility. Voting for this award saw 4 different leaders over the 1st two days. Clexa, Caskett, Olicity and Shoot all had the lead at different times. Eventually Shoot pulled away in the final couple days. This is the 2nd award (Sexiest Actress) of these BOTVAs for Amy Acker (the actress who plays Root) and 3rd honour (2015 May Madness winner as well). This is the 1st award for Sarah Shahi (actress who plays Shaw). Complete Final Results 1st SAMANTHA GROVES/ROOT & SAMEEN SHAW "Person Of Interest" 818 2nd OLIVER QUEEN & FELICITY SMOAK "Arrow" 716 3rd RICHARD CASTLE & KATE BECKETT "Castle" 576 4th ROBIN HOOD & REGINA MILLS "Once Upon A Time" 524 5th CLARKE GRIFFIN & LEXA THE COMMANDER "The 100" 445 6th BO DENNIS & LAUREN LEWIS "Lost Girl" 376 7th BARRY ALLEN & IRIS WEST "The Flash" 343 8th EMMA SWAN & CAPTAIN HOOK "Once Upon A Time" 258 9th STEVE MCGARRETT & CATHERINE ROLLINS "Hawaii Five-0" 101 10th SHELDON COOPER & AMY FARRAH FOWLER "The Big Bang Theory" 97 11th SAM SWAREK & ANDY MCNALLY "Rookie Blue" 68 12th PRINCE CHARMING & SNOW WHITE "Once Upon A Time" 35 13th SANTANA LOPEZ & BRITTANY PIERCE "Glee" 33 14th THEA QUEEN & ROY HARPER "Arrow" 14 To see the winners for all categories, you can find them on the 2015 BOTVA page HERE or on the all-time Best OF TV Awards winners page here.   Photo Credit - The Ellen Show The 2015 Best Of TV Awards Winner for Best Talk Show Host is Ellen DeGeneres. There is a reason that Ellen Degeneres is generally called the Queen of Daytime Talk. This makes 4 straight wins for Ellen. In 2nd for the 3rd straight time was Jimmy Fallon. In 3rd for his 2nd time (2012) was Conan O'Brien in his 5th straight finals. Last years newcomer to the finals John Oliver rose from 8th up to 4th this year. Stephen Colbert in his 4th straight finals finished 5th. In 6th was also in his 4th straight finals, now retired Jon Stewart. Complete Final Results WINNER - ELLEN DEGENERES 1,147 2nd JIMMY FALLON 578 3rd CONAN O'BRIEN 133 4th JOHN OLIVER 131 5th STEPHEN COLBERT 127 6th JON STEWART 120 To see the winners for all categories, you can find them on the 2015 BOTVA page HERE or on the all-time Best OF TV Awards winners page here. You can congratulate the finalists, or follow them at their social media accounts. Ellen DeGeneres Twitter facebook Jimmy Fallon Twitter facebook Conan O'Brien Twitter facebook John Oliver Twitter facebook Stephen Colbert Twitter facebook   Photo Credit - WWE, Just Jared. The 2015 Best Of TV Awards Winner for Sexiest Actor is Stephen Amell. A repeat winner, Stephen Amell takes home his 2nd BOTVA Award. The star of Arrow has spread his wings a bit since last year, being a semi-regular guest star on The Flash and will be in the upcoming feature film Teanage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 as Casey Jones. Oh and is undefeated as a WWE wrestler. After last years shocking upset of the former 3X champion Jensen Ackles by Stephen, Amell repeats as this years sexiest actor. Just like last year the 3 time winner came in 2nd, although this time narrowly doing so. In 3rd was Mads Mikkelsen in his 3rd consecutive finals beating out his previous 5th & 6th place finishes in the years prior. Jared Padalecki in his 5th consecutive finals finishes 4th, his best finish since a 3rd in 2011. Newcomer to the Sexiest Actor BOTVA appearance managed a tie for 5th. Nathan Fillion in his 3rd finals, and 2nd consecutive managed to tie for 5th, a slight drop from his 3rd last year. Jim Caviezel also finished tied for 5th in his 1st ever finals. Colin O'Donoghue in his 3rd consecutive finals moved up 1 spot from last year to finish 7th. Kris Holden-Ried in his 4th finals slips from 4th down to 8th this year. Alex O'Loughlin nabs 9th in his 1st ever BOTVA finals appearance in the category. John Barrowman in his 1st BOTVA finals in this category took 10th by 3 votes. Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Johnny depp, Chris Evans, Chris Pratt & Shemar Moore all return this year to the finals list. Chris Hemsworth returns for the first time since 2013 after missing last year. While newcomers to the BOTVA finals in this category Grant Gustin, Tom Hardy, Ian Somerhalder, Josh Dallas and Liam Hemsworth all make their mark for the 1st time. Complete Final Results WINNER - STEPHEN AMELL 971 2nd JENSEN ACKLES 554 3rd MADS MIKKELSEN 521 4th JARED PADALECKI 389 5th (tie) JIM CAVIEZEL 299 5th (tie) NATHAN FILLION 299 7th COLIN O'DONOGHUE 109 8th KRIS HOLDEN-RIED 86 9th ALEX O'LOUGHLIN 81 10th JOHN BARROWMAN 63 11th CHRIS HEMSWORTH 60 12th BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 54 13th TOM HIDDLESTON 52 14th JOHNNY DEPP 49 15th GRANT GUSTIN 47 16th CHRIS EVANS 46 17th TOM HARDY 46 18th IAN SOMERHALDER 40 19th JOSH DALLAS 35 20th CHRIS PRATT 34 21st SHEMAR MOORE 31 22nd LIAM HEMSWORTH 28 To see the winners for all categories, you can find them on the 2016 BOTVA page HERE or on the all-time Best OF TV Awards winners page here. 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