Lane Brown (Vulture/New York Magazine) proved to be the best Emmy prophet by correctly predicting the winners in 10 of the top 13 categories at last night's awards. Brown was one of only two of the 15 Emmy experts surveyed by Gold Derby to predict Jeff Probst ("Survivor") repeating as reality host and to foresee "Little Dorrit" taking best miniseries. 

Of the 195 predictions made by our panel, only 100 panned out. There was a five-way tie for second place with eight correct predictions: Chris "Boomer" Beachum (The Envelope, AwardsHeaven.net), Hal Boedeker (Orlando Sentinel), Ray Richmond (just some guy), Richard Rushfield (Gawker), and yours truly. 

Last year's champs -- Robert "Rob L" Licuria (The Envelope, AwardsHeaven.net) and Matt Mitovich (freelance entertainment journalist) -- came in third place with seven correct. Scoring six right were Michael Ausiello (Entertainment Weekly), John Kubicek (BuddyTV) and David Zurawik (Baltimore Sun). Marc Berman (MediaWeek) and Rick Porter (Zap2It.com) got five correct while Maggie Furlong (AOL) and Joseph Kapsch (Zap2It.com) earned a score of four.

Our resident Emmy experts -- Chris "Boomer" Beachum and Robert "Rob L" Licuria -- and I also made predictions in the six supporting acting categories but had little luck there. We all missed the supporting winners in a drama series as well as supporting actor for both comedy series and movie/mini. Rob and I predicted Kristin Chenoweth to win comedy supporting actress for "Pushing Daisies" and both Rob and Boomer foresaw the win by Shoreh Aghdashloo in supporting actress movie/mini for "House of Sadaam." We all scored only nine correct predix, marking the first time we all got the majority of our predictions wrong!

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