House, MD Nominations & Awards

"House": The Show
Nomination: Producers Guild Awards nominees Nominations announced January 3, 2007 Episodic television, drama: "Grey's Anatomy," "House," "Lost," "The Sopranos," "24." 18th Annual Producers Guild Awards will be announced January 20, 2007
Nomination: Emmy (2006)
Nomination: TV Critics
The American Film Institute's Awards of 2005 - "House" is one of AFI Top 10 TV Programs of the Year ("..HOUSE's focus is on the pharmacological--and the intellectual demands of being a doctor. The trial-and-error of new medicine skillfully expands the show beyond the format of a classic procedural, and at the show's heart, a brilliant but flawed physician..)
Nomination: NAACP Image Awards -->
The Writing:
Win: Emmy 2005 - David Shore won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for the Season One episode "Three Stories"
Win (2006): Writers Guild of America - "For Episodic Drama: "House, M.D." - Lawrence Kaplow - For episode "Autopsy". "
"Three Stories" won the Humanitas Prize, for screenwriting that helps "entertain, engage and enrich the viewing public." from a "deekay" posting at the Television Without Pity's House Forum a quote from an AP story on it: "Judges cited its 'poignant probe into the pain and confusion that comes when someone we love disappoints us.'"
The Acting: Hugh Laurie

Win: Screen Actors Guild (SAG): Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series January 28, 2007 See a transcript of his acceptance speech - note: it's more than half way down the page.
Win: Best Actor Golden Globe Award January 15, 2007 In his speech Laurie said, "I am speechless. I'm literally without a speech. It seems odd to me that in the weeks leading up to this event, when people are falling over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and free colonic irrigations for two, nobody offers you a free acceptance speech. It just seems to me to be a gap in the market. I would love to be able to pull out a speech by Dolce & Gabbana."

Win: TV Critics 2006 and 2005 July 23: "At the 22nd annual Television Critics Association awards" - the second win in a row. See this blog on the 2006 Individual achievement in drama, to Hugh Laurie of 'House.'" for some excerpts from Mr. Laurie's acceptance speech including: "I feel very much in the position of the man who has got a very, very fast car. ... I am, every day that I go to work, deeply sensible of the honor I have to sit at the wheel and drive this wonderful character called House." Images of Hugh Laurie's acceptance speech: Image A, Image B and Image C and at the hughlaurie.net News page
Win: Golden Globe January 2006
Julie of housefans.net has put up a transcript of Laurie's very funny speech
And see a picture of him on stage and comments about the speech.
Win: Satellite Award Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for: "House M.D." (2004)
Nomination: Emmy 2005 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Nomination: Screen Actor's Guild 'Best Actor in a Drama Series' award (SAG Awards to be announced on TNT Jan 29, 2006)
Win: The Television Critics Association awards - Best Actor on a TV Drama (July 2005)
Hugh Laurie got a nod for one of the sexiest men on TV in "Who" magazine just recently. "Who" magazine is the Australian equivalent and sister magazine of "US" Magazine in the USA. (info from post by "Wallaby" in Television Without Pity's House Forum
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The Acting: Others
Omar Epps — Nomination: NAACP Image Awards
The Directing:
Nomination (winners will be announced Jan. 28, 2006): Director's Guild of America "Paris Barclay for the 'Three Stories' episode of 'House'"
Other Awards and Nomination
Nomination - Emmy 2005 Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series: Amy Lippens, C.S.A.
Nomination - Emmy 2005 Outstanding Main Title Design: for "House" title design
Matt Mulder
Jake Sargeant
Dan Brown
Dave Molloy
Nomination - Emmy 2005 Outstanding Music Composition for a Series: Christopher Hoag

House, MD Season 4 Episode 412: Don't Ever Change

At her Hasidic Orthodox wedding to Yonatan Arnoff, a woman named Roz Viner becomes ill. As she is lifted in a chair for a traditional Jewish wedding dance called the hora, she falls off and loses control of her bladder. She breaks her leg in the fall.
House approaches Wilson and presses him about dating Amber. Wilson tells him that they have been together for four months.
The Fellows wait for House in his office. Thirteen hands him Roz's file. In the midst of discussing the patient, the men on the team want to talk about Amber. Thirteen suggests that Roz has Endometriosis of the bladder. Kutner brings up carbolic acid poisoning.
Taub and Foreman go to Roz's apartment and find hard rock CDs that she served as a producer on. When they return to the hospital and ask her about them, Roz explains that she only converted to a Hasidic a few months ago. Although previously into drugs and sex, she has now reformed her ways.
Amber enters her own apartment to find House there. He wants to know if she using Wilson just to get to House.
Roz's condition has not changed and she tests negative for endometriosis or drugs. House thinks that her conversion to Hasidism six months prior is a sign of porphyria -- a rare genetic disorder that causes an over-production of certain proteins that contribute to mental problems.
Kutner tells Roz and her husband about House's theory. Yonatan asks Cuddy for a new doctor. Cuddy sees that the team has brought up the possibility of cryoglobulinemia, so she instructs them to treat her for that. Suddenly, Roz lapses into a hypoxic state. The team reviews the symptoms: bloody urine, no bladder control, altered mental status and dyspnea. Foreman suggests Wegener's, while House considers Lupus.
House goes to the restaurant where Wilson and Amber are on a date. Amber asks him to join them. She gets the maitre d' to seat them ahead of the other people waiting. House sees many of his own qualities in Amber. He questions whether Wilson is really in love with him instead. House runs out.
Roz undergoes a cardio stress test while Taub and Yonatan discuss marriage. Roz falls to the ground, crying in pain about an unbroken leg. House orders Foreman to do an MRI to look for blood clots in her leg. Foreman and Thirteen conduct a brain scan. Foreman claims Thirteen is bisexual.
House thinks Roz gets a form of pleasure from pain. He tells Foreman to restart her IV to cause her discomfort so that her reaction will show up in the brain scan. House is proved right, but Roz tells Thirteen that she had been praying. This could explain the brain activity. When Roz rises from the machine, her vital signs drop and she collapses.
Roz's vitals are stressed when they should not be, and the team tries to figure out why. It may be an electrical problem in her body. Roz gets her heart tested by Taub and Kutner. Although she is supposed to be sedated, Roz hears them talking.
Roz undergoes another test inside a chamber with rising heat to test her body function. She is not sweating in the heat. She starts shaking and has a seizure. Thirteen finds that Roz's body is freezing. The team ponders why her body is physically showing the opposite of what it is supposed to be doing. She could have Addison's and be in need of cortisol.
House asks Cuddy to sleep with Wilson in order to save him from Amber. Cuddy warns Wilson about the former Fellow.
Roz begins to feel better with cortisol but then she suddenly falls into shock. Thirteen inserts a syringe into a swollen area on Roz's abdomen. She is bleeding internally. Chase examines an MRA of Roz. She is not bleeding from the source of the problem. She will have to be opened up. Roz wants to wait until later that night, to spend one Shabbat with her new husband. This gives the team less time to diagnose her. Chase suggests to House that they "move" sundown earlier so that she can have her Shabbat in her room.
Amber comes to see House. He makes her an offer. If she can solve this case then she can return to Princeton-Plainsboro -- on the condition that she leaves Wilson. Amber turns him down.
The team impatiently waits for the Shabbat ceremony to end. House has Roz stand up and he holds her right abdomen. When he lets go, her vitals go haywire. He says that she has nephroptosis -- a "floating kidney." It was shaken loose during the hora dance and has been dropping ever since. She can have it reattached.
House finally concedes to Wilson about Amber. Wilson comes after him in the hospital lobby. He can't believe that House would approve of his relationship.

House, MD Season 4 Episode 411: Frozen

At an American base in the frozen South Pole, a man named Sean tries to fix an electrical generator system during a storm. He heads back to his station when a blade from one of the windmills snaps off and hits him in the leg. He radios for help. Dr. Cate Milton rushes through the snow to get him. Back inside, Cate attends to his wounded leg when suddenly she falls and doubles over in pain.
At Princeton-Plainsboro, Cuddy finds House in a comatose patient’s room fumbling with the TV. He has been requested to treat Cate, who is an adjunct professor at the hospital but is located in the South Pole. Cuddy also informs him that cable is now available in rooms -- for a fee.
House and the team discuss the possible diagnoses of kidney stones or appendicitis. He presents a box in which the contents are the only supplies that Cate has available to her. House goes to Cameron and urges her to press her budget committee to reinstall free cable in patients’ rooms. House sends Taub, Kutner and Thirteen to annoy Cameron in the Emergency Room. They tell her that they are staying there until House gets his cable TV restored.House and Foreman talk with Cate over teleconference. She has a plastic jug filled with water and an egg hanging on a wire ring with a flaw detector to produce sound waves. Cate performs the sound wave procedure and the egg splatters. Foreman asks her to do a chem 7 test to check her kidney function. House tells her to administer cefuroxime to herself in the meantime.
Foreman informs Cate that her kidney function is declining. House notices that she has not been taking the medicine. She wants to save the limited supply that is at the base. Cate breathes heavily. Foreman and House can see that her neck veins are distended. Her lung is collapsing. They instruct her to stab herself in the chest with a syringe to inflate her lung.
Cate resorts to using an oxygen mask to breathe. Foreman covers the webcam microphone and says aside to House that she may have cancer. House tells Cate this, and asks her to x-ray her whole body, since that’s the only imaging equipment on the base. She takes the images of herself. Wilson and House examine the slides and find a lymph node enlarged in her chest. They need to do a biopsy and find a stain. House realizes that Wilson is unusually wearing a lavender shirt. It’s for someone in particular.
House speaks to Cate online from his apartment. She resists taking her clothes off for an examination because he’s alone at home. She asks to get a look at his place and he moves the webcam around to show her. Cate analyzes him. Meanwhile, as Foreman and Wilson search for a dye to use in the biopsy, they remark how Cate is perfect for House.
House guides Cate in finding the lymph node in her body. She detects a swollen one in her stomach. Wilson and House supervise her biopsy of the node. She inserts a needle into her belly. Wilson is quick to notice that House is weirdly kind to Cate, and he senses that House has feelings for her.
House asks Wilson who he is going to meet for lunch. Cameron tells House that she has resigned from the budget committee. Thirteen, Taub and Kutner remain waiting for House in the Emergency Room. He enters with a stack of fliers that have Cameron’s phone number listed below a headline for free puppies. House wants the team to get Cameron to make an error in the ER so that she can be blackmailed for cable TV.
Cate has put the biopsy into red wine. Wilson looks through her microscope at the image. He assures her that she does not have cancer. Yet she still is in pain. Her kidneys are failing.
Once again, House talks to Cate over webcam from his apartment. He thinks she may have autoimmune diseases SLE or vasculitis, and wants her to start on prednisone. She wants proof before she takes the medication.
Back in the office, Foreman suggests that Cate go outside to cool the inflammation. House has taken Wilson’s wallet. Yet Wilson comments that House only took his receipts and left the cash.
To test for autoimmunity, Cate must drop a paperclip in a test tube of her blood. If she does have it, her cells will enlarge. House talks to Cate again later that night from his home.
The next day at the hospital, Cuddy tells House and Foreman that she was forced to fire Cameron for a mistake in the ER. House thinks Cuddy is lying. Cate appears on the webcam. Her test is negative. Foreman wants her to try going outside in the cold temperature. House insists that she take the prednisone but she passes out in a coma. House pushes Wilson to reveal his new girlfriend’s name.
House gets Sean to drink Cate’s urine. A strong taste means that there is a kidney problem, but if it’s watery then the problem is in the brain. House realizes Sean in love with Cate.
House confronts Taub about whether Cameron was really fired. Taub admits that it is a lie. House lectures his Fellows to not play games with him. They need to pay for his cable.
Sean tastes Cate’s urine and finds that it is watery. She may have increased intracranial pressure or a hypothalamus malfunction. Sean will need to drill into her skull. Since he’s not a doctor, Foreman and House walk him through the procedure.
Cate regains consciousness. The team tries to come up with reasons for the symptoms. Kutner suggest fat emboli clotting her blood flow. House says this is impossible unless she has an unrepaired broken bone. He realizes that he did not see her feet during the exam because he let her keep her socks on. Her big toe is broken. Bits of bone marrow have been leaking into her blood stream. Cate is surprised because her toe does not hurt. Sean pulls the toe to fix the broken bone. He and Cate embrace as she thanks House.Wilson is waiting for his date in a restaurant when House arrives to badger him about the date’s identity. House turns to see Amber -- the “cutthroat bitch” former Fellow. She greets Wilson with a kiss. House is shocked.

House, MD Season 4 Episode 410: Its A Wonderful Lie

Eleven year old Jane climbs a rock wall at a gym. Her mother, Maggie, coaches her from below. Unable to climb anymore, Jane slips down the wall and propels downward. Maggie cannot grip the rope holding her daughter because her hands have become paralyzed. Jane plunges to the floor and lands on her arm.
Foreman, Taub, Thirteen and Kutner review the case of the hand paralysis. House enters and pulls down Kutner’s Christmas decorations. Thirteen explains that Maggie’s mother died of breast cancer when she was young. Maggie inherited the BRCA1 mutation so she underwent a preventative double mastectomy. House tells the team to MRI the woman’s chest to see if she still developed breast cancer.
After talking to Jane, House discusses with Wilson the role of lying in interpersonal relationships. House is annoyed that Maggie claims to be so forthright with her daughter. He senses that there is a lie somewhere. Wilson gives House the results of Maggie’s MRI. She does not have breast cancer.
House wants Taub and Foreman to follow up with Maggie’s recent multiple sex partners. They meet with Roger, who admits giving her the drug ecstasy. They take his stash for examination.
In the clinic, House examines a young woman for strep throat. He deduces that she must be a prostitute. Taub tells him that Kutner is starting Maggie on hemodialysis while Thirteen examines the ecstasy. During the treatment, Maggie loses her sight.
The team gathers in the office to confer about the case, but House has prepared a Secret Santa game for the group. Thirteen reports that the ecstasy is clean. Foreman suggests that Kearns-Sayre Syndrome fits the symptom of blindness. House wants Thirteen to go to the patient’s home to find her computer. Taub wonders if the patient has Multiple Sclerosis. House orders an MRI for MS and a fluorescein angiogram of the patient’s eyes.
In the doctor’s lounge, Wilson asks House about the Secret Santa for the team. House intends for it to start infighting among them.
Kutner and Thirteen return to the hospital with the laptops from Maggie’s apartment. The eye test is negative and there is nothing abnormal on the MRI. As the team looks on the patient’s computers, Foreman suggests that perhaps her brain has a conversion disorder where her mind is tricking her body.
House asks Jane to lie to her mother because it will help diagnose her. Taub pretends to administer medicine to Maggie and tells her that Jane has to stay out of the room.
The doctors realize that House gave all of them his name in the Secret Santa game. They debate whether to even get him any presents. Meanwhile, Maggie is unable to breathe as her lymph nodes swell and cut off her airway.
In House’s office, the team searches Maggie’s emails for any information that might help them. House announces that she suffers from sarcoidosis. From the emails, he sees that she has had trouble walking for a while. House opens a gift that has been sitting on his desk. It is an iPhone. Thirteen thinks House gave the gift to himself, but House is pleased that he caused the team to argue.
Maggie is given a bronchoscope test on her lungs. At the end, her eyes start to bleed. She does not have sarcoidosis and her blood platelets have dropped. The team scrambles for answers. Kutner tells House he is his secret Santa and hands him a small gift.
In the clinic, House treats the young woman with strep. He asks if she performs a donkey show. She says yes and invites him to it.
Chase and Foreman perform a bone marrow biopsy on Maggie. The drill, however, cannot penetrate her bone.
Maggie is in her room after being given a full body bone scan. The team bickers about the scan. Foreman suggests that perhaps her entire skeleton is turning to stone. Kutner mentions carbonic anhydrase type II deficiency genetic disorder. House orders blood tests. If it is positive, then she will need a bone marrow transplant. Jane is the best donor choice, but Maggie forbids her daughter from doing so.
The results show that Maggie is suffering from something worse than CA-2 deficiency. House orders the team to research the cause. Jane comes into the lab and says she wants them to test her bone marrow.
House questions whether Jane is not really Maggie’s daughter. Maggie confesses that Jane’s biological mother was a drug addict who didn’t want the baby. Jane bluntly tells Maggie that she is going to die.
House enters the Christmas party in the lobby, and grabs Wilson. House says he is impressed by Jane’s ability to tell the truth.
House comes to the lab, singing. House tells the team to give Maggie an anti-psychotic drug called risperidone. House explains why as he examines the patient. Although they discounted breast cancer in the beginning, sometimes extra breast tissue is found in areas of the body where it does not belong. Risperidone causes breast tissue to swell, making it more detectable. She could have breast cancer outside of the breasts. House finds a lump at the back of Maggie’s knee. He stabs a syringe into it as white liquid pours out. He tells Jane to open her mouth and he squirts the liquid in. Risperidone causes galactorrhea, which is milk production. House calls for chemo and removal of the tumor to treat Maggie.
As House exits the hospital, he walks past his team who is at the hospital party. His scheme to split them up failed. House enters a church service in the middle of a living Nativity scene. The woman from the clinic is playing Mary. She rides in on a donkey. House exchanges knowing glances with her.

House, MD Season 4 Episode 409: Games

Jimmy Quidd, a hard living 40-something rocker, hangs out in an alley behind a nightclub. His band waits for him to go onstage. Quidd takes his bandmate’s new guitar and smashes it. He declares that he is ready. Following the musicians inside, he coughs uncontrollably and collapses in the alley.
Cuddy interrupts House’s soap opera watching to press him to make a decision about the Fellows. She threatens to move his parking spot if he doesn’t pick his new hires.
House searches for a case in the ER and finds Quidd. He introduces Quidd to the Fellows in the lecture hall as the final case of the competition. With multiple problems, Quidd also has drugs in his system. Foreman argues that Quidd is merely a drug addict, but House is insistent that the patient suffers from so many symptoms that it has to be something else making him sick. House declares that only the person who is given the anatomical model of an eyeball can run tests. He hands it over first to Amber.
Foreman complains to House about making this hiring process a game. House asks Wilson for his opinion on Amber. Wilson just realized that he has misdiagnosed a healthy patient with terminal cancer.
As they wait for Quidd outside the men’s room, Amber and Thirteen bicker. His oxygen tank explodes when he sneaks a cigarette. He lies injured on the floor of the bathroom.
Accompanied by House, Wilson meets with the misdiagnosed patient to tell him the good news. The patient is actually upset that he will live because of how the terminal diagnosis changed his life for the better.
House tallies up each Fellow’s points. He asks Amber and Taub to do a biopsy on Quidd, who resists their attempts to insert the tube in his arm. His heart rate rises. Foreman quickly gets the tube in Quidd’s arm. Foreman reveals that the patient’s arm is covered with nicotine patches. The man’s fingers have blood clots.
House asks the Fellows what could be causing the clots. Thirteen suggests Malaria. House gives the eyeball to her. House inquires about why Amber hates drug addicts, but he really wants to know why she is so afraid of not winning. Amber says she will do anything to not lose.
Taub has a bag of prescriptions for House. He really doesn’t care about the patient. He and Thirteen realize Quidd is missing. House is in Wilson’s office playing a song by Quidd. Wilson is going to give money to the cancer patient and get a liability waiver. Taub and Thirteen tell House that the patient is missing. House talks to Thirteen to find out why she has sympathy for Quidd. She believes the drugs are masking something else.
Taub and Thirteen find Quidd playing with kids in the pediatric ward. Quidd collapses.
Cuddy tells House to contain his patient. He says that he wants to keep all the Fellows. Cuddy would keep Kutner and Taub. Kutner and Thirteen come in to tell them that the test for Malaria was negative but that they found bad blood fragments.
House goes to talk to the members of the band. He finds a dirty syringe in one of the guy’s jackets. Sharing needles is the cause for the blood clots and the bad blood fragments. They find Quidd on the floor in his room suffering from respiratory failure. They put him in the ICU. Foreman watches as the Fellows and House regroup in a laundry room.
Wilson writes a check to his patient but the man rips it up. He wants to sue the hospital for more money because when Wilson told him he was going to live, it ruined the happiness he had found.
House finds that Quidd has masses around his heart. He looks over the test results with Taub and Kutner. House wants Chase to do exploratory heart surgery on the patient. Chase resists but then Taub convinces him. Taub assists Chase on the surgery and they see swollen lymph nodes. Quidd’s blood pressure suddenly drops.
In his office, House fires and rehires Kutner and Thirteen in order to shake them up. Until they can find the source of the drugs, House tells them to treat Quidd for heavy metal poisoning. Amber treats Quidd in the ICU.
Wilson comes to House about his legal problems. Kutner tells them that one of the guys in the band told him that Quidd visits an orphanage every week.
In the lecture hall, House becomes frustrated and fires Taub and Amber to make them more competitive. House and the Fellows go to Cuddy to get approval for a brain biopsy on Quidd. House diagnoses measles in the brain. He could have contracted the disease from his lowered immune system and the time he spent around children. Cuddy agrees, but only if he can induce a seizure. House blasts Quidd’s music to irritate his brain.
In the lecture hall, House plays Quidd’s early folk music from before he went punk. House fires Amber and Thirteen. He’s keeping all the men. Amber is upset. Amber tends to Quidd in his room as he is treated for measles. Cuddy insists that House keep one woman on his team. She wants him to hire Thirteen back. House smiles. That was his plan all along.