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Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam and makeup artist Michelle Garbin take us behind the scenes of FX’s hit in this awesome photo gallery, which features plenty of black and white (and full color!) eye candy.

This week in EW: Be thankful for the early release of our latest issue, which takes a closer look behind the scenes of FX’s most successful series ever.

It’s your last chance to vote in our 5th Annual EWwy Awards, which honor actors and shows snubbed by the Emmys. Who will take home a coveted sheep-shaped trophy? Here, once more, are your nominees:

BEST DRAMA
Fringe
The Good Wife
Justified
Revenge
Sons of Anarchy

BEST ACTOR, DRAMA
Dustin Hoffman, Luck
Charlie Hunnam, Sons of Anarchy
Hugh Laurie, House
Andrew Lincoln, The Walking Dead
Timothy Olyphant, Justified

BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA
Nina Dobrev, The Vampire Diaries
Katey Sagal, Sons of Anarchy
Madeleine Stowe, Revenge
Anna Torv, Fringe
Kerry Washington, Scandal

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA
Walton Goggins, Justified
Joel Kinnaman, The Killing
John Noble, Fringe
Michael Pitt, Boardwalk Empire
John Slattery, Mad Men

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA
Kristen Bauer van Straten, True Blood
Erika Christensen, Parenthood
Lena Headey, Game of Thrones
Kelly Macdonald, Boardwalk Empire
Maggie Siff, Sons of Anarchy

BEST COMEDY
Community
Happy Endings
How I Met Your Mother
Louie
Parks and Recreation

BEST ACTOR, COMEDY
Will Arnett, Up All Night
Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory
Rob Lowe, Parks and Recreation
Joel McHale, Community
Adam Scott, Parks and Recreation

BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY
Courteney Cox, Cougar Town
Laura Dern, Enlightened
Patricia Heaton, The Middle
Laura Linney, The Big C
Martha Plimpton, Raising Hope

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY
Aziz Ansari, Parks and Recreation
Donald Glover, Community
Nick Offerman, Parks and Recreation
Chris Pratt, Parks and Recreation
Danny Pudi, Community

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY
Alison Brie, Community
Gillian Jacobs, Community
Zosia Mamet, Girls
Eden Sher, The Middle
Casey Wilson, Happy Endings

Vote vote vote vote vote!

In case you missed it: the latest scoop on New Girl, Revenge, Sons of Anarchy, and Scandal from EW’s team at the Television Critics Association press tour.

”What a Wonderful World”

Every great montage begins with a great song turned on its head. ”What a Wonderful World” was actually co-written by Bob Thiele, the father of Sons of Anarchy’s music supervisor Bob Thiele Jr. ”I just thought if there was ever a place where we could use that song, a wedding would probably be it,” creator Kurt Sutter laughs. ”There was a part of me that was a little nervous about besmirching Bob Thiele Sr.’s memory with having a montage kill sequence while his song played. But Bob Thiele Jr. was thrilled and took the challenge and completely made it work.” The Kills’ Alison Mosshart recorded the song specifically for the show from her studio outside Dublin.

After reading the script for the final montage — which begins with Opie [(Ryan Hurst)] and his porn-star bride Lyla [(Winter Ave Zoli)] dancing at their wedding — exec producer Paris Barclay, who directed the episode, thought of the show’s history with the W.B. Yeats poem ”The Second Coming” (they’ve named episodes after segments of it). It begins with the line ”Turning and turning in the widening gyre,” which gave Barclay the idea to encircle things like the happy couple with the camera movement and to think of the action as unfolding like a dance. ”Even if it’s something as sweet as dancing in a circle that turns into killing Russians brutally in slow motion, it could all seem like part of the same poem,” Barclay says.