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The Emmy nominations: What it all means
Thursday July 14th 2011VANCOUVER – The first thing that jumps out about this year’s Emmy nominations is how many surprises there are.
The second thing that jumps out is how few surprises there are.
That’s because, when we tune in for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 18, hosted by Glee’s Jane Lynch, we’re liable to see the high-profile awards for best comedy and drama handed out to a pair of returning champions, despite the sea of new faces.
If Mad Men should win outstanding drama for a fourth consecutive year, and if Modern Family should once again parlay its dizzying array of acting nominations (four Modern Family actors were nominated for supporting actor, and two actresses were nominated for supporting actress) into another win for outstanding comedy, it will bolster the old argument that the more things change in TV, the more they stay the same.
Look past the likely series winners, however, and some wonderful things happened with this year’s nominations. Five of the 12 nominated dramas and comedies are first-time contenders. Mireille Enos, Michelle Forbes, Louis C.K., Laura Linney, Idris Elba, Zach Galifianakis, Steve Buscemi, Timothy Olyphant, Margo Martindale, Kelly Macdonald, Jeremy Davies and Peter Dinklage are just a few of the faces being recognized with an Emmy nomination for the first time, or for the first time in these particular roles.
Even old reliables like Michael J. Fox, Betty White, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cloris Leachman bring something new to their respective Emmy nominations. White’s Emmy mention, for example, is her 17th overall, but her first for Hot In Cleveland. Likewise, Leachman’s nomination is her 22nd overall, but her first for Raising Hope.
The attention given to Raising Hope, in fact, raises hope for a whole new generation of TV comedies: Leachman was nominated alongside Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton, who could play her granddaughter in the wildly over-the-top, not-always-politically-appropriate sitcom.
It was a good year for out-of-the-box small-screen efforts, in fact, with risky, expensive-to-make costume epics like Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire breaking into a competitive field of dramas that features some of TV’s most defining programs of their time, including Mad Men, Dexter and the Humanitas Prize winning Friday Night Lights. The Good Wife was the only network drama to be nominated; the other nominees all hail from pay-TV networks and specialty channels (Friday Night Lights initially airs on DirecTV in the U.S. before repeating on NBC).
And how great was it that Friday Night Lights was not only recognized for its swan-song season but that series leads Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton both landed Emmy nods?
Here are some other things that jumped out, both satisfying and disappointing.
• Parks and Recreation’s gain was Community’s loss. Cry with joy, or just cry — you decide. Parks and Recreation got into the best series game for the first time, and Amy Poehler once again grabbed a nomination for outstanding lead actress. Nick Offerman was overlooked, however. And the love shown to Parks and Recreation, along with Emmy perennials Modern Family, 30 Rock, Glee, The Office and first-time nominee The Big Bang Theory may have come at the expense of Community, a high-energy, up-tempo ensemble comedy that some media outlets — New York magazine, for example — insist is TV’s best. Community failed to land a single nomination.
• Another oddity, one that will be no laughing matter to anyone with an aversion to big, traditional studio-audience sitcoms: The Big Bang Theory’s comedy nomination is the series’ first, even though it seems to have been around forever.
• Two and a Half Men, a favourite with Emmy voters in past years, has indeed lost its Sheen: It was largely overlooked this time, although long-suffering Charlie Sheen sidekick and supporting player Jon Cryer did earn a consolation nod for supporting comedy actor.
• Modern Family may have scored an early knockout punch against Glee. The two were considered to be neck-and-neck heading into Thursday’s nominations. But while Glee landed a key nomination for best comedy and repeat nods for Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch, lead actors Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele were overlooked this time. Additionally, Glee failed to land a single mention for writing or directing; Modern Family scored three nominations for its directing, and a fourth for writing, to go along with its comedy series mention. Incredibly, all six of Modern Family’s main actors — Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen, Ed O’Neill, Sofia Vergara, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet — were nominated.
•Three-peat lead drama actor Bryan Cranston was ineligible this time — Breaking Bad has not aired a new episode in more than a year, but will return Sunday — which opened the door for first-time nominee Steve Buscemi for Boardwalk Empire. TV awards may show a certain sameness from one year to the next, but TV shows retire eventually: Lost retired last year, which meant best actor nominee Matthew Fox was no longer in the mix. That opened the door for Justified’s Timothy Olyphant. Similarly, the long hiatus between seasons of Damages meant that past winner Glenn Close was no longer eligible this year: That opened the door for Mireille Enos, from The Killing.
•Even a time machine wouldn’t have solved this one. The vocal fanboy/fangirl campaigns for Chuck and Fringe fell on deaf ears with an academy voting membership that has long regarded so-called “genre” shows — anything to do with fantasy and science-fiction — with disdain. Fringe received just one nomination, for its online component, Fringe: Division, while Chuck garnered a grand total of zero nominations. HBO’s sprawling Game of Thrones, based on the epic series of fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin, managed to defy the naysayers with 13 nominations, tying it with Emmy darling 30 Rock. Game of Thrones had the full resources of HBO behind it, though.
Once again, television’s most dominant pay-TV channel hammered the competition, with a field-leading 21 nominations for the miniseries Mildred Pierce, 18 nominations for Boardwalk Empire, 11 nominations for the Wall Street biopic Too Big to Fail and nine nominations for the docudrama Cinema Verite, a dramatized recreation of the making of PBS’s landmark docureality series An American Family. In total, HBO scored a dizzying 72 nominations for those five programs alone.
•The crying, kvetching and handwringing over The Killing’s cliffhanger ending hasn’t subsided, and yet the slow-burning, filmed-in-Vancouver murder mystery managed to land nods over stiff competition in four high-profile categories: writing, for Toronto’s Veena Sud; directing, for indie filmmaker Patty Jenkins, lead actress Enos and supporting actress Michelle Forbes. AMC has renewed The Killing for a second season. The controversy, and now six Emmy nominations, can’t hurt.
•A drama oddity, and somewhat unusual, given Emmy voters’ habit of rewarding previous years’ winners with an automatic mention the following year: Kyra Sedgwick, winner last year for The Closer, was overlooked this time.
•TV continues to be a creative haven for women, though. The field of contenders for lead actress in a drama series has rarely looked stronger, with Enos, Friday Night Lights’ Britton, Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss and The Good Wife’s Julianna Margulies — already a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards winner — all in the mix for TV actors’ most prestigious award.
•The Good Wife had a very good year. It was the only broadcast network series to make the cut of best drama nominees. Not only that, but virtually its entire cast earned Emmy recognition, from Margulies to supporting actor nominees Josh Charles and Alan Cumming and supporting actress Emmy contenders Archie Panjabi and Christine Baranski.
•And finally, Dr. Feelbad may be feeling a little better this morning. Hugh Laurie, who plays the irascible Dr. Gregory House on House, landed a nomination for outstanding lead actor in a drama. Sure, it’s Laurie’s sixth lead-actor nomination in seven years, without winning once, but you know what they say about lotteries: You can’t win if you don’t play.
List of nominees
Drama:
Boardwalk Empire
Mad Men
The Good Wife
Game of Thrones
Friday Night Lights
Dexter
Drama, actor:
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Hugh Laurie, House
Timothy Olyphant, Justified
Drama, actress:
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
Kathy Bates, Harry’s Law
Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Drama, supporting actress:
Kelly Macdonald, Boardwalk Empire
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife
Margo Martindale, Justified
Michelle Forbes, The Killing
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
Comedy:
Modern Family
30 Rock
Glee
The Office
Big Bang Theory
Parks and Recreation
Comedy, actor:
Steve Carell, The Office
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Jim Parsons, Big Bang Theory
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Louise CK, Louis
Johnny Galecki, Big Bang Theory
Comedy, actress:
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Laura Linney, The Big C
Martha Plimpton, Raising Hope
Melissa McCarthy, Mike and Molly
– Comedy, supporting actress:
Jane Lynch, Glee
Betty White, Hot in Cleveland
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Kristen Wiig, SNL
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
Comedy, supporting actor:
Chris Colfer, Glee
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family
Ed O’Neill, Modern Family
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Variety series:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
The Colbert Report
Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Conan
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Real Time with Bill Maher
Reality competition:
Top Chef
The Amazing Race
American Idol
Dancing With the Stars
Project Runway
SYTYCD
The Emmy Awards will take place Sept. 18, 2011.
Source: Vancouver Sun
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The Emmy nominations: What it all means
Thursday July 14th 2011VANCOUVER – The first thing that jumps out about this year’s Emmy nominations is how many surprises there are.
The second thing that jumps out is how few surprises there are.
That’s because, when we tune in for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 18, hosted by Glee’s Jane Lynch, we’re liable to see the high-profile awards for best comedy and drama handed out to a pair of returning champions, despite the sea of new faces.
If Mad Men should win outstanding drama for a fourth consecutive year, and if Modern Family should once again parlay its dizzying array of acting nominations (four Modern Family actors were nominated for supporting actor, and two actresses were nominated for supporting actress) into another win for outstanding comedy, it will bolster the old argument that the more things change in TV, the more they stay the same.
Look past the likely series winners, however, and some wonderful things happened with this year’s nominations. Five of the 12 nominated dramas and comedies are first-time contenders. Mireille Enos, Michelle Forbes, Louis C.K., Laura Linney, Idris Elba, Zach Galifianakis, Steve Buscemi, Timothy Olyphant, Margo Martindale, Kelly Macdonald, Jeremy Davies and Peter Dinklage are just a few of the faces being recognized with an Emmy nomination for the first time, or for the first time in these particular roles.
Even old reliables like Michael J. Fox, Betty White, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cloris Leachman bring something new to their respective Emmy nominations. White’s Emmy mention, for example, is her 17th overall, but her first for Hot In Cleveland. Likewise, Leachman’s nomination is her 22nd overall, but her first for Raising Hope.
The attention given to Raising Hope, in fact, raises hope for a whole new generation of TV comedies: Leachman was nominated alongside Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton, who could play her granddaughter in the wildly over-the-top, not-always-politically-appropriate sitcom.
It was a good year for out-of-the-box small-screen efforts, in fact, with risky, expensive-to-make costume epics like Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire breaking into a competitive field of dramas that features some of TV’s most defining programs of their time, including Mad Men, Dexter and the Humanitas Prize winning Friday Night Lights. The Good Wife was the only network drama to be nominated; the other nominees all hail from pay-TV networks and specialty channels (Friday Night Lights initially airs on DirecTV in the U.S. before repeating on NBC).
And how great was it that Friday Night Lights was not only recognized for its swan-song season but that series leads Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton both landed Emmy nods?
Here are some other things that jumped out, both satisfying and disappointing.
• Parks and Recreation’s gain was Community’s loss. Cry with joy, or just cry — you decide. Parks and Recreation got into the best series game for the first time, and Amy Poehler once again grabbed a nomination for outstanding lead actress. Nick Offerman was overlooked, however. And the love shown to Parks and Recreation, along with Emmy perennials Modern Family, 30 Rock, Glee, The Office and first-time nominee The Big Bang Theory may have come at the expense of Community, a high-energy, up-tempo ensemble comedy that some media outlets — New York magazine, for example — insist is TV’s best. Community failed to land a single nomination.
• Another oddity, one that will be no laughing matter to anyone with an aversion to big, traditional studio-audience sitcoms: The Big Bang Theory’s comedy nomination is the series’ first, even though it seems to have been around forever.
• Two and a Half Men, a favourite with Emmy voters in past years, has indeed lost its Sheen: It was largely overlooked this time, although long-suffering Charlie Sheen sidekick and supporting player Jon Cryer did earn a consolation nod for supporting comedy actor.
• Modern Family may have scored an early knockout punch against Glee. The two were considered to be neck-and-neck heading into Thursday’s nominations. But while Glee landed a key nomination for best comedy and repeat nods for Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch, lead actors Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele were overlooked this time. Additionally, Glee failed to land a single mention for writing or directing; Modern Family scored three nominations for its directing, and a fourth for writing, to go along with its comedy series mention. Incredibly, all six of Modern Family’s main actors — Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen, Ed O’Neill, Sofia Vergara, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet — were nominated.
•Three-peat lead drama actor Bryan Cranston was ineligible this time — Breaking Bad has not aired a new episode in more than a year, but will return Sunday — which opened the door for first-time nominee Steve Buscemi for Boardwalk Empire. TV awards may show a certain sameness from one year to the next, but TV shows retire eventually: Lost retired last year, which meant best actor nominee Matthew Fox was no longer in the mix. That opened the door for Justified’s Timothy Olyphant. Similarly, the long hiatus between seasons of Damages meant that past winner Glenn Close was no longer eligible this year: That opened the door for Mireille Enos, from The Killing.
•Even a time machine wouldn’t have solved this one. The vocal fanboy/fangirl campaigns for Chuck and Fringe fell on deaf ears with an academy voting membership that has long regarded so-called “genre” shows — anything to do with fantasy and science-fiction — with disdain. Fringe received just one nomination, for its online component, Fringe: Division, while Chuck garnered a grand total of zero nominations. HBO’s sprawling Game of Thrones, based on the epic series of fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin, managed to defy the naysayers with 13 nominations, tying it with Emmy darling 30 Rock. Game of Thrones had the full resources of HBO behind it, though.
Once again, television’s most dominant pay-TV channel hammered the competition, with a field-leading 21 nominations for the miniseries Mildred Pierce, 18 nominations for Boardwalk Empire, 11 nominations for the Wall Street biopic Too Big to Fail and nine nominations for the docudrama Cinema Verite, a dramatized recreation of the making of PBS’s landmark docureality series An American Family. In total, HBO scored a dizzying 72 nominations for those five programs alone.
•The crying, kvetching and handwringing over The Killing’s cliffhanger ending hasn’t subsided, and yet the slow-burning, filmed-in-Vancouver murder mystery managed to land nods over stiff competition in four high-profile categories: writing, for Toronto’s Veena Sud; directing, for indie filmmaker Patty Jenkins, lead actress Enos and supporting actress Michelle Forbes. AMC has renewed The Killing for a second season. The controversy, and now six Emmy nominations, can’t hurt.
•A drama oddity, and somewhat unusual, given Emmy voters’ habit of rewarding previous years’ winners with an automatic mention the following year: Kyra Sedgwick, winner last year for The Closer, was overlooked this time.
•TV continues to be a creative haven for women, though. The field of contenders for lead actress in a drama series has rarely looked stronger, with Enos, Friday Night Lights’ Britton, Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss and The Good Wife’s Julianna Margulies — already a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards winner — all in the mix for TV actors’ most prestigious award.
•The Good Wife had a very good year. It was the only broadcast network series to make the cut of best drama nominees. Not only that, but virtually its entire cast earned Emmy recognition, from Margulies to supporting actor nominees Josh Charles and Alan Cumming and supporting actress Emmy contenders Archie Panjabi and Christine Baranski.
•And finally, Dr. Feelbad may be feeling a little better this morning. Hugh Laurie, who plays the irascible Dr. Gregory House on House, landed a nomination for outstanding lead actor in a drama. Sure, it’s Laurie’s sixth lead-actor nomination in seven years, without winning once, but you know what they say about lotteries: You can’t win if you don’t play.
List of nominees
Drama:
Boardwalk Empire
Mad Men
The Good Wife
Game of Thrones
Friday Night Lights
Dexter
Drama, actor:
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Hugh Laurie, House
Timothy Olyphant, Justified
Drama, actress:
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
Kathy Bates, Harry’s Law
Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Drama, supporting actress:
Kelly Macdonald, Boardwalk Empire
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife
Margo Martindale, Justified
Michelle Forbes, The Killing
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
Comedy:
Modern Family
30 Rock
Glee
The Office
Big Bang Theory
Parks and Recreation
Comedy, actor:
Steve Carell, The Office
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Jim Parsons, Big Bang Theory
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Louise CK, Louis
Johnny Galecki, Big Bang Theory
Comedy, actress:
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Laura Linney, The Big C
Martha Plimpton, Raising Hope
Melissa McCarthy, Mike and Molly
– Comedy, supporting actress:
Jane Lynch, Glee
Betty White, Hot in Cleveland
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Kristen Wiig, SNL
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
Comedy, supporting actor:
Chris Colfer, Glee
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family
Ed O’Neill, Modern Family
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Variety series:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
The Colbert Report
Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Conan
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Real Time with Bill Maher
Reality competition:
Top Chef
The Amazing Race
American Idol
Dancing With the Stars
Project Runway
SYTYCD
The Emmy Awards will take place Sept. 18, 2011.
Source: Vancouver Sun
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The Emmy nominations: What it all means
Thursday July 14th 2011VANCOUVER – The first thing that jumps out about this year’s Emmy nominations is how many surprises there are.
The second thing that jumps out is how few surprises there are.
That’s because, when we tune in for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 18, hosted by Glee’s Jane Lynch, we’re liable to see the high-profile awards for best comedy and drama handed out to a pair of returning champions, despite the sea of new faces.
If Mad Men should win outstanding drama for a fourth consecutive year, and if Modern Family should once again parlay its dizzying array of acting nominations (four Modern Family actors were nominated for supporting actor, and two actresses were nominated for supporting actress) into another win for outstanding comedy, it will bolster the old argument that the more things change in TV, the more they stay the same.
Look past the likely series winners, however, and some wonderful things happened with this year’s nominations. Five of the 12 nominated dramas and comedies are first-time contenders. Mireille Enos, Michelle Forbes, Louis C.K., Laura Linney, Idris Elba, Zach Galifianakis, Steve Buscemi, Timothy Olyphant, Margo Martindale, Kelly Macdonald, Jeremy Davies and Peter Dinklage are just a few of the faces being recognized with an Emmy nomination for the first time, or for the first time in these particular roles.
Even old reliables like Michael J. Fox, Betty White, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cloris Leachman bring something new to their respective Emmy nominations. White’s Emmy mention, for example, is her 17th overall, but her first for Hot In Cleveland. Likewise, Leachman’s nomination is her 22nd overall, but her first for Raising Hope.
The attention given to Raising Hope, in fact, raises hope for a whole new generation of TV comedies: Leachman was nominated alongside Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton, who could play her granddaughter in the wildly over-the-top, not-always-politically-appropriate sitcom.
It was a good year for out-of-the-box small-screen efforts, in fact, with risky, expensive-to-make costume epics like Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire breaking into a competitive field of dramas that features some of TV’s most defining programs of their time, including Mad Men, Dexter and the Humanitas Prize winning Friday Night Lights. The Good Wife was the only network drama to be nominated; the other nominees all hail from pay-TV networks and specialty channels (Friday Night Lights initially airs on DirecTV in the U.S. before repeating on NBC).
And how great was it that Friday Night Lights was not only recognized for its swan-song season but that series leads Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton both landed Emmy nods?
Here are some other things that jumped out, both satisfying and disappointing.
• Parks and Recreation’s gain was Community’s loss. Cry with joy, or just cry — you decide. Parks and Recreation got into the best series game for the first time, and Amy Poehler once again grabbed a nomination for outstanding lead actress. Nick Offerman was overlooked, however. And the love shown to Parks and Recreation, along with Emmy perennials Modern Family, 30 Rock, Glee, The Office and first-time nominee The Big Bang Theory may have come at the expense of Community, a high-energy, up-tempo ensemble comedy that some media outlets — New York magazine, for example — insist is TV’s best. Community failed to land a single nomination.
• Another oddity, one that will be no laughing matter to anyone with an aversion to big, traditional studio-audience sitcoms: The Big Bang Theory’s comedy nomination is the series’ first, even though it seems to have been around forever.
• Two and a Half Men, a favourite with Emmy voters in past years, has indeed lost its Sheen: It was largely overlooked this time, although long-suffering Charlie Sheen sidekick and supporting player Jon Cryer did earn a consolation nod for supporting comedy actor.
• Modern Family may have scored an early knockout punch against Glee. The two were considered to be neck-and-neck heading into Thursday’s nominations. But while Glee landed a key nomination for best comedy and repeat nods for Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch, lead actors Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele were overlooked this time. Additionally, Glee failed to land a single mention for writing or directing; Modern Family scored three nominations for its directing, and a fourth for writing, to go along with its comedy series mention. Incredibly, all six of Modern Family’s main actors — Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen, Ed O’Neill, Sofia Vergara, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet — were nominated.
•Three-peat lead drama actor Bryan Cranston was ineligible this time — Breaking Bad has not aired a new episode in more than a year, but will return Sunday — which opened the door for first-time nominee Steve Buscemi for Boardwalk Empire. TV awards may show a certain sameness from one year to the next, but TV shows retire eventually: Lost retired last year, which meant best actor nominee Matthew Fox was no longer in the mix. That opened the door for Justified’s Timothy Olyphant. Similarly, the long hiatus between seasons of Damages meant that past winner Glenn Close was no longer eligible this year: That opened the door for Mireille Enos, from The Killing.
•Even a time machine wouldn’t have solved this one. The vocal fanboy/fangirl campaigns for Chuck and Fringe fell on deaf ears with an academy voting membership that has long regarded so-called “genre” shows — anything to do with fantasy and science-fiction — with disdain. Fringe received just one nomination, for its online component, Fringe: Division, while Chuck garnered a grand total of zero nominations. HBO’s sprawling Game of Thrones, based on the epic series of fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin, managed to defy the naysayers with 13 nominations, tying it with Emmy darling 30 Rock. Game of Thrones had the full resources of HBO behind it, though.
Once again, television’s most dominant pay-TV channel hammered the competition, with a field-leading 21 nominations for the miniseries Mildred Pierce, 18 nominations for Boardwalk Empire, 11 nominations for the Wall Street biopic Too Big to Fail and nine nominations for the docudrama Cinema Verite, a dramatized recreation of the making of PBS’s landmark docureality series An American Family. In total, HBO scored a dizzying 72 nominations for those five programs alone.
•The crying, kvetching and handwringing over The Killing’s cliffhanger ending hasn’t subsided, and yet the slow-burning, filmed-in-Vancouver murder mystery managed to land nods over stiff competition in four high-profile categories: writing, for Toronto’s Veena Sud; directing, for indie filmmaker Patty Jenkins, lead actress Enos and supporting actress Michelle Forbes. AMC has renewed The Killing for a second season. The controversy, and now six Emmy nominations, can’t hurt.
•A drama oddity, and somewhat unusual, given Emmy voters’ habit of rewarding previous years’ winners with an automatic mention the following year: Kyra Sedgwick, winner last year for The Closer, was overlooked this time.
•TV continues to be a creative haven for women, though. The field of contenders for lead actress in a drama series has rarely looked stronger, with Enos, Friday Night Lights’ Britton, Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss and The Good Wife’s Julianna Margulies — already a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards winner — all in the mix for TV actors’ most prestigious award.
•The Good Wife had a very good year. It was the only broadcast network series to make the cut of best drama nominees. Not only that, but virtually its entire cast earned Emmy recognition, from Margulies to supporting actor nominees Josh Charles and Alan Cumming and supporting actress Emmy contenders Archie Panjabi and Christine Baranski.
•And finally, Dr. Feelbad may be feeling a little better this morning. Hugh Laurie, who plays the irascible Dr. Gregory House on House, landed a nomination for outstanding lead actor in a drama. Sure, it’s Laurie’s sixth lead-actor nomination in seven years, without winning once, but you know what they say about lotteries: You can’t win if you don’t play.
List of nominees
Drama:
Boardwalk Empire
Mad Men
The Good Wife
Game of Thrones
Friday Night Lights
Dexter
Drama, actor:
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Hugh Laurie, House
Timothy Olyphant, Justified
Drama, actress:
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
Kathy Bates, Harry’s Law
Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Drama, supporting actress:
Kelly Macdonald, Boardwalk Empire
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife
Margo Martindale, Justified
Michelle Forbes, The Killing
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
Comedy:
Modern Family
30 Rock
Glee
The Office
Big Bang Theory
Parks and Recreation
Comedy, actor:
Steve Carell, The Office
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Jim Parsons, Big Bang Theory
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Louise CK, Louis
Johnny Galecki, Big Bang Theory
Comedy, actress:
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Laura Linney, The Big C
Martha Plimpton, Raising Hope
Melissa McCarthy, Mike and Molly
– Comedy, supporting actress:
Jane Lynch, Glee
Betty White, Hot in Cleveland
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Kristen Wiig, SNL
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
Comedy, supporting actor:
Chris Colfer, Glee
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family
Ed O’Neill, Modern Family
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Variety series:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
The Colbert Report
Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Conan
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Real Time with Bill Maher
Reality competition:
Top Chef
The Amazing Race
American Idol
Dancing With the Stars
Project Runway
SYTYCD
The Emmy Awards will take place Sept. 18, 2011.
Source: Vancouver Sun
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