This year’s Emmy nominations showered a bounty of nominations o𝐆n three series 🍃— two of them with limited runs.
“Game of Thrones,” to no one’s surprise, scored the most nominations with 23. But the real reason to celebrate the awards this year is that two of the best entries — “The People v. O.J. Simpson: Am🐟erican Crime Story” and “Fargo” — walked off with 22 and 18 nominations, respectively.
Fans of “The Americanꦬs” can also rejoice. After being ignored for three of its four seasons, the FX Cold War drama finally racked up five nominations: Best Drama Series, Best Actor in a Drama Series (Matthew Rhys) and Best Actress in a Drama Series (Keri Russell).
“The Night Manager,” a British limited series adapted from 🅺the John Le Carre novel, received an astonishing 12 nominations, including acting nods for its stars Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie aꦰnd Olivia Colman.
“Downt🐼on Abbey” went out in style, picking up 10 nominat🤡ions, including Best Drama Series and Best Supporting Actress for Dame Maggie Smith.
The Academy also scored points for the diversity of its nominations, assuring that💫 there would no #Emmyssowhite hashtags haunting Twitter. Among the minority nominees this year: Anthony Anderson (“Black-ish”); Aziz Ansari (“Master of None”); Sterling K. Brown (“The People v. O.J. Simpson”); Viola Davis (“How to Get Away With Murder”); Idris Elba (“Luther”); Cuba Gooding Jr. (“The People v. O.J. Simpson”); Taraji P. Henson (“Empire”); Regina King (“American Crime”); Rami Malek (“Mr. Robot”); Niecy Nash (“Getting On”); Tracee Ellis Ross (“Black-ish”); Courtney B. Vance (“The People v. O.J. Simpson”); Kerry Washington (“Confirmation”); and Bokeem Woodbine (“Fargo”).
HBO received the most nominations overall (94), with 17 for “Veep” and 11 for “Silicon Valley,” including a Best Actor comedy nomination for Thomas Middleditch, his first. FX received a whopping 56 nominations and Netflix 54, including 13 nominations for “House of Car🌟ds.”
Even with 113 categories overall, there were still some notable snubs. Stephen Colbert did not receive recognition for hosting his new late-night series, “The Late Show.” The “Daily Show” was shut out, a rejection of Comedy Central’s attempt to rebrand the show with Trevor Noah. Christian Slater, whose performance on “Mr. Robot” was awarded a Golden Globe in January, was not nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama series. “Orange Is the New Black” and its Emmy-winning star, Uzo Aduba, was also snubbed. And “The Good Wife” w🔥as nominated for writing and for Michael J. Fox’s guest role — but ignored in all major categories, despite heavy campaigning by Julianna Margulies in the Hollywood trades.
While many nominees have already won awards before, the television academy recognized many first-timers, including Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemonsꦛ and Woodbine for “Fargo”; Gooding, John Travolta and Vance for “The People v. 🥂O.J. Simpson”; Constance Zimmer for “UnREAL”; Ellie Kemper for “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”; Lili Taylor for “American Crime”; Louie Anderson for “Baskets”; and Kit Harington and Maisie Williams for “Game of Thrones.”
The Emmy💦 Awards will air Sept. 18 on ABC with host Jimmy Kimmel.