The number of eligible contenders in the short-form categories at this year’s Emmy Awards has been cut drastically following the Television Academy’s introduction of anonymous panels tasked with determining if entries are competitive enough to warrant Emmy consideration.
Last year, 50 different shows made the ballot in the Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards. This year, though, that number was cut to 30.
The Outstanding Short Form Variety Series category, meanwhile, fell from 26 nominees to only 14. (Academy rules say that any category that does not field at least 14 nominees in consecutive years can be eliminated.)
And the Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series category dropped from 64 nominees last year to 47 this year.
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The Television Academy would not reveal how many short-form entries were disqualified...
Last year, 50 different shows made the ballot in the Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards. This year, though, that number was cut to 30.
The Outstanding Short Form Variety Series category, meanwhile, fell from 26 nominees to only 14. (Academy rules say that any category that does not field at least 14 nominees in consecutive years can be eliminated.)
And the Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series category dropped from 64 nominees last year to 47 this year.
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The Television Academy would not reveal how many short-form entries were disqualified...
- 6/11/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Christina Pickles won her first Emmy for her work in Break a Hip.The Creative Arts Primetime Emmys were distributed Saturday at a ceremony in Los Angeles, with multiple wins going to HBO's Game of Thrones, Netflix's The Crown, and Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Check out a complete list of winners below.
TV movie: USS Callister: Black Mirror
Guest actor in a comedy series: Katt Williams, Atlanta
Cinematography for a single-camera series (one hour): Adriano Goldman, The Crown
Cinematography for a single-camera series (half-hour): Christian Sprenger, Atlanta
Hairstyling for a single-camera series: Westworld
Makeup for a single-camera series (non-prosthetic): Westworld
Children’s program: The Magical Wand Chase: A Sesame Street Special
Contemporary costumes: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Creative achievement in interactive media within a scripted program: Westworld Chaos Takes Control Interactive Experience.
Original interactive program: Nasa Jpl: Cassini...
Check out a complete list of winners below.
TV movie: USS Callister: Black Mirror
Guest actor in a comedy series: Katt Williams, Atlanta
Cinematography for a single-camera series (one hour): Adriano Goldman, The Crown
Cinematography for a single-camera series (half-hour): Christian Sprenger, Atlanta
Hairstyling for a single-camera series: Westworld
Makeup for a single-camera series (non-prosthetic): Westworld
Children’s program: The Magical Wand Chase: A Sesame Street Special
Contemporary costumes: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Creative achievement in interactive media within a scripted program: Westworld Chaos Takes Control Interactive Experience.
Original interactive program: Nasa Jpl: Cassini...
- 9/9/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and FX’s “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” emerged with momentum after the first night of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
“Game of Thrones” went into the night as the pace-setter, having nabbed 22 Emmy nominations. “Thrones” finished out the night with seven wins. FX’s limited series “Gianni Versace” bagged four wins — including for contemporary costumes, appropriately enough.
The haul for “Thrones” helped HBO maintain a comfortable lead among networks with 13 wins so far, followed by 10 for Netflix and seven for FX. The network race is closely watched this year because Netflix elbowed HBO out of the top spot in total nominations for the first time in 18 years.
Hulu and NBC both claimed four awards during the nearly three-hour ceremony at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles, while Amazon took home three. Another 40-plus awards will be handed out Sunday night,...
“Game of Thrones” went into the night as the pace-setter, having nabbed 22 Emmy nominations. “Thrones” finished out the night with seven wins. FX’s limited series “Gianni Versace” bagged four wins — including for contemporary costumes, appropriately enough.
The haul for “Thrones” helped HBO maintain a comfortable lead among networks with 13 wins so far, followed by 10 for Netflix and seven for FX. The network race is closely watched this year because Netflix elbowed HBO out of the top spot in total nominations for the first time in 18 years.
Hulu and NBC both claimed four awards during the nearly three-hour ceremony at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles, while Amazon took home three. Another 40-plus awards will be handed out Sunday night,...
- 9/8/2018
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
The main Emmy telecast is on Monday, September 17, when the TV academy will hand out top awards including Best Drama Series, Best Comedy Series, Best Limited Series and more. But the vast majority of the 2018 prizes were handed out during two nights on the weekend of September 8-9 at the Creative Arts Awards, where the best in behind-the-scenes crafts, animation, nonfiction, reality TV, guest acting and various other fields were decided. So who prevailed on Saturday night? Scroll down for the full list of winners, updating live as they’re announced, and watch our live webcast with reactions and analysis here.
SEECreative Arts Emmys 2018: Saturday’s live winners announcing in all categories [Watch]
Saturday night focused mainly on scripted shows: dramas, comedies, movies, limited series and animated programs. So these results could strongly suggest which way the wind is blowing for the main event. But that’s not the case every single time.
SEECreative Arts Emmys 2018: Saturday’s live winners announcing in all categories [Watch]
Saturday night focused mainly on scripted shows: dramas, comedies, movies, limited series and animated programs. So these results could strongly suggest which way the wind is blowing for the main event. But that’s not the case every single time.
- 9/8/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
A version of this story about Christina Pickles first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
‘When you’re old you have to be funny,” said Christina Pickles, who at the age of 83 has landed her seventh Emmy nomination, and her first in 23 years, for Season 2 of the comedic web series “Break a Hip.” “I figured that out quite a long time ago.”
The British-born, U.S.-based actress wasn’t always known for being funny: Her first five Emmy nominations came in the 1980s for the seminal hospital show “St. Elsewhere,” in which her performance as nurse Helen Rosenthal kept sending her to the ceremony “with my little speech that I never got to give.”
She landed a sixth nomination in 1995 for her recurring guest spot on an iconic show from a different era, “Friends,” where she played the mother to Courteney Cox and David Schwimmer’s characters.
‘When you’re old you have to be funny,” said Christina Pickles, who at the age of 83 has landed her seventh Emmy nomination, and her first in 23 years, for Season 2 of the comedic web series “Break a Hip.” “I figured that out quite a long time ago.”
The British-born, U.S.-based actress wasn’t always known for being funny: Her first five Emmy nominations came in the 1980s for the seminal hospital show “St. Elsewhere,” in which her performance as nurse Helen Rosenthal kept sending her to the ceremony “with my little speech that I never got to give.”
She landed a sixth nomination in 1995 for her recurring guest spot on an iconic show from a different era, “Friends,” where she played the mother to Courteney Cox and David Schwimmer’s characters.
- 8/22/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
“She’s so much fun but rude and nasty,” declares Christina Pickles about her Emmy-nominated role as Biz Brantly on the web series “Break a Hip.” In our recent interview, she adds, “She’s getting a little softened up by her relationship with Wincy, her assistant. The thing I love about this show is that it’s not just about Biz and old people. It is absolutely old and young and is actually about growing up and growing old.”
The program stars Pickles as a cranky veteran actress who doesn’t work all that much any more. She hires a young man (Britt Hennemuth) to run errands for her. The role now has Pickles nominated at the Emmy Awards for Best Short-Form Actress. In our chat, she says the character is partially based on her own mother but that her daughter jokingly feels like Pickles doesn’t have to “stretch too much” away from herself.
The program stars Pickles as a cranky veteran actress who doesn’t work all that much any more. She hires a young man (Britt Hennemuth) to run errands for her. The role now has Pickles nominated at the Emmy Awards for Best Short-Form Actress. In our chat, she says the character is partially based on her own mother but that her daughter jokingly feels like Pickles doesn’t have to “stretch too much” away from herself.
- 8/2/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
It took a decade for Broadway royalty Kelli O’Hara to snag her first Tony Award win. But shortly after that success on her home turf, O’Hara may be on the way to her first Emmy Award thanks to the web series “The Accidental Wolf.”
O’Hara landed her first Tony nomination in the Musical Featured Actress category for “The Light in the Piazza” in 2005. While her co-star Victoria Clark was victorious in the lead category, O’Hara lost to Sara Ramirez from “Monty Python’s Spamalot.” O’Hara would go on to have an illustrious career on the rialto and would be recognized repeatedly in the lead category. She was nominated for her work in “The Pajama Game,” “South Pacific,” “Nice Work if You Can Get It,” and “The Bridges of Madison County.” Though she was competitive every year, she always wound up a Tony bridesmaid. It wasn...
O’Hara landed her first Tony nomination in the Musical Featured Actress category for “The Light in the Piazza” in 2005. While her co-star Victoria Clark was victorious in the lead category, O’Hara lost to Sara Ramirez from “Monty Python’s Spamalot.” O’Hara would go on to have an illustrious career on the rialto and would be recognized repeatedly in the lead category. She was nominated for her work in “The Pajama Game,” “South Pacific,” “Nice Work if You Can Get It,” and “The Bridges of Madison County.” Though she was competitive every year, she always wound up a Tony bridesmaid. It wasn...
- 7/31/2018
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
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