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‘Game Of Thrones’ Leads Emmys Awards With 22 Nominations

  HBO’s fantasy epic “Game of Thrones” led the field for television’s prestigious Primetime Emmy awards on Thursday, with a whopping 22 nominations, including one … Continue reading ‘Game Of Thrones’ Leads Emmys Awards With 22 Nominations


file photo shows the Emmy Statue in front of the Television Academy during the 68th Los Angeles Emmy Awards in North Hollywood, California. Television industry watchers are expecting past winners to relive old glories Thursday, July 12, 2018 as Hollywood’s awards season kicks into high gear with the announcement of the Emmys nominations. The Television Academy’s 22,000-plus members were given two weeks in June to sift through a crowded field of several thousand entries for the small screen equivalent of the Oscars. Angela WEISS / AFP
File photo of Emmy Statue in front of the Television Academy during the 68th Los Angeles Emmy Awards in North Hollywood, California. PHOTO: Angela WEISS / AFP

 

HBO’s fantasy epic “Game of Thrones” led the field for television’s prestigious Primetime Emmy awards on Thursday, with a whopping 22 nominations, including one for best drama series.

The show about noble families vying for the Iron Throne faces tough competition from perennial favourite comedy sketch show “Saturday Night Live” and HBO stablemate “Westworld” with 21 nominations each.

Hulu’s “A Handmaid’s Tale” — which won the award for best drama series last year — earned 20 nods.

“The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” one of the few serious contenders this year that can claim to be entirely new, picked up an impressive 18 nominations.

Part of FX’s “American Crime Story” strand from the mind of Emmys mainstay Ryan Murphy, it is the follow-up to the acclaimed “The People v. O. J. Simpson” (2016).

The series had been expected to dominate the acting races among the limited series and TV movies — and indeed it did, with Darren Criss, Penelope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez and Ricky Martin all nominated.

HBO awards darling “Veep” was ineligible this year and its crown passed to “Atlanta,” the FX comedy created by and starring Donald Glover, which amassed 16 nods.

Samira Wiley nominated for guest actress in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and Ryan Eggold (“New Amsterdam”) presented the nominations from the Television Academy in Los Angeles.

Leading the nominations in totals by platform were Netflix (112), leapfrogging last year’s leader HBO, which scored 108. Adrift in third was NBC with 78 nods.

AFP