The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che, will take place on Monday, Sept. 17 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and broadcast on NBC.




Outstanding Comedy Series:

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)
Atlanta (FX)
Barry (HBO)
black-ish (ABC)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
GLOW (Netflix)
Silicon Valley (HBO)
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix)





Outstanding Lead Comedy Actor:

Bill Hader, Barry (HBO)
Anthony Anderson, black-ish (ABC)
Ted Danson, The Good Place (NBC)
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
Donald Glover, Atlanta (FX)
William H. Macy, Shameless (Showtime)




Outstanding Lead Comedy Actress:

Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)
Pamela Adlon, Better Things (FX)
Allison Janney, Mom (CBS)
Issa Rae, Insecure (HBO)
Tracee Ellis Ross, black-ish (ABC)
Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie (Netflix)





Outstanding Supporting Comedy Actor:

Henry Winkler, Barry (HBO)
Louie Anderson, Baskets (FX)
Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix)
Brian Tyree Henry, Atlanta (FX)
Tony Shalhoub, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)
Kenan Thompson, Saturday Night Live (NBC)






Outstanding Supporting Comedy Actress:

Alex Borestein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)
Zazie Beetz, Atlanta (FX)
Aidy Bryant, Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Betty Gilpin, GLOW (Netflix)
Leslie Jones, Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Laurie Metcalf, Roseanne (ABC)
Megan Mullally, Will & Grace (NBC)






Outstanding Guest Comedy Actor:

Katt Williams, Atlanta (FX)
Sterling K. Brown, Brooklyn Nine-Nine (NBC)
Bryan Cranston, Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
Lin-Manuael Miranda, Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
Donald Glover, Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Bill Hader, Saturday Night Live (NBC)





Outstanding Guest Comedy Actress:

Tiffany Haddish, Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Wanda Sykes, black-ish (ABC)
Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Maya Rudolph, The Good Place (NBC)
Jane Lynch, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)
Molly Shannon, Will & Grace (NBC)











Outstanding Drama Series:

Game of Thrones (HBO)
The Americans (FX)
The Crown (Netflix)
The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu)
Stranger Things (Netflix)
This Is Us (NBC)
Westworld (HBO)





Outstanding Lead Drama Actor:

Matthew Rhys, The Americans (FX)
Jason Bateman, Ozark (Netflix)
Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us (NBC)
Ed Harris, Westworld (HBO)
Milo Ventimiglia, This Is Us (NBC)
Jeffrey Wright, Westworld (HBO)





Outstanding Lead Drama Actress:

Claire Foy, The Crown (Netflix)
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black (BBC America)
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
Sandra Oh, Killing Eve (BBC America)
Keri Russell, The Americans (FX)
Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld (HBO)





Outstanding Supporting Drama Actor:

Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones (HBO)
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones (HBO)
Joseph Fiennes, The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
Mandy Patinkin, Homeland (Showtime)
David Harbour, Stranger Things (Netflix)
Matt Smith, The Crown (Netflix)





Outstanding Supporting Drama Actress:

Thandie Newton, Westworld (HBO)
Alexis Bledel, The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things (Netflix)
Ann Dowd, The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
Lena Heady, Game of Thrones (HBO)
Vanessa Kirby, The Crown (Netflix)
Yvonne Strahovski, The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)





Outstanding Guest Drama Actor:

Ron Cephas Jones, This Is Us (NBC)
F. Murray Abraham, Homeland (Showtime)
Cameron Britton, Mindhunter (Netflix)
Matthew Goode, The Crown (Netflix)
Gerald McRaney, This Is Us (NBC)
Jimmi Simpson, Westworld (HBO)





Outstanding Guest Drama Actress:

Samira Wiley, The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
Diane Rigg, Game of Thrones (HBO)
Cicely Tyson, How to Get Away With Murder (ABC)
Viola Davis, Scandal (ABC)
Kelly Jenrette, The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
Cherry Jones, The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)










Outstanding Limited Series:

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (FX)
The Alienist (TNT)
Genius: Picasso (National Geographic)
Godless (Netflix)
Patrick Melrose (Showtime)





Outstanding TV Movie:

Black Mirror, “USS Callister” (Netflix)
Fahrenheit 451 (HBO)
Flint (Lifetime)
Paterno (HBO)
The Tale (HBO)





Outstanding Lead Actor in a TV Movie/Miniseries:

Darren Criss, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (FX)
Antonio Banderas, Genius: Picasso (National Geographic)
Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick Melrose (Showtime)
Jeff Daniels, The Looming Tower (Hulu)
John Legend, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (NBC)
Jesse Plemons, Black Mirror, “USS Callister” (Netflix)





Outstanding Lead Actress in a TV Movie/Miniseries:

Regina King, Seven Seconds (Netflix)
Jessica Biel, The Sinner (USA)
Laura Dern, The Tale (HBO)
Michelle Dockery, Godless (Netflix)
Edie Falco, Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders (NBC)
Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Cult (FX)





Outstanding Supporting Actor in a TV Movie/Miniseries:

Jeff Daniels, Godless (Netflix)
Brandon Victor Dixon, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (NBC)
Ricky Martin, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (FX)
Edgar Ramirez, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (FX)
Finn Wittorck, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (FX)
Michael Stuhlbag, The Looming Tower (Hulu)
John Leguizamo, Waco (Paramount)





Outstanding Supporting Actress in a TV Movie/Miniseries:

Merrit Wever, Godless (Netflix)
Adina Porter, American Horror Story: Cult (FX)
Letitia Wright, Black Mirror, “Black Museum” (Netflix)
Sara Bareilles, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (NBC)
Penelope Cruz, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (FX)
Judith Light, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (FX)











Outstanding Reality-Competition Program:

RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1)
The Amazing Race (CBS)
American Ninja Warrior (NBC)
Project Runway (Lifetime)
The Voice (NBC)
Top Chef (Bravo)






Outstanding Reality or Reality-Competition Program Host:

RuPaul Charles, RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1)
W. Kamau Bell, United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell (CNN)
Ellen DeGeneres, Ellen’s Game of Games (NBC)
Jane Lynch, Hollywood Game Night (NBC)
Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, Project Runway (Lifetime)





Outstanding Variety Talk Series:

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central)
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS)
Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)





Outstanding Variety Sketch Series:

Saturday Night Live (NBC)
At Home with Amy Sedaris (truTV)
Drunk History (Comedy Central)
I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman (Hulu)
Portlandia (IFC)
Tracey Ullman’s Show (BBC One)

Congradulations to all the nominess! Especially Sandra O. The first Asian woman to be nominated in a lead role. Yes! Hope she wins!

The Middle...snubbed again. I'm so surprised...

Says a lot that I don't even know most of these shows. Current TV is over for me. It's been a good ride.

The Middle...snubbed again. I'm so surprised...I am not surprised unfortunately. The elitist Emmy voters were too snobbish to recognize The Middle from day 1. No one needs them though. In the words of Shawn and Gus, the haters can SUCK IT. :whatever:

Too much offer nowadays, it's impossible to keep track.
And also too much nominations (5 per category would be enough), and too much categories (I'd get rid of guest actors, limited series, sketch series, reality and variety talks).
Just reward lead and supporting cast, series, and writers.

But I'm thinking if these awards have still any sense nowadays.

All these high profile award shows get worse ratings than the same show the year before. Watching these elites fawn all over themselves gets old, and the ratings reflect that.

It will probably have record low ratings.I have not watched it in a long time and I used to like entertainment award shows.In my opinion awards these days given for entertainment mean absolutely nothing.

Just to add..Of course I do not not watch modern and current TV.However I was just skimming over the names of the people nominated.Aside from Ted Danson,Henry Winkler and a few others I have not heard of any of those people.Who are they?lol.Anyhow, since everything about television has changed so much and it is such a shadow of what it once was, being on TV these days means nothing now.It's like being on youtube.

Has The Middle ever been nominated and won?

Has The Middle ever been nominated and won?

No it hasn't.

No it hasn't.

I wonder why it got snubbed?

Sandra Oh's Killing Eve Emmy nomination is a "bittersweet joy" for actors of Asian descent (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xbn5p/sandra-ohs-emmy-nomination-is-about-so-much-more-than-an-award)
"It isn’t simply the Emmy (https://www.tvtattle.com/topic/Emmys-AR2fy7) committee’s fault that it has taken this long—this year is the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards—for an Asian American woman to be nominated for the top drama award," says Nicole Clark. "In a landscape devoid of major acting opportunities for Asians and Asian Americans, the lack of nominations and wins really isn’t surprising. To win an award, you need to have a good role, and those roles are in short supply for Asians. Only two Asian actors have won Emmys—Archie Panjabi in 2010 as supporting actress for The Good Wife and Riz Ahmed in 2017 as lead actor in HBO’s The Night Of."

Sandra Oh's Killing Eve Emmy nomination is a "bittersweet joy" for actors of Asian descent (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xbn5p/sandra-ohs-emmy-nomination-is-about-so-much-more-than-an-award)
"It isn’t simply the Emmy (https://www.tvtattle.com/topic/Emmys-AR2fy7) committee’s fault that it has taken this long—this year is the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards—for an Asian American woman to be nominated for the top drama award," says Nicole Clark. "In a landscape devoid of major acting opportunities for Asians and Asian Americans, the lack of nominations and wins really isn’t surprising. To win an award, you need to have a good role, and those roles are in short supply for Asians. Only two Asian actors have won Emmys—Archie Panjabi in 2010 as supporting actress for The Good Wife and Riz Ahmed in 2017 as lead actor in HBO’s The Night Of."

^ Winners above in bold.

Yea for Henry Winkler and Claire Foy!

Congratulations Henry on your Emmy win!

Is this his very first win though, or has he won before?

Congratulations Henry on your Emmy win!

Is this his very first win though, or has he won before?

Never mind. I found out that this is his first win.

I didn't watch but was glad to hear Darren Criss won. So deserved.

Maybe the Emmys should adapt the "Popular Award" that the Oscars proposed (https://www.wired.com/story/emmys-popular-tv-category/)

Sure, a hit show like Game of Thrones won the top drama award last night. But as Peter Rubin points out, "trophy after trophy went to the most prestigious of prestige TV: Netflix's Queen Elizabeth II bio-series The Crown; FX's Cold War domestic espionage cat-and-mouse The Americans; Amazon's upstart comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; HBO's ... everything. No question, these were deserving shows and performances. Henry Winkler? Still a treasure, even if his Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series award for Barry came at the expense of Atlanta's far more deserving Brian Tyree Henry. Meanwhile, some of the television series I've had the most conversations about it—the good kind, the morning-after-Slackathon kind, the "oh, you've gotta watch this" kind—got overlooked... All of which makes me wonder if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences might have been on to something with its proposed-then-scrapped idea to introduce a 'outstanding achievement in popular film 'Academy Award category—not for the Oscars, but the Emmys."

ALSO:

Emmys allowed Lorne Michaels and his SNL stars to run wild, forgetting that they're supposed to be the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" (http://www.showbiz411.com/2018/09/18/emmy-ratings-crash-as-tv-academy-lets-snl-run-wild-ignores-tv-audience)
The Emmys did break diversity records, but it was during the Creative Arts Emmys (https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/18/17872280/emmys-2018-winners-diversity)
Why The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is deserving of its Emmys sweep (https://themuse.jezebel.com/the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-was-the-easy-choice-for-an-em-1829127149)
Oscars director Glenn Weiss and his new fiancé met at an awards show: The Tonys in 2001 (https://people.com/tv/glenn-weiss-talks-emmys-2018-proposal-no-plan-b/)
Ryan Murphy says he feels like he's "in the club" after his American Crime Story directing Emmy win (http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/ryan-murphy-feels-like-hes-in-the-club-after-emmy-win.html)
New York Times to issue a correction after mistaking Angela Bassett for Omarosa in an Emmys caption (https://www.mediaite.com/online/ny-times-to-run-correction-after-caption-misidentifies-angela-bassett-as-omarosa/)
Henry Winkler says winning his first Emmy "feels unbelievable" (http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/henry-winkler-2018-emmy-reaction.html)