Emmy nominations 2019 – catch up: Game of Thrones receives record-breaking 32 nods
This year's competitors have been announced
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Your support makes all the difference.The Emmy nominations for 2019 were announced today in Hollywood, with Game of Thrones, Better Call Saul, Chernobyl and Fleabag receiving attention from voters.
Ken Jeong and The Good Place star D’Arcy Carden announced the names of the drama, comedy and limited run shows that’ll duke it out come September.
Making things more exciting was the fact that an alarming number of heavyweights - including The Handmaid's Tale and The Crown - were exempt from contention this year.
You can find a full list of nominations here.
Follow along with all the live updates from this year’s nominations as they were announced below.
The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards will air 22 September at about 1am UK time.
Last year's winner, American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, didn't get a second season, so it's wide open.
The frontrunner has to be Chernobyl, which stunned everyone to become quite possibly the best - and most tense - TV show of the year so far.
In terms of other contenders, it's a host of shows that feel like they were on ages ago: Sharp Objects, Escape at Dannemora and A Very English Scandal to name a few (that last one first aired on BBC One a whole year ago!).
You may be thinking it's going to be a quiet year for Netflix, but one series that has a fighting chance is Ava DuVernay's superior drama When They See Us, which tells the harrowing story of the Central Park Five.
It's a battle between two Oscar winners for Best Actress in a Limited Series: Amy Adams for Sharp Objects and Patricia Arquette for her unrecognisable turn in Escape at Dannemora.
I say give it Patricia for not falling apart at the seams in front of Benicio del Toro for this line delivery.
Elsewhere, Michelle Williams should probably get a nod for Fosse/Verdon and here's hoping Ruth Wilson gets a ittle summat for playing her own grandma in BBC series Mrs Wilson.
The Best Actor in a Limited Series campaign for Jared Harris starts here.
Harris will have big big big big competition on his hands in the form of some terrific performances - namely Mahershala Ali (True Detective), Sam Rockwell (Fosse/Verdon), Jharrel Jeome (When They See Us) and good ol' Benicio del "don't tell anybooooodddddddyyyyyyyyy" Toro.
In terms of Harris' fellow Brits, Hugh Grant could get a nom for A Very English Scandal, Ian McShane could be embraced for reprising the role of Al Swearengen in the Deadwood TV film and should Benedict Cumberbatch's role in that Brexit show get nominated, he'll tie the record for most nominations in this category. Hal Holbrook currently holds the feat.
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