Emmy nominations 2023: Biggest talking points from HBO domination to Bella Ramsey’s first nod
‘Succession’, ‘The Bear’ and ‘The Last of Us’ are among shows that dominated nominations
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Your support makes all the difference.The 2023 Emmy Award nominees have been announced.
The annual celebration of the best TV programming will take place this year on 18 September, with the nominated shows announced on Wednesday (12 July).
Shows eligible for the Primetime Emmys must have been broadcast in the US between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2023, with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences choosing the nominees.
The nominations were announced on a livestream by Community star Yvette Nicole Brown and Television Academy chair Frank Scherma. The host of September’s awards show is yet to be announced.
The Hollywood Writers’ strike was the elephant in the room
Scherma could hardly introduce the awards without mentioning the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike, which has ground the entertainment industry to a halt. More than 11,000 screenwriters have been on strike for 72 days.
Scherma, who is also the president and co-founder of the production company RadicalMedia unsurprisingly expressed his wishes for the “ongoing guild negotiations can come to equitable and swift end”.
Succession makes history
Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong will compete against each other for the Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series category. This marks the most actors to ever be nominated from the same show in this category.
The final series of HBO’s Succession met predictions and led the nominations, earning a whopping 14 acting nominations and becoming a contender for Outstanding Drama Series (an award it has won twice before).
‘Yellowstone’, Prince Harry and Helen Mirren among snubs
Taylor Sheridan’s wildly popular cowboy drama Yellowstone was once again put out to pasture. He’ll be hoping that the arrival of Matthew McConaughey, who is set to take over from Kevin Costner as the series regenerates, will earn him more favour with the TV Academy.
Many expected awards show darling Helen Mirren to earn a nomination for her part in the Yellowstone sequel, 1923, in which she co-starred with Harrison Ford. Alas, no dice; though, Mirren holds four primetime Emmys already, so she’s unlikely to lose any sleep over the snub.
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Netflix’s bombshell Harry & Meghan docuseries was also a notable abdication from the nominees. The Academy clearly did not agree with The Independent’s Jessie Thompson, who called the six-parter “intimate, self-aggrandising, and wildly entertaining” in her four-star review.
Read on for the full list of nominees and reactions:
The non-televised nominations are trickling through
That’s all for the TV broadcast but there are still plenty of nominations coming through.
The nominees for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie are:
• Paul Walter Hauser - Black Bird
• Richard Jenkins - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
• Ray Liotta - Black Bird
• Young Mazino - Beef
• Jesse Plemons - Love and Death
• Murray Bartlett - Welcome to Chippendales
• Joseph Lee - Beef
Who are the most-nominated series at the 75th Emmys?
HBO continues to dominate the Emmys. The network is host to all three of the most-nominated series at this years’ awards.
They are: Succession (27), The Last of Us (24) and The White Lotus (23).
Emmy nominations for ‘Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie'
• Niecy Nash-Betts - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
• Claire Danes - Fleishman is in Trouble
• Maria Bello - Beef
• Annaleigh Ashford - Welcome To Chippendales
• Camila Morrone - Daisy Jones and the Six
• Juliette Lewis - Welcome To Chippendales
• Merritt Wever - Tiny Beautiful Things
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series dominated by ‘The White Lotus’ and ‘Succession'
The nominees for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series come from two shows and two shows only.
They are:
• Matthew Macfadyen - Succession
• F. Murray Abraham - The White Lotus
• Alan Ruck - Succession
• Nicholas Braun - Succession
• Alexander Skarsgård - Succession
• Michael Imperioli - The White Lotus
• Theo James - The White Lotus
• Will Sharpe - The White Lotus
A *very slightly* more varied category in Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
The Emmys nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series are:
• Jennifer Coolidge - The White Lotus
• Rhea Seehorn - Better Call Saul
• Elizabeth Debicki - The Crown
• Aubrey Plaza - The White Lotus
• J. Smith-Cameron - Succession
• Meghann Fahy - The White Lotus
• Sabrina Impacciatore - The White Lotus
• Simona Tabasco - The White Lotus
Ebon Moss-Bachrach earns his first Emmy nomination
The Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series are:
• Tyler James Williams - Abbott Elementary
• Brett Goldstein - Ted Lasso
• Henry Winkler - Barry
• Anthony Carrigan - Barry
• Ebon Moss-Bachrach - The Bear
• James Marsden - Jury Dury
• Phil Dunster - Ted Lasso
Ayo Edebiri earns her first Emmy nomination
The nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series are:
• Sheryl Lee Ralph - Abbott Elementary
• Hannah Waddingham - Ted Lasso
• Ayo Edebiri - The Bear
• Janelle James - Abbott Elementary
• Alex Borstein - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• Juno Temple - Ted Lasso
• Jessica Williams - Shrinking
That’s all for now folks! There are many, many, many more nominations that you can find here.
All 124 categories have now been announced!
Join us again for the 2023 Emmys ceremony, which hopefully, will air 18 September.
See you then.
Find the full list of nominations here
While I’ve been live blogging, my colleague Isobel has been putting together a complete list of all the nominations in one place.
You can read it here:
Succession makes Emmy history as full list of award nominations announced
HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’ also picked up a large amount of nominations
Full list of Emmy nominations
While I’ve been busy blogging, my colleague Isobel Lewis has been putting together a complete list of all the nominations.
You can find that here:
Succession makes Emmy history as full list of award nominations announced
HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’ also picked up a large amount of nominations
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