Emmy Awards. 22 nominations for the "Game of Thrones" series

The Emmy, the Oscars of American television, which are awarded each year in September, have just revealed their nominations. "Game of Thrones" has 22 nominations, followed by "Saturday Night Live" (21), "Westworld" (21) and "The Scarlet Servant" (20).

HBO's "Game of Thrones" series and the Netflix platform took Thursday the lead of the Emmy Awards, the Oscars of American television to be awarded in September. HBO's award-winning fantasy-medieval series, which has been awarded 38 times in six seasons but was ineligible last year for scheduling reasons, made a strong comeback with 22 nominations, including one for best drama series.

The saga of noble families for the "Iron Throne" arrives right in front of "Saturday Night Live", the oldest satirical comedy show on American television, and the "Westworld" series, also on HBO, who immediately follow behind with 21 nominations each.

The battle for the very prestigious Emmy for best drama series should now be played between the seventh season of "Game of Thrones" and the second delivery of the series taken from Margaret's nightmare novel Atwood "The Scarlet Maid". Broadcast on the Hulu platform and crowned Emmy's best drama series last year, "The Scarlet Maid", who imagines the United States submissive to a totalitarian government bringing women back into slavery, is a rival fierce with 20 nominations.

"The continued growth of the sector allows new programs to emerge, while allowing flagship programs of the past season to flourish" Hayma Washington, presides over the Academy of American Television. Yet, really new shows or series were rare this year. "The Assbadination of Gianni Versace", a series about the badbadination of Gianni Versace, was one of the few to be a real novelty.

Netflix dethrones HBO

Broadcast on FX, this series made by the authors of the series "The People vs. O.J. Simpson "(2016), on the O.J. Simpson trial that polarized America, won 18 nominations. In line with expectations, she has dominated the nominations for best actors and best actresses in a miniseries, with Darren Criss, Penelope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez and Ricky Martin all nominated. In the "comedy" category, the HBO "Veep" series being ineligible this year, FX's "Atlanta" series has dominated with 16 nominations.

In addition to Game of Thrones, the other big winner of these nominations will have been the Netflix platform, which has confirmed its tremendous rise and its now leading role in television production. The streaming service put an end to HBO's 17-year appointment, winning 112 nominations, the highest this year. HBO was second with 108, while NB came a long way behind with 78.

This show of force by Netflix took place even though the platform is not behind any of this season's flagship shows or series. The only series of the platform to appear in the "top 10" is "The Crown", with 13 nominations and actress Claire Foy in.

The "victory" of Netflix, which has spent fortunes in recent months to debaucher renowned producers, comes from the simple volume produced by the platform, which makes series as well as films for the cinema, documentaries, sketches of "one-man show" or reality television.

9000 series viewed

"We are particularly excited to see the range of our programs celebrated by these nominations, spread over 40 titles, new or recurring, which testify to the variety of our programming" and pointed out after the announcement of the nominations Ted Sarandos, responsible for the contents of Netflix.

Small political touch to these nominations: the humorist Samantha Bee, criticized for insulting recently the girl of the president, obtains the absolution of Hollywood via an appointment for his show "Full Frontal". And the Roseanne series, which ABC stopped in June after a racist tweet from pro-Trump star Roseanne Barr, won two nominations, including one for actress Laurie Metcalf, who was Roseanne's sister in the show.

Thursday's nominations are the result of a selection by some 25,000 TV Academy members, who spent two weeks in June watching over 9,000 series and broadcasts. The Emmy winners are scheduled to be announced on Sept. 17, at a ceremony in Los Angeles presented by the Saturday Night Live starring duo Colin Jost and Michael Che.