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Posted on July 13, 2018, 12:14 PM
LOS ANGELES – The fantasy epic "Game of Thrones" made a strong comeback on Thursday at the awards circuit of Japan. Hollywood after a year He dominated the Emmy nominations this year with 22 nods.
The HBO show, which returns for an eighth and last season shortened next year, will again compete for the award for the best drama series, several trophies
The show on families Nobles vying for the Iron Throne is facing a difficult challenge from the show of favorite comedy sketches "Saturday Night Live" and HBO "Westworld" with 21 nominations each.
The 22,000-plus Members had two weeks in June to walk a field crowded with several thousand entries for the Emmy, the equivalent of the Oscars on the small screen (AFP / Robyn Beck
The 22,000 members of the TV Academy spent two weeks in June reviewing more than 9,000 entries to choose nominees for the Emmys, the equivalent of the first one. Oscar.
"The continued growth of the industry has provided opportunities to emerge new acclaimed programs, while allowing last season's hard-hitting programs to flourish," said Hayma Washington Academy president
The Emmys recognize the programs shown on May 31, which means that some of the big classics – from "Better Call Saul" to "House of Cards" and "Veep" – are missing
With human rights defenders women angry at the appointment by President Donald Trump of a deeply conservative judge to sit on the Supreme Court, a show about a fictional nightmare America one by one totalitarian regime leaning on oppressive women is suspected of stealing some of the thunder of "Thrones".
– "Supreme Thrones –
Hulu" The Handmaid's "Tale" got 20 nominations – seven better than the best. ; last year – and is an early favorite to repeat as the winner of the best drama in September.
Another big story Thursday was Netflix ending a 17-year winning streak by HBO. The streamer led the nominations with 112, while HBO scored 108. Adrift in third was NBC with 78 nods
But it was the "Thrones" that set the pace for the Emmys with his seventh season, broadcast last summer. members Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage and Diana Rigg.
He will also be vying for achievement, writing and a host of technical awards, as well as the best fiction, where the other rivals include FX "The Americans" The series is completed by "Westworld", " "The Crown" of Netflix, which has finished on 13 nominations, and the science-fiction series of the streaming service "Stranger Things" (12), as well as the family drama of NBC "This is Us".
– Entirely New –
Ryan Murphy's FX Show "The Assassination of Gianni Versace", one of the few contenders this year who can claim to be entirely new, picked up an impressive 18 nominations, including for actors Darren Criss, Penelope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez and Ricky Martin.
The comedy crown usually stored in the trophy cabinet "Veep" went this year to "Atlanta," the FX comedy created by and with Donald Glover, who racked up 16 nods.
The nomination of Samantha Bee in the series of series for her show "Full Frontal" TBS could be interpreted as a gesture of support from Hollywood. Ivanka Trump
"The TBS courageously put a woman over 45 on TV and in turn I got bawled only by the president," she said in a statement
. and hearing them go crazy at the office right now is just the medicine that this world needs. "
Samira Wiley, nominated for the guest actress in" The Handmaid's Tale ", and Ryan Eggold (" New Amsterdam ") presented the Televisi nominations on the Academy in Los Angeles.
– Star-studded –
The most starred category, as it often is, was the best actor in a limited series or a TV movie, where Antonio Banderas, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Legend and Jeff Daniels all picked up nominations
Al Pacino, Kyle MacLachlan and Michael B. Jordan were all on the hunt, but missed the opportunity to win
In September , is on Criss, a figure much less known, that plays the Versace killer, Andrew Cunanan, in FX drama
After a break of two decades, "Roseanne" is one of the few representations of American working-class life, television in the last 12 months, and also one of the only shows on Trump supporters largely ignored by Hollywood.
It seemed like he was going to be expelled from Emmys this year after Roseanne Barr, a 65-year-old star – a Trump vocal supporter who aired far-right opinions and conspiracy theorist – was dropp "
But the scandal does not seem to have tainted Laurie Metcalf, Tony's winner and Laurie Metcalf, an admirer of Tony, Roseanne's sister, Jackie, who won her eighth nomination.
The second round will take place in August, while the live ceremony will be broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on September 17 on NBC – hosted by the "Saturday Night Live" duo Colin Jost and Michael Che.
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