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- Int'l Business Times
'Severance' Leads Emmy Nominations With 27
Apple TV+'s dark sci-fi office drama "Severance" on Tuesday led the contenders for the Emmy Awards, television's version of the Oscars, with a whopping 27 nominations. "The Penguin," HBO Max's Batman villain spinoff series, came in second with 24. Two satires -- HBO Max's skewering of the rich, "The White Lotus," and Apple's new Hollywood cringe fest, "The Studio" -- tied for third with 23 nominations each. In the comedy categories, behind "The Studio" were two past winners: "Hacks" at 14 and "The Bear" at 13. The announcement from the Television Academy marks the official start of the race to the 77th Emmy Awards, set for September 14 in Los Angeles. After last year's record-breaking 18 Emmy Awards for Japan-set historical epic "Shogun," this year's drama competition looks to be more nuanced. "Severance," in which employees of biotech company Lumon have their memories surgically separated between their "innie" work lives and their "outie" personal lives, is clearly the early favorite, with star Adam Scott a nominee for best actor. But he will compete with "ER" veteran Noah Wyle, who leads "The Pitt" -- HBO Max's take on the travails of a Pittsburgh emergency room team during one 15-hour shift, effectively filmed in real time. "It's ER on steroids!" Deadline awards expert Pete Hammond told AFP of the show, which earned 13 nods. Also competing for best drama honors are Disney+'s "Star Wars" offshoot "Andor," Netflix's "The Diplomat," HBO's apocalyptic video game adaptation "The Last of Us," Hulu political thriller "Paradise," Apple's spy drama "Slow Horses," and "The White Lotus." Scott and Wyle have stiff competition for best actor: Oscar winner Gary Oldman in "Slow Horses," Pedro Pascal ("The Last of Us") and Sterling K. Brown ("Paradise"). Scott's co-star Britt Lower is a nominee for best drama actress, alongside Bella Ramsey ("The Last of Us") and Keri Russell ("The Diplomat"). "The White Lotus" earned a slew of acting nominations in the supporting categories. "The Penguin" is competing for best limited series honors against "Dying for Sex" (FX) and three Netflix efforts: buzzy teen murder saga "Adolescence," "Black Mirror," and true-crime saga "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story." "Adolescence" breakout star Owen Cooper, who plays a 13-year-old British boy accused of murdering a female classmate, earned a nomination for supporting actor. "Monsters," the story of a pair of California brothers in prison for killing their parents after what they say was years of sexual and physical abuse, earned acting nods for Cooper Koch, Javier Bardem and Chloe Sevigny. In the comedy categories, new series "The Studio," a satire starring Seth Rogen that eviscerates the film industry, emerged as a clear favorite. Rogen also wrote and produced the show, which earned acting nominations for Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Hahn, Catherine O'Hara and six guest performers. "Hacks" -- starring Jean Smart as a stand-up comedian who locks horns with her dysfunctional millennial assistant -- won for best comedy and best actress in September last year, and is nominated again in those categories. "The Bear," a dark satire set in the Chicago restaurant world, took the top prize at the previous ceremony (held in January 2024 due to Hollywood strikes), and its star Jeremy Allen White has two trophies for best actor. Beyond those three, other nominees for best comedy series are ABC's mockumentary-style sitcom "Abbott Elementary," rom-com "Nobody Wants This" (Netflix), Hulu's "Only Murders in the Building," Apple's "Shrinking," and FX's vampire laugh riot "What We Do in the Shadows." Harvey Guillen ("What We Do in the Shadows") and Brenda Song ("Running Point") unveiled the key nominations in a livestreamed ceremony. Voting members of the US-based Television Academy will then have a month to catch up on their viewing before final-round voting begins in mid-August. The September 14 gala will be hosted by comedian Nate Bargatze. Noah Wyle is the star of the acclaimed medical drama 'The Pitt,' which earned 13 Emmy nominations AFP Seth Rogen's 'The Studio' led the way among the comedy contenders for the Emmys AFP British co-creator, writer, executive producer and actor Stephen Graham (R) and British actor Owen Cooper wowed critics in Netflix's 'Adolescence' -- both earned Emmy nominations AFP Jean Smart won the best comedy actress Emmy in 2024 for 'Hacks' -- can she do it again? AFP
Time Magazine
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- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
2025 Emmy Nominations: 5 Egregious Snubs and 5 Fun Surprises
Another Emmy season is off to the races as of Tuesday morning, with what turned out to be a fairly predictable list of 2025 nominees that heavily favors returning series. The Television Academy loves The White Lotus, Severance, Abbott Elementary, Hacks, The Bear? Tell me something I don't know. But mixed in among the Pedro Pascals and Jean Smarts and the Martin Shorts we always knew were going to get nominated are some truly wonderful surprises—along with some truly infuriating, if you're the type to get worked up about such trivialities, exclusions. Below are five of each. 5 Egregious Exclusions The Pitt was one of this morning's big winners, as was widely predicted, scoring 13 nominations including drama series, lead actor (Noah Wyle), and supporting actress (Katherine LaNasa)—all richly deserved. Conspicuously absent from the list, however, was Taylor Dearden's breakout performance as Dr. Mel King, a sensitive and apparently neurodivergent young resident who cares for an autistic sister. As Sarah Kurchak wrote for TIME in an appreciation of the character and Dearden's portrayal of her: 'What makes Dr. King such a refreshing change from the old autistic-coded tropes, though, are the range of characteristics she embodies, how they're integrated into her character, and how she's incorporated into the show.' Lyonne earned a nomination for her lead performance in this delightful Columbo homage's first season, on top of three nods for previous roles, so it's not like the Academy has some vendetta against her. Which makes it all the more confusing why she didn't earn any recognition for Poker Face's delightful second season, even if the category is particularly stacked this year. As its only consistent cast member, Lyonne is basically the whole show. Few actors have the personality to pull that off. Nor is she just coasting on charisma. This season's recently concluded arc also required her to bear the emotional weight of the many murders she's solved, in a reckoning that allowed viewers to glimpse a darker, more vulnerable Charlie Cale. Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder are the heart of Hacks; no one's debating that, and Einbinder's nomination in particular (always as a supporting actress, in a bit of perhaps-justifiable category fraud) makes me hopeful she'll take home her first trophy for a performance that gets better every season (Smart already has three lead actress wins). But the show has also increasingly thrived on the odd-couple chemistry between co-creator Downs, who plays Hollywood's gentlest manager, and breakout star Stalter as his assistant turned partner. Especially since Hacks has been an Emmy darling for its entire run—and both Downs and Stalter had buzz for their superior work in Season 4—it's disappointing to see them excluded. Petticrew gave a breathtaking, multifaceted performance as real-life IRA militant Dolours Price, in a role that required her to do everything from hold up a bank in a nun costume to, in one harrowing episode, endure force feeding during a prison hunger strike. She absolutely deserved a nomination in a category where marquee names seemed to outweigh transcendent work (Cate Blanchett and Meghann Fahy were fine in mediocre shows; if Black Mirror weren't an anthology, Rashida Jones' role would've been classified as a guest appearance). But my frustration at her absence is also annoyance that FX's raw and timely adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe's nonfiction book on the Troubles was overlooked in favor of stuff like Monsters: The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story and The Penguin. Speaking of The Penguin, make this make sense: Colin Farrell earns a lead actor nod for growling under pounds of latex. Deirdre O'Connell gets a supporting actress mention for doing a broad imitation of Nancy Marchand's performance as Tony's nightmare mother on The Sopranos. (Both O'Connell and Farrell are great performers! But this is some of their least notable work.) The Penguin, simplistic as it is, earns more nominations (24) than any other show except Severance (27). Yet somehow there's no room for Rhenzy Feliz, who had to play opposite a protagonist whose face was buried in makeup and still managed—alongside duly deserving lead actress nominee Cristin Milioti—to give the series an emotional center? 5 Wonderful Surprises Aduba elevates everything she appears on, and in the case of Shondaland's flawed but fun White House whodunit, her detective heroine is as crucial to the show's appeal as Lyonne's is to Poker Face. In lesser hands, an eccentric-yet-brilliant birder like Cordelia Cupp would've felt cartoonish. But Aduba brought out the human vulnerability behind the confident veneer, giving us a complex protagonist we could really root for to solve an otherwise forgettable murder case. The creator as well as the star of this vicious, often wickedly funny Irish crime dramedy, Horgan deserves many accolades for delivering a second season that (mostly) worked on the heels of what felt like a perfectly contained limited series. In front of the camera, she's equally great as the eldest—and surrogate mother—of five raucous, haunted, profoundly trauma-bonded adult sisters. Horgan's Eva Garvey is funny and nurturing and grounded but also quite lonely and bitter, a character whose love and bile hold Bad Sisters together. The Emmys sure do love Severance. But in Season 1, only the big-name actors—Adam Scott, John Turturro, Patricia Arquette, and Christopher Walken—got nominations, leaving some of the show's best performances unrecognized. This time around, pundits rightly predicted that their breakout co-stars Britt Lower and Tramell Tillman would finally get some acknowledgment. What they didn't foresee was that they'd be joined by Zach Cherry, whose expanded dual role as innie and outie versions of Dylan yielded some of the second season's most wrenching moments. Praise Kier! I enjoyed Tina Fey's update of the '80s Alan Alda rom-com, but I would hesitate to call it her best work, so I can't really fault the Academy for largely ignoring it. Happily, they did choose the right performance to nominate in the endlessly versatile Domingo's supporting role as an accomplished architect whose platonic-soulmate relationship with Fey's character and rocky marriage to a flamboyant Italian man give him far more depth than the typical gay best friend. Look, do I wish Somebody Somewhere had been nominated in every single category it was eligible for? Do its dynamic star, Bridget Everett, and the magnetic presence that is Murray Hill deserve a nod just as much as Hiller? Should this show, canceled after three seasons, ideally continue for the rest of its characters' natural lives? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Still: Somebody Somewhere has never moved the Emmy needle in the past, so it's a thrill to see it get some recognition for its third and final season. And it's particularly lovely that the focus of that recognition is Hiller, who was so excellent in a role that doubled as the show's warm, steady, sneakily optimistic, heart.
Yahoo
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Here's how ‘The Studio' scored a record 23 Emmy nominations
If The Studio were an actual Hollywood studio, it outperformed some real studios this morning. The critically acclaimed Apple TV+ satire earned an impressive 23 Emmy nominations, the most of any comedy series this season. The previous record for a comedy series in its first year is 20 nominations, which was set by Ted Lasso in 2021. As predicted by Gold Derby, the series was nominated for Best Comedy Series, where it has long been a front-runner. It will compete for the title alongside Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Hacks, Nobody Wants This, Only Murders in the Building, Shrinking, and What We Do in the Shadows. More from Gold Derby All the snubs (Selena Gomez, 'Squid Game') and surprises (Uzo Aduba, 'Survivor') at the 2025 Emmy nominations 'Andor' scored 14 Emmy nominations, but missed 1 major category Multihyphenate Seth Rogen earned his first lead actor in a comedy nomination; he was previously nominated for supporting actor for Hulu's Pam & Tommy. He was also nominated for writing and directing for his work on The Studio. This brings his Emmy nomination total to eight over the course of his career; he was previously nominated for his producing work on Pam & Tommy as well as Prime VIdeo's The Boys. Yes, Sal Saperstein can get to say thank you — Ike Barinholtz can count himself among this year's first-time Emmy nominees for his hilarious turn as the obsequious studio executive. The category includes returning champion The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Colman Domingo (The Four Seasons), Harrison Ford and Michael Urie (both from Shrinking), Jeff Hiller (Somebody Somewhere), and Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live). Emmys darling Catherine O'Hara added to her collection; the Schitt's Creek star now has 10 total nominations, along with two wins (she's also nominated this year for her guest turn on The Last of Us). Also nommed is her costar Kathryn Hahn, who played the label-obsessed head of marketing. They'll vie for the title against Liza Colón-Zayas (The Bear), Hannah Einbinder (Hacks), Janelle James and Sheryl Lee Ralph (both from Abbott Elementary), and Jessica Williams (Abbott Elementary). As expected, the show overdelivered with guest acting nominations, given the stellar cameos — it nearly swept the category. Bryan Cranston, Dave Franco, Ron Howard, Anthony Mackie, and Martin Scorsese are all on the ballot — their non-Studio competition is The Bear's Jon Bernthal. Zoë Kravitz made the cut for her drug-addled turn on The Studio, making it a total of 10 actors from the cast, which was nominated in every eligible category (no one was submitted for lead actress). She'll compete against The Bear's stars Olivia Colman and Jamie Lee Curtis, Hacks' Robby Hoffman and Julianne Nicholson, and Poker Face's Cynthia Erivo. Rogen was also nominated for writing and directing, alongside cocreator Evan Goldberg, for standout episodes "The Promotion" (writing) and "The Oner" (directing). Playing it safe — and strategic — The Studio had submitted just one episode for writing, penned by Rogen, Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, and Frida Perez, and just one for directing. Television Academy voters also overwhelmingly endorsed the intentionally retro look and feel of the show, awarding it with a sweep of below-the-line nominations as well, with nods for production design, cinematography, casting, costumes, hairstyling, music composition, music supervision, sound editing, and sound mixing. Best of Gold Derby Everything to know about 'The Pitt' Season 2, including the departure of Tracy Ifeachor's Dr. Collins Everything to know about 'Too Much,' Lena Dunham's Netflix TV show starring Megan Stalter that's kinda, sorta 'based on a true story' Cristin Milioti, Amanda Seyfried, Michelle Williams, and the best of our Emmy Limited Series/Movie Actress interviews Click here to read the full article.
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All the snubs (Selena Gomez, ‘Squid Game') and surprises (Uzo Aduba, ‘Survivor') at the 2025 Emmy nominations
'Tis the day of the Emmys and all through the house, surprises are stirring and snubs are inspiring grouse. While fans of Hacks, Severance, and The White Lotus had plenty to cheer about, Squid Game, The Handmaid's Tale and The Voice are among the high-profile shows that went overlooked by voters. On the other hand, Uzo Aduba and Colman Domingo pulled off surprise victories that the odds didn't see coming. We rounded up this morning's biggest snubs and surprises from the 2025 Emmy nominations. More from Gold Derby Here's how 'The Studio' scored a record 23 Emmy nominations 'Andor' scored 14 Emmy nominations, but missed 1 major category Looks like Martin Short will be representing the podcasting sleuths solo at this year's Emmys. Both of his Only Murders in the Building costars fell short in ultra-close battles for their respective categories. It would have been Gomez's second consecutive nomination for the series; she also missed out on a Best Supporting Actress mention at the Oscars earlier this year, which makes this latest snub part of an unfortunate trend. Meanwhile, Martin missed out on his third nomination with Shrinking's Jason Segel netting his second nod for the Apple TV+ series. At least both actors have Season 5 of Only Murders waiting in the wings. Aduba overcame the odds — and an early cancellation — to score a leading actress nod for the first and only season of Netflix's White House comedy from Shonda Rhimes. It's her first nomination for a comedy and her sixth acting nomination overall. Aduba has two wins on her record: a 2015 Best Drama Supporting Actress statuette for Orange is the New Black and a 2020 Best Limited/Move Supporting Actor statuette for Mrs. America. Looks like Netflix's all-star comedy wasn't a show for all seasons. Four Seasons cocreator and leading lady Tina Fey failed to drive a stake through the heart of its closest competitor — the final season of FX's cult vampire favorite What We Do in the Shadows — for that eighth comedy series slot. The series also came up empty in the acting categories... with one notable exception. Domingo spent the early months of 2025 on the Oscar circuit for his Best Actor nod in Sing Sing. Now, he'll spend these final summer months making the Emmy rounds for his scene-stealing Four Seasons role. Domingo slipped ahead of Abbott Elementary's Tyler James Williams, who had been leading in our odds for his fourth nomination. The first season of the Netflix sensation made Emmy history with 14 nominations and six wins, including Best Drama Actor and Best Drama Guest Actress — a first for a Korean-language series. But Season 2 was X-ed out of competition across all categories, with no repeat shot at a Best Drama Series Emmy. Maybe the odds will be in Season 3's favor next year. The Force wasn't strong with the star of Tony Gilroy's much-loved Star Wars series. In the show's second and final season, Luna completed Cassian Andor's journey from thief to revolutionary, with rogue status still looming in his future. While the show's second Best Drama Series nomination was expected, fans hoped that its star would be recognized now that his time in the far, far away galaxy is done. The final season of The Handmaid's Tale wasn't blessed with a comeback after all. Moss missed out on a show-capping nomination as Emmy voters instead granted a second nod to Sharon Horgan's Bad Sisters star turn. The Hulu series will factor into one race — Cherry Jones is nominated for Best Drama Guest Actress. Emmy voters apparently felt comfortable messing with Texas. Bibb's Lone Star state housewife was denied entry into the White Lotus supporting actress Emmy suite occupied by Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell and Aimee Lou Wood. At least the actress can be a +1 alongside her partner and costar Sam Rockwell in the supporting actor room. The White Lotus supporting player missed out on the chance to be the first Schwarzenegger to get an Emmy nod for acting. (Patrick's father, Arnold, has a statuette for executive producing the 2014 Best Documentary or Nonfiction Series winner, Years of Living Dangerously.) His onscreen dad, Jason Isaacs, made the cut as did Walton Goggins and the aforementioned Rockwell. While it dominated the other acting categories, the odds weren't in The Studio's favor when it came to its guest actress stars. But Zoe Kravitz managed to score the show's single nomination, easing past Melissa McCarthy's turn as Steven Martin's very Jersey sister in Only Murders in the Building. Despite boasting A-list star power and registering on the Nielsen charts last summer, the streaming version of Scott Turow's blockbuster book fell by the wayside in favor of the return of Netflix's Black Mirror. Maybe the recently-announced Season 2 will receive a different verdict from voters. Fortunately, the series performed better in the acting categories with star Jake Gyllenhaal up for Best Limited/Movie Actor, Bill Camp and Peter Sarsgaard nominated in the supporting actor category and Ruth Negga in the running for supporting actress. We called it. After lingering outside of the Top 5 in our TV movie odds for a stretch, The Gorge made a late-campaign surge and vaulted Apple TV+ into the race alongside streamers like Netflix, HBO Max and Peacock. Looks for Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy on the Emmys red carpet. With the variety talk series category shrinking from four slots to three, one perennial nominee was going to get left out in the cold. And that nominee turned out to be Meyers, who couldn't pull ahead of regular competitors Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jon Stewart. The snub breaks Late Night's three-year nomination streak in this category. Meyers did see nominations in the best short form category as well as one of the long list of writers who made SNL50 a reality. The CBS reality show war horse galloped over The Voice in an unexpected upset, breaking the NBC show's 13-year run as a nominee in this category. Survivor made its comeback after missing out on a nomination last year, suggesting that fans aren't the only ones looking forward to the 50th edition that's on deck for 2026. Best of Gold Derby Everything to know about 'The Pitt' Season 2, including the departure of Tracy Ifeachor's Dr. Collins Everything to know about 'Too Much,' Lena Dunham's Netflix TV show starring Megan Stalter that's kinda, sorta 'based on a true story' Cristin Milioti, Amanda Seyfried, Michelle Williams, and the best of our Emmy Limited Series/Movie Actress interviews Click here to read the full article.
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‘The Bear' serves up 13 Emmy nominations and 1 surprising snub
There may be some Emmys on the menu once again for The Bear. The FX comedy series closed out nomination morning with 13 nods, including Best Comedy Series and Best Comedy Actor for Jeremy Allen White. Nominated this time around for 2024's Season 3, The Bear is following up a strong second season, for which it earned 23 nominations, winning 11 total at last September's ceremony. Despite the impressive showing, the series was ultimately upset by HBO Max's Hacks, which claimed the top prize for Best Comedy Series after The Bear had won the year before. More from Gold Derby All the snubs (Selena Gomez, 'Squid Game') and surprises (Uzo Aduba, 'Survivor') at the 2025 Emmy nominations Here's how 'The Studio' scored a record 23 Emmy nominations The morning wasn't without its misses, however, as The Bear failed to secure a nomination for Best Comedy Writing after previously winning the category. Keep reading for a complete rundown of The Bear's nominations and snubs at the 2025 Emmy Awards nomination. The Bear earned its third nomination in a row for Best Comedy Series, an award it previously won in its first season. It was nominated alongside reigning winner Hacks, The Studio, Only Murders in the Building, Shrinking, What We Do in the Shadows, Nobody Wants This, and Abbott Elementary. The Emmys said, "Yes, chef" for a third time, nominating Jeremy Allen White once again in the Comedy Lead Actor category. The two-time winner is joined by Seth Rogen, Martin Short, Adam Brody, and Jason Segel. Ayo Edebiri will once again square off against Jean Smart for Comedy Lead Actress. This is Edebiri's third time being nominated for playing sous-chef Sydney Adamu. Quinta Brunson, Kristen Bell, and Uzo Aduba round out the category. July may end up being a banner month for Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Not only will he star in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, but he's earned his third nomination for Comedy Supporting Actor — a category he has won twice. Last year, Liza Colón-Zayas joined the ranks of her Emmy-winning costars after taking home Best Comedy Supporting Actress. This year, she has scored another nomination in the category, along with Hannah Einbinder, Catherine O'Hara, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Katheryn Hahn, Jessica Williams, and Janelle James. Despite his character being dead at the start of the series, Jon Bernthal has made a habit of scoring a nomination for his work as Carmy's older brother, Michael, on The Bear. This year, he earned his third nomination for the part (he won once) and is honored alongside The Studio's Bryan Cranston, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Anthony Mackie, and Dave Franco. It must run in the family! After winning Comedy Guest Actress last year, Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis is once again on the short list for playing Carmy's mom. Joining her is fellow Bear guest actress and Oscar winner Olivia Colman. They're nominated with Julianne Nicholson, Cythia Erivo, Robby Hoffman, and Zoë Kravitz. After two previous nominations and a win for its first season, The Bear didn't make the cut in Best Comedy Writing, falling short of shows such as The Rehearsal, Somebody Somewhere, What We Do in the Shadows, The Studio, Hacks, and Abbott Elementary. Not only did Edebiri make the cut for Actress, but she's double-nominated for her work behind the camera on the episode "Napkins." The Bear also earned nominations for casting, editing, sound editing, and sound mixing. Best of Gold Derby Everything to know about 'The Pitt' Season 2, including the departure of Tracy Ifeachor's Dr. Collins Everything to know about 'Too Much,' Lena Dunham's Netflix TV show starring Megan Stalter that's kinda, sorta 'based on a true story' Cristin Milioti, Amanda Seyfried, Michelle Williams, and the best of our Emmy Limited Series/Movie Actress interviews Click here to read the full article.
