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Muscat Daily
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- Muscat Daily
Emmy fever returns: Breakout stars and big surprises on the 2025 list
It's that time again – when award-season buzz hijacks our feeds and our favourite TV characters trade their scripts for golden statues. The Television Academy has just revealed the full nominations list for the 77th Emmy Awards, set to air on September 14, and it's packed with twists no one saw coming. To land a nomination this year, a show had to air between June 2024 and May 2025. And from the look of the leaderboard, a few heavy-hitters clearly stole the Academy's heart. The Penguin, Severance, and The White Lotus dominated the pack, collecting nods for Best Drama Series, Best Writing, and standout performances from their star-studded casts. But it's Cristin Milioti who's getting the internet talking. After years of memorable roles in shows like How I Met Your Mother and Black Mirror, Milioti has finally scored her first Emmy nod for her role as the sharp and calculating Sofia Falcone in The Penguin . 'I can't wait to have a big dessert as a treat later,' she joked in an interview. 'To be recognised for this show was so lovely and validating… but the experience itself was already so deeply worth it.' Then there's Owen Cooper, who might just rewrite Emmy history this year. At just 13, the young actor earned a nomination for his chilling performance in Adolescence as Jamie Miller—a troubled teen accused of a classmate's murder. If he wins, Cooper will become the youngest Emmy-winning actor the Academy has ever crowned. Not bad for someone who probably still has homework to do. But the biggest shocker of this Emmy season? Legendary filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard earned acting nominations. Yes, acting. The duo made unexpected guest appearances in the razor-sharp satire The Studio , and voters clearly loved every second of it. The Studio isn't just riding the surprise wave—it's leading it. With 23 nominations, it's now neck and neck with The White Lotus and just behind The Penguin (24 noms) and the reigning frontrunner Severance (27 noms). The show's cast and crew were understandably over the moon. From what started as a smart industry spoof, The Studio has suddenly become a serious contender. So, if you've been neglecting your TV queue, now's the time to catch up. Grab the remote and mark your calendar—on September 14, all eyes will be on the Emmy stage to see who takes home television's biggest honours.
NDTV
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- NDTV
Emmy Awards 2025: HBO Max Gives A Tough Competition To Netflix With 140 Nominations
Washington DC: The 77th Emmy nominations are finally out and HBO Max has taken a headstart with a record haul of 142 nods led by drama series The Penguin, The White Lotus, The Last of Us and comedy series Hacks. According to Variety, this marks a new high-water mark for the HBO universe. Its previous high was 140 nominations grabbed in 2020. The all-time Emmy record haul remains the 160 nominations hoovered up by Netflix, also in 2020, reported Variety. This year, Netflix commanded 120, ranking second among platforms and up from last year's 107 noms. HBO limited series The Penguin punched above the expectations with 24 nominations. That was second only to the top of the pack, Apple TV drama Severance, which grabbed 27 bids. The returning drama series The White Lotus, which has been an Emmy magnet since its debut, commanded 23 noms. While the video game-based series starring Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal in the lead role, The Last of Us, took in 16 nominations. Hacks, which is the reigning champ among comedy series, has scored 14 bids, making it the second most-nommed comedy behind Apple TV 's The Studio, which earned 23 noms, reported Variety. In 2024, HBO Max saw a decline of its nominations traction with 91 bids in the Hollywood strike-disrupted year, reported Variety. As for Apple TV , it had a banner year, reaching 79 nominations after barely six years in business. Apple's windfall was fueled by drama Severance leading the series field by a significant margin with 27 mentions. Drama Shrinking delivered 7 noms. Walt Disney Co. platforms collected a total of 136 noms. Programs airing on Hulu and FX combined for a total of 95 nominations, topped by FX comedy The Bear with 13 bids. FX's year-to-year tally took an inevitable hit after the triumph of Shogun last year, which lapped the series field with 25 nominations. Disney collected another 40 mentions, paced by Season 2 of Star Wars drama Andor with 14 nominations.
The Hindu
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Emmy nominations 2025: The galactic travesty of the ‘Andor' snubs
The 77th Primetime Emmy nominations were announced with the usual ritual pomp of its prestige darlings, bold-ish swings, and glossy usual suspects. But nestled among the predictably over-rewarded (The White Lotus, Severance, The Last of Us) was the unmistakable sting of familiarity. Andor, has yet again been shamefully sidelined and passed over where it mattered most. Despite racking up 14 nominations — including the requisite nods for Outstanding Drama Series, Writing, and Directing — the series was locked out of every major acting category. In their place were a slate of picks so safe and blinkered, that the Television Acdemy is almost impressive in its refusal to acknowledge the galaxy-sized performances hiding in plain sight. Congratulations to the cast and crew of ANDOR for their 14 Emmy® nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series. # — Andor | A Star Wars Original Series (@andorofficial) July 15, 2025 Forest Whitaker, to his credit, landed a deserved Guest Actor nod for his reliably volcanic turn as Saw Gerrera. But for a series widely praised as one of the most mature and politically potent works ever to emerge from the Star Wars franchise (or frankly, from any current TV universe) the Emmy's wider ommision feels like an indictment of the voting body's allergy to excellence that doesn't arrive prepackaged in Emmy-friendly casing. Diego Luna's performance across Andor's two seasons was career-defining. As the titular hero forged in oppression and slowly radicalised into rebellion, Luna delivered a harrowing, intimate, and deeply human character arc. Emmy voters however, seemed to prefer Pedro Pascal's blink-and-you-miss-it turn in a middling second season of HBO's The Last of Us. That Pascal got a nod and Luna didn't feels emblematic of how this flawed system periodically confuses exposure with excellence. Add to that the fact that Luna's nomination would've marked a historic double for Latino actors in the category, and the oversight begins to taste a little acrid. And what of Genevieve O'Reilly, whose Mon Mothma delivered some of the most exquisitely agonising moments of the season? Her ability to speak volumes from behind a diplomat's smile, to tremble without ever faltering — this is Emmy bait of the highest order, and yet, no bite. Her thunderous senate floor monologue, in which she dares to invoke genocide (in a Disney series, no less) would've made most voters' highlight reels, had they been paying attention. Instead, those slots went to The White Lotus, which somehow managed to colonise two-thirds of the Supporting categories. Denise Gough, Adria Arjona, Elizabeth Dulau, Stellan Skarsgard and Kyle Soller — all left out in the cold. If we're being charitable, perhaps it's just a case of category congestion. But that excuse wears thin when one considers that The White Lotus and The Last of Us — both of which received a more tepid critical and fan response this season compared to their last — dominate nearly every acting category. Voters appear more interested in name-checking proven properties than engaging with the work that defined this television year. Even Slow Horses, easily one of Apple TV's most consistent and critically adored series, was similarly overlooked, which only demonstrates how the Emmys have increasingly turned into a coronation of familiarity. Andor's genre trappings may have done it no favours, either. To many voters, it probaby read as another fan-service spinoff with laser swords and nerdy space opera. But in reducing it to cosplay, they've missed the point entirely. Andor was never about galaxies or gadgets, but about power and the machinery that sustains it. To ignore that is to ignore one of the sharpest, most unsettling antifascist parables to ever slip through the cracks of popular culture — and perhaps that's exactly why they did. Tony Gilroy crafted a radical blueprint for understanding resistance in a collapsing world. With uncanny precision, it mirrored the language of occupation, insurgency, and propaganda that defines our global present, unsettling viewers who suddenly found fiction offering sharper clarity than what was on the news. That it was ignored by Emmy voters may not be an oversight so much as an act of self-preservation or a subconscious recoil from a piece of art that held a mirror too close. Gilroy said it best in a post-nomination interview: 'These aren't great moment-to-moment [performances]. These are epic, long-term character studies that they've done over 24 episodes. I think the ultimate victory is that these performances will be celebrated and discussed for years to come. I feel confident about that.' The fact that Emmy voters couldn't see this speaks to a fundamental failure of imagination, or worse, of attention. It's worth remembering that Season 1 of Andor fared similarly, with 8 of its 14 nominations coming from technical categories and only one minor win. This year's bump in prestige categories feels more of a nod to the show's cultural footprint than to its actual craft. Yet still, none of its actors were deemed worthy. There's a rich, almost satirical irony at play here. In the original Star Wars, Luke and Han get medals for blowing stuff up in dramatic fashion (never mind that Chewbacca didn't, but that's a separate war crime). Meanwhile, the thankless rebels of Andor lie, steal, bleed, and die in the dark with no medals or applause, so prettier people can take the credit. Fitting then, that the Emmys kept the tradition alive. So no, the snub isn't a surprise. But it is a shame. For an awards body tasked with celebrating the television's finest, that shame should matter. Because if something as brilliant as Andor isn't worth rewarding, then what are we even watching for?
RTÉ News
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
The Emmys in focus - what you need to know
The psychological thriller Severance from Apple TV+ and HBO's Colin Farrell-starring crime drama The Penguin have stacked up the most nominations for Emmy Awards, outpacing The Studio and The White Lotus in the contest for television's highest honours. In a big day for Irish acting talent, Sharon Horgan was also nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role in Bad Sisters, and Ethiopian Irish star Ruth Negga was nominated for her performances in Presumed Innocent in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie category. Severance received a leading 27 nominations and was nominated for the top prize of Best Drama alongside the Star Wars series Andor, The Pitt, The White Lotus, and others. The Penguin, set in the DC Comics universe and starring Farrell, earned 24 nominations and will compete for Best Limited Series against the Netflix hit Adolescence, among others. Dubliner Farrell, a nominee for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie category, is also an executive producer on The Penguin. Hollywood satire The Studio, an Apple TV+ show featuring Seth Rogen as a nervous film executive, and HBO's The White Lotus, about murder and misdeeds at a luxury resort in Thailand, received 23 nominations each. "What the heck?!! We never thought this would happen," Rogen said in a statement. Comedy nominees included defending champion Hacks, previous winner The Bear, Nobody Wants This, and Abbott Elementary. The 23 nominations for The Studio tied the record for a comedy in a single season, set last year by Chicago restaurant tale The Bear. Winners of the Emmys will be announced at a red-carpet ceremony held in Los Angeles on Sunday 14 September. Comedian Nate Bargatze will host. The television industry is undergoing a contraction as media companies curtail the sky-high spending they shelled out to compete in the shift to streaming platforms led by Netflix. Longtime Emmy favourite HBO and the HBO Max streaming service topped all programmers with 142 nominations, a record for the network. Walt Disney collected 137 nominations, including six for ABC's Abbott Elementary, one of the few non-streamer shows in the Emmy mix. Andor, on Disney+, received 14. Netflix garnered 120 nods and Apple scored 81, its highest total since launching its streaming service in 2019. Severance tells the story of office workers who undergo a procedure to make them forget their home life at work, and vice versa. "It's distinctive in every way - in terms of its storytelling, in terms of style, in terms of its directing, its tone," said Matt Cherniss, Head of Programming at Apple TV+. Star Adam Scott, a Best Actor nominee, said the cast had been unsure of how viewers would respond. "The fact that it's resonated at all has been just such an incredible feeling," Scott said. "We thought it was something that might be too weird." Wyle, Ford in the running Noah Wyle received his first Emmy nomination since 1999 for his role as an emergency room doctor on The Pitt. Wyle was nominated five times for ER but never won. "I'm humbled and grateful," Wyle said of the recognition for The Pitt, which received 13 nominations. Harrison Ford, 83, earned his first Emmy nod, for playing a grumpy therapist on Shrinking. Ron Howard, the former Happy Days star turned Oscar-winning director, also landed his first acting nomination, a guest actor nod for playing himself on The Studio. "Who says nice guys finish last?!" Howard wrote on Instagram. He will compete with fellow director Martin Scorsese, another guest star on The Studio. Other notable acting nominees included Cristin Milioti for The Penguin, The Bear actors Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, Kathy Bates for Matlock, Hacks stars Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder, and Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey for The Last of Us. Eight White Lotus actors were recognised. "This is a bunch of cherries on the icing on the cake that was the gift of playing such a tortured and lonely human," said Jason Isaacs, who portrayed a suicidal father facing financial ruin on the show. Beyoncé also made the Emmys list twice - as a producer and director. Her halftime performance during a National Football League game on Netflix in the US was among the Live Variety Special nominees. Missing from the field was Netflix's popular Korean drama, Squid Game, while the final season of previous drama winner The Handmaid's Tale received just one nod. Winners will be chosen by the roughly 26,000 performers, directors, producers, and other members of the Television Academy.
Herald Sun
5 hours ago
- Business
- Herald Sun
Sydney Sweeney reportedly backed by Jeff Bezos for racy new career move
Don't miss out on the headlines from Celebrity Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. Jeff Bezos' latest investment is a new lingerie line designed by Sydney Sweeney. The Emmy-nominated actress, known for her roles in the HBO series 'Euphoria' and 'The White Lotus,' has been working on a lingerie line that has received backing from Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez, a source familiar with the matter told US Weekly. Sweeney was invited to the couple's June wedding in Venice, Italy. Sydney Sweeney is reportedly primed to launch a lingerie line, which has been backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos. Sweeney recently shared cryptic photos of herself in lingerie. 'This has been a huge project for her and something she's been working on for the last year,' the source said. Her brand, which will reportedly debut 'soon,' was backed by Ben Schwerin, a partner at private equity firm Coatue. The private equity firm recently launched a fund focused on investing in high-growth public and private tech companies. The family offices of Bezos and PC company founder Michael Dell have committed to provide $US1 billion of the initial capital for the fund, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sweeney is one of the most talked about Hollywood stars right now. A pitch deck seen by the Journal indicated the fund aims to invest between 20 to 50 per cent of its assets in private investments with the rest earmarked for public stocks. Bezos has already invested capital in several companies in the tech, healthcare, aerospace, finance and media industries. Sweeney attended the lavish Venice nuptials of Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos. Picture: AP Photo/Luca Bruno Most of those investments are made through his venture capital firm, Bezos Expeditions, and through Nash Holdings, which owns The Washington Post. Now, some of his funds will back the actress's first brand. During her rapid rise to fame, Sweeney has formed partnerships and become the brand ambassador for several major companies, including HeyDude footwear, Bai beverages, Laneige skincare and Kérastase haircare. Recently, she made headlines with a campaign for men's natural body wash brand Dr. Squatch, selling a limited-edition soap reportedly made with her own bathwater. This story originally appeared on Fox Business and was reproduced with permission Originally published as Sydney Sweeney reportedly backed by Jeff Bezos for racy new career move
