![]() ![]() HBO’s “A Black Lady Sketch Show” also earned five nominations, including variety sketch series - where it will have only one competitor, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” - while “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” was nominated for variety talk series, where it will face off against “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “Conan.” And RuPaul earned his 14th Emmy nomination with another nod for hosting drag competition “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” as did Nicole Byer, host of the Netflix baking-disasters show “Nailed It!” Both series were also nominated in the reality competition category. The series and its two stars have been nominated before but have never won. On the comedy front, ABC’s “black-ish” returned to the nominations list with five, earning nods for comedy series, lead actor (Anthony Anderson) and lead actress (Tracee Ellis Ross). Television The biggest snubs and surprises of the 2021 Emmy nominationsĬolumnist and awards expert Glenn Whipp breaks down the top surprises and snubs of Tuesday’s Emmy nominations. ![]() that sparked controversy for its depiction of racist violence, was also shut out of the top categories. Amazon’s “Them: Covenant,” a horror story about racist housing policies in midcentury L.A. Neither Showtime’s “The Good Lord Bird,” starring Ethan Hawke as abolitionist John Brown, nor Amazon’s “Small Axe,” a collection of films about London’s West Indian community from Oscar-winning Steve McQueen, made it into the ranks of top nominees. In the highly competitive limited series field, other acclaimed series about Black history, in both the U.S. But while the show received a marquee nomination, as well as one for Jenkin’s direction, its lauded star Thuso Mbedu was overlooked. “I May Destroy You” will face off in the limited series category with another high-profile series, Amazon’s “The Underground Railroad.” Directed by Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, the series - about a runaway slave who seeks freedom via locomotive that travels north through subterranean tunnels - earned seven nominations overall. Set in the 1950s, the drama about several Black characters battling racists and monsters alike scored 18 nominations in total, including for drama series, actor (Jonathan Majors), actress (Jurnee Smollett), supporting actress (Aunjanue Ellis), supporting actor (Michael K. Leading them was HBO’s “Lovecraft Country,” which was often compared to “Watchmen” because of its mixture of the far-out and the realistic. And though the nominations were led overall by “The Crown” (Netflix), “The Mandalorian” (Disney+), “WandaVision” (Disney+) and “Ted Lasso,” many of those projects led by Black creators and performers were recognized by the TV academy in the major categories. Since last year’s Black Lives Matter protests, sparked by the killing of George Floyd and other Black people at the hands of police, the TV landscape has offered a growing array of projects centered on the Black experience. Tuesday’s announcement of the 2021 Emmy nominations continued the trend. The limited drama’s success at the Emmys dovetailed with the country’s furor over police brutality and the threat of white nationalist movements. ![]() ![]() 2020 was a landmark year for the Emmys, as the television academy awarded top honors to HBO’s “Watchmen,” a limited series that mashed up fantastical science-fiction elements with hot-button issues, foremost among them America’s racist past - and present. ![]()
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