HBO Garnered 99 Emmy Nominations for it’s original series, among them were three nominations for True Blood. In addition, True Blood‘s Alexander Skarsgard‘ (Eric) miniseries, “Generation Kill” was nominated for Outstanding Miniseries. Congratulations to all who got the nod!
It is rather frustrating that the Emmy’s have continued their tradition of ignoring genre work except in the technical departments. It’s past time to break those barriers and the quality of acting, writing and directing in True Blood makes it clear that those prejudices are still in place. So while we are very excited for those who’s outstanding contributions to True Blood are being recognized (Suzuki, Cat, Rusty, we’re lookin at you!) we can only hope that next year is the year that finally brings down the wall.
Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series
True Blood • Burning House Of Love • Cold Ground • Sparks Fly Out • HBO • Your Face
Goes Here Entertainment in association with HBO Entertainment
Suzuki Ingerslev, Production Designer
Cat Smith, Art Director
Rusty Lipscomb, SDSA, Set Decorator
The Competition:
Bones, Heroes, Mad Men, Pushing Daisies, and The Tudors.
Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series
True Blood • HBO • Your Face Goes Here Entertainment in association with HBO
Entertainment
Junie Lowry Johnson, CSA, Casting Director
Libby Goldstein, Casting Director
The competition:
Damages, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, The Tutors
Outstanding Main Title Design
True Blood • HBO • Your Face Goes Here Entertainment in association with HBO
Entertainment
Rama Allen, Designer
Shawn Fedorchuk, Editor
Matthew Mulder, Creative Director
Morgan Henry, Main Title Producer
Camm Rowland, Designer
Ryan Gagnier, Designer
The competiton:
Lie To Me, Storymakers, Taking Chance, United States of Tara
Outstanding Miniseries
Generation Kill • HBO • Company Pictures and Blown Deadline Productions in association with HBO Films
The competion:
Little Dorrit
The Emmys will be aired Sunday, Sept. 20 (8:00-11:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT) on the CBS network.
To view the complete list go to: The Hollywood Reporter
(Photo credit: ATAS)
Michelle
First and foremost, Congrats to Generation Kill for the nomination! We know how well of a series that was and the acclamations it received so it’s finally great to see the hard work has paid off. Also, congrats to the few nods that True Blood received -even though they were robbed.
I think what is funny is that the series has many layers written into it, and one of them is people being prejudice against either black, white, gay, straight, vampire, human, etc. How funny that this translates into real life in that the show is written extremely well, the casting in phenomenal, and the directing is off the charts…yet they are snubbed because they are a genre show. I hope that starting next year, those prejudices are thrown away and the board/committee start looking beyond what *fits the box* and see a well-written, well-directed, well-cast series.
But…we already all knew that! Let’s see if more people will climb aboard the True Blood train and give the show the chance it so deserves!!