Snook, Bartlett, Torv lead Australia’s charge at 75th Emmy Awards
The nominations at this year’s 75th Emmy’s are out with a string of famous Aussies up for awards. See the list.
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Sarah Snook is leading the Aussie charge at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards after nabbing a nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama series for her role as Shiv Roy in the critically acclaimed Succession.
The drama series, which screens on Binge in Australia, follows the Roy siblings and their fight to edge out their father to run the family’s media empire, has dominated this year’s Emmy nominations – announced Thursday morning Australian time – with a whopping 27 nods for its final season which wrapped in May.
It picked up 14 acting nominations including recognition for Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin in the Lead Actor category. It marks the first time in Emmys history that three performers from the same show have scored lead actor nominations in the same category.
Snook does face some stiff challenge in one of the toughest categories on the night, competing against New Zealand actress Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets), Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Keri Russell (The Diplomat).
Aussie actor Murray Bartlett is among the slew of noms for the video-game adaptation The Last of Us which nabbed 24 for its debut season, including Bartlett’s as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He’s also been nominated for his work on Welcome to Chippendales in the supporting actor in a limited or anthology series.
Fellow Aussie Anna Torv is also nominated in the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series category for The Last Of Us.
HBO shows are gearing up for glory at this year’s Awards. The studio also scored the third most nominated show with the second season of The White Lotus taking 23 nods, including acting recognition for Aubrey Plaza, Jennifer Coolidge and Meghann Fahy.
Comedy categories were led by Ted Lasso with its final season attracting 21 nominations including acting nods for almost the entire cast including lead Jason Sudeikis, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster and Hannah Waddingham.
The feel-good show has already won a total of eight Emmys and is going for a hat trick in the Outstanding Comedy Series category, while Sudeikis and Goldstein are also hoping for three-from-three in the Lead and Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series categories.
Succession is the most nominated program with 27, followed by The Last of Us with 24, The White Lotus with 23, Ted Lasso with 21s and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel with 14.
Other Aussies in contention include director and producer Fletcher Moules as one of the producers of the animated music special Entergalactic in the animated program category.
Composer Allyson Newman has been nominated for her work on the series The L Word: Generation Q in the outstanding original music and lyrics category. Newman is up against composers from The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Ted Lasso and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
The Emmys are slated to be held on September 18 in Los Angeles, but as Hollywood navigates the current writers’ strike and the potential of an actors’ strike, television’s big awards night could be delayed until the end of the year.
Studios are apparently in talks with the Academy of Television and Arts and Sciences, which stage the Emmys, about how to proceed if a strike by the actors’ union goes ahead this week.
Reports suggest if actors do, they could be out until at least the end of the year.
US media reports suggest the Academy is pushing for a November broadcast, while broadcaster Fox is said to prefer January – which would push the Emmys into film awards season.
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