Game of Thrones, which this season passed the books they’re based upon, has nabbed 23 nominations this year. You can see a full list here (PDF).
Genre series are scattered throughout the nominations and, unlike the Oscars earlier this year, full of people from a variety of ethnicities.
You can grab the full list here, but if your genre show wasn’t titled “Game of Thrones” or “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” it didn’t get a nomination.
Surprising no one, genre shows were ignored at the nomination level this year. I would say snubbed, but that would indicate a miscarriage of judgment and I don’t think that’s happened this year, just the state of genre television is pretty poor.
In the “main” Emmys ceremony, Jessica Lange won for supporting actress on American Horror Story. You have to dig into the “Creative Arts” ceremony to find any other winners from Fantasy, Sci-Fi, or Horror. Namely, Game of Thrones walked away with six for art, costuming, and others.
The list is out and (surprise!) it isn’t good for genre programming.
To sum it up, unless the show was titled “Game of Thrones” or “American Horror Story,” genre shows were basically ignored.
So what say you? Were shows unfairly snubbed or did the genre get what it deserved?
In the wee hours of morning, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, released this year’s nominees for Emmy awards.