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This was originally supposed to be an article for the main site, but for a variety of reasons it will not be appearing there, so I thought I would share it here.
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So the Emmy Nominations came out a while back, and we here at RevolutionSF wanted to see how the genre shows did. Yeah we know it was a while ago, but have you seen the number of nominations per category? It tooks us this long to read through the 69 pages of nominations. And yeah, we know that the Creative Arts Emmys (the boring ones we don’t want to see on TV) have already been given out, but we haven’t looked at the results those. We promise.
Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
- * Ron Rifkin, Narrator from American Masters • Jerome Robbins: Something To Dance About • PBS
* Seth MacFarlane as Peter Griffin • Family Guy
Seth Green as Robot Chicken Nerd, Bob Goldstein, Ponda Baba, Anakin Skywalker, Imperial Officer • Robot Chicken
* Hank Azaria as Moe Syzlak • The Simpsons
Harry Shearer as Mr. Burns, Smithers, Kent Brockman, Lenny • The Simpsons
* Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson • The Simpsons
Five nods in this category. Strangely enough two are for guys named Seth and three for the Simpsons, but the official RevolutionSF prediction is that it’s going to Ron Rifkin, cause Emmy loves PBS.
Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour)
- * American Dad
* Robot Chicken
* The Simpsons
* South Park
Apparently the Emmys could only find four animated series out of the billions to nominate in this category. Take that Bakura! Should win: Robot Chicken, but the academy has never heard of them. Will Win: Simpsons. They have presented, so the academy knows who they are.
Outstanding Animated Program (for programming one hour or more)
- * Afro Samurai: Resurrection
* Destination Imagination (Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends)
There are two animated shows in this category. RevSF predicts one of them will win.
Outstanding Art Direction For A Multi-Camera Series
- * The Big Bang Theory
* Hell’s Kitchen
* How I Met Your Mother
* The New Adventures Of Old Christine
* Saturday Night Live
Art Directiors are in charge of how a show looks. So this Emmy is about how pretty the show looks. Geekdom’s only hope in this category is the Big Bang Theory. Unfortunately, How I Met Your Mother is going to win. Of course it would be awesome if Hell’s Kitchen won just so Ramsay could swear on stage.
Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series
- * Bones
* Heroes
* Mad Men
* Pushing Daisies
* True Blood
* The Tudors
Broad spectrum of nerd shows here. If there is any justice in the world, Pushing Daisies will win. It was a beautiful show. Nothing else on TV ooked like it. As a bonus, they could print “Emmy Award Winning Series” on the DVD box. But I know that my nerdly hopes and aspirations will be shattered by Mad Men. This show takes place in the 1950s, the beginning of the golden age of TV, a time that many Emmy voters wish we were in now.
Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series
- * Damages
* Friday Night Lights
* Mad Men
* True Blood
* The Tudors
We can pray all we want for True Blood to win this in honour of letting us see Anna Paquin do naughty things, but once again, this is going to Mad Men.
Outstanding Cinematography For A One Hour Series
- * Breaking Bad
* CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
* Life On Mars
* Mad Men
* The Tudors
Two nerd possibilities here in Breaking Bad and Life on Mars, but you see the Mad Men in there. Yup. You guessed it.
Outstanding Costumes For A Series
- * Mad Men
* The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
* Pushing Daisies
* The Tudors
* Ugly Betty
It will not sruprise you that I want Pushing Daisies to win this. The costumes were amazing, and there was nothing else like it on TV. But what will surprise you is my prediction that the Tudors will win. This costume drama will probably win in the costume category, especially for the ensembles that King Henry rips off his wide assortment of paramours. They look very pretty on the floor.
Outstanding Costumes For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
- * Grey Gardens
* House Of Saddam
* Into The Storm
* The Librarian: Curse Of The Judas Chalice
* Little Dorrit
There is a slim chance that the Emmies will recognize the Indiana Jones rip-off starring Noah Wilie. A slim chance, but a chance none-the-less.
Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series
- * Battlestar Galactica
* Boston Legal
* Damages
* ER
* Mad Men
Finally, a stunningly worthy geek candidate for the Emmy, BSG. Too bad it’s up against the last seasons of both Boston Legal and ER. Not to mention those pesky Mad Men. Not going to happen, BSG.
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series
- * Battlestar Galactica
* Breaking Bad
* Lost
* Mad Men
* 24
Whoooohooooooo, three chances, four if you count 24. This might be the one category in which BSG gets an Emmy. Think of it as a pity Emmy.
Outstanding Hairstyling For A Single-Camera Series
- * Desperate Housewives
* Mad Men
* Pushing Daisies
* Tracey Ullman’s State Of The Union
* The Tudors
I wonder who watches TV and thinks to themselves, “Man, that’s good hair!” Apparently the Emmys, cause they have a category dedicated to hair. Our one hope is Pushings Daisies, but I think the bored Emmy voter (who cares about this category as much as I do) is just going to check off the beloved Mad Men and move on.
Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media – Fiction
- * The Dharma Initiative
* The Office Digital Experience
* The 30 Rock Digital Experience
This Emmy might actually go to one of us. That’s right, I am calling it for Dharma and Lost. Write it down!
Outstanding Main Title Design
- * Lie To Me
* Storymakers
* Taking Chance
* True Blood
* United States Of Tara
What an interesting category. The main title sequence is a dying breed. Pared down to its barest bones in the interest of cramming in as much story as possible. Of course that’s because more time has been given over to ads, but shhh. The naked vampire show has a hope here, it does have cool titles.