The 2023 Emmy Award nominees have been announced.
The annual celebration of the best TV programming will take place this year on 18 September, with the nominated shows announced on Wednesday (12 July).
Shows eligible for the Primetime Emmys must have been broadcast in the US between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2023, with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences choosing the nominees.
The nominations were announced on a livestream by Community star Yvette Nicole Brown and Television Academy chair Frank Scherma. The host of September’s awards show is yet to be announced.
The Hollywood Writers’ strike was the elephant in the room
Scherma could hardly introduce the awards without mentioning the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike, which has ground the entertainment industry to a halt. More than 11,000 screenwriters have been on strike for 72 days.
Scherma, who is also the president and co-founder of the production company RadicalMedia unsurprisingly expressed his wishes for the “ongoing guild negotiations can come to equitable and swift end”.
Succession makes history
Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong will compete against each other for the Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series category. This marks the most actors to ever be nominated from the same show in this category.
The final series of HBO’s Succession met predictions and led the nominations, earning a whopping 14 acting nominations and becoming a contender for Outstanding Drama Series (an award it has won twice before).
‘Yellowstone’, Prince Harry and Helen Mirren among snubs
Taylor Sheridan’s wildly popular cowboy drama Yellowstone was once again put out to pasture. He’ll be hoping that the arrival of Matthew McConaughey, who is set to take over from Kevin Costner as the series regenerates, will earn him more favour with the TV Academy.
Many expected awards show darling Helen Mirren to earn a nomination for her part in the Yellowstone sequel, 1923, in which she co-starred with Harrison Ford. Alas, no dice; though, Mirren holds four primetime Emmys already, so she’s unlikely to lose any sleep over the snub.
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Netflix’s bombshell Harry & Meghan docuseries was also a notable abdication from the nominees. The Academy clearly did not agree with The Independent’s Jessie Thompson, who called the six-parter “intimate, self-aggrandising, and wildly entertaining” in her four-star review.
Read on for the full list of nominees and reactions:
