Dutchess County resident Liev Schreiber and Jimmy Fallon, who grew up in Saugerties and launched his comedy career in Poughkeepsie, were among numerous Hudson Valley links revealed when the Emmy Award nominations were announced Thursday. The 2015 drama and comedy winners – Game of Thrones and Veep, respectively – added a significant number of nods to HBO’s 2016 awards tally, even if the premium cable network’s nominations tumbled significantly from 126 nominations last year to 94 this year.
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The Emmy Awards, voted for by the 20,000-plus members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, are the top honors for USA prime-time television.
“You know, as wonderful as nominations are, I just think that it doesn’t matter”.
An Emmy® Award-winner previous year, “Drunk History” earned three more nominations including its second consecutive nomination for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series, its first for Outstanding Production Design for a Variety, Nonfiction, Reality or Reality Competition, and Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming.
Other nominees included Indian-American Aziz Ansari for his debut Netflix comedy “Master of None”, Egyptian-American Rami Malek for “Mr Robot” and black actresses Taraji P Henson for Fox’s hip-hop series “Empire” and Viola Davis in ABC’s thriller “How to Get Away with Murder”.
“The Americans”, which gained in attention last season, also earned top bids for its stars, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys.
The ensemble cast of “Game of Thrones” found leading bids elusive. Peter Dinklage, honored as last year’s best supporting actor, will defend his title, with a nod also going to Kit Harington as fan favorite Jon Snow.
American political parody Veep, starring Seinfeld’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is the most nominated comedy on 17. Ellie Kemper received her first Emmy nod for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), though her co-star, five-time nominee Jane Krakowski (seven if you count her daytime work), was ignored this year.
“I jumped up and down. more about that than about my own”, Paulson said. “I owe my performance whatever it is to him”.
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Winners of the Emmy Awards, voted on by the 20,000-plus members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, will be presented September 18 at a ceremony in Los Angeles.
