Emmy Award Nominations | Five things to remember

(Los Angeles) The Series Succession heads the Emmy Awards with 25 nominations for the 74^e edition, marked by a record number of applications after the end of health restrictions linked to the pandemic.

Here are five takeaways from the nominations unveiled Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Posthumous nomination for Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Boseman, the screen incarnation of the Black Panther superhero from the Marvel saga, died in August 2020 of colon cancer, a disease he had never publicly mentioned.

Last year, he narrowly missed winning a posthumous Oscar for Ma Rainey’s Blues but Anthony Hopkins had finally prevailed.

The 2022 Emmys are likely Hollywood’s last chance to give an award to this artist, who lent his voice to an animated version of Black Panther for an episode of the series What If…? broadcast on Disney+.

Actress Jessica Walter (Arrested Development), who died in March 2021 at the age of 80, is also selected this year posthumously for having lent her voice to a character in the animated series Archer.

progress for women

The latest Emmy nominations for directing, screenplay and technical categories show clear progress for women, traditionally underrepresented in entertainment industry awards in these areas.

Almost half of the directors selected this year are women, like Amy Poehler for her documentary Lucy and Desi and Lorene Scafaria, nominated in the Flagship Drama Series category for Succession.

There are also about 40% women in screenplay nominations.

Obama versus Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?

Hollywood awards are always inventive when it comes to lining up high-profile names in nominations, and this batch of Emmys is no exception.

Among the nominees in the “narrative” category are the legend of wildlife documentaries, the British David Attenborough, and the Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o.

More surprisingly, the 74^e edition brings together in the same category the former basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, for a documentary on the black heroes of the American Civil War, and former President Barack Obama, who comments on a documentary series devoted to national parks .

Barack Obama will have to wait for the ceremony on September 12 to find out if he can add an Emmy alongside the Nobel Peace Prize and the two Grammy Awards which are already enthroned on his mantelpiece.

Dave Chappelle selected despite controversy

Comedian Dave Chappelle has sparked controversy in the United States for jokes seen by some as dismissive of transgender people, including in his show The Closer aired last year on Netflix.

Demonstrators gathered in particular in front of the headquarters of the video on demand giant, in Los Angeles, to denounce the comments of the comedian.

In this show, the star of the stand-up affirmed in particular that “the existence of the genre is a fact” and that its detractors are “too sensitive”.

“In our country, you can shoot and kill” a black man, “but don’t you dare offend a gay person,” said Dave Chappelle, himself black.

Voters for the Academy of Emmy Awards were obviously not deterred by this controversy and selected Dave Chappelle for The Closer.

Yellowstone snubbed

Series Yellowstonewhich mixes modern western and soap opera, stars Kevin Costner and garnered 11 million viewers for the launch of its fourth season. However, she left empty-handed from the Emmy nominations on Tuesday.

Since its inception, the series has actually only earned a meager nomination, in a minor technical category.

Voters may have been put off by the show’s overtly conservative overtones or its airing on the relatively modest Paramount Network. The popularity of Yellowstone has nevertheless continued to grow, especially among the elites with progressive leanings.