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For the first time in memory, the Television Academy announced this year\u2019s Primetime Emmys nominees without an acknowledgement of which network or platform leads the list. That left programmers like HBO and Netflix scrambling to count their nominations in the quest for this year\u2019s bragging rights.<\/p>\n
Instead, the TV Academy argues that the shows are the thing, and to that end, the tally was clear: \u201cSuccession\u201d was the most-nominated program of 2022, earning 25 nods \u2014 including outstanding drama. That was followed by \u201cTed Lasso\u201d with 20 nominations (including best comedy, tying its total from last year) and then \u201cThe White Lotus,\u201d the most-recognized limited series with 20.<\/p>\n
The Academy\u2019s decision to stay out of the way of those network tallies comes after controversial, and sometimes inconsistent, counts in recent years as the streaming era makes the whole notion of networks a bit hazy. Eventually, after everyone scrambled to do the math themselves, it became clear that the combo of HBO\/HBO Max led this year with 140 nominations (108 for HBO, 32 for HBO Max), followed by Netflix with 105.<\/p>\n
Last year, that led to a bit of a messy situation where HBO and HBO Max were jointly crowned the year\u2019s leader, with 130 nominations. The outlets are both operated under the same Casey Bloys umbrella, and the shows are all campaigned together by the same awards team, the argument went. But that didn\u2019t sit well with Netflix, which was close behind with 129 \u2014 and would have been considered the leader in a time when different platforms weren\u2019t merged: Separate the two, and HBO received 94 nominations, and HBO Max picked up 36.<\/p>\n
FX produces shows for Hulu, but would rather those series be credited to FX \u2014 even if they never aired on the linear channel. Nat Geo does the same thing for Disney+, yet those shows are credited to Disney+, not Nat Geo. Similarly, MTV\u2019s \u201cThe Real World Reunion\u201d series now airs on Paramount+ \u2014 but MTV Entertainment Group prefers to tally its nominations as a conglomerate, not via individual outlets. Disney would like to point out that its entire company (including ABC, Hulu, Disney+, FX Networks and Freeform) should be held up as a whole to Netflix, and in that case, they\u2019re competitive (and last year beat both Netflix and HBO\/HBO Max as a combo, with 146).<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a long way of saying, the Academy \u2014 in allowing networks and platforms to choose how their shows are credited \u2014 has also realized that it can\u2019t win by putting them together in an apples-and-oranges tally. So this year, it just didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn some ways I think I would prefer the Academy just to step out of the platform, for lack of a better word, \u2018wars\u2019 altogether,\u201d TV Academy president Maury McIntyre told Variety in 2021 \u2014 and this year he stayed true to his word. \u201cWe don\u2019t ultimately care. We\u2019re here to honor the work\u2026 Our partners can slice and dice it however they want. We can only go off what we have given from a submission perspective. And that\u2019s how we report it out. How was it reported to us in terms of its platform or its network, etc. But, it\u2019s a question for me moving forward as to whether we should be inserting ourselves in that count.\u201d<\/p>\n
HBO had long been the dominant force at the Emmys, until 2018, when Netflix ended the paycabler\u2019s 17-year Emmy nomination domination by landing 112 nods to HBO\u2019s 108. HBO grabbed the crown back in 2019 with 137 nominations (to Netflix\u2019s 117). The Emmy ping-pong continued in 2020, with Netflix\u2019s 160 to HBO\u2019s 107.<\/p>\n
In 2019, HBO dominated again \u2014 thanks in particular to \u201cGame of Thrones,\u201d which helped the network pull down 137 nominations in 2019, the most ever in the network\u2019s history. Netflix scored 117 nominations that year.<\/p>\n
Then came 2020, and Netflix\u2019s 160 nominations \u2014 the most of any outlet, ever. HBO, in its final year without HBO Max, followed with 107. It\u2019s that back-and-forth that has turned the Emmy tally into even more of a horserace than it ever was back when the broadcast networks were still in the hunt. HBO and cable changed all of that \u2014 and then along came streaming.<\/p>\n
Of course, the real crowning will come in September, when the ultimate tally of wins tells the final story. Last year, Netflix earned 44 total awards, ahead of HBO\/HBO Max\u2019s 19. In 2020, HBO was tops with 30 wins, followed by Netflix\u2019s 21.<\/p>\n
As for this year\u2019s 74th Emmy nominations, the announcement on Tuesday \u2014 made by J.B. Smoove and Melissa Fumero, two of the stars of Netflix\u2019s upcoming comedy \u201cBlockbuster\u201d \u2014 came after the return of a fairly normal FYC campaign season for the first time since 2019. After a two-year break due to COVID, in-person events returned this year, along with the continuation of virtual panels. That allowed outlets like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, NBCUniversal and Disney to once again open pop-up FYC events spaces. Others welcomed the return of panels to venues like the Academy\u2019s Wolf Theatre at its North Hollywood headquarters.<\/p>\n
Rule changes were kept to a relative minimum in 2022, with major tweaks focused on eliminating program time length stipulations for comedy and drama series, as well as further defining what a \u201climited series\u201d is. The TV Academy also ruled that any film placed on the viewing platform for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be deemed a theatrical motion picture and thus ineligible for the Emmy competition \u2014 effectively ending the ability for any documentaries to try their hand at the Emmys if they don\u2019t receive an Oscar nod.<\/p>\n
Also, this is the first year that the Television Academy, in cooperation with its New York counterparts at the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, did away with time slot restrictions for their respective Emmy ceremonies, instead opting to focus on genres to define what head to the Primetime, Daytime or newly created Children\u2019s and Family Emmys, among other ceremonies.<\/p>\n
Done+Dusted and Hudlin Entertainment will once again produce this year\u2019s Emmy Awards, set to air Sept. 12 on NBC and Peacock at 5 p.m. PT. Ian Stewart, Reginald Hudlin, Byron Phillips and Jane Mun will executive produce the live three-hour telecast that will air globally, with D+D\u2019s Hamish Hamilton as director. A host has not yet been named. See the nominees at Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emmys 2022: The Complete Nominations List: For the first time in memory, the Television Academy announced this year\u2019s Primetime Emmys nominees without an acknowledgement of which network or platform leads the list. That left programmers like HBO and Netflix scrambling to count their nominations in the quest for this year\u2019s bragging rights. Instead, the TV
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