Tina Fey’s 30 Rock was nominated for a record 22 Emmy awards yesterday. She broke her own record of 17 which she got last year. Fey continues her domination of the comedy world and she scored a nom for her portrayal of soon to be ex-Governor Palin on SNL.
But digging deeper women are not widely nominated in lots of the categories. Here are some things I noticed.
- The only women centric show nominated for best drama is Damages starring Glenn Close. 30 Rock and Weeds are nominated for the best comedy Emmy.
- Two women are nominated for directing a comedy series and two women are nominated for directing a miniseries or movie (both out of six) but NO women are nominated for directing a drama series or a variety, music or comedy series or special. One woman out of four was nominated for directing a non-fiction special.
- Even though 30 Rock has the lion’s share of writing nominations not a single woman is nominated in the outstanding writing for a comedy series.
- Mad Men is nominated for most of the dramatic writing slots and there are two women included on that team.
- The outstanding writing for a variety, music or comedy series is one of the categories that makes me crazy. It’s the one that features all the late night shows and those shows have very few women writers. The nominees are: The Stephen Colbert Show (2 women out of 14 writers- but he does have a female executive producer); The Daily Show (1 woman out of 16); Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NO women out of 16); Late Show with David Letterman (NO women out of 14); SNL (5 women out of 22)
The good news. The acting categories are beyond outstanding.
- Chandra Wilson scored two acting nominations.
- Veteran actresses like Gena Rowlands, Carol Burnett and Elaine Strich get noticed
- Elizabeth Moss, the heart of Mad Men gets invited to the big ball along with women like Holly Hunter and Glenn Close.
- Grey Gardens gets nods for the movie and for both Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange as well as Patricia Rozema for the script.
Nominees below:
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series
The New Adventures Of Old Christine – Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Christine
Samantha Who? – Christina Applegate as Samantha Newly
The Sarah Silverman Program –
Sarah Silverman as Sarah Silverman
30 Rock – Tina Fey as Liz Lemon
United States Of Tara -Toni Collette as Tara Gregson
Weeds- Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
Brothers & Sisters-Sally Field as Nora Walker
The Closer –
Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson
Damages- Glenn Close as Patty Hewes
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
Mad Men –
Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson
Saving Grace –
Holly Hunter as Grace Hanadarko
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie
Accidental Friendship –
Chandra Wilson as Yvonne
Coco Chanel –
Shirley MacLaine as Coco Chanel
Grey Gardens – Drew Barrymore as Little Edie
Grey Gardens –
Jessica Lange as Big Edie
Prayers For Bobby-
Sigourney Weaver as Mary Griffith
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
Pushing Daisies-
Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook
Saturday Night Live –
Amy Poehler as Various Characters
Saturday Night Live – Kristin Wiig as Various Characters
30 Rock-
Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney
Ugly Betty –
Vanessa Williams as Wilhelmina Slater
Weeds – Elizabeth Perkins as Celia Hodes
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Damages –
Rose Byrne as Ellen Parsons
Grey’s Anatomy – Sandra Oh as Dr. Christina Yang
Grey’s Anatomy – Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey
In Treatment –
Dianne Wiest as Gina
In Treatment – Hope Davis as Mia
24 – Cherry Jones as President Allison Taylor
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
The Courageous Heart Of Irena Sendler –
Marcia Gay Harden as Janina
Grey Gardens –
Jeanne Tripplehorn as Jackie O.
House Of Saddam –
Shohreh Aghdashloo as Sajida
Into The Storm – Janet McTeer as Clementine Churchill
Relative Stranger – Cicely Tyson as Pearl
Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory – Christine Baranski as Beverly Hofstadter
Monk – Gena Rowlands as Marge
My Name Is Earl-
Betty White as Crazy Witch Lady
Saturday Night Live –
Tina Fey as Governor Sarah Palin (Spoof)
30 Rock –
Jennifer Aniston as Claire
30 Rock –
Elaine Stritch as Colleen Donaghy
Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series
Grey’s Anatomy – Sharon Lawrence as Robbie Stevens
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit –
Ellen Burstyn as Bernadette Stabler
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit-
Brenda Blethyn as Linnie Malcolm/Caroline Cantwell
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit – Carol Burnett as Bridget “Birdie” Sulloway
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – CCH Pounder as Mrs. Curtin
that’s pretty disappointing, but at least Tina Fey is paving a much bigger road for women in writing AND acting. I hope 30 Rock wins again this year. It’s such a great show.