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Approaching Peak Vagina: Lena Dunham and Amy Poehler Score Rare Female Double Emmy Writing Nominations

The Emmy nominations were released yesterday. There is a lot of good news to recognize most especially the fact that two women — Lean Dunham and Amy Poehler — were nominated for their comedy writing. According to Nellie at Deadline having two women nominated for comedy writing is a big and not very frequent deal. The last time it happened was a decade ago.

I counted only a handful times in Emmy history when two female writers have received comedy writing nominations, the last time in 2002 when Jennifer Crittenden was nominated for the Marie’s Sculpture episode of Everybody Loves Raymond and Julie Rottenberg & Elisa Zuritsky for the My Motherboard, My Self episode of Sex & The City.

And the piece also says that women writers have only won in this category three times since it was created in 1955. Those women are: “Treva Silverman in 1974 for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Diane English in 1989 for the pilot of Murphy Brown and Tina Fey in 2008 for an episode of her NBC series 30 Rock.”

So while it is great to celebrate the advent of “peak vagina” in comedy writing, it was not a great year for women directors in drama and miniseries where there were no women nominated. And Lena was the only female director nominated for comedy.

The most interesting news is Lena Dunham received multiple nominations for writing, directing and acting. Louis CK was the only other person nominated in the same fashion.

List of female nominees:

Outstanding Comedy Series

Girls

30 Rock

Lead Actress In A Comedy Series

Lena Dunham, Girls

Melissa McCarthy, Mike & Molly

Zooey Deschanel, New Girl

Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie

Amy Poehler, Parks And Recreation

Tina Fey, 30 Rock

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep

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Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series

The Big Bang Theory — Mayim Bialik

Desperate Housewives — Kathryn Joosten

Modern Family — Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy

Modern Family — Sofia Vergara

Nurse Jackie — Merritt Wever

Saturday Night Live — Kristen Wiig

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series

Glee — Dot-Marie Jones

Saturday Night Live — Maya Rudolph

Saturday Night Live — Melissa McCarthy

30 Rock — Elizabeth Banks

30 Rock — Margaret Cho as Kim Jong-il

Two And A Half Men — Kathy Bates as Charlie Harper

Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series

Girls — Lena Dunham, Director

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

Girls — Lena Dunham

Parks And Recreation — Amy Poehler

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series

Damages — Glenn Close

Downton Abbey — Michelle Dockery

The Good Wife — Julianna Margulies

Harry’s Law — Kathy Bates

Homeland — Claire Danes

Mad Men- Elisabeth Moss

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series

Breaking Bad — Anna Gunn

Downton Abbey — Maggie Smith

Downton Abbey — Joanne Froggatt

The Good Wife — Archie Panjabi

The Good Wife — Christine Baranski a

Mad Men — Christina Hendricks

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series

The Good Wife — Martha Plimpton

Grey’s Anatomy — Loretta Devine

Harry’s Law — Jean Smart

Mad Men — Julia Ormond

Shameless — Joan Cusack

Smash- Uma Thurman

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

Mad Men — Semi Chellas and Matthew Weiner

Mad Men — Andre and Maria Jacquemetton

Mad Men — Erin Levy and Matthew Weiner

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie

American Horror Story — Connie Britton

Game Change — Julianne Moore

Hemingway & Gellhorn — Nicole Kidman

Missing — Ashley Judd

The Song Of Lunch (Masterpiece) — Emma Thompson

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or A Movie

American Horror Story — Frances Conroy

American Horror Story — Jessica Lange

Game Change — Sarah Paulson

Hatfields & McCoys — Mare Winningham

Page Eight (Masterpiece) — Judy Davis

Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special

The Hour — Abi Morgan

All the Funny Ladies: What the Emmy Nominations Tell Us About a Year of Women in Comedy (XX)

EMMYS: Lena Dunham & Amy Poehler Score Rare Double For Female Comedy Writers (Deadline)

In Emmy noms, Dunham and Louis C.K. share much (AP)

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