The 5 Most Stunning Emmy Snubs of 2010
No matter how much goodwill the Emmy Awards engendered by nominating Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton for Friday Night Lights, when Tony Shalhoub is still hearing his name called for Monk, you know there must have been some snubs. Here now are the Movieline-approved five most egregious. Set your outrage level to apoplectic and click ahead to witness the carnage.
· Community and Parks and Recreation are (mostly) shut out
As predicted here yesterday -- amid some truly tone deaf calls, like no nominations for Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison; whoops! -- Community and Parks and Recreation were pretty much ignored by Emmy voters. The critical favorites could only score two nominations -- both by Parks and Recreation (Amy Poehler's deserved Best Actress in a Comedy nomination and best theme song). For Community, that means a big goose egg. Though as snubbed-for-Shalhoub star Joel McHale said after delivering the nominations, "It's OK. I phone it in."
· Chandra Wilson fails to get a fifth straight Best Supporting Actress nomination
Mock Grey's Anatomy if you will, but one thing has been consistently excellent on the fledgling series for the last five years: Chandra Wilson's performance as Dr. Miranda Bailey. After four straight nominations and a season closing arc that played to the rafters, you would think a fifth nomination would have come easily for the Grey's star. Nope! And while it's hard to argue with the other selections in the category -- Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss and Christina Hendricks, Burn Notice's Sharon Gless, Damages' Rose Byrne and The Good Wife's Archie Panjabi and Christine Baranski -- shouldn't someone have found room for Chandra? Lord knows everyone loves Hendricks -- but was she really that good on Mad Men this season?
· Ed O'Neill left out of the Modern Family bonanza
How'd you like to be Ed O'Neill this morning? Your hit show, Modern Family, just scored a Best Comedy Series nomination, while every single one of your adult co-stars -- Sofia Vergara, Julie Bowen, Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ty Burell -- all grabbed supporting noms too. Even Fred Willard got noticed as a guest star. But you? Nothing. Question: Does Modern Family even work without its twisted patriarch?
· FX series Justified and Sons of Anarchy forgotten about
Say hello to the snubs that made television critics spit up their bowl of Cheerios. With the exception of a score nomination for Justified, the two FX dramas were completely ignored. Maybe next year the Emmy voters can figure out what channel FX is on their cable system and go from there.
· The Late Show with David Letterman doesn't make the cut
Lost in the Lindsay Lohan-like FU jubilation of Conan O'Brien getting nominated for The Tonight Show -- meaning NBC will actually have to acknowledge his existence when they air the Emmys at the end of August -- is the fact that David Letterman was left out. And let's be honest: Team Coco or not, Letterman's Late Show was better than Conan's Tonight Show by a lot. Schadenfreude aside, nominating Conan over Dave just feels plain wrong.
But wait! What about Mary Louise-Parker, the stars of True Blood, Tracy Morgan, Friday Night Lights, Vincent Kartheiser, and all the other snubs? That's where you come in: Leave your favorite in the comments below.
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no one mentioned "damages"..just loved that show for it stylistic look and of course the superb acting. it kept me guessing from week to week until the very end. kudos to glenn close, and ted danson was unbelievable in season one and two. so sorry to see it go...
Taylor Kitch desrved it more than Gilford this season. And Gilford was a guest star...he wasn't credited in the main cast this season.
ex-ACT-ly!
I love True Blood and my two suggestions for acting nominations are Nelson Ellis and Alexander Skarsgard. Nelson chews up the screen every time he's on and Skarsgard can handle every tone they throw at him, often with several layers in the same scene. Glad the series got a call out, at least.
Justified is one of the most unique shows on TV today. We wait on baited breath waiting for the show from week to week. Timothy Ollifant is not only wonderful to look at, his demeanor is true-to-form for him, his style, and the
role he is playing. I'm furious Justified and Timothy as well as the rest of the crew were ignored. Usually if the critics like something, I know I won't. It holds true right now.
You have all forgotten the most glaring snub of all: Josh Charles of "The Good Wife".
That man can convey more raw emotion with the single twitch of a facial muscle than most actors can in a cry-fest/screaming monologue.
you people think these stars are God, who gives a hoot of how good they are in their acting,, everty bit of the shows are noting but a bunch of people playing charactors and a lot of made up lies, most all the movies they are not worth the trouble watching, the actors are paid large amounts of money at the expence of the public, its all a crock or crap , i bet they laugh at general public who admires them as God like figures, and throws money into the movies they watch, the big joke is on the public , and the big money goes into the proud hands of the mivie stars and the movie producers, who gives a blank who gets the award, every movie star gets married six or seven times, and they commit adultry as if its noting, they are the jet set bunch, the leeches of the public, over paid and worshipped as Gods
who do you think you are making fun of these wonderful people that deserve our respect and what they get paid is not of your blank business, how wondeful these actors are , giving us fine intertainment and the craft of acting does't come cheap , so if they do get paid large amounts of money for acting i think actors should be over paid so they can buy all the fine houses and cars and costly clothes, they deserve every dime they get i think the public should see that they all get pay raises , i personally think they are underpaid , and this is a shame , i vote for higher pay for actors , i think congress should pass laws that actors should get paid what is fair , anyone who agrees with me reply we the public has failed them terriable bad , what shameful post mr horsewinkle posted about the good humble actors we see on movies..
Army Wives one of the best shows on television. Major snub. They are all excellent actors.
ARMY WIVES SHOULD HAVE MOST DEFINITELY BEEN NOMINATED. HANDS DOWN THIS IS THE BEST SHOW ON TELEVISION WITH THE BEST ACTORS AND ACTRESSES. IT'S A VERY REALISTIC SHOW AND IT IS VERY ENTERTAINING. THESE AWARD SHOWS NEED TO GET IT TOGETHER AND STOP NOMINATING ALL THE RANDOM SHOWS/MOVIES THAT NO ONE CARES ABOUT!
Hi. Thank you for writing this article. It helped me very-much.
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