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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Snubs: Yunjin Kim, Vincent Kartheiser, John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer.
Biggest snub: no nod for FNL's Zach Gilford. Why can't someone just step up and love Matt Saracen the right way for once! And on that note, an overall best drama nod has been owed to the show for the past, oh, forever.
How about Josh Holloway? Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn are obviously outstanding, but Holloway was the glue to much of last season. Needed some recognition for that.
The Facebook campaign to get him a guest star nod just wasn't enough. Maybe they're saving the Best Drama nomination for the final season -- ie; next year?
Anna Gun (Breaking Bad)
Mary Louise Parker (Weeds)
Merritt Wever (Nurse Jackie)
and of course SONS OF ANARCHY. That series is effing amazing! The first season was only good, but the second one was awesome in every way. Shame on you, Emmys!
With Parker, who would you have left off among Fey, Falco, Poehler, Collette and Dreyfus? I guess Dreyfus, but she is pretty solid on that show. Also: Weeds was unwatchable for much of this last season.
I agree with you that she should have gotten a nomination, but I don't think it's that egregious that she didn't.
"Rescue Me". It's a crime this hasn't been swimming in nominations all along.
I love True Blood, but in terms of acting? I'm not sure there were any snubs. The only two I would really say would deserve a nomination would be Ryan Kwanten for so inhabiting that role and making Jason so stupid, yet so lovable, or Nelsan Ellis because he plays Lafayette, who is a delicious mixture of cliche, stereotype, and emotional honesty, beautifully.
The biggest snubs from JUSTIFIED are Nick Searcy and M.C. Gainey. They are both simply brilliant on that show!
Tracy Morgan was "snubbed"? Really? You know these noms were for the Emmys, right? Not the "Reading Cue Cards Like a Slurring Robot" Awards.
No nom for Ed O’Neill is ridiculous. I am consistently amazed how real and subtle he is on that show considering his "Al Bundy" past. Half the show is the other characters playing a scene with him...
Also, I guess newbie Dave Letterman is just going to have to get his chops more if he expects to win in this business.
But going on to the ones who WERE snubbed:
Sons of Anarchy - for every category they could be nominated for.
Rescue Me - best drama, actor
24 - best supporting actor for the character of Charles Logan
Community - another one who should have been nominated in every comedy category
Other than Alec, 30 Rock shouldn't be nominated for ANYTHING this year. This season was a horrible (Baldwin was the only saving grace).
Fey. Her character has become a one-note Kathy cartoon in season four. Not worth a nomination.
But Weeds has been horrible for the past two seasons (which is too bad, since 1-3 were amazing).
Lost and True Blood notwithstanding, the Emmys continue to snub science fiction. The biggest snub is the Torchwood: Children of Earth miniseries. Ruth Wilson deserved a Best Actress in a Miniseries nomination for The Prisoner (glad to see Ian McKellen get one, though). And in a perfect world David Tennant and Bernard Cribbins would have received a nomination somewhere for their work on Doctor Who. The fact these are UK productions is irrelevant - count how many British shows have been given major nominations in the past, and they all aired on a US network, so they count.
BTW, Aziz Ansari and Nick Offerman for "Parks and Recreation".
Well, it got cancelled, so I'm not really surprised it didn't get nominated, but it still would've been nice to see Better Off Ted get a nom or two.
Also, I noticed Flashforward got 3 noms where "V" got only 1. Hey ABC, wanna re-think which to cancel. Of course not because you suck!
Gregory Itzin (Logan in 24) was nominated for male guest. That's why he's not in the supporting actors section.
Gregory Itzin (Logan in 24) was nominated for male guest. That's why he's not in the supporting actors section.
Holloway never got an Emmy nom before, so why would they start nominating now. He was fantastic throughout the series and should've had multiple noms, but oh well.
Side note: The finale to Lost was beyond awful. Just had to say that for the 100th time.
Christina Hendricks was hardly in Mad Men last season. I know the nominations are based on only one episode, so I am confident her accordian-playing snagged her the nomination.
I'm ashamed to admit I watch this, but Busy Philipps of "Cougarhoodville".
They nominated Hendricks because people (guys anyway) want to see her at award shows even if she doesn't win, which there's no way in hell she will.
I second "Better of Ted"!
Agree here. Plus, OK, even under the "submit one episode" caveat, what episode could she have possibly submitted? The one where she breaks the vase on Greg's head? If anyone other than Moss and Jones deserved a Mad Men nomination from last year it was Kiernan Shipka as Sally. She was tops.
Everyone loves Nick Offerman, but I think Ansari is the best/funniest actor on that show. He brings not only laughs but an added layer of pathos. Really great work.
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