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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Party Down.
No Hannah Montana?!
WHAT ABOUT ARMY WIVES....GREAT ACTORS, GREAT SHOW....
For Donald Glover or that Abed guy on Community to not be recognized in supporting is a shame.
Is Wipeout nominated for anything? I hope it beats the crap out of that amazing race bs.
The Tudors. The show, Henry Cavalle and Johnathan Rhys Meyers.
Ugly Betty...Becky Newton and Michael Urie.
josh holloway.
Khandi Alexander from "Treme" - she was amazing.
John Noble from "Fringe" - obviously the Emmys dislike genre shows, but his performance in the role of Walter Bishop is terrifically weird and nuanced.
FNL for best show.
hello???! 24 got the biggest snub of them all!!!
It's a high crime that RuPaul and her(his) show was snubbed. Errr....
yes, yes...John Noble. I've said it here before.
He's terrific in his role.
Yep, you had to say it for the 100th time, and yet it was no less obnoxious than the first time.
I watch Fringe, but I'm not on the John Noble kick like everyone else. It feels one-note and forced and I don't buy the wild swings into drama. Plus that season was a thematic mess, so I'm okay with him being left out.
As for Friday Night Lights: Best show ever? Yes.
Fey deserved a nomination for her Dealbreakers meltdown episode alone. Probably her best 30 Rock work to date.
Supporting Actor in a Drama has gotta be the laziest awards category I've ever seen. I love Michael Emerson and John Slattery, but their characters' seasons were not as good as the preceding ones. Meanwhile, their costars, Nestor Carbonell and Vincent Kartheiser, who both turned in their best work yet, got left in the dust. On top of that, I have no idea how Andre Braugher is "Supporting". And that's not to mention John Noble, who should've had a nomination sewn up after the last 4 episodes of Fringe aired.
I thought this was supposed to be the final season for FNL? I mean, I so hope I'm wrong. It's always been amazing.
No.
There is one more season after the one airing on NBC right now.
Wave... like a human being. Funniest moment in the show's history.
BZZT!
I agree on Noble and Alexander. It looks like Treme is going to go criminally ignored just as Simon's The Wire (THE Best show ever) also was.
Good news!
Ditto that!
I am very glad that Chandra Wilson didn't get nominated. Grey's Anatomy is not that great of a show and Wilson is overrated and she is the type of actress that will have a harder time get nominations in the future. Cable TV or tv shows that aren't focused on the medical field are start to dominate TV more. Mad Men is a show that is unique and the characters of Peggy and Joan are characters of the past and they aren't recycled characters. The character Chandra Wilson plays is basically a recycled character of other characters from past medical TV shows. Christina Hendricks and Elisabeth Moss deserved nominations and voters did the right thing by voting for them instead of Wilson and Oh Cable networks will probably snatch up the better actors and actresses of broadcast TV. The better actors and actresses of broadcast have been constantly ignored by Emmy voters. This year the Emmys got it right by nominating Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton. In the future Emmy voters will focus more on cable TV shows because those shows tend to be character driven and avoid a lot of cliches. Actresses like Oh and Wilson would flop on cable TV. They don't have subtle acting skills and Wilson's diction is horrible.
I wouldn't consider Wilson not getting nominated a snub because she has been nominated in the past and she doesn't have much critical acclaim.
Who cares? All these awards are a bunch of BS! They just want your ratings! Please do not watch this celebrity worship BS!
WTF is "Better of Ted"?? Was I drunk when I wrote that?
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