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JULY 16, 2021

What We’re Still Pondering About the Emmy Nominations

What a whirlwind week for Emmy season. We’ve got a host! And nominees!

I’m Rebecca Ford and Awards Insider spent much of the week focused on Tuesday’s Emmy nominations, diving deep into the results with the obsessiveness of Russell Crowe’s John Nash in A Beautiful Mind. We spoke to several of the nominees just hours after they found out, from Pose’s Mj Rodriguez (“This nomination is not just for me. It’s for my community.”) to WandaVision’s Elizabeth Olsen (“I like being an underdog”) and Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham (“I’m going to go and get hammered, and I don’t care who knows about it”). And we attempted to decipher the result’s biggest surprises (Emily in Paris?!?) and snubs (Small Axe). Plus, my Awards Insider colleague David Canfield and I had a conversation about how the streamers fared, from Hulu’s very good day (and Handmaid’s acting-nomination explosion) to Peacock’s disappointing debut (sorry, Girls5eva).

Speaking of streamers, this year’s nominations included an interesting twist that’s been a long time coming: In the network tallies, the TV Academy grouped nominations by conglomerate. So WarnerMedia’s HBO and HBO Max’s noms were combined for a total of 130—just one more than Netflix’s 129. A couple of the awards teams I spoke to felt that all the attention around the conglomerate consolidations took away from what could have been a shining moment for both HBO Max and Disney+, which both performed incredibly well. Disney+’s 71 nominations were a huge leap from its 19 in 2020. And HBO Max, which only launched in May 2020, earned 36 nominations, thanks to the power of Hacks and The Flight Attendant. If it were viewed as a stand-alone streamer, that would have been quite a feat for its first year.

Of course, Emmy nominations weren’t the only big awards news of the week. At the Cannes Film Festival, it seems we finally have some movies that could be at the start of their monthslong journey to the Oscars stage. Vanity Fair critic Richard Lawson fell hard for Norwegian romantic comedy The Worst Person in the World and says Simon Rex (yes, the former MTV VJ) is a revelation in Sean Baker’s Red Rocket.We’ll be diving even deeper into the Cannes of it all after tomorrow’s Palme d’Or reveal (remember that the reigning champ is 2019’s Parasite), but until then take a look at our obsessive Emmy nominations coverage or peruse reviews of our favorite films debuting on the French Riviera—they go down nicely with a glass of rosé.