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2016 Emmys: Voting Begins Today; Ballots Reveal Some Odd Submissions

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Voting begins today for the 68th Emmy Awards and with that is the release of the official ballots those nominations will be based on. Covering all aspects of television from directing to acting to sound and animation, the ballots often reveal the strategy of a studio, network or individual based on an episode submission and category placement. This year is no different and I’ve zeroed in on some strange and even unfortunate ones. Sometimes there are contractual obligations for submitting but sometimes it just seems foolish. Shows that submit, say, a single episode for Writing (as black-ish did) stand a very good shot at a nomination vs a show that submits too many to choose from (as Girls did, submitting six). The Americans, which was nominated in Writing last year, smartly submitted a single episode (the season finale).

Here is a handful of those submissions:

PERFORMERS

-Chris Messina (The Mindy Project) – Lead Actor in a Comedy Series instead of Supporting.
-Noah Galvin (The Real O’Neals) – Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series instead of Lead while co-star Jay Ferguson is in Lead (instead of Supporting).
-Brett Dalton, Elizabeth Henstridge, Chloe Bennett (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) – all submitted in Lead instead of Supporting.
-Matt Bomer (American Horror Story: Hotel) – Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie instead of Supporting.
-Jamie Lee Curtis (Scream Queens) – Lead Actress in a Comedy Series instead of Supporting.
-Lili Taylor (American Crime) – Lead Actress in a Drama Series instead of Supporting.
-Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live) – Listed together, not separately for Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

SERIES

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp submitted in Comedy Series and not Limited Series.
The X-Files submitted in Drama Series and not Limited Series.
Horace & Pete submitted in Drama Series and not Limited Series.

WRITING

Fear the Walking Dead submitted 11 of its 16 episodes. Ash vs. Evil Dead submitted eight, as did Modern Family, a two-time winner in this category. Shameless, Better Call Saul, House of Cards all submitted seven. Blunt Talk submitted six.

DIRECTING

Better Call Saul submitted a whopping nine of its ten episodes (sorry, Colin Bucksey, director of “Inflatable”), Survivor’s Remorse submitted seven, as did Vinyl (including the Martin Scorsese-directed pilot). Ash vs. Evil Dead, Girls submit six episodes.

Here are the full ballots in every Emmy category at your fingertips. Expect lots of conversation in the next month before the July 14th announcement of the 68th Emmy Nominations.

Animation PDF
Art Direction PDF
Casting PDF
Cinematography PDF
Commercial PDF
Costumes PDF
Directing PDF
Documentary/Nonfiction Program PDF
Hairstyling/Makeup PDF
Host – Reality/Reality-Competition PDF
Interactive Program PDF
Lighting Design/Lighting Direction PDF
Main Title Design PDF
Nonfiction Cinematography PDF
Nonfiction Directing PDF
Nonfiction Picture Editing PDF
Nonfiction Sound Editing PDF
Nonfiction Sound Mixing PDF
Nonfiction Writing PDF
Performer PDF
Picture Editing PDF
Program PDF
Reality Cinematography PDF
Reality Picture Editing PDF
Sound Editing PDF
Sound Mixing PDF
Stunt Coordination PDF
Special Visual Effects PDF
Technical Direction PDF
Writing PDF
Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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