74th Primetime Emmy Awards key dates and deadlines
The Television Academy, which puts on the Primetime Emmy Awards, has announced the key dates and deadlines (some of which began earlier this year) for the 74th Emmy Awards. Emmy nominations will be announced on Tuesday, July 12, the Primetime Emmys event will air live on NBC two months later on September 12, as well as see the return of the Governors Ball immediately following the show, a return after two years since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today, April 7, is the deadline for current voting members to apply for hyphenate voting status and for Associate members to apply to upgrade to Active voting membership.
The eligibility period for the 74th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be programs that aired between June 1, 2021, and May 31, 2022 and the deadline for submission and uploading of materials is May 12. The “Hanging episodes” rules remain in effect for any series that has a season that straddles two different eligibility periods. The Television Academy instituted several new rules to go into effect this year, including eliminating the program time length for comedy and drama series and splitting the stunt categories into two sections.
The Creative Arts Emmys will return to a two-night event, the weekend before the primetime show and air in an edited version on Saturday, September 10 that will air on FXX. The live primetime awards on Monday, September 12 is expected to return to the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles’ LA Live and will air live on NBC.
Here is the Emmys calendar for the 74th primetime awards.
February
February 10: Online entry process begins
March
March 31: Deadline to apply for membership to guarantee voting eligibility for both rounds of the 74th Emmy competition and to secure member entry fee discount. This date also applies to former members. Application must be completed and paid in order to qualify.
April
April 7: Deadline for current voting members to apply for hyphenate voting status and for Associate members to apply to upgrade to Active voting membership.
May
May 12, 6 p.m.: Entry deadline for ALL entries that were originally presented 6 p.m. – 2 a.m., June 1, 2021 – May 31, 2022 or content that identifies as Primetime programming by virtue of genre (including hanging episodes)
May 12, 6 p.m.: Upload deadline for all entry materials
June
June 16: Nominations-round voting begins
June 27, 10 p.m.: Nominations-round voting ends
July
Tuesday, July 12: Nominations announced
July 26: Deadline for errors and omissions to the nominations
August
Week of August 8 : Final-round videos available for viewing
August 12: Final-round voting begins
August 22, 10 p.m.: Final-round voting ends
August 24 – September 10: TV Academy Emmy nominee celebrations
September
September 3 and 4: Creative Arts Emmy Awards and Governors Balls
September 10 : 2022 Creative Arts Emmy Awards taped telecast on FXX
September 12: 74th Primetime Emmy Awards air live on NBC, followed by the Governors Ball
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