Voting for Emmy nominations ends Monday. Along the way, there were awards parties and vote-for-me pleas from the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Julia Roberts.
Do these promotions work? Zach Galifianakis manned a Hollywood Arby’s takeout window for several hours last year, handing out dozens of roast beef sandwiches to Television Academy members. Maybe the meal didn’t sit well. After being nominated for “Baskets” in 2017, Galifianakis wasn’t among last year’s nominees.
The for-your-consideration events tend to be earnest affairs, featuring a screening, followed by a rote Q&A and then a reception, affording voters the chance, per one network consultant, to “put three sliders in their bag so they can have something for lunch the next day.”THE ENVELOPE: News and features about awards season »
That “Homecoming” panel took place on a Sunday morning, drawing hundreds of the academy’s 24,000-plus voting members. Earlier this year, the TV Academy, responding to gripes from networks and streamers, instituted a lottery system to attend these Emmy events, presumably so the same people wouldn’t dominate the turnout night after night.
Ahead of nominations balloting, the academy also clarified its rules prohibiting block voting and quid-pro-quo deal-making and then, last week, brought the hammer down on an unspecified number of voters found guilty of violating the regulations.
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