Did the casting directors call it? Among the past week’s Emmy winners were the casting teams for “Succession,” “Schitt’s Creek” and “Watchmen.” Those…
— will exit with bragging rights. After five days and 100 Creative Arts Emmy awards, as of Saturday night, the two titans entered the Sunday thunderdome at a tie: 19 awards each.
Playing a slightly surprising spoiler to this year’s competition: Disney Plus, which scored a strong eight Emmys in its first year of eligibilty, including seven for freshman sensation “The Mandalorian.” Besides seven early wins for “Watchmen,” and “Succession,” HBO’s wins have included incumbent variety talk show victor “Last Week Tonight,” which also won for outstanding writing for a variety series and picture editing for variety programming.
“Watchmen’s” wins so far included casting for a limited series, movie or special; cinematography for a limited series or movie; sound editing for a limited series, movie or special; sound mixing for a limited series or movie; single-camera picture editing for a limited series or movie; fantasy/sci-fi costumes; and music composition for a limited series, movie or special — which went to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Netflix’s history-making tally was the most ever for a network, but HBO’s “Watchmen” led all programs in nominations thus year with 26 nods. On the comedy side, Amazon Prime Video’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” led the nomination crop with 20 . The leading dramas were Netflix’s “Ozark” and HBO’s “Succession,” both of which pulled 18 nods.
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