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EMMYS: Record 11 Black Actors & Actresses Nominated Across All Categories
By ANTHONY D'ALESSANDRO | Thursday July 10, 2014 @ 12:57pm PDTTags: Andre Braugher, Cecily Tyson, Emmy Awards, Joe Morton, Kerry Washington
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EMMYS: Record 11 Black Actors & Actresses Nominated Across All CategoriesLast year Kerry Washington and Don Cheadle made Emmy history as two African American actors breaking through the lead acting categories at the same time with nominations. Not only did they both earn nominations again this year, but a total of 11 Black actors and actresses were nominated across all acting categories — the most since 1977 when Roots racked up nine nominations for its castmembers according to TV Academy stats (Roots wound up winning trophies for Olivia Hope and Louis Gossett Jr). Last year Washington’s nom for Scandal repped the first in nearly two decades for a black actress, the last being Cicely Tyson in 1995′s Sweet Justice. This year, Washington will be running into Tyson on the red carpet as she’s also up for an nomination in the lead movie/miniseries actress category for The Trip to Bountiful. Another big year for Black thesps was 1986, when The Cosby Show earned eight acting nominations and a guest comedy actor win for Roscoe Lee Browne. Typically the Emmys, similar to the Oscars, has been criticized for a lack of diversity in the past.

mark evan jackson“It’s a testament to the storytelling that is going on out there,” Andre Braugher, who plays Captain Ray Holt on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, said this morning about the record. “If you look at what Fox is doing with diverse comedies, there’s The Mindy Project and our show. There’s a new dimension of half-hour comedies that don’t depend on stereotypes or the boxes we put people in. I play a gay police captain on Brooklyn Nine-Nine and I’m not the butt of the joke. That’s revolutionary for TV.”

Added Cheadle about the trend, “It definitely reps a widening of the storytelling and more inclusive ideology of the shared stories and experiences we all have. It’s creeping toward something, but there’s still a lack of recognition for other nationalities. It’s definitely better, but it’s not something you can pin too much on as a trend since next year could be lower.”

Of the 11 this year, there’s Washington in Scandal (lead drama actress), Joe Morton also in Scandal (guest actor drama), Cheadle in House Of Lies (lead actor comedy series), Braugher for Brooklyn Nine-Nine (supporting comedy actor), Chiwetel Ejiofor in Starz’s Dancing On The Edge, Idris Elba for Luther (both in movie/miniseries actor category), Tyson in Trip to Bountiful (lead actress movie/miniseries), Angela Bassett in American Horror Story: Coven (movie/miniseries supporting actress), Reg. E. Cathey in House Of Cards (guest actor drama), and Uzo Aduba and Laverne Cox in Orange Is The New Black (both guest actress comedy series).

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2014 Emmy Nominations [View all] , Marauder21, Thu Jul-10-14 10:30 AM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
Is it common for two eps of the same show to get writing nominations?
Jul 10th 2014
1
Yes
Jul 10th 2014
3
Yeah, and Ozymandias should win.
Jul 10th 2014
6
How do you make a choice?
Jul 10th 2014
2
I don't see how they pass on Cranston in BB's final season
Jul 10th 2014
4
I choose Cranston and Pizzolatto. Easy.
Jul 10th 2014
5
      Yep.
Jul 13th 2014
18
Math might be off...
Jul 10th 2014
7
I like House of Cards, but I kind of agree
Jul 10th 2014
9
I wonder why HBO went series with TD instead of mini-series?
Jul 11th 2014
10
How is Treme considered a miniseries, but True Detective isn't?
Jul 11th 2014
13
      HBO wanted to double up on acting awards.
Jul 11th 2014
14
           but now MM may not get one at all
Jul 14th 2014
20
had minor hope Always Sunny would get some sort of recognition
Jul 11th 2014
11
Jeffrey Wright... snubbed.
Jul 11th 2014
12
The great Kurt Sutter, on being snubbed yet again (swipe)
Jul 11th 2014
15
shitbird
Jul 11th 2014
16
No baby, no baby, nooo
Jul 11th 2014
17
fuck Kurt Sutter
Jul 14th 2014
21
      Exactly
Jul 14th 2014
22
      Lets be clear: I couldn't give 5 fucks about that show.
Jul 14th 2014
23
Eastbound & McBride got robbed
Jul 13th 2014
19

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