It is, somehow, awards season again. Perhaps awards season never actually ends? At any rate, Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and genre shows made a respectable showing. I’m not sure I ever expected to write the words “Emmy nominee Fallout,” but the Prime Video videogame adaptation is up for Outstanding Drama Series, and Walton Goggins is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his work as the Ghoul. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are also nominated for writing the episode “The End.”
True Detective: Night Country, one of the most satisfying series of recent years, is nominated in just about every category possible. The series is nominated for Outstanding Limited Series or Anthology Series; Jodie Foster is up for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie; John Hawkes for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series; and Kali Reis for Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series. The show as a whole is also nominated for outstanding casting, cinematography, costuming, editing, makeup, music supervision, and writing and directing (for showrunner Issa López).
This nomination makes Reis—along with Lily Gladstone (who’s nominated in the same category for Under the Bridge)—one of the first two Indigenous women to be nominated for acting Emmys. And at least one other Indigenous performer is on the list this year: D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, for his work in Reservation Dogs.
Reservation Dogs is also up for Outstanding Comedy Series, which it well deserves, and for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (Half Hour), specifically for “Deer Lady”
What We Do in the Shadows is also nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series, and Matt Berry is up for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Jake Bender and Zach Dunn are nominated for writing the episode “Pride Parade.”
And 3 Body Problem has a nomination for Outstanding Drama Series, as well as one for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (One Hour) for “Judgment Day.”
The Emmys are one of the rare awards that recognizes stunt work, and this year Twisted Metal and What We Do in the Shadows are recognized for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for Comedy, while Fallout gets the same nod but for drama, and Fallout and The Continental earned nominations specifically for Outstanding Stunt Performance.
When you dig into the slightly-less-attention-getting categories, there’s more good stuff to be found:
- X-Men ’97, Scavengers Reign, and Blue Eye Samurai are nominated for Outstanding Animated Program.
- The Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes category is full of things we like: Ahsoka, Echo, Fallout, Loki, and What We Do in the Shadows.
- Ahsoka also gets a nomination for hairstyling.
- Fallout and 3 Body Problem are also recognized for editing (Fallout for “The Ghouls” and “The End” and 3BP for “Judgment Day”).
- Fallout, Silo, and 3 Body Problem are nominated for Outstanding Main Title Design.
- Fallout also has a nomination for makeup, which makes sense, given Goggins’ nose situation.
- Ahsoka and The Witcher pop up in the prosthetic makeup category, along with True Detective: Night Country, again.
- Silo also gets a nod for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series.
- Ahsoka, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Fallout, Avatar: The Last Airbender, True Detective: Night Country, Loki, Black Mirror, What We Do in the Shadows, and 3 Body Problem are nominated in the assorted sound editing and mixing categories.
- Ahsoka, Fallout, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Loki, True Detective: Night Country are nominated in the various visual effects categories.
