American Idol Nominated for 8 Emmys
Emmy Nominations are out and Idol is nominated 8 times. SYTYCD 5 times. DWTS 10 times: Emmy List
Nominations for American Idol
1. Outstanding Art Direction for Variety, Music or Non-Fiction Programming: Show 821 – Top 13 Performance Night – Michael Jackson (1st hour?)
2. Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series: Show 833 – Top 3 – Performance Night
3. Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic, Multi-Camera) For Variety, Music or Comedy Programing: Finale
4. Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program: Ryan Seacrest as Host
5. Outstanding Reality – Competition Program
6. Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety or Music Series or Special: Finale
7. Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming: 801/02 – Phoenix (Bikini Girl, Michael Sarver, Alex Wagner Trugman, Scott MacIntyre) – Hour 1 and 2
8. Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For a Series: Episode 834A – Finale
Nominations for So You Think You Can Dance
Outstanding Choreographer
1. Outstanding Choreographer : Bleeding Love: Tabitha D’umo and Napolean D’umo
2. Outstanding Choreographer : Mercy: Mia Michaels
3. Outstanding Choreographer : Adam and Eve/Silence: Tyce Diorio
4. Outstanding Choreographer: A Los Amigos: Dmitry Chaplin
5. Outstanding Makeup for a Multi-Camera Series or Special (Non-Prosthetic): 421/422A
Nominations for Dancing With the Stars
1. Outstanding Choreography: Jive/Great Balls of Fire: Derek Hough and Julianne Hough
2. Outstanding Short Form Picture Editing: Head to Head (710A)
3. Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or Special : 709
4. Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic, Multi-Camera) For Vairety, Music or Comedy Programing
5. Outstanding Makeup for a Multi-Camera Series or Special (Non-Prosthetic): 804
6. Outstanding Music Direction: 710A
7. Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program: Tom Bergeron as Host
8. Outstanding Reality – Competition Program
9. Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming: 710A
10. Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For a Series: 802A
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74 Responses to “American Idol Nominated for 8 Emmys”
Add me to the list of people who don’t think Cat should have been snubbed….
I liked all the numbers nominated for choreography though!
Sassycatz said:
Here is an interesting historical footnote that is relevant to this issue that seems to disprove part of what Sassycatz said above:
In 1986, Whitney Houston was nominated for a Grammy for “Best R&B Vocal Performance” for the song “You Give Good Love.” She appeared on the Grammy show and performed the song but she did not win the Grammy. But later the same year she was nominated for and won the Emmy for “Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program” for her performance of that song on the Grammy show.
Is that weird or what?
It seems odd to me that Whitney Houston could win an Emmy for singing one song on an awards show on which she was a “contestant” for a Grammy, and Adam Lambert is not eligible for an Emmy nomination after giving us an entire season of amazing performances.
P.S. I believe the Emmy category for “Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program” was dropped at some point, perhaps because of the weirdness of Whitney’s win.
Q3, thanks for clearing this up!
This means the show nominated was the one where Kris sang “Heartless”, was it not? Judges’ choice, producer’s choice, and contestant’s choice? Yeah, good show.
im happy to see bleeding love nominated, it was one of the standout routines of last season
Cat’s snub proves that nobody is watching this show. I also worry if some might reduce her hosting skills to simply standing up there, looking pretty (grrrrr)…..i just dont know the exact breakdown of who votes for each category, and if people get a chance to watch all of the shows/hosts on the nomiation list.
Tom and Ryan should be the top two vote getters……but Tom is less annoying and probably more respected in the industry…i can see him getting the win over Ry Ry
A directing award for Top 3 would bother me, as they had to cut an entire song from each contestant in order to fit the show into the 60-minute run time. That is not good directing. That is lazy directing. Dammit.
I love Probst, I really do. But, he’s already got one. And, he does one live show a season. He hosts a taped show where half of the time he uses cue cards. I’d just personally like to see Ryan rewarded for the difficult task her performs. And, I too would like to see Cat nominated – she’s awesome.
There is no Emmy category for reality or game show contestant. The Emmy’s reward actors, hosts and the people behind the cameras for creating allegedly good tv. They don’t reward random strangers for being themselves. I can’t imagine them giving an Emmy to that guy who won Jeopardy 27 times, so I don’t know why they’d give an Emmy to a contestant on a Reality singing competition.
Plus – I don’t want to see any category where the skanks on Rock of Love are eligible for an Emmy.
They treat the Oscars and Grammy’s as Variety or Music programs for the basis of Outstanding Program nominations. So, I guess that’s the line of thought that made her eligible.
I believe that category was dropped because every year, you’d have Barry Manilow and Stephen Colbert competing against Don Rickles and total weirdness like that. And that’s exactly why I would guess they are not going to launch a new Emmy for Outstanding Performance by a Person Appearing or Competing on a Reality Show or Reality Competition. (The name is silly enough.)
And no, appearing on an awards program as a musical guest is not the same as being a competitor on a reality show. They were “competing” for a Grammy or an Emmy or whatever based on work that was already in the can, not on that particular performance. So Whitney Houston did not win an award for a performance that had already lost her an award. Do you think the Grammys vote for two hours after like AI?
Aside from the difficulty of naming this new, silly award, there are problems of how you define who is eligible — is it any old body who appeared even once or somebody who was in every episode or only a certain number of episodes? Do you split it up for males and females like they do the acting awards? Do you need to create categories for “guest” performances for the people who were there only a few times like they do for scripted shows, meaning we might have not just one new award but four? And what criteria do you use for judging whether Joan Rivers was a better reality show contestant than Cloris Leachman? Is obnoxiousness the best criterion? Or is it just “being somebody I personally really liked who didn’t win his show so I want to give him an Emmy to prove how hard he worked and how awesome he is and was”? In which case, I suppose we could just call it the Adam Lambert Award, hand it over to the one and only possible nominee, and not worry about figuring out eligibility or judging standards.
I can see it now. Meryl Streep just handed an award to Sir Ian McKellen for his stellar work as King Lear. And then Johnny Fairplay gets up there and announces, “The nominees for Outstanding Performance by a Person Appearing or Competing on a Reality Show or Reality Competition are: Some guy who cleaned toilets on “Dirty Work,” Omarosa, Jason Mesnick, Janice Dickinson, that guy who broke his ox on Amazing Race, and Bikini Girl. And the winner is…”
I wholeheartedly disagree with this statement. Ryan kept that train wreck of a show moving against some pretty stiff obstacles this year. The timing, direction and production were abysmal. Not to mention the freak accidents that had to be dealt with.
Adam’s contribution was no more or less than any other contestant. He did what he was selected to do. He sang each week. Not exactly earth shattering. In addition he was one of thirteen.
Cat Deeley was robbed. I may need a t-shirt proclaiming this sentiment. She is absolutely brilliant at managing that production. She keeps the audience at home and in the studio involved and engaged, keeps the judges in line and seems to nurture the contestants. I heart her.
It’s a fine line, but the Grammy show performance was not a factor in whether Whitney won the Grammy. The vote was already in, right? In contrast, competition television shows, whether labelled as talent shows, game shows, or reality shows are the vehicles upon which these contestants compete and become known. As I said, I don’t know why contestants are not eligible but it does have the potential for impacting the integrity of the shows involved if they were. So, I’m perfectly fine with how it’s currently handled, or gosh darn it! Let’s backtrack and give the other compelling Idols Emmys, because Adam would not have been the first to grab the viewing public’s attention.
By the way, as an aside, I have to say that I hate that the Awards show broadcasts are eligible for awards. That’s long been a pet peeve of mine.
What Adam did for this show is so amazing!! People(like myself) that never took this cheesy show seriously was so blown away because of Lambert(and him alone). Breaks my heart to see everybody grabbing a piece of him, but Adam is so gracious , humble and mad talented so it won’t affect him at all-might help. I understand that AI is a business but give credit where it’s due. Adam is the bomb ok? to all of you intellectuals and skeptics be truthful to yourselves and the rest of us.
I’m not really sure what this means, but a) there is no way to add a category in time to either nominate or give any Emmy to Adam Lambert for his performance on AI this season, and b) there is no guarantee, even if you could magically go back in time and bribe and/or drug all the people who run the Academy to add this award for the 2008-2009 season, that they would nominate your beloved bomb. Even if you narrow it down to Reality Show Competitors (as opposed to just people who sold their old pots on “Antiques Road Show”) I still think Joan Rivers, Dennis Rodman, Janice Dickinson, Speidi and that Coach guy from Survivor would be more likely to be nominated than Adam Lambert. If you let in any reality contestants, then the freaks from Jon & Kate Plus 8 have got it in the bag.
AI and Ryan were nominated for Emmys last year before they showed a single frame of Adam on the show. AI has been nominated for Emmys for years. I think that they might just deserve the Emmy nominations on their own (except Bruce).
No contestant on AI is eligible to win an Emmy for their role on the show this year. It’s not some sort of exception just to thwart Adam. And every year we get testimonials from people who never watched the show, but got drawn in by such-and-such a contestant.
Hee. Some of those people probably deserve Emmys too. LOL. I love that kooky show.
A reality show participant Emmy would be a truly bizarre category with so many divergent people being nominated.
In terms of viewership, Adam’s contribution wasn’t significant enough. This year the evening of the final performances had the lowest television ratings ever for an AI final performance.
American Idol Ratings
Every year there are viewers who tune in for the first time ever because they are beguiled by a particular performer.
Adam is the bomb ok? to all of you intellectuals and skeptics be truthful to yourselves and the rest of us.
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^ And as such, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences nominate him for an Emmy? because he’s “the bomb”. It’s not like they will give an Idol contestant who didn’t even win Idol an honorary Emmy. Because his very ardent fans consider him “the bomb”. Wow.
Here’s the 19E official release on the Emmys with the list of who is up for each award. And it confirms that 833 is the Final Three episode.
I believe the whole show is nominated.
Word to that jan. The ratings were down across the boards last year. The shows from previous years had more viewers.
I think Ryan deserves the nomination and I think he deserves to win. He does a fantastic job on American Idol year after year. He is great at what he does and keeps the show going.
I am with smartcookie I do not understand this statement:
Are you saying that intellectuals and skeptics don’t like Adam? Well I resemble that remark and I take it as a compliment.
LOL…yeah, those little creepsters would probably nab the win.
man, there are so many reality show these days (housewives,model shows, cooking shows, D list celebrities stuck in houses, islands, etc)…its impossible to narrow down one specific personality that would/should deserve an emmy.
Could be. It’s just a little odd that they didn’t reference both hours (the entire two hours is 821/822) while they did with the Phoenix episode (801/802). Might be a typo or the rules might be different for that category. Or, it’s an art direction award so they didn’t need to submit full episodes. IDK.
Idol does not deserve either director or show nominations. How many times did the show go overtime? Just about every episode since the final 13.
I’m ok with Ryan’s nomination – I don’t see him at fault for the time issues. However I feel Cat Deely definitely deserves a nomination. I’m not sure why Padma is nominated for Top Chef – the show has a co host as well for pete’s sake. I would replace Padma and Tom with Cat.
I would also replace AI series nomination with So You Think You Can Dance.
So true – last year I watched for the first time (even then not every week) because of cook and castro.
I think the AI nomination for top 3 is lame. This is the episode where AI had to cut a song from each contestant in order to make time for their judges yapping, and even then the show ended 2 minutes late.
Now if the AI directing nomination went to the AI finale I would be all for that. The finale was the most entertaining finale of the season AND it named a new Idol AND it ended on time.
I still advocate for the “no directing awards,” but from the point of view of a viewer, I see why the the Top 3 was nominated. It was a huge turning point for the series, with Kris’ Heartless, which I think, “re-wrote” a rather obvious “script” for the finale. But that it hardly amounts to “directing,” the technical concept, but it indeed took the show in a different “direction” after the Heartless performance.
And, still a “no win for directing” for Bruce Gowers, pls., lest we want to make him think he did an incredible job with Season 8.
I love Ryan, but I personally would vote for Tom Bergeron. He’s an excellent host.
I think some fans are confusing the Emmys with the People’s Choice awards. Emmys are television professionals giving awards to tv professionals. Amateur singers are out of scope. If the public has been touched by a particular performance, that’s where awards like People’s Choice and American Music awards come in. The public votes for those.