The first statuette depicting a winged woman holding an atom was given to Shirley Dinsdale for Outstanding Personality on Jan. 25, 1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club. The award was the first of six presented at the first Emmys by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Over 50 years later, there are dozens of award categories and nominees for the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards. The prestigious award ceremony will be hosted by American actor, comedian and game show host Cedric the Entertainer. Many winners of the various categories will be announced live tonight on CBS at 7 p.m. CST, but some categories have winners already. Held across three ceremonies on Sept. 11 and Sept. 12, the Creative Arts Emmys featured winners in outstanding artistic and technical achievement, with the addition of winners in the animation, reality and documentary categories.
var divElement = document.getElementById(‘viz1632093536392’); var vizElement = divElement.getElementsByTagName(‘object’)[0]; vizElement.style.width=’100%’;vizElement.style.height=(divElement.offsetWidth*0.75)+’px’; var scriptElement = document.createElement(‘script’); scriptElement.src = ‘https://public.tableau.com/javascripts/api/viz_v1.js’; vizElement.parentNode.insertBefore(scriptElement, vizElement);
GRAPHIC BY OLIVIA GYAPONG/ASST. DATA EDITOR
TV show enthusiast and MU junior Abby Uphoff felt “Queer Eye” winning Outstanding Structured Reality Program was well deserved. However, after RuPaul won Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program for “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Uphoff had mixed feelings about the results.
“The show’s been experiencing a lot of controversy with RuPaul saying some pretty suspicious comments about not allowing transgender contestants to compete, even though the show is a big proponent of the LGBT community,” Uphoff said.
There are still many awards to be announced at the live show tonight, and with that comes others’ picks and predictions.
TV show fanatic and MU senior Jake Mosher and Ramsay Wise, a Film Studies instructor at MU, both agree Jason Sudeikis should win Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Even Rolling Stone predicts Sudeikis will win.
Mosher believes “Ted Lasso,” the show Sudeikis stars in, will win several awards in the comedy categories. Additionally, Mosher, Wise and Rolling Stone anticipate “Ted Lasso” will take home the award for Outstanding Comedy Series.
In the comedy and drama categories, there are several opinions on who should win the Outstanding Lead Actress awards. While Mosher hopes Jean Smart from “Hacks” will win the comedy category, Rolling Stone acknowledges that it’s a “tough call” between Kaley Cuoco from “The Flight Attendant” and Smart. For drama, Uphoff dislikes that Elisabeth Moss, who stars in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” was nominated because of her contrasting identifications as a feminist and Scientologist.
Another group to look out for this year is the Limited or Anthology Series and Movie categories. Wise points out that the Limited or Anthology category contains notable nominees.
“It’s really tough,” Wise said. “You’ve got ‘WandaVision’ which is extremely cool. You’ve got ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ which was really cool. You’ve got Mare of Easttown,’ which I haven’t seen, but it’s supposed to be fantastic. And then, you’ve got ‘The Underground Railroad’… I read the book and it’s a masterpiece.”
Although Rolling Stone believes “The Underground Railroad” should win, they foresee that it will not.
“That voters largely ignored Underground in other major categories suggests it doesn’t have the broad-based support to win,” according to Rolling Stone. “At last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmys, it couldn’t even win for cinematography, where it should have been an easy victor as one of the most beautiful-looking television shows ever made.”
Besides the Limited or Anthology Series Award, the nominees in the Outstanding Lead Actor Award raised some controversy. Rolling Stone argues that Paul Bettany from “WandaVision” should win because two nominees are from the musical “Hamilton,” so they shouldn’t qualify. The reason actors Lin-Manuel Miranda and Leslie Odom Jr. were placed into this category is because of the film version of the stage show, which the Emmys nominated. On this technicality, Uphoff shares the same sentiments, feeling like it may be unfair.
“Some of the TV actors have only gotten one chance to compete in their show for this, and [Miranda and Odom] have already won or received Tony Awards, which is an entirely separate thing,” Uphoff said.
Who will actually win all of these categories at the Emmys this year is in the hands of the voters, and there will be strong opinions no matter the results.
Edited by Shannon Worley | sworley@themaneater.com