Can someone explain “best casting”? Who gets the award? The actors, the casting agents, the show runners, the show itself? I don’t get that one at all and haven’t paid attention in prior years.
Is Nurse Jackie a comedy because it’s 30 minutes long?
(Though presumably if the Emmy’s work like the Oscars, it is a comedy because the producers say it is.)
The Casting Director(s).
What does a casting director do? (Please don’t say they direct the casting.) 
I’d really like Modern Family to sweep the comedy categories away from Glee, which I do not like but foresee winning.
Every adult cast member on Modern Family got a nomination except Ed O’Neill - ouch.
Does Hollywood-At-Large still hold a grudge against Ed O’Neill’s Al Bundy character? Inexplicable. 
They advise the casting, then? From what I understand, the producer has final say on who to cast for what role, but the casting director is there to recommend actors and give the producer one less thing to worry about. For instance, the producer might already have the perfect leading man for a picture, so the casting director would find a love interest that has good on screen chemistry with the lead. Then there are those minor roles the producer doesn’t want to spend to much of his time on. And someone has to hire all those extras who walk around the background.
An experienced casting director will have a good list of contacts she can go back to suggest the right person to play the goofy waiter or drug dealer in the park. The same woman casts The Office and Judd Apatow movies, which is why you see so many actors who have popped up in both.
The job of casting director is kind of unique in that is a prestigious role in a production (they are listed in the opening credits of a movie) that is almost entirely dominated by women.
If you are a Community fan who is disappointed in the show being locked out of the Emmys, you might want to focus your anger at NBC. The network probably felt they only had so much ability to help get their shows nominated so they threw their weight behind their senior comedy, The Office, and the three time winner, 30 Rock.
I hope Larry David doesn’t win for best comedy actor. He’s playing himself :-/
I think it should be Jim Parsons. He’s really acting his balls off playing Sheldon.
Community not getting any noms is complete bullshit. It’s streets ahead of any of those other comedies.
If Bryan Cranston doesn’t win best dramatic actor I will set myself on fire in protest.
Why is that, do you think? Come to think of it, a lot of personnel directors I’ve known have been women. Is it a job that men didn’t want or that women were better at?
I really should read a good history of movie-making.
ETA: Forgot to say thanks – thanks!
Jim Parsons is basically Sheldon in real life in terms of voice and mannerisms. He is just saying his lines and nothing more. An insignificant amount of acting.
While I like “Modern Family” to some extent, most of the nominated actors are just place fillers or worse. Ed O’Neill is the only really good actor with Sofía Vergara the only other one who can act well enough.
Reminds me of “Everybody Loves Raymond.” Only one great actor in the cast and guess which was the only one of the principals that never won an Emmy?
I was thinking about the “Community” snub more. Obviously the Emmy voters love “Glee” and “Community” has slammed “Glee” a few times. So maybe a little payback there.
I don’t think it’s anything that sinister. Emmy voters are traditionally lazy and instead of actually watching the screeners they’re sent to make a decision based on actual merit, they’d rather just nominate the same people over and over and be done with it.
I agree that “Community” deserves to be given some more recognition (as does “Sons of Anarchy,” “Party Down,” “Chuck,” and “Parks & Rec”) but it’s actually quite a feat that “Glee” got the attention it did in its first year. It usually takes the voters a couple of years to notice a show.
Well, if this is the case:
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Boo for NBC, because Community is about the funniest thing on TV right now and they should be proud of it, and The Office was nowhere near as good this year as it has been in the past.
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If this is the way the nominating process works (i.e. only shows that are actively campagined for by their networks have a chance), then it’s a broken process anyway, so my disappointment is therefore tempered.
Yep if that’s the case NBC did a stupid thing to prop up a dying show and ignoring their extremely good up and comer which just happens to be the funniest thing on tv.
Biggest snub of all was Dean Norris. I was convinced he was going to WIN best supporting actor this year, and he didn’t even get a nomination. WTF, Emmy?
I want Archie Panjabi to win Best Supporting Actress because Kalinda (besides being an awesome name) is awesome, and probably the most underrated role on TV right now.
You’d just be splitting the vote by nominating two guys from one show, right? Edit: Since Aaron Paul got the nom for best supporting actor.
You mean like as opposed to spliting the best supporting comedy actor between all of the Modern Family people?
Honestly, this was not Aaron Paul’s year. Season 1/2, definitely. Season 3, no.
While I know the Emmys get a lot of things wrong (no love for The Shield, esp Chiklis, in its last season?), it is possible that the Emmy voters just plain old don’t like Community. I watch it. It’s ok enough. But I didn’t even notice it wasn’t nominated for anything because it didn’t show up on my Emmy radar. It didn’t surprise me at all. I’m not saying I’m right, but I could see someone forgetting about it at nomination time.
Re Community, I watched a couple of repeats last night after hearing the raves here. I liked it a lot, but the dialogue was too snappy for my old brain. It seemed that every line was potentially funny, but it was hard to appreciate, it went by so quickly. Reminded me of Gilmore Girls. Did Emmy like Gilmore Girls?
Maybe Emmy voters old and tired, like me, and want their TV to proceed at a slower pace.