June 15 is the day that voting for nominations for the upcoming Emmy Awards begins, and the Emmys website has a pointer to the voting area up. In the past, all of the ballots were put online, except in the few categories (e.g. music, choreography, voiceovers) where there is a “screening round” and not everyone in that branch of the Academy votes, which meant that everybody could know, for example, which actors submitted which episodes of their series for Emmy consideration.
However, this year, apparently the ballot lists are now behind the firewall, which not only means that non-members cannot see who submitted what (until the nominations are announced, and even then, only the nominees’ submissions will be listed), but even if you know somebody in the Academy, presumably only the categories for which they can enter nominations will be available to them (so if you want to see all of them, you need to know somebody in the writers’ branch, somebody in the actors’ branch, somebody in the directors’ branch, somebody in the animation branch, and so on)…
The actual really stupid part is that each showrunner can nominate his show for whatever category he wants to.
This leads to ridiculousness like Orange is the New Black, Nurse Jackie, etc being nominated for best Comedy- and even winning. Falco even won for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, even tho she’s not funny (she even sez so herself) and the show itself is about as funny as a heart attack.
But of course the Emmy voters prefer edgy hour long Cable shows from Showtime, Netflix etc, rather than the traditional network 30 minute sitcom, where you cant say "fuck’ and show boobies.
Basically Netflix and Showtimes cheat by doing this. They did change the rules somewhat for this year- now "comedies’ are 30 minutes and "dramas’ are a hour. WTF???:dubious:
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