Nominee Nominations for the Emmy Awards

The nominations for the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards -- television's equivalent of the Oscars -- were announced today in California. The actually awards show is set for the 16th of September.

Not surprisingly, the Hollywood party was promoted as being enviromentally friendly in every way possible: invites and napkins made from recycled paper, organic foods, LED lighting, sustainable foilage, 100% cotton t-shirts, and just about anything they could do so the invitees could stick their chests out and say, "Hey, look at me. I support the environment!" before they went home to their million dollar mansions and exhorberant lifestyles. Sorry, but there's a big difference between passively supporting the environment and actually making a change and doing something about it.

But we digress.

HBO's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee led the nominations with 17. American Movie Classics's Broken Trails came in second with 16 nominations, and HBO's The Sopranos got 15. That brings the mobster drama's tally to 111 nominations and 18 wins. No series has ever won an Emmy after being cancelled, so we may be seeing history in the making.

Justin Timberlake's Saturday Night Live skit and internet phenomenon, Dick in a Box, also received a nomination for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. We have to admit, it is truly an outstanding piece of work.



Our favorite television shows, Lost and Heroes, picked up six and eight nominations respectively. J.J. Abrams is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and the trailer for his hush-hush untitled movie, the preview for which was shown prior to Transformers, made us break out in goosebumps. You can bet we'll be covering it more in the future. In the meantime, keep your eye on the teaser website.

You can download a full list of nominations for the Emmy Awards at the website for the Academy of Televison Arts and Sciences.