Emmy Snubs! The Academy Votes Team Coco, But Shuts Out TV Veterans Ed O'Neill and Courteney Cox
Well, apparently we can assume that Emmy voters are on Team Coco. When the 2010 Emmy nominations were announced this morning, among the major snubs was the absence of a nod for 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno' in the Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series category, while 'The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien' is among the nominees.NBC had submitted Leno's version of the show, while O'Brien submitted his 'Tonight Show,' and, bolstered by TBS' campaign of support for the cable network's newest late-night host, Coco took the nod.
Among the other biggest snubs by the Television Academy:
- Another shocking dismissal of Katey Sagal's powerful performance on FX's biker drama 'Sons of Anarchy,' for a season in which her biker mama Gemma suffered and bounced back from a brutal rape.
- No Emmy love for ABC's freshman comedy hit 'The Middle,' or its lead actress, Patricia Heaton, who was a seven-time nominee (and two-time winner) for 'Everybody Loves Raymond.'
- '24,' in its final season, and star Kiefer Sutherland, didn't receive Outstanding Drama Series or Lead Actor nominations.
- FX's other great drama, the Elmore Leonard-inspired 'Justified,' was also overlooked at the nomination announcement, as were Emmy-worthy performances by lead Timothy Olyphant and should-have-been-a-contender supporting actor Walton Goggins.- On the comedy side, Emmy voters also apparently have been keeping up with the real-life Charlie Sheen saga, as he failed to receive a Lead Actor in a Comedy Series nomination for 'Two and a Half Men,' despite the fact that he's been a nominee for the last four years.
Meanwhile, among the surprising nominations announced this morning:
- A freshening up of nominees with Outstanding Comedy Series nods to 'Glee' and 'Modern Family,' and first-time Outstanding Drama Series nods to 'True Blood' and CBS' freshman hit 'The Good Wife,' which also earned a Lead Actress nomination for Julianna Margulies.
- 'Lost' also received an Outstanding Drama Series nomination for its final season, while Matthew Fox received his first Emmy nomination (ever) in the Lead Actor category, and, in a move that will certainly delight the devoted fanbase of 'Friday Night Lights,' 'FNL' stars Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler received first-time nominations in the Lead Actress and Actor categories.
- Among the biggest headscratchers, meanwhile, amongst those who received nominations: Tony Shaloub, who is yet again a Lead Actor nominee for the now-defunct 'Monk.' A Shaloub nomination in the category has become such a habit that it even popped up as a joke on 'Scrubs.'And more Emmy snubs ...
- Charlie Sheen (left) was dissed during a year of personal scandal ... is that also the reason 'The Late Show with David Letterman' didn't receive a nomination for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series this year, the first time in the show's history that it did not receive a nomination in the category? Or that Letterman himself was snubbed in the Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program race?
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet and Ty Burrell all received well-deserved Supporting Actor nominations for 'Modern Family,' but veteran star Ed O'Neill did not. All four actors had submitted themselves in the supporting category ... perhaps 'Married ... with Children' star O'Neill should have entered the Lead Actor race?
- Anna Gunn, (left) as Bryan Cranston's wife Skyler on 'Breaking Bad,' was again denied an Emmy nomination, despite a particularly strong performance in the show's third season.
- HBO's 'Treme,' like 'The Wire' before it, got no Emmy love in the acting categories, and only two nods elsewhere (for directing and original music).
- Joel McHale (left), the lead actor in NBC's freshman comedy 'Community,' just got better, as did the show, as the season unfolded, but was denied any Emmy recognition.
- The Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category, perpetually one of the most loaded races at the Emmys, includes three 'Modern Family' stars, scene-stealing 'Glee' star Chris Colfer, Neil Patrick Harris for 'How I Met Your Mother' and 'Two and a Half Men's' Jon Cryer, but excluded several other deserving candidates, including 'Community's' Danny Pudi (left) and 'Parks and Recreation's' Nick Offerman, both of whom were largely responsible for their shows' uptick in quality last season.
- And in the Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series category -- a race that should be all but over with 'Glee' star Jane Lynch as a nominee -- tired performances by Kristen Wiig ('Saturday Night Live'), Holland Taylor ('Two and a Half Men') and Jane Krakowski ('30 Rock') earned nominations, but the delightful Merritt Wever from 'Nurse Jackie' (left) was again snubbed.
- Courteney Cox (left), the only 'Friends' actress to be snubbed during that show's run (and, ironically, probably the one most consistently deserving of a nod), was denied again by the Emmy folks for her work on 'Cougar Town,' another performance in which she showcased her serious all-around comedy chops.
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