{"id":387,"date":"2016-07-14T18:27:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T18:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2017-06-26T21:23:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T21:23:31","slug":"three-and-twenty-golden-gals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2016\/07\/14\/three-and-twenty-golden-gals\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-and-Twenty Golden Gals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and once again GAME OF THRONES and HBO kicked ass and took names.<\/p>\n<p>HBO collected more nominations than any other network&#8230; once again.<\/p>\n<p>And GAME OF THRONES was responsible for a big chunk of those&#8230; 23 nominations all told, more than any other series&#8230; for the second year in a row (we had 24 last year).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/370860_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/371129_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/371384_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Last year we won Best Drama, and we&#8217;re nominated once again this year, so we have a chance to make it two in a row&#8230; against a formidable lineup of competitors in HOMELAND, DOWNTON ABBEY, MR. ROBOT, BETTER CALL SAUL, THE AMERICANS, and HOUSE OF CARDS.   <\/p>\n<p>David Benioff and D.B. Weiss got a nod for Writing, which they won last year.<\/p>\n<p>For directing, two nominations: Jack Bender for &#8220;The Door&#8221; and Miguel Sapochnik for &#8220;Battle of the Bastards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And in the acting categories, GAME OF THRONES had its best year yet.   Max Von Sydow was nominated for Best Actor in a Guest Role.  Peter Dinklage and Kit Harrington both got nods for Best Supporting Actor.   And in Best Supporting Actress, GOT snagged not one, not two, but three nominations; Emilia Clarke, Lena Headey, and Maisie Williams will all be vying for the Emmy.<\/p>\n<p>I am thrilled and happy for all our nominees, of course&#8230; but it made me especially happy to see Kit and Maisie get some love from the Academy at last.   About damn time, I say.   They are several years overdue.  (And I would have loved to see Sophie Turner on that list as well.  I know, I know, I&#8217;m greedy).<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of the nominees, go here:<br \/>http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/tv\/awards\/2016-emmys-nominees-list-drama-comedy-acting-nomination-1201814021\/<\/p>\n<p>The awards will be presented on September 18 in Los Angeles.  Two days ahead of my birthday this year, but maybe we&#8217;ll get some presents anyway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and once again GAME OF THRONES and HBO kicked ass and took names. HBO collected more nominations than any other network&#8230; once again. And GAME OF THRONES was responsible for a big chunk of those&#8230; 23 nominations all told, more than any other series&#8230; for the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,53,16,15,11],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}