{"id":83746,"date":"2018-07-12T15:05:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2018\/07\/12\/black-talent-make-historic-numbers-with-2018-emmy-nominations\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T01:36:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T01:36:56","slug":"black-talent-make-historic-numbers-with-2018-emmy-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/black-talent-make-historic-numbers-with-2018-emmy-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Talent Make Historic Numbers With 2018 Emmy Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Black Talent Make Historic Numbers With 2018 Emmy Nominations<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n<p>July 12, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/shadowandact.com\/2018-emmy-nominations-atlanta-black-ish-continue-to-dominate-among-black-series-and-talent\">Shadow and Act<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/emmys-logo-nomination.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-69404\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 151'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/emmys-logo-nomination-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nominations for the 2018 (70th annual<strong>) Primetime Emmy Awards<\/strong> were announced by the Television Academy in a ceremony hosted by <strong>Samira Wiley<\/strong> from The Handmaids Tale and <strong>Ryan Eggold<\/strong> from NBC&#8217;s upcoming drama, New Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Atlanta-Robbin-Season-Zazie-Beetz-Donald-Glover-Brian-Tyree-Henry-and-Lakeith-Stanfield-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-106823\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 282 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Atlanta-Robbin-Season-Zazie-Beetz-Donald-Glover-Brian-Tyree-Henry-and-Lakeith-Stanfield-1-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HBO\u2019s <strong>\u201cGame of Thrones\u201d<\/strong> led the pack with 22 nods, the most for any series. NBC\u2019s<strong> \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d<\/strong> and HBO\u2019s<strong> \u201cWestworld\u201d<\/strong> trailed close behind with 21 each. FX\u2019s <strong>\u201cThe Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story\u201d<\/strong> drew the most nominations for a limited series with 18 nods, while fellow FX title<strong> \u201cAtlanta\u201d<\/strong> was the most nominated comedy series at 16. Netflix surpassed HBO as the most nominated network or platform with 112 nominations to the premium cablers\u2019 108.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The most important thing to know is that a record number of Black actors (29) were nominated, shattering 2017\u2019s record of 19.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Jost<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Che<\/strong> are hosting the 70th annual Primetime Emmys. The 2018 telecast will air on NBC on Sept. 17 from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Emmy-Nominees-2018-Black-Talent-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-111844\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Emmy-Nominees-2018-Black-Talent-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series category,<strong> Sterling K. Brown<\/strong> is nominated for This Is Us and <strong>Jeffrey Wright<\/strong> is nominated for Westworld.<\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series category, <strong>Tracee Ellis Ross<\/strong> is nominated for black-ish. This is her third Emmy nomination for the ABC comedy series. <strong>Issa Rae<\/strong> is also nominated for Insecure in her first nomination.<\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series category, <strong>Anthony Anderson<\/strong> is nominated for black-ish and <strong>Donald Glover<\/strong> is nominated for Atlanta. This is Anderson&#8217;s 4th nomination for black-ish (he&#8217;s never won) and Glover&#8217;s second for Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brian-Tyree-Henry-Kenan-Thompson-and-Titus-Burgess.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-111804\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 196'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brian-Tyree-Henry-Kenan-Thompson-and-Titus-Burgess-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series category, <strong>Thandie Newton<\/strong> is nominated for Westworld. She was nominated for the role last season as well.<\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series category, <strong>Brian Tyree Henry<\/strong> nets a nomination for Atlanta for the first time. <strong>Tituss Burgess<\/strong> is also nominated for The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and <strong>Kenan Thompson<\/strong> for Saturday Night Live!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Leslie-Jones-and-Zazie-Beetz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-111814\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 211'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Leslie-Jones-and-Zazie-Beetz-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series category,<strong> Zazie Beetz<\/strong> is nominated for the first time for her work in Atlanta. <strong>Leslie Jones<\/strong> is nominated for Saturday Night Live.<\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Comedy Series category, Atlanta and black-ish are nominated; the second for Atlanta, and the third for black-ish. GLOW is also nominated.<\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Drama Series category, This is Us, Stranger Things and Westworld are nominated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Regina-King-Seven-Seconds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-111819\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 230'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Regina-King-Seven-Seconds-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Television Movie category, Fahrenheit 451 is nominated.<\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie category, <strong>Regina King<\/strong> is nominated for Seven Seconds.<\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie category, <strong>John Legend<\/strong> for Jesus Christ Superstar Live! He could get an EGOT if he wins this.<\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie category, <strong>Brandon Victor Dixon<\/strong> is nominated for Jesus Christ Superstar Live!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Viola-Davis-Cicely-Tyson-and-Samira-Wiley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-111832\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 196'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Viola-Davis-Cicely-Tyson-and-Samira-Wiley-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie category, <strong>Letitia Wright<\/strong> is nominated for Black Mirror and <strong>Adina Porter<\/strong> is nominated for American Horror Story.<\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series category, <strong>Cicely Tyson<\/strong> is nominated for How to Get Away with Murder, <strong>Viola Davis<\/strong> is nominated for Scandal and <strong>Samira Wiley<\/strong> is nominated for The Handmaids Tale (she was nominated in the Supporting category for the role last year).<\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series category, <strong>Ron Cephas Jones<\/strong> is nominated for This is Us. <strong>Kelly Jenrette<\/strong> of The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale was nominated in\u00a0Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series category.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Wanda-Sykes-Tiffany-Haddish-and-Maya-Rudolph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-111834\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 196'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Wanda-Sykes-Tiffany-Haddish-and-Maya-Rudolph-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series category, <strong>Maya Rudolph<\/strong> is nominated for The Good Place, <strong>Wanda Sykes<\/strong> for black-ish and <strong>Tiffany Haddish<\/strong> gets her first Emmy nomination for Saturday Night Live!<\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series category, <strong>Katt Williams<\/strong> is nominated for Atlanta, <strong>Donald Glover<\/strong> is nominated for Saturday Night Live! and <strong>Sterling K. Brown<\/strong> is nominated for Brooklyn Nine-Nine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Diarra-Kilpatrick-American-Koko.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-111807\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 211'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Diarra-Kilpatrick-American-Koko-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category, <strong>DeStorm Power<\/strong> is nominated for Caught The Series, and <strong>Melvin Jackson Jr.<\/strong> is nominated for This Eddie Murphy Role Is Mine, Not Yours<\/p>\n<p>In the Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category, <strong>Diarra Kilpatrick<\/strong> is nominated for American Koko.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/89b62f61601\/817bc412-a958-4d8f-9ee2-131a5fab6be4.pdf\">View the full list of nominees here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record number of Black actors (29) were nominated, shattering 2017\u2019s record of 19.<br \/>\n <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/black-talent-make-historic-numbers-with-2018-emmy-nominations\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":83759,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,16,143],"tags":[],"reaction":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-highlighted","8":"category-news","9":"category-read"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Black Talent Make Historic Numbers With 2018 Emmy Nominations - blackfilm.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/black-talent-make-historic-numbers-with-2018-emmy-nominations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Talent Make Historic Numbers With 2018 Emmy Nominations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A record number of Black actors (29) were nominated, shattering 2017\u2019s record of 19.  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