Five Emmy Nominations This Year
By Don Del Grande (ddelgran@snpp.com) - July 17, 2009
The Simpsons received five nominations for three awards in this year's Primetime Emmy Awards. The first one is for
the show itself, for the episode "Gone Maggie Gone", and the second one for music composer Alf Clausen, for composing the
background music to the same episode.
The show's competition in the Animated Program Less Than One Hour category is:
- American Dad ("1600 Candles")
- Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
- South Park ("Margaritaville")
The remaining three nominations are in the category of Voiceover Performance, where three of the six nominees
are from The Simpsons:
Dan Castellaneta as Homer ("Father Knows Worst"), Hank Azaria as Moe ("Eeny Teeny Maya Moe") and Harry Shearer as Mr. Burns, Smithers,
Kent Brockman, and Lenny ("The Burns and the Bees"). The other voiceover nominees are Seth MacFarlane (as Peter Griffin in Family Guy),
Seth Green (as various voices in Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II), and Ron Rifkin (for narrating PBS's American Masters –
Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About).
This is the first time the Voiceover category has nominees announced beforehand. Also, there must be a winner –
there can be more in case of a tie, but the option of "no winner this year" is no longer available.
These categories will be part of the Creative Arts Emmy ceremony, to be held September 12. In addition, the animation
category of Individual Animation Achievement does not have nominees; instead, all entries are judged on their own merits, and the winner
or winners, if any, will be announced sometime in August.
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