The nominees for the 59th annual Emmy Awards (for excellence in television) were announced early this morning. The Creative Arts Emmys will be awarded Saturday 8 September 2007; the Primetime Emmy Awards will be handed out Sunday 16 September. Both ceremonies will take place in The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.
Genre nominees (by show) include:
Battlestar Galactica: Felix Alcala for “Exodus, Part 2” (Directing for a Drama)
* Ronald D. Moore for “Occupation/Precipice” (Writing for a Drama)
* Michael Baber, Vince Balunas, Daniel Colman, Jack Levy, Doug Madick, and Rick Partlow (Sound Editing for a Series)
* Tom Archer, Brenda Campbell, Doug Drexler, Michael Gibson, Jeremy Hoey, Gary Hutzel, Andrew Karr, Alec McClymont, and Adam Mojo for “Exodus, Part 2” (Special Visual Effects for a Series)
The Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner: nominated for Variety, Music, or Comedy Special
Eureka: Elizabeth Alvarez, Jamie Clark, Jarrod Davis, Ben Funk, Robert Habros, Lane Jolly, Darren Marcox, Matthew S. Gore, and Tom Tennisco for “Pilot” (Special Visual Effects for a Series)
Ghost Whisperer: Mark Snow (Music Composition for a Series [Original Dramatic Score])
Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms: nominated for Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or More)
Heroes: nominated for Best Drama Series
* Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura (Supporting Actor in a Drama)
* David Semel for “Genesis” (Directing for a Drama)
* Curtis A Schnell, Daniel J. Vivanco, and Crista Schneider for “Genesis” (Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series)
* Louise A. Innes, Donn Aron, and Michael Murphy for “Genesis” (Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series)
* Ken Fuller, Gerry Lentz, and Rich Weingart for “Genesis” (Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series [one-hour])
* Gary D’Amico, Diego Galtieri, Ragui Hanna, Mark Kolpack, Daniel Kumiega, Chris Martin, Jon Rosenthal, Mark Spatny, and Cedric Tomacruz for “Five Years Gone” (Special Visual Effects for a Series)
* Ian Quinn for “Genesis” (Stunt Coordination)
Lost: Michael Emerson as Ben (Supporting Actor in a Drama)
* Terry O’Quinn as John Locke (Supporting Actor in a Drama)
* Jack Bender for “Through the Looking Glass” (Directing for a Drama)
* Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse for “Through the Looking Glass” (Writing for a Drama)
* Mark J. Goldman, Christopher Nelson, Stephen Semel, and Henk Van for “Through the Looking Glass” (Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series)
* Thomas deGorter, Paula Fairfield, Lloyd Jay, Alex Levy, Maciek Malish, Cynthia Merril, Carla Murray, Doug Reed, Joe Schultz, Geordy Sincavage for “A Tale of Two Cities” (Sound Editing for a Series)
The Lost Room: Robert Bradley, Thomas Cobb, and Patrick Loungway (Main Title Design)
* Rick Alexander, Bayard Carey, and Rich rogers for “The Key and the Clock (Night 1)” (Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie)
Medium: Patricia Arquette as Allison Dubois (Actress in a Drama)
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King: William H. Macy as Clyde Umney & Sam Landry in “Umney’s Last Case” (Actor in a Miniseries or Movie)
* Katherin Birch and Angela Conte (Makeup for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special [non-prosthetic])
* Jeff Beal (Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special [Original Dramatic Score])
* Jiri Forejt, Jan Heusler, Vit Komrzy, Jiri Linhart, Monika Pavlickova, Jaroslav Poklensky, Peter Stubbs, Marc Van, and David Vana for “The End of the Whole Mess” (Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special)
* Michael Cook, Eric Grenaudier, Daniel Kumiega, Adalberto Lopez, Sam Nicholson, Megan Omi, Mark Spatny, Marc Van, and Ryan Wieber for “Battleground” (Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special)
Smallville: nominees to be named for “Zod” (Sound Editing for a Series)
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed: nominated for Nonfiction Special
* Kevin Burns (Directing for Nonfiction Programming)
* Steven Smith, David Comtois, and Kevin Burns (Writing for Nonfiction Programming)
24: Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer (Actor in a Drama)
* Jean Smart as Martha Logan (Guest Actress in a Drama)
* Sean Callery (Music Composition for a Series [Original Dramatic Score])
* nominees to be named (Sound Editing for a Series)
* Bill Gocke, Jeff Gomillion, Kenneth Kobett, and Michael Olman for “10:00 PM-11:00 PM” (Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series [one-hour])
* Jeff Cadiente for “2:00 PM-3:00 PM” (Stunt Coordination)
The full list of nominees is available on this page.
[17 September 2007: The winners are announced in this article.]