{"id":493,"date":"2014-06-11T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/06\/11\/want-to-see-how-the-emmy-sausage-is-made-nows-your-chance\/"},"modified":"2014-06-11T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:51:00","slug":"want-to-see-how-the-emmy-sausage-is-made-nows-your-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/06\/11\/want-to-see-how-the-emmy-sausage-is-made-nows-your-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to see how the Emmy sausage is made? Now&#8217;s your chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmys.com\/ballots\/2014\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-tTamTbYDuJk\/U5jBLgtjdpI\/AAAAAAAABKM\/VDQ2RYr1O_M\/s1600\/Emmy_statuette.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered <a href=\"http:\/\/aulibmedia.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/seasonal-question-how-are-oscar.html\">the shadowy process behind Oscar nominations<\/a>. It&#8217;s unclear how films are nominated, and that&#8217;s a frequent criticism of the Academy. When Ben Affleck was passed over for a Best Director Oscar for <i>Argo<\/i>, it caused understandable alarm regarding the transparency and politicization of the process.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the Emmy&#8217;s are letting everything spill out publicly. The Television Academy recently posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmys.com\/ballots\/2014\">its complete list of potential Emmy nominees<\/a> as nominated by their respective studios producers. This is all extra-nerdy inside baseball stuff, but it&#8217;s fascinating to see what shows are nominated in which categories, as well as which have been omitted. Even without extra analysis (<i>Treme<\/i> is considered a mini-series! <i>Key and Peele<\/i> was nominated for hairstyling!), it&#8217;s an exciting laundry list of all the quality shows currently on television.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re big on television, prepare to lose a lot of time looking through this behind-the-scenes look at the nomination process. And prepare to be amazed at how minor of a role you can have and still be nominated for Best Supporting Actor.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered the shadowy process behind Oscar nominations. It&#8217;s unclear how films are nominated, and that&#8217;s a frequent criticism of the Academy. When Ben Affleck was passed over for a Best Director Oscar for Argo, it caused understandable alarm regarding the transparency and politicization of the process. In contrast, the Emmy&#8217;s are letting everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[117,212],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-emmy-awards","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}