Photos: Emmys’ Greatest Surprises and Snubs
The 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are about to be handed out, but does it even really matter who wins? More often than not, it is those who don’t—and sometimes those who don’t even garner a nomination—that prove to be the hotter topic. Let’s take a look at some of the biggest (and best?) ones right now! By Danielle TurchianoAn American Family: The 12-part PBS documentary has been credited with kick-starting the reality television genre itself—which, by the way, the Emmys now have individual categories for. But back in the early 1970s, when the documentary was produced and broadcast, voters probably just didn’t know what to do with it. If the Academy can retroactively correct such wrongs by giving certain performers Lifetime Achievement Awards, we say they should do something similar with this series. Cinema Verite, HBO’s fictional film about the making of An American Family, received nine Emmy nominations this year, in categories ranging from costumes to acting, and it just feels exceptionally unfair to not honor the project that allowed for the retelling in the first place.