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Primetime Emmy Awards 2024

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All 28 classic ‘Star Trek’ episodes that won Emmys: From ‘The Next Generation’ to ‘Discovery’

• Tony Ruiz , Daniel Montgomery
• May 4, 2020 3:00PM

Despite lasting only three seasons, the original “Star Trek” television series (1966-1969) has spawned multiple successful spinoffs: “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (1987-1994); “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (1993-1999); “Star Trek: Voyager” (1995-2001); “Star Trek: Enterprise” (2001-2005); “Star Trek: Discovery” (2017-Present); and “Star Trek: Picard” (2020-Present).

The original series was well liked by the TV academy, earning 13 Emmy nominations, including two in a row for Best Drama Series (1967-1968), but unfortunately it never won in any category. Its subsequent spinoffs, however, were all winners, while “The Next Generation” remains the only syndicated series to ever earn a nomination for Best Drama. Scroll down to see every single episode from the “Star Trek” television universe that won Emmy Awards spanning four decades.

“The Next Generation” is by far the biggest winner among “Trek” series, taking home 18 awards over the course of its run, more than all other “Trek” series combined. Still, the four awards apiece won by “Deep Space Nine” and “Enterprise” weren’t too shabby. Neither were the seven won by “Voyager.”

After “Enterprise” it took more than a decade for the “Trek” franchise to return to the airwaves, and in the intervening years the TV landscape exploded with programming on myriad networks and streaming services. The production values of genre shows like “Game of Thrones” and “Westworld” meant there was a lot more competition in the Emmys’ crafts categories when “Discovery” started on CBS All Access in 2017. But that couldn’t keep “Star Trek” from getting back on the board with “Discovery’s” first win for its makeup in 2019.

What’s your favorite Emmy-winning “Trek” episode? Which episodes were robbed of recognition from the television academy?

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘The Big Goodbye’)

Season 1, Episode 12

Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart), Data (Brent Spiner), and Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) are trapped in a Holodeck simulation of a 1940s gangster story, which threatens both an important trade negotiation and their lives.

Outstanding Costume Design for a Series

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘11001001’)

Season 1, Episode 15

While the Enterprise is docked for maintenance, a group of aliens called the Bynars attempt to hijack the ship and its technology. Meanwhile, Commander Riker (Jonathon Frakes) has a unique experience in the Holodeck.

Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘Conspiracy’)

Season 1, Episode 25

In this controversial episode, the Enterprise returns to Earth after Picard uncovers a possible conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of Starfleet Command. The episode’s climax features Riker and Picard coming face to face with an alien parasite that has infected several high-level personnel.

Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Series

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘Q Who’)

Season 2, Episode 16

Frustrated by Picard’s refusal to have him as a crew member, the omnipotent being Q (John de Lancie) hurls the Enterprise into a distant quadrant where they have their first encounter with the Borg.

Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘Sins of the Father’)

Season 3, Episode 17

Worf (Michael Dorn) and Picard must travel to the Klingon home world to defend Worf’s family name after the High Council accuses his father of betraying the Empire to the Romulans.

Outstanding Art Direction for a Series

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘Yesterday’s Enterprise’)

Season 3, Episode 15

The Enterprise encounters a ship of the same name from the past, which causes a radical change in the timeline. But Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) seems to be the only one who realizes that something is wrong.

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘The Best of Both Worlds, Part II’)

Season 4, Episode 1

Picard has been kidnapped and assimilated by the Borg, who use Picard’s knowledge to help them attack the Federation.

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘A Matter of Time’)

Season 5, Episode 9

Matt Frewer guest stars as a time-traveling inventor who arouses the suspicions of Troi (Marina Sirtis) when several items aboard the Enterprise begin vanishing.

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘Conundrum’)

Season 5, Episode 14

The crew of the Enterprise suffers a complete memory loss and find themselves involved in a military conflict that makes Picard uneasy.

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘Cost of Living’)

Season 5, Episode 20

Troi’s mother (Majel Barrett) visits the Enterprise as she prepares for her upcoming wedding. Meanwhile, Worf is having problems with his son’s rebellious behavior.

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘The Next Phase’)

Season 5, Episode 24

La Forge (LeVar Burton) and Ro (Michelle Forbes) are believed to be dead after a failed transport, but in reality they are able to see the crew and attempt to warn them of a Romulan plot.

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘Time’s Arrow, Part II’)

Season 6, Episode 1

After Data’s head is discovered in a cave on Earth, the crew travels back to the 1890s in order to investigate, and they arouse the suspicions of author Mark Twain.

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘A Fistful of Datas’)

Season 6, Episode 8

A power surge hits the Enterprise, trapping Worf and Troi in a dangerous Holodeck simulation that pits them against clones of Data.

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘Genesis’)

Season 7, Episode 19

Picard and Data leave the Enterprise to retrieve a rogue torpedo. But when they return, they find the rest of the crew in a state of de-evolution.

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘All Good Things’)

Season 7, Episodes 25 & 26

In the series finale, Picard jumps back and forth through time in order to stop an anomaly that could end all life in the universe. Q (John de Lancie) uses the event as an opportunity to test humankind’s potential for growth.

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Effects

‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ (‘Emissary, Parts I and II’)

Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2

In the series premiere, Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) takes command of a derelict space station and inadvertently discovers a wormhole that will have significant ramifications for the Federation.

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Main Title Theme Music Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects

‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ (‘Captive Pursuit’)

Season 1, Episode 6

Chief O’Brien (Colm Meaney) befriends an alien from the Gamma Quadrant who is being hunted, and despite the Prime Directive O’Brien is determined to help the alien.

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series

‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ (‘Distant Voices’)

Season 3, Episode 18

After an altercation with an alien, Dr. Bashir (Alexander Siddig) begins rapidly aging and falls into a coma.

‘Star Trek: Voyager’ (‘Caretaker’)

In the two-hour series premiere, the starship Voyager, under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), is knocked into a faraway quadrant, and it is expected to take the crew 75 years to travel home.

‘Star Trek: Voyager’ (‘Threshold’)

Season 2, Episode 15

After experimenting with breaking the warp barrier, Lt. Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) begins to rapidly evolve into a new form of human life.

Outstanding Makeup for a Series

‘Star Trek: Voyager’ (‘Fair Trade’)

Season 3, Episode 13

Neelix (Ethan Phillips) makes some foolish decisions after he begins to feel like does not contribute anything useful to the crew of Voyager.

Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series

‘Star Trek: Voyager’ (‘Dark Frontier, Parts I and II’)

Season 5, Episodes 15 & 16

The crew of Voyager attempts to steal a Borg device that will help them get home faster, but complications arise after Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) is assimilated back into the Borg collective.

Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series

‘Star Trek: Voyager’ (‘Endgame, Parts I and II’)

Season 7, Episode 25 & 26

In the two-hour series finale, a Janeway from the future travels back in time to prevent her younger self from making a choice that will end in the deaths of her crew members.

Outstanding Music Composition For A Series Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series

‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ (‘Broken Bow, Parts I and II’)

In the series premiere, Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) takes command of a prototype of a starship despite the objections of the Vulcans.

Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series

‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ (‘Two Days and Two Nights’)

What happens on Risa stays on Risa, especially after several members of the crew find themselves in difficult situations while on shore leave on the paradise planet.

Outstanding Hairstyling For A Series

‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ (‘Similitude’)

Season 3, Episode 10

When Commander Tucker (Connor Trinneer) is near death, the ship’s doctor creates a clone and intends to use the clone’s body to save Tucker. But what happens when the clone wants to live?

Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Dramatic Underscore)

‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ (‘Countdown’)

Season 3, Episode 23

Archer must appeal to a species of aquatic creatures in order to prevent the destruction on Earth.

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ (‘If Memory Serves’)

Season 2, Episode 8

Spock and Burnham travel to Talos IV, where the process of healing Spock leads the siblings to confront their past.

Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Limited Series, Movie or Special

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Star Trek's awards and honors

Since 1966 , Star Trek , and its casts, crews, and other affiliated franchise staffers have been nominated for and won many awards and honors .

• 1 Academy Awards
• 2 ACE Eddie Awards
• 4 ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards
• 5 ALMA Awards
• 6 Annie Awards
• 7 Artios Awards
• 8 ASC Awards
• 9 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
• 10 Astra TV Awards
• 11 Austin Film Critics Association Awards
• 12 BAFTA Children's Awards
• 13 BAFTA Film Awards
• 14 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
• 15 BMI Film & TV Awards
• 16 Bogey Awards
• 17 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
• 18 Britannia Awards
• 19 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
• 20 California on Location Awards
• 21 CAS Awards
• 22 CDG Awards
• 23 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards
• 24 Collision Awards
• 25 Critics Choice Super Awards
• 26 DEG Awards
• 27 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards
• 28 Diamond Gem Awards
• 29 Directors Guild of Canada Awards
• 30 Dragon Awards
• 31 DVD Exclusive Awards
• 32 Eisner Awards
• 33.1 Emmy Award summary
• 33.2 Emmy Award totals
• 33.3 Emmy Award details
• 33.4 External links
• 34 Empire Awards
• 35 FantastiCon Awards
• 36 Game Critics Awards
• 37 Genesis Awards
• 38 GLAAD Media Awards
• 39 Golden Duck Awards
• 40 Golden Globe Awards
• 41 Golden Reel Awards
• 42 Golden Trailer Awards
• 43 Grammy Awards
• 44 H.G. Wells Awards
• 45 Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards
• 46 Hollywood Film Festival Awards
• 47 Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards
• 48 Hugo Awards
• 49 IFMCA Awards
• 50 Imagen Awards
• 51 International Monitor Awards
• 52 Key Art Awards
• 53 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
• 54 MacGuffin Awards
• 55 Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards
• 56 MTV Movie Awards
• 57 The NAACP Image Awards
• 58 National Board of Review Awards
• 59 Online Film Critics Society Awards
• 60 Peabody Awards
• 61 People's Choice Awards
• 62 PGA Awards
• 63 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
• 64 Prism Awards
• 65 Razzie Awards
• 66 Ringo Awards
• 67 Satellite Awards
• 68 Saturn Awards
• 69 Sci Fi Universe Awards
• 70 Scream Awards
• 71 Screen Actors Guild Awards
• 72 Scribe Awards
• 73 SET Awards
• 74 SFX Awards
• 75 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards
• 76 Taurus World Stunt Awards
• 77 TCA Awards
• 78 Teen Choice Awards
• 79 TV Land Awards
• 80 Universe Reader's Choice Awards
• 81 VES Awards
• 82 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards
• 83 World Soundtrack Awards
• 84 Writers Guild of America Awards
• 85 Young Artist Awards

Academy Awards [ ]

The Academy Awards , or Oscars , are presented annually by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best in movies from 16 May 1929 onward, and went on to become the most prestigious and most coveted of all the industry awards. The most prestigious one, that for "Best Picture" – in current tradition presented as the last one during the annual, highly glamorous, ceremony – , was for the very first time won by the 1927 silent First World War movie Wings from Paramount Pictures . The second first-time Oscar Wings won was that for "Best Effects, Engineering Effects" Academy Award, the later " Visual Effects " category, [1] for which Star Trek was later nominated, though not winning, thrice ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness ), but excelled at in the Emmy Award television counterpart. Clippings from this film were lifted for use for the revised Star Trek: Enterprise mirror universe opening title sequence of the two-part episode ENT : " In a Mirror, Darkly ", " In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II ".

Six of Star Trek 's films have been nominated for a combined total of fifteen nominations, with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek each receiving the most with four. Star Trek became the first Star Trek movie to actually win an Oscar.

• Oscars.org – official site
• Oscar.com – official site
• Academy Awards at Wikipedia
• Academy Awards at the Internet Movie Database

ACE Eddie Awards [ ]

The American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards are yearly awards from the American Cinema Editors Society since 1962.

Since 2000, the Robert Wise Award is one of the honorary awards handed out at the ACE Eddie Awards. It is given to a critic, reviewer or writer who has best illuminated the creative work of film editing.

• ACE-FilmEditors.org – official site
• American Cinema Editors at Wikipedia
• ACE Eddie Awards at the Internet Movie Database

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• awardscircuit.com/acca/ (X)

ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards [ ]

The Art Director's Guild Excellence in Production Design Awards are awards presented annually by the Art Directors Guild since 1996. The awards for the nominated productions were given the following year.

• ArtDirectors.org – official site
• ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards at Wikipedia
• ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards at the Internet Movie Database

ALMA Awards [ ]

The American Latino Media Arts Awards or ALMA Awards have been presented by the National Council of La Raza since 1995 and are awarded to performers and artists whose talent enhances the image of Latinos in American media. Between 1995 and 1997 the awards were known as NCLR Bravo Awards . In 1995, Ricardo Montalban received the Ricardo Montalban Lifetime Achievement Award. The following years industry professionals were awarded with this honorary award including Henry Darrow in 2012 and Tony Plana in 2013. For undisclosed reasons, the awards were not given between 2003 and 2005 and also not in 2010.

• ALMAAwards.com – official site
• ALMA Award at Wikipedia
• ALMA Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Annie Awards [ ]

The Annie Awards are annual awards which honor achievement in film, video, television and advertising animation including voice-over performers and production staff since 1972. There was no award ceremony in 2002. Among the past hosts of the ceremonies are William Shatner (2009) and Maurice LaMarche (2000 and 2013).

Past Trek alumni who received nominations or won awards include Jim Cummings , Frank Welker , Tony Jay , Philip LaZebnik , Raymond Singer , Jerry Goldsmith , Amanda McBroom , Christopher Plummer , Maurice LaMarche , David Warner , Bebe Neuwirth , Seth MacFarlane , John Debney , Leonard Nimoy , William Shatner , David Ogden Stiers , Pamela Adlon , Lou Scheimer , Kevin Kiner , Corey Burton , Michael Giacchino , Ed Catmull , Grey DeLisle , Deborah Carlson , Ben Burtt , Dwight Schultz , Jeffrey Katzenberg , John Logan , Dee Bradley Baker , Diedrich Bader , Jerome Platteaux , Mark Chataway , Joel Aron , Kevin Michael Richardson , and Sam Witwer .

• AnnieAwards.org – official site
• Annie Awards at Wikipedia
• Annie Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Artios Awards [ ]

The Artios Awards are awards handed out for Excellence in Casting and have been presented since 1985 by the Casting Society of America. The award events are held annually simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles.

• CastingSociety.com – official site
• Artios Awards at the Internet Movie Database

ASC Awards [ ]

The ASC Awards have been presented by the American Society of Cinematographers for excellence in cinematography since 1986.

• TheASC.com – official site
• American Society of Cinematographers Awards at Wikipedia
• ASC Awards at the Internet Movie Database

ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards [ ]

The ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards are handed out by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers to recognize musical compositions from the top films and television and the most frequently performed themes and scores. No nominees are announced – only winners. The awards have been handed out annually since 1986.

• ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards at Wikipedia
• ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Astra TV Awards [ ]

The Astra TV Awards were founded in 2021 as the Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards . Presented by the Hollywood Creative Alliance (formerly known as the Hollywood Critics Association) to acknowledge excellence in television programming across genres, it was the first award to establish separate categories for streaming programs and broadcast & cable shows. [2] In 2023, the Hollywood Creative Alliance rebranded their various awards ceremonies as the Astra Awards . [3] Also in 2023, the Hollywood Creative Alliance established a Creative Arts branch and companion Creative Arts awards to celebrate achievement in technical and other categories different from those presented in the main ceremony.

• Hollywood Creative Alliance – official site

Austin Film Critics Association Awards [ ]

The Austin Film Critics Association Awards are annual awards since 2006 handed out by the Austin Film Critics Association.

Michael Giacchino received an AFCA Award in the category Best Original Score for his work on Up in 2009.

• AustinFilmCritics.org – official site
• Austin Film Critics Association Awards at Wikipedia
• Austin Film Critics Association Awards at the Internet Movie Database

BAFTA Children's Awards [ ]

The BAFTA Children's Awards are annual film awards presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts since 1969.

• BAFTA.org/Childrens-Awards – official site
• BAFTA Children's Awards at Wikipedia
• BAFTA Children's Awards at the Internet Movie Database

BAFTA Film Awards [ ]

The BAFTA Film Awards are annual film awards presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts since 1948.

• BAFTA.org – official site
• British Academy Film Awards at Wikipedia
• BAFTA Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards [ ]

The Blockbuster Entertainment Awards were annual awards between 1995 and 2001 hosted by the company Blockbuster LLC . Following seven award ceremonies the company decided to cancel the awards following the attacks of the 11 September.

Kelsey Grammer hosted the second award show in 1996. In 1998, Ashley Judd received a nomination in the category Favorite Actress – Suspense for Kiss the Girls , while Patrick Stewart won the award in the category Favorite Supporting Actor – Suspense for Conspiracy Theory and Winona Ryder won the award in the category Favorite Supporting Actress – Sci-Fi for Alien: Resurrection . Ashley Judd received another nomination for Kiss the Girls the following year in the category Favorite Actress – Video while Becky Ann Baker was nominated for Favorite Supporting Actress – Suspense for her work in A Simple Plan . Winona Ryder received her second nomination in 2000 in the category Favorite Actress – Drama for Girl, Interrupted . Also in 2000, Ashley Judd won the award in the category Favorite Actress – Suspense for Double Jeopardy , James Cromwell received a nomination as Favorite Supporting Actor – Suspense for The General's Daughter , Bruce Greenwood as Favorite Supporting Actor – Suspense for Double Jeopardy , and Michael Clarke Duncan in the category Favorite Supporting Actor – Drama for The Green Mile . Famke Janssen also received a nomination in the category Favorite Supporting Actress – Horror for House on Haunted Hill . During the final award ceremony in 2001, Patrick Stewart received another nomination in the category Favorite Actor – Science Fiction for X-Men , Kirsten Dunst received a nomination as Favorite Actress – Comedy for Bring It On , Vanessa Williams was nominated as Favorite Actress – Action for Shaft , Michael Clarke Duncan was nominated as Favorite Supporting Actor – Comedy/Romance for The Whole Nine Yards , and Famke Janssen was nominated as Favorite Supporting Actress – Science Fiction for X-Men .

• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards at Wikipedia
• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards at the Internet Movie Database

BMI Film & TV Awards [ ]

The BMI Film & TV Awards are annual awards since 1985 handed out by the Broadcast Music, Inc. The Film & TV Awards are only one category, others include the Latin Awards, Urban Awards, Pop Awards, and Country Awards among others. The Broadcast Music, Inc. is a performing right organization founded in 1939.

Past winners of this award include Star Trek alumni Jerry Goldsmith , James Horner , Kevin Kiner , Don Davis , and Michael Giacchino .

• BMI.com Awards – official site
• BMI Film & TV Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Bogey Awards [ ]

The Bogey Award is a German Film Award handed out by the film magazine Blickpunkt:Film since 1997. It is also known as Box Office Germany Award. The award itself, the "Bogey", is a statue of actor Humphrey Bogart and can be received in bronze, silver, gold, platin or titanium depending on how many people went out to watch the film following its start. Since 2009 there is also the 3D-Bogey.

Star Trek: Insurrection is so far the only Trek film which received a Bogey Award in silver, for two million viewers in twenty days following the premiere.

• Bogey Awards at the Internet Movie Database
• Bogey Awards at Wikipedia
• Bogey Awards at the German Wikipedia

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards [ ]

The Boston Society of Film Critics Awards are annual awards since 1981 to make " Boston's unique critical perspective heard on a national and international level by awarding commendations to the best of the year's films and filmmakers and local film theaters and film societies that offer outstanding film programming ". [4]

• BostonFilmCritics.org – official site
• Boston Society of Film Critics at Wikipedia
• Boston Society of Film Critics Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Britannia Awards [ ]

The Britannia Awards are annual awards by the Los Angeles division of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Though first handed out in 1989, the first official award ceremony was in 1991. Only in 2001 no ceremony was held and no award was presented.

Whoopi Goldberg hosted the award ceremony at the 10th Britannia Awards in 2000.

• BAFTA.org/LosAngeles – official site
• Britannia Awards at Wikipedia
• BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards [ ]

The Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards were annual awards since 1996 handed out by the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, the Critics Choice Association (CCA) – formerly the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), an association of television, radio and online critics – in two award classes, the "Critic's Choice Movie Awards" and "Critic's Choice Television Awards", the latter since 2011. In 2021, these two award classes were replaced with the single "Critics Choice Super Awards" (CCA Super Award) class, covering both film and television, and listed below .

Not until the merger of the two award classes in 2021, did Star Trek started to receive award nominations for its television productions.

Patrick Stewart (2x), Benedict Cumberbatch (5x), Idris Elba (2x), Christian Slater , Winona Ryder , Jason Isaacs , Seth MacFarlane , Whoopi Goldberg , Kate Mulgrew , Zachary Quinto , James Cromwell , Alfre Woodard , Kelsey Grammer , Chris Hemsworth and Jeffrey Dean Morgan , have been nominated in the past for parts other than Star Trek , of whom Cumberbatch, Slater, MacFarlane, Mulgrew, Quinto and Morgan have either won the movie, or the television award.

• CriticsChoice.com – official site
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Award at Wikipedia
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards at the Internet Movie Database

California on Location Awards [ ]

The California on Location Awards are annual awards since 1995 which honor location professionals, production companies and public employees for professional excellence while working on location in the State of California.

• California On Location Awards – official site
• California on Location Awards at the Internet Movie Database

CAS Awards [ ]

The CAS Awards are annual film and television awards presented by the Cinema Audio Society of America for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing since 1994.

• CinemaAudioSociety.org – official site
• Cinema Audio Society Awards at Wikipedia
• CAS Awards at the Internet Movie Database

CDG Awards [ ]

The CDG Awards are annual awards from the Costume Designers Guild handed out since 1999.

Past winners and nominees include Trek alumni Michael Kaplan , Durinda Wood , Robert Fletcher , Robert Blackman , and Sanja Milkovic Hays , though for work done on productions other than Star Trek .

• CostumeDesignersGuild.com Awards – official site
• Costume Designers Guild Awards at Wikipedia
• Costume Designers Guild Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards [ ]

The Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards or COFCA Awards are annual awards handed out since 2003 by the Central Ohio Film Critics Association.

Past Trek alumni who received a nomination or won an award include Virginia Madsen , Michael Giacchino , Winona Ryder , Tom Hardy , Kirsten Dunst , Christopher Plummer , Benedict Cumberbatch , Zachary Quinto , and Victor Garber .

• COFCA.org – official site
• Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Collision Awards [ ]

The Collision Awards is a award system spun off from the Indian Telly Awards , but based out of New York City, USA. [5] Instituted in 2024, the stated aim of the awards was to become "the first global and holistic platform solely dedicated to honoring excellence in Animation and Motion Design in all its forms". The last "in all its forms" part of the institution's mission statement is to be taken quite literally, as it recognizes a veritable plethora of categories from virtually every conceivable field – ranging from kindergarden training videos to major Hollywood motion picture productions and everything in between – in which animation plays a recognizable part. [6]

Winners are selected by a jury of professionals working in the various fields of 2D/3D animation, and theirs is a honor system that differs from the other industry awards, as it recognizes runner-ups as well by awarding "Gold" and "Silver" awards in each category. Not only that, but the majority of both awards were in its inaugural year tied wins. In its inaugural year for example, both Kurtzman-era animated Star Trek shows won the "Gold" award in their respective categories but had to share them with other third-party animated shows, aside from having to share the limelight with the "Silver" runner-up (tied) winners. [7]

• Collision Awards – official site

Critics Choice Super Awards [ ]

The Critics Choice Super Awards ( CCA Super Award ) are annual awards handed out since 2021 by the Critics Choice Association (CCA), formerly the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), an association of television, radio and online critics and the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada. The award is the replacement of the older "Broadcast Film Critics Association Award" listed above , until 2021 presented by the organization as the two "Critics' Choice Movie Awards" and "Critics' Choice Television Awards" classes since 1995 and 2011 respectively.

The three alternate reality Star Trek films had been nominated ten times for the older Movie Awards in the past, and the franchise was well represented in the inaugural year of the (re)new(ed) award, with nominations for both Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard , the first television franchise productions so honored by the association. Not only that, but the franchise as a whole was awarded the honorary "Legacy Award", accepted on its behalf by co-nominees Patrick Stewart and Sonequa Martin-Green . [8]

• Critics Choice Super Awards – official site
• Critics Choice Super Awards at Wikipedia
• Critics Choice Super Awards at the Internet Movie Database

DEG Awards [ ]

The DEG Awards are annual awards since 2004 handed out by the Digital Entertainment Group honoring the best DVD releases. [9] (X)

• Star Trek nomination (X) at HomeMediaMagazine.com

Detroit Film Critics Society Awards [ ]

The Detroit Film Critics Society Awards are annual awards since 2007 handed out by the Detroit Film Critics Society.

Past nominees and winners include Trek alumni Christopher Plummer and Frank Langella .

• DetroitFilmCritics.com Awards – official site
• Detroit Film Critics Society Awards at Wikipedia

Diamond Gem Awards [ ]

The Diamond Gem Awards are annual awards since 2006 handed out by a chosen panel of Diamond product specialists who recognize of work of the creators of comics, graphic novels and pop culture products. [10]

• DiamondComics.com – official site

Directors Guild of Canada Awards [ ]

The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) Awards are annual awards since at least 2002 handed out by the Directors Guild of Canada who recognize the work of the creators of television and film. [11] And while the award name suggests otherwise, it is not beholden to the function of "Director" alone, as other functions are recognized as well, such as "Production Designer" as had been the case in the first two Star Trek nominations.

Dragon Awards [ ]

Established in April 2016 by Dragon Con on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the awards were intended to recognize "outstanding achievement in science fiction and fantasy literature, comics, gaming and filmed entertainment" with nominations designed to be submitted and decided upon by genre fans through a system of ballots. [12] To be eligible, the work in question must have been first released to the public in the last half of a year and the first half of the next year--July 1 to June 30 for a given award period. [13] Star Trek: Discovery was the first Star Trek production to become nominated for two award categories in 2018.

• The Dragon Awards – awards page
• Dragon Awards at Wikipedia

DVD Exclusive Awards [ ]

The DVD Exclusive Awards were awards in the years 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2006 which honored the best achievement on DVD releases. Starting out as the Video Premiere Awards in 2001 and 2002, it was rechristened DVD Premiere Awards in 2003, before being rechristened again.

Past nominees and winners include Trek alumni Jason Alexander , Raymond Singer , Thomas Dekker , Michael McKean , Ralph Winter , Jeffrey Katzenberg , Christopher Lloyd , Kirsten Dunst , Christopher Plummer , Ben Burtt , John Knoll , Scott Squires , Amanda McBroom , Robert Meyer Burnett , Kenneth Mars , Jenette Goldstein , John Rhys-Davies , Brad Dourif , Karl Urban , and James Cromwell .

• DVD Exclusive Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Eisner Awards [ ]

The Eisner Awards (formally known as the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards ) are prizes given to celebrate achievement in American comic books. First awarded in 1988 and named after cartoonist Will Eisner , the awards have been presented as part of Comic-Con International: San Diego (also known as San Diego Comic-Con) since 1991. [24]

• Eisner Awards at Wikipedia

Emmy Awards [ ]

The Emmy Awards have been presented annually by The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences since 1949 for the best in US television. Considered the most prestigious ones, the Emmy Awards are preceived as the television counterparts of the theatrical film Academy Awards.

Emmy Award summary [ ]

The Star Trek television productions proper, have won 38 Emmy Awards out of 185 nominations spanning from 1967 through 2024, augmented with two additional nominations for a 2006 Star Trek referencing television documentary, and a 2018 special award win for the entirety of the (television) franchise. Remarkably, almost a third of the (co-)nominations went to the three most honored Star Trek staffers, Michael Westmore , Dan Curry and Ron B. Moore , sharing 56 nominations between them (24, 19 and 13 respectively), (co-)winning 17 of them (5, 7 and 5 respectively), and which, astonishingly (considering the huge number of people who have worked on the franchise over the decades), accounted until 2022 for no less than nearly half of the total wins. The record for Westmore is even more impressive as he is the only Star Trek staffer to have received nominations in every single year, from 1988 through 2005, during which the Berman-era television franchise was in production, on six occasions even being nominated twice. Coincidentally, the most award winning staffer, Dan Curry, also holds the record with the most single year nominations, four in 1999, though only winning one of them that year. Virtually all of Curry's and Moore's nominations and wins were scored in the visual effects (VFX) award categories, a telltale indication of the leading role Berman-era Star Trek played in the field of television VFX during its eighteen years of production.

Of the seven Star Trek television shows, Star Trek: The Next Generation has been nominated and won the most (18 wins out of 58 nominations), though this was also due in part to the fact that there was little competition in the technical categories when The Next Generation started its run – especially during the first four seasons – before the advent of Babylon 5 in 1993. Star Trek: The Original Series has been the worst performing one as it scored none of its 13 nominations. Star Trek 's single best year at the Emmy's as a television entirety was 1993 when, between the two of them, The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine scored 6 wins out of 12 nominations, whereas 1998 was its worst when Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager scored 0 wins out of 8 nominations between them. On their own, it was Voyager which was by the Academy perceived as the most promising Star Trek series with the most nominations for its debut season, winning two of them in that year, but also went on to experience its worst single year in in 2000, when it did not win any of their 7 nominations for its season 6 , directly followed by Deep Space Nine 's same season which did not succeed to win any of the 6 awards it was nominated for two years earlier, the same year the entire television franchise scored at its worst. The Next Generation has by 2022 remained the most successful iteration of televised Star Trek as it did manage to secure at least 2 wins in each of its seven-year lifespan, also achieving the highest single year score in 1992 with 4 wins out of 9 nominations for its fifth season .

Of the main, primary live-action shows, it is the fourth and last seasons of The Next Generation that are tied in being the most nominated ones, incidentally also tied in actual wins of two out of ten nominations each. Conversely – when discounting Star Trek: Short Treks , Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Prodigy for their deviant formats –, the fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery became by far the overall worst scoring season of a Star Trek live-action series when it was not even considered for any Emmy nomination in 2022, a first for televised live-action Star Trek and a "feat" repeated two years later for its final season – the animated Lower Decks incidentally, became in 2022 concurrently the second Star Trek show not even considered for an Emmy either for its second and third seasons . In its defense however, Discovery was facing fierce competition from numerous other genre shows (as did Lower Decks as well in its field of animation for that matter) when it started its run in 2017, having to face Seth MacFarlane 's heavily The Next Generation -inspired The Orville science fiction series among many others, whereas its precursor The Next Generation faced none when it started its in 1987. This had also held true for the last two seasons of Star Trek: Enterprise , when it was facing stiff competition from the revamped Battlestar Galactica franchise from former Star Trek writer and producer Ronald D. Moore (not to be confused with the above mentioned multi-Emmy Award winning Star Trek staffer) in particular.

Four episodes are tied for the most nominations, which is four each: TNG : " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II ", " All Good Things... ", DS9 : " Emissary ", and VOY : " Caretaker ". Five episodes are tied for the most wins (two each): TNG : " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II ", " Q Who ", " Time's Arrow, Part II ", " Cost Of Living ", and VOY : " Endgame ".

Star Trek: The Animated Series is the only Star Trek series to have won a "major" Emmy Award. It was twice nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Entertainment Children's Series" in 1974 and 1975, winning it in 1975. This was the first major television production award Star Trek did actually win (the very first awards for the Star Trek phenomenon as a whole were the below mentioned 1967 Hugo Award for writing and The NAACP Image Award in the same year ). Both The Original Series and The Next Generation were nominated for the "Outstanding Dramatic Series"/"Outstanding Drama Series" (the name of the award changed), TOS in its first two years and TNG in its last, but neither won. The only other Star Trek series to be nominated for an Emmy Award outside the "technical" and "artistic" categories is Star Trek: Short Treks , which was nominated for "Outstanding Short Form Comedy Or Drama Series" in 2020.

Most of Star Trek 's nominations and wins have been in the technical categories, most predominantly VFX, followed by prosthetics and make-up. To an extent, Star Trek dominated those fields in the Berman-era, as it frequently competed with itself with two episodes concurrently nominated for "Best Visual Effects" and "Makeup"/"Prosthetics" in the same year. It lost its VFX predominance in the Kurtzman -era however, since the franchise was no longer the innovative leader in the field as it once had been in the Roddenberry /Berman-era, but rather a follower; and even though a VFX Emmy was won for the Discovery episode " Su'Kal ", it has to date remained the only VFX nomination the franchise had secured in over seven years that Kurtzman-era Star Trek had been in production. In the Makeup and Prosthetics categories on the other hand, the franchise has remained as strong as ever. There were however also nominations in the more non-technical "artistic" major categories such as hairstyling. Other "artistic" categories where Star Trek did chalk up some early nominations and a few wins included writing, acting, producing, directing, music, art direction, title design, as well as main costume design, whereas the more technical categories, besides VFX, included categories such as editing, sound mixing, and sound editing. Among actors, only Leonard Nimoy has ever been nominated for supporting actor in a drama or series and he was nominated three times. But he never won.

It should be noted that, prior to the mid-1980s, the "Visual Effects" category did not exist. In the 1960s, they were part of a rather nondescript category called "Special Classification of Individual Achievements" (for which The Original Series was nominated three years in a row incidentally), whereas they were lumped together in an equally nondescript "Art Direction" category for the 1970s and most of the 1980s. It was due to the lobbying efforts of among others Dan Curry, and more specifically Ronald B. Moore, who was a voting member of the Television Academy prior to his involvement with Star Trek , that VFX was split off into a category onto its own. However, this had a side-effect as more technical categories were added due to the growing technical sophistication of television productions, and as a result the behind-the-scenes technical categories were split off from the more "artistic" main categories. From the split onward the technical awards were awarded the weekend prior to the artistic aka "Prime Time" Emmy Award ceremony as the " Creative Arts Emmys Show (X) " – into which the originally "artistic" non-prosthetics makeup and hairstyling were incorporated at a later point in time. This part of the Emmy Awards ceremonies habitually receives hardly any media coverage, if at all, as opposed to the very much publicized, highly glamorous major, or "real" as Ron B. Moore had coined them, Emmy Awards. ( Flying Starships , pp. 107-115)

Moore has also reported that the later slew of award wins and nominations by the technical Star Trek staffers over the years and almost none whatsoever in any of the "real" Emmy Award categories has caused somewhat of an envious rift between the technical and the more artistic side of Star Trek 's staff and cast, having stated, " There were times when I felt that winning an Emmy really worked against us ". In line with this, Moore has also noted that Captain Jonathan Archer actor Scott Bakula was the only cast member who ever took the trouble of congratulating the VFX staff in person with their later wins, unsurprisingly endearing him to Moore. ( Flying Starships , p. 112)

Not only this, but the Academy itself has exhibited a certain amount of disdain for the Star Trek franchise on at least one occasion, as Moore recalled, when he was co-nominated with Curry in the VFX category for the season three The Next Generation episode " Deja Q " during the 1990 ceremony. Apart from this episode, " Tin Man " was also nominated (with Robert Legato and Gary Hutzel as nominees), together with three non- Star Trek productions. In a bizarre turn of events, all three non- Star Trek productions received the award due to a three-way tie, leaving the two Star Trek productions sole losers. In a further snub, the organization had Next Generation cast members Michael Dorn and Marina Sirtis purposely present the awards. Unaware of the set-up, both were horrified when they had to announce the winners, to which a thoroughly chagrined Moore added, " To add insult to injury they sent me a video copy of the award show so I can live it over and over. " ( Flying Starships , pp. 109-110) Nevertheless, all the snubbed Star Trek staffers went on to receive multiple Emmy Award wins. Something similar, though not orchestrated this time around, occurred twenty-eight years later in 2018, when the heavily Star Trek -inspired fourth season episode "USS Callister " of the successful British Channel 4 cautionary tale anthology series Black Mirror picked up six nominations alone out of eight for the entire season, most of them in the major categories, winning no less than four of them, including the most prestigious one in the "Outstanding Television Movie" category, a (children's) counterpart only won by The Animated Series as already related. [25] This turned out to be an embarrassment for the franchise it had drawn its inspiration from, as the first season of Discovery , launched with so much pomp and circumstance, only managed to secure two nominations in minor technical categories that year, despite massive franchise publicity efforts to achieve much more, and neither of which won. [26] [27]

The contrast between the "artistic" and "technical" award nominations had an even more ironic aspect as far as the VFX were concerned. While the executors of the VFX were showered with nominations, none of those who came up with the concepts in the first place, the production illustrators (the title being introduced in the franchise with Star Trek: The Motion Picture , and as part of the art department traditionally thought of as "artistic"), ever were, with the sole exception of Matt Jefferies in 1968.

In 2018, the Academy made amends for its 1990 slight, when it decided to award the live-action franchise with the special " Governors Award ", recognizing "the visionary science-fiction television franchise and its legacy of boldly propelling science, society and culture where no one has gone before". [28] Presented by popular science communicator Bill Nye on 8 September 2018 at the Creative Arts Emmys Awards show – exactly fifty-two years after the very first Star Trek episode was aired on US television – , the ceremony was attended by representatives, both cast and production staffers, from all the live-action television series, but ironically not including a production representative of the winner of the only "major" Emmy Award, The Animated Series . William Shatner and Sonequa Martin-Green , representing the very first and the then most recent incarnation of televised Star Trek , accepted the award on behalf of the franchise, with Shatner giving he acceptance speech. [29]

The year 2022 saw the debut of the Children's and Family Emmy Awards , a new Emmy Awards branch, which was formerly part of the Daytime Emmy Awards. Its inaugural nominee lineup saw the inclusion of the first season of Star Trek: Prodigy in two categories, including one of the most coveted categories, "Outstanding Animated Series", [30] and has thereby essentially followed in the footsteps of its illustrious The Animated Series predecessor when it was included in the inaugural nominee lineup in a corresponding category of the then newly instituted Daytime Emmy Awards back in 1974. But like its predecessor, it failed to secure the win on its first run, though winning the lesser one. The inaugural ceremony incidentally, was hosted by Jack McBrayer , the Badgey voice actor from the other Kurtzman-era animated series, Star Trek: Lower Decks . Additionally, LeVar Burton won the award's first "Lifetime Achievement Award", predominantly for his Reading Rainbow work. He was tributed over video by his Next Generation/Picard co-stars Patrick Stewart and Whoopi Goldberg . [31]

Emmy Award totals [ ]

In the table below, "Noms", or nominations, include both wins and losses. For example in TNG's first year, the show received 7 nominations of which it won 3, so it lost 4, therefore, dividing 3 by 7, achieving a score of 43%.

• ↑ 1.0 1.1 No series production due to the COVID-19 pandemic
• ↑ 2.0 2.1 Years endowed with a hyphen for nominations, indicate a year where a series was still in production, but did not qualify for a nomination because it fell outside the award time-frame for that year. A year endowed with a "0" for nominations, indicates an eligible series that was not considered for an award at all.

Emmy Award details [ ]

In the table below, the year given is the year of the award. The period of contention for the award is from the fall of the previous year to the summer of the current year, which corresponds to a traditional television season.

External links [ ]

• Emmys.com – official site
• Emmy Awards at the Internet Movie Database
• Creative Arts Emmy Awards at Wikipedia
• Children's and Family Emmy Awards at Wikipedia

Empire Awards [ ]

The Empire Awards were annual awards between 1996 and 2018 handed out by the British film magazine Empire .

Winners and nominees included Trek alumni Bryan Singer , the company Industrial Light & Magic , Kirsten Dunst , Simon Pegg , and Zoe Saldana .

• EmpireOnline.com Awards – official site
• Empire Awards at Wikipedia
• Empire Awards at the Internet Movie Database

FantastiCon Awards [ ]

FantastiCon was an annual three-day science fiction and fantasy convention which also celebrated the achievements of production staffers in these genres, complete with award presentations and ceremonies. The event was founded in 1996 by Star Trek guest actor William Campbell as a charity in order to raise funds for the Motion Picture & Television Fund , a charitable organization that offered assistance and care to those in the motion picture industry with limited or no resources, when struck with infirmity and/or in retirement age. All the proceeds went to the Motion Picture & Television Fund. ( Beyond the Clouds , p. 274: Star Trek: The Magazine  Volume 1, Issue 13 , p. 53) The award ceremony typically took place on the first evening of the event at a gala awards dinner and there were two award categories. Several honorary Shooting Star Award s were presented to individuals whose work had been instrumental in the evolution of science-fiction entertainment. The single, most prestigious one was the Gene Roddenberry Award , so christened by Campbell to express the fondness he always had for the Star Trek franchise, even though the convention habitually celebrated other franchises. The fifth, 2000, edition however, FantastiCon V 2K, held from 14 through 16 July in Los Angeles, was Star Trek -themed and was well represented by Star Trek cast and production staffers, old and new. Several staffers were awarded on the occasion. [32] (X)

Unfortunately, upon the failing health and ultimate death of its founder, the convention and associated awards have become defunct.

Game Critics Awards [ ]

The Game Critics Awards , also referred to as E3 Awards , are annual awards since 1998 handed out independently by the Electronic Entertainment Expo organizers, an annual trade fair of the video game industry, in Los Angeles, California.

• GameCriticsAwards.com – official site
• Game Critics Awards at Wikipedia
• Game Critics Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Genesis Awards [ ]

The Genesis Awards are annual awards handed out by The Humane Society of the United States to people from and productions of the entertainment and news media for their support against and public awareness of animal issues.

• HumaneSociety.org – official site
• Genesis Awards at Wikipedia
• Genesis Awards at the Internet Movie Database

GLAAD Media Awards [ ]

The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives, and are bestowed by GLAAD (formerly known as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).

• GLAAD.org – official site
• GLAAD Media Award at Wikipedia

Golden Duck Awards [ ]

The Golden Duck Awards were given between 1992 and 2017 in recognition of science fiction literature written for children. Awards were given in three reader categories: picture books, middle grades (the Eleanor Cameron Award), and young adult (the Hal Clement Award). The awards were replaced by annual notable book lists presented by a committee of the American Library Association using the same names and categories.

• Golden Duck Award at Wikipedia
• Golden Duck Award at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Golden Globe Awards [ ]

The Golden Globe Awards are annual awards given out since 1944 that are handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for excellence in film and television.

• GoldenGlobes.com – official site
• Golden Globe Awards at Wikipedia
• Golden Globe Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Golden Reel Awards [ ]

The Golden Reel Awards are annual awards since 1954 handed out by the Motion Picture Sound Editors honoring special achievements of the sound editors, music editors, sound designers and since 2006 also foley artists.

Past winners and nominees include Trek alumni Mace Matiosian , Ashley Harvey , Thomas W. Small , Doug Grindstaff , Stephen Hunter Flick , Ben Burtt , Mark A. Mangini , Mark P. Stoeckinger , George Watters II , Alan Rankin , F. Hudson Miller , Guy Tsujimoto , Ruth Adelman , Bub Asman , Alan Robert Murray , and Bill Wistrom .

• Golden Reel Awards – official site
• Golden Reel Awards at Wikipedia
• Golden Reel Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Golden Trailer Awards [ ]

The Golden Trailer Awards are annual awards which honor the motion picture marketing including trailers, posters and television advertisements since 1999. There was no award show in 2000. One of the awards is the Golden Fleece, awarded to the best trailer of the worst movie. Every year, a new jury is overseeing the award process. Past jury members include Quentin Tarantino , Rosario Dawson , Pedro Almodovar , Kathleen Kennedy , Ben Stiller , Benicio del Toro , and Joss Whedon . [35]

• GoldenTrailer.com – official site
• Golden Trailer Awards at Wikipedia
• Golden Trailer Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Grammy Awards [ ]

The Grammy Awards , originally named the Gramophone Awards , are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry.

Star Trek was nominated for the first time for a Grammy in late 2009 with the soundtrack for Star Trek by Michael Giacchino .

Awards are presented for works published the previous year.

• Grammy.com – official site
• Grammy Award at Wikipedia
• Grammy Awards at the Internet Movie Database

H.G. Wells Awards [ ]

The H.G. Wells Awards were awards presented by the "Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design" in the time span 1977-1986 at the annual Origins Game Fair for achievements in the field of Role Playing Games , and was named for the famed Edwardian-era science fiction author , who was known to have created one of the very first such games in 1913. [36]

Though the award became defunct in 1986, most of its constituent categories were absorbed into the fair's own Origins Award system, de facto becoming the successor of the H.G. Wells Award. [37] The below-listed 1987 award therefore is actually one such award.

• Origins Game Fair at Wikipedia
• Origins Award at Wikipedia

Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards [ ]

See Astra TV Awards .

Hollywood Film Festival Awards [ ]

The Hollywood Film Festival Awards are an annual festival since 1997. Among the awards handed out are the Hollywood Film Award , the Hollywood Movie Award , and the Hollywood Discovery Award among others.

Star Trek alumni Scott Squires , Robert Legato , Jerry Goldsmith , Diane Warren , Harold Michelson , Jeffrey Katzenberg , John Dykstra , Ve Neill , Stephen McEveety , Akiva Goldsman , John Knoll , Christian Slater , Scott Farrar , Christopher Plummer , Anton Yelchin , Victor Garber , Titus Welliver , Bob Gunton , and Benedict Cumberbatch are among the past winners in various categories. Joseph Culp earned a Hollywood Discovery Award nomination in 2012.

• HollywoodAwards.com – official site
• Hollywood Film Festival at Wikipedia
• Hollywood Film Festival Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards [ ]

The Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards were annual awards presented to honor Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists for their work. The awards were presented between 2000 and 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Past nominees included Ve Neill , James MacKinnon and Glenn Hetrick for work other than Star Trek .

• Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Hugo Awards [ ]

The Hugo Awards , named for Amazing Stories pulp magazine founder Hugo Gernsbach , are awarded annually for the best in science fiction and fantasy. The awards are administered by the World Science Fiction Convention, also known as Worldcon.

Star Trek: The Original Series was nominated eight times for Best Dramatic Presentation, and swept the nominees in 1968. It won the award twice. Star Trek: The Next Generation was nominated three times, and also won twice. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Enterprise were each nominated twice ( Enterprise for Short Form, after the category was split in 2002), but never won.

Nine of the first eleven Star Trek films except for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek Nemesis were nominated for Best Dramatic Presentation. None won the award. Gene Roddenberry won a special award for Star Trek in 1968.

Awards are presented for works published the previous year. In 2008, the fan-made internet series Star Trek: New Voyages was nominated in the category Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for the episode "World Enough and Time", written by Michael Reaves and Marc Scott Zicree and directed by Marc Scott Zicree .

In 2013, the heavily Star Trek referencing novel Redshirts by John Scalzi earned a Hugo Award in the category "Best Novel".

• TheHugoAwards.org – official site
• Hugo Award at Wikipedia
• Hugo Awards at the Internet Movie Database

IFMCA Awards [ ]

The IFMCA Awards , or International Film Music Critics Association Awards , are annual awards since 1998 handed out by the International Film Music Critics Association and honoring original film and television music. There were no awards given between the years 2000 and 2003.

Past winners and nominees include Trek alumni Jerry Goldsmith , John Debney , Don Davis , James Horner , and Michael Giacchino .

• FilmMusicCritics.org/Awards – official site
• International Film Music Critics Association at Wikipedia

Imagen Awards [ ]

The Imagen Awards or Imagen Foundation Awards competition are annual awards established in 1985, dedicated to "encouraging and recognizing the positive portrayals of Latinos in the entertainment industry". [39]

International Monitor Awards [ ]

The International Monitor Awards were annual awards which honored the work of production and post-production companies and persons between 1979 and 2002. The category Star Trek won its three awards in, "Electronic Visual Effects ", was a now obsolete denominator for what is currently known as CGI , and a telltale indicator of how new and revolutionary the groundbreaking visual effects technique still was at that point in time.

The below mentioned VES Awards, instituted one year after the International Monitor Awards went defunct, can be considered the industry successor/replacement of the latter.

• International Monitor Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Key Art Awards [ ]

The Key Art Awards are annual awards honoring achievements in print and video movie advertising art since 1972. They're presented by "The Hollywood Reporter".

Stan Lee received the Honorary Key Art Award in 2013. [40]

• KeyArtAward.com – official site
• Key Art Awards at Wikipedia
• Key Art Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards [ ]

The Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award are annual awards since 1998 handed out by the Las Vegas Film Critics Society. The main award is the Sierra Award .

Past winners and nominees include Trek alumni James Horner , Christopher Plummer , Bill George , John Logan , Ken Ralston , Jim Rygiel , Michael Giacchino , and Frank Langella .

• LVFCS.org/Awards – official site
• Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards at Wikipedia
• Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards at the Internet Movie Database

MacGuffin Awards [ ]

The MacGuffin Awards is an annual award given by the Property Masters Guild for excellence in props, beginning in 2024 . [50]

• MacGuffinAwards.com – official site

Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards [ ]

The Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards , or MUAHS , are awards for make-up and hair styling in movies, presented by the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild every year since 2013.

• MUAHSAwards.com – official site

MTV Movie Awards [ ]

The MTV Movie Awards are film and performance awards presented by MTV every year since 1992.

• MTV.com/MovieAwards – official site
• MTV Movie Awards at Wikipedia
• MTV Movie Awards at the Internet Movie Database

The NAACP Image Awards [ ]

The NAACP Image Awards are awarded annually since 1967 by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to honor achievement by people of color in the media.

The year below represents the year of contention – the awards are made the following year. LeVar Burton has won an NAACP Image Award on five occasions – 1994, 1995, 1999, 2002 and 2003 – for his work on Reading Rainbow . Among the presenters were Trek alumni Golden Brooks (2004) and Tyler Perry (2009) while Whoopi Goldberg , Alfre Woodard , and Vanessa Williams received several of the awards.

• NAACPImageAwards.net – official site
• NAACP Image Awards at Wikipedia
• NAACP Image Awards at the Internet Movie Database

National Board of Review Awards [ ]

The National Board of Review Awards are annual awards since 1920 handed out by the National Board of Review which is including film professionals, teachers, students and historians. There were no award ceremonies prior to 1932.

Past nominees and winners inlcude Trek alumni Jean Simmons (1953), Frank Langella (1971), Joel Grey (1972), Paul Dooley (1979), Whoopi Goldberg (1985), Winona Ryder (1990 and 1993), Sally Kellerman (1994), Terri Garr (1994), Victor Garber (1996), Stephen Collins (1996), Christopher Plummer (2002 and 2011), John Rhys-Davies (2003), Karl Urban (2003), and Titus Welliver (2010).

• NationalBoardOfReview.org – official site
• National Board of Review Awards at Wikipedia
• National Board of Review Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Online Film Critics Society Awards [ ]

The Online Film Critics Society Awards are annual awards since 1998 handed out by the Online Film Critics Society, founded in 1997.

Past winners and nominees include Trek alumni Christopher Plummer , Matthew Wood , Ben Burtt , Jim Rygiel , John Dykstra , Brad Dourif , John Rhys-Davies , Virginia Madsen , Simon Pegg , Michael Giacchino , James Horner , Frank Langella , Kirsten Dunst , and Stuart Baird .

• OFCS.org Awards – official site
• Online Film Critics Society Awards at Wikipedia
• Online Film Critics Society Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Peabody Awards [ ]

The George Foster Peabody Awards are awarded annually for excellence in radio and television, and, recently, for other electronic media as well. The awards are administered by the University of Georgia, from an endowment by George Foster Peabody, a philanthropist. The stated aim of the award is to "champion the creativity and achievements of storytellers across television, streaming, radio, and digital media."

The year below represents the release year; the awards are given out the following year. While CBS did not win the 2017 award for Discovery , the network did win a Peabody Award for another show they co-produced, American Vandal .

In 2024 , the Star Trek franchise as a whole was awarded the Institutional Award for the values it promotes. [51] [52] [53]

• Peabody.uga.edu – official site
• Peabody Award at Wikipedia
• Peabody Awards at the Internet Movie Database

People's Choice Awards [ ]

The People's Choice Awards are annual awards since 1975 wherein the people vote for their favorite movies, television programs, and musicians.

Trek alumni Joan Collins , Kirstie Alley , Whoopi Goldberg , and Kelsey Grammer are among the past winners.

• PeoplesChoice.com – official site
• People's Choice Awards at Wikipedia
• People's Choice Awards at the Internet Movie Database

PGA Awards [ ]

The PGA Awards are annual awards since 1990 handed out by the Producers Guild of America.

Robert Wise received a PGA Hall of Fame – Motion Pictures Award in 1999 and a Milestone Award in 2002. Ed Catmull won a Vanguard Award in 2002 and Stan Lee in 2012. Other winners and nominees include J.J. Abrams , Jeffrey Katzenberg , Naren Shankar , Damon Lindelof , and Bryan Burk . In 2013, J.J. Abrams received the Normal Lear Lifetime Achievement Award in Television.

• ProducersGuild.org – official site
• PGA Awards at Wikipedia
• PGA Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards [ ]

The Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards are annual awards handed out by the Phoenix Film Critics Society since 2001.

Past Trek alumni who received nominations and wins include Edouard F. Henriques , Akiva Goldsman , Jim Rygiel , Mark Stetson , Scott Farrar , Robert Legato , Roger Guyett , James Horner , John Rhys-Davies , Eric Bana , Anton Yelchin , Ashley Judd , Bill George , John Dykstra , John Knoll , Brad Dourif , Terry D. Frazee , Ve Neill , Ed Begley, Jr. , Michael McKean , Karl Urban , Virginia Madsen , Michael Giacchino , Robert Stromberg , Diane Warren , Tom Hardy , Christopher Plummer , John Logan , Maryann Brandon , Mary Jo Markey , Zachary Quinto , Stuart Baird , Victor Garber , Seth MacFarlane

• PhoenixFilmCriticsSociety.org – official site
• Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards at Wikipedia
• Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Prism Awards [ ]

The Prism Awards are annual awards since 1998 which honor individuals, companies and productions of the entertainment industry for their commitment and contributions against drug abuse.

Past Trek alumni who received a Prism Award nomination or won an award include Lori Petty , Ashley Judd , Rene Auberjonois , Miguel Ferrer , Keith Carradine , Sharon Lawrence , Teri Hatcher , Ben Vereen , William Shatner , Winona Ryder , Jennifer Morrison , and Anton Yelchin .

• PrismAwards.com – official site
• Prism Awards at Wikipedia
• Prism Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Razzie Awards [ ]

The Razzie Awards , also known as Golden Raspberry Awards , are annual awards since 1981 which honor the worst achievement in films. Presented by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation, the Razzie Awards are presented every year one day before the annual Academy Awards .

Among the past winners and nominees are Trek alumni Hal Needham , Bibi Besch , Olivia d'Abo , Julia Nickson , Jerry Goldsmith , Brian Thompson , Louise Fletcher , John Dykstra , Industrial Light & Magic , Joseph Sargent , Whoopi Goldberg , Kim Cattrall , Julie Newmar , Leo Damian , Christian Slater , Iggy Pop , Teri Hatcher , Akiva Goldsman , Diane Warren , Ellen Albertini Dow , J.J. Abrams , Joan Collins , Winona Ryder , Dwayne Johnson , Kristanna Loken , Roberto Orci , Alex Kurtzman , Kim Cattrall , Tyler Perry , and John Putch .

• Razzies.com – official site
• Razzie Awards at Wikipedia
• Razzie Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Ringo Awards [ ]

The Ringo Awards (formally known as the Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards ) are prizes given to celebrate achievement in American comic books. First awarded in 2017 and named after comic book artist Mike Wieringo , they are presented annually at the Baltimore Comic-Con.

• Ringo Awards at Wikipedia

Satellite Awards [ ]

The Satellite Awards , formerly known as Golden Satellite Awards , have been handed out annually since 1997.

• PressAcademy.com – official site
• Satellite Awards at Wikipedia
• Satellite Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Saturn Awards [ ]

The Saturn Awards , previously known as the Golden Scrolls and Science Fiction Film Awards , have been handed out annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films since 1973. They were founded by film historian Dr. Donald A. Reed, and the first, 1972 awards were presented by William Shatner , [55] who would do so again in 1978 and 1979. Prolific Star Trek author Mark A. Altman , co-heads the academy as of 2011. [56]

Shatner and Gene Roddenberry became the first Star Trek regulars to win the Life Career Award in 1980 . Non- Star Trek regulars who won the award included Ray Walston in 1990 , Whit Bissell in 1994 , Stan Lee in 2002 , and Malcolm McDowell in 2014 . Directors Robert Wise and Bryan Singer won the President's Award in 1996 . In 2013 , Jonathan Frakes received the Lifetime Achievement Award, followed by Nichelle Nichols in 2016 . In 2014 Bryan Fuller received the Dan Curtis Legacy Award.

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• Saturn Awards at Wikipedia
• Saturn Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Sci Fi Universe Awards [ ]

The Sci Fi Universe Awards are annual awards honoring the best of science fiction.

Scream Awards [ ]

The Scream Awards were annual awards presented from 2006 to 2011 honoring the best of science fiction, horror and fantasy and were formerly known as Spike Scream Awards . They were produced by Spike TV . The ceremony was discontinued after 2011.

Past winners and nominees include Trek alumni Famke Janssen , Sid Haig , Ron Perlman , Dwayne Johnson , Stan Lee , Patrick Stewart , Zachary Quinto , Christopher Lloyd , Zoe Saldana , Terry O'Quinn , Tom Hardy , J.J. Abrams , and Chris Hemsworth . In 2008 Derek Mears co-presented the world premiere of Friday the 13th and Jeffrey Dean Morgan co-presented the world premiere of Watchmen . In 2009, John Cho and Karl Urban presented Star Trek DVD extras as world premiere.

• Scream Awards at Wikipedia

Screen Actors Guild Awards [ ]

The Screen Actors Guild Awards or short SAG Awards have been handed out annually since 1995 by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).

The year below represents the year of contention – the awards are made the following year. Among the past winners and nominees are Alfre Woodard , Kirstie Alley , Jason Alexander , Kelsey Grammer , Amy Pietz , Kim Cattrall , Virginia Madsen , Teri Hatcher , William Shatner , Christopher Plummer , Vanessa Williams , Frank Langella , Patrick Stewart , and Winona Ryder .

Prior to the official SAG Awards, the SAG and AFTRA gave out the Life Achievement Awards every year beginning in 1963. Brock Peters received this award in 1991 and Ricardo Montalban in 1994. George Coe received the Ralph Morgan Award in 2009 and Joseph Ruskin in 2011.

• SAGAwards.org – official site
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• Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Scribe Awards [ ]

The Scribe Awards have been handed out annually since 2007 to writers of licensed tie-in books based on TV series, films, and video games, including various Star Trek series and literary spin-offs thereof.

Star Trek tie-in authors who have received Scribe Awards for non-Trek work include Kevin J. Anderson , Greg Cox , Keith R.A. DeCandido , Christie Golden , Robert Greenberger , Robert T. Jeschonek , Mike Johnson , Paul Kupperberg , Jeff Mariotte , Aaron Rosenberg , and Marv Wolfman .

A "Grandmaster" (aka the "Faust" award) is chosen every year, honoring an individual whose tie-in career has been notable. Star Trek tie-in authors that have been awarded the Scribe Grandmaster Award include Diane Duane (2014), A.C. Crispin (2013), Peter David (2011), Keith R.A. DeCandido (2009), Alan Dean Foster (2008), Christie Golden (2017), and Greg Cox (2018).

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SET Awards [ ]

The Science, Engineering & Technology Awards are awards for Excellence in the Portrayal of Science, Engineering, and Technology. They are produced by the Entertainment Industries Council, Inc. (EIC) and The Boeing Company and presented in Los Angeles, California. [59] [60]

SFX Awards [ ]

The SFX Awards are annual awards voted by the readers of the British genre magazine SFX . The first awards were handed out in 1997. After a few years without awards they were brought back in 2002. Since 2002 they were presented annually except 2006 and 2009.

Among the past winners and nominees are Star Trek alumni Andreas Katsulas , J. Michael Straczynski , Kirsten Dunst , Bradley Thompson , David Weddle , Zoe Saldana , J.J. Abrams

• SFX.co.uk – official site
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St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards [ ]

The St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards are annual awards since 2004 handed out by the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association.

Past nominees includes Trek alumni Frank Langella .

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Taurus World Stunt Awards [ ]

The Taurus World Stunt Awards have been handed out yearly since 2001 except in 2006 to the best stunt performers in the business. The awards have been presented by the Taurus World Stunt Academy and the statue is representing a bull.

Hal Needham received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001, Ronald R. Rondell in 2004, and Jophery C. Brown in 2010.

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• Taurus World Stunt Awards at the Internet Movie Database

TCA Awards [ ]

The Television Critics Association Awards have been handed out yearly since 1985 by the Television Critics Association to recognize excellence in television.

Lucille Ball received the Career Achievement Award in 1989. Among the previous nominees are Trek alumni Kelsey Grammer , Neal McDonough , Teri Hatcher , Ray Wise , William Shatner , and Danny Pudi .

• TVCritics.org/TCA-Awards – official site
• TCA Awards at Wikipedia
• Television Critics Association Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Teen Choice Awards [ ]

The Teen Choice Awards are annual awards since 1999 airing on FOX Network . Until 2002 it was organized by Seventeen magazine. In 2003, Teen People Magazine took over. The awards honor the year's biggest achievement in categories such as television, movies, music, fashion, and sport.

Past nominees and winner include Trek alumni Kirsten Dunst , Andy Dick , William Shatner , Dwayne Johnson , Winona Ryder , Sarah Silverman , Zoe Saldana , John Cho , Rachel Nichols , James Cromwell , Stephen Collins , Catherine Hicks , Victor Garber , Famke Janssen , Teri Hatcher , Vanessa Williams , Zachary Quinto , Robert Knepper , Thomas Dekker , Tony Plana , Terry O'Quinn , Chris Hemsworth , Daniel Dae Kim , Seth MacFarlane , Tom Hardy , Chris Pine , and Tahj D. Mowry .

• TeenChoiceAwards.com – official site
• Teen Choice Awards at Wikipedia
• Teen Choice Awards at the Internet Movie Database

TV Land Awards [ ]

The TV Land Awards have been handed out annually since 2003 by TV Land , as a "celebration of Classic TV". There have been no awards since 2013.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guest actress Vanessa Williams served as host for the 6th Annual TV Land Awards on 15 June 2008. The 2003 Trek award was presented by actress Mira Sorvino .

Teri Hatcher , Joan Collins , Stephen Collins and Catherine Hicks served as presenters in 2005. Further presenters include William Shatner in 2006, Kirstie Alley and Leonard Nimoy in 2007, William Shatner and Teri Hatcher in 2008, Teri Hatcher in 2009, and Whoopi Goldberg in 2012.

Steven Weber received the Favorite Airborne Character Award in 2005, shared with Tim Daly .

• TV Land Awards at Wikipedia

Universe Reader's Choice Awards [ ]

The Universe Reader's Choice Awards were film awards handed out by the Sci-Fi Universe Magazine in the years 1995 and 1996 before the magazine was bought by Sovereign Media Co. in 1997.

In 1995, Andreas Katsulas received an award in the category Best Supporting Actor in a Genre TV Series for Babylon 5 .

• Universe Reader's Choice Awards at the Internet Movie Database

VES Awards [ ]

The VES Awards have been handed out annually since 2003 by The Visual Effects Society, an organization comprised of visual effects (VFX) professionals, whose objective it is to honor achievements in the field of VFX, advance the art/craft and science of VFX, and promote VFX for its membership and the industry as a whole. As a peer-to-peer honor, it is considered the most prestigious award in the field of VFX, arguably even more so than its VFX category Emmy Award counterpart, which is usually awarded by laymen. Star Trek: Insurrection alumnus Jim Rygiel , himself a four-time nominee and two-time award winner (for non- Star Trek productions), is serving on the society's Board of Directors, [61] whereas Star Trek: Deep Space Nine alumnus and three-time nominee Daniel Kramer is a long-serving voting member. [62]

Honorary awards were over the years received by a multitude of VFX staffers who at one time or another had worked on the Star Star franchise; Stan Lee received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Ed Catmull received the Georges Méliès Award in 2010 and Douglas Trumbull in 2012, whereas Robert Abel preceded both in 2005. Trumbull also received the Honorary Membership in 2002 and the Lifetime Membership in 2009. Albert Whitlock received the Honorary Membership in 1998, John Dykstra in 2007, and Matthew Yuricich in 2010. John Dykstra also received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. Robert Legato received the Award for Creative Excellence in 2021.

The society organizes a yearly media event called "Festival of Visual Effects", held in June, celebrating the achievements of visual effects artists, and where they themselves discuss in detail their work. The 2001 event was entirely dedicated to all incarnations of Star Trek and featured as guests of honor, Howard A. Anderson, Jr. , Matt Jefferies , Robert Justman and Jerry Finnerman representing The Original Series . Berman -era Star Trek was represented by Robert Legato, Dan Curry , Herman F. Zimmerman , Michael Westmore , John Gross , Paul Hill , Ronald B. Moore , Erik Nash , Robert Bonchune and Greg Rainoff . The event was moderated by Worf actor, Michael Dorn . [63] (X) The awards were introduced two years later as an additional feature of the festival, and filled the void left by the similar peer-to-peer International Monitor Awards which went defunct the year before. At the third award ceremony in 2005 (the same where Abel posthumously received his honorary award), Don Shay, publisher and editor-in-chief of the VFX magazine Cinefex (which had run several indepth pieces on the Star Trek films ) was awarded the honorary "Board of Directors Award". [64]

In 2017 a "Hall of Fame" was instituted by the society as an additional means of honoring VFX staffers, deceased or still living, who made pioneering and substantial contributions to the field. Staffers with strong Star Trek ties that were thus inducted included, [65]

• 2017 : Robert Abel, Ed Catmull, Linwood G. Dunn , John Knoll , Grant McCune , Syd Mead , Douglass Trumbull, Joe Viskocil , Albert Whitlock and Matthew Yuricich. Most of these man had already received (sometimes multiple) VES honors previously, as touched upon above.
• 2018 : Gene Roddenberry (specifically for Star Trek )
• 2019 : Stan Lee

Despite all these honors for Star Trek , it is the VFX staff of Industrial Light & Magic , both current and former, that is disproportionately over-represented on all the honor rolls of the society, because of the pioneering role the company has played in the field from the year of its foundation in 1975 to this very day, not in the least for its primary account, rival franchise Star Wars . That franchise's 2021 entry for example, the third season of its very first live-action television series, The Mandalorian , left the single Kurtzman -era Star Trek nomination in the dust with no less than thirteen nominations, though only winning three of them (one of them by former Star Trek alumnus Joe Bauer ) – but it should be noted that the series was heavily competing with itself in several categories where more than one episode of the season were nominated. [66]

• VisualEffectsSociety.com – official site
• Visual Effects Society Awards at Wikipedia
• Visual Effects Society Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards [ ]

The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards are annual awards by the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association handed out since 2002.

• WAFCA.com – official site
• Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards at the Internet Movie Database

World Soundtrack Awards [ ]

The World Soundtrack Awards are annual awards handed out since 2001 by the World Soundtrack Academy.

Past winners and nominees include Trek alumni Diane Warren , Don Davis , James Horner , and Michael Giacchino .

• WorldSoundtrackAcademy.com – official site
• World Soundtrack Awards at Wikipedia
• World Soundtrack Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Writers Guild of America Awards [ ]

The Writers Guild of America Awards , short WGA Awards , are two award ceremonies given out annually the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West since 1933.

Frank Military received the Paul Selvin Award in 1999. D.C. Fontana received the Morgan Cox Award in 1997 and 2002.

• WGAEast.org – official site
• Writers Guild of America Awards at Wikipedia
• Writers Guild of America Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Young Artist Awards [ ]

The Young Artist Awards , formerly known as the Youth in Film Awards , are annual awards since 1980 given to young performers to honor their work in film and television who are seeking a future in the entertainment industry.

Among the Trek alumni who were honored for other projects are Dennis Christopher , Byron Thames , Gabriel Damon , Chad Allen , Bumper Robinson , R.J. Williams , Scott Grimes , Carl Steven , Ryan Bollman , Joshua Harris , Brian Bonsall , Amy Wheaton , Maureen Flannigan , Jason Marsden , Lark Voorhies , Cory Danziger , Winona Ryder , Amy O'Neill , Kenny Morrison , Andrew Kavovit , Janna Michaels , Kimberly Cullum , Erika Flores , Tahj D. Mowry , Justin Shenkarow , Christopher Pettiet , Courtney Peldon , and Phillip Glasser .

• YoungArtistAwards.org – official site
• Young Artist Awards at Wikipedia
• Young Artist Awards at the Internet Movie Database
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The Star Trek Universe Beams In Five Nominations for 74th Emmy Awards

Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds receive Emmy nominations!

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The nominations for the 74th Emmy Awards came out this morning, and the Television Academy recognized the Star Trek universe with five nominations!

• Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes — Star Trek: Picard - " Penance " ?Christine Bieselin Clark, Costume Designer; Michell Ray Kenney, Costume Supervisor; and Allison Agler, Assistant Costume Designer
• Outstanding Period And/Or Character Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) — Star Trek: Picard - " Hide and Seek " Silvina Knight, Assistant Department Head Makeup Artist; Tanya Cookingham, Key Makeup Artist; Peter De Oliveira, Makeup Artist; Allyson Carey, Makeup Artist; and Hanny Eisen, Makeup Artist
• Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup -— Star Trek: Picard - " Hide and Seek " James Mackinnon, Special Makeup Effects Department Head; Vincent Van Dyke, Prosthetic Designer; Kevin Kirkpatrick, Special Makeup Effects Assistant Department Head; Hugo Villasenor, Special Makeup Effects Artist; Bianca Appice, Special Makeup Effects Artist; Neville Page, Prosthetic Designer; Toryn Reed, Special Makeup Effects Artist; and Ralis Kahn, Special Makeup Effects Artist
• Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour) — Star Trek: Picard - " Penance " Matthew E. Taylor, Co-Supervising Sound Editor; Michael Schapiro, Co-Supervising Sound Editor; Sean Hessinger, Dialogue Editor; Alex Pugh, Sound Editor; Clay Weber, Foley Editor; John Sanacore, Foley Editor; Ben Schorr, Music Editor; and Katherine Harper, Foley Artist Ginger Geary, Foley Artist
• Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour) — Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - " Memento Mori " Matthew E. Taylor, Co-Supervising Sound Editor; Michael Schapiro, Co-Supervising Sound Editor; Kip Smedley, Sound Designer; Clay Weber, Sound Editor; John Sanacore, Sound Editor; David Barbee, Sound Editor; Matt Decker, Music Editor; Alyson Dee Moore, Foley Artist; Rick Owens, Foley Artist; and Chris Moriana, Foley Artist

Sending a huge congratulations to Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast and crew for your Emmy nominations!

The 74th Emmy Awards will air live September 12 at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT on NBC. For the full list of award nominations, head here .

Star Trek: Picard streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and is distributed concurrently by Paramount Global Distribution Group on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories. In Canada, it airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave,

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., Latin America, Australia & the Nordics. The series will air on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel & stream on Crave in Canada with additional international availability to be announced at a later date. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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Congrats to the #StarTrekDiscovery VFX team for your #Emmy win for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode for "Su'Kal"! pic.twitter.com/s3Qp6uAvo2 — Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) September 13, 2021

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Writer Russell Bates was an Air Force Veteran who pitched several ideas to The Original Series . He never sold those scripts, but showrunner of The Animated Series Dorothy "D.C." Fontana mentored him in a Writers Guild diversity program . With the help of veteran animation director David Wise, Bates crafted a story based on indigenous myths. A half-century before Wakanda: Forever included Mayan god K'ulK'ulkan to audiences, The Animated Series introduced him as one of their aliens of the week. Bates shaped the story to honor another Star Trek mentor, Gene L. Coon. Bates mirrored his story with The Original Series , "Who Mourns for Adonais?" where the Enterprise crew meets Apollo.

That episode used much of the trappings of Ancient Greek mythology, often used in storytelling. "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" did the same thing with the mythological symbology of ancient cultures in Africa and the Americas. Even today's standards would make it a controversial episode. Both for its diverse cultural depictions and a not-so-subtle message, humanity had grown beyond the need for gods who require obedience. The episode also introduced the first named Native American crew member, Ensign Walking Bear. Bates made the character Comanche, despite himself being Kiowa.

Star Trek: The Animated Series offered plenty of other beloved and controversial episodes. In one, a story involved Spock, time travel and euthanizing a pet. NBC executives were nervous about the episode, written by Fontana herself. The network did get an influx of calls and letters, but from parents praising the show for dealing with such a difficult issue sensitively. The show did get in trouble with Bible Belt viewers when Kirk and company defended the Biblical Devil in an alien court. Ringworld writer Larry Niven's episode also drew some criticism. It was an episode featuring a group of alien slavers who were all destroyed at the end.

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The Animated Series Wasn't 'Better' Than Other Star Trek

The Daytime Emmys awarded Star Trek: The Animated Series for telling an adult story in a children's medium. This is what makes the franchise's absence from the Primetime Emmy Awards so baffling. Every Star Trek series often tackles difficult, relevant issues through allegories. Instead of seeing this as an extra layer of "difficulty," Television Academy voters seem to deem it disqualifying. There is a longstanding bias against science fiction and fantasy when it comes to industry recognition across media. The only Star Trek movie to win an Academy Award was the 2009 Kelvin Timeline reboot film for hair and makeup. The industry only recognizes technical artistry, leaving everything else in the shadows.

The Animated Series told some inspiring stories, especially considering kids were the intended audience. It's a magic trick that Star Trek: Prodigy repeated . Yet, the series for adults are equally impressive -- at least four episodes from Picard Season 3 deserve every statue they could win. There's a moment in Star Trek: Discovery 's Season 3 premiere that outshines any other TV performance that year. Sonequa Martin-Green plays desperation, fear and unbridled joy in rapid succession, made only more powerful by the narrative question that moment answers. Strange New Worlds' recent LGBTQ allegory is the franchise at its best.

Sure, Star Trek has had its share of goofy episodes, like the infamous "Spock's Brain" or any of the holodeck episodes in The Next Generation era . However, no writer or director ever sets out to tell a "bad" Star Trek story. They all try to create something visually appealing, entertaining and meaningful. Through different series, counting Short Treks , they've succeeded more often than they failed. It's time the Television Academy noticed that and stopped criticizing science fiction for being both artful and fun.

‘Beef’ and ‘Star Trek’ Star Patti Yasutake Dies at 70 After Cancer Fight

She was best known for her role as Nurse Ogawa in the “Star Trek” franchise.

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Veteran actress Patti Yasutake has died aged 70 following a “journey with cancer,” People confirmed, citing her manager and friend, Kyle Fritz.

“Patti was not only a client but a ‘chosen family member,’” Fritz told the magazine. “She was the very first actress I ever signed and a friendship of over 30 years ensued. It was an honor to know her, work with her and love her.”

According to People , Yasutake was born in California and immersed in the theater world, participating in many plays during her more than three-decade career.

While Yasutake had 62 credits to her name, she was best known for her roles as Nurse Ogawa in the Star Trek franchise. She played this role first on the 1990s series Star Trek: The Next Generation and in subsequent movie sequels, Star Trek: Generations and Star Trek: First Contact .

She also guest-starred on popular shows including Picket Fences , Living Single , ER , and more. She received one Independent Spirit Award nomination for her role as Marsha in 1988’s The Wash , a drama about a Japanese family.

More recently she starred on the small screen as Fumi Nakai in Netflix’s Beef . The show, starring Ali Wong, follows two people consumed by a road rage encounter. Yasutake plays Wong’s mother-in-law. The show would go on to win eight Emmy awards and three Golden Globes.

Her final role before her death was voicing Akane Kishida in the video game, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth .

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In other words folks, we have been talking Emmy fairly consistently for more than a year and a half with no discernible break (the official FYC season for the 76th began in January just as the 75th winners were being announced). But now it really is crunch time and it is all on the line as voting continues over the course of the next 11 days.

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HANGIN’ WITH ‘HACKS’

The campaigns are certainly still out in force. On Tuesday, the Hacks team turned up for a conversation onstage at the cushy Soho House screening room in West Hollywood. Stars Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder as well as the creative trio behind it Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky all showed up for a fun Q&A including talk about Season 4, which is now being written but of course is going to focus on a storyline where Deborah Vance finally gets the late-night talk show for which she has worked her entire life.

Smart, with two of her five Emmys for this role, is so good in delivering Vance’s comedy stand-up routines that I asked her if there was any talk that maybe Jean Smart could turn up headlining in Vegas. “Oh yeah, that’s what we want to do. Let’s milk this thing for all its worth,” joked Downs about the prospect. For her part, Smart just rolled her eyes, content to play Deborah Vance, not morph into her.

IS EMMY TURNING JAPANESE?

On Monday night at Matsuhisa restaurant on La Cienega, Netflix threw a small dinner for its breakout animated series Blue Eye Samurai , with select press and the team including creators, EPs and writers Michael Green and Amber Noizumi, plus their Emmy-nominated sound editor Paulette Lifton. The stunning series is up for Outstanding Animated Series, and also Sound Editing in a Comedy or Drama Series (Half Hour) and Animation, but in the latter finds itself competing against heavyweight live-action titles like Star Wars: Ashoka, Only Murders in the Building and The Bear , and also another animated entry with a legacy name in Star Trek: Lower Decks. There may have been a good omen just two days later when the Television Academy announced this year’s juried Emmy winners and Blue Eye Samurai led the list of all shows with three Emmys: for Outstanding Achievement In Animation for Character Design, Production Design, and Storyboard. That makes it this season’s biggest Primetime Emmy leader so far.

Green told me the show has been renewed for a second season but it will be a while since it takes years to finish production. He also said that Yentl was one of his key inspirations for the female warrior disguised as a man. Barbra, Can You Hear Me?

‘DAILY SHOW’S’ MEGA MAGA MAN

Also this week in advance of his trip to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention, I caught up another Emmy nominee Jordan Klepper , who is up as one of the hosts of Outstanding Talk Series nominee The Daily Show . Up against single-host talkers Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers, this politically oriented Comedy Central staple really is hitting its stride with the return of Jon Stewart every Monday and a revolving-host format the rest of the week for the duration of this election season.

Coming off a win in January for the last year of host Trevor Noah’s seven-year run, there has been no lack of material for Klepper, fondly known for his many adventures in MAGAland as he ventures out into Trump rallies, as well as being a rotating host on the news team. He is having a great time.

So next week the big show on television will be the Democratic Convention, which is happening just weeks after President Biden dropped out and Vice President Kamala Harris dropped in. It also follows the chaos in July with an assassination attempt on Trump and a GOP convention for which The Daily Show had to tear up their planned live coverage due to the shooting. So, can this one be fun for him to cover when he is known for getting comedy gold from MAGA types at all those rallies he does? Are the Democrats good fodder too?

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“I go to MAGA events, and people are unafraid of wearing flags as capes and giant cowboy hats that have American flags all around them, and the Democrats are usually more subdued, but the DNC allows them…it gives them permission to come in and make the most horrific fashion choices known to man out of the spirit of patriotism, I guess,” he joked. “And so, in that moment, I look forward to watching the Democrats strut their stuff and perhaps finding a little bit of humor in it. … One of the things I love best about field stuff is that I get the first draft of responses, and I see a lot of people in that MAGA movement, right now, trying to connect the dots of knowing what dear leader has told them to believe but not exactly knowing how to articulate that or why they believe it.”

Vanity Fair recently dubbed Klepper as the MAGA Anthropologist, and he told me he hopes that distinction will get him a degree somewhere. But on the serious side, does he ever fear for his safety as these rallies and events? “It’s quite the dynamic there. There is tension at these MAGA events, for sure, and I have had my fair share of moments that have gotten a little dicey, but at the same time, you also have people who are just excited to be there and who are friendly and want to communicate their points of view. We were unsure what was going to happen at this last event (he covered recently),” he said.

“So much has happened in this last month, so much, including an attempted assassination on their candidate, which, frankly, when that first happened, there was a larger question about will we ever go to a MAGA rally again?” he said. “Is it appropriate? Is it safe? What will the energy and tenor be? And when I arrived, it had felt like years had passed between those events. Now, there was a lot of talk about the assassination attempt, but there was more talk about what had happened the last week and other grievances.”

Has he thought about what the show, tagged this season as Indecision 2024, will be like post-election? What kind of material will be left to explore?

“That’s something The Daily Show , when I talk to other people about it, it was like out of the places, all of the networks, all of the things, here at Comedy Central, they let me tell jokes that day, as a host. They let me go in the field and craft six-minute pieces that are anthropological looks at America, and then they let me do half-hour deep-dives into Estonian politics,” he says. “So, there’s a lot of ways to skin the political satire cat, and I love using all of them. So, whatever America looks like five, six months from now, I’m really eager to continue to use all of these skillsets to kind of try to craft a narrative, a story, or at least an understanding of this strange place we’re in.”

GENA ROWLANDS : ONE OF THE ALL-TIMERS

But Rowlands had a career like no other, most notably in all those daring and different independent films directed by husband John Cassavetes. In fact she got to be directed by both her husband, and later her son, Nick Cassavetes (in The Notebook). I always thought she should have won the Best Actress Oscar for her seminal and haunting turn in 1974’s A Woman Under the Influence , but alas she lost to Ellen Burstyn that year for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (although Rowlands did take a Golden Globe for it, one of her eight GG nominations and two wins). She received a second lead actress Oscar nomination for 1980’s Gloria, but she should have gotten another, at least , for 1977’s Opening Night , one of the great performances by an actress playing an actress in cinema history. Check it out.

All of those and so many more were collaborations with Cassavetes, many shot right in their living room. Remarkable. Just on Wednesday, the day she died, I posted a new episode of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens in which my guest Mark Duplass extensively tells of his idolization of John Cassavetes and all those independent films that team was able to make outside the Hollywood system.

I am so happy that Rowlands finally received the Oscar she deserved, an Honorary one for her career, in 2015. I was there that night and it was special. For several years, right before the Board of Governors would convene to vote new recipients of their Governors Awards, I would write something in this column asking “Isn’t it about time for Gena?” Finally it was, but as I wrote after that night this Oscar in its own way was really for both of them, Gena and John.

One of the great honors I have had in doing interviews was in 2004 when I moderated a SAG Q&A with Gena and her equally legendary The Notebook co-star James Garner at Pacific Design Center. As they talked about the movie and their celebrated careers, Gena’s eyelash loosened and suddenly started hanging sideways. I wondered “Should I say something?” I decided to let it go. She was beautiful even with a sideways eyelash — and by the way she didn’t let it get in the way of the interview in front of her fellow actors.

This being the end of Emmy season it also seems appropriate to acknowledge Rowland’s status as an Emmy legend. She was nominated for eight Primetime Emmys, seven of them in the Limited (or Miniseries) category, and won three for 1987’s The Betty Ford Story, 1992’s Face of a Stranger, and in supporting for 2003’s Hysterical Blindness. She even won a Daytime Emmy in 2004 for Children’s Program performer in The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie.

Here’s to the incredible Gena Rowlands.

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‘Star Wars' cast: Who has contended at the Emmys?

T he first-ever “Star Wars” movie, “A New Hope,” won six Academy Awards in 1978 including Best Editing and Best Original Score while George Lucas was nominated for Best Director. The biggest accomplishment, however, is arguably that Alec Guinness reaped a Best Supporting Actor citation for his turn as Obi-Wan Kenobi. That is the sole acting nomination “Star Wars” movies have earned at the Oscars.

The movies, in total, have won seven Oscars from a total of 37 nominations, but it is only Guinness who has been recognized for his acting across a total of 11 live-action “Star Wars” flicks, which includes all nine films in the main Skywalker Saga plus the spin-off films “Rogue One” and “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” However, plenty of the franchise’s cast have landed nominations for other projects at other major awards groups.

Given that it’s Emmys season, we’re going to focus on the Emmys. So, below is a ranked list of the “Star Wars” cast who have contended for TV’s top honors. We are also including the “Star Wars” shows, too, although we are only focusing on the major stars of the films and shows so forgive us if we miss one or two names out.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge - L3-37 - Seven nominations, three wins

Waller-Bridge may not have played the most major character in “Star Wars” but she is a major name. She voiced the navigational droid L3-37, who actually ends up becoming part of the Millennium Falcon, in the spin-off film “Solo: A Star Wars” story. She has an incredible Emmys record, with her first bid coming in 2018 for Best Drama Writing for “Killing Eve.” She then won three Emmys in 2019 for “Fleabag” - Best Comedy Series, Best Comedy Actress, and Best Comedy Writing. She was nominated for Best Drama Series in 2019 and 2020 for “Killing Eve” while, also in 2020, she picked up a Best Comedy Guest Actress nomination for “Saturday Night Live.”

Donald Glover - Lando Calrissian - 14 nominations, two wins

Glover played the younger version of smuggler Lando Calrissian in “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” His Emmy record is also impressive. He was nominated for four awards for “Atlanta” in 2017 - Best Comedy Series, Best Comedy Actor, Best Comedy Directing, and Best Comedy Writing. He won for both acting and directing. He picked up the same four nominations for the same show in 2018 while, that year, he was also cited for Best Comedy Guest Actor for “Saturday Night Live.” He secured another Best Comedy Actor bid for “Atlanta” in 2022 while, in 2023, he was nominated for Best TV Movie/Limited Series Writing for “Swarm.” Earlier this year, he reaped three more Emmy bids, all for “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” - Best Drama Series, Best Drama Actor, and Best Drama Writing. These three bids are pending.

James Earl Jones - Darth Vader - Eight nominations, two wins

Jones has voiced Darth Vader in every “Star Wars” movie the character has appeared in so far, although he has now retired from the role. Three of his Emmy bids came for Best Drama Guest Actor - in 1963 “East Side/West Side,” in 1994 for “Picket Fences,” and in 2004 for “Everwood.” He was nominated for Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor in 1990 for “By Dawn’s Early Light” and in 1991 for “Heat Wave.” He won for “Heat Wave.” He won another Emmy in 1991, too - Best Drama Actor for “Gabriel’s Fire.” He was also cited for Best Drama Supporting Actor in 1995 for “Under One Roof” and for Best Comedy Guest Actor in 1997 for “Frasier.”

Jimmy Smits - Bail Organa - 12 nominations, one win

Smits played Senator Bail Organa, Princess Leia’s adoptive father, in “Attack of the Clones,” “Revenge of the Sith,” “Rogue One,” and the TV show “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” Smits has a great Emmys record, racking up six Best Drama Supporting Actor nominations for “L.A. Law” - in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1992. He won in 1990. He then picked up five bids for Best Drama Actor for “NYPD Blue” - in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. His 12th citation came in 2009 for Best Drama Guest Actor for “Dexter.”

Woody Harrelson - Tobias Beckett - Nine nominations, one win

Harrelson featured as Beckett, Han Solo’s mentor and nemesis, in “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” He was nominated five times for Best Comedy Supporting Actor for “Cheers” - in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991. He won in 1989. He was cited for Best Comedy Guest Actor in 1999 for “Frasier” before he reaped a nomination for Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor for “Game Change” in 2012. He then picked up two nominations for “True Detective” in 2014 - Best Drama Series and Best Drama Actor.

Ewan McGregor - Obi-Wan Kenobi - Five nominations, one win

McGregor played the younger version of Obi-Wan in the prequel trilogy - “The Phantom Menace,” “Attack of the Clones,” and “Revenge of the Sith” - before he reprised the role in the miniseries “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” McGregor was first Emmy-nominated in 1997 for Best Drama Guest Actor for “ER.” He was then nominated for Best Narrator in 2017 for “Highlands: Scotland’s Wild Heart.” He has two Best TV Movie/Limited Series citations to his name - one for “Fargo” in 2017 and one for “Halston” in 2021. He won for “Halston.” He was also nominated for Best Miniseries for “Obi-Wan Kenobi” in 2023.

Frank Oz - Yoda - Five nominations, one win

Oz voiced Yoda and provided the puppetry for the character in “Empire Strikes Back,” “Return of the Jedi,” and “The Phantom Menace.” CGI then took over his puppetry duties so he was a voice-only performer for Yoda in “Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith.” He returned to puppeteer and voice duties, however, for “The Last Jedi.” All five of his nominations came for Best Variety/Music/Comedy Program for “The Muppet Show” - in 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1981. He won in 1978.

Ben Mendelsohn - Director Krennic - Three nominations, one win

Mendelsohn portrayed one of the fans’ favorite villains in “Star Wars” - Director Krennic, the man responsible for overseeing the construction of the Death Star. Mendelsohn was nominated for Best Drama Supporting Actor for “Bloodline” in 2015 and 2016, winning in the latter year. He then picked up a Best Drama Guest Actor bid in 2017 for the same show.

Forest Whitaker - Saw Gerrera - Three nominations, one win

The Oscar-winning Whitaker portrayed the live-action version of extremist freedom fighter Saw Gerrera in “Rogue One” before he reprised the role in the TV series “Andor.” He also voiced the character in the animated show “Rebels.” Whitaker won Best TV Movie as a producer in 2003 for “Door to Door” before he was nominated Best Drama Guest Actor in 2007 for “ER.” His third nomination came in 2010 for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking for “Brick City.”

Giancarlo Esposito - Moff Gideon - Five nominations, zero wins

Esposito delivered one of the most intriguing, captivating characters in modern “Star Wars” history with his turn as the villainous Moff Gideon, who he played in “The Mandalorian.” He is used to turning out these sorts of magnetic performances, however, and his Emmy record proves that. He has been nominated for Best Drama Supporting Actor four times - for “Breaking Bad” in 2012, “Better Call Saul” in 2019 and 2020, and “The Mandalorian” itself in 2021. He also picked up a Best Drama Guest Actor nomination in 2020 for “The Mandalorian.”

Emilia Clarke - Qi’ra - Four nominations, zero wins

Clarke appeared in “Solo: A Star Wars Story” as Qi’ra, the love interest to Alden Ehrenreich ‘s young Han Solo. Her most famous role, however, was as Daenerys Targaryen in “Game of Thrones.” All four of her nominations came for that show. Three of the bids - in 2013, 2015, and 2016 - came for Best Drama Supporting Actress while the fourth citation came for Best Drama Actress in 2019.

Adam Driver - Kylo Ren - Four nominations, zero wins

Driver quickly became the fans’ favorite character in the sequel trilogy as the conflicted Kylo Ren. He is also popular with Emmy voters with four nominations. Three of those citations came for Best Comedy Supporting Actor for “Girls” - in 2013, 2014, and 2015. His fourth bid came in 2020 - for Best Comedy Supporting Actor for “Saturday Night Live.”

Carrie Fisher - Princess Leia - Three nominations, zero wins

The iconic Fisher played the equally iconic Princess Leia in the original trilogy while she also appeared in “The Force Awakens” and “The Last Jedi” before she passed away. Leia featured in “The Rise of Skywalker” via archival footage. Fisher was nominated for Best Comedy Guest Actress for “30 Rock” in 2008 before she snagged a bid for Best Variety, Music or Comedy Special in 2011 for “Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking.” Her final nomination was for Best Comedy Guest Actress in 2017 for “Catastrophe.”

Alec Guinness - Obi-Wan Kenobi - Two nominations, zero wins

The legendary Guinness was Oscar-nominated for his turn as Obi-Wan Kenobi, a role he played in all three original trilogy movies. His first Emmy bid was for Best Single Performance by an Actor (Lead or Support) in 1960 for “Startime.” He was then cited for Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor in 1983 for “Smiley’s People.”

Fiona Shaw - Maarva Andor - Three nominations, zero wins

Shaw had one of the best speeches in the entirety of the Disney+ TV show “Andor” as Maarva, the adoptive mother of Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor. Before that, she turned in several stunning performances, exemplified by her three Emmy nominations. Her first two bids came in 2019 - for Best Drama Supporting Actress for “Killing Eve” and Best Comedy Guest Actor for “Fleabag.” She then picked up another Best Drama Supporting Actress citation for “Killing Eve” in 2020.

Paul Bettany - Dryden Vos - One nomination, zero wins

Bettany is one of those actors who consistently delivers great performances yet curiously get underserved at awards groups. His sole Emmy nomination came in 2021 for Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor for “WandaVision.” He starred in “Solo: A Star Wars Story” as Dryden Vos, the gangster bad guy who Han Solo takes on.

Gwendoline Christie - Captain Phasma - One nomination, zero wins

Christie also portrayed a “Star Wars” villain - the stormtrooper leader Captain Phasma, who she played in all three sequel trilogy flicks. Christie is best known for her role as Brienne of Tarth in “Game of Thrones,” which earned her a Best Drama Supporting Actress citation in 2019.

Oscar Isaac - Poe Dameron - One nomination, zero wins

Isaac - as hotheaded pilot Poe Dameron - was one of the main trio in the sequel trilogy alongside Daisy Ridle y’s Rey and John Boyega ‘s Finn. His single Emmy nomination was for Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor in 2022 for “Scenes From a Marriage.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Mace Windu - One nomination, zero wins

Jackson is an iconic actor and has appeared in almost every major movie franchise (“Star Wars,” the MCU, “Jurassic Park”). He played Jedi Master Mace Windu in the prequel trilogy. His sole Emmy nomination didn’t come for acting, however. It came for Best Animated Program as a producer for “Afro Samurai: Resurrection” in 2009.

Diego Luna - Cassian Andor - One nomination, zero wins

Luna played rebel hero Cassian Andor in “Rogue One” and the film and character were both so well received that a prequel series was greenlit. That series - “Andor” - was equally beloved by fans. He (surely) came close to an acting nomination for that show but, alas, missed out. He was nominated, however, for Best Drama Series as a producer on “Andor.” That was in 2024.

Pedro Pascal - The Mandalorian - One nomination, zero wins

Pascal recently joined the MCU as Mister Fantastic while he previously played Oberyn Martell in “Game of Thrones.” Add in his role as The Mandalorian (AKA Din Djarin) in “The Mandalorian” and he has a trifecta of major roles in major franchises. His solo Emmy nomination also came for a project with a huge following - “The Last of Us.” He was cited for Best Drama Actor in 2024.

Andy Serkis - Supreme Leader Snoke and Kino Loy - One nomination, zero wins

Serkis also has a record of franchise appearances, playing Gollum/Smeagol in “The Lord of the Rings,” Ulysses Klaue in the MCU and, in “Star Wars,” both Supreme Leader Snoke and Kino Loy. He played Snoke in “The Force Awakens” and “The Last Jedi” via motion capture before his character was abruptly killed off. He then appeared in human form as prisoner Kino Loy in “Andor,” delivering a superb performance in the show’s best string of episodes as he and Cassian tried to escape an Imperial prison. His Emmy nomination came in 2009 - for Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor for “Little Dorrit.”

Billy Dee Williams - Lando Calrissian - One nomination, zero wins

The great Williams played the smooth-talking, charming Lando Calrissian in “Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi” before he reprised the role in “The Rise of Skywalker.” His single Emmy citation came in 1972 - for Best Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for “Brian’s Song.”

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• Despite critical acclaim, Shōgun 2024's authenticity is impacted by shooting in Canada, unlike its predecessor.
• 1980's Shōgun relied on Chamberlain's character as a narrator for Western audiences, while 2024 offers a more universal perspective.

The original 1980 Shōgun miniseries is superior to the Emmy-nominated FX/Hulu series in one key way. While Shōgun was originally intended to be a 10-part limited series based on the celebrated novel of the same name by James Clavell, the overwhelming success and popularity of the series inspired FX, Hulu, and creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo to expand the story in further seasons. Shōgun earned a near-perfect 99% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and is poised to have a big night at the Emmys, which will take place on September 15, 2024.

Shōgun was previously adapted into a limited series back in 1980 starring Richard Chamberlain and Toshirô Mifune. Like the 2024 critically acclaimed series, 1980's Shōgun received outstanding reviews and was widely considered one of the best series of the year in which it was released. 1980's Shōgun went on to win a total of 3 Emmys in 1981 after receiving an impressive 14 nominations, including Outstanding Costume Design for a Series, Outstanding Graphic Design and Title Sequences, and Outstanding Limited Series.

Shogun 1980 Is The Only American TV Show Filmed Entirely In Japan

Tokyo vice was mostly shot in japan but not entirely.

While Shōgun is arguably a clear favorite in many of the categories it is nominated in and is expected to be a top contender at the 2024 Emmys, the 1980 version remains to be the only American television series that has been completely shot in Japan. The celebrated HBO/Max series Tokyo Vice starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe was mostly filmed in Japan but also shot in a few other locations such as Toronto, Canada, which enabled 1980's Shōgun to hang onto its exclusive status.

Because 1980's Shōgun was the very first American television production to be filmed entirely in Japan , it was groundbreaking in and of itself. Because of the social context and standards of Westernized entertainment of the time period, 1980's Shōgun leaned more heavily into Chamberlain's character as a reliable narrator and access point for American audiences. A series like 2024's Shōgun with a more universal perspective would likely not have satisfied audiences of the time.

From the engaging duels to the drinking contests that make up unforgettable scenes in Shogun, the series explores cultural clashes in feudal Japan.

Shogun 2024's Location Changes Affect Its Authenticity

1980's shogun remains in a class of its own.

Although 2024's Shōgun is widely considered one of the best shows of 2024, the fact that it was mostly shot in Canada does affect its authenticity compared to that of the 1980's version. Perhaps due to the modern adaptions success and the avenues paved by HBO's Tokyo Vice , which was recently canceled much to the disappointment of its loyal fans, Shōgun season 2 will be able to actually shoot in Japan like its 1980 predecessor. Shōgun is currently the favorite to take home the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series this September.

Exclusive: Editors Maria Gonzales and Aika Miyake break down why Shogun's Toranaga smiles while killing Yabushige in the season 1 finale.

Shogun is an FX original mini-series set in 17th Century Japan. Shogun follows John Blackthorne, who becomes a samurai warrior but is unknowingly a pawn in Yoshii Toranaga's plan to become Shogun. The series stars Cosmo Jarvis as John Blackthorne and Hiroyuki Sanada as Yoshii Toranaga, along with Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, and Yûki Kedôin.

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The new Paramount Television Studios helped boost the movie studio, which aimed to find ways to make programs tied to its many famous films, including the Jack Ryan spy movies or “The Godfather.” With more newly launched streamers hungry for content, the operating theory was that the new studio could help Paramount strike alliances with a bevy of new broadband players hungry for content.

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‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Wins Emmy For Production Design; LeVar Burton Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

| December 11, 2022 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 22 comments so far

The animated series Star Trek: Prodigy is being honored for its first season. The show aimed at younger audiences series picked up an Emmy at the first annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards, but also lost out on a big award. At the Sunday event, Star Trek: The Next Generation veteran LeVar Burton was awarded a lifetime achievement award.

Prodigy picks up first Emmy

Star Trek: Prodigy went into the night nominated for Outstanding Animated Series, but the award went to City of Ghosts. Still, it was a rare major category nomination for Star Trek at the Emmys. Co-executive producer Aaron Waltke, who was at the event, said on Twitter what an honor it was to be considered among the other nominees and congratulated the winner.

A huge honor to be nominated with so many other great shows — huge congrats to @kikutowne and City of Ghosts! And congrats to @Talexiart for winning “Outanding Production Design” for #StarTrekProdigy ! We’e so grateful to be recognized. As Janeway says, “We’ve only just begun.” pic.twitter.com/j21019BHWY — Aaron J. Waltke (@GoodAaron) December 12, 2022

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences also handed out seven special jury awards for Individual Achievement in Animation. These awards were picked by a panel of experts evaluating original work from the disciplines of Background, Character Animation, Character Design, Color, Production Design and Storyboard. Alessandro Taini won for his work as a production designer on Star Trek: Prodigy . He was at the event on Sunday to accept the award and thanked Paramount along with his artists as well as the writers and producers and gave a special shoutout to director Ben Hibon. He dedicated the award to his late mother, who he said was (like the Emmy) “an angel.”

Allessandro Taini picking up his Emmy for Prodigy on Sunday night

LeVar Burton honored

TNG vet LeVar Burton was honored by the Children’s & Family Emmy Awards with the its first Lifetime Achievement Award. Burton was being recognized for his work on Reading Rainbow, which “taught multiple generations of children about the joys of reading.” The PBS series promoting reading for kids ran for 21 seasons from 1983 to 2006, all hosted by Burton who was also an executive producer. Throughout his career, Burton has picked up 13 Emmy Awards; other accolades include a Grammy and a Peabody Award. On Sunday, the special Emmy was presented to Burton by Laurence Fishburne, who introduced a pre-recorded intro video that included a tribute from his TNG costar Whoopi Goldberg and ended with a message from his former captain, Sir Patrick Stewart.

Patrick Stewart congratulates LeVar Burton

Picking up the award, Burton said his life story leading to this award was something achievable “only in America.” In addition to thanking his Reading Rainbow colleagues and his family, Burton also mentioned how he was inspired by three great creators: Roots author Alex Haley, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and children’s television icon Fred Rogers.

LeVar Burton picks up a lifetime achievement award

The event was hosted by Jack McBrayer, who voices Badgey the evil holodeck character on Star Trek: Lower Decks .

Jack McBrayer hosting the Children and Family Emmys

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I truly adore Levar – what a class act. I also really love that his TNG crew truly embodies the best spirit of Trek, a legacy of family that continues to this day. Levar, Whoopi, Patrick – they are treasures <3 and congratulations Prodigy!

Editor: It’s Fred Rogers , not Rodgers. Thanks! (This also applies to Steve Rogers / Cap)

Congrats to Prodigy — far and above the greatest star trek animated series ever. And congrats to LeVar Burton — well-deserved,

PS: And Lower Decks, for the third year in a row, won the Jack Squat Award. Lol

Maybe Badgey can teach them a lesson.

If Lower Decks actually brought something new to the table, instead of trading almost exclusively on nostalgia and call-backs to previous Trek, they might be recognised a bit more with awards like these.

Lower Decks competes in the Primetime Emmys and has been nominated previously for sound. Season 3 qualifies for next year’s Emmys actually. It also just was nominated for a Critics Choice Award and was previously nominated for a Hugo, a Saturn and a number of other awards.

Honestly I’m not sure I see the differentiation. I get LD and Prodigy compete in different demographics, but neither “air” on TV, to say nothing of Primetime. “Primetime” really doesn’t even mean anything anymore. IMHO it’s becoming a meaningless distinction.

Sure, sure–but it didn’t actually win anything. And there’s a pretty significant difference between getting nominated for sound mixing and getting nominated for best series. Star Trek has always excelled in technical categories.

The “greatest Trek animated series ever” is obviously subjective. I love Prodigy, but the original Animated Series will always be the greatest for me. It set the template for everything that follows, as TOS did for all of the subsequent live action series.

Considering the flood of programming content out there, that Lower Decks gets nominated, regularly, but doesn’t win suggests that it’s still a solid production. My humble opinion, anyway.

Well deserved, congrats to the Prodigy Team!

Congratulations, ALL!

Jeopardy really missed out. Their loss.

Absolutely!

SO TRUE! Mayim Bialik has proven to be kind of polarizing with audiences and frankly Ken Jennings doesn’t really have the “wow” factor to carry the show.

Well deserved for all parties!! Congratulations!!

Goooo Prodigy! Well deserved and a big reason it’s become my favorite show in modern Star Trek.

Oh and I had no idea Jack McBrayer voiced Badgey until now lol. How did I miss that all this time???

It really surprises me how much I love this show considering I was never ever a Janeway fan.

Bravo to all! LeVar in Reading Rainbow is one of the first “friends” on television I had as a child, only to grow to love him more when I (soon after) started watching TNG. Well deserved!

Same to be said about Prodigy: it’s a beautiful show paving new paths for our newest generation of Trek fans! Congratulations!

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Gena Rowlands, Screen Legend and Star of The Notebook , Dies at 94 After Dementia Diagnosis

The actress was known for her collaborations with her late husband, actor-director John Cassavetes and for her son, Nick Cassavetes' film 'The Notebook'

Gena Rowlands , screen icon best known for A Woman Under the Influence and The Notebook , has died. She was 94.

Rowlands died surrounded by her family - including her husband Robert and daughter Alexandra - at her Indian Welles, Calif. home on Wednesday, Aug. 14, reports TMZ , adding that no cause of death was immediately available. Her son Nick Cassavetes ' agent's office also confirmed the news to PEOPLE.

In June 2024, Nick told Entertainment Weekly that his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease five years ago.

Rowlands was born in June 1930 in Cambria, Wisconsin. She began acting in the 1950s and made her Broadway debut in The Seven Year Itch .

In 1955, Rowlands began to guest star in TV shows such as Studio One, Laramie, Johnny Staccato opposite her husband John Cassavetes, Riverboat, The Lloyd Bridges Show, Bonanza, The Virginian and Breaking Point .

In 1958, she made her film debut in The High Cost of Loving.

It was her marriage to Cassavetes which led to some of her best-known roles. The two collaborated together on 10 films such as A Child Is Waiting, Faces, Machine Gun McCain, Minnie and Moskowitz, and Tempest.

The two made for an unusual Hollywood couple in that they financed many of their own films, often with money they earned by acting in more commercial projects.

Two of their films, 1974’s A Woman Under the Influence and 1980’s Gloria resulted in Rowlands’ Oscar nominations for Best Actress.

In 1984, Rowlands told PEOPLE , "John and I probably disagree on just about everything in the world."

Describing their marriage as "volatile," the actress added, "But that’s what marriage is all about. If you think a marriage isn’t going to be like that, you’ve got trouble."

Rowlands went on to star in Woody Allen’s 1988 film Another Woman in which she played a middle-aged professor who goes on a journey of self-discovery after she overhears a therapy session involving another woman (Mia Farrow).

She gained acclaim for her 1985 made-for-TV film An Early Frost and 1987’s TV film The Betty Ford Story in which she played First Lady Betty Ford. She won an Emmy Award for her performance.

In 1992, she won her second Emmy Award for Face of a Stranger. Her third Emmy win came in 2003’s HBO film Hysterical Blindness .

The actress also worked alongside her children, including Nick Cassavetes’ 2004 film The Notebook . In 2007, she acted opposite Parker Posey in the independent film directed by her daughter Zoe Cassavetes, Broken English .

In 2015, she was awarded an honorary Oscar, and accepted the award at the Governors Awards that year, thanking her late husband for his contribution to her many successes.

“You know what is wonderful about being an actress?” she said in her acceptance speech. “You live many lives.”

Rowlands was married to John from 1954, until his death on February 3, 1989, from complications of cirrhosis at 59. The two met while at the American Academy at Carnegie Hall where they were both students.

Rowland admitted in a 2016 interview with T Magazine that she found Cassavetes to be “really good looking” while they were both in school. But she didn’t allow herself to be swayed by his good looks.

“The one thing I never wanted to do was to fall in love or get married or have children,” she said. “I wanted to act.”

Cassavetes introduced himself after a student performance she was in. Rowlands revealed it would take the actor-director three years to convince her to be with him.

When asked how he managed to woo her, Rowlands told the magazine, "Life has its little surprises."

The couple had three children together: Nick, Zoe and Alexandra. Rowlands remarried in 2012 to retired businessman Robert Forrest.

Rowlands revealed in a 2016 interview with Variety that her favorite film with her late husband was A Woman Under the Influence .

“You were dealing with a woman who was a little wacky to begin with and she was obsessively in love with her husband,” Rowlands said. “She got into such real trouble with her own psyche that she had a major nervous breakdown.”

“I found it so touching,” she continued.

Rowlands also revealed she was surprised by the success of The Notebook , in which she played an older version of Rachel McAdams’ character, Allie.

“I didn’t think it would have that kind of impact,” she said. “I think it was such a big hit because it was about the realization that love can last your whole life. You don’t see it depicted that way a lot.”

“In most films, you don’t get to see a story like that go from the beginning to the end with the possibility that love can be perhaps eternal.”

When Nick revealed that Rowlands had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease , he told Entertainment Weekly it was "crazy" that in The Notebook his mother had played a character with the same disease.

"I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer's and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she's had  Alzheimer's ," he explained. "She's in full dementia. And it's so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it's on us."

Rowlands is survived by her husband, Robert, her three children and five grandchildren.

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Seriously, How Did The Morning Show Score All Those Emmy Nominations?

There are a few reasons The Morning Show ’s 16 nominations jumped off the page when they were announced last month. For one, the noms were concentrated in a few high-profile spots on the ballot, namely acting. Two of the six contenders for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama went to Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. Three of the seven nods for Supporting Actor in a Drama went to Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, and Jon Hamm. Four of the seven Supporting Actress in a Drama nods went to Nicole Beharie, Greta Lee, Karen Pittman, and Holland Taylor. It was Succession -style category domination.

This year’s nomination haul marks a significant leveling up for the Apple TV+ series. Season one made a decent little splash at the 2020 Emmys, with eight total nominations and a win for Crudup. Two years later, the show only garnered three total nominations (including acting nods for Crudup and Witherspoon) for its much-maligned second season. Usually, once a show’s nomination totals begin to decrease year over year, they don’t get a rebound. But The Morning Show did just that as part of an overall groundbreaking year for Apple TV+ . After breakthrough success with Ted Lasso and (to a lesser extent) Severance , Apple placed multiple shows in the top categories this year, including comedy series nominee Palm Royale and limited series Lessons in Chemistry . It also got its first-ever nominations in outstanding drama series with two shows: slovenly spy series Slow Horses and The Morning Show .

But The Morning Show isn’t just Apple’s most-nominated series. Among the major categories (acting, writing, directing, and series), TMS ’s 11 nominations topped all shows. All! Not The Bear or Shōgun or The Crown . The Morning Show . Yet mention it in polite company and you’ll likely get more giggles and derision than not. How did the show that was the butt of every “Reese Witherspoon in space” joke perform better than the most critically lauded series on TV?

Explanation 1: The Show Got Better

Under new showrunner Charlotte Stoudt, The Morning Show ’s third season bounced back from a chaotic season two to present a more coherent set of episodes in its third outing. I asked Vulture critic Jackson McHenry — a Morning Show expert of the first order — to weigh in on my sense that the show really did level up:

The Morning Show has always had a certain ineffable hold on me. (It’s actually pretty effable; it’s movie stars.) But it wasn’t until the third season that it came into its own as actually compelling television. The first season is a slog, built around a good idea — how a TV network reacts to a Me Too scandal — that was executed poorly and hamstrung by a weak Steve Carell performance as a Matt Lauer stand-in. The second season was a major step up in energy in that it became plainly bonkers, watchable in the way you can’t look away from something skidding off the rails. (Jennifer Aniston livestreams her experience with COVID! Carell drives off a cliff after hanging out with a woman making an anti-cancel-culture documentary! That Simon & Garfunkel needle drop !) The third season has all that manic energy, but it channels it into a rather competent, almost self-aware, pulpy drama. Free from the Carell plot and injected with the energy of a new showrunner, the show is lighter on its feet, sending Reese Witherspoon’s Bradley Jackson to space in its first episode as if to say “we know this isn’t too serious,” then spending the rest of the season satirizing the collapse of network television — all, of course, funded by a tech giant. The scenes with Aniston and her new love interest, Jon Hamm, spark with actual chemistry; Nicole Beharie gives a show-stealing performance as she grills Holland Taylor about racism at the network; and, yes, Bradley Jackson was at the storming of the Capitol. The show matured into the kind of thing that’s rarely attempted anymore, and deceptively hard to pull off: a grand, old-fashioned prime-time soap. It only took some time and several truckloads of Apple money to get there.

Even as it’s matured, The Morning Show has retained a significant appeal for a media-savvy audience watching the show either partially or entirely for the camp value. It’s a tough needle to thread when a show is primarily earnest but — as Stoudt explained in her interview with Jackson at the close of season three — the series has begun to lean into its zany spirit. “One thing I’ve always loved about The Morning Show was the tonal slide, as we call it,” she said. “You can enter a scene that’s apparently dramatic and it can become absurd or vice versa. I think that’s emblematic of the time we’re living in.”

Explanation 2: The Succession Vacuum

In its final season last year, Succession ran roughshod over the Emmys’ drama categories, racking up 27 total nominations, 14 of them in the acting categories, and winning six of the seven major drama awards. That’s a significant void at the top of the mountain, and for much of the 2023–24 TV season, few contenders emerged to claim space at the summit. The Crown dropped an underwhelming final season in November. Shōgun seemed primed for limited series until FX made a last-minute strategy change in May. New shows like Mr. and Mrs. Smith , The Curse , and 3 Body Problem were discussed as contenders, as were established shows that had yet to catch on with Emmy voters like The Gilded Age and Slow Horses , but question marks were everywhere. What wasn’t anywhere was a drama that hooked the Zeitgeist like Succession had. Floating into that void, like Bradley Jackson in low-Earth orbit, came The Morning Show .

Of course, “just take Succession ’s spot” is a task easier assigned than accomplished. HBO spent a whole year cycling through programs like The Regime and The Sympathizer that failed to catch the fancy of Emmy voters at all (Robert Downey Jr.’s sole nomination for the latter hardly counts as a win for a show about a biracial Vietnamese refugee in 1970s America), much less at the level of Succession . It’s telling that the show on HBO’s roster behaving most like Succession in terms of storytelling is Industry , which has been completely shut out by the Emmys thus far. (It’s forthcoming third season could change that — check back with us next year.)

And yet as most successful shows do, Succession casts a recognizable shadow over the current crop of TV dramas, even in ways that are likely accidental. Obviously, The Crown predates Succession , but you can’t really talk about the royals without getting into issues of monarchical bloodlines and a matriarch who might not think her heir apparent can hack it. Shōgun is based on 50-year-old source material, but as the show made its way from production to air, eyes must have lit up all over FX’s marketing department with recognition of the shows’ shared themes of dynastic inheritance. The Gilded Age ? New money supplanting the old. Fallout ? A child turns against a parent who has lost the plot.

As for The Morning Show , there are plenty of ways to make the argument that if you squint, it’s playing in the same sandbox that Succession did. Both shows are/were greatly cognizant of the grim state of American media. Both feature predatory tech billionaires out to dismantle legacy media corporations. Both killed off their problematic lead male characters in transit.

Explanation 3: Long-standing Voting Patterns

When it comes to Emmy voters, dramas take time to settle in. While three of the last six winners in Outstanding Comedy Series won for their debut seasons, that’s very much not the case in drama. Since Homeland won right out of the gate in 2012, only once has a debut season won Outstanding Drama Series (that would be The Handmaid’s Tale in 2017). For Emmy voters, a show with as much star power as The Morning Show gets hard to ignore three seasons in.

Explanation 4: The Strike

This one works hand in hand with explanations 2 and 3. Erratic production schedules normalized in the age of Peak TV — see Stranger Things producing four seasons over the course of six years — combined with the work stoppages of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes meant that former Emmy faves The White Lotus , The Last of Us , House of the Dragon , Severance , Squid Game , Euphoria , Andor , Yellowjackets , and, yes, Stranger Things all sat out the 2023–24 Emmy eligibility window. Suddenly, that post- Succession void got even wider, and suddenly, The Morning Show was one of the rare dramas in contention with any kind of Emmy pedigree at all.

Explanation 5: The Campaign

The Morning Show didn’t just back its way into 16 nominations. Apple TV+ engaged in a savvy campaign, one which may have found support among the kinds of voters who gravitated toward Succession ’s mirroring of the fraught media landscape or The Handmaid’s Tale ’s feminist urgency.

The Morning Show ’s third season had multiple Emmy-friendly assets to work with, not least of which was new cast member Hamm, who plays tech billionaire Paul Marks. Hamm is a huge Emmy favorite, an 18-time nominee across multiple shows (including 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt ) and Best Actor in a Drama winner for Mad Men in 2015. Hamm is an actor Emmy voters tend to seek out in whatever context, evidenced by his dual noms this year for Fargo and The Morning Show . As one awards strategist put it: “ TMS stars two of the most famous people in the world, with a very deep bench of fantastic supporting actors. You can obviously see that’s the case with the ten acting nominations. SAG members make up a huge percentage of voters, so being a show that clearly plays well with its performers helped it.”

TMS also benefited from a viral clip of a scene where new morning anchor Chris (Nicole Beharie) confronts UBS boss Sybil (Holland Taylor) over leaked emails that revealed Sybil making racist statements. Virality can be a double-edged sword, as viral clips can sometimes be silly or embarrassing to the source material, but in this case, it was a For Your Consideration clip — for Beharie, Taylor, and the show itself — that got passed around all over social media. Even the show’s January 6 story line, which garnered a lot of raised eyebrows and barely stifled laughter across social media (that would be the bad kind of viral), may have given more earnest voters a feeling that The Morning Show was dealing in important matters of the day.

Of course, despite The Morning Show ’s smart and ultimately quite successful campaign, not everybody is quite so willing to acknowledge TMS as a standard-bearer for TV drama. When we broached the possibility that The Morning Show might become to Apple what Succession was to HBO, one insider at an AppleTV+ rival said, “If they truly think that is something that is possible, they are delusional. You have to be self-aware about your shows.” (I should note that in this case, the delusion is all mine, as no one from The Morning Show or Apple would comment for this article — whether to compare the show to Succession or otherwise.)

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