A version of this story about Emmy voting first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Drama issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
For the most part, voting for showbiz nominations is pretty simple. If you’re voting in a category in which there will be five nominations, you typically have five slots to fill on your ballot; if there are 10, you have 10 slots. But the Emmys haven’t worked that way since 2017, when the Television Academy added a simple sentence with complicated reverberations: “Vote for all entries in this category that you have seen and feel are worthy of a nomination.”
That means that if a member of the Television Academy’s acting peer group is casting a ballot in, say, the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category, they could vote for as many of the 434 eligible actors as they wanted, scrolling through all 55 pages of the...
For the most part, voting for showbiz nominations is pretty simple. If you’re voting in a category in which there will be five nominations, you typically have five slots to fill on your ballot; if there are 10, you have 10 slots. But the Emmys haven’t worked that way since 2017, when the Television Academy added a simple sentence with complicated reverberations: “Vote for all entries in this category that you have seen and feel are worthy of a nomination.”
That means that if a member of the Television Academy’s acting peer group is casting a ballot in, say, the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category, they could vote for as many of the 434 eligible actors as they wanted, scrolling through all 55 pages of the...
- 8/12/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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