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LOS ANGELES | The stars of the TV series were preparing on Sunday to put on their favorite pajamas for the evening of the Emmy Awards, the equivalent of the Oscars for the small screen in the United States, where the winners will receive, this year, their award at home, pandemic obliges.
The 72e edition of the Emmy Awards must meet the challenge of a 100% virtual show, with comedian Jimmy Kimmel alone at the helm in a deserted Los Angeles room, without red carpet or flashy evening wear.
For this unprecedented edition, cameras were sent home to the 130 or so candidates, who were invited to compete with inventiveness in their speeches.
“For years, audience scores have been at half mast for award ceremonies. This is the opportunity or never to change the situation, to have a ceremony that is unlike any other, ”said Libby Hill, television awards specialist at the editorial staff of the IndieWire site.
“Even if Sunday night turns out to be a disaster, at least it will be an interesting disaster. And that’s really all we can ask for in 2020, ”she adds.
The miniseries Watchmen favorite share with 26 nominations in its category, and its dark and chaotic universe perfectly reflects the zeitgeist.
Focused on the massacre of several hundred black residents of the city of Tulsa (Oklahoma) in 1921 by white rioters, Watchmen plunges into the heart of racist violence and police brutality, themes that have been cruelly topical in the United States since the end of May.
Netflix’s revenge?
With the end of the successful series Game Of Thrones, also produced by HBO, the competition will finally be more open this year in the category of dramatic series.
“It’s a chance for HBO to have Succession which comes at the right time, ”according to Pete Hammond, of the specialized site Deadline.
The dark comedy about the heartbreak of a powerful family to take control of a media empire won an Emmy Award for its first season last year. She was selected 18 times this time around, tied for the series Ozark produced by Netflix.
The video-on-demand giant, which was selected 160 times this year, is still waiting to land an Emmy Award in a major category.
In ambush, we will find Sunday The Crown, dedicated to the British royal family, and The Mandalorian, first series drawn from the universe of Star wars, which has already earned the new platform Disney + five Emmy Awards in technical categories awarded earlier in the week.
In the category of comedies, the series produced by Amazon The fabulous Mrs. Maisel, featuring a scorned Jewish wife who embarks on the stand-up in New York in the 1950s, is a favorite.
However, she might find the unexpected on her way Schitt’s Creek. A Canadian comedy about a family of the privileged fallen, the series went largely unnoticed for its first four seasons before becoming a hit by airing on Netflix.
Among the hundred nominations for actors and actresses, black artists represent more than a third of the contingent in 2020, a new record.
The fight against racism should feature prominently on Sunday in the Emmys ceremony, and we can count on Hollywood stars, often very militant, not to spare President Donald Trump, in the middle of the campaign for his re-election. They should also pay tribute to the late Supreme Court judge, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an icon of the American left who died on Friday at the age of 87.
