HBO’s
Watchmen and
Amazon Prime’s
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel received the most nominations for the 72nd
Emmy Awards—26 and 20 respectively—and both are up for Music Supervisor and song trophies.
Winner of the Outstanding Music Supervison Emmy the last two years,
Robin Urdang,
Amy Sherman-Palladino and
Daniel Palladino are again nominated, going up against
Watchmen’s
Liza Richardson,
Nora Felder for
Stranger Things,
Thomas Golubic (
AMC’s
Better Call Saul),
Jen Malone and
Adam Leber (HBO’s
Euphoria),
Kier Lehman (
Insecure) and
Catherine Grieves and
David Holmes for
BBC America’s
Killing Eve.
In the Music and Lyrics category, essentially best song,
Trent Reznor and
Atticus Ross’ tune for
Watchmen, “The Way It Used To Be," is contending against the
Maisel track from
Thomas Mizer &
Curtis Moore, “One Less Angel.” It’s the first time
Maisel has been nominated in the category.
Also nominated are
Pharrell Williams &
Chad Hugo for
The Black Godfather’s “Letter to My Godfather”;
Labrinth for “All For Us” from
Euphoria;
Ingrid Michaelson (“Build It Up,”
Little Fires Everywhere); and
Siddhartha Kohsla &
Taylor Goldsmith (“Memorized,”
This Is Us).
Among other musicians receiving noms are
The Rza in the Main Title Theme category for
Wu-Tang: An American Saga; and documentary score nominees
Kamasi Washington and
Devo’s
Mark Mothersbaugh
The 62nd
Grammy Awards secured noms in the categories of Directing, Production Design, and Sound mixing; Netflix’s
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings: These Old Bones is up for Outstanding TV Movie; and
Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute To Prince is among the Outstanding Music Direction nominees.
Apple TV+’s
Beastie Boys Story and
EPIX’s
Laurel Canyon: A Place In Time received noms for Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Special. The Beasties doc is also up for writing and picture editing awards.
Suzi Dietz and the other Executive Producers of
PBS’
American Masters are up for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for
Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life, the story of the acclaimed playwright's life.
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards will be handed out 9/19 and the awards ceremony will be held a day later, on the 20th, and televised on
ABC with
Jimmy Kimmel as host..
A complete list of nominations is
here.
