The line between Emmys and Oscars for "Movies" is still quite blurry. What to do?

Perusing the TV Movie Emmy ballots, it's easy to be reminded that streaming movies are always a either/or prospects in terms of awards. Sometimes they're submitted for the Emmys and sometimes Oscars. It's not always clear which it will be since TV and Movies stopped feeling so separate as artforms once streaming upended screen entertainment. Sometimes movies are designed as theatrical features, premiere at film festivals and be bought by a streamer (remember Bad Education?) and try for Emmys. It's difficult to know which is which these days unless you're constantly on the phone with publicists but those decisions can be reversed or made later in some cases. Oscar is requiring theatrical releases again for eligibility purposes but that's easy for major corporations to work around by "four-walling" theaters without any publicity for a week to hedge awards bets. Netflix bought a couple of movie theaters almost specifically for this purpose.

Long story short here are Emmy eligible movies that people (including sometimes myself) might have previously mistaken for movie-movies for various reasons... 

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TCA Nominations 2022 + Notes about This Award in General

by Nathaniel R

Quinta Brunson in "Abbott Elementary" © ABC

The Television Critics Association have announced their nominees for the past year of television, aiming straight towards being "influencers" since they announced the day Emmy voting began (yesterday). ABC's wonderful hit sitcom Abbott Elementary led the nominations with five while Better Call Saul, Yellowjackets and Severance were not far behind with 4 citations each. 

Generally speaking this organization continues to have good taste though we have two gripes with them that we'll share after the jump. Here's what they loved this year in their 11 categories...

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Emmy Ballot Reactions

By Abe Friedtanzer

John Cena in Peacemaker

Emmy ballots are here now that voting is officially open, and it’s a lot to process. I hastily flipped through nearly 400 pages of submitted performers while running between Tribeca screenings and made some notes about placements that seemed noteworthy. Some of them may have been announced before or expected, but still pique the interest. Please add your own in the comments since I'm sure we all watch different shows. I didn’t take the time to count the number of performers submitted in each category, but fortunatelyGoldDerby always does a great job of that. The short of it is that every single acting category is way up in submissions, though the typically largest category, Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, only has 434, which is not as high as the 455 from 2020. Here are some observations…

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Awards Calendar 2022/2023

If you're eyes rolled when you saw this headline that means you still need more recovery time from the fiasco that was the 2021/2022 awards season. But time marches on and now we must draw our attention to the next wave of awards shows. We'll update this post periodically and republish.

APRIL 2022
28th Tony Eligibility Ends

If a show hasn't officially opened by this date, it's not eligible until 2023. The following shows are expected to be eligible: 13 original plays (Birthday Candles, Chicken & Biscuits, Clydes, Dana H, Hangmen, Is This a Room, The Lehman Trilogy, The Little Prince, The Minutes, Pass Over, POTUS or..., Skeleton Crew, Thoughts of a Colored Man), 7 play revivals (American Buffalo, For Colored Girls who..., How I Learned To Drive, Lackawanna Blues, Macbeth, The Skin of Our Teeth, Trouble in Mind), 7 original musicals (Diana, Flying Over Sunset, Girl from the North Country, MJ, Mr Saturday Night, Mrs Doubtfire, Six), and 4 musical revivals (Caroline or Change, Company, Funny Girl, The Music Man). It is our dream to one day get press invites to ample theater so we can do a once weekly column on that as a cultural sidebar.

MAY 2022
3rd Tony Award Nominations Announced
31st Emmy Eligibility Ends

The eligibilty period began on June 1st, 2021 (The debut seasons of Disney+'s Loki, Netflix's Sweet Tooth, Apple TV's Physical, AMC's Kevin Can F*** Himself, and Starz' Blindspotting and the second season of Hulu's Love Victor will thus be eligible despite feeling very 'old' by voting time) and ends on this date. If a show has aired enough episodes (six) to be considered a series by May 31st, 2022 its 'hanging episodes' (airing after this date but before the balloting ends in June) still count. The Emmys have fixed some of their rules so now if a film has qualified for the Oscars or has had a mass theatrical release (more than 70 theaters) on a single day, it is no longer eligible for the Emmy, so that should end the double-dipping that used to occur. More film festivals are now including TV programming but festival screenings do not interfere with Emmy eligibility... 

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Emmys Watch: Will Anya Taylor-Joy win in the crowded Lead Actress in a Limited Series category?

Our team is breaking down the top contenders in all the major Emmy races and highlighting some of our favorites over the next few weeks. 

So far, Anya Taylor-Joy has won the Golden Globe, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award for "The Queen's Gambit." Is an Emmy next?By: Christopher James

The limited series field became the go-to place for stories about women this past year. Great performances from Oscar winning actresses go head to head with buzzy, zeitgeisty performances from rising stars. There’s no shortage of contenders, but a shortage of slots. Only five women will earn nominations when they are announced on July 13th. Perennial winner Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) will likely show up. Will she win though once up again Oscar winner Kate Winslet (Mare of Easttown)? Could a critical favorite like Michaela Coel (I May Destroy You) or Thuso Mbedu (The Underground Railroad) surprise? Or will they end up as a shocking snub?

Read on to see who might be in contention this year...

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