Apple TV+ Earns Over a Dozen Emmy Nominations for 'The Morning Show,' 'Defending Jacob,' and More

[MacRumors]

Apple TV+ has earned its first Emmy nominations this morning, with nominations for "The Morning Show," "Central Park," "Defending Jacob," "The Elephant Queen," and "The Beastie Boys Story."

In total, Apple has earned well over a dozen Emmy nominations this year. Apple TV+ launched last fall, so this marks the first time Apple has been eligible for entry into the Emmys.

You can read the full list of Emmy nominations on the Television Academy's website. We've gathered all of Apple's nominations in the list below.

"The Morning Show"

• Best Actor in a Drama Series - Steve Carell
• Best Actress in a Drama Series - Jennifer Aniston
• Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series - Billy Crudup
• Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series - Mark Duplass
• Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series - Martin Short
• Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series - Mimi Leder
• Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program
• Outstanding Main Title Design

"Central Park"

• Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance - Leslie Odom Jr.

"Defending Jacob"

• Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music - Olafur Arnalds
• Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie - Jonathan Freeman

"Home"

• Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special

"The Elephant Queen"

• Outstanding Narrator - Chiwetel Ejiofor

"The Beastie Boys Story"

• Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special
• Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program
• Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program
• Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program
• Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program

Yesterday, Apple won Daytime Emmys for "Ghostwriter" and "Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10." In total, Apple was nominated for 17 awards overall, eight of which were for "Ghostwriter" alone.

The final winners of the 72nd Emmy Awards will be revealed on Sunday, September 20 on ABC.

Article Link: Apple TV+ Earns Over a Dozen Emmy Nominations for 'The Morning Show,' 'Defending Jacob,' and More

 

[Shanghaichica]

See was snubbed and what about Little America

 

[gbc204]

The Morning Show wasn't great... entertaining enough, though, that I watched the whole season.
Despite the show's shortcomings, the cast WAS really good. Tough beat for Reese Witherspoon to get left out of the nom party, but she was definitely the weakest link in the cast. Not totally her fault. Miscast as the young up and comer. If anyone else deserved a nomination, it was Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Also, the titles were also nice.

 

[iBluetooth]

Have to say, that I was pleasantly surprised by the Morning Show, especially as I didn't like Jennifer Anniston. But thanks to her great performance there I couldn't stop watching

 

[dapa0s]

I thought that The Morning Show was really, really good. Can't wait for season 2.

 

[actripxl]

The Beastie Boys was much better than I expected, especially considering how boring everything else is on Apple TV+. I tried watching See but couldn't get past the 1st episode, For all Mankind lost me really fast after the second or third episode, and Greyhound is just boring.

I know its free for the first year but everything for me has been extremely underwhelming considering the backing of Apple.

 

[MacAddictPM]

This should dispel the narrative by some on the forum that ATV+ has absolutely no content worth watching. Kudos to Apple.

 

[Ar40]

Seriously? Mandalorian gets a nomination for Best Drama, but Morning Show doesn't? What a friggin joke!

Also, Mythic Quest and Little America got seriously snubbed. Not cool. Chris Evans should've gotten a nom for Defending Jacob as well, in the limited series category.

 

[BuffaloTF]

The Beastie Boys was much better than I expected, especially considering how boring everything else is on Apple TV+. I tried watching See but couldn't get past the 1st episode, For all Mankind lost me really fast after the second or third episode, and Greyhound is just boring.

I know its free for the first year but everything for me has been extremely underwhelming considering the backing of Apple.

See has one of the coolest fight scenes in the history of anything. No hyperbole. I’m serious when I say I was blown away.

 

[Ar40]

The Beastie Boys was much better than I expected, especially considering how boring everything else is on Apple TV+. I tried watching See but couldn't get past the 1st episode, For all Mankind lost me really fast after the second or third episode, and Greyhound is just boring.

I know its free for the first year but everything for me has been extremely underwhelming considering the backing of Apple.

Greyhound Boring. Wow. That's a hot take (and horrible opinion, IMO). For All Mankind takes 4 or 5 episodes to take off. See takes 3 episodes to find its groove - it's excellent as well.

 

[JustiNYCity]

Has anybody given HOME a shot? I assume it didn't qualify for this year's nom's because cinematography is GORGEOUS. VISIBLE: Out On Television was superb as well and deserves to be represented.

 

[Ar40]

Has anybody given HOME a shot? I assume it didn't qualify for this year's nom's because cinematography is GORGEOUS. VISIBLE: Out On Television was superb as well and deserves to be represented.

Home is AMAZING. I watched the episodes as a form of meditation. It's the most soothing and calming show I've ever seen. It's like they bottled up Jonny Ive and released him in the form of a docu-series. So good.

Home did get one nomination btw. Just not the bigger categories.

I enjoyed the first four episodes of Visible, but unfortunately couldn't stomach the fifth episode.

 

[mazz0]

“Earned” is rather subjective isn’t it? Wouldn’t “received” be better phrasing?

See has one of the coolest fight scenes in the history of anything. No hyperbole. I’m serious when I say I was blown away.

Which one did you have in mind? I’m a big fan of the bit where Baba sneaks into that town to rescue the kids from the slavers and slices a bunch of dudes throats open

 

[CharlesShaw]

I’m happy to see the nomination for the composer, Olafur Arnalds.

 

[rwxx]

Meanwhile, Netflix clocked in with 168 nominations. Not that Hollywood congratulating itself is any sort of objective measure of overall quality. Does anyone even remember who won, much less who was nominated, for Emmys or Oscars or whatever last year?

Greyhound Boring. Wow. That's a hot take (and horrible opinion, IMO). For All Mankind takes 4 or 5 episodes to take off. See takes 3 episodes to find its groove - it's excellent as well.

I'm now 6 episodes into FAM and it's not good. I heard it takes a while to get going, so I gave it a chance and will probably finish the first season, but I'm not remotely impressed. It feels derivative. There have been some well known Hollywood productions regarding the moon landing era that have given us some very memorable characters and imagery. FAM apes a lot of that. The characters are flat and wooden. The only bit of writing or character development that has impressed me so far is Karen's interaction with Molly's husband when Ed and Molly are on the moon. It was this welcome bit of tension and emotion in a story that otherwise feels like it's on cruise control, bouncing from one mini plot (and year in time) to another.

There's also no proper antagonist. For a show about the space race, there's virtually nothing about the Russians, much less Russian characters and plot-lines. There's not much character development. Several years pass over the first six episodes and the show feels like a highlight reel of events, not a story. Then there's the "club you over the head" social justice aspect to the show. I'm all for inclusion and telling a diverse set of stories, but some of it feels quite forced in FAM. It's like they tried to squeeze every hot button social issue into the story, some more successfully than others. In the end, it just doesn't come together for me. I couldn't care less what happens to any of the characters. Everything seems too easy. There's very little conflict or tension. And we never dig into anything because one minute it's Apollo 11, then 15, and now suddenly we're at 25 or something. As viewers we're just sort of skipping along and so are the characters.

The other strange thing about FAM is the lack of an outside world. For an alternate-timeline story, you'd think they'd dig in to how America is DIFFERENT because of the space race. That's one of the things that made Man in the High Castle so compelling, the vision of America it presented and how we changed as a people. But in FAM, we only get a few crumbs, usually in the form of TV news. I feel like the characters in FAM could fit just as easily into this reality as the alternate-timeline of the show.

 

[matrix07]

Seriously? Mandalorian gets a nomination for Best Drama, but Morning Show doesn't? What a friggin joke!

Also, Mythic Quest and Little America got seriously snubbed. Not cool. Chris Evans should've gotten a nom for Defending Jacob as well, in the limited series category.

Agree about Chris Evan. And his wife in the show should also get the nom for supporting actress.

 

[MMSZN]

Seriously? Mandalorian gets a nomination for Best Drama, but Morning Show doesn't? What a friggin joke!

Also, Mythic Quest and Little America got seriously snubbed. Not cool. Chris Evans should've gotten a nom for Defending Jacob as well, in the limited series category.

The mandalorian was on of the best original shows Disney has made. Was the morning show good, yes, did it deserve a nomination, also yes but most people would prefer the mandalorian as it was pretty popular and subjectivity better

 

[Ar40]

The mandalorian was on of the best original shows Disney has made. Was the morning show good, yes, did it deserve a nomination, also yes but most people would prefer the mandalorian as it was pretty popular and subjectivity better

I don't understand that logic. One of the best (popular) shows on Quibi was Most Dangerous Game, that doesn't mean it should get an award. Also, the emmys have never ever been about popularity of shows. It's all based on the strength of the show itself.

The Morning Show has 6 emmy nominations in acting categories. The Mandalorian only has one (in guest actor). That tells me that Mandalorian doesn't belong in the category of "Best Drama" - the bulk of the other nominations for that show are technical or CGI related. That doesn't make a show a best drama series.

Again, the Emmys don't select "popular" shows as winners. It selects the best (in technical, story, acting, etc.) shows.

 

[19callum93]

I can’t believe SEE didn’t get a nomination! Really enjoyed this series, looking forward to season 2.

 

[BigSmurf]

It’s a start, but dwarfs in comparison the the Netflix and HBO nominations. HBO’s Watchmen series got 26 nominations on its own!
I thought that Defending Jacob and The Morning Show merited a series nomination in the drama category, and Mythic Quest for
comedy - MQ really being a gem in my opinion

 

[TrevorR90]

Apple tv+ has a confusing layout for me. I got a free year subscription but I don't even know how to navigate it properly...

 

[Ar40]

Apple tv+ has a confusing layout for me. I got a free year subscription but I don't even know how to navigate it properly...

Scroll to the channel section and click on the tv+ channel to get started.

 

[wouwout]

Has anybody given HOME a shot? I assume it didn't qualify for this year's nom's because cinematography is GORGEOUS. VISIBLE: Out On Television was superb as well and deserves to be represented.

Found Home confusing. Part architecture, part experience, part life stories. There isn't enough time in an episode to explore every part in depth, made the show feel a bit shallow.

 

[DeepIn2U]

definitely great news of the successes here. I haven't watched any of those, yet, but it's nice to see a Canadian Martin Short nominated. After SCTV and a few other movies ... it's been a long time and he's still got it (The Three Amigos).

Right not I'm watching "The Truth" and I'm surprised it wasn't nominated, it's pretty good writing and acting. Very different type of plot.

 

[Ar40]

Found Home confusing. Part architecture, part experience, part life stories. There isn't enough time in an episode to explore every part in depth, made the show feel a bit shallow.

That's exactly why I found the show so fresh. I would never watch a show completely dedicated to houses. That's so boring and lifeless to me. I enjoy the human element. The life stories/experience made the house come alive, the architecture made more sense knowing the people who built them and what motivates them.