Today the Emmy Nominations were announced. Looking down the list, you'll notice that 24 has been nominated twice, once for Outstanding Drama and again for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama (Kiefer). That makes it four years in a row that the show has been nominated for those two awards. That's impressive. Let's take a look at the nominations for 24 over the past four years:
Season 1: 2002 Emmys
- Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
- Winner: Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Art Direction for a Single Camera Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Single Camera Sound Mixing for a Series
- Winner: Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
- Nominated: Outstanding Drama Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series
Season 2: 2003 Emmys
- Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Single Camera Sound Mixing for a Series
- Winner: Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series
- Winner: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
- Nominated: Outstanding Stunt Coordination
- Nominated: Outstanding Drama Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series
Season 3: 2004 Emmys
- Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
- Winner: Outstanding Single Camera Sound Mixing for a Series
- Winner: Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
- Winner: Outstanding Stunt Coordination
- Nominated: Outstanding Drama Series
- Winner: Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series
Season 4: 2005 Emmys (winners not yet determined)
- Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Single Camera Sound Mixing for a Series
- Nominated (three times): Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
- Nominated: Outstanding Stunt Coordination
- Nominated: Outstanding Drama Series
- Nominated: Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series
Notice anything odd about the nominations above? Consistently nominated for Lead Actor and Drama Series... never won. Consistently nominated, and sometimes winning, for Picture and Sound Editing, Casting and Stunt Coordination. One time, once, nominated and winner of Outstanding Writing... and that was for the Pilot episode of Season One. Not a single nomination for the writing since.
The show is exciting, you can't doubt that. But it's apparent that the quality of writing is not what they're going after. Typical viewers don't care about that, though. Does it put butts in seats? Yep, the ratings have gone up each year. Does the writing suck? Yep, it gets goofier each season.
My predictions for this year's Emmys... I think Kiefer will get snubbed once again and so will 24 as Outstanding Drama, both losing to Deadwood. They may pick up a few Emmys for Sound/Picture Editing. But there's no way in hell they win for Casting this year.
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