This year has been full of golden television moments, like when Tony Soprano was all like "mmm, delicious onion rings" and when Tony Soprano looked through a jukebox for the very worst power ballad around and, well, you get the idea.
The nominations for this year's Emmy awards were announced yesterday, and The Sopranos somewhat inevitably led the pack with a total of 15 nominations, for everything from Best Actor to Best Actress to Best Supporting Actor to Best Supporting Actress Best Drama Series to three different Best Writing nominations. All in all, the Emmy nominations suggest that The Sopranos are going to walk all over September's Emmy awards – but the news is bittersweet. It's thought that David Chase's whole motivation for bringing The Sopranos back for this final season was to win the much-coveted Best Hairdressing Emmy, so it must kill him to see Dancing With The Stars walking off with his Emmy nomination. And that had Billy Ray Cyrus in it, for Christ's sake.
As if you needed telling, the Emmy awards are pretty much identical to the Oscars, only without the 24-carat glamour of the Oscars, the worldwide excitement of the Oscars or any of the famous people of the Oscars. But the Emmy awards knows what it's good at – handing out prizes to people who are routinely stopped in the street and called "that guy off TV" and also handing out awards to Barry Manilow sometimes too.
But, really, the Emmy awards are there to recognise and celebrate the very best in high quality television. And what a year it's been, too – between 24 going rubbish, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip being horrifically self-congratulatory, Lost getting confused, Heroes starting off well and then going wrong, Ugly Betty being annoying, Desperate Housewives being annoying and Grey's Anatomy dissolving into backstage fights, the Emmy voting panel has so very much to choose from. So it's no surprise that The Sopranos will probably be walking off with everything, as The Independent reports:
The long-running Mob drama The Sopranos picked up 15 nominations for this year's Emmy awards yesterday, along with a strong field of British talent now jostling for the prizes. The Sopranos star James Gandolfini looked set to go out with a bang as he was nominated alongside "wife" Edie Falco, for best actor and actress. The series – which has just concluded for the sixth and last time in the US – is up for several other major awards including best drama series and best use of cinematography. If it wins best drama it will be the first example of a victory while a show has been off the air.
Of course, much of this overwhelming glut of Emmy nominations is down to the Sopranos ending, an ending so confusing that even the actors in The Sopranos didn't understand it. In a remarkably short space of time, the Sopranos ending has become such an iconic piece of television that if there was an Emmy for Most Cynical Raping Of A Cultural Touchstone By A Politician, The Sopranos would win it hands down. But, try as it may, The Sopranos somehow didn't managed to be the only show nominated at this year's Emmy's.
Other Emmy nominees include that show where Jessica Simpson fucked up 9 To 5 and started crying for Outstanding Variety Special, the Justin Timberlake song Dick In A Box for Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics and… no, actually, all the rest of the Emmy nominations are actually all about The Sopranos. Who'd have thought?
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Kippertron says
And 30 Rock got a stack of nominations too. Why the fuck it isn’t on Tv in England yet, and they’re trailing the arse off Studio 60, is so far beyond me I might just fall over