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By Antony
July 14, 2005 - 11:43 PMSee Also:
Marcia Cross People Guide,
Felicity Huffman People Guide It's been a worldwide hit, but Desperate Housewives is about to face one its biggest hurdles—that of the Emmy awards, and the opinion of the Hollywood industry. If the nominations are anything to go by, the show is set to continue with its customary success.
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences today announced a total of 434 separate nominations in 88 categories. Desperate Housewives and Will and Grace led the pack amongst series with a total of 15 nominations each. ABC received a total of 51 nominations for it shows.
Below is a full list of all the nominations Desperate Housewives received this year. Some nominees have their Emmy history listed besides them, indicating how many seasons the show been on air (prior to this season), how many nominations that show/person received, and how many times they've won:
- Outstanding Comedy Series — Desperate Housewives is up against Arrested Development (1 season, 1 nomination, 1 win) Everybody Loves Raymond (8 seasons, 6 nominations, 0 wins), Scrubs (3 seasons, 0 nominations, 0 wins) and Will & Grace (6 seasons, 5 nominations, 1 win). As it won last year in its first season, Desperate Housewives will need to unseat Arrested Development. Meanwhile Scrubs has finally broken into this category.
- Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series — "Pilot" written by Marc Cherry is up against three different episodes of Arrested Development (1 season, 1 nomination, 1 win) and an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond (8 seasons, 5 nominations, 1 win).
- Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series — Marcia Cross (Bree Van De Kamp), Teri Hatcher (Susan Mayer) and Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo) are all vying for this award. Desperate Housewives dominates this category, with the actresses competing against Patricia Heaton (8 seaons, 6 nominations, 2 wins for Everybody Loves Raymond) and Jane Kaczmarek as (5 seasons, 5 nominations, 0 wins Malcolm In The Middle).
- Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series — Kathryn Joosten (Mrs. McClusky) and Lupe Ontiveros (Juanita Solis) fly the flag for Desperate Housewives in this category. They are up against Georgia Engel (2 nominations, 0 wins for Everybody Loves Raymond), Cloris Leachman (4 nominations, 0 wins for Malcolm In The Middle) and Blythe Danner Will & Grace
- Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series — Charles McDougall is up for directing "Pilot" (he was nominated in this category in 2001 for Sex and the City), against directors for Entourage, Everybody Loves Raymond, Monk and Will & Grace.
- Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Comedy Series — Michael Berenbaum is up for editing "Pilot" and Jonathan Posell for editing "Pretty Little Picture", against three episodes of Arrested Development.
- Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series — Production designer Thomas Walsh, art director P. Erik Carlson and set decorator Erica Rogalla are nominated for their work on "Suspicious Minds". They are competing against Carnivàle, Cold Case, Deadwood and Six Feet Under.
- Outstanding Main Title Design — Garson Yu and Yolanda Santosa are competing against The Grid, House, Huff and The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers for their creation of the Desperate Housewives credits.
- Outstanding Main Title Theme Music — Composer Danny Elfman is up against Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, Huff, Justice League Unlimited and Stargate Atlantis .
- Outstanding Casting For A Comedy Series — Scott Genkingre and Junie Lowrie Johnson are nominated for the casting of Desperate Housewives, up against Arrested Development, Entourage, Scrubs and Will & Grace.
- Outstanding Costumes For A Series — Costume designer Catherine Adair and costume supervisors Karo Vartanian and Joyce Unruh Goodwin are competing against Alias, Carnivàle, Deadwood and Six Feet Under.
There are many nominations, but many rejections too. She may have had a lot of attention off screen, but Eva Longoria was the only main castmember not receive a nomination—leaving a line up of nominees who are all over 40. It also wasn't good for the supporting cast, with not one person getting a look in.
Marcia Cross reacted with sadness that Nicolette Sheridan (Edie Britt) wasn't nominated. "I'm sad about it," Cross told The Associated Press (via Yahoo!). "I really thought Nicolette was a shoo-in." However she wasn't sad for Longoria. "In terms of Eva, my prediction is she's leaving us all in the dust," she said.
Although it didn't accumulate the most nominations (HBO once again ruled the roost with 93 and CBS received 59), ABC did get 51 nominations—significantly up from last year's 33. This was helped by other newcomer Lost which picked up 12 nominations. Desperate Housewives lead-out show also picked up 3 nominations.
Away from Desperate Housewives, co-executive producer Kevin Murphy's Reefer Madness picked up three nominations. He received a nomination personally for composing its music.
Voting will now begin for the overall winner in each category, with the winners to be announced on September 18 2005.
A full list of nominations can be found here on the Emmy website. The Yahoo! article, which contains the quote from Cross, can be found here. A previous article on the categories Desperate Housewives was put forward for can be found here at Get Desperate" Discuss this news item at Talk Desperate!
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