Not so many years ago, Emmy winners of Best Drama or Drama Actress used to prevail because they submitted an especially powerful sample episode of their TV series to a small jury comprised of 50 to 100 peers, who could only judge four categories at most. The strongest roles almost always won – like Sela Ward and Patricia Arquette — even if they’d been discounted by clueless award prognosticators.
But radical new voting changes have been enacted in recent years, permitting all 2,000+ members of the TV academy’s acting branch to cast ballots in all acting races. Sure, voters are still required to check off a box on their ballot attesting that they’ve viewed all episodes of all nominees, but that’s crazy to assume that all voters really did so.
So now seasoned Emmy-watchers wonder: How much do the sample episodes matter any more? Do they truly impact voters?
Each year...
But radical new voting changes have been enacted in recent years, permitting all 2,000+ members of the TV academy’s acting branch to cast ballots in all acting races. Sure, voters are still required to check off a box on their ballot attesting that they’ve viewed all episodes of all nominees, but that’s crazy to assume that all voters really did so.
So now seasoned Emmy-watchers wonder: How much do the sample episodes matter any more? Do they truly impact voters?
Each year...
- 9/20/2020
- by Nick Ruhrkraut
- Gold Derby
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