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Between Emmys voting and Oscars timing, this has been a strange and stormy week for major Hollywood awards, with both organizations devoting a few days to self-correcting adjustments.

It’s hard to find much common ground between the Emmys, which flagged two problem areas months ago and saw both of them come into play in the first three days of Emmy voting, and the Oscars, which re-elected a lot of the people to its board who had made a series of decisions that have had to be overturned. But all of this happened in the course of three days, so it’s worth looking at an unusual week at both the Television Academy and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

It started on Monday morning, when Emmy ballots were posted online. At the beginning of the season, the Television Academy had introduced a new rule requiring vetting panels...

The number of eligible contenders in the short-form categories at this year’s Emmy Awards has been cut drastically following the Television Academy’s introduction of anonymous panels tasked with determining if entries are competitive enough to warrant Emmy consideration.

Last year, 50 different shows made the ballot in the Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards. This year, though, that number was cut to 30.

The Outstanding Short Form Variety Series category, meanwhile, fell from 26 nominees to only 14. (Academy rules say that any category that does not field at least 14 nominees in consecutive years can be eliminated.)

And the Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series category dropped from 64 nominees last year to 47 this year.

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The Television Academy would not reveal how many short-form entries were disqualified...

The Fyc Independents Screenings will take place Friday, May 31 in Van Nuys, Calif, Variety has learned exclusively.

Formerly the Fyc U.S. Independents, this evening of screenings and schmoozing with talent from series such as the CW’s “All American,” Netflix’s “Atypical” and Starz’ “Vida” is thrown by actress and producer Meredith Thomas to increase visibility of supporting, guest and short form actors.

“I’m driven to help independent talent and creators get much needed attention of TV Academy voters during a time when studios are spending millions on Fyc mailers and hosting extravagant events,” said Thomas. “I want to level the playing field so great work can be seen and recognized.”

The lineup of actors whose Emmy eligible work will be showcased include Kristos Andrews (Amazon’s “Class Act”), Wendy Braun (“Atypical”), Elena Campbell-Martinez (“Vida”), Michael Campion (Netflix’s “Fuller House”), Kim Estes (Vimeo’s “Dicks”), Ren Hanami,...

The 70th annual Emmy Awards are upon us. With just days to go until “Saturday Night Live’s” Colin Jost and Michael Che make their hosting debuts, television stars and insiders will be party-hopping for the rest of the week and through the weekend. Then after the awards are handed out, it’s off to the Governors Ball before heading to network parties happening downtown, in Hollywood, and in West Hollywood.

Without further ado, Variety gives you the ultimate Emmys party guide.

Thursday, Sept. 13

Writers Nominee Reception

Television Academy Wolf Theatre, 7 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 14

Producers Nominee Reception

Montage Beverly Hills, 7 p.m.

Audi Celebrates the 70th Emmys

La Peer Hotel, 7 p.m.

The luxury car company takes over the hotel with guests including Kenya Barris, Chrissy Metz, Issa Rae, Lakeith Stanfield, Thandie Newton, Billy Eichner, Henry Golding, and Glen Powell. The new all-electric Audi e-tron will be on display.

The main Emmy telecast is on Monday, September 17, when the TV academy will hand out top awards including Best Drama Series, Best Comedy Series, Best Limited Series and more. But the vast majority of the 2018 prizes were handed out during two nights on the weekend of September 8-9 at the Creative Arts Awards, where the best in behind-the-scenes crafts, animation, nonfiction, reality TV, guest acting and various other fields were decided. So who prevailed on Saturday night? Scroll down for the full list of winners, updating live as they’re announced, and watch our live webcast with reactions and analysis here.

SEECreative Arts Emmys 2018: Saturday’s live winners announcing in all categories [Watch]

Saturday night focused mainly on scripted shows: dramas, comedies, movies, limited series and animated programs. So these results could strongly suggest which way the wind is blowing for the main event. But that’s not the case every single time.

A version of this story about Christina Pickles first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.

‘When you’re old you have to be funny,” said Christina Pickles, who at the age of 83 has landed her seventh Emmy nomination, and her first in 23 years, for Season 2 of the comedic web series “Break a Hip.” “I figured that out quite a long time ago.”

The British-born, U.S.-based actress wasn’t always known for being funny: Her first five Emmy nominations came in the 1980s for the seminal hospital show “St. Elsewhere,” in which her performance as nurse Helen Rosenthal kept sending her to the ceremony “with my little speech that I never got to give.”

She landed a sixth nomination in 1995 for her recurring guest spot on an iconic show from a different era, “Friends,” where she played the mother to Courteney Cox and David Schwimmer’s characters.

A version of this story about Kelly Jenrette and Melvin Jackson Jr. first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.

They’re this year’s Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy, a married couple with his & her Emmy nominations. But Kelly Jenrette and Melvin Jackson Jr. did it with a lot less screen time: She appeared in a single episode of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in two scenes that together total less than two minutes and 10 seconds of airtime, while he played himself (or a version of himself) in a web series, “This Eddie Murphy Role Is Mine, Not Yours,” whose six episodes total about 10 minutes.

“I think we were equally surprised,” said Jenrette of their reaction on the morning nominations were announced. “I found out first, and he called me but he didn’t know yet whether he had been nominated.

The fates of four Emmy nominees this year might have been very different, were it not for one May night at the Elks Lodge in Van Nuys.

On May 25, 2018, a standing-room-only crowd assembled at Lodge Home #2790 for an event dedicated to celebrating 35 potential nominees for this year’s Emmys — actors who had submitted their work to the Academy for voter consideration, independent of the studio machines that drive the bulk of awards season. That night, clips were screened for the 170 attendees, and two months later, on nominations morning, four of them received some very good news.

“It was the most worthwhile trip I have ever made to Van Nuys,” Naomi Grossman, now an Emmy nominee for the short form series “Ctrl. Alt. Delete,” told IndieWire.

Officially dubbed Fyc Us Independents, the evening was the brainchild of actor and producer Meredith Thomas. “I conceived of it a year ago,” she told IndieWire,...

Diarra Kilpatrick is an Emmy nominee in the Best Short Form Actress category for “American Koko,” which is set in “post post-racial America.” In an interview with Gold Derby (watch the exclusive video above), Kilpatrick explains that because Barack Obama was president, “There was this myth going around that we were in post-racial America and then the election happened where we elected Donald Trump as our president and right away, we saw, rising the forefront, people who had had less than post-racial ideas becoming more vocal and so I called this the post post-racial period of America.”

SEEour interview with Short Form Actor nominee Melvin Jackson Jr.

Kilpatrick plays the eponymous character, who is “this detective who has made it her work to solve raced-based issues” on a local level. Kilpatrick notes about her comedic take on weighty subjects, “It’s important to cross the line sometimes when you are a satirist,...

Melvin Jackson Jr. is nominated for Best Short Form Actor at the Emmys for playing himself in “This Eddie Murphy Role is Mine, Not Yours,” on which he also served as co-writer, executive producer and casting director. It was actually the potential for Emmy recognition that finally spurred Jackson to make the web series, having conceived of the project three years ago. “I told my friends, ‘Hey, I want to shoot this and submit it for Emmy consideration,’ because last year, a friend of mine — Kim Estes — won in the same category,” he explains in an interview with Gold Derby (watch the exclusive video above).

SEEour interview with Jackson’s wife Kelly Jenrette.

“It was going to be a short film and […] it’s better to watch it all the way through, but of course, for the purpose of Emmy consideration, I had to cut it up into six episodes,...

Kelly Jenrette has joined Jeffrey Wright in Netflix’s drama “All Day and a Night” to portray the wife of Wright’s character, Variety has learned exclusively.

She’ll also be playing the mother to Ashton Sanders’ character. Jenrette received her debut Emmy nomination this month in the outstanding guest actress in a drama category for her work on the “Other Women” episode of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” pitting her against Viola Davis, Diana Rigg, and Cicely Tyson.

“Black Panther” co-writer Joe Robert Cole will make his directorial debut on “All Day and a Night,” which he also wrote. Principle photography is set to get underway next week in Oakland, Ca.

“All Day and a Night” is told in three parallel narratives, following a young criminal (Sanders) after his arrival in prison as he looks back on the days preceding his arrest and the circumstances of his childhood...

“It’s interesting reading some of the articles,” first-time Emmy nominee Kelly Jenrette tells Gold Derby (watch the exclusive video above). “Like ‘Who is this Kelly Jenrette? Where did she come from?’ And I’m like, ‘I’ve always been here, guys’.” Jenrette is nominated for Best Drama Guest Actress for her performance as Annie in the “Other Women” episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” “I think for the voters, it touched them in a way that maybe they didn’t expect [and] to put a face to the heartache that [June played by Elisabeth Moss] caused, it shifted things and maybe that’s what touched viewers.” Jenrette appears in just two scenes and has no lines in the second, but reveals, “There were a few things that were taken out when I got to set; the audition was even more intense than what we got to see on set.”

SEEour predictions slugfest for Best Drama Guest Actress.

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was a cultural phenomenon with a lasting impact that few TV series achieve. It launched several acting careers, the spin-off series “Angel,” and it cemented creator Joss Whedon as king of all geek-dom, which eventually led to his big-screen success as the director of “The Avengers” (2012) and “Avengers: Age of Ultron” (2015). Despite its success and acclaim, however, the series was never an Emmy darling. And the curse has continued to follow the “Buffy”-verse actors as no “Buffy” or “Angel” performer has ever earned a Primetime Emmy for acting in their careers. That could all change this year thanks to Alexis Denisof.

Denisof portrayed Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, an uptight Watcher introduced in Season 3 of “Buffy.” He later reprised the character as a member of the main cast of “Angel.” He was never nominated for that role, but this year Denisof is finally up for an acting Emmy,...

Welcome to the club, new Emmy nominees! Among the first time performer nominees this year are Kenan Thompson, Jessica Biel, John Legend, James Corden, Darren Criss, Penelope Cruz, and Tiffany Haddish.

There’s also Sara Bareilles, Aidy Bryant, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Betty Gilpin and Ricky Martin, to single out a few more.

But let’s not play favorites any longer — the full first-timers list is below.

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Megan Amram, “An Emmy for Megan”

Sara Bareilles, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert”

Zazie Beetz, “Atlanta”

Jessica Biel, “The Sinner”

Cameron Britton, “Mindhunter”

Aidy Bryant, “SNL”

James Corden, “James Corden’s Next James Corden”

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, “Game of Thrones”

Darren Criss, “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”

Penelope Cruz, “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”

Alexis Denisof, “I Love Bekka & Lucy”

Brandon Victor Dixon, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert”

Joseph Fiennes,...

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