Nominations for the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are in, and two shows are clearly leading the pack. Game of Thrones confirmed its dominance of the TV landscape on Thursday when its sixth season picked up 23 nominations for the Emmy awards, just one short of the record 24 nominations it received last year.
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The awards nominations include the top honour, outstanding drama series, which the hugely popular swords-and-sorcery epic won last year. At the previous Emmys, the show took 12 awards in all, setting a new record.
However, The People v OJ Simpson, a dramatisation of the notorious trial, was only one nomination behind, netting 22, including an acting nomination for Sarah Paulson, who played prosecutor Marcia Clark. This makes it the first series since the 1990s to take over 20 nominations in its first season.
The last show to do so was ER in 1995. Surprisingly, The Good Wife, whose final episode was aired in May after seven seasons and which received huge critical approbation, missed out on the top awards.
However, spy drama The Americans received five award nominations which many commentators thought were overdue, including outstanding drama series, best actor for Matthew Rhys, best actress for Keri Russell, and best writing for the final show in the season. The other contenders for outstanding drama series are Better Call Saul, Downton Abbey, Homeland, House of Cards and Mr Robot.
Other shows that received multiple nominations included Fargo with 18, Veep with 17 and Saturday Night Live, which scooped 16.

Nominations for the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are in, and two shows are clearly leading the pack. Game of Thrones confirmed its dominance of the TV landscape on Thursday when its sixth season picked up 23 nominations for the Emmy awards, just one short of the record 24 nominations it received last year

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