{"id":135396,"date":"2015-07-17T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=135396"},"modified":"2015-07-16T22:35:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T22:35:26","slug":"game-of-thrones-leads-emmy-nominations-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/game-of-thrones-leads-emmy-nominations-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones leads Emmy nominations 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
Game of Thrones is leading the Emmy award nominations with 24 nominations.<\/p>\n
American Horror Story: Freak Show and mini-series Olive Kitteridge received 19 and 13 nominations.<\/p>\n
House of Cards, Mad Men are up for 11 nominations while Downton Abbey and Wolf Hall are up for eight.<\/p>\n
Wolf Hall’s Mark Rylance is up against Ricky Gervais and David Oyelowo in the best actor in a mini-series or film category.<\/p>\n
Gervais is shortlisted for his role in the Derek Special while Oyelowo has been recognised for his role as Peter Snowden in Nightingale.<\/p>\n
Rylance’s co-star Damian Lewis is nominated for best supporting actor for his role as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall.<\/p>\n
Emma Thompson is up for best actress in a mini-series or film for her part in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street Live From Lincoln Center – she is up against Maggie Gyllenhaal for her role in the BBC drama The Honourable Woman.<\/p>\n
Queen Latifah, Jessica Lange, Felicity Huffman and Frances McDormand have also been nominated in that category.<\/p>\n
Notable omissions include Jim Parsons from The Big Bang Theory who has won four times for best actor in a comedy and is the best paid actor on US television.<\/p>\n
Julianna Margulies, who won best actress in a drama series for The Good Wife last year, didn’t get a nomination and hit show Empire missed out on a best drama nomination.<\/p>\n