Rounding out the Canadian 2011 PrimeTime Emmy Award nominations are (and I hope I found them all) are the following nominees:
Canadian icon Christoper Plummer [1] was nominated For Outstanding Voice-Over Performance as The Narrator in Moguls & Movie Stars.
Canadian actors Michael J. Fox [2] and Will Arnett [3] received recognition for their Guest Appearances. Fox was nominated for his appearances on The Good Wife in the Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series. Will Arnett was nominated for his performance as Devon Banks on 30 Rock as an Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series.
Toronto director Jeremy Podeswa [4] was nominated as an Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series as the director of Boardwalk Empire’s episode titled Anastasia.
The Nikita [5] episode titled Pandora was nominated for Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series.
AMC’s The Killing [6], which has Vancouver once again pretending to be Seattle, picked up the following nominations:
- Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series – Junie Lowry Johnson, Casting Director; Libby Goldstein, Casting Director; Stuart Aikins, Casting Director – Canada; Corrine Clark, Casting Director – Canada; Jennifer Page, Casting Director – Canada
- Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series
- Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series
- Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
- Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
Another AMC title, Rubicon [7], was nominated for Outstanding Main Title Design, competing against non-Canadian production Game of Thrones, which has an outstanding opening title series.
Animal Planet’s documentary – reality series Whale Wars [8] picked up two nominations:
- Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming
- Outstanding Sound Editing For Nonfiction Programming (Single Or Multi-Camera)
Stargate Universe [9] received its third nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series.
Degrassi [10]‘s episode My Body Is A Cage, Part 2 is nominated for Best Children’s Program
In addition to The Borgias, Take 5 Production Camelot [11] was also nominated for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. The show’s theme was composed by Canadian sibling composers Jeff [12] and Mychael Danna [13]
Staying with music, David Foster [14] and Friends: Hitman Returns (Great Performances) has been nominated in the Outstanding Music Direction category along with fellow Canadian Paul Shaffer [15], who is nominated for his music direction on the 2011 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony.