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Dan Castellaneta Wins An Emmy
The Creative Arts Emmy award winners were announced this week, and while The Simpsons were in contention for Outstanding Animated Series for the episode ‘Gone Maggie Gone’, it lost out to South Park’s ‘Margaritaville’. It wasn’t all bad news though, as Dan Castellaneta was awarded his fourth Emmy in the voice-over category for his work in ‘Father Knows Worst’. This means that contenders Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria missed out. Congratulations Dan!
Teen Choice Awards 2009
The Simpsons will feature in this year’s Teen Choice Awards in the “Choice TV: Animated Show award” category. Family Guy, American Dad! and South Park are also up for the award.
Simpsons Set To Feature On Emmys
A set from The Simpsons will be recreated on this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, which is due to air this Sunday from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Emmys executive producer Ken Ehrlich said that we will also be seeing sets from “Desperate Housewives” and “M*A*S*H” along with many others.
Simpsons Receive Tenth Emmy!
The Simpsons has won its tenth Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program for programming less than one hour on Saturday.
Kill Gil Wins Writers Guild Award
On the verge of an end to its strike, the Writers Guild of America quietly handed out the awards for its annual ceremony which recognizes excellence in writing. Since the WGA introduced an animation category, The Simpsons has taken out the award every year, and this year was no exception.
The nominees this year were ‘The Haw-Hawed Couple,’ ‘Homer of Seville,’ ‘Kill Gil Volumes 1&2,’ ‘Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!,’ and King Of The Hill episodes ‘The Passion of the Dauterive’ and ‘Lucky’s Wedding Suit.’ The winner was Kill Gil Volumes 1 & 2, written by Jeff Westbrook. Congratulations.
The Simpsons Game was also nominated in the first ever video game nominations, but was beat out by ‘Dead Head Fred’.
SOURCE: WGA
Simpsons Nominated For Emmy Award
Nominees in all categories for the 59th annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today, and The Simpsons features once again in the Animated Program (less than one hour) category. The episode “The Haw Hawed Couple” written by Matt Selman has been chosen to represent the season. Its chances of winning are high, but keep an eye on that South Park episode which is probably its only real competition. The rest of the nominees in the category are:
Avatar: The Last Airbender “City of Walls and Secrets” Nickelodeon
Robot Chicken “Lust for Puppets” Cartoon Network
The Simpsons “The Haw-Hawed Couple” Fox
South Park “Make Love, Not Warcraft” Comedy Central
SpongeBob SquarePants “Bummer Vacation/Wig Struck,” NickelodeonThe award winners will be announced in mid September.
Simpsons Wins Another WGA Award
Up against some stiff competition, namely, itself, The Simpsons took home yet another Writers Guild Award in the Animation category for 2006. John Frink won the award for the episode “The Italian Bob,” trumping “Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore,” “Simpsons Christmas Stories,” and “Girls Just Want To Have Sums.” Since the animation category was introduced to the awards, The Simpsons have made it their tradition to take the award from the competition. Congratulations to John Frink and to all those which were nominated.
SOURCE: AWN News
Four WGA Nominations For Simpsons
The Simpsons has scored four nominations in the animation category for this years Writers Guild Awards. The nominations announced Wednesday mark the fourth time the show has been nominated in the four years since an animation category was introduced. The Simpsons is expected to take home an award again this year, duplicating the previous three years of success. Here are the nominees and their writers.
THE ITALIAN BOB (Simpsons)
written by John Frink
KISS KISS, BANG BANGALORE (Simpsons)
written by Dan Castellaneta & Deb Lacusta
SIMPSONS CHRISTMAS STORIES (Simpsons)
written by Don Payne
GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE SUMS (Simpsons)
written by Matt Selman
CHURCH HOPPING (King Of The Hill)
written by Jim Dauterive
WHO’S YOUR DADDY (Life & Times Of Juniper Lee)
written by Marsha Griffin
Winners will be chosen based on voting by all 13,000 eligible guild members and announced at the WGA Awards on February 11.
SOURCE: Variety
The Simpsons Wins Another Emmy
The Simpsons have come home with another Emmy award for best animated show, for the episode ‘The Seemingly Never Ending Story.’ The episode beat out all competition including South Park’s controversial ‘Trapped In The Closet’ and Family Guy’s ‘PTV’. Simpsons executive producer Al Jean joked about receiving the award in his acceptance speech saying “This is what happens when you don’t mock Scientology.”
This year’s Emmy win gives executive producer James L. Brooks his nineteenth Emmy, breaking the record for the most Emmy’s won by a person. Nine of these have been received for his work on The Simpsons. Congratulations to James L. Brooks and the entire team for their win.
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Kelsey Grammer Wins An Emmy
Kelsey Grammer has added a fifth Emmy to his collection, this time for his voice-over work on Fox’s animated comedy The Simpsons.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on Wednesday announced the winners in several categories of the 58th annual Emmy Awards that don’t go through a nomination process and are decided by juries of members from the respective academy branches.
Grammer earned his first Emmy in the outstanding voice-over performance category for his recurring role as criminal mastermind Sideshow Bob on “The Simpsons.” His Emmy haul already includes four prizes for his work as Frasier Crane on “Frasier.”
SOURCE: Reuters