Emmy Awards 2020: Ramy Youssef given Best Actor in Comedy nomination

Full list of Emmy 2020 nominations

LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Don Cheadle, Black Monday
Ted Danson, The Good Place
Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method
Eugene Levy, Schitt’s Creek
Ramy Youssef, Ramy

LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Christina Applegate, Dead to Me
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Linda Cardellini, Dead to Me
Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek
Issa Rae, Insecure
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish

OUTSTANDING VARIETY/TALK SERIES

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Jason Bateman, Ozark
Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us
Steve Carell, The Morning Show
Brian Cox, Succession
Billy Porter, Pose
Jeremy Strong, Succession

LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Jennifer Aniston, The Morning Show
Olivia Colman, The Crown
Jodie Comer, Killing Eve
Laura Linney, Ozark
Sandra Oh, Killing Eve
Zendaya, Euphoria

OUTSTANDING REALITY/COMPETITION PROGRAM

The Masked Singer
Nailed It!
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Top Chef
The Voice

LEAD ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE

Jeremy Irons, Watchmen
Hugh Jackman, Bad Education
Paul Mescal, Normal People
Jeremy Pope, Hollywood
Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much Is True

LEAD ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE

Cate Blanchett, Mrs. America
Shira Haas, Unorthodox
Regina King, Watchmen
Octavia Spencer, Self Made
Kerry Washington, Little Fires Everywhere

OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES

Little Fires Everywhere
Mrs. America
Unbelievable
Unorthodox
Watchmen

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dead to Me
The Good Place
Insecure
The Kominsky Method
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Schitt’s Creek
What We Do In The Shadows

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

Better Call Saul
The Crown
The Handmaid’s Tale
Killing Eve
The Mandalorian
Ozark
Stranger Things
Succession

Egyptian-American actor Ramy Youssef on Tuesday was nominated for the Best Actor in a Comedy category of the 72nd Emmy Awards for his role in his TV series Ramy.

Youssef will be competing with veterans Michael Douglas from The Kominsky Method, Eugene Levy from Schitt's Creek and Don Cheadle from Black Monday.

The coronavirus pandemic has altered the awards season, pushing the campaigns and events online.

Comedian Leslie Jones hosted the nomination announcement with help from Laverne Cox, Josh Gad and Tatiana Maslany, all of whom appeared on webcast.

Jimmy Kimmel will host this year’s Emmy awards ceremony, set to air on ABC on September 20.

It is not yet clear what the format will be, given the limits on large gatherings imposed by Covid-19.

Netflix earned the most Emmy nominations of any network, beating HBO for the second time in three years and signaling the growing power of streaming in the TV industry.

Watchmen, the HBO drama inspired by Alan Moore's comic-book series about ageing superheroes, had the most nominations among individual shows, with 26, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences said.

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, a comedy on Amazon's Prime Video, had 20.

The other shows that picked up the most nominations were the second season of HBO's hit drama Succession and the Dan and Eugene Levy-created sitcom Schitt's Creek.

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A diversity of programs buoyed Netflix, which set an Emmy record with 160 nominations.

Ozark, a gritty crime drama, earned the most nominations of any Netflix show with 18. It was one of 10 programmes that captured at least five nominations for the streamer.

The nominations for TV’s best programming have become an annual race between the fast-growing Netflix and AT&T’s HBO network, which is regarded as the network for serious drama.

The academy has given Netflix hundreds of nominations over the past few years, but it has yet to win the top prizes, including Best Drama, Comedy or Miniseries.

While the Emmys are not as popular as the Oscars or Grammys, the annual awards show still provides excellent promotion for nominees and winners.

The nominations have also reflected the longer-term shift from broadcast networks to cable and now to streaming.

Six of the 16 most-nominated networks were streaming services, led by Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Walt Disney’s Hulu.

Newer entrants Disney+, Apple TV+ and Quibi all earned their first nominations, including 15 for The Mandalorian, the Star Wars series from Disney+ that has been the biggest hit from any of the new streaming services.

Walt Disney earned the second-most nominations of any corporation thanks to its ownership of Disney+, Hulu, ABC, FX Networks, NatGeo, ESPN and the Disney Channel. It came second only to Netflix.

Streaming services over the past few years have spent tens of millions of dollars in pursuit of awards that can entice new customers to subscribe.

No one has chased Emmys quite like Netflix, which sends elaborate and expensive mail-outs of DVDs to academy members, and hosts weeks of screenings and promotional events to charm the voters.