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Yahoo
8 hours ago
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2025 Emmys: These are the episodes every Best Drama Guest Actress/Actor submitted
Before voting for the Emmy winners (beginning Aug. 18), Television Academy members are encouraged to watch all of the nominees' episode submissions, though it's not a requirement. While the lead and supporting acting episode submissions will be unveiled soon by Gold Derby, the guest stars' choices in drama and comedy were publicly available on the nominating ballots. Read on for everything to know about the Emmy episode submissions for Best Drama Guest Actress and Best Drama Guest Actor, where the contenders include four-time Oscar nominee Jane Alexander (The Great White Hope, All the President's Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, and Testament) and Best Actor Oscar winner Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland). More from Gold Derby Selena Gomez, Martin Short, and Steve Martin in first look at Season 5 of 'Only Murders in the Building': Everything to know 'South Park' creators strike deal for 50 more episodes, streaming on Paramount+: What to know BEST DRAMA GUEST ACTRESS Jane Alexander as Sissy Cobel in SeveranceEpisode: "Sweet Vitriol"Recap: Celestine, or 'Sissy, ' is Harmony Cobel's maternal aunt, whom Harmony visits in Season 2. A fervent acolyte of Lumon founder Kier Eagan, Sissy lives a monastic and reclusive life in the remote town of Salt's Neck, before the return of her niece awakens a long-dormant history: This is Alexander's eighth Primetime Emmy nomination; she previously won for Playing for Time (1981) and Warm Springs (2005), both in Best Limited/Movie Supporting Actress. Gwendoline Christie as Lorne in SeveranceEpisode: "Cold Harbor"Recap: Lorne is the head of Mammalians Nurturable, a Lumon department inexplicably devoted to the breeding and raising of goats. Initially wary of protagonists Mark and Helly, she becomes a ferocious ally after her beloved animals are history: This is Christie's second Primetime Emmy nomination. Kaitlyn Dever as Abby in The Last of UsEpisode: "Through the Valley"Recap: Abby, driven by vengeance for her father's death, travels to Jackson to try and find Joel and mercilessly exact her history: This is Dever's second Primetime Emmy nomination. Cherry Jones as Holly in The Handmaid's TaleEpisode: "Exile"Recap: June tries to settle in a new community where she reunites with her mother, Holly. Serena seeks a sanctuary. Luke and Moira take a big history: This is Jones' sixth Primetime Emmy nomination; she previously won Best Drama Supporting Actress for 24 (2009), and Best Guest Actress for both The Handmaid's Tale (2019) and Succession (2020). Catherine O'Hara as Gail in The Last of UsEpisode: "Future Days"Recap: Gail is the town therapist in Jackson who counsels Joel as he grapples with past traumas, including his killing of Gail's husband, history: This is O'Hara's 10 Primetime Emmy nomination; she previously won Best Variety Writing for SCTV Network (1982) and Best Comedy Actress for Schitt's Creek (2020). Merritt Wever as Gretchen George in SeveranceEpisode: "Who Is Alive?"Recap: Gretchen is a police dispatcher, a mother of three, and the wife of a severed worker, Dylan George. At his employer's request, Gretchen visits her husband's work persona, or "innie, " forming a strange connection as he comes to remind her of the man she first history: This is Wever's fifth Primetime Emmy nomination; she previously won Best Comedy Supporting Actress for Nurse Jackie (2013) and Best Limited/Movie Supporting Actress for Godless (2018). Emmy Records View Gallery15 Images BEST DRAMA GUEST ACTOR Giancarlo Esposito as Stan Edgar in The BoysEpisode: "Beware The Jabberwock, My Son"Recap: Former Vought CEO Stan Edgar receives a visit in federal prison from Butcher and Mother's Milk. Butcher offers Edgar exoneration and custody of his granddaughter Zoe if he helps them locate the anti-Supe virus. Upon arrival at Edgar's farm, they discover Compound V-infected livestock including flying murderous sheep and history: This is Esposito's sixth Primetime Emmy nomination. Scott Glenn as Jim Hollinger in The White LotusEpisode: "Killer Instincts"Recap: In Bangkok, Rick meets face-to-face and confronts the man he thinks ruined his life, Jim Hollinger, the owner of The White Lotus Thailand history: This is Glenn's first Primetime Emmy nomination. Shawn Hatosy as Dr. Jack Abbot in The PittEpisode: "9:00 P.M."Recap: Utilizing his former military experience at a combat support hospital, Dr. Abbot comes in on his day off to help during the mass casualty incident. He recognizes the toll this shift has taken on Dr. Robby and offers encouragement. Later, it is revealed Abbot sustained a leg amputation in history: This is Hatosy's first Primetime Emmy nomination. Joe Pantoliano as Eugene in The Last of UsEpisode: "The Price"Recap: While on patrol, Joel and Ellie come across Eugene, a member of the Jackson community and husband to town therapist, Gail. Eugene was bitten by a Clicker and pleads with Joel for one last trip to Jackson to say goodbye to Gail, forcing Joel to make a difficult history: This is Pantoliano's second Primetime Emmy nomination; he previously won Best Drama Supporting Actor for The Sopranos (2003). Forest Whitaker as Saw Gerrera in AndorEpisode: "I Have Friends Everywhere"Recap: Saw Gerrera forces Wilmon to help steal rocket fuel for the rebels. Wilmon discovers that Saw is a truly ruthless and unhinged rebel history: This is Whitaker's fourth Primetime Emmy nomination; he previously won for producing Best TV Movie Door to Door (2003). Jeffrey Wright as Isaac in The Last of UsEpisode: "Day One"Recap: Isaac is the ruthless, uncompromising leader of the Washington Liberation Front (WLF) who is waging war against a religious cult known as the history: This is Wright's seventh Primetime Emmy nomination, and he's also up this year for What If...? in Best Character Voice-Over Performance; he previously won Best Limited/Movie Supporting Actor for Angels in America (2004). Best of Gold Derby 'Five new life forms from distant planets': Everything to know about 'Alien: Earth' as new trailer drops Everything to know about 'The Pitt' Season 2, including the departure of Tracy Ifeachor's Dr. Collins Everything to know about 'Too Much,' Lena Dunham's Netflix TV show starring Megan Stalter that's kinda, sorta 'based on a true story' Click here to read the full article. Solve the daily Crossword
Forbes
2 days ago
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- Forbes
Intelsat Joins Film Star Forest Whitaker In Utopian Peacemaking Pilot
The colossal satellite operator Intelsat has joined forces with actor and humanitarian star Forest ... More Whitaker to power an array of peace centers across 3 continents. Shown here is a Russian rocket about to carry an Intelsat satellite into orbit. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP via Getty Images) Behind the scenes of his sensational filmmaking life, Forest Whitaker is the director of a fascinating pilot project aimed at fostering generations of young peacemakers stretching from Africa to Europe to North America. A decade after the utopian, Oscar-winning film star started constructing a web of peace-building centers on three continents, Intelsat is joining his mission by providing the satellite operator's high-speed internet connections to supercharge these outposts. Intelsat CEO Dave Wajsgras tells me in an interview that Whitaker 'has personally been involved and has done amazing things for thousands and thousands of people around the world.' The geosynchronous satellite giant, he says, is now beaming broadband Web access to an archipelago of outposts the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative has built across Uganda and South Sudan. These tech-powered oases provide courses on the basic building blocks of peace mediation and conflict resolution, along with primers on universal human rights enshrined in the UN Charter and the UN's own goal of a war-free world in an imagined future. Intelsat CEO Dave Wajsgras says he initially got hooked up with Forest Whitaker's utopian peace ... More project on the sidelines of the United Nations. The Oscar-winning film star Whitaker is also a UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Wajsgras, himself a remarkable philanthropist, says he initially connected with Whitaker, who's becoming a pole star in the cosmos of independent humanitarian projects, on the sidelines of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 'Forest is a UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation, working closely with UNESCO.' 'I am on the [UNESCO-founded]The Broadband Commission, jointly set up with the heads of vanguard internet technology outfits planet-wide, is aimed in part at overcoming the 'digital divide,' or the barricades that still separate the global citizens who have access to the internet and those who don't. With a fleet of super-satellites positioned in orbit more than 35,000 kilometers above the Earth, Intelsat's constellation can provide gateways to the cybersphere from virtually any point on the planet, Wajsgras says, including the ten peace and learning centers that Whitaker has already christened across East Africa. Intelsat's super-satellites, orbiting 35000 kilometers above the planet, are now beaming broadband ... More internet connections to Forest Whitaker's peace and learning centers across Africa With Intelsat's next-generation satellite dishes and Whitaker's peace instructors, these outposts have become beacons of hyper-technology and anti-war activism, with the aim of radiating their waves of pacifism outward. Some centers founded by Whitaker focus on training and transforming youths who have fled the armed conflicts in South Sudan to turn them into powerful prophets of future harmony. One of his peace outposts has begun gradually reshaping the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement—a way station for teenagers fleeing the battlefronts of South Sudan for sanctuary in Uganda—partly through providing Web-connected laptops and courses on building peaceful enclaves that promote freedom of speech and cross-cultural dialogues. Leaders of the Whitaker peace coalition say this sanctuary is the result of Uganda's liberal open border policies toward refugees, and that their pacifist outreach is ultimately aimed at halting—step-by-step—conflicts across the region. Outstanding activists who emerge here, like their counterparts at Whitaker's peace citadels in Seine-Saint-Denis, outside Paris, and in Tijuana, Mexico, might join the group's Youth Peacemaker Network, which spans the continents. Intelsat's creating launch pads for these nascent peacemakers to lift off into cyberspace is also part of its crusade to one day enable all eight billion global citizens to crisscross the Web, Wajsgras tells me. Intelsat aims to help overcome the globe's digital divide - between the 5.5 billion people plugged ... More into the Web, and the 2.6 billion others still stranded outside - via its expanding fleet of broadband satellites (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The International Telecommunication Union, the UN's specialized agency for digital technologies, reports that while 5.5 billion people are now plugged into the World Wide Web, 2.6 billion others are still stranded outside of the global network. Statista says that in 'Norway 99 percent of the population used the internet as of February 2025.' 'North Korea,' the group adds, 'was at the opposite end of the spectrum, with virtually no internet usage penetration among the general population, ranking last worldwide.' Africa lies somewhere in between, the Geneva-headquartered ITU says, with an estimated 38 percent of the population now integrated into the Web. Intelsat's opening cyber-ports for Whitaker's brigades of peacemakers is part of a greater mission to connect the continent. Melissa Longo, the scholarly writer and researcher, and onetime journalist, who is now Intelsat's global media relations manager, tells me in an interview that the Titan-size satellite operator has joined forces with Africa Mobile Networks to provide Net connections to more than 10 million people across Africa. Plummeting launch rates to loft broadband satellites into orbit, she adds, are enabling Intelsat to offer these new explorers hyper-cheap sojourns across the borderless worlds of the Web. Intelsat leader Dave Wajsgras, meanwhile, says he envisions a long-term alliance with Forest Whitaker and his expanding matrix of peace-builders. 'We are just honored to be a small part of what Forest and his team are accomplishing,' as the movement to promote peace unfolds, he says. The techno-utopian Wajsgras also suggests that this novel approach to generating generations of peace activists by powering them with leading-edge technologies and the vision of a conflict-free cosmopolitan globe are just part of the prospects for universal internet access to remake the world. As this super-internet's potential to speed new ideas—across peace centers, cities and continents—to co-design a more perfect, paradisiacal planet evolves, he muses, 'The impact on civilization will no doubt be more significant in a positive way and happen at a much faster pace.'
The Hindu
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Emmy nominations 2025: The galactic travesty of the ‘Andor' snubs
The 77th Primetime Emmy nominations were announced with the usual ritual pomp of its prestige darlings, bold-ish swings, and glossy usual suspects. But nestled among the predictably over-rewarded (The White Lotus, Severance, The Last of Us) was the unmistakable sting of familiarity. Andor, has yet again been shamefully sidelined and passed over where it mattered most. Despite racking up 14 nominations — including the requisite nods for Outstanding Drama Series, Writing, and Directing — the series was locked out of every major acting category. In their place were a slate of picks so safe and blinkered, that the Television Acdemy is almost impressive in its refusal to acknowledge the galaxy-sized performances hiding in plain sight. Congratulations to the cast and crew of ANDOR for their 14 Emmy® nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series. # — Andor | A Star Wars Original Series (@andorofficial) July 15, 2025 Forest Whitaker, to his credit, landed a deserved Guest Actor nod for his reliably volcanic turn as Saw Gerrera. But for a series widely praised as one of the most mature and politically potent works ever to emerge from the Star Wars franchise (or frankly, from any current TV universe) the Emmy's wider ommision feels like an indictment of the voting body's allergy to excellence that doesn't arrive prepackaged in Emmy-friendly casing. Diego Luna's performance across Andor's two seasons was career-defining. As the titular hero forged in oppression and slowly radicalised into rebellion, Luna delivered a harrowing, intimate, and deeply human character arc. Emmy voters however, seemed to prefer Pedro Pascal's blink-and-you-miss-it turn in a middling second season of HBO's The Last of Us. That Pascal got a nod and Luna didn't feels emblematic of how this flawed system periodically confuses exposure with excellence. Add to that the fact that Luna's nomination would've marked a historic double for Latino actors in the category, and the oversight begins to taste a little acrid. And what of Genevieve O'Reilly, whose Mon Mothma delivered some of the most exquisitely agonising moments of the season? Her ability to speak volumes from behind a diplomat's smile, to tremble without ever faltering — this is Emmy bait of the highest order, and yet, no bite. Her thunderous senate floor monologue, in which she dares to invoke genocide (in a Disney series, no less) would've made most voters' highlight reels, had they been paying attention. Instead, those slots went to The White Lotus, which somehow managed to colonise two-thirds of the Supporting categories. Denise Gough, Adria Arjona, Elizabeth Dulau, Stellan Skarsgard and Kyle Soller — all left out in the cold. If we're being charitable, perhaps it's just a case of category congestion. But that excuse wears thin when one considers that The White Lotus and The Last of Us — both of which received a more tepid critical and fan response this season compared to their last — dominate nearly every acting category. Voters appear more interested in name-checking proven properties than engaging with the work that defined this television year. Even Slow Horses, easily one of Apple TV's most consistent and critically adored series, was similarly overlooked, which only demonstrates how the Emmys have increasingly turned into a coronation of familiarity. Andor's genre trappings may have done it no favours, either. To many voters, it probaby read as another fan-service spinoff with laser swords and nerdy space opera. But in reducing it to cosplay, they've missed the point entirely. Andor was never about galaxies or gadgets, but about power and the machinery that sustains it. To ignore that is to ignore one of the sharpest, most unsettling antifascist parables to ever slip through the cracks of popular culture — and perhaps that's exactly why they did. Tony Gilroy crafted a radical blueprint for understanding resistance in a collapsing world. With uncanny precision, it mirrored the language of occupation, insurgency, and propaganda that defines our global present, unsettling viewers who suddenly found fiction offering sharper clarity than what was on the news. That it was ignored by Emmy voters may not be an oversight so much as an act of self-preservation or a subconscious recoil from a piece of art that held a mirror too close. Gilroy said it best in a post-nomination interview: 'These aren't great moment-to-moment [performances]. These are epic, long-term character studies that they've done over 24 episodes. I think the ultimate victory is that these performances will be celebrated and discussed for years to come. I feel confident about that.' The fact that Emmy voters couldn't see this speaks to a fundamental failure of imagination, or worse, of attention. It's worth remembering that Season 1 of Andor fared similarly, with 8 of its 14 nominations coming from technical categories and only one minor win. This year's bump in prestige categories feels more of a nod to the show's cultural footprint than to its actual craft. Yet still, none of its actors were deemed worthy. There's a rich, almost satirical irony at play here. In the original Star Wars, Luke and Han get medals for blowing stuff up in dramatic fashion (never mind that Chewbacca didn't, but that's a separate war crime). Meanwhile, the thankless rebels of Andor lie, steal, bleed, and die in the dark with no medals or applause, so prettier people can take the credit. Fitting then, that the Emmys kept the tradition alive. So no, the snub isn't a surprise. But it is a shame. For an awards body tasked with celebrating the television's finest, that shame should matter. Because if something as brilliant as Andor isn't worth rewarding, then what are we even watching for?
Yahoo
15-07-2025
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This Sci-Fi Favorite's Emmy Snubs Have The Internet In Revolt
Fans of 'Andor' are fuming after the galaxy's most radical sci-fi series was snubbed in several key Emmy categories. While Disney+'s 'Star Wars' prequel saga nabbed 14 total nominations when contenders were announced on Tuesday morning, Forest Whitaker was the only cast member to land a nod in any acting category. Online, TV buffs were floored that Diego Luna's leading rebel Cassian Andor, Fiona Shaw's fiercely principled Maarva Andor, Stellan Skarsgård's morally murky spymaster Luthen Rael and Denise Gough's coldly ambitious Imperial officer Dedra Meero were overlooked. Others thought the snub was especially galling given 'Andor's' eerie resonance amid the second Donald Trump administration. Andor season 2 once again had some of the best performances in television history yet the cast got a total of ONE Emmy nomination (congrats Forest Whitaker!) — Lalo 🃏 Andor sweep (@clonehumor) July 15, 2025 please don't talk to me I'm furious about the emmys ignoring ANDOR's acting ensemble — ✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi (@roxana_hadadi) July 15, 2025 A slow-burning tale about the creep of authoritarianism, the show explores how the 'Star Wars' universe's revolutionary Rebel Alliance is born from the wreckage of state surveillance, militarism and the erosion of civil liberties under the fascist-coded Galactic Empire. Though many viewers interpret 'Andor' as an allegory for the totalitarianism impulses leeching their way into contemporary politics, creator Tony Gilroy has emphasized the story's deeper historical underpinnings. 'You could drop this show at any point in the last 6,000 years, and it would make sense to some people about what's happening to them,' he told The Hollywood Reporter in May. See 'Andor' fans' reactions to the acting snubs right here: Andor not getting a single acting nomination at the Emmys is grounds for the destruction of award shows as an institution — Cynth/Susie/Willow | 🍉 (@Cynth_) July 15, 2025 I'm glad Andor got nominated, but Diego getting snubbed is now my villain origin story. — Maggie Lovitt (@maggieofthetown) July 15, 2025 Nominating Pedro Pascal for his 5 total minutes of screen time in The Last of Us season 2 but snubbing Diego Luna in Andor is insane. I'm going to shoot myself live onstage at the Emmys — Alex Burley (@AJBurlap) July 15, 2025 if that mushroom zombie show gets more noms than that space antifa show I'm self immolating in front of the academy — major fartagaz | Andor Forever (@fartagaz) July 14, 2025 Andor cast you are all Emmy nominees and winners in my house — blue (@words_salad) July 15, 2025 So did they watch anything else besides The White Lotus? The fuck is this list? — PJ • Andor Vibes • (@matpolloy) July 15, 2025 DIEGO LUNA SNUBBEDSTELLAN SKARSGARD SNUBBEDGENEVIEVE OREILLY SNUBBEDcongrats to forest whitaker — major fartagaz | Andor Forever (@fartagaz) July 15, 2025 What do you mean no one got acting nominations for Andor did they not watch the fucking show?????? — TangiblePepper (@tangiblepe56280) July 15, 2025 no acting emmy noms for andor — ✨peggy carter rights✨ (@saruuuuuuugh) July 15, 2025 This Show Has Eerie Real-Life Parallels To Trump's Presidency — And It's Inspiring Fans To Resist The 2025 Primetime Emmy Nominations Are Here: Read The Complete List The Biggest Snubs And Surprises Of The 2025 Emmy Nominations
Gizmodo
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
A List of Other ‘Andor' Actors Who Should've Got Emmy Nominations Today
The incredible Star Wars series Andor got a well-deserved 14 Emmy nominations on Tuesday, including one in the most prestigious category there is, Outstanding Drama Series. And while the other nominations for things such as costumes, directing, music, sound, effects, and writing are all warranted, only two actors of the large ensemble were recognized. One was Oscar winner Forest Whitaker for his guest role as Saw Gerrera, and the other was Alan Tudyk for his voice work as K-2SO. Both of those performances are fantastic and worthy of recognition. But we think a few other actors on the show also deserved nominations, and now, we'd like to list them. Deserved a nomination. Deserved a a a nomination. Deserved a a nomination. Deserved a a a nomination. Deserved a a a a a a nomination. Wait, sorry, did we list basically everyone? Damn it. I guess we did. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
