The event lasted all day in front of a packed, invitation - only audience of
Television Academy voters and PGA, SAG - AFTRA, WGAW and DGA members.
Not exact matches
In the past, certain actors racked up nomination after nomination simply off of goodwill from the
Television Academy even though the average
voter had never seen their show.
We don't know how the
Academy ranking is going to go but there is the possibility that a large number of
voters will block vote for women to help women, to show the world that they care about women in the industry, to make up for Hillary's loss; for all of those reasons it's possible we could see wins, like we saw at the DGA in the
television categories.
And while The Shape of Water has been recognized by film journalists and critics, it has also attracted big attention by industry
voters, including nominations from the Screen Actors Guild, the Director's Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America and the British
Academy of Film and
Television Awards (BAFTAs).
Perhaps more importantly, the film is so visually banal and formally undistinguished that it feels ideally suited for the
television sets where most
Academy Members and Critics Group
Voters end up watching films.
The Canadian actress has won fervent critical acclaim for her chameleonic performance as a group of wildly different clones, as well as smaller prizes such as the Critics» Choice
Television Award, but has yet to earn recognition from the famously habit - prone
voters of the
Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences.