Wounded Knee, Sopranos Lead Emmy Nods

LOS ANGELES, July 19: HBO’s TV movie Bury My Heart at
Wounded Knee led the Primetime Emmy
nominations announced today with a total of 17 nods, while The
Sopranos was the most nominated series with
a total of 15; HBO received a total of 86 nominations, more than any other
network.

HBO’s acclaimed mob drama that came to a close in June is
facing off against ABC’s Boston Legal
and Grey’s Anatomy, NBC’s Heroes and FOX’s House in the outstanding drama series category. Absent from the category is
last year’s winner, 24.

In the outstanding comedy series category, last year’s
winner, The Office, has been nominated
again. Its competition includes fellow NBC show 30 Rock, HBO’s Entourage, CBS’s Two And A Half Men and ABC’s Ugly Betty, which received the second most nominations for a TV
series, with 11.

The mini-series contenders are Broken Trail, from AMC, which racked up a total of 16
nominations, PBS’s Prime Suspect: The Final Act and USA’s The Starter Wife, which secured a total of 10 nods, alongside Grey’s
Anatomy and 30 Rock.

Dick Wolf’s TV movie for HBO, Bury My Heart At Wounded
Knee, with its total of 17 nominations, is
facing off against the HBO/Granada/Channel 4 production Longford, Discovery Channel’s Inside The Twin Towers, TNT’s The Ron Clark Story and Lifetime’s Why I Wore Lipstick To My
Mastectomy.

In the performance categories, James Gandolfini is up for
best actor for The Sopranos, competing
against James Spader from Boston Legal, Hugh Laurie from House,
Denis Leary for Rescue Me and
last year’s winner, Kiefer Sutherland for 24. Gandolfini has
won this category three times since first being nominated in 1999.

In the lead actress category, Sally Field is a contender for
Brothers & Sisters, alongside The
Closer’s Kyra Sedgwick, Law &
Order: SVU’s Mariska Hargitay (last year’s
winner), Medium’s Patricia
Arquette, The Riches’ Minnie
Driver and The Sopranos’ Edie
Falco.

For supporting actor, Boston Legal’s William Shatner is a nominee with Grey’s
Anatomy’s T.R. Knight, Masi Oka from Heroes, Michael Emerson and Terry O’Quinn from Lost and Michael Imperioli for The Sopranos. Three Grey’s Anatomy stars are up for supporting actress
nods—Katherine Heigl, Chandra Wilson and Sandra Oh—alongside Brothers
& Sisters’s Rachel Griffiths and The
Sopranos Aida Turturro and Lorraine Bracco.

Ricky Gervais is up for outstanding lead actor in a comedy
series for HBO’s Extras, alongside Monk’s Tony Shalhoub, who has won for the last two years
in a row, Steve Carell for The Office, Alec Baldwin for 30 Rock
and Charlie Sheen for Two and a Half Men.

Actress nods went to Desperate Housewives’ Felicity Huffman, The New Adventures of Old Christine’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who won last year, 30
Rock’s Tina Fey, Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera and Weeds’s Mary-Louise Parker.

In the supporting actor category, the nominees are Kevin
Dillon and Jeremy Piven for Entourage,
Neil Patrick Harris for How I Met Your Mother, Rainn Wilson for The Office and Jon Cryer for Two and a Half Men. Cryer’s co-stars Conchata Ferrell and Holland
Taylor are both up in the supporting actress category, with My Name
is Earl’s Jaime Pressly, The
Office’s Jenna Fischer, Ugly
Betty’s Vanessa Williams and Weeds’s Elizabeth Perkins.

In the mini-series or TV movie category, lead actor nods
went to Robert Duvall for AMC’s Broken Trail, Tom Selleck for CBS’s Jesse Stone: Sea Change, Jim Broadbent for HBO’s Longford, William H. Macy for TNT’s Nightmares
& Dreamscapes and Matthew Perry for The
Ron Clark Story, also a TNT production. The
actress nominees are Queen Latifah for HBO’s Life Support, Helen Mirren for PBS’s Prime Suspect: The
Final Act, Mary-Louise Parker for Oxygen’s The
Robber Bride, Debra Messing in USA’s The
Starter Wife and Gena Rowlands for
Lifetime’s What If God Were the Sun.

Four-time winner The Amazing Race is again up for outstanding reality-competition
program. Its competitors are American Idol, Dancing With The Stars,
Project Runway and Top
Chef. The outstanding reality program
contenders are Antiques Roadshow
(PBS), Dog Whisperer With Cesar Millan (National Geographic), Extreme Makeover Home Edition (ABC), Kathy Griffin: My Life On The
D-List (Bravo) and Penn &
Teller: Bullshit! (Showtime).

In the variety, music or comedy series category, Comedy
Central received two nods, for The Colbert Report and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. The other contenders are NBC’s Late Night
With Conan O’Brien, CBS’s Late
Show With David Letterman and HBO’s Real
Time With Bill Maher.

Disney Channel dominates the children’s program nominees
with Hannah Montana, The Suite
Life Of Zack & Cody and That’s
So Raven facing off against Nickelodeon’s Nick
News With Linda Ellerbee and PBS’s When
Parents Are Deployed.

For outstanding nonfiction special, The History Channel
picked up two nominations, for Blood Diamonds and Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed. CBS’s AFI’s 100 Years….100 Cheers:
America’s Most Inspiring Movies, TCM’s Brando and HBO’s Ghosts Of Abu Ghraib were also nominated. For nonfiction series,
meanwhile, the contenders are PBS’s American Masters, A&E’s Biography, Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio and Discovery’s Deadliest Catch and Planet Earth.

For outstanding animated program (less than one hour), the
nominees are Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender and SpongeBob SquarePants, Cartoon Network/Adult Swim’s Robot
Chicken, FOX’s The Simpsons and Comedy Central’s South Park. For animated shows running an hour or more, nods
went to Cartoon Network’s Good Wilt Hunting—the Foster’s Home for Imaginary
Friends special—and Where’s
Lazlo; Starz’s Hellboy Animated:
Sword of Storms and Discovery’s Secrets
of the Deep.

The Primetime Emmys will be awarded on September 16, airing
live on FOX.