Can an actor get two Emmy nominations in the same category?

[RobertPius]

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At the Oscars they can’t. What are the Emmy rules. (They change so much. I know Lee Grant beat herself for an Emmy where she had two of the three nominations in the 70s.)

I’m wondering if Cate Blanchett could be looking at two nominations this year.

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[Riley Chow Joined: Oct 11th, 2010 Topics: 156 Posts: 17583 View Predictions]

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You can get two nominations in the same category unless you are a director. It was also prohibited in guest for years, but that is over now. Blanchett’s performances are in different categories though.

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[RobertPius Joined: Nov 22nd, 2012 Topics: 265 Posts: 1873 View Predictions]

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Man you are good with those rules Riley. The Academy needs to hire you.

Has anyone other than Lee Grant had double nominations?

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[Riley Chow Joined: Oct 11th, 2010 Topics: 156 Posts: 17583 View Predictions]

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I know that nobody has done it in lead.  Liev Schreiber did it in narrator three years ago.

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[Hoster1 Joined: Aug 8th, 2016 Topics: 4 Posts: 2417 View Predictions]

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Cherry Jones is so coming for double nominations in Guest.

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[Zooey the Dreamer Joined: Jan 12th, 2012 Topics: 10 Posts: 1321 View Predictions]

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Riley Chow wrote:

You can get two nominations in the same category unless you are a director. It was also prohibited in guest for years, but that is over now. Blanchett’s performances are in different categories though.

Actually doesn’t it apply to writing as well? I mean: A writing can get two nominations, even three, but only if they’re co-writing credits and are submitted by the other writer.

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[Ivo Stoyanov Joined: Jun 3rd, 2015 Topics: 2 Posts: 1980 View Predictions]

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Zooey the Dreamer wrote:

Actually doesn’t it apply to writing as well? I mean: A writing can get two nominations, even three, but only if they’re co-writing credits and are submitted by the other writer.

Yes, that is correct, but is not the same, because like this a writer can get multiple nominations in the same category. For a director there is no such option.

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[Riley Chow Joined: Oct 11th, 2010 Topics: 156 Posts: 17583 View Predictions]

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That writing thing is a loophole that also applies to editing and other categories where you have teams of people doing the same job on a given episode together. Where directors (and technical directors, but not nonfiction or reality directors) differ is that everyone else can have multiple submissions per category even without that loophole if they are for different shows. David E. Kelley for example could submit and get nominated both Big Little Lies and Mr. Mercedes in drama writing this year, but Jason Bateman has to choose whether to submit The Outsider or Ozark for drama directing.

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