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2020 Emmy Nominations: Black Actors Earn Record-High Percentage of Acting Nods | THR News
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Black actors have a stronger presence in the Primetime Emmy Awards than they ever have, earning a record-high percentage of acting nods in Tuesday's nominations.
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Black actors have a stronger presence in the Primetime Emmy Awards than they ever have,
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earning a record-high percentage of acting nods in Tuesday's nominations.
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Of the 102 acting nominations in the series, limited series and TV movie fields announced
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Tuesday, Black performers secured 35 nominations among 33 actors, with Maya Rudolph and Giancarlo
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Esposito being nominated twice. The 34.3% of nominations represents an all-time high for
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Black actors, besting the previous record of 27.7% two years ago. Eleven of the 34 leading
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acting nominees are Black, including repeat honorees Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross
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for Black-ish, Don Cheadle for Black Monday, three-time nominee Kerry Washington for Little
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Fires Everywhere, and three-time winner Regina King for Watchmen. In the supporting categories,
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Black actors earned 14 of 44 nominations. Others to receive top acting nominations include Zendaya,
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Billy Porter, and Sterling K. Brown, among others. Other people of color, though, were largely shut
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out of the acting fields, and the writing and directing category still remain largely in the
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province of white men, even as the industry has a reckoning with inclusion and diversity.
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Only three other non-white performers, Sandra Oh for Killing Eve, Dev Patel for Modern Love,
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and Rami Youssef for Rami, earned acting nominations. Seven people of color were nominated for writing,
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Meanwhile, only three women of color received directing nods. Dime Davis for HBO's A Black
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Lady Sketch Show, Linda Mendoza for Netflix's Tiffany Haddish Presents They Ready, and Nadia
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Hulgren for Netflix's Becoming. To see the full list of this year's Emmy nominees, head to THR.com.
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For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.
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