A record number of given to Indigenous, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQI+ actors across the acting categories.
Meanwhile, two Australian women, Naomi Watts and Elizabeth Debicki have been nominated in leading and supporting actress categories.
Native American actors Lily Gladstone and Kali Reis received nominations for their respective roles in “Under the Bridge” and “True Detective: Night Country,” becoming the first Indigenous women nominated for acting.
Both received nominations in the category of supporting actress in a limited series. The nomination puts them as only the second and third Indigenous actors ever to be nominated in an acting category in the Emmys’ 76-year history.
Gladstone and Reis are competing against Dakota Fanning for her role in “Ripley”, Jessica Gunning and Nava Mau in “Baby Reindeer”, Aja Naomi King in “Lessons in Chemistry”, and Diane Lane in “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.”
Mau is only the second transgender actor ever to be nominated in the main acting categories.
Earlier this year, Gladstone, who has Piegan Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage, became the first Indigenous person to win a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
She was also nominated for an Oscar, making her just the fourth Indigenous female actor to be nominated in Oscar’s history.
Reis’ performance in “Night Country” was her first acting role for television. “Night Country” was nominated for a total of 19 Emmys including three nominations for showrunner Issa López (for directing, writing and producing), most outstanding limited series, and Best actress for Jodie Foster.
López is the first Latino to be nominated for directing and only the second to be nominated in a writing category.
Women from Latino backgrounds received a number of nominations, including Selena Gomez for lead comedy actress (“Only Murders in the Building”), Liza Colón-Zayas for supporting comedy actress (“The Bear”), Néstor Carbonell for guest drama actor (“Shōgun”) and Sofia Vergara for lead actress limited for (“Griselda”). Vergara becomes only the second Latina to receive a nomination in the category, three years after Anya Taylor-Joy (who is from Argentinia) was nominated for her role in “The Queen’s Gambit”.
Gomez is now the most Emmy-nominated Latina producer, despite being only the fourth female actor to be nominated in the category of lead comedy actress.
The Primetime Emmy Awards, which is in its 76th year, will take place on Sunday, 15 September.