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The 3rd Annual ADTV Coolie Awards Nominations!!!

You voted! We voted! And now it’s time to reveal the 3rd Annual ADTV Coolie Awards nominations! Be sure to check out Awards Daily TV during the Primetime Emmy® Phase 2 nominations starting August 13. You can vote for the winner and help award the Coolie to your favorite show or performer!

Two shows led the 2018 Coolie nominations. Both The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story and The Handmaid’s Tale received six mentions each. On the comedy front, Awards Daily TV favorite Schitt’s Creek receive four nominations, matching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in both series and acting races.

Here are this year’s nominees! Sound off in the comments as usual!

Limited Series

The Alienist
American Horror Story: Cult
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Howards End
Patrick Melrose
Picnic At Hanging Rock
The Sinner

Actor in a Limited Series/TV Movie

Darren Criss, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick Melrose
Kyle MacLachlan, Twin Peaks
Al Pacino, Paterno
Evan Peters, American Horror Story: Cult
Michael Shannon, Waco

Supporting Actress in a Limited Series/TV Movie

Ellen Burstyn, The Tale
Penelope Cruz, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Laura Dern, Twin Peaks
Dakota Fanning, The Alienist
Angela Lansbury, Little Women
Judith Light, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Nicole Kidman, Top of the Lake: China Girl
Naomi Watts, Twin Peaks
Merritt Wever, Godless

Supporting Actor in a Limited Series/TV Movie

Jon Jon Briones, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Jeff Daniels, Godless
Brandon Victor Dixon, Jesus Christ Superstar
Edgar Ramirez, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Jason Ritter, The Tale
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Looming Tower

The 3rd Annual ADTV Coolie Awards Nominations!!!

Emmys 2018: Predictions and Proclamations, Nominations Edition

Limited Series

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (FX)
Godless (Netflix)
Howards End (Starz)
The Looming Tower (Hulu)
Twin Peaks: The Return (Showtime)

The first four slots more or less in hand, the wild card here, to my mind, is Godless—a star-studded Western that would seem to scratch the TV Academy’s every itch, yet premiered last fall to relatively little fanfare and hasn’t had a major “For Your Consideration” push from the streaming giant, that I can tell. I’m going to stick with it here, but onyl by a nose: It could easily be leapfrogged by Showtime’s Patrick Melrose, with Emmy golden boy Benedict Cumberbatch, or even Genius: Picasso, with Antonio Banderas as the famed artist.

Lead Actor (Limited Series/TV Movie)

Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick Melrose (Showtime)
Darren Criss, The Assassination of Gianni Versace (FX)
Jeff Daniels, The Looming Tower (Hulu)
Michael B. Jordan, Fahrenheit 451 (HBO)
Kyle MacLachlan, Twin Peaks: The Return (Showtime)
Al Pacino, Paterno (HBO)

Whew! This category has some big names! Which is how I arrived at a list that doesn’t include Antonio Banderas as Pablo Picasso in Genius (for which Geoffrey Rush nabbed a nomination last year). The only non-supernova on here is Criss, and his frightening, magnetic performance as spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace might be the cream of the crop. (MacLachlan’s multi-character turn in Twin Peaks is sure to give him a run for his money.) I suppose it’s theoretically possible for Daniels’ supporting campaign for Godless to knock him out and allow Banderas to slip in, but I’m not gonna bet the house on it.

Supporting Actor (Limited Series/TV Movie)

Jeff Daniels, Godless (Netflix)
Ricky Martin, The Assassination of Gianni Versace (FX)
Edgar Ramirez, The Assassination of Gianni Versace (FX)
Michael Shannon, Fahrenheit 451 (HBO)
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Looming Tower (Hulu)
Peter Sarsgaard, The Looming Tower (Hulu)

Along with Lead Actor (Drama), this is the list that reflects the biggest shift from my own preferences: Only Ramirez, as a very convincing Gianni Versace, appears on both. I suppose I can’t complain if Michael Shannon or Michael Stuhlbarg(the stalwart character actors of the decade, for my money) win an Emmy, but this category is the ultimate consequence of Emmy voters’ traditional inability to reach deep. Tahar Rahim (The Looming Tower), Alex Lawther (Howards End), Cody Fern and Finn Wittrock (The Assassination of Gianni Versace) are the lesser-known names that immediately come to mind as more deserving than most of the mailed-in performances listed above, but I’m just one lowly, increasingly-despondent-as-this-story-goes-on TV critic.

Outstanding Supporting Actress (Limited Series/TV Movie)

Penelope Cruz, The Assassination Of Gianni Versace (FX)
Laura Dern, Twin Peaks: The Return (Showtime)
Nicole Kidman, Top of the Lake: China Girl (Sundance TV)
Angela Lansbury, Little Women (PBS)
Judith Light, The Assassination Of Gianni Versace (FX)
Merritt Wever, Godless (Netflix)

If my predictions hold, I’ll be thoroughly sad not to see Anna Paquin’s terrifying performance in Alias Grace, or Tracey Ullmann’s devilishly funny one in Howards End, go unacknowledged. But the list above is basically the gay TV critic’s dream field, so: I know when to hold my tongue.

Emmys 2018: Predictions and Proclamations, Nominations Edition

Edgar Ramirez (‘Assassination of Gianni Versace’) could cash in his Emmy IOU after his loss for ‘Carlos’

According to our racetrack odds, Edgar Ramirez is the Emmy front-runner for Best Movie/Mini Supporting Actor for playing the title character in “The Assassination of Gianni Versace.” The FX true-crime drama is the favorite to win Best Limited Series, so it stands to reason that voters would also recognize Versace himself. But there’s another reason the TV academy might want to check off his name: to make up for his loss for “Carlos” seven years ago.

The Venezuelan actor made appearances in “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007) and “Che” (2008) before his international breakthrough role as the title character in “Carlos,” a real-life political terrorist in the 1970s who was finally arrested in 1994 and is currently serving a life sentence in prison. Directed by French auteur Olivier Assayas, the series received widespread acclaim, including kudos from the film world. Ramirez won the Cesar Award for Best Actor and was a finalist at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and National Society of Film Critics Awards.

“Carlos” won the Golden Globe for Best Movie/Miniseries in 2011, but when the Emmy nominations came around a few months later it was snubbed from that top category. The only nominations it received were for Ramirez’s lead performance and for Assayas’s direction.

Despite that shortfall Ramirez was considered a strong contender for Best Movie/Mini Actor, but that race took almost everyone by surprise when Barry Pepper came out of nowhere to win for playing Robert F. Kennedy in “The Kennedys.” He even beat his co-star Greg Kinnear, who had the more iconic role as John F. Kennedy.

Now Ramirez could cash in his Emmy IOU for playing another title character. “Assassination” tells the story of Andrew Cunanan (played by Movie/Mini Actor front-runner Darren Criss), who ended his cross-country killing spree by murdering famous fashion designer Versace in Miami in 1997. Based on the combined predictions of thousands of Gold Derby users Ramirez is out front with 10/3 odds.

But it’s a much closer race when you ask our Experts. We’ve polled 18 Expert journalists from top media outlets for their picks, and only seven of them are predicting Ramirez will win: Debbie Day (Rotten Tomatoes), Pete Hammond(Deadline Hollywood), Chris Harnick (E!), Matthew Jacobs (Huffington Post), Tom O’Neil (Gold Derby), Lynette Rice (Entertainment Weekly) and Robert Rorke (New York Post).

Compare that to Jeff Daniels, who is backed by eight Experts for his villainous role in the Netflix western “Godless“: Eric Deggans (NPR), Lynn Elber(Associated Press), Joyce Eng (Gold Derby), Matt Roush (TV Guide Magazine), Anne Thompson (IndieWire), Ben Travers (IndieWire), Peter Travers (Rolling Stone) and Ken Tucker (Yahoo).

That would be ironic. In 2011 Ramirez played a killer and lost to a man who played the victim of an assassination. This time around he plays the victim, and he could lose to a killer. Do you think Ramirez will pull it out, or will he have to wait to cash in his Emmy IOU another day?

Edgar Ramirez (‘Assassination of Gianni Versace’) could cash in his Emmy IOU after his loss for ‘Carlos’

My Picks For This Year’s Emmy Nominations: TV Movie/Limited Series

Edgar Ramirez, The Assassination of Gianni Versace

In some ways, much like in the first season of Crime Story, the title character ended up playing second fiddle to far more brilliant suns. But its hard to imagine the series working as well as it did without Ramirez to anchor it. As he played an iconic fashion designer, struggling with his relationship, deal with being HIV positive, trying to find a way for his sister to find her muse, and slowly climb himself back to life all the while knowing that he would face a horrible demise, Ramirez managed to hit all the right notes as this man who was born too early and died too soon. It’s hard to imagine the rest of the leads won’t get nominated, but Ramirez earned it.

My Picks For This Year’s Emmy Nominations: TV Movie/Limited Series