BARRY (HBO) – 4
Best Comedy Series
Best Actor in a Comedy Series – Bill Hader
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Anthony Carrigan
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Henry Winkler (link)
The Critics Choice Awards air January 12th, 2020, on the CW network beginning 7EST
(via peopleTV)
“Getting Emmy recognition—or like, WGA and DGA awards and stuff—it’s kind of mind-boggling. That’s all very, beyond gratifying,” he said. At the same time, he added, being from Oklahoma, he can’t take the Hollywood circus too seriously.
Barry co-creator Alec Berg, he continued, is “the same way. That’s probably why we get along so well. I called him this morning and said, Hey, we got 17 nominations, and he went, Wow, look at us! And that was about it. And then we talked about something else.”
You seem grounded, I suggested to Hader.
“I guess,” he laughed. “Or we’re depressed. Grounded, or fucking mentally disturbed.”
(via Vanity Fair)
(the live stream will begin at 11:30AM EST-here’s a time zone calculator ! Good luck, cast of Barry HBO!)
HBO has been an Emmy juggernaut for so long that it might be surprising to learn only one lead actor has ever won multiple times for a series on the premium network: James Gandolfini (“The Sopranos”). But he might finally have company this year. Bill Hader (“Barry”) is the front-runner to win his second straight Best Comedy Actor prize for playing another killer in the mob world. I guess crime really does pay. (via Gold Derby)
