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Emmys love for Oscars continues with 12 nominations

July 12, 2010 | 11:49 am
The Academy Awards ceremony is the most honored television program in the history of the Emmy Awards. The annual celebration of the best in movies has racked up 46 wins out of 195 nominations from the television academy. That puts it nine Emmys ahead of "Frasier," with no end to the winning streak in sight. This year's edition of the Oscars is contending for an even dozen awards, including two bids by Adam Shankman for co-producing and choreography. After the elimination last year of the individual performance prize, co-hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin would share in the win should the show beat out the 2009 Tonys hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony from Vancouver.

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In recent years, the Oscars show has averaged nine Emmy nominations per year in various technical categories as well as nods for the host and the program itself. Last year, Bill Condon and Laurence Mark produced the Oscars for the first time and were rewarded with four wins out of 10 nominations -- choreography, original song, short-form picture editing and sound mixing. The kudocast lost the special class category to the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Two years ago, Gil Cates produced his 14th Oscars. While the show sagged in the ratings, it did earn nine Emmy nods, winning two for art direction and direction of a variety, music or comedy program. Jon Stewart earned an individual nom for his second time hosting, but lost to Don Rickles ("Mr. Warmth"). And the program -- shunted off to a special-class category created just for awards shows -- lost to the Tonys.

Three years ago Laura Ziskin returned for her second try as producer of the awards show, having helmed the 2002 telecast hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. The 2002 ceremony went one for eight at the Emmys, winning only for choreographer Debra Brown (a feat Debbie Allen never managed even with her "Schindler's List" ballet). And the 2006 Oscars won two of nine bids -- art and music direction. Host Ellen DeGeneres lost the individual race to Tony Bennett ("An American Classic").

For the first 25 years that the Oscars were telecast, the shows earned little in the way of Emmys simply because the TV kudos didn't have categories to accommodate them. The first two Oscar telecasts, in 1953 and 1954, were huge ratings hits, but the first Emmy nomination came only with the third telecast, in 1955. The show competed in the category of best special event or news program. The NBC telecast -- hosted by Bob Hope in L.A. and Thelma Ritter in Gotham -- along with the World Series, the Rose Bowl and even the Emmys, lost to the CBS coverage of the A-bomb tests. That Oscar night is remembered as much for who lost (Judy Garland in "A Star is Born") as for what won ("On the Waterfront" with eight statuettes).

Until the early 1970s, the Emmys had a melange of categories and the Oscars did not seem to fit into any of them. It made a comeback with the 1971 ceremony ("The French Connection" was the big winner with five Oscars), earning two technical bids and winning for lighting. Then only another nine nominations over the next decade, with one win -- Jack Haley for producing the 51st ceremony in 1978 ("The Deer Hunter" won five Oscars). However, with the addition of many more categories in the early 1980s, the Oscars started hauling home the Emmys and has never stopped.

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