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Date Posted: 10:30:49 07/18/02 Thu
Author: Lafaux
Subject: Emmy Nominations

'Six Feet Under' Cleans Up!

LOS ANGELES (AP) � The macabre HBO funeral home drama Six Feet Under received a leading 23 Emmy nominations Thursday, as the television academy recognized an unusually wide range of shows and performers. While Emmy favorite The West Wing was a close second with 21 nominations, top bids also went to actor Michael Chiklis, star of the violent and volatile cable police drama The Shield on FX, and to another cable series, HBO's sardonic comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm.

"I hoped that academy voters weren't swayed by the dogma that was being thrown around. Fortunately, they weren't," said Chiklis, whose program has been criticized for its gritty depiction of crime and corruption.

Besides a best drama series mention, Six Feet Under also earned six nominations for cast members including best actor nominees Peter Krause and Michael C. Hall and best actress nominees Rachel Griffiths and Frances Conroy.

The series failed to equal the record 26 nominations earned by NYPD Blue in 1994.

Other shows up for best drama series are NBC's The West Wing, which won the category the past two years, CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Fox's 24 and NBC's Law & Order, which received its 11th nomination in the category, tying Cheers and M-A-S-H for the most consecutive bids for a best series nomination, comedy or drama.

"Now we're tied with two of the greatest shows of all time," Dick Wolf, the executive producer of Law & Order, said from his porch in Maine. "One word � ecstatic. This is the icing on the cake."

The mob heat is off the competition as last year's front-running nominee The Sopranos was out of the running because new episodes didn't show during this year's the eligibility period.

Perennial favorites that failed to nab top nominations included NBC's ER, ABC's NYPD Blue and shows from producer David E. Kelley, including Ally McBeal and The Practice.

Along with Curb Your Enthusiasm, nominees for comedy series were HBO's Sex and the City, which was last year's winner, CBS's Everybody Loves Raymond, NBC's Will & Grace and Friends.

Will & Grace was the most nominated comedy with 13 bids, followed by Everybody Loves Raymond and Friends with 11.

This was the first time the cast of Friends, last year's highest-rated comedy, put themselves in contention for the lead actor categories � and it paid off. Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry will compete for comedy actor and Jennifer Aniston is up for comedy actress.

Nominated with Hall, Krause and Chiklis for dramatic actor were Martin Sheen of The West Wing and Kiefer Sutherland for 24.

Other dramatic actress nominees besides Griffiths and Conroy: Amy Brenneman for Judging Amy, Jennifer Garner for Alias, and The West Wing's Allison Janney, who won supporting dramatic actress last year for the same role.

In the reality programming category, MTV's top-rated show The Osbournes, about the harried home life of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, competes with PBS's American High, The Learning Channel's Trauma: Life in the ER and HBO's Project Greenlight and Taxicab Confessions.

Some programs related to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks received nominations, including variety show mentions for Concert for New York City and In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01 in the nonfiction special category.

Meanwhile, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, which was canceled after the host ignited outrage with his post-Sept. 11 comments criticizing the U.S. government, was also nominated in the variety category.

HBO collected the most nominations, 93, followed by NBC with 89, CBS with 50, ABC with 35, and Fox with 33. PBS had 11.

Competing with LeBlanc and Perry for best comedy actor: Kelsey Grammer of Frasier, Bernie Mac of The Bernie Mac Show and Ray Romano of Everybody Loves Raymond.

Last year's winner, Patricia Heaton of Everybody Loves Raymond, joins Aniston in the comedy actress category, along with Jane Kaczmarek of Malcolm in the Middle, Deborah Messing of Will & Grace, and Sarah Jessica Parker of Sex and the City.

HBO's epic World War II story Band of Brothers was among the overall leading nominees with 19 mentions, including best miniseries. Other competitors in the category are ABC's Dinotopia, TNT's The Mists of Avalon, and A&E's Shackleton.

Made-for-TV movie nominees were TNT's bio pic James Dean and four HBO films, Dinner With Friends,The Gathering Storm,The Laramie Project and Path to War.

The supporting comedy actor category included Peter Boyle and Brad Garrett of Everybody Loves Raymond, David Hyde Pierce of Frasier, Bryan Cranston of Malcolm in the Middle and Sean Hayes of Will & Grace.

Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall of Sex and the City were nominated for supporting comedy actress, along with Wendie Malick of Just Shoot Me Megan Mullally of Will & Grace and Doris Roberts of Everybody Loves Raymond.

Six actors made the cut for best dramatic supporting actor, including four from The West Wing� Dule Hill, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford and Richard Schiff � Victor Garber of Alias and Freddy Rodriguez of Six Feet Under.

"For some actors, in their whole career they can't be part of wonderful experience like this. I feel very fortunate," said Rodriguez, who plays a young mortician.

The West Wing also dominated the best dramatic supporting actress category, with nominations for Mary-Louise Parker, Stockard Channing and Janel Moloney, and other nominees Tyne Daly of Judging Amy and Lauren Ambrose of Six Feet Under.

There were 86 total categories with 433 separate nominations announced by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

The 54th annual prime-time Emmy Awards will air Sept. 22 on NBC. A host has yet to be announced.

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