Lopez will make her fourth appearance as musical guest, having previously hosted three times. Her upcoming album, “This Is Me … Now,” and her narrative driven, cinematic original on Amazon, This Is Me … Now: A Love Story, will be released Feb. 16. 

SNL airs Jan. 27 with host Dakota Johnson and musical guest Justin Timberlake. 

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This year 2,800 performers vie for an Emmy nomination in 2022.  That is 935 more entrants than last year. One hundred and ninety-seven (197) of the contenders for an Emmy nomination, considered the highest honor a TV performer can attain, are Latinos.   

While there isn’t any known research to compare the number of Latino entrants in the past years, this year’s list of Latino contenders for a 2022 Emmy nomination is remarkable.  Will the large number of possible Latino nominees lead to Emmy winners?  Historically, Latinos are usually left out of the Emmys, underrepresented, or not even in the running. The decidedly record number of submissions could be an indication that Latinos are being proactive in increasing the visibility of their work at the Emmys, that would definitely elevated their stature in Hollywood.

This year there seem to be more “independent” submission by either the talent themselves of the production companies. Typically, the networks, cablers or streamers pay the entry fee to submit performers and/or creatives who they feel have a good chance of winning the Emmy. This year several independent production companies and individuals submitted themselves when their broadcast platforms indicated they would not be submitting them. One such production company is New Cadance Production who produce HBO Max’s The Garcias. Executive Producer/Creator Jeff Valdez share with that their production company had submitted in 29 different categories, the majority in the acting categories and definitely some of their creatives.

Come September 12, 2022 when the Emmys air on NBC, it will be interesting to see if diversity at the Emmys will, this year also include Latine talent.

For a bit of an overall perspective.  The number of submissions vying for an Emmy nomination as a whole, is up in all categories and it breaks down like this:

• Entries in the Comedy category are up from 576 to 984 entries.

• Entries in the Drama category are up from 928 to 1,243 entries.

• Entries in the TV Movie/Limited category are up from 361 to 573 

These numbers do not take into account all the categories.  This break down is only for the performer categories.  The creative categories which include the producers of the shows, the directors, writers, and the technical categories could number in the thousands.

Of the 197 Latine contenders, the shows with the most Latinos submitted for an Emmy nomination are FXs Mayans MC created by Kurt Sutter and Elgin James with 13 submissions; HBO Max’s The Garcias created by Jeff Valdez, Gibby and Mike Cevallos with 12 submissions; and  Apple TV’s Acapulco created by Eduardo Cisneros, Jason Shuman and Austin Winsberg with 10 submissions. Gentefied, created by Linda Yvette Chavez and Marvin Lemus, and executive produced America Ferrera has submitted eight names for possible noms.  On My Block, created by Eddie Gonzalez, Jeremy Haft and Lauren Lungerich submitted five talents; while Hightown, created by Rebecca Perry Cutter and starring Monica Raymund, and With Love, created by Gloria Calderon Kellett and Mike Royce, both submitted four talents each. 

Actors in some of the most popular and/or critically acclaimed shows currently airing on broadcast, cable and the streamers include Rosario Dawson and Benjamin Bratt in HBO Max’s DMZ; Adan Canto in FOX’s The Cleaning Lady; Rosie Perez in HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant; Nicholas Gonzalez in NBC’s La Brea, and many more in contention. 

The breakdown for the Latino Emmy Award contenders is as follows:

ACTOR:

38 – Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama

22 – Outstanding Supporting Actor in Comedy Series

13 – Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology or Movie

11 – Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series

10 – Outstanding Actor/Comedy Series

  7 – Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

  5 – Outstanding Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

ACTRESSES:

32 – Outstanding Supporting Actress in Comedy Series

22 – Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

10 – Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

  8 – Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy

  6 – Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama

  6 – Outstanding Lead Actress in Limited or Anthology Series of Movie

  5 – Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology or Movie

  4 – Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama

  2 – Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama

The TV shows with most Latino performers seeking an Emmy nomination are:

TO SEE FULL LIST OF NAMES SUBMITED FOR EMMY CONSIDERATION CLICK HERE

^{*We have included a couple of Brazilian actors to this list}

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The Bear features Shameless alum Jeremy Allen White in the leading role starring along with Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Girls), Ayo Edebiri (Dickinson), Lionel Boyce (The Jellies!), Abby Elliott (No Strings Attached), Edwin Lee Gibson (Fargo) and Matty Matheson (It’s Suppertime) and Colón-Zayas. 

Originally and mainly a theatre actor, New York City-born and raised Colón-Zayas has also developed a film and television career. She was most recently prominently featured in the fourth season of the HBO Max series In Treatment, where she played the recurring role of therapist Rita Ortiz, the Alcoholic Anonymous sponsor of the lead character, Dr. Brooke Taylor. Colón-Zayas is also known for her roles in the OWN series David Makes Man, HBO Max series Titans and the Netflix film The Woman in the Window. 

Colón-Zayas began her career starring in off-Broadway productions, including Sistah Supreme, a semi-autobiographical play chronicling her upbringing as a Latina in the Big Apple during the 1970s and 1980s. Other stage credits include Our Lady of 121st Street and In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings.

While working in theatre, the New Yorker also started building a career in television and movies, primarily in small roles. She’s been featured in series like New York Undercover, Deadline, Third Watch, Sex in the City, Law and Order and Dexter and films like The Keeper and Freedomland.

Today, she remains a member of New York’s LAByrinth Theatre Company, originally known as the Latino Actors Base Theatre Company, in which she’s a member of the Leadership Committee. Last year, she won the Audience Development Committee’s Viv Award from for lead actress in a play for Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, presented by LAByrinth and Atlantic Theater Company. The same role earned her the Obie Award from the American Theatre Wing and the Village Voice, which honors excellence in off-Broadway and off-off Broadway theatre.

“We are so grateful to FX and overjoyed we get to tell more stories from this world,” says co-exec producer Calo. “And while this cast is talented enough to make standing silently in an empty space riveting, we can’t wait to get to work in the writer’s room.”

Calo, who is reportedly half-Mexican, is known for her work on Netflix’s animated series BoJack Horseman, in which she wore several producing hats from 2016 through 2020, as well on HBO Max’s 2021 series Hacks. These two series earned her three Primetime Emmy nominations. Other credits include series like Amazon Prime’s 2019 Undone and Netflix’s The Babysitters Club. Also a screenwriter, she has contributed in that capacity to several episodes of those four shows. Calo is featured in the recently published book Notes From the Bathroom Line: Humor, Art, and Low-grade Panic from 150 of the Funniest Women in Comedy by Amy Solomon, a producer of the hit HBO shows Silicon Valley and Barry.

In addition to Calo, The Bear is executive produced by Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Station Eleven) and Nate Matteson (Station Eleven), Christopher Storer (Ramy) and Josh Senior. Matty Matheson is a consulting producer.

“The Bear delivers thanks to the ferocious performances of Jeremy Allen White and fellow cast members Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, Abby Elliott, Liza Colón-Zayas, Edwin Gibson and Matty Matheson,” says Nick Grad, FX president of Original Programming. “The series gets off to a fantastic start in the pilot and we know this creative team including Hiro, Nate and Joanna has the comedy chops and producing experience to deliver the latest in a storied line of FX comedies.”

Featured Photo: Liza Colón-Zayas (Credit: David Zayas Jr.)

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Hamilton and The Queen’s Gambit won two and one awards, respectively, at the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which recognizes achievements in television.

The Netflix dramatic series starring Anya Taylor-Joy won Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. It competed in six categories, including Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series for Taylor-Joy. However, the Argentinian-American actress lost to Kate Winslet for her role as Mare Sheehan on HBO’s Mare of Easttown.

Disney+’s Hamilton, created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, won for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded). Miranda himself was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie but lost to Ewan McGregor, who played fashion designer Roy Halston on Netflix’s Halston. Disney+’s Hamilton is the live recording of the acclaimed Broadway musical of the same title about America’s founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, captured live from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original theatre cast. Hamilton had a total of nine Emmy nominations.

One of the other few nominated Latinos actors was MJ Rodriguez, who vied for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Blanca Evangelista on FX’s Pose. She lost to Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II on Netflix’s The Crown. Still, Rodriguez made history as the first-ever transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy Award in a major acting category.

The Mandalorian, a Disney+ sci-fi series starring Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal that is part of the Star Wars franchise, received five Emmy nominations but lost in all of them. 

Earlier in the month, another Latina won a different kind of Emmy, the Creative Arts Emmy, which honors technical and other achievements in television. Jessica Hernández won for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming for HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show. She shared the award with Daysha Broadway and Stephanie Filo.

(See complete list of Primetime Emmy winners below.)

Featured Photo: Hamilton (Credit: Disney+)

2021 Emmy Winners

Best Limited Series: The Queen’s Gambit

Best Drama: The Crown 

Best Comedy: Ted Lasso 

Outstanding Variety Special, Pre-Recorded: Hamilton

Outstanding Variety Special, Live: Stephen Colbert’s Election Night 2020

Best Actor, Drama: Josh O’Connor, The Crown

Best Actress, Drama: Olivia Colman, The Crown

Best Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie: Ewan McGregor, Halston

Best Actress, Limited Series or TV Movie: Kate Winslet, Mare of Easttown

Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or Drama Special: Michaela Coel, I May Destroy You

Directing for a Limited Series: Scott Frank, The Queen’s Gambit

Reality Competition Program: RuPaul’s Drag Race

Best Actor, Comedy: Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso

Best Actress, Comedy: Jean Smart, Hacks

Directing for a Comedy Series: Lucia Aniello, Hacks 

Writing for a Comedy Series: Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky, Hacks

Variety Sketch Series: Saturday Night Live

Variety Talk Series: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

Writing for a Variety Series: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

Supporting Actor, Drama: Tobias Menzies, The Crown

Supporting Actress, Drama: Gillian Anderson, The Crown

Directing for a Drama Series: Jessica Hobbs, The Crown

Writing for a Drama Series: Peter Morgan, The Crown 

Supporting Actor, Limited Series or Movie: Evan Peters, Mare of Easttown

Supporting Actress, Limited Series or a Movie: Julianne Nicholson, Mare of Easttown

Supporting Actor, Comedy: Brett Goldstein, Ted Lasso

Supporting Actress, Comedy: Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso

Directing for a Variety Special: Bo Burnham, Inside

Directing for a Variety Series: Don Roy King, Saturday Night Live

Guest Actress, Comedy: Maya Rudolph, Saturday Night Live

Guest Actor, Comedy: Dave Chappelle, Saturday Night Live

Guest Actress, Drama: Claire Foy, The Crown

Guest Actor, Drama: Courtney B. Vance, Lovecraft CountryTelevision Movie: Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square

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Based on the 2014 film of the same name, What We Do in the Shadows follows four old-century vampires as they hilariously interact with the modern world in current-day New York with the help of a familiar or human servant. The series stars Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou and Mark Proksch as vampires Nandor, Laszlo, Nadja and Colin, respectively, and actor Harvey Guillen in the role of the familiar Guillermo de la Cruz.

Season three, which starts Sept. 2, sees the four vampires getting, three immigrants and one American, excited about becoming the new leaders of the Vampiric Council only to discover that only one of them can sit on the council’s coveted, ornate high chair. Needless to say, a struggle ensues. 

The show is written by Clement and Taika Waititi, with the latter also exec producing. 

Through its first two seasons, What We Do in the Shadows has received 10 Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series and a Critics’ Choice nomination for Best Comedy Series. 

After the shocking season two finale, the housemates are in a panic about what to do with Guillermo upon discovering that he is a vampire killer. This season, the vampires are elevated to a new level of power and will encounter the vampire from which all vampires have descended, a tempting Siren, gargoyles, werewolf kickball, Atlantic City casinos, wellness cults, ex-girlfriends, gyms and supernatural curiosities galore. Also, Colin Robinson is turning 100. And Nandor, faced with his own eternal-life crisis, tries to inject his life with more meaning. Will he find love or is he destined to be an immortal bachelor with 37 ex-wives?

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