Bradley Cooper is still working towards that EGOT
Click to viewBradley Cooper was going hard for those Oscar nominations this year, but he failed to win any Academy Awards for producing Maestro, writing the screenplay, or starring as Leonard Bernstein.
The same night as the Oscar ceremony, he guest starred as himself in the cold open for Abbott Elementary. His performance lasted less than two minutes, but he has submitted himself for an Emmy in the guest comedy actor category.
Earlier this year, the Television Academy updated the requirements for guest actor nominations “to ensure that a guest performer’s role is significant to the episode being submitted.” The new rules say: “A brief cameo appearance is not eligible for entry,” and “The minimum stand-alone and contiguous screen time (performer has an ongoing engagement in the scene, on or off camera) for eligibility is 5% of the total running time of the submitted episode.”
The episode is 20 minutes and 31 seconds long (1,231 seconds). To be eligible as a guest actor in this episode, an actor must appear for 61.5 seconds. Cooper’s appearance lasts 1 minute and 56 seconds (116 seconds), so technically he meets the minimum time requirement, but is this a cameo or is his role “significant to the episode”?
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