The Real Reason Emmy Categories Don’t Make Any Sense, Explained

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Category fraud has become a big topic of conversation around award shows nowadays (aka, "Wait, how is The Bear a comedy?!") Awards season is a great time to look back at all of our favorite films, shows, and performances of the last year - but every time the Emmy Awards in particular roll around and nominations are announced, there’s so much confusion about the seemingly random categories that some shows and actors are slotted into. So… what’s really going on here? Let’s take a closer look at the full Emmy process and the awards culture that drives it to figure out what’s really behind ‘category fraud’ and if there’s anything that can be done to fix it!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:32 Why they want to win so bad
02:13 Acting category fraud
03:35 Surprising reasons for some acting category fraud
04:30 When it's not really category fraud
04:58 Show category fraud
05:27 The 2015 show forced the Emmys to change (kind of)
05:58 The categories haven't kept up with evolving tv
07:18 The only real problem with the Dramedy takeover
07:54 Finally moving in the right direction?
08:45 Can awards shows save themselves?

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