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Popular fantasy drama Game of Thrones has set a new record by earning 32 nominations for the 2019 Emmys, the most ever for a single season of a show. The nominations for the 71st annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations were announced on Tuesday.

Game Of Thrones, which wrapped up its story with the final season earlier this year, will go out with a bang. By scoring 32 nominations, the show broke the record previously held by NYPD Blue, which got 26 nominations in 1994.

The fantasy HBO epic leads the field of Emmy nominees, including Outstanding Drama Series, actor Kit Harington in competition for the Best Actor trophy, Emilia Clarke in run for the Best Actress, four Best Supporting Actress nods — Gwendoline Christie, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams - and actors Alfie Allen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Peter Dinklage, being contenders in the Best Supporting Actor category.

Tough competition

In the Outstanding Drama Series category, Game of Thrones is competing with Better Call Saul, Bodyguard, Ozark, Pose, Succession, This is Us and Killing Eve. Harington is in race for the trophy with Jason Bateman from Ozarka, Sterling K. Brown from This Is Us, Bob Odenkirk from Better Call Saul, Billy Porter from Posea and Milo Ventimiglia from This Is Us.

Clarke will be competing with Viola Davis (How to Get Away with Murder), Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Laura Linney (Ozark), Mandy Moore (This Is Us) and Robin Wright (House of Cards) for the Lead Actress in a Drama Series trophy.

Amazon Prime’s The Marvelous Mrs Maisel is the second-most-nominated show with 20 nominations, including for Outstanding Comedy Series and Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Actress Rachel Brosnahan will fight it out with Christina Applegate (Dead to Mea), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep), Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll), Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) for the accolade.

HBO’s Chernobyl earned 19 Emmy nominations, including Best Limited Series and actors Jared Harris, Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd and Emily Watson getting a nod in Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie categories, respectively.

HBO scored 137 nominations, beating Netflix, who scored 117 across the board. The 71st Emmy Awards will be held on September 22, and will be aired in India on Star World. — IANS

Outstanding Drama Series’ nominations

• Game of Thrones
• Better Call Saul
• Bodyguard 
• Ozark
• Pose
• Succession 
• This is Us 
• Killing Eve

Priyanka congratulates sister-in-law Sophie 

Priyanka Chopra shared a special message for her ‘J Sister’ and actress Sophie Turner on her Game of Thrones Emmy nomination. Turner was among one of the nominees for essaying the role of Sansa Stark in the popular series. She has been nominated under Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category. Priyanka took to her Instagram story to praise her sister-in-law. She put out a post to laud the nominees.  She wrote: “Congratulations to all of the Emmy nominees this year, but especially to you Sophie. We love you and are so incredibly proud of you.”  Turner’s husband Joe Jonas shared a photograph of the actress on his Instagram story and wrote that he is “incredibly proud of her”. — IANS