Frustrating news for the animated worlds of the Star Wars galaxy as this years Emmy’s will not feature an Outstanding Short Form Animated Program award for the first time since 2008. With three Star Wars related projects submitted in the category (the ‘Rogue Not Quite One‘ Maggie Simpson short, the ‘In The Stars‘ episode of Star Wars Visions season 2 and the ‘Life and Death‘ episode of Tales of the Jedi), the chances of a GFFA win were high.
The animation community was taken aback at the July 12 announcement that there would be no Emmy awarded this season for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program. The category was shut out for the first time since its inception in 2008 (when it was called Outstanding Special Class Short-Format Animated Program). The TV Academy stated: “Submissions were prescreened to determine nominations. None of the submissions received nine-tenths approval, resulting in no nominations this year.”
For the first time, there were only seven submissions for the category, which triggered a special rule calling for a select panel of animation members to review them. A nomination required nine out of 10 votes of approval. None of the entries passed the threshold.
The seven submissions consisted of: “Only You: An Animated Shorts Collection” (Max), eight shorts created by 12 underrepresented artists as part of a special HBO/Warner Bros. program; “Maggie Simpson In: Rogue Not Quite One” (Disney+); “More Than I Want to Remember,” (MTV Entertainment Studios), Amy Bench’s animated documentary about a young woman who fled the war-torn Congo to America; “Star Wars: Visions” (Episode 3 “In the Stars,” Disney+); “Bianca Saves Christmas!” (RuPaul’s Drag Race YouTube channel); “Vindicators 2: Last Stand Between Earth And Doom” (the “Rick and Morty” spin-off web series on Adult Swim’s YouTube channel); and “Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi” (Episode 1 “Life And Death,” Disney+).
