Beyonce's 'Lemonade', Game Of Thrones & More Rack Up 2016 Emmy Noms

The nominations for the 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today and while there were no surprises that HBO's Game Of Thrones racked up the most nominations yet again (we still aren't over that season six finale, TBH), there were a number of pleasant surprises and well deserved nods in many of the categories.

With GoT leading the way with most nominations (an impressive tally of 23), including Best Drama, two Best Supporting Actor and three Best Supporting Actress nods, FX shows The People v OJ Simpson and Fargo also pulled in a heap of nominations, taking in 22 and 18 respectively. 

Though dominated in recent years by ABC favourite Modern Family, HBO's Veep is undoubtedly the most loved comedy right now as it took in 17 nominations, including Best Comedy Series and another Best Actress In A Comedy Series nod for Julia Louis-Dreyfus. 

Fellow comic Amy Schumer also scored a nomination for the same category for Inside Amy Schumer, as did Ellie Kemper for the acclaimed Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

One of the biggest talking points coming from today's announcement is the inclusion of Beyonce's "visual special", Lemonade, which received four nominations. 

The video for the album (which was one of our picks for best albums of the year so far, by the way), received nominations for Outstanding Production Design For A Variety, Nonfiction, Event Or Award Special, Outstanding Directing For A Variety Special, Outstanding Picture Editing For Variety Programming and lastly, the Outstanding Variety Special category which will see it go up against the likes of Adele Live In New York City, Amy Schumer: Live At The Apollo and The Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke Prime Time Special.

There were some pleasing results for our homegrown talent as well, with Melbourne actor Ben Mendelsohn scoring a nomination in the Best Supporting Actor In A Drama Series category for his work in Netflix's Bloodline.

Speaking of drama shows, Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul's second season has proved to be even better received than the first, taking in seven nominations.

Among the picks includes Best Drama Series, Best Actor In A Drama Series (Bob Odenkirk) and Best Supporting Actor In A Drama Series (Jonathan Banks).

Check out the full list here.

Best Drama Series

The Americans

Game of Thrones 

House of Cards 

Downton Abbey 

Better Call Saul

Mr. Robot

Homeland

Best Comedy Series

Veep

Transparent

Silicon Valley

Modern Family

Master Of None

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Black-ish

Best Actor in a Drama Series

Kyle Chandler — Bloodline

Rami Malek — Mr Robot

Bob Odenkirk — Better Call Saul

Matthew Rhys — The Americans

Liev Schreiber — Ray Donovan

Kevin Spacey — House of Cards

Best Actress in a Drama Series

Viola Davis — How to Get Away With Murder

Claire Danes — Homeland

Taraji P. Henson — Empire

Tatiana Maslany — Orphan Black

Keri Russell — The Americans

Robin Wright — House of Cards

Best Actor in a Comedy Series

Anthony Anderson — Black-ish

Aziz Ansari — Master of None

Will Forte — The Last Man on Earth

William H. Macy — Shameless

Thomas Middleditch — Silicon Valley

Jeffrey Tambor — Transparent

Best Actress in a Comedy Series

Ellie Kemper — Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Julia Louis-Dreyfus — Veep

Laurie Metcalf — Getting On

Tracee Ellis Ross — Black-ish

Amy Schumer — Inside Amy Schumer

Lily Tomlin — Grace and Frankie

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Jonathan Banks — Better Call Saul

Peter Dinklage — Game of Thrones

Kit Harington — Game of Thrones

Michael Kelly — House of Cards

Ben Mendelsohn — Bloodline

Jon Voight — Ray Donovan

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Emilia Clarke — Game of Thrones

Lena Headey — Game of Thrones

Maggie Smith — Downton Abbey

Maura Tierney — The Affair

Maisie Williams — Game of Thrones

Constance Zimmer — UnREAL

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Louie Anderson — Baskets

Andre Braugher — Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Ty Burrell — Modern Family

Tituss Burgess — Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Tony Hale — Veep

Keegan-Michael Key — Key and Peele

Matt Walsh — Veep

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Anna Chlumsky — Veep

Gaby Hoffmann — Transparent

Allison Janney — Mom

Judith Light — Transparent

Kate McKinnon — Saturday Night Live

Niecy Nash — Getting On