Club Jade

Neither Robot Chicken: Star Wars or Family Guy: Blue Harvest picked up Creative Arts Emmys yesterday, losing out to The Simpsons and South Park, respectively. And Carrie Fisher, who was up for her 30 Rock guest spot, lost out to some chick from Desperate Housewives. On the whole, it wasn’t a great night for genre, but Battlestar Galactica did pick up Special Visual Effects for a series.

Both Robot Chicken: Star Wars and Family Guy: Blue Harvest have received Emmy nominations in their respective animation categories, while Carrie Fisher is in the running for Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series for her turn as Rosemary Howard on 30 Rock.

Robot Chicken is up for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) against episodes of Creature Comforts America, King of the Hill, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Simpsons. Blue Harvest is up for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour Or More) against South Park’s Imaginationland and Justice League: The New Frontier.

Other genre programs up for Emmys include Sci-Fi’s Oz reimagining Tin Man (Outstanding Miniseries, Art Direction, Costumes, Hair, Makeup, Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects,) Battlestar Galactica ( Writing, Editing, Visual Effects,) Battlestar Galactica: Razor (Cinematography, Sound Mixing,) Heroes (Editing, Visual Effects,) Lost (Outstanding Drama Series, Supporting Actor: Michael Emerson, Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing) The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Editing, Visual Effects, Stunts,) Stargate Atlantis (Visual Effects,) Chuck (Main Titles, Stunts,) Masters Of Science Fiction (Score,) and Pushing Daisies (Music, Editing.) And if I messed anything up there you’re going to have to forgive me.

Dear media: Over the last few weeks I have seen about a million references to the Sex and the City movie as ‘Star Wars for women.’ I’ve rolled my eyes pretty much every time. Please stop, or I’ll be forced to commit further crimes of photoshoppery.

• SWTV: Family Guy trying for two Emmy noms this year with the help of Blue Harvest.

• People: Amanda Lucas made her martial arts debut Saturday. She lost her match but did get a medal for being the night’s gutsiest fighter.
• Events: Modesto celebrated the 35th anniversary of American Graffiti this weekend.
• Fandom: The Arizona Republic profiles their local 501st, the Dune Sea Garrison.
• Film: Martin Hynes has a film opening Friday (The Go-Getter) but you probably know him as the guy who played George in George Lucas in Love.

Yup, it’s that time again… The lone genre winner was Lost’s Terry O’Quinn, who picked up Supporting Actor in a Drama. Heroes (With its ever cuddly and extremely photogenic cast! Plus S2′s Veronica Mars Kirsten Bell as Hiro’s Masi Oka’s date!) was up for the top drama award, but lost to the final season of The Sopranos.

For Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming, Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming, and Outstanding Nonfiction Special. Whoo!

Dare we think that the Emmy’s have finally woken up to some new shows with this year’s nominations? At least they’re finally giving some love to genre shows in the major categories.

A big shout-out to ILM-er and fellow Star Wars geek Masi Oka for his Heroes nomination. It’s always nice when a geek does good.

But it’s nice when it happens… Clone Wars won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program.