14 September 2009 2 Comments

Dan Castellaneta Wins An Emmy

The Creative Arts Emmy award winners were announced this week, and while The Simpsons were in contention for Outstanding Animated Series for the episode ‘Gone Maggie Gone’, it lost out to South Park’s ‘Margaritaville’. It wasn’t all bad news though, as Dan Castellaneta was awarded his fourth Emmy in the voice-over category for his work in ‘Father Knows Worst’. This means that contenders Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria missed out. Congratulations Dan!

17 June 2009 1 Comment

Teen Choice Awards 2009

The Simpsons will feature in this year’s Teen Choice Awards in the “Choice TV: Animated Show award” category. Family Guy, American Dad! and South Park are also up for the award.

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18 September 2008 1 Comment

Simpsons Set To Feature On Emmys

A set from The Simpsons will be recreated on this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, which is due to air this Sunday from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Emmys executive producer Ken Ehrlich said that we will also be seeing sets from “Desperate Housewives” and “M*A*S*H” along with many others.

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15 September 2008 5 Comments

Simpsons Receive Tenth Emmy!

The Simpsons has won its tenth Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program for programming less than one hour on Saturday. Their episode “Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind,” which focuses on Homer’s attempt to recall a deliberately forgotten memory from the previous night, sealed their 10th win for the category. The show was [...]

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10 February 2008 0 Comments

Kill Gil Wins Writers Guild Award

On the verge of an end to its strike, the Writers Guild of America quietly handed out the awards for its annual ceremony which recognizes excellence in writing. Since the WGA introduced an animation category, The Simpsons has taken out the award every year, and this year was no exception. The nominees this year were [...]

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19 July 2007 0 Comments

Simpsons Nominated For Emmy Award

Nominees in all categories for the 59th annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today, and The Simpsons features once again in the Animated Program (less than one hour) category. The episode “The Haw Hawed Couple” written by Matt Selman has been chosen to represent the season. Its chances of winning are high, but keep an [...]

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13 February 2007 0 Comments

Simpsons Wins Another WGA Award

Up against some stiff competition, namely, itself, The Simpsons took home yet another Writers Guild Award in the Animation category for 2006. John Frink won the award for the episode “The Italian Bob,” trumping “Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore,” “Simpsons Christmas Stories,” and “Girls Just Want To Have Sums.” Since the animation category was introduced to [...]

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