This morning the Television Academy announced its nominations for the 71st Annual Emmy Awards, and Star Trek: Discovery picked up four of them for its second season, which is double the amount the show received last year. Our adopted show The Orville also picked up a nomination, where it will be competing against Discovery.

As is typical for Star Trek and the Emmys, all of the nominations were in Creative Arts categories, which are presented in a separate awards show. Like last year, Discovery was nominated for Outstanding Sound Editing and Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup. New nominations for season two: Outstanding Main Title Design and Outstanding Special Visual Effects.

For Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Limited Series, Movie Or Special Discovery is nominated for the episode “If Memory Serves.” Discovery is going up against episodes from American Horror Story: Apocalypse (FX), Chernobyl (HBO), Game Of Thrones (HBO), and Fosse/Verdon (FX).

The following members of the Discovery team were nominated:

Glenn Hetrick, Special Makeup Effects Department Head

James MacKinnon, Special Makeup Effects Department Head

Hugo Villasenor, Special Makeup Effects Artist Rocky Faulkner, Special Makeup Effects Artist

Chris Bridges, Special Makeup Effects Artist

Nicola Bendrey, Special Makeup Effects Artist

Mike O’Brien, Prosthetic Designer

Neville Page, Prosthetic Designer

For Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour) Discovery is nominated for the episode “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2.” Discovery is going up against episodes from Better Call Saul (AMC), Gotham (FOX), Game Of Thrones (HBO), and Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (Amazon).

The following members of the Discovery team were nominated:

Matthew E. Taylor, Sound Supervisor

Tim Farrell, Sound Designer

Mike Schapiro, Sound Effects Editor

Clayton Weber, Sound Effects Editor

Dan Kenyon, Sound Effects Editor

Rickley W. Dumm, ADR Editor

Sean Heissinger, Dialogue Editor

Bob Jackson, Dialogue Editor

Matt Decker, Music Editor

Alyson Dee Moore, Foley Artist

Chris Moriana, Foley Artist

For Outstanding Main Title Design, Discovery is going up against Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, Game Of Thrones (HBO), and True Detective (HBO).

The following members of the Discovery team were nominated:

Ana Criado, Creative Director

Nader Husseini, Animator

Francisco Sánchez de Cañete, Art Director

Zachary Kinney, Animator

Christian Antolin, Designer

Kyle Cooper, Creative Director

For Outstanding Special Visual Effects, Discovery is nominated for the episode “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2.” Discovery is going up against episodes from The Man in the High Castle (Amazon), Gotham (FOX), The Orville (FOX), and The Umbrella Academy (Netflix).

The following members of the Discovery team were nominated:

Jason Michael Zimmerman, VFX Supervisor

Ante Dekovic, VFX Supervisor

Ivan Kondrup Jensen, VFX Supervisor

Mahmoud Rahnama, Associate VFX Supervisor

Alexander Wood, VFX Plate Supervisor

Aleksandra Kochoska, VFX Producer

Charles Collyer, Lead VFX Artist

Fausto Tejeda, CG Supervisor

Darcy Callaghan, Special Effects Coordinator

The two-night Creative Arts ceremony will be held on Saturday, September 14 and Sunday, September 15, to be broadcast later on FX. The main Emmy Awards will be broadcast live Sunday, September 22nd on Fox.

Star Trek: Discovery is available exclusively in the USA on CBS All Access. It airs in Canada on Space and streams on CraveTV. It is available on Netflix everywhere else.

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