The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences released their official nominations for the 2013 Daytime Emmy Awards today, which includes a whopping seven nominations for Star Wars: The Clone Wars!

Among the various categories, TCW was nominated for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program - George Lucas, Cary Silver and Athena Portillo; Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program - Jim Cummings as Hondo Onaka, David Tennant as Huyang and Sam Witwer as Darth Maul; Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program - Dave Filoni, Kyle Dunlevy, Brian Kalin O'Connell, Steward Lee and Bosco Ng; Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition - Kevin Kiner; and Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing (Animation) - David Acord and Cameron Davis.

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It's worth noting that The Clone Wars had never been nominated for any Emmys before, which is somewhat shocking. It's a bit of good fortune that the series finally received some recognition in its fifth and final season.Other animated shows up for an Emmy include The Legend of Korra (three nominations), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (four nominations) and Transformers Prime (three nominations). You can also check out the full list of nominees here

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