{"id":34191,"date":"2015-07-16T14:24:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T21:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=34191"},"modified":"2015-07-17T00:13:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T07:13:10","slug":"killing-jesus-gets-an-emmy-nomination-a-d-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/07\/killing-jesus-gets-an-emmy-nomination-a-d-doesnt.html","title":{"rendered":"Killing Jesus<\/i> gets an Emmy nomination, A.D.<\/i> doesn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Big-screen Bible movies may have been snubbed completely<\/a> at the Oscars this year, but at least one made-for-TV Bible film got some recognition from its peers when the Primetime Emmy Award nominees<\/a> were announced this morning.<\/p>\n

Killing Jesus<\/a><\/i>, which premiered on the National Geographic Channel four months ago, was nominated for Outstanding Television Movie, along with Agatha Christie\u2019s Poirot: Curtain, Poirot\u2019s Last Case<\/i> (Acorn TV), Bessie<\/i> (HBO), Grace of Monaco<\/i> (Lifetime), Hello Ladies: The Movie<\/i> (HBO) and Nightingale<\/i> (HBO).<\/p>\n

Bessie<\/i> has 12 nominations altogether whereas none of the other films in that category have more than two, plus Bessie<\/i> beat Killing Jesus<\/i> at the Critics Choice Television Awards in May, so it would seem that Bessie<\/i> is the film to beat here.<\/p>\n

There were no nominations for Lifetime\u2019s The Red Tent<\/a><\/i>, Up TV\u2019s Noah\u2019s Ark<\/a><\/i>, CNN\u2019s Finding Jesus<\/i> or NBC\u2019s recently-cancelled A.D. The Bible Continues<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, however, CBS\u2019s The Dovekeepers<\/a><\/i> \u2014 which isn\u2019t technically a Bible movie but does<\/i> take place in first-century Judea and was produced by A.D.<\/i>\u2019s Mark Burnett and Roma Downey \u2014 got a single nomination for its main-title theme music.<\/p>\n

Burnett and Downey\u2019s miniseries The Bible<\/a><\/i> was nominated for three Emmys in 2013 \u2014 miniseries or movie, sound editing, and sound mixing \u2014 but it lost in two of those categories to Behind the Candelabra<\/i> and in the third to American Horror Story<\/i>.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s winners will be announced on September 12 and September 20.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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