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A Record Number of Black Performers Nominated for 2020 Acting Emmys

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nominated for 2020 Emmys. A total of 33 individual Black performers are up for every on-screen acting category, with Giancarlo Esposito, Maya Rudolph and Sterling K.

Brown each nominated twice. In fact, there’s at least one Black performer recognized in all the acting categories — including voice work — except Outstanding Voice-Over Performance. «This type of representation is a long time coming.

There's no shortage of talent within the Black community,» Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who is up for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his role on, told ET by phone. «Sometimes it takes certain circumstances in the world for people to open their eyes and people to open up, to widen their periphery.

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