By
Darius KADIVAR
Shohreh Aghdashloo
nominated for Best Supporting Actress at 61st Primetime Emmy Awards 2009
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Emmy Awards®
"All the
world's a stage,
And all the
men and women merely players"
-William
Shakespeare From Play
"As You Like It"
Scene 2 ,Act 7
The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards will be held live at the Nokia Theatre L.A.. LIVE
in Los Angeles, California. The awards show will air on CBS, September 20th
beginning at 8:00 Eastern and 7:00 Central. Iranian American actress Shohreh
Aghdashloo ( Already a 2003 Oscar Nominee for her role in
House of Sand and Fog)
is amongst the happy contenders in line for an Emmy Award nomination as "Outstanding
Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie »
for her
role as
Sajida
(Saddam Hussein's
Wife) in
The House of Saddam,
an HBO drama about the Life and Times of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Other Nominees in
the same category include:
·
Marcia Gay Harden
as
Janina in
Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
for
CBS
·
Jeanne Tripplehorn
as Jackie O. in
Grey Gardens
for HBO
·
Janet McTeer
as
Clementine Churchill in
Into the Storm
for HBO
·
Cicely Tyson
as Pearl in
Relative Stranger
for Hallmark Channel
You can
download:
Full list Emmy
Nominations 2009
(PDF)
61st Primetime Emmy Awards 2009
This year's
Emmy nomination list features some highlights. Big Love features one
nomination this year, while the AMC feature, Breaking Bad has a total of
five. Damages, boasts seven nominations, while Showtime's series, Dexter
has three. House has three nominations and has three previous wins under
its belt. Lost has an astounding thirty-nine past nominations with eight
previous wins. This year it has been nominated five times. Mad Men won
Outstanding Drama Series in 2008 and has a whopping 16 nominations for 2009.
Actor
Kevin Bacon to Host the 61st Annual Emmy Awards in L.A.
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Glenn Close has been nominated for Outstanding Lead
Actress in a Drama Series making this her twelfth Emmy nomination; she has two
previous wins. Also nominated is Sally Field for the ABC drama, Brothers &
Sisters. This marks Sally's ninth nomination; she has three previous wins.
Law & Order Special Victims' Unit star, Mariska Hargitay, daughter of
50's bombshell Jayne Mansfield, has received her sixth nomination; she has one
previous win. Holly Hunter, another famous movie star actress that has made the
shift to network television has seven nominations in total and two previous
wins. She has been nominated for her work in the TNT series, Saving Grace.
Newcomer to the Emmy Awards this year, is Elisabeth Moss, she has been nominated
for her work on AMC's hit show, Mad Men. Kyra Sedgwick has been nominated
for her role in TNT's The Closer. This is Kyra's fourth nomination; she
has no previous wins.
Simon Baker
makes his Emmy debut with his first nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a
Drama Series for his work on The Mentalist. Gabriel Byrne has received
his second nomination for the HBO series, In Treatment. Bryan Cranston,
has been nominated again for his work on Breaking Bad. He has previously
received five Emmy nominations; three of which were for his work on Malcolm
in the Middle. He won in 2008 for Breaking Bad. Michael C. Hall has
received his third nomination for the Showtime series, Dexter. He was nominated
for Dexter in 2008 as well as 2009. In 2002, Michael C. Hall was
nominated for his role in Six Feet Under. He has no previous wins. Jon
Hamm has been nominated for the third year in a row. In 2008 and 2009 Hamm was
nominated for Mad Men. He has also received an Emmy nomination this year
for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on 30 Rock.
Jon has no previous wins. Hugh Laurie, star of the hit Fox series, House
has received his fourth nomination for House. He was nominated in 2005, 2007,
2008, and 2009. Laurie has no previous wins.
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& HBO
Challenging Role
The House of Saddam
focuses on the
lives of Saddam's closest family and an elite few. An intimate portrait of the
world of Saddam's inner circle, it charts the rise and fall of one of the
world's most terrifying regimes.
The
series were well received in Great Britain and the United States ( despite the
clear hostility of both nation's governments to the former dictator's regime) in
that it tried to offer a unique and fairly researched insight into the Iraqi
dictator's personality and life, both from a private and public perspective.
Yet
given the proximity of the events that have led to Saddam's downfall, it
naturally appears that only Time can give historians and observers the necessary
distance to unfold the mystery surrounding the dictator's genuine persona and
motivations that conducted his life from the hights of absolute power to his
tragic ultimate death by hanging.
Barry Garron from the
Hollywood Reporter
probably best defined the filmmakers approach and intentions:
"The telefilm, "a dramatization based on certain facts," hews closely to what is
known and verified. Alex Holmes, who co-wrote, directed and exec produced,
ventures few opinions, preferring instead to let Saddam's actions speak for
themselves. The few times Saddam actually comments on his philosophy of ruling,
explaining at one point that terror is a tool and not an end in itself, the
insight is profound. Unfortunately, there are not enough of these moments.
Consequently, even after all four hours, questions remain. Why, for example, did
Saddam play a cat-and-mouse game with weapons inspectors when Iraq already was
weakened by U.N. sanctions and he knew he risked a U.S.-led invasion that would
topple him?
The mini starts with the bloody coup led by Saddam in 1979 when he seized the
reins of government and installed mostly loyal family members. It ends with
Saddam's capture in 2003, a broken man emerging from a rat hole. Although there
is practically no reference to the chemical gas used on the Kurdish population
during the 1980s (the mini's largest omission), the telefilm astutely points out
how ambiguous American policy statements might have caused some misdirection.
The perspective one gets from inside the House of Saddam is different than media
reports from the outside and is, in itself, an important reason to tune in."
Shohreh Aghdashloo :
From 2003 Oscar Nominee to 2009 Emmy Award Victor ?
Shohreh
Aghdashloo and
Marcia Gay
Harden
have competed
before for an Oscar and are up against each other once again at this month's
Primetime Emmys. Now they'll go head to head in the indie drama "The No Game."
UNE
ARTISTE QUI S'ENGAGE:
Aghdashloo and
fellow colleague artists
joined famed dissident
Akbar Ganji's (*) Hunger Strike Call
in front of the U.N. headquarters in New York to Protest against the Violent
Clampdown on Iranian Voters by the Islamic Republic of Iran in the aftermath of
the Presidential elections.
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Sherry Horman is directing the coming-of-age piece,
which centers on an 18-year-old Jewish woman who finds out that her biological
mother is Palestinian. The search for her identity takes her to an aunt (Aghdashloo)
in Brooklyn, where their bonding causes problems with her adoptive mother
(Harden, who is in negotiations).
David
Abramowitz and Elizabeth Fein wrote the screenplay.
Aghdashloo and Harden were Oscar-nominated in 2003 for
their respective work in "House
of Sand and Fog" and
"Mystic River," and they're nominated
for Emmys this year for "House of Saddam" and "The Courageous Heart of Irena
Sendler."
Shohreh Aghdashloo - Strong and Talented
© Mary Ann
Halpin
Aghdashloo
stars in this year's
"The Stoning of Soraya M." Harden,
who won a recent Tony for her role in "God of Carnage,"
( by
French-Iranian playwright Yasmina Reza) next appears in "Whip It!," Drew
Barrymore's feature directing debut.
May The Best
Win !
VIVE LA
TELE !
ET
BONNE CHANCE
SHOHREH JAAN ! … ;0)
Authors Notes :
Prisoner of Conscience: Akbar Ganji and Costa Gavras' Confession
by Darius KADIVAR
Recommended Readings:
ALLEZ MARJANE:
No Win for Persepolis at Golden Globes as Oscar Momentum Approaches
By Darius KADIVAR
GODS OF CARNAGE TRIUMPHS IN NEW YORK: Yasmina Reza Wins 2009 Tony Award for Best
Play
by Darius KADIVAR
A Hero Hosts: Adrian
Pasdar at the 64th Golden Globe Awards
by Darius KADIVAR
U.S. cast for
Satrapi's Persepolis announced
by Darius KADIVAR
Persepolis wins
Prix du Jury at Cannes
by Darius KADIVAR
Pasdar Fever
Hits France
by Darius KADIVAR
BREAKING THE
WAVES: Iranian Women of the Diaspora Seduce French Media
by Darius KADIVAR
Persian Golden
Boys In Hollywood
by Darius KADIVAR
PARTNERS ON
LOLITA
by Darius KADIVAR
Articles/Interview on Shohreh Aghdashloo:
CLOSE UP ON
SHOHREH AGHDASHLOO
By Darius KADIVAR & Parisa DEFAIE
HOLY SHOHREH!
By Darius KADIVAR
GETTING
BIBLICAL: Shohreh Aghdashloo's New Epic Drama
by Darius KADIVAR
A Director's Cut: Cyrus
Nowrasteh film The Stoning of Soraya M. By Darius
KADIVAR
"America So
Beautiful": Babak Shokrian's bitter sweet look on the American Dream
by Darius KADIVAR
ShockWave
Aghdashloo's Dina Araz hits France
by Darius KADIVAR
The House of Saddam
by Darius KADIVAR
Between Two Rivers: Shohreh Aghdashloo cast as Saddam's wife in HBO-BBC mini tv
series
by Darius KADIVAR
About the Author: Darius KADIVAR is a Freelance Journalist, Film Historian,
and Media Consultant. He is also contributes to
OCPC Magazine in LA/US and to the
London Based IC Publications
The Middle East Magazine and
Persian Heritage Magazine.
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