Game of Thrones Shut Out At People’s Choice Awards
By Ani Bundel
Perhaps breaking and tying Emmy records left and right a few months ago meant that Game of Thrones met the hardware quota for the year. Only days before the Golden Globes, where it has only the most perfunctory of nominations for Season 5, Game of Thrones found itself shut out in a far lower echelon of accolades, the People’s Choice Awards.
In some cases, one could understand how this happened, like in the hilariously specific category of “Favorite Cable TV Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show.” Though Game of Thrones might have once had this category all to itself, it is now the grand dame of the shows it was up against, including Teen Wolf and Outlander, the latter of which walked away with the prize. In the corresponding Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Actress category, Caitriona Balfe of Outlander took home the prize over Game of Thrones‘ Emilia Clarke. But in the much broader category of “Favorite TV Show,” the loss was far more insulting, where The Big Bang Theory won instead.
Perhaps informed ahead of time who would be landing the awards, Game of Thrones only made the paltriest of showings on the red carpet. Clarke did not attend, and though one might joke about Dany sending Missandei as her representative, it did feel a touch correct, with Nathalie Emmanuel there to take the brunt of reporters demanding Season 6 spoilers and opinions on The Winds of Winter delay. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Emmanuel countered that she was refusing to read the books because she never wants the story to end.
The only other Game of Thrones star to attend the show was Natalie Dormer, who is the middle of promoting the heck out of her new horror movie, The Forest, one of the few places where you can see her in something that does not require period clothing. (To that end, she was there as an awards presenter, in order to ensure her showing up.) Amusingly enough, both Natalie and Nathalie wore variations on the same see-thru top pantsuit/jumpsuit trend, which suggests that their stylists did not coordinate in the slightest.
Dormer’s is clearly the better tailored of the two, with Emmanuel’s pants pooling at her feet, but, perhaps unsurprisingly, neither put much effort into this appearance.
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