{"id":5015,"date":"2016-07-22T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T00:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/22\/veep-actor-has-emmy-nomination-rescinded\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T08:15:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T00:15:59","slug":"veep-actor-has-emmy-nomination-rescinded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/22\/veep-actor-has-emmy-nomination-rescinded\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Veep&#039; actor has Emmy nomination rescinded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f152561%2fpeter_macnicol_veep_h_2016\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/rZDuf_1zL_5k2F3x9AkNbqglErY=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F152561%2Fpeter_macnicol_veep_h_2016.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=%27Veep%27+actor+has+Emmy+nomination+rescinded&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F21%2Femmys-hbo-veep-peter-macnicol-nomination-rescinded%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F21%2Femmys-hbo-veep-peter-macnicol-nomination-rescinded%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 <em>Veep&#8217;s <\/em>Peter MacNicol is no longer a 2016 Emmy nominee.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old<em> <\/em>actor, who was nominated for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for his role as Jonah&#8217;s politically influential uncle, was disqualified on Thursday, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the rescinded nomination? MacNicol appeared in five out of 10 episodes in the HBO show&#8217;s fifth season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, according to TV Academy rules, an actor must appear in &#8220;less than 50 percent&#8221; of a season&#8217;s episodes in order to qualify for a nomination in the guest actor category. Awards website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldderby.com\/forum\/television\/2016-emmy-awards-complete-list-of-episode-submissions\/#post-1201873700\">GoldDerby.com<\/a> first noticed the violation. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/21\/emmys-hbo-veep-peter-macnicol-nomination-rescinded\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/peter-macnicol\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Peter Macnicol<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/veep\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Veep<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/hbo\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Hbo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/emmys\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Emmys<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/tv-academy\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tv Academy<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/aIRLspkQkh4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Veep&#8217;s Peter MacNicol is no longer a 2016 Emmy nominee. The 62-year-old actor, who was nominated for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for his role as Jonah&#8217;s politically influential uncle, was disqualified on Thursday, according &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/22\/veep-actor-has-emmy-nomination-rescinded\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3865,1951,3863,3866,3864],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-emmys","tag-hbo","tag-peter-macnicol","tag-tv-academy","tag-veep"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}