What you should know about the 70th Emmy Awards

While Game of Thrones earned 22 nominations to lead the Emmys, Sandra Oh became the first Asian actress to be nominated for lead in a drama series, and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain is nominated posthumously for his series. Here are some fun facts from

Minority Majorities It was a deep year of nominations for minority performers, who accounted for over one-third of Thursday’s acting nominees. In three Emmy categories, minority actors account for more than half the nominees: supporting actor in a limited series or movie, guest actor in a comedy series and guest actress in a drama series. Only one acting category, supporting actor in a drama series, had all-white nominees.

That’s up from a quarter of the field last year. Both Sterling K. Brown and Donald Glover are nominated again, along with noteworthy first-timers including Latino actors Ricky Martin and Penelope Cruz, Tiffany Haddish, Issa Rae and John Legend. Darren Criss, who is of Filipino descent, was also nominated for American Crime Story. The minority nominations include an historic nod for Sandra Oh, who became the first nominee of Asian descent in the leading actress in a drama series for her role in the BBC America series Killing Eve (pictured). “I share this moment with my community,” Oh said in a statement. “I think my mother at this moment may actually be satisfied.”

Thrones Steps Down But Still On Top

Game of Thrones led all shows with 22 nominations, but that number is actually a drop from the last two times the HBO show was eligible. It was nominated 24 times in both 2015 and 2016, winning 12 Emmys both years. It was not in the running in 2017. Its fellow HBO drama Westworld had 21 nominations this year, as did Saturday Night Live. Atlanta leads in comedy series nominations with 16, and RuPaul’s Drag Race and The Voice each had 10 nominations to lead in the reality-competition category. AP