Matthew Heineman’s Cartel Land (pictured, right), The Amazing Race and Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown are among the unscripted and non-fiction nominees for the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Multiple nominations were handed out to Dancing With the Stars, which took home eight nominations; The Voice and Making A Murderer, taking six nominations each; Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and Cartel Land, both of which pulled in five nominations; Deadliest Catch, which accumulated four nominations; The Amazing Race, Born This Way and Project Runway, which walked away with three nominations; and RuPaul’s Drag Race, American Idol and Survivor, grabbing two each.
American Ninja Warrior (pictured, left) picked up its first-ever nomination.
The awards will be presented at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theatre on September 18.
Emmy nominations for unscripted and non-fiction categories are listed below, with credits supplied by the Television Academy:
Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program:
Ryan Seacrest, American Idol
Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars
Jane Lynch, Hollywood Game Night
Steve Harvey, Little Big Shots
Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, Project Runway
RuPaul, RuPaul’s Drag Race
Competition Program:
American Ninja Warrior, NBC
Dancing With the Stars, ABC
Project Runway, Lifetime
The Amazing Race, CBS
The Voice, NBC
Top Chef, Bravo
Structured Program:
Antiques Roadshow, PBS
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Food Network
Lip Sync Battle, Spike TV
MythBusters, Discovery Channel
Shark Tank, ABC
Undercover Boss, CBS
Unstructured Program:
Born This Way, A&E
Deadliest Catch, Discovery Channel
Gaycation with Ellen Page, Viceland
Intervention, A&E
Project Greenlight, HBO
United Shades of America, CNN
Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking:
Cartel Land, A&E
Jim: The James Foley Story, HBO
Racing Extinction, Discovery Channel
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, PBS ‘Independent Lens’
The Hunting Ground, CNN
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, Netflix
Directing For Non-fiction Programming:
Cartel Land, Matthew Heineman, A&E
Chef’s Table, David Gelb, “Gaggan Anand,” Netflix
He Named Me Malala, Davis Guggenheim, National Geographic Channel
Making A Murderer, Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, “Fighting for Their Lives,” Netflix
What Happened, Miss Simone?, Liz Garbus, Netflix
Documentary or Non-fiction Series:
Mike Nichols: American Masters, PBS
Chef’s Table, Netflix
Making A Murderer, Netflix
The Seventies, CNN
Woman with Gloria Steinem, Viceland
Documentary or Non-fiction Special:
Becoming Mike Nichols, HBO
Everything is Copy – Nora Ephron: Scripted & Unscripted, HBO
Listen to Me Marlon, Showtime
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, HBO
What Happened, Miss Simone, Netflix
Informational Series or Special:
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, CNN
Inside the Actors Studio, Bravo
Star Talk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, National Geographic Channel
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, National Geographic Channel
Vice, HBO
Writing For Non-fiction Programming:
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, “Borneo,” CNN
Everything is Copy – Nora Ephron: Scripted & Unscripted, HBO
Jackie Robinson, PBS
Making A Murderer, “Eighteen Years Lost,” Netflix
Walt Disney, PBS ‘American Experience’
For a full list of this year’s nominees, click here.
In addition, the Creative Arts Emmy Awards will take place over two nights on September 10 and 11, at the Microsoft Theater.