Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, which aired on CBS in March, was nominated in the Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special category.
Harry and Meghan are not personally nominees, but Winfrey herself and the program’s producers (Tara Montgomery, Terry Wood, Brian Piotrowicz, Brad Pavone, Lindsay Flader) are.
The other nominations for an Emmy in the same category include:
- Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
- My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
- United Shades Of America With W. Kamau Bell • CNN • CNN Original Series, Zero Point Zero Production
- Vice • Showtime • SHOWTIME Presents and Vice Media
The winners of the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced on September 19, 2021.
“Nominations for the 73rd Emmy Awards were announced Tuesday recognizing a wealth of innovative storytelling, exceptional new programs, and a robust and diverse group of talent nominees,” the organizer said in a media statement.
Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.
She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
Dubbed the “Queen of All Media”, she has been ranked the richest African-American, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is North America’s first multi-billionaire black person.
Several assessments rank her as the most influential woman in the world.
In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama, and honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard.
Oprah Winfrey was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1994.
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