^{Credit: Stranger Things: Tales From '85 (Netflix), Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake (HBO Max), Hazbin Hotel (Amazon Prime Video)}

The ballots for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards have been revealed. Naturally, animation is bound to be represented in Outstanding Animated Program, Individual Achievement in Animation, and Character Voice-Over Performance. There are several other categories in which animation has been submitted, ranging from casting, to music, to sound to writing. Notably, the Outstanding Sound Editing For an Animated Program category has seemingly been retired after only a year, once again being combined with half-hour drama and comedy series.

Animation has been submitted in the following below-the-line categories: 

Outstanding Casting For a Comedy Series
Krapopolis
Long Story Short 
Mating Season 
Rick and Morty 

Outstanding Casting For a Drama Series
Invincible 
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord 
Stranger Things: Tales From '85

Outstanding Title Design
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake 
Devil May Cry 
Kevin
Long Story Short
The Mighty Nein
Predator: Killer of Killers
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
Stranger Things: Tales From '85

Outstanding Music Composition For a Series (Original Dramatic Score)
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake: “The Crocodile Who Bit a Log” - Amanda Jones
American Dad!: “Reaper Madness” - Joel McNeely 
Devil May Cry: “Purgatorio” - Jarome Harmsworth, Joel Harmsworth 
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: “Kingdom of Sorrow” - Tyler Bates, Joanne Higginbottom
Grimsburg: “Evidence Locker” - Jesse Novak
Haunted Hotel: “The Acolytes of Abaddon” - Ryan Elder, Joshua Moshier
Hazbin Hotel: “Curtain Call” - Brian Sadler 
Invincible: “Don’t Do Anything Rash” - John Paesano 
Krapopolis: “Bakset Baby” - Joe Wang 
Long Story Short: “Kendra’s Job” - Jesse Novak 
Mating Season: “The Truth About Canada” - Mark RIvers 
The Mighty Nein: “Little Spark” - Neal Acree 
Rick and Morty: “Hot Rick” - Ryan Elder 
The Simpsons: “Treehouse of Horror XXXVI” - Kara Talve 
Solar Opposites: “The Last Flight of Ariana 1” - Chris Westlake 
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord: "Chapter 10: The Dark Lord" - Kevin Kiner, Sean Kiner, Deana Kiner 
Stranger Things: Tales From '85: “Chapter Ten: Countdown” - Brad Breeck
Strip Law: “We Need to Talk About Heaven” - Jeff Kirchner, Casey Trela

Outstanding Music Composition For A Limited Or Anthology Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score)
Adult Swim’s The Elephant - Josh Kaufman, Justin Rubenstein 
Predator: Killer of Killers - Benjamin Wallfisch

Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake: “Trust Fall” - Kate Anderson, Elyssa Samsel 
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake: “Transformation” - Karen Harvey, Rebecca Sugar
Bob’s Burgers: “Grease and Fear,” Loren Bouchard, Nora Smith, Timothy Dacey 
Devil May Cry: “See U in Hell” - Alex Seaver, Jacoby Shaddix 
Family Guy: “Stewie’s Spooky, Quahog, Nightmare Dance” - Danny Smith, Walter Murphy 
Hazbin Hotel: “Love in a Bottle” - Sam Haft, Andrew Underberg 
Mating Season: “Hold on to My Feet” - Mark Rivers
The Mighty Nein: “Who Will You Be?” - Peter Habib, Sam Riegel
South Park: “Christian Woman” - Trey Parker 
Strip Law: “Pizza Party” - Casey Trela

Outstanding Main Title Theme Music
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake - Amanda Jones
Haunted Hotel - Joshua Moshier, Ryan Elder 
Kevin - Dan Romer, Jason Schwartzman 
Long Story Short - Jesse Novak 
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord - Kevin Kiner, Sean Kiner, Deana Kiner

Outstanding Music Supervision
Invincible: “Give Us a Moment” - Gabe Hilfer, Henry Van Roden 
Long Story Short: “Yoshi’s Bar Mitzvah” - Toko Nagata
Stranger Things: Tales From '85: “Chapter Two: Bad Harvest” - Allison Wood

Outstanding Picture Editing for a Drama Series
Devil May Cry: “The Fallen” - Kim Min Kyoung (Animatic Editor), Min Kyung Ho (Editor)
Hazbin Hotel: “It’s a Deal” - Andy Thompson (Editor)
Invincible: “Don’t Do Anything Rash” - Lindsey K. Myers (Editor), Matt Michael (Animatic Editor)
The Mighty Nein: “Little Spark” - Jeff Dirdack (Editor), Haley Gansert (Animatic Editor)
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord: “Chapter 2: Sinister Schemes” - Nicolas Anastassiou (Editor)
Stranger Things: Tales From '85: “Chapter Ten: Countdown” - Hugo Morales 

Outstanding Picture Editing For a Single Camera Comedy Series
Grimsburg: “Across The Flutiverse” - Nina Helene Hirten (Editor)
Kevin: “Fourth of July” - Andy Maxwell (Editor), Robert Ashe(Animatic Editor)
Krapopolis: “Advanced Family Portraiture” - Rob Gentile (Editor), Scott Roon (Animatic Editor)
Krapopolis: “Monster Week” - Guy Handelman (Editor), Lauren Aptekar (Animatic Editor) 
Long Story Short: “Honoring Naomi Schwartz” - Molly Yahr (Editor) 
Long Story Short: “Uncle Barry” - Brian Swanson (Editor) 
Mating Season: “The Passion of Raynal Skidski” - Felipe Salazar (Editor), Jeremy Arias (Animatic Editor), Erik Petraitis (Animatic Editor), Ian Ramsay (Animatic Editor)
Rick and Morty: “Hot Rick” - Claire Levinson (Editor) 
Solar Opposites: “Last Flight of Ariana 1” - Nick Reczynski (Editor), Valerie Summey (Editor) 

Outstanding Picture Editing For a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie 
Predator: Killer of Killers - Stefan Grube (Editor), Zack Rosenblatt (Additional Editor), John Caldwell (Additional Editor)

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation
Bob’s Burgers: “Grand Pre Pre Opening”
Devil May Cry: “The Fallen” 
Eyes of Wakanda: “Legends and Lies” 
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: “An Echo of Eternity” 
Haunted Hotel: “The Acolytes of Abaddon” 
Invincible: “Don’t Do Anything Rash” 
Kevin: “Fourth of July”
Long Story Short: “There’s a Mattress in There” 
Marvel Zombies: “Episode 3” 
The Mighty Nein: “Mote of Possibility”
Predator: Killer of Killers
Rick and Morty: “There’s Something About Morty”
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord: “Chapter 10: The Dark Lord” 
Star Wars: Visions: “The Duel: Payback” 
Stranger Things: Tales From '85: “Chapter Seven: Enter the Storm” 
Strip Law: “The Bad News Bapples” 

Outstanding Sound Mixing For a Comedy or Drama (Half-Hour) and Animation
Bob’s Burgers: “Grand Pre Pre Opening”
Eyes of Wakanda: “Legends and Lies” 
Hazbin Hotel: “Curtain Call” 
Invincible: “Don’t Do Anything Rash”
Kevin: “Fourth of July” 
Long Story Short: “There’s a Mattress In There” 
Marvel Zombies: “Episode 3” 
Mating Season: “The Wolf Wedding” 
The Mighty Nein: “The Zadash Job” 
Predator: Killer of Killers
The Simpsons: “Bart ‘N’ Frank” 
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord: “Chapter 10: The Dark Lord” 
Star Wars: Visions: “The Song of Four Wings” 
Stranger Things: Tales From '85: “Chapter Seven: Enter the Storm” 

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
Digman!: “The Christ Figure”
Grimsburg: “Across The Flutiverse”
Family Guy: “A Little Fright Music”
Family Guy: “Scent Of A Woman”
Haunted Hotel: “Welcome To The Undervale”
Hazbin Hotel: “Scream Rain”
Kevin: “The Breakup”
King Of The Hill: “Return Of The King”
Krapopolis: “There's Something About Viscera”
Long Story Short: “Uncle Barry”
Mating Season: “The Copulatory Tie”
Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head: “Nuts” / “Bike” / “Tom Anderson War Stories: Love”
Rick and Morty: “Nomortland”
South Park: “Sermon on the 'Mount”

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
Devil May Cry: “Purgatorio”
Invincible: “Don't Do Anything Rash”
Invincible: “Don't Leave Me Hanging Here”
The Mighty Nein: “The Zadash Job”
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord: “Chapter 1: The Dark Revenge”
Stranger Things: Tales From '85: “Chapter Nine: The Suspect”

Of the aforementioned shows, Long Story Short popped up the most with ten submissions. Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord, Stranger Things: Tales From '85, and Invincible each came up eight times. Interestingly, Grimsburg is mentioned in three categories, although it wasn’t submitted for Outstanding Animated Program this year. That’s likely because it only aired five episodes during this eligibility cycle. Compared to last year, there are fewer animated submissions in Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series is another story with fourteen submissions. Will this be the year the Writers Peer Group finally nominates an animated show, though? 

Nominations for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced on July 8. 

Nick Spake is the Author of Bright & Shiny: A History of Animation at Award Shows Volumes 1, 2, and 3. Available Now!