Star Wars: The Clone Wars Grabs Seven Daytime Emmy Nominations

Star Wars The Clone Wars LogoWhile the pain of losing Star Wars: The Clone Wars to the new Disney acquisition is still fresh in everyone’s mind, there may be some consolation; the animated show from Cartoon Network just picked up seven Daytime Emmy nominations.

  • Outstanding Special Class Animated Program
    • George Lucas, Executive Producer
    • Cary Silver, Producer
    • Athena Portillo, Line Producer
  • Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program – Three separate nominations:
    • Jim Cummings as Hondo Onaka
    • David Tennant as Huyang
    • Sam Witwer as Darth Maul
  • Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program
    • Dave Filoni, Supervising Director
    • Kyle Dunlevy, Brian Kalin O’Connell, Stweard Lee, Bosco Ng, Directors
  • Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition
    • Kevin Kiner, Composer
  • Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing – Animation
    • David Acord, Re-Recording Mixer
    • Cameron Davis, Dialogue Recordist

The 40th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards will air live on HLN on June 16, 2013.