Thursday was just another day on the “Transparent” set until about 8:30 a.m. California time, when the cast and crew gathered around a television and cheered as the show’s first two Emmy nominations were announced. Then they screamed as they learned about the next nine.

The Amazon series, inspired by the creator Jill Soloway’s experiences with her father, stars Jeffrey Tambor as a father of three transitioning into life as a woman. When it launched in February 2014, it was at the leading edge of a growing acceptance of transgender issues in mainstream entertainment, something that has only become more pronounced with the coming out of Caitlyn Jenner, the arrival of the reality shows “I Am Cait” and “I Am Jazz,” and the continued acclaim for actresses like Laverne Cox (“Orange Is the New Black”) and Jamie Clayton (“Sense8”).

“Never, never, ever, ever in a million years did I ever imagine any of this,” Ms. Soloway said in a phone call. “I’m blown away over and over again, every single day, when I see the way the world is changing. And to know what’s happening in the trans movement, and to be part of elevating that conversation has been an honor.”

Q. Do you know if Caitlyn Jenner has seen “Transparent”?

A. I spoke to Caitlyn, I spoke to Kim Kardashian, and they both told me the show helped them to feel that their family could move forward. It’s crazy just thinking about the effect that Caitlyn’s going to have on the entire globe, and to know that the show changed the way a family might feel about a parent coming out and to [help them] handle it with humor, grace and love.

Q. How hard was it getting “Transparent” made?

A. I think it would’ve been hard if I’d wanted it to be on HBO or Showtime, which was my assumption and expectation when I wrote it. Amazon was really game, ready to go forward blasting on all cylinders, and I was a little bit wary. I think I felt it was a little bit of a compromise, and I didn’t know if people were going to ever see it. And to see over the last two years how they’ve given me this crazy amount of creative freedom, and also been able to get it to people in a way that we’re in the running for awards like this, is astonishing.

Q. How differently did you approach “Transparent,” knowing it would most likely be binge-watched?

A. We thought of it initially as a five-hour movie, and we keep imagining that we’re reinventing the form in some way. It’s a very different feeling where you’re not trying to sustain something week to week, but giving people this D.I.Y., design-your-own-journey, and the permission to go in as deep as they want, or not.

Q. What can we expect in Season 2?

A. We’re doing things that we could never have imagined could be done on television. Love scenes for Maura. We’re doing a story about the history of Maura’s family generations back that I think is going to be insane. We also get to take the gloves off with Maura a little more. I think when we were writing Season 1 we were doing this sort of Trans 101 workshop, introducing the world to a trans character, being a little blameless, perfect. Now that the world has really caught up to the trans movement, we get to allow Maura a few more flaws and screw-ups, and let her make mistakes and not necessarily be this heroic exemplar.

Q. Your father is a transgender woman. How has she reacted to the show?

A. My Moppa is so excited, I was texting with her this morning about the Caitlyn speech [on the Espy awards] and she was like, “Do you have any idea what has happened?”

Q. You’ve spoken about the “transfirmative action program” on the set of “Transparent.”

A. When I first cast Jeffrey in the role, I cast him because he reminds me so much of my parent pre-transition. And we very quickly ran into trouble in the trans community because of my absolute admitted ignorance about how problematic it was to have a cis male playing a trans woman. And it really opened my eyes to all the problems in the trans community, besides things like discrimination, besides things like suicide and murder. The real problem with the lack of employment opportunities. And we knew we could do something about the lack of opportunities in the film business, so we created a spreadsheet where we got every single trans person we knew and started bringing people onto the show. We ended up having at least one trans person in every department. This season we surely have more. We made sure our bathrooms were gender neutral and that it was a comfortable environment for trans people so they could feel that it was a world made for them, instead of a world made to exclude them.

Q. Why do you think “Transparent” has resonated so broadly?

A. I’m a child of television. I grew up staring at that box and loving shows like “The Brady Bunch” and “All in the Family” and “Eight Is Enough.” And “Transparent,” much more than being a show about a trans parent and much more than being a comedy, is really a love letter to the TV family. It’s a great family show, a great soap opera, it’s this juicy thing. And when I’m writing and directing I sometimes think, “If somebody is watching this, folding their laundry, what’s going to make them stop folding their laundry and just stare at the TV?” I’m really trying to create moments for television that feel like nothing anybody has seen before.

The first images Jeffrey Tambor saw this morning before the Emmy nominations were announced were of Caitlyn Jenner, who gave a moving speech at Wednesday night’s ESPY Awards. “Talk about zeitgeist,” Mr. Tambor said. “As I watched her speech, I started getting texts that we had garnered all these nominations, and I was so happy.”

Mr. Tambor was nominated for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series for his performance as Maura Pfefferman in Amazon’s “Transparent,” which received 11 nods in all. He spoke about the show, how fans have reacted to his latest character and his previous Emmy-nominated roles on “The Larry Sanders Show” and “Arrested Development.”

Q: Do you feel like this is part of a larger moment of recognition for the transgender community?

A: I definitely believe this is a very important moment. At our first table read, [creator] Jill [Soloway] talked about making people feel safe, and that’s always been our mission.

Q: Did you have any hesitation to take the role because of the responsibility it entailed?

A: Actually, I think I was on page 8 of the script when I screamed “Yes! Yes!” A role like Maura doesn’t come along often. I’m 71 years old, and for Jill to give me such a wonderful role is a huge privilege and one that I don’t take lightly.

Q: What kind of reaction have you gotten from fans who know you from “Larry Sanders” and “Arrested Development”?

A: I’ve gone through a lot of stages, from “Hey now!” to “There’s always money in the banana stand.” But now people who have seen the show are stopping me on the street, and they start talking to me about their families. It’s very interesting.

Q: What do they say?

A: It happens in three stages. Usually people say to me, “I didn’t know what to expect,” which is code for “I wasn’t quite comfortable with you in this role or with this material.” Then I get the response of, “I really loved it. I can’t wait to see more of it.” Then, third, people will start talking about their family, and not just transgender issues. People are saying, “That’s my family congregated around that barbecue.”

Q: This is your seventh Emmy nomination, and you haven’t won one yet. Do you feel lucky this year?

A: You know what? I’m in my dressing room. I’m looking at a script I’m going to be shooting in literally an hour. I’m on page 2 of the scene, and I’m going to learn those lines. I’ll think about that other question later.

Q: Have you thought about what you’ll wear on Emmy night?

A: I’m either going to let out or take in my trousers on my tuxedo. I haven’t decided yet.

Good job, Clone Club! After three seasons on “Orphan Black,” Tatiana Maslany — perhaps the hardest-working actress out there, or at least the one with the most roles — has finally earned an Emmy nomination for her role on the BBC America series.

Only one, you might ask, given that she plays several clones (and clones playing clones, and clones playing clones playing clones)? “It’s meant a lot to the fans to have this kind of recognition,” Ms. Maslany said in a phone call from Toronto, still groggy from filming another project the night before. “It feels like a group nomination. It doesn’t feel like I’m carrying this on my own by any means.”

Q. You’ve won two Critics Choice Awards for the role of Sarah and her sister clones, and been nominated for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award and numerous others. But so far the Emmy had eluded you. Why now?

A. I don’t know that it was a thing that was meant to happen or anything like that. I guess there was a space for me [this time]. But there’s so much amazing work going on right now in television for women. It’s a hot bed of interesting characters and the place where women are really breaking out. Amy Schumer and Amy Poehler — all these people who are carving the way. And all the women [Claire Danes, Viola Davis, Taraji P. Henson, Elisabeth Moss and Robin Wright] I’m nominated with. It’s an insane group, and it’s bizarre to me that I’m next to these amazing powerhouses.

Q. So how many clones and clones pretending to be other clones did you play this season?

A. I have no idea, not even remotely. That’s the hardest question because there are a lot of overlaps, with this person being that person. It’s a total dream, and I get to delve into characters in such a rapid way that I’m never bored. I was definitely excited to bring this clone Krystal out this season. Nobody would ever cast me as her. She’s like the hot blond girl, and I’m wearing grandpa sweats today.

Q. You also performed against Ari Millen as the Project Castor clones this season.

A. Ari was incredible in a tough job, because there was no accent work and no large-scale physical differences in his clones. It was a very different, nuanced way to explore identity. And it was also nice to get to watch somebody else do that work.

Q. Are you working on any other projects in the off-season?

A. I’m filming a movie called “The Other Half” by Joey Klein, opposite Tom Cullen — an amazing project, a really small indie about love and two people who are very damaged, and it’s one of the most creatively fulfilling experiences I’ve ever had.

Q. Tom is your partner, isn’t he?

A. Yes, so it’s a really special thing for us to get to work together like this. I just admire him so much as an actor, and so to get in the ring with him is very intense and an amazing challenge for both of us.

Q. So how are you going to celebrate your nomination?

A. I’m going to eat a rice bowl, have a cup of coffee, go to set and do some work, which is my favorite way to celebrate, actually. Keep acting.

Emilia Clarke found out about her Emmy nomination through “a very, very loud, excited phone call” from her agent, which she took in the waiting room before a doctor’s appointment. The other patients were less excited.

“I received lots of glares and stares and really weird looks,” she said. “I was trying to quietly say ‘That’s really cool, but the doctor is ready to see me now.’”

Ms. Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen, the dragon-riding queen in HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” has officially gone Hollywood. She’s currently starring in “Terminator: Genisys” alongside the Terminator himself, Arnold Schwartzenegger. It is her first blockbuster film, but starring in a globe-spanning epic like “Game of Thrones” made the scale of it seem less daunting. “I’ve kind of been preparing for it,” she said.

She called from London to discuss dragon riding, the “Thrones” phenomenon and what other actors from the series might thrive in the “Terminator” universe.

Q. You just finished Season 5. Have you come to grips with how massive the whole “Thrones” phenomenon is?

A. I’m beginning to understand it now. I know that sounds silly after six years, but I’m just kind of absorbing the cultural footprint the show seems to be leaving. I don’t get recognized that much so I’ve had the time for it to kind of sink in in a rather lovely way, as opposed to in a kind of Britney Spears, shave-your-hair-off kind of way.

Q. I suspect the hair is part of it, though right? The fact that you’re naturally brunette instead of Khaleesi platinum?

A. That’s exactly it. If I shaved my hair off people would probably recognize me a bit more.

Q. When you were riding the dragon in that one episode, what were you actually doing?

A. It’s one of those silly things where you’re in a green area with burly men kind of making the dragon buck, kind of [makes bedspring sound effect], up and down, and someone’s got a vacuum cleaner in your face for the wind. But it still feels amazing, despite all of the restraints, to film flying away on a dragon. I’ve got chills — it’s just what we’ve been waiting for since they hatched.

Q. It was dispiriting to see you leave Tyrion so soon.

A. Absolutely, and it was something I had been hugely looking forward to as well. I would hope that we won’t be separated for too long.

Q. Have you begun shooting Season 6?

A. We have started shooting. I go to the read-through on Saturday. I have all the information. I can’t say a thing but MY GOD it is so good! The next season’s so [expletive] good, it’s amazing.

Q. Is Jon Snow coming back?

A. [Laughs] I’m not telling you that.

Q. What question do you get more than any other?

A. I get two questions: 1) How long does it take to dye your hair? And 2) Is Jon Snow dead?

Q. Daenerys arrived as a callow youth and evolved into a ruler. What’s different about playing her now versus in the early days?

A. It’s almost an unrecognizable character because of the growth she’s gone through, starting from this timid creature and now getting to play a queen who rides dragons. There was always this feeling of more than meets the eye about her, from the beginning, and it’s been a lovely, slow kind of evolution, bit by bit, stage by stage. Every season she reemerges with even more strength and power and guts, and I just hope that continues.

Q. You just did “Terminator: Genisys.” Was the scale of it on an entirely different level?

A. Well it’s funny. With each season of “Game of Thrones” we’ve just got bigger. The green screen has grown. The studios have grown. The sets have grown. So going on to “Terminator” wasn’t as scary as it would have been if I’d just come from doing independent movies, for example. But yeah, it was pretty epic, with large scale grenade-throwing, fire, blowing-up-ness. With Arnold at the center of it.

Q. How was it to do a “Terminator” film opposite THE Terminator?

A. It was surreal at times and largely quite funny. He knows how to take a joke; he knows how to give one.

Q. Do you have a favorite Arnold memory?
A. Just his comments. If not sure if he’s aware of how perfect his Austrian timing is. And boy does he love the gym. There were a couple of invitations to join him in the gym.

Q. Did you do it?
A. No. I think I would have got killed.

Q. Lena Headey was on “The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” which means that both of you have now played that character. Who should be the next “Thrones” actor to take it on?

A. Oooh Maisie Williams, without a shadow of a doubt. That or Hodor. [Laughs]

Q. It would simplify the dialogue.

A. [Laughs] It totally would, can you imagine? “Come with me if you want to live.” “Hodor.” [Laughs.] I would love to watch that movie.

Q. Where in the world am I finding you now?
A. I’m in the city of – not brotherly love? What’s Boston? The city of wind and the ride of Paul Revere.

Q. How does it feel to be a nominee today?
A. It’s really insane. Reading the list of the other nominees, I just screamed. They’re some of my favorite actresses, and they’re so good on those shows. Being on the same sheet of paper as those people feels wrong, but I’ll take it. Also just feeling so grateful to the writers at “SNL,” who are the funniest people in the world, and my fellow cast members as well. It really is an incredible organism that I get to part of. And it’s the only job I ever wanted.

Q. There are any number of memorable characters that you brought to life this past season. Was there anyone that you really fell in love with, or had an especially good time playing?
A. I’m very glad that I get the chance to be Hillary Clinton. That feels momentous. I always love “SNL”’s election coverage, and to be a part of that is daunting, but also feels so right. And I still love playing Justin Bieber the most, because I love wearing low-crotched pants.

Q. Has Mrs. Clinton ever indicated to you whether she’s a fan of your impression?
A. She said something recently, that she likes Amy [Poehler]’s, and I’m doing a good job but that she’s the best Hillary Clinton. And I heartily agree.

Q. Given how important a dead-on Hillary Clinton impersonation is going to be to the show over the next couple of seasons, is this the time for you to go in and renegotiate a nice big pay package for yourself?
A. Oh my God.

Q. So is that no?
A. No. I’m glad to just be hired back.

Q. Have you had an eye on anyone over the summer, as so many new and cockamamie people have emerged on the world’s stage, who you’re excited to play when the show starts up again in the fall?
A. I haven’t seen any, frankly, that really strike my particular fancy. I hope I do. I’ll get on it. You just reminded me that I should be training in the off-season.

Q. Does it start to feel like homework at a certain point?
A. Just the best kind of homework. But I loved school, and I loved homework. I loved pencils. I’d always buy a new notebook and pens at the beginning of the year. It feels sexual to me.

Q. Are you legally allowed to say anything about “Ghostbusters”?
A. Absolutely not. But I’m having a wonderful time. It feels like summer camp. I love my Leslie. I love my Kristen. I love my Melissa. That’s all I’m allowed to say.

We are all ecstatic about the #EmmyNoms for #InsideAmy I am celebrating! #giammati #12angrymen #directing #writing pic.twitter.com/SRZf5KC88v

— Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) July 16, 2015

Wow! Congrats to our insanely hard working @NBCTheVoice cast and crew for the well deserved #EmmyNoms So cool!

— Carson Daly (@CarsonDaly) July 16, 2015

Nominated for an Emmy fourth year in a row. Just wow. Thank you Academy for the honor of just being nominated!

— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) July 16, 2015

Freaks Rule! So happy to be nominated. Congrats to @MrRPMurphy and the whole AHS family of beautiful misfits. pic.twitter.com/lRHTHrN6FT

— Denis O'Hare (@denisohare) July 16, 2015

So proud of the Sackler siblings and their twin Emmy noms. We love you Gaby and Adam!

— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) July 16, 2015

Congrats to my brilliant and wonderful @AllisonBJanney. I'm going to break into her home later and steal one of her Emmys and play with it

— Anna Faris (@AnnaKFaris) July 16, 2015

So proud of our @gotham team for 4 @TheEmmys nominations! Production design, visual effects, costumes and editing!!! #well deserved

— Ben McKenzie (@ben_mckenzie) July 16, 2015

Honored to be nominated amidst so much great work. #EmmyNoms

— Jeff Daniels (@Jeff_Daniels) July 16, 2015

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— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) July 16, 2015

I am so proud to be a part of @MomCBS and #MASTERSOFSEX and incredibly grateful for the #Emmys nominations!

— Allison Janney (@AllisonBJanney) July 16, 2015

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Q. How are you feeling?

A. I’m a little bit giddy. I don’t often get giddy, I don’t. But I am truly giddy. I’m not drunk but I a feel a little drunk right now. Emotionally, not alcoholically.

I do know how hard we work, and what excellent scripts we have, and what a team we are, with [Jonathan] Banks and [Michael] McKean, playing some of these amazing scenes – they’re powerhouses, those guys. It makes me so happy that the “Breaking Bad” audience is pleased with the show and is liking it. But it’s truly a surprise to me that we got this notice. It’s more than I ever expected.

Q. People are always a little bit wary when they hear something is a spin-off show, especially when it originates from a series like “Breaking Bad.” What do you think you’ve done differently, to avoid those potential pitfalls?

A. The main thing that was done right was that Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould did not dance as fast as they could for their audience, and did not try to chase the audience. “People like this – we’re gonna give ‘em more of what they like.” They sat down, and with confidence and with patience, mapped out a road that excited and interested them, and wrote a unique story with an offbeat tone. I know Vince wouldn’t cop to having a ton a confidence, because he’s always very humble about his own talents. But I couldn’t believe the calm focus that they brought to this thing. They wanted to tell this unique story, and hopefully people will be intrigued. And it is a different tone to “Breaking Bad,” but it definitely shares some of its strengths.

Q. The first season left things in a somewhat ambiguous place, not just in terms of narrative, but where Jimmy McGill – who has not yet fully become Saul Goodman – where he is morally. Can you say anything about what the next part of his journey might be?

A. Uh. I can’t give anything away, but let me just say that there are no dead ends in this show. Any road that was traveled continues to go somewhere. Things are never just chopped off, or dropped or forgotten. Everything has an effect. One of the reasons “Breaking Bad” was so great was that feeling that everything came back around. There was impact. There was karma. Nobody was allowed to just wander through life, tearing [stuff] up with no repercussions. I don’t know if that helps anyone. The first season, Jimmy couldn’t go anywhere, really. But all those stories you saw in the first season matter in the second season.

Q. You’re an Emmy winner, previously, for “Saturday Night Live” and “The Ben Stiller Show,” and you’ve been nominated for “Mr. Show With Bob and David.” Would it surprise you if a quasi-dramatic series became your legacy, rather than all these sketch comedy shows?

A. Absolutely. I spent 25 years making sketch comedy, 99 percent of my time, and I love sketch comedy. And to have transitioned over into dramatic acting, and the heavier stuff that Vince and Peter have trusted me with, is a shock, and a thrill and a challenge. I promise you, my head is spinning.

The nominations in the major Emmy Awards categories went largely, even overwhelmingly, according to form. The few upsets mostly went against the broadcast networks — what were considered likely nominations for several prominent series and their stars didn’t materialize, and the big-four networks were completely shut out of the drama series category yet again. Here are a few of the top Emmy snubs and surprises.

Snub
“Empire,” a critical favorite, a ratings phenomenon and a rare bright spot for the broadcast networks, was widely expected to get a drama series nomination in its first season. It did not. Which leads to …

Surprise
“Homeland” was considered by some to have had a bounce-back fourth season, but surely not all the way back to a drama series nomination. Yet, it jumped over other contenders like the aforementioned “Empire,” “The Americans” and “The Good Wife.”

Snub
“The Big Bang Theory” had its four-year run of comedy series nominations snapped. It was probably edged out by “Parks and Recreation,” a sentimental choice in its final season.

Snub
Julianna Margulies is a four-time nominee and two-time winner in the drama actress category for playing Alicia Florrick on “The Good Wife,” and is the reigning winner in the category.

Surprise
Liev Schreiber of “Ray Donovan” was far down on most lists of potential drama actor nominees. He pushed out favorites like Terrence Howard of “Empire” and Clive Owen of “The Knick.”

Snub
Gina Rodriguez garnered a Golden Globe win, great reviews and goodwill for her performance in the freshman series “Jane the Virgin” but it didn’t bring her an expected nomination. (Her series didn’t make the cut, either.) Also unrecognized in the comedy actress category: Ellie Kemper, star of Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”

Surprise
Will Forte’s comedy actor nomination for “Last Man on Earth” is a slight surprise, primarily because it came at the expense of a heavy favorite, Jim Parsons of “The Big Bang Theory.”

“I think my sister screamed louder,” Amy Schumer, a freshly minted Emmy nominee, said on Thursday morning.

Ms. Schumer watched the nominations at home with her sister, Kim Caramele, a writer and producer on “Inside Amy Schumer.” The show received seven nominations, including one for Ms. Schumer for outstanding actress in a comedy series. “We were jumping up and down on the bed screaming and crying,” she said.

The show is a contender for best variety sketch series, and also picked up nods for writing. Ms. Schumer shared a directing nomination with Ryan McFaul for the much-discussed episode “12 Angry Men.” (Paul Giamatti was nominated as a guest star for that episode.) “It’s just the best,” she said. “I feel real emotional. I’m like, speechless. Me!”

“Inside Amy Schumer” has been a critical hit and a viral darling – the boy band parody song “Girl You Don’t Need Make-Up” was also nominated, as was the editing for a sketch with Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss and Patricia Arquette – but its TV ratings have not broken records. The Emmy love, Ms. Schumer said, “feels like the hard work is being acknowledged.”

“I bleed for this stupid show,” she added, “and especially that team — Paul Giamatti nominated and me and Ryan together for directing, that scene was so hard to write and work on. It feels so good.”

Ms. Schumer has been racking up awards lately, including a Peabody and a prize from Glamour magazine. And she went to the Emmys last year, “but the ones that they have the ugly people go to,” she clarified. “The Web day. And it sucks because I was very hot in that room, but in these Emmys I’ll look like a troll doll. This is a really big deal.”

“Inside Amy Schumer” was nominated in the variety sketch series category along with fellow Comedy Central shows “Drunk History” and “Key & Peele,” as well as “Saturday Night Live” and IFC’s “Portlandia.” This is the first year the Emmys has had that category – a sign, perhaps, that Emmy voters are acknowledging the power of shareable comedy moments.

“I’m like, hey, you didn’t have to do that Emmys,” Ms. Schumer said. “Thanks!”

The fantasy epic “Game of Thrones” and its home network, HBO, led the field in the nominations for the 67th Emmy Awards announced Thursday.

But while HBO kept its lead, competition for the top prizes in drama and comedy continued to heat up up across broadcast, cable and streaming outlets — signaling the vast changes reshaping the television landscape.

“Game of Thrones” scored more nominations than any other show, 24, including a nod for outstanding drama series. HBO also received nominations in the comedy category, for “Silicon Valley’’ and “Veep,’’ and amassed a record total of 126 across all categories.

Netflix racked up 34 nominations this year — three more than last year — including recognition in the outstanding drama and comedies categories. Newcomer Amazon, meanwhile, scored 12 nominations, led by its comedy “Transparent” about a family in which the father comes out as transgender. It was nominated for outstanding comedy and its star, Jeffrey Tambor, was recognized in the lead actor category. In January, the acclaimed series won a Golden Globe.

“We are deeply proud of our creative partners, the most gifted and visionary collaborators working in television today, and are honored by this morning’s Emmy nominations,” Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer, said in a statement.

For the broadcast networks, this year’s nominations proved to be yet another disappointing run. None of the four big networks have received a nomination for best drama since 2011. Fox was hoping to break through with its smash hip-hop drama “Empire,” which proved a ratings bonanza after it debuted in the winter. But the series received a disappointing three nominations but not nomination for outstanding drama.

This year represents the final chance for Jon Hamm to win an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Don Draper in “Mad Men,” the acclaimed series about the advertising industry in the 1960s that completed its final season this year. Mr. Hamm received his eighth nomination for best actor Thursday, with no wins in his seven previous attempts.

Mr. Hamm will face-off against Kyle Chandler for his portrayal of the detective John Rayburn in Netflix’s new series “Bloodline,” and Bob Odenkirk for his role as Jimmy McGill in AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” the new prequel to the network’s acclaimed show “Breaking Bad.”

Other nominees in the category were Jeff Daniels in HBO’s “The Newsroom,” Kevin Spacey in Netflix’s “House of Cards’’ and Liev Shreiber in Showtime’s “Ray Donovan.”

“Empire’’ did score a nomination in the best actress category, for Taraji P. Henson. Others nominated in the category include Elisabeth Moss for “Mad Men,’’ Viola Davis for “How to Get Away With Murder,’’ and Robin Wright, for the third year in a row, for “House of Cards.’’

In addition to “Game of Thrones,” the showdown for the award for outstanding drama series will pit two AMC network series, “Mad Men” and “Better Call Saul,” against two Netflix series, “House of Cards” and “Orange Is the New Black.”

Other contenders for the best drama award are include the British period drama “Downton Abbey” on PBS and Showtime’s political thriller “Homeland.”

Streaming services added a dose of new competition to the best comedy series category, challenging ABC’s “Modern Family” which has won an Emmy in each of the last five years. Amazon’s “Transparent,” and Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” about the life of a Pollyanna-like woman after her escape from cult after 15 years, were both nominated.

In addition to “Modern Family,” other contestants for best comedy include “Louie” on FX, “Parks and Recreation” on NBC, and “Silicon Valley” and “Veep’,” both on HBO.

Speaking of HBO’s total of 126 nominations, Richard Plepler, chief executive of the network, said in a statement: “This record-breaking number of nominations is a tribute to all the talent who have come to work with us.”

“The Big Bang Theory” on CBS did not receive a nomination for best comedy series nor for lead actor in a comedy. Last year, the show’s star Jim Parsons won his fourth award for lead actor in a comedy series for his role as a scientist with minimal social skills.

The HBO fantasy epic “Game of Thrones” led the way on Thursday with 24 Emmy nominations. “Mad Men,” the acclaimed period drama that ended in May, and “Transparent,” a comedy about a father undergoing gender reasssignment, also each netted multiple nods.

Nominations for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards, which recognize the best shows and performances to appear on television and streaming services between June 1, 2014 and May 31, 2015, were announced in Los Angeles by Uzo Aduba (“Orange Is the New Black”) and Cat Deeley (“So You Think You Can Dance”).

The awards will be handed out at a Sept. 20 ceremony to be broadcast on Fox. One of that network’s stars, Andy Samberg of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” will host.

Please check back throughout the morning for a look at surprises and snubs, interviews with nominees, slide shows and more.

Nominees in major categories:

Comedy Series
“Louie”
“Modern Family”
“Parks & Recreation”
“Silicon Valley”
“Transparent”
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
“Veep”

Drama Series
“Better Call Saul”
“Downton Abbey”
“Game of Thrones”
“Homeland”
“House of Cards”
“Mad Men”
“Orange Is The New Black”

Limited Series
“American Crime”
“
American Horror Story: Freak Show”
“Olive Kitteridge”
“The Honorable Woman
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“Wolf Hall”

Outstanding Television Movie
“Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Poirot’s Last Case”
“Bessie”
“Grace of Monaco”
“Hello Ladies: The Movie”
“Killing Jesus”
“Nightingale”

Lead Actor in a Comedy
Anthony Anderson, “Black-ish”
Louis C.K., “Louie”
Don Cheadle, “House of Lies”
Will Forte, “The Last Man on Earth”
Matt LeBlanc, “Episodes”
William H. Macy, “Shameless”
Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent”

Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Edie Falco, “Nurse Jackie”
Lisa Kudrow, “The Comeback”
Julia Louis Dreyfuss, “Veep”
Amy Poehler, “Parks and Recreation”
Amy Schumer, “Inside Amy Schumer”
Lily Tomlin, “Grace and Frankie”

Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Kyle Chandler, “Bloodline”
Jeff Daniels, “The Newsroom”
Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”
Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”
Kevin Spacey, “House of Cards”

Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Claire Danes, “Homeland”
Viola Davis, “How To Get Away With Murder”
Taraji P. Henson, “Empire”
Tatiana Maslany, “Orphan Black”
Elisabeth Moss, “Mad Men”
Robin Wright, “House of Cards”

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Jonathan Banks, “Better Call Saul”
Ben Mendelsohn, “Bloodline”
Jim Carter, “Downton Abbey”
Peter Dinklage, “Game of Thrones”
Alan Cumming, “The Good Wife”
Michael Kelly, “House of Cards”

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Joanne Froggatt, “Downton Abbey”
Lena Headey, “Game of Thrones”
Emilia Clarke, “Game of Thrones”
Christine Baranski, “The Good Wife”
Christina Hendricks, “Mad Men”
Uzo Aduba, “Orange is the New Black”

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Andre Braugher, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
Adam Driver, “Girls”
Keegan-Michael Key, “Key and Peele”
Ty Burrell, “Modern Family”
Tituss Burgess, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
Tony Hale, “Veep”

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Mayim Bialik, “The Big Bang Theory”
Niecy Nash, “Getting On”
Julie Bowen, “Modern Family”
Allison Janney, “Mom”
Kate McKinnon, “Saturday Night Live”
Gaby Hoffmann, “Transparent”
Jane Krakowski, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
Anna Chlumsky, “Veep”

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
Timothy Hutton, “American Crime”
Ricky Gervais, “Derek”
Adrien Brody, “Houdini”
David Oyelowo, “Nightingale”
Richard Jenkins, “Olive Kitteridge”
Mark Rylance, “Wolf Hall”

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
Felicity Huffman, “American Crime”
Jessica Lange, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Queen Latifah, “Bessie”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Honorable Woman”
Frances McDormand, “Olive Kitteridge”
Emma Thompson, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Live From Lincoln Center)”

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
Alan Alda, “The Blacklist”
Michael J. Fox, “The Good Wife”
F. Murray Abraham, “Homeland”
Reg E. Cathey, “House of Cards”
Beau Bridges, “Masters of Sex”
Pablo Schreiber, “Orange Is the New Black”

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Margo Martindale, “The Americans”
Diana Rigg, “Game of Thrones”
Rachel Brosnahan, “House of Cards”
Cicely Tyson, “How To Get Away With Murder”
Allison Janney, “Masters of Sex”
Khandi Alexander, “Scandal”

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Mel Brooks, “The Comedians”
Paul Giamatti, “Inside Amy Schumer”
Bill Hader, “Saturday Night Live”
Louis C.K., “Saturday Night Live”
Bradley Whitford, “Transparent”
Jon Hamm, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Christine Barasnki, “The Big Bang Theory”
Gaby Hoffmann, “Girls”
Pamela Adlon, “Louie”
Elizabeth Banks, “Modern Family”
Joan Cusack, “Shameless”
Tina Fey, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

Outstanding Variety Series
“The Colbert Report”
“The Daily Show”
“Jimmy Kimmel Live”
“Last Week Tonight”
“Late Show With David Letterman”
“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”

Outstanding Reality Competition Program
“The Amazing Race”
“Dancing With the Stars”
“Project Runway”
“So You Think You Can Dance”
“Top Chef”
“The Voice”

Outstanding Variety Sketch Series
“Drunk History”
“Inside Amy Schumer”
“Key & Peele”
“Portlandia”
“Saturday Night Live”

Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special
“The Case Against 8,” HBO
“Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” HBO
“Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,” HBO
“Sinatra: All Or Nothing at All,” HBO
“Virunga,” Netflix”

Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series
“American Masters,” PBS
“Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,” PBS
“The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” HBO
“The Roosevelts: An Intimate History,” PBS
“The Sixties,” CNN

Outstanding Animated Program
“Archer”
“Bob’s Burgers”
“Over the Garden Wall”
“The Simpsons”
“South Park”

Read the full list here.

An earlier version of this list misspelled the given name of an actress nominated for Best Actress in a Drama Series. She is ​Tatiana Maslany, not Tatania.

Can “Empire” help return the broadcast networks to relevance? Can Amazon parlay its Golden Globe wins into a pile of nominations? Can Jon Hamm finally get some love?

Those have been a few key questions this awards season, which will come to a head Thursday at 11:30 am. Eastern time, when nominations for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards are announced by Uzo Aduba (“Orange Is the New Black”) and Cat Deeley (“So You Think You Can Dance”).

The awards, which recognize the best shows and performances to appear on television and streaming services between June 1, 2014 and May 31, 2015, will be handed out at a Sept. 20 ceremony. The show will be broadcast on Fox, and one of that network’s stars, Andy Samberg of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” will host.

The Times will have a live stream of the nomination announcement:

AMC’s “Mad Men,” which ended its 7-season run, this past May, will likely cast a long shadow over the drama category. “Breaking Bad,” another critically beloved AMC drama, won five Emmys for its final season. “Mad Men” has won the award for top drama four times, most recently in 2011, but not one member of its ensemble cast has ever won an Emmy during its run. (Mr. Hamm has been nominated seven times, to no avail.)

The drama category has been dominated in recent years by cable and streaming series — “Game of Thrones” and “House of Cards” are other perennial nominees and because of a rule change marking hour-long shows as dramas and half-hour-long shows as comedies, Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black,” will be considered a drama this year despite having been nominated as a comedy in 2014.

In fact, none of the big four networks have had a show nominated for best drama since 2011. That will likely change thanks to the arrival of “Empire,” the biggest TV hit of 2015. The series, a sudsy melodrama set amongst the family members that own a hip-hop and R&B music label, might not win the top award but star Taraji P. Henson, who blazed across the screen during the show’s abbreviated first season, is a best actress favorite. If Ms. Henson is nominated alongside Viola Davis from “How To Get Away With Murder” and Kerry Washington from “Scandal,” there is a chance that an African American actress might win that category for the first time.

On the comedy side broadcasters remain more relevant. ABC’s “Modern Family” has won the top award five years in a row. Could this be the year TV’s other 800-pound sitcom, CBS’s “Big Bang Theory,” knocks it off of its perch? (That series’s star, Jim Parsons, has won four Emmys.) Other possible contenders include FX’s “Louie” and HBO’s “Veep” and “Silicon Valley,” as well as upstarts like ABC’s “Black-ish,” Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and “Jane the Virgin” on the CW.

But the comedy that might have the best shot of all of toppling “Modern Family” is Amazon’s “Transparent,” a show about an even more modern family. The widely acclaimed series won a Golden Globe in January. Jeffery Tambor, who stars as a paterfamilias undergoing gender reassignment, should be favored in the best actor category.

“Transparent” is part of a second wave of streaming originals, following trailblazers like “House of Cards” and “Orange Is the New Black.” While “Transparent” seems likely to get at least a few nominations on Thursday, it remains to be seen whether other well-regarded new streaming shows such as “Daredevil” and “Bloodline” will benefit.

Several Emmy rule changes should both broaden and rearrange the nominees this year. The mini-series category has been redefined as “limited series,” and will be the home for both old-style mini-series like “Wolf Hall” and increasingly popular anthology series like “American Horror Story.”

And perhaps in acknowledgement of the ever-deepening pool of both late-night talk shows and innovative sketch programs, like “Key and Peele” and “Inside Amy Schumer,” the variety category has been split into “variety sketch series” and “variety talk series.”

Expect the usual suspects to be nominated in the latter category, though it will be interesting to see if “Late Show with David Letterman,” which hasn’t been nominated since 2009, will get a nod or even a win for its final season.

An earlier version of this post misspelled the surname of Cat Deeley.