“Game of Thrones” leads Emmy nominations, here are top categories

Nominations for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced Thursday morning and there were some familiar faces.

Game of Thrones is back and led the nominations with 22 nods, including outstanding drama against last year's winner, The Handmaid's Tale. The Americans, The Crown, Stranger Things, This Is Us and Westworld will also compete for top drama.

Elisabeth Moss was nominated for lead actresss in a drama for her work in The Handmaid's Tale, as were The Crown's Claire Foy, Keri Russell from The Americans, Sandra Oh from Killing Eve, Westworld's Evan Rachel Wood and Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany.

Jason Bateman in Ozark, Sterling K. Brown and Milo Ventimiglia from This Is Us, Ed Harris and Jeffrey Wright in Westworld and Matthew Rhys from The Americans are vying for best actor in a drama series.

This year's top comedy nominations went to Atlanta, Barry, Black-ish, Curb Your Enthusiasm, GLOW, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Silicon Valley and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Samira Wiley from The Handmaid's Tale and Ryan Eggold from New Amsterdam announced the nominations.

A full list of nominees can be found at Emmys.com.

The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards will be broadcast September 17 on NBC.

By Lisa Respers France, CNN. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2018 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.

The Gayly – July 12, 2018 @ 11:10 a.m. CDT.