How 'Lost' Will Find the Emmys Again - By: Groshan Fabiola

2006 saw the victory of Lost as it won the Emmy award for Outstanding Drama Series. Last year, however, all the major categories seem to have neglected the series' existence, except for Henry Ian Cusick’s Guest Actor nomination for playing Desmond. This year, the new rules changes has yet affected Lost's changes of being nominated in the Emmys, although this time contributing to the show's possible big comeback to its early levels of greatness.

In the year that Lost won the Emmy, the nomination process entirely depended on the voters to pick their favorites, and whatever shows get the top five votes become the official nominees. It was also the same year as Lost's first season, and everyone was raving about it being the hot new show with massive ratings.

However, a little later, the Academy of Arts and Sciences saw this process as unfair and being too similar to a popularity contest, thus leaving nothing to the underdog shows that may have higher quality. The Academy decided to revise the process and make it more of merit-based, rather than popularity based. In this new process which took off last year, the top ten shows from the popular vote were each required to submit a single episode and voter panels were to gather for a weekend to watch and discuss the submitted episodes and later rank them. This was when the nominees were chosen.

Last year, Lost did make it to the top ten, however, it was ignored primarily because of their submission being the season two premiere entitled "Man of Science, Man of Faith." It opened with Desmond being in the hatch, and that did not quite meet the panel's expectations. It wasn't difficult to imagine Emmy voters gathering in a room saying, "Who is that? I thought they were on an island, why is there a blender and a record player?"

This year, Emmy nomination rules were again revised, this time in favor of Lost. This time, the final five nominations will depend both on popularity and the tape they send in. The shows that make it may be popular, but the sent in tape might be the cause of them getting off the list, or underdog shows can make it if they submit incredible tapes.

In this case, Lost can easily snatch off a nominee spot from the rest on the list, as it had just shows audiences its mind-blowing finale which got everyone talking again. That last episode entitled "Through the Looking Glass" is what they have sent in for judgment, which was a good move for the show. Although panelists may be confused, there are a lot of drama, action and tragic scenes that may impress them, as well as the length of the episode which is an hour longer than the usual episodes.

The new rules are also applicable to the acting categories, so Lost could definitely score more than enough nominations. Terry O'Quinn was nominated in the first season's "The Man from Tallahassee," the episode which revealed how John Locke ended up in the wheelchair. Naveen Andrews, who played Sayid, was also nominated for the first season's "Enter 77." Voters may also watch Henry Ian Cusick, the only Lost nominee last year, perform in the surreal "Flashes Before Your Eyes."

Michael Emerson, who won an Emmy in 2001 for his guest appearance as a serial killer on The Practice, became a fan favorite when he turned evil in the episode "Every Man for Himself." Elizabeth Mitchell has also received rave reviews for her performance in "One of Us."

July 18 will see the announcement of Emmy nominations and until then, fans will have to wait to find out if Lost made it into the top five. Fans are expected to relax now that the new rules are quite in favor of their favorite show.

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