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Beyonce at 2024 NFL Christmas Day Halftime Present and Kendrick Lamar at Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime Present
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Key Takeaways:
- Each artists are nominated for Excellent Selection Particular (Stay) on the 2025 Emmys.
- Beyoncé’s ‘Beyoncé Bowl’ additionally obtained nominations for choreography, directing, and manufacturing design.
- Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl LIX efficiency is acknowledged for music route and choreography.
Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar are going head-to-head on the 2025 Emmy Awards. On Tuesday (July 15), nominations had been introduced, with the Beyoncé Bowl and Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime Present every scoring a number of nods.
Beyoncé’s NFL Christmas Day Halftime Present, which she co-directed with Alex Rudzinski final 12 months, picked up nominations for Excellent Directing for a Selection Particular and Excellent Selection Particular (Stay). In each classes, she’ll be competing in opposition to Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime Present, in addition to The Oscars, SNL 50: The Anniversary Particular, SNL 50: The Homecoming Live performance, and the 77th Annual Tony Awards.
Moreover, Beyoncé Bowl choreographers Tyrik Patterson, Allure La’Donna, Christopher Grant, and Parris Goebel are up for Excellent Choreography for Selection or Actuality Programming. In keeping with Deadline, they’re being acknowledged for the chart-topping “TEXAS HOLD ‘EM,” “SWEET HONEY BUCKIIN’,” and “MY HOUSE.” Final however not least, the Netflix particular additionally picked up a nomination for Excellent Manufacturing Design for a Selection Particular.
Curiously sufficient, La’Donna can also be competing in opposition to herself in the identical choreography class, due to her work on Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime Present performances of “HUMBLE.” and “Not Like Us.” The Compton rapper and music director Tony Russell landed one other nomination for Excellent Music Course. By extension, JAY-Z’s Roc Nation, Jesse Collins Leisure, and Lamar’s personal pgLang are all amongst this 12 months’s nominees.
It’s price noting that Lamar already has an Emmy win underneath his belt, and for nearly precisely the identical factor. In 2022, Dr. Dre’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present, which featured Lamar alongside Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, and Eminem, took residence Excellent Selection Particular (Stay).
Beyoncé, then again, has garnered a number of nominations through the years, together with nods for her Tremendous Bowl XLVII Halftime Present, visible album Lemonade, and Homecoming documentary on Netflix.