For the record, tomorrow's Daily Variety carries the following notice wrapping up this situation…
WGA animation writing award winner Mark Evanier is a three-time Emmy nominee. Information in Thursday's paper was incorrect.
It's kind of an interesting way to phrase it. I was advised not to ask for the correction for fear they'd write something that implied I'd claimed the three Emmys and they had just now caught me in a fib. The above doesn't admit that the mistake was theirs, but it also doesn't tell what they're correcting. Unless someone hauls out last Thursday's issue — which no one will bother to do — they won't know what's being corrected. They might assume the original piece had said I was a two-time Emmy nominee, for instance. I'd have preferred it if they'd said something to indicate the mistake, whatever it was, was wholly on their end. But I guess this will do.
Maybe I'm making too much of it but I don't want anyone to think I'm one of those people who claims awards he hasn't won. There was a guy a few years ago who was taking big ads in the Hollywood trade papers saying he was a five-time Emmy winner when he wasn't. He'd never even been nominated once.
I think what had happened was that he'd worked on five shows that had won Emmys but he himself had not won one. They're very specific about who actually receives an award when the show does and he did not have a position on any of the shows that made him an actual Emmy recipient. If The Tonight Show wins an Emmy as best show, that means that everyone who worked on the show worked on an Emmy-Winning show. It does not mean everyone who worked on the program is an Emmy winner. But some folks like to confuse the issue.