We spy more Emmy milestones for Donald Glover

Donald Glover, co-creator and star of Prime Video’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,� could substantially bolster his current career tally of 11 Emmy nominations.

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Glover could vie in four drama categories: actor, director, writer and producer of the show about a spy couple. Glover already ...

2017

... received nominations in all those categories for comedy in a single year for his acclaimed FX show “Atlanta.� He won two that year for …

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... directing and acting. The first Black directing winner in the comedy category. Glover was also just the second Black actor to win as comedy lead, after Robert Guillaume (“Benson�), and second director to win for directing himself since …

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... Alan Alda, from “M*A*S*H.�

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Only Carroll O’Connor has won lead actor Emmys for both comedy (“All in the Family�) and drama (“In the Heat of the Night�). Glover could be the second.

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Glover’s biggest awards haul came in 2019, when, as musical act Childish Gambino, he won song and record of the year, rap/sung performance and music video Grammys for his politically charged song “This Is America.�

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Writers Guild of America awards Glover has won: two for “Atlanta� and three for “30 Rock.� He wrote for the Tina Fey show in his 20s, before ...

2009

... starting a four-season-plus run as jock-turned-nerd Troy Barnes on the beloved NBC sitcom “Community.�

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“Mr. & Mrs. Smith� co-lead Maya Erskine seems a near lock for a nomination as well. The two most prominent women in previous Glover-created projects — Zazie Beetz (“Atlanta�) and Dominique Fishback (“Swarm�) — received nominations.