Ryan Up For Best Reality Host; American Idol Snags 7 Nominations

Congrats to Ryan for his Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program category for American Idol!

Ryan is up against Phil Keoghan (The Amazing Race), Tom Bergeron (Dancing with the Stars), Heidi Klum (Project Runway), Jeff Probst (Survivor) and Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio (Top Chef).

American Idol also received seven Emmy nominations in the following categories:

- Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
- Outstanding Art Direction For Variety, Music or Nonfiction Programming
- Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series
- Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic, Multi-Camera) for Variety, Music or Comedy Programming
- Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety or Music Series or Special
- Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming
- Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Series.

The Emmys air Sunday, September 20 at 8/7c on CBS.