Nominations for the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on July 19, 2007, with Cartoon Network receiving the most primetime Emmy nominations for animated shows with three. CN's ROBOT CHICKEN is in the primetime Emmy Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour) race with SOUTH PARK, THE SIMPSONS, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS and AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER. Cartoon Network also picked up two noms for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour) for its WHERE'S LAZLO? and GOOD WILT HUNTING (FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS), competing against SECRETS OF THE DEEP and HELLBOY ANIMATED: SWORD OF STORMS.

Discovery Channel's SECRETS OF THE DEEP was also nominated for Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Miniseries, Movie or a Special, competing against DRIVE, THE PATH TO 9/11 and NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES: FROM THE STORIES OF STEPHEN KING and BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, which each received two noms for different parts of the series.

Competing for Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series category are BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, EUREKA, GREY'S ANATOMY, HEROES and ROME.

BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE received the most nominations of any program in the race with 17, closely followed by BROKEN TRAIL with 16 and THE SOPRANOS, which received 15.

Awards for the majority of animation and visual effects categories will be presented on Sept. 8 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, in a non-televised ceremony. The main program categories and honors for acting and writing will be handed out during the telecast at the Shrine Sept. 16 on FOX.

Additional awards may also be given for the "juried areas" (nominations) of Voice Over Performance and Individual Achievement in Animation, which will be released in August. Additional awards may also be given for Engineering Development, Interactive Television Programming and the Governors Award.

A list of animation, commercial and visual effects related nominees follow:

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM (For Programming Less Than One Hour)

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER -- City Of Walls And Secrets -- Nickelodeon -- Nickelodeon Animation Studio

ROBOT CHICKEN -- Lust For Puppets -- Cartoon Network -- ShadowMachine Films

SOUTH PARK -- Make Love, Not Warcraft -- Comedy Central -- Central Productions

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS -- Bummer Vacation / Wig Struck -- Nickelodeon -- Nickelodeon Animation Studio in association with United Plankton Pictures, Inc.

THE SIMPSONS -- The Haw-Hawed Couple -- Fox -- Gracie Films in association with 20th Century Fox

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM (FOR PROGRAMMING ONE HOUR OR MORE)

GOOD WILT HUNTING (FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS) -- Cartoon Network -- Cartoon Network Studios

HELLBOY ANIMATED: SWORD OF STORMS -- Starz -- Starz Media in association with Revolution Studios

SECRETS OF THE DEEP -- Discovery Channel -- Impossible Pictures in association with Discovery Channel

WHERE'S LAZLO? (Camp Lazlo) --Cartoon Network -- Cartoon Network Studios

OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS FOR A SERIES

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA -- EXODUS, PART 2 -- Sci Fi Channel -- R+D TV in association with NBC Universal Television Studio Tom Archer, Lead Compositor Brenda Campbell, Lead Compositor Doug Drexler, CG Supervisor Michael Gibson, Senior VFX Coordinator Jeremy Hoey, Lead Matte Painter Gary Hutzel, VFX Supervisor Andrew Karr, CGI Supervisor Alec McClymont, Lead CGI Artist/ Animator Adam Mojo, CGI Sequence Designer

EUREKA -- Pilot -- Sci Fi Channel -- NBC Universal Television Studio Elizabeth Alvarez, Visual Effects Coordinator Jamie Clark, Lead CGI Artist / Animator Jarrod Davis, CGI Supervisor Ben Funk, Lead Matte Artist Robert Habros, Visual Effects Supervisor Lane Jolly, Lead Visual Effects Compositor Darren Marcox, Special Effects Supervisor Matthew S, Visual Effects Producer Tom Tennisco, Lead Model Maker