Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Cloris Leachman, known for her decades-long career in film, television and beyond, has died at the age of 94. She died on Wednesday of natural causes, her rep told Fox News. Leachman was a history-making actress, having racked up more Emmy award wins than any other performer in the business with eight awards for primetime programming and an additional Daytime Emmy for appearing in "ABC Afterschool Specials."

The Emmy nominations are always "political," but they're rarely political. While many non-artistic factors may affect the anointing of a chosen handful with the word "best," the nominations, at least as a group, rarely reflect the sociopolitical concerns of the American citizenry. In the midst of a presidential race bristling with divisive issues and distrust, the Television Academy singled out a large number of series that took on that distrust and those issues in ways dramatic, comedic and deeply human. Political TV came in two distinct forms this year. Robot," "Veep"--reflect a near-hopeless cynicism toward actual government. Other nominated series took on issues rather than governance --"black-ish," "The People v. O.J. Simpson," "American Crime"-- and directly addressed complicated themes, especially those of race, in a way that is, if not always hopeful, at least productive. Likewise, series anchored by the once-rare strong female lead and her experience filled virtually every ...

Power-and-blood fantasy saga "Game of Thrones" ruled the Emmy Award nominations Thursday with a leading 23 bids, including best drama, while a real-life epic of murder and celebrity, "The People v. O.J. Simpson," was close behind with 22 nods. "Game of Thrones" gets the chance to win its second top Emmy, while "Veep," last year's top comedy winner, also will get another shot at holding office and with 17 nominations was the comedy leader. Breakthrough nominations include a best comedy series nod for sophomore "black-ish," which brought the African-American family sitcom back to network TV, with bids as well for its stars, Anthony Anderson -- who announced the awards Thursday and read his own name with glee -- and his co-star Tracee Ellis Ross. They were among a number of black actors recognized by TV academy voters, who have started to keep pace with TV's growing diversity -- in sharp contrast to moviedom's Academy Awards, which were slammed as "Oscars So White" this year. Viola Davis, the "How to Get Away with Murder" star who last year became the first woman of color to win a best drama actress trophy, was nominated again.