There is a quiet truth about the Emmy race for outstanding television movie, and it runs directly counter to everything the Oscars have trained pundits to expect. At the Academy Awards, the safest path to a best picture nomination is the prestige drama. At the Emmys , the movie category can be where comedies and other genres thrive. Part of this is simply supply. The serious, awards-minded films that once might have premiered as stand-alone TV movies now almost always arrive as a limited series,