Emmy Nominations for 2018: Glow, Mrs Maisel, Game of Thrones, and the Snubbing of Mindhunter
Friday, July 13, 2018 at 12:36AM 
Happy 70th, Emmys! The big awards night won't be held until September 17th (hosted by Colin Jost and Michael Che) but the nominations were announced this morning. The Emmys have so many categories that beware when you see any site that says "full list of nominees." Even the major news outlets (like Variety and all the massive circulation papers) do this while leaving out a shit ton of categories. In other words don't believe it when anyone says "full list". The only place that regularly shares that is the Emmy site itself. Here's the PDF.
The behemoth, once again, is "Game of Thrones" which, after a year off, returns again to its throne of "Most Nominated Show" just barely edging out "Saturday Night Live," "West World" and "The Handmaid's Tale" all of which received 20 or more nominations. I was particularly happy about plentiful nominations for "GLOW" though it's worth noting that these nominations are not from the show as we know it right this second but from season 1 a full year ago.
After the jump the major stuff and a few other categories that we're interested in...
Drama Series
“The Handmaid’s Tale” S2
“Game of Thrones” s7
“This Is Us” S2
“The Crown” S2
“The Americans” S6
“Stranger Things” S2
“Westworld” S2
7 nominees this year. It's the same list as last year but for the return of Game of Thrones (not eligible last year) and The Americans (the final season gave it enough juice to return as it was clearly a bubble show having risen in esteem each year until finally breaking through with the season 4 and apparently just missing with season 5). Better Call Saul and House of Cards weren't dropped from the list exactly. Neither were eligible. The rule is the same as always: The Television Academy does not change their lists unless they have to!
Next year they won't even have to change the list either. The Americans will drop out since it's over but then they can just bring back Saul or House of Cards since they'll be returning. Expect this same list for years to come since most of the shows are only on their second season. The big question: will "Game of Thrones" win its 3rd Best Series prize or can "The Handmaid's Tale" repeat last year's win?
this show... so fabulous.
Comedy Series
“Atlanta” (FX) S2
“Barry” (HBO) S1
“Black-ish” (ABC) S4
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” (HBO) S9
“GLOW” (Netflix) S1
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon) S1
“Silicon Valley” (HBO) S5
“The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix) S4
8 nominess this year when there were 7 last year so let's just say it had to expand to include the return of Curb which has been nominatd for every one of its 9 seasons. The had room for two new since Master of None and Veep took the year off and weren't eligible but Modern Family finally missed the list in its 9th season. Thus three debuts: GLOW, Mrs. Maisel, and Barry. If Emmy is true to form they'll be nominated for each of their remaining seasons so welcome shows.
But the big news: Since the past eight years worth of Best Comedy Series prizes have gone to either "Veep" and "Modern Family" and both are out of the way now, we'll finally get a new "Best Comedy Series" winner. May the best show win!
i tried to get into this one but lost interest. You?
Limited Series
“The Alienist”
“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”
“Genius: Picasso”
“Godless”
“Patrick Melrose”
Lead Actor in a Drama Series:
Jason Bateman (“Ozark”)
Sterling K. Brown (“This Is Us”)
Ed Harris (“Westworld”)
Matthew Rhys (“The Americans”)
Milo Ventimiglia (“This Is Us”)
Jeffrey Wright (“Westworld”)
Brown, Rhys, and Ventimiglia return but the rest of the field is shaken up, given that Hopkins, Odenkirk, and Schreiber, and Spacey weren't eligible this go around. That left three or four open slots so they welcomed in Jason Bateman for his first season of Ozark, Harris for his second season of Westworld, and promoted Wright (who was a supporting nominees last season)
I was personally disappointed not to see Jonathan Groff here for "Mindhunter"... not that I expected to see him. The Netflix serial killer was almost completely ignored.
Lead Actress in a Drama Series:
Claire Foy (“The Crown”)
Tatiana Maslany (“Orphan Black”)
Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale”)
Sandra Oh (“Killing Eve”)
Keri Russell (“The Americans”)
Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”)
Foy, Moss (who won last year), Russell, and Wood are repeats. Maslany returns (after winning two years ago). The big news is that Sandra Oh arrives for the very buzzy Killing Eve (though the series itself was conspicuously absent in the Best Drama Series despite that same buzz). It received only 1 other nomination - Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. For the first time ever in Emmy history Network television was completely shut out of this particular race because Viola Davis missed a nod for her fourth season of How to Get Away With Murder (3 previous noms for the show, the first of which she won for)
Lead Actor in a Comedy Series:
Donald Glover (“Atlanta”)
Bill Hader (“Barry”)
Anthony Anderson (“Black-ish”)
William H. Macy (“Shameless”)
Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”)
Ted Danson (“The Good Place”)
It's no surprise that Tambor misses for the first time for Transparent's fourth season (after 3 previous noms, 2 leading to wins) given his recent firing from the show and the harassment allegations. With Tambor gone will Glover repeat his win from last year? The rest of the field are all regularly nominated for these shows with the exception of newbie Bill Hader for his debuting series and Ted Danson who missed for Season 1 of this well-regarded show. This is Danson's 16th nomination. He won this category thrice during his long long run on "Cheers"
Lead Actress in a Comedy Series:
Pamela Adlon (“Better Things”)
Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Tracee Ellis Ross (“Black-ish”)
Allison Janney (“Mom”)
Lily Tomlin (“Grace and Frankie”)
Issa Rae (“Insecure”)
Suddenly competitive! Julia Louis-Dreyfus has had a strangehold on this category for six consecutive years (an Emmy record) but since Veep is on hiatus, there's finally a chance for some other funny lady to win. Adlon, Janney, Ross, and Tomlin have all returned but Fonda and Kemper (both nominated last year) were snubbed in favor of newbies Issa Rae and Rachel Brosnahan (the latter of whom could even win this whole thing with such much enthusiasm for that show. We'll see)
Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie:
Antonio Banderas (“Genius: Picasso”)
Darren Criss (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”)
Benedict Cumberbatch (“Patrick Melrose”)
Jeff Daniels (“The Looming Tower”)
John Legend (“Jesus Christ Superstar”)
Jesse Plemons (“Black Mirror: USS Callister”)
Hmmm, who do you think will win this? I'm not usually a Plemons fan but I loved that episode of Black Mirror. It was great, right?
CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT: Kyle Maclachlan for Twin Peaks who was Globe nominated in their parallel category.
Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie:
Laura Dern (“The Tale”)
Jessica Biel (“The Sinner”)
Michelle Dockery (“Godless”)
Edie Falco (“The Menendez Murders”)
Regina King (“Seven Seconds”)
Sarah Paulson (“American Horror Story: Cult”)
This is the first season of American Horror Story that I haven't heard anyone talk about in real life but given Paulson's popularity perhaps it's not a surprise that she returns? This year it's a who's who of TV since Dockery, Falco, King, Dern and Paulson are all Emmy darlings. The only one of that quintent that hasn't previously won an Emmy is Dockery -- this is her fourth Emmy nomination (following 3 for Downton Abbey). The only first time nominee in the line up is Jessica Biel.
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”)
Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”)
Joseph Fiennes (“The Handmaid’s Tale”)
David Harbour (“Stranger Things”)
Mandy Patinkin (“Homeland”)
Matt Smith (“The Crown”)
Lots of changes this year but from necessity. Last years winner John Lithgow (The Crown) was not eligible since he was only really in the first season of this British royals show. They replaced him with another Crown regular Matt Smith. Dinklage is returning to the category he's won twice since he wasn't eligible last year. But the big news is that Coster-Waldau and Joseph Fiennes, not previously nominated for their work on these two programs, received their very first Emmy nominations. In Coster-Waldau's case that's a "finally!" after 7 seasons on TV's most popular show.
Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Alexis Bledel (“The Handmaid’s Tale”)
Millie Bobby Brown (“Stranger Things”)
Ann Dowd (“The Handmaid’s Tale”)
Lena Headey (“Game of Thrones”)
Vanessa Kirby (“The Crown”)
Thandie Newton (“Westworld”)
Yvonne Strahovski (“The Handmaid’s Tale”)
Last year's Handmaid champs Ann Dowd (YAS!) and Alexis Bledel (promoted to supporting from the "guest" category she won last year) returns as do Newton (the presumed runner up given how great she is on Westworld) and Brown, and Lena Headey (since her show is back on). The only real newbies are Kirby and Strahovski (breaking in after missing last year for the The Handmaid's Tale).
What a competitive category ! Somehow Headey has never won despite the Emmy's love of all things Game of Thrones. But Dowd or Bledel could repeat their Emmy wins, or Newton could take it or or or... Good category.
Titus Burgess and Jane Krakowski. It's absolutely absurd that neither of them have won an Emmy yet
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Louie Anderson (“Baskets”)
Alec Baldwin (“Saturday Night Live”)
Tituss Burgess (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”)
Brian Tyree Henry (“Atlanta”)
Tony Shalhoub (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Kenan Thompson (“Saturday Night Live”)
Henry Winkler (“Barry”)
I'll just be over here shouting like a madman that Tituss Burgess has still not won this category despite being a) the best thing on his show and b) the funniest performance on any show I personally watch basically. Alec Baldwin and Louie Anderson have both previously won this category and might again given that it's the Emmys. Then again Shalhoub is like an awards magnet so maybe it will be him? What a year this has been for Brian Tyree Henry though, right. He was Tony nominated for Lobby Hero this summer, receives his second Emmy nod (though his first for Atlanta, and he co-stars in Widows, one of the fall's big Oscar hopefuls. In other big news regarding this category this is Kenan Thompson's first nomination for acting and Henry Winkler's seventh overall though he's never won an Emmy. Not even in his Happy Days heyday.
In all honesty, were it not for Roseanne's swift cancellation due to the star's behavior (not the ratings) I would have expected Laurie Metcalf to make a return to Emmy glory.
Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Zazie Beetz (“Atlanta”)
Alex Borstein (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Aidy Bryant (“Saturday Night Live”)
Betty Gilpin (“GLOW”)
Leslie Jones (“Saturday Night Live”)
Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Night Live”)
Laurie Metcalf (“Roseanne”)
Megan Mullally (“Will & Grace”)
8 nominees so the voting must have been close. But if you ask us Emmy should make some harder rules about the size of their categories. How is it that the Oscars can figure out how not to have ties that expanding their fields randomly but no other awards body can?
But all that said. Fresh blood. Sort of! Previous winners Metcalf and Mullally return after long absences with their shows, Roseanne and Will & Grace were revived. But there's some actual fresh blood, too. Beetz, Borstein, Bryant, and Gilpin are all receiving their first ever regular acting nominations (though Borstein's been nominated before for voice-over work and producing, and Bryant's been nominated for songwriting with other SNL cast members).
CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT: Jane Krakowski... but then the Emmys have never treated her right. She should have multiple trophies and still struggles for consecutive nominations on each show she's been brilliant on.
Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
Jeff Daniels (“Godless”)
Brandon Victor Dixon (“Jesus Christ Superstar”)
John Leguizamo (“Waco”)
Ricky Martin (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”)
Edgar Ramirez (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”)
Michael Stuhlbarg (“The Looming Tower”)
Finn Wittrock (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”)
I'm just thrilled to see Brandon Victor Dixon here who completely owned that live concert. But trust a Ryan Murphy series to figure out how to own half a category.
Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
Sara Bareilles (“Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert”)
Penelope Cruz (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”)
Judith Light (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”)
Adina Porter (“American Horror Story: Cult”)
Merritt Wever (“Godless”)
Letitia Wright (“Black Mirror: Black Museum”)
Guest Actor in a Drama Series
F. Murray Abraham (“Homeland”)
Cameron Britton (“Mindhunter”)
Matthew Goode (“The Crown”)
Ron Cephas Jones (“This Is Us”)
Gerald McRaney (“This Is Us”)
Jimmi Simpson (“Westworld”)
Very pleased about the Cameron Britton nomination. Damn he was alarming/amazing in Mindhunter and given that they completely shunned the show otherwise, this is a surprise. It means they meant it. In fact, if there were more Emmy nominations like this one, even for shows we didn't like, that indicated they were really thinking about their ballots rather than just putting their 4 favorite shows into all available slots, than the Emmys would immediately get 100 times more interesting and volatile.
In other category news, the world's most handsome man, Matthew Goode, receives his first Emmy nod. Despite solid to great performances in lots of things this is only his third major awards honor in his career having previously been nominated for two different ensemble awards at SAG.
Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Viola Davis (“Scandal”)
Kelly Jenrette (The Handmaid’s Tale”)
Cherry Jones (“The Handmaid’s Tale”)
Diana Rigg (“Game of Thrones”)
Cicely Tyson (“How to Get Away With Murder”)
Samira Wiley (“The Handmaid’s Tale”)
Just when you thought Emmy had let Viola Davis's Annalise Keating go (missing for the first time in Best Actress) they find a way to still nominate her for a crossover episode on anothe Shondaland show, Scandal! Meanwhile, this is Cicely Tyson's 14th Emmy nod, and her third for this occasional character on How to Get Away with Murder.
Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Sterling K. Brown (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”)
Bryan Cranston (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”)
Donald Glover (“Saturday Night Live”)
Bill Hader (“Saturday Night Live”)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”)
Katt Williams (“Atlanta”)
Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Tina Fey (“Saturday Night Live”)
Tiffany Haddish (“Saturday Night Live”)
Jane Lynch (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Maya Rudolph (“The Good Place”)
Molly Shannon (“Will & Grace”)
Wanda Sykes (“Black-ish”)
Yay, Molly Shannon, delivering again as crazy neighbor Val on Will & Grace
Reality Competition
“The Amazing Race” S30
“American Ninja Warrior” S9
“Project Runway” S16
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” S10
“Top Chef” S15
“The Voice” S13-14
A very long in the tooth category, this.
Variety Sketch Series
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
“Portlandia” (IFC)
“Drunk History” (Comedy Central)
“Tracey Ullman’s Show” (HBO)
“At Home with Amy Sedaris” (TruTV)
“I Love You, America” (Hulu)
Variety Talk Series
“The Daily Show With Trevor Noah”
“Full Frontal With Samantha Bee”
“Jimmy Kimmel Live”
“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”
“Late Late Show with James Corden
“Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
Yay, Samantha Bee, breaking up the boys club.
Television Movie
“Fahrenheit 451” (HBO)
“Flint” (Lifetime)
“Paterno” (HBO)
“The Tale” (HBO)
“Black Mirror: USS Callister” (Netflix)
Ah, that was such a great episode of Black Mirror, wasn't it?
Structured Reality Program
“Antiques Roadshow” (PBS)
“Fixer Upper” (HGTV)
“Lip Sync Battle” (Paramount)
“Queer Eye” (Netflix)
“Shark Tank” (ABC)
“Who Do You Think You Are?” (TLC)
Shark Tank has won this category four times. The original Queer Eye in 2004 won it once. The rest of these have never won.
Unstructured Reality Program
“Born This Way” (A&E)
“Deadliest Catch” (Discovery)
“Intervention” (A&E)
“Naked and Afraid” (Discovery Channel)
“RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked” (VH1)
“United Shades of America With W. Kamau Bell” (CNN)
United Shades of America won last time around after a long dominance of this category by Deadliest Catch.
Host for Reality/Reality Competition Program
W. Kamau Bell (“United Shades of America With W. Kamau Bell”)
Ellen DeGeneres (“Ellen’s Game of Games”)
RuPaul Charles (“RuPaul’s Drag Race”)
Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn (“Project Runway”)
Jane Lynch (“Hollywood Game Night”)
RuPaul has won this category for the past two years. Third time?
Outstanding Variety Special (Live)
75th Annual Golden Globe Awards
60th Annual Grammy Awards
90th Annual Academy Awards
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs
Someday we should probably do some research to see which years of the Oscars were snubbed here.
CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT: The Tony Awards which only rarely misses this category. I think the last time was 12 years ago? It's won 8 of the past 11 years.
Outstanding Animated Program
"Big Hero Six: The Series" episode "Baymax Returns"
"Bob's Burgers" episode "V for Valentine-detta"
"Rick & Morty" episode "Pickle Rick"
"The Simpsons" episode "Gone Boy"
"South Park" episode "Put it down"
Outstanding Production Design
"American Horror Story: Cult"
"The Handmaid's Tale" episode "June"
"The Handmaid's Tale" episode "Seeds" "First Blood" "After"
"Ozark" episode "My Dripping Sleep"
"Twin Peaks"
Oustanding Cinematography (Half-Hour)
"Atlanta"
"Barry" episode "Know Your Truth"
"The End of the Fucking World" episode 3
"GLOW" episode Pilot
"Insecure" episode "hella LA"
"Mozart in the Jungle" episode "Ichi Go Ichi E"
Outstanding Cinematography (One Hour)
"The Crown" episode "Beryl"
"The Handmaid's Tale" epsidoe "June"
"Legion" episode "Chapter 9"
"The Marvelous Mrs Maisel" episode "Pilot"
"Ozark" episode "The Toll"
"Stranger Things" episode "Chapter One: mad Max"
"Westworld" episode "The Riddle of the Sphinx"
Outstanding Period Costumes
"The Alienist" episode "A Fruitful Partnership"
"The Crown" episode "Dear Mrs Kennedy"
"Genius Picasso" episode "Chapter One"
"The Marvelous Mrs Maisel" episode "The Disappointment of The Dionne Quintuplets"
"Outlander" episode "Freedom and Whisky"
Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-fi Costumes
"Fahrenheit 451"
"Game of Thrones" episode "Beyon the Wall"
"The Handmaid's Tale" episode "Seeds"
"A Series of Unfortunate Events" episode "The Vile Village: Part 1"
"West World" epsiode "Akane No Mai"
Outstanding Contemporary Costumes
"The Assassination of Gianni Versace" episode "The Man Who Would be Vogue"
"black-ish" episode "juneteenth"
"Empire" episode "Slave To Memory"
"Grace and Frankie" episode "The Expiration Date"
"This is Us" episode "The Wedding"
Outstanding Visual Effects
"Altered Carbon" episode "Out of the Past"
"Game of Thrones" episode "Beyond the Wall"
"Lost in Space" episode "Danger, Will Robinson"
"Stranger Things" episode "Chapter Nine: The Gate"
"Westworld" episode "The Passenger"
Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance
Seth MacFarlane for "American Dad!" episode "The Talented Mr Dingleberry"
Alex Borstein for "Family Guy" episode "Nanny Goats"
Seth MacFarlane for "Family Guy" episode "Send in Stewie, Please"
Russi Taylor for "The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular"
Dan Castallaneta for "The Simpsons" episode "Fear of Clowns
I only list this category because I've never understood the nominations. It's basically always the Seth MacFarlane show and the cast of "Bob's Burgers" and "Archer" are almost always ignored despite steadily brilliant work. So strange. Who votes on these things?
HOW ARE YOU FEELING ABOUT THIS YEAR'S EMMY NOMINATIONS?
Reader Comments (49)
What do you think of the Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie category?
the best show can’t win best comedy because ‘the good place’ wasn’t nominated!
i suspect the tony awards were tainted by kevin spacey
With so many great programs, series, limited series to choose from it's impossible to keep up.
I am still addicted to Game of Thrones (sometimes it's great, sometimes it's not).
But this year I watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - what a treat. I'm hoping for an emmy for this show.
Regretfully, The Good Fight, with Christine Baranski was not nominated. I think season 2 of The Good Fight was better than the season 2 of Handmaid's Tale. But that's the strange world of peak tv and 57 platforms.
Anyone watching Schitt's Creek will agree with me that Catherine O'Hara is doing some of her best work. There's just too much to see.
I think I read the Tonys weren't submitted because well, if they had been nominated Kevin Spacey would be a nominee. So they nabbed a single lone tech nomination.
Love Harbour and MBB, but Noah Schnapp and Natalia Tena were this seasons standouts.
I'm with LadyEdith. The Good Fight had a superb second season, really digging into what it means to live through the Trump administration. I feel like that show gets a lot of stick because it's 'a procedural', but it's running circles round shows that look more ambitious on paper.
I hope Claire Foy wins this year for The Crown, not only because I think she's the best in a stacked category, but because this is her final chance at bat and she's pulling off a real high-wire act with that portrayal, which isn't *exactly* sympathetic to Elizabeth. Lovely to see Sandra Oh sneak in (thought the lack of love elsewhere for Killing Eve is a shame).
Surprised Elisabeth Moss and Nicole Kidman couldn't get nominated on name alone for Top of The Lake. I guess that show wasn't campaigning as well as others.
Wow Hader and Glover are gonna be facing off a lot on Emmys night - Comedy Actor, comedy series, comedy guest actor and considering that each do a ton behind the cameras on their shows I think they’re facing off in writing and directing categories too.
Seriously?! You wanted Groff to be nominated for best actor drama? Did we watched the same show? He was the very definition of “over acting” and....nevermind.
Nat: Its definitely not Game of Thrones winning Drama Series, which was already somewhat in that "the story's collapsing" phase of its reception when it won both of its Drama Series wins. (Also: Not really having another "winner" challenger yet in the years it did win probably helped a lot. The likeliest alternate, Better Call Saul, would still have been embarrassing as a winner.) Probably Handmaid's again, with The Americans and Stranger Things as the potential spoilers.
I wish Crazy Ex Girlfriend had broken in somewhere! This past season was the best yet in my opinion. The Good Place deserves more love and I’m sad that Jane the Virgin is never acknowledged.
Schreiber was totally elegible for Ray Donovan.
Happy for Sandra Oh and Alex Borstein. The MacLachlan snub is such a travesty!
Where can I find the pdf with all the contenders of the season? You know, the one with 800 pages.
Diana Rigg really ought to win the Guest Actress prize. She was brilliant as the Queen of Thorns. And let's hope Lena Headey finally wins after all these years.
I doubt that this will happen at all, but if John Legend wins, he will complete the EGOT, having already won numerous Grammys, the Oscar for Best Original Song, and the Tony for producing Jitney.
Speaking of Jesus Christ Superstar, I'm surprised to see those three acting nominations considering that live musical productions are classified as variety programming instead of TV movies, but the Academy always has been loose with how things and people are nominated.
Very happy for Sandra Oh, Vanessa Kirby, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Given that they, weirdly, nominated almost everyone for Versace (and I'm quite happy to see Light nominated), I am disappointed for Cody Fern. And while I've cooled on Seth MacFarlane (ugh, that Oscars) "Send in Stewie, Please" is one of the best episodes in Family Guy's ~300 episode run, so I'm happy to see it highlighted.
Troy H., it's like when they nominated Emma Thompson for her abysmal Sweeney Todd - Live from the Lincoln Centre!
The Americans was robbed of some very key nominations. A shutout in directing is unforgivable for a show that's given us some of the best-directed sequences on film OR television of the last six years. Yet Ozark gets two nods. Those seven-nominee lineups really add insult to injury.
If voters *really* appreciated the final season then Holly Taylor and (especially) Noah Emmerich would have gotten nominations. He's more excellent than every supporting actor nominee I've seen.
All this makes me worry that Russell has no chance of winning—Emmy clearly doesn't love the show the way fans, critics and most smart people do.
I'm also surprised that Jodie Foster and Rosemarie DeWitt were snubbed for their Black Mirror episode.
evangelina, yeah. I think that when they discontinued the category for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, performances like this with nowhere to go had to be acknowledged elsewhere, which is why the SNL cast members often find themselves cited in the comedy acting categories nowadays.
Speaking of comedy, I totally could see Metcalf winning her fourth award for playing "Jackie" the way her career has been resurging.
It only took 19 years since Strangers with Candy premiered for an Amy Sedaris show or TV appearance to finally get an Emmy nomination. There's no way in hell a show that weird is winning even in the Variety category, but her and her regular collaborators are finally getting the recognition they deserve.
I think there's a good chance that some of the nominated actors for Jesus Christ Superstar are going to win the limited/TV movie acting categories. Brandon Victor Dixon and Sara Bareillas were especially good.
Hayden - Right? Noah Emmerich definitely deserved a Supporting Actor nomination. I can't believe they nominated boring Matt Smith and Joseph Fiennes over him. Supporting Actor seems to be the worst category across awards shows. (Not to mention, how is THIS the Fiennes getting awards attention? He's easily the worst actor on The Handmaid's Tale.)
Given these nominations, I would expect that The Handmaid's Tale and The Crown have more backers than one might otherwise think.
I also wish Alison Brie were nominated for GLOW. But there are a lot of nominations to be happy about - the nominations for The Americans (it's hard to claim Emmy nominations are always the same when their so scattershot for some of the best tv), Ted Danson, Sandra Oh, and Titus (I was afraid they'd forget him with the short season).
Poor Angela Lansbury
My one wish was Cody Fern for Gianni Versace. Ricky Martin - really?!?
I'm also sick and tired of Alec Baldwin's Trump imitation. Alex Moffatt was MVP on Saturday Night Live last season and far more deserving of a nomination.
I LOVE that At Home with Amy Sedaris got a nomination. It's such a perfect distillation of Sedaris' kooky brilliance.
I hate that Alec Baldwin got a nom for his increasingly lazy Trump impression while Anthony Atamaniuk's brilliant and biting take on The President Show is overlooked.
Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys for The Americans. If they don't win, there really is no point to the Emmys. They made the "wig-and-kick" of that show work like no one else could.
Happy for Sandra Oh, but Jodie Comer is the MVP of Killing Eve, WITHOUT A DOUBT.
I'm with CharlieG re The Americans. Keri Russell better get her Emmy after 6 seasons of stellar peformances!
laurie metcalf is an awards magnet - nominated for an oscar, won a tony, nominated for an emmy, all within six months
I'm enraged Melora Walters' guest spot on SVU didn't garner a nomination. Her work on that episode left me in pieces. It was a performance I haven't been able to shake since I saw it... if you haven't seen that episode, watch it - tell me it isn't worthy of a nomination (I'd argue, the WIN!)
My fear for Russell is that it will be so easy for them to award Moss again. They went nuts for the show this year and it swept last year. Plus you've got Foy in the mix and Sandra Oh with so much buzz, which I'm sure she deserves.
Both Foy and Russell deserve to be Emmy winners for their work, but unfortunately Handmaids Tale is the big, punishing element in the room, just as they leave TV. There was very good, very critical NYT piece about that show recently.
So happy Stahovski made it in. Her work in s2 was incredible. The scene in the nursery where she has to deny Moss her request to see her daughter was maybe the best-acted scene the whole season.
Also happy Newton got in. She's easily the best thing about Westworld. Harris and especially Wood (so monotone and one-note this season) shouldn't even be there. Wright should maaaaybe be there because he's always good but even that's a stretch.
God, can they just give Burgess the award already? Please not Baldwin again. That impression is so played out. I can't believe the academy is still falling for it.
Go Rae! Not thrilled that Insecure got shut out elsewhere but she really is good.
And no Crazy-Ex Girlfriend anywhere? Not even for its songs? I'm just dumbfounded. So ridiculous.
Really, really hope Britton wins. Haven't seen most of the other nominees but man, he was electric.
Laurie Metcalf (63) is the 6th actor to have been nominated for an Oscar, a Tony, and an Emmy in the same year. The other five are:
Maureen Stapleton (1959) - 34
Jason Robards (1978) - 56
Glenn Close (1984) - 37
Paul Newman (2003) - 78
Alan Alda (2005) - 69
Waitaminit. How did they not nominate Kyle MacLachlan for his virtuosity on Twin Peaks? He managed to make sense of it all for viewers, and that is no small feat. He was just wonderful.
It's frustrating that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend got no nominations even for its music! Rachel Bloom and Donna Lynne Champlin should have been nominated multiple times by now.
It's also annoying that the guest actor/actress categories are now dominated by big names. I loved these categories because they often honored character actors but now it's just an excuse to include SNL hosts and famous actors/actresses.
Par --duh, that;s why. I totally forgot he hosted last year.
Sawyer -- agreed on the Stranger Things actors, well Noah at least. But this is how the Emmys do. Remember how they got stuck on uzo Aduba for years, never seeming to realize that Orange is the New Black had other actors, some of which were doing better and increasingly more complex work than she was.
Raul - heear hear
Happy for her nomination but is Letitia Wright in Black Museum really supporting?
Also, everyone is mentioning that John Legend has a shot at completing an EGOT but are forgetting Pasek and Paul who are nominated for a song from "A Christmas Story Live." If they win, will they be the fastest to complete an EGOT?
I hope
The Americans or The Handmaid's Tale for drama series
Elisabeth Moss for Drama Actress
Matthew Rhys for Drama Actor
Nicolaj Coster-Waldau for Supporting Drama Actor
Yvonne Strahovski for Supporting Drama Actress
Dame Diana Rigg for Guest Drama Actress
Cameron Brithon for Guest Drama Actor
Comedy categories: Atlanta and Marvelous Mrs Measel
Limited Series categories: Godless
8 nominations in Supporting Actress Comedy and no room for Rita Moreno, who should win the award...?
Oh Emmy, you always fail to surprise, and never fail to disappoint.
Re: Hader and Glover - not only are they competing in four categories, but in the writing category each show has a second nomination for a script written by another person, and their guest actor noms are both for hosting 'SNL' ('Atlanta' has a second directing nom for Hiro Mirai on the ep 'Teddy Perkins').
Sad that my beloved "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and "Jane the Virgin", each entering their final season, will never get any Emmy love in major categories ("Jane" was nominated 2x for best narrator, "Ex-Girlfriend" for some music/choreography awards).
No love for Twin Peaks.... fuck the Emmys.
Ughh where is Rita Moreno & Justina Machado... I guess they don’t like (don’t see??) One Day at a Time. My favourite nom is Betty Gilpin in Glow. She is so good. But Gilpin without Brie feels wrong! That ensemble is so great, I hope SAG recognises!!
Chris: Well, Black Museum's frame story is only about a fifth of the thing and Wright is only in the frame story, while Douglas Hodge is in the frame story AND the other stories.
Also want to underline what others have said above about Alec Baldwin as Trump on SNL. What started out as very funny has totally devolved into something perfunctory and toothless. Baldwin and his writers totally leave out Trump's malevolence & cruelty. It's all thoroughly lazy. So of course the Emmy voters nominate him. Boo.
The snubs for The Good Fight enrage me!
Who on Earth is Kelly Jenrette?
Once again, no nom for Hayley Atwell. I'd like to see any other actress nail both Agent Carter and Margaret Schlegel.
HBO blew it by not premiering Sharp Objects in May. Adams would have won in a walk.
While I agree that the Emmys rarely change and/or bring in a nice and relevant ammount of new blood each year, the comments for Drama and Comedy Series look petty, uninformed and annoying. Drama Series automatically changes next year as The Americans is done. If new hit shows come along it’ll be hard for Saul to come back. Westworld is exactly the type of show that just keeps disappointing each year and many even predicted it wouldn’t be nominated this year, so they might not be back. This is Us will forever be a show that can go downhill at any moment, it’s just that type of show. Game of Thrones final nomination will be next year IF it debuts in time. If it doesn’t then that’s another category change. House of Cards will likely debut this year so it might be forgotten next year, it might even have a lackluster season. Stranger Things went from like 20 to 10 nominations or something. So yeah, this category can totally change.
Then on the Comedy side, Kimmy might be done after this, who knows when Curb is coming back, Silicon Valley is on its last legs, Glow and specially Barry look like the token multiple nominees that are forgotten in a year or two, Maisel might get that treatment too. Black-ish should always be talked about in a “might not be nominated this year” way, not only is it an old show already but it’s a broadcast show. Nobody here will be nominated forever, we just saw Modern Family finally get snubbed. At this point only Veep next year looks to be that show that gets nominated for each season.
The base of the comments are true, but they read as annoying and uninformed comments.
Sorry to do this as I hate it when it’s done to me:
There are many typos.
Ted Danson has 2 Emmys for Cheers, not 3.
It’s worth noting that the Tonys were hosted by Kevin Spacey who would’ve been nominated with the show. Might not have anything to do with its snub, but how can you not think about that juicy detail or mention that?
I am so so Happy that Cameron Britton was nominated. His acting in Mindhunter was OUTSTANDING
I think Metcalf could win because of The Melissa McCarthy Edict (sorry you didn't win an Oscar, so here's an Emmy).
BUT! Megan Mullally submitted a very strong dramatic episode and I could see her winning her third Emmy.
How did Burgess not win last year for the Lemonading season? UGH. I am happy that Louie Anderson has been nommed every year for Baskets, as it's such a humane, touching performance on an incredibly quirky show.