Emily-Rose Toohey
In the early hours of last Wednesday morning, nominations for the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced and overall, the list reflected a great number of shows.
At the present, television consumers are lucky to be living in the ‘golden age of TV’, where there is so much content, variety, and quality viewing options.
However, due to this large amount of content, it’s hard to know what to watch and most obviously, physically impossible to consume it all.
This applies to Emmys voters, who are notorious for only watching a handful of shows each year and rewarding them with too many nominations.
HBO’s drama series Succession (available on Binge and Foxtel in Australia) came away with the most nominations (25) and broke the record for the number of actors nominated for the same show in a single year.
The White Lotus came runner-up with 20 nods in the Limited Series categories, but some of these nominations reflected the Emmy’s need for a system revamp.
Five of the seven nominees in the Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series category were from The White Lotus, with the remaining two going to Dopestick (Disney+) actresses.
When voters receive their Emmy ballot, they are able to check off as many names as they like.
In contrast, Oscar voters are limited to voting for the number of nomination slots in each category.
That’s why the Emmys can have so many actors from the same shows nominated.
When voters like a show (and I mean really like), they clearly vote for every actor in the show and don’t make those tough decisions that the Oscars enforce.
Another category that is always very competitive is the limited series category, which nominated both Pam and Tommy (Disney+) and Inventing Anna (Netflix) for extremely confusing reasons.
Both shows were not critical hits (especially the latter) and Netflix’s Maid starring a powerful Margaret Qualley missed out on a series nod altogether (an absolute travesty).
Other top shows nominated included Hacks (17), Only Murders in the Building (17), and Euphoria (16).
History makers included Quinta Brunson, who became the first black woman to be nominated for comedy actress, writing, and producing in the same year for Abbott Elementary (Disney+).
Euphoria’s (Binge or Foxtel) Zendaya also became the youngest producing nominee in Emmys history and the youngest two-time lead actress nominee.
Squid Game (Netflix) also became the first non-English language series nominated for Best Drama.
For a full list of all the shows and stars nominated in the main categories, see below:
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Best Drama Series
Better Call Saul (Stan)
Euphoria (Binge/Foxtel)
Ozark (Netflix)
Severance (Apple TV+)
Squid Game (Netflix)
Stranger Things (Netflix)
Succession (Binge/Foxtel)
Yellowjackets (Paramount+)
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Best Actress in a Drama Series
Jodie Comer (Killing Eve)
Laura Linney (Ozark)
Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets)
Sandra Oh (Killing Eve)
Reese Witherspoon (The Morning Show)
Zendaya (Euphoria)
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Best Actor in a Drama Series
Jason Bateman (Ozark)
Brian Cox (Succession)
Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game)
Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul)
Adam Scott (Severance)
Jeremy Strong (Succession)
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Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Patricia Arquette (Severance)
Julia Garner (Ozark)
Jung Ho-yeon (Squid Game)
Christina Ricci (Yellowjackets)
Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul)
J. Smith-Cameron (Succession)
Sarah Snook (Succession)
Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria)
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Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Nicholas Braun (Succession)
Billy Crudup (The Morning Show)
Kieran Culkin (Succession)
Park Hae-soo (Squid Game)
Matthew Macfadyen (Succession)
John Turturro (Severance)
Christopher Walken (Severance)
Oh Yeong-soo (Squid Game)
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Best Comedy Series
Abbott Elementary (Disney+)
Barry (Binge/Foxtel)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (Binge/Foxtel)
Hacks (Binge/Foxtel)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime)
Only Murders in the Building (Disney+)
Ted Lasso (Apple TV Plus)
What We Do in the Shadows (Binge/Foxtel)
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Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary)
Kaley Cuoco (The Flight Attendant)
Elle Fanning (The Great)
Issa Rae (Insecure)
Jean Smart (Hacks)
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Best Actor in a Comedy Series
Donald Glover (Atlanta)
Bill Hader (Barry)
Nicholas Hoult (The Great)
Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building)
Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building)
Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso)
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Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Alex Borstein (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
Hannah Einbinder (Hacks)
Janelle James (Abbott Elementary)
Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live)
Sarah Niles (Ted Lasso)
Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott Elementary)
Juno Temple (Ted Lasso)
Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso)
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Best Limited or Anthology Series
Dopesick (Disney+)
The Dropout (Disney+)
Inventing Anna (Netflix)
Pam & Tommy (Disney+)
The White Lotus (Binge/Foxtel)
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Best Actress in a Limited Series, Movie or Anthology
Toni Collette (The Staircase)
Julia Garner (Inventing Anna)
Lily James (Pam and Tommy)
Sarah Paulson (Impeachment: American Crime Story)
Margaret Qualley (Maid)
Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout)
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Best Actor in a Limited Series, Movie or Anthology
Colin Firth (The Staircase)
Andrew Garfield (Under the Banner of Heaven)
Oscar Isaac (Scenes From a Marriage)
Michael Keaton (Dopesick)
Himesh Patel (Station Eleven)
Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy)
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Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Connie Britton (The White Lotus)
Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus)
Alexandra Daddario (The White Lotus)
Kaitlyn Dever (Dopesick)
Natasha Rothwell (The White Lotus)
Sydney Sweeney (The White Lotus)
Mare Winningham (Dopesick)
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Best Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus)
Jake Lacy (The White Lotus)
Will Poulter (Dopesick)
Seth Rogen (Pam & Tommy)
Peter Sarsgaard (Dopesick)
Michael Stuhlbarg (Dopesick)
Steve Zahn (The White Lotus)
