Here are your nominees for the 73rd Annual Emmy Awards. Netflix’s The Crown and Disney+’s The Mandalorian led all nominations with 24 each. They were followed closely by Disney+’s WandaVision with 23, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale and NBC’s Saturday Night Live with 21 each, and AppleTV+’s Ted Lasso with 20 nominations.
HBO regained the lead in total nominations with 130, seconded by Netflix with 129.
Outstanding Drama Series
- The Boys
- Bridgerton
- The Crown
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Lovecraft Country
- The Mandalorian
- Pose
- This Is Us
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
- Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us
- Jonathan Majors, Lovecraft Country
- Josh O’Connor, The Crown
- Rege-Jean Page, Bridgerton
- Billy Porter, Pose
- Matthew Rhys, Perry Mason
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
- Uzo Aduba, In Treatment
- Olivia Colman, The Crown
- Emma Corrin, The Crown
- Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale
- Mj Rodriguez, Pose
- Jurnee Smollett, Lovecraft Country
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
- Michael K. Williams, Lovecraft Country
- John Lithgow, Perry Mason
- Tobias Menzies, The Crown
- O-T Fagbenle, The Handmaid’s Tale
- Max Minghella, The Handmaid’s Tale
- Bradley Whitford, The Handmaid’s Tale
- Giancarlo Esposito, The Mandalorian
- Chris Sullivan, This Is Us
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
- Aunjanue Ellis, Lovecraft Country
- Gillian Anderson, The Crown
- Helena Bonham Carter, The Crown
- Emerald Fennell, The Crown
- Madeline Brewer, The Handmaid’s Tale
- Ann Dowd, The Handmaid’s Tale
- Yvonne Strahovski, The Handmaid’s Tale
- Samira Wiley, The Handmaid’s Tale
Outstanding Limited Series
- I May Destroy You
- Mare of Easttown
- The Queen’s Gambit
- The Underground Railroad
- WandaVision
Outstanding Made for TV Movie
- Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square
- Oslo
- Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia
- Sylvie’s Love
- Uncle Frank
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie
- Paul Bettany, WandaVision
- Hugh Grant, The Undoing
- Ewan McGregor, Halston
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
- Leslie Odom, Jr, Hamilton
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie
- Michaela Coel, I May Destroy You
- Cynthia Erivo, Genius: Aretha
- Elizabeth Olsen, WandaVision
- Anya Taylor-Joy, The Queen’s Gambit
- Kate Winslet, Mare of Easttown
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie
- Daveed Diggs, Hamilton
- Jonathan Groff, Hamilton
- Anthony Ramos, Hamilton
- Paapa Essiedu, I May Destroy You
- Evan Peters, Mare of Easttown
- Thomas Brodie-Sangster, The Queen’s Gambit
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie
- Phillipa Soo, Hamilton
- Renée Elise Goldsberry, Hamilton
- Jean Smart, Mare of Easttown
- Julianne Nicholson, Mare of Easttown
- Moses Ingram, The Queen’s Gambit
- Kathryn Hahn, WandaVision
Outstanding Comedy Series
- black-ish
- Cobra Kai
- Emily in Paris
- Hacks
- The Flight Attendant
- The Kominsky Method
- Pen15
- Ted Lasso
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
- Anthony Anderson, black-ish
- Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method
- William H. Macy, Shameless
- Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso
- Kenan Thompson, Kenan
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
- Aidy Bryant, Shrill
- Kaley Cuoco, The Flight Attendant
- Alison Janney, Mom
- Tracee Ellis Ross, black-ish
- Jean Smart, Hacks
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
- Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Hacks
- Kenan Thompson, SNL
- Bowen Yang, SNL
- Brett Goldstein, Ted Lasso
- Brendan Hunt, Ted Lasso
- Nick Mohammed, Ted Lasso
- Jeremy Swift, Ted Lasso
- Paul Reiser, The Kominsky Method
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
- Aidy Bryant, SNL
- Hannah Einbinder, Hacks
- Kate McKinnon, SNL
- Rosie Perez, The Flight Attendant
- Cecily Strong, SNL
- Juno Temple, Ted Lasso
- Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso
Outstanding Competition Program
- The Amazing Race
- Nailed It!
- RuPaul’s Drag Race
- Top Chef
- The Voice
Outstanding Reality Show Host
- Nicole Byer, Nailed It!
- Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness, Queer Eye
- RuPaul, RuPaul’s Drag Race
- Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John and Kevin O’Leary, Shark Tank
- Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons, Top Chef
Outstanding Variety Talk Series
- Conan
- The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Outstanding Variety Sketch Series
- A Black Lady Sketch Show
- Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program
- Becoming
- Below Deck
- Indian Matchmaking
- RuPaul’s Drag Race Untucked
- Selling Sunset
Last time on this before I move on; very tough to take reading Boys showrunner Eric Kripke crowing about how the Academy honored “the show with the 10-foot long dick’. As someone said on the TVLine message board, Kripke is an ego in search of a person, and I feel the need to remind Mr. Kripke that if Supernatural was on any other network except the CW, that show would’ve been canceled within 2 seasons due to poor ratings.
what’s he gonna say when his show doens’t win shit?
I’m happy to see Uncle Frank nominated in Made for TV Movie. A gay-themed story that was sensitive, honest and nuanced. I haven’t seen WandaVision, but I assume that Paul Bettany’s acting was good there, too, earning him a nomination. He was excellent in Uncle Frank. The rest of the cast, some of the writing and most of the direction were fine, too, but I’d surmise that Bettany’s performance is what pulled the TV movie into a nomination. So, there’s sort of a double nomination for Bettany, in a way, one might suggest. In any case, good going, Paul.
A bright spot; Courteney Cox finally got the Emmy nomination she deserved 20 years ago. As an executive producer of the Friends Reunion Special, she broke through at longest last.
So, Academy, get cracking on that Kristen Bell 2022 Limited Series Actress nomination for The Woman in the House (crosses fingers it’s actually good!); my prediction that The Good Place might be her last weekly series gig for a while may come to pass. She signed up for another movie w/Allison Janney (The People We Hate at the Wedding provisional title) filming in mid-September).
Emily In Paris. Need more be said?
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Surely there’s one stan for Emily in Paris who has the stones to post here and defend this atrocity of a comedy series nomination.
Anybody? Anybody?
Bueller?
No Superstore. No Rutherford Falls. No Expanse. The shows that were snubbed could have their own awards and there would be better winners than what we’re in for in late September. Lowest combined broadcast network nomination total EVER: 104.
Nominations by network:
HBO/HBOMax 130 (hey academy, why not split the nominees between both networks?)
Netflix 129
Disney+ 71
NBC 46
Apple TV 35
CBS 26
ABC 25
Amazon Prime 18
FX 16
VH1 11
National Geographic 10
Quibi (WTF? they went out of business!!), Bravo 8 each
Fox 7
Paramount+, Showtime 6 each
YouTube 5
CNN 4
Comedy Central, PBS, Discovery 3 each
Adult Swim, TBS, Peacock 2 each
Freeform, Paramount Network, Pluto, Facebook Watch, Oculus, Welcome to the Blumhouse, Discovery +, HGTV, History, Lifetime, AMC 1 each
Rutherford Falls I thought was a failure. The lead character wasn’t that likeable.
I did enjoy the approach to attacking non-woke issues and I liked that it had native american characters, but it was kind of wierd.
I’m sorry, but on what planet is “HAMILTON” a limited series? It’s a TV movie at best.
Happy to see WANDAVISION getting in everywhere too.
Well, Hamilton had two acts. A ‘limited series’? No? OK, straw grasping over 😀
Again, folks. The Boys. Emily in Paris. The Pia Zadoras of the 2021 Emmy nominations. Completely unworthy pieces of s.
Despite what they have listed here, the categories actually are “Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie.” Hamilton falling in the TV movie category.
Believe the rule is that the actors nominated land in that category as if they were in a tv movie (the category is technically for Limited, Anthology and TV movie) but the show itself is a variety special. Hamilton got nominated for best “variety special pre-recorded”.
It’s kinda like SNL performers land under comedy series but the show itself is “variety sketch series”
I am equally tired of seeing Hamilton get nominated for everything. Golden Globes in the film department and Emmys? That’s too much!
it’s funny how stretchy its description is when it comes to awards. It’s a play. and a movie. and a limited series. suuure.
Congratulations MJ Rodriguez for making history as the first trans woman to be nominated in a leading role!!
All you need to know about just how bad the Emmys botched this is five words.
The Boys.
Emily in Paris.
Both got series nominations. I take back everything I said about Maisel, Schitt’s and Fleabag being the worst nominees ever.
The Boys is really good and off the beaten path. I applaud them for that.
Schitt’s is actually pretty broad in its comedy. It’s not highly specific and esoteric like Community or Louie so it doesn’t strike me that a lot of people could find it watchable and I think it has a good sentimental value. I don’t think it’s the best comedy ever created but it generally would surprise me by episode’s end.
Maisel is great. I can’t even see any bad things about it.
Adding two more words: Cobra Kai. In what galaxy is that a comedy?
Binge watch season 5 of The Expanse and then post back here at how glorious The Boys is. It’s a carnage-fest, violence for violence’s sake.
Maybe the 10 foot dick in The Boys was the decider.
I’ve rarely seen the superhero genre explored in those terms and an exploration of how we evsaluate our relationship with our role models and celebrities be they celebrities or superheroes or religious leaders
The Boys for Best Drama? EMILY IN FUCKING PARIS FOR BEST COMEDY?
SERIOUSLY?
Besides all the nominations for Hamilton and the Ethan Hawke snub, overall there aren’t any real surprises this year. Hamilton really shouldn’t be nominated at all. It’s disappointing that so many great performances were skipped for a play.
I still think it should be six nominees per category or you’ll get the same shows getting even more nominations like in the supporting categories. Max Minghella, really!? And Nick Mohammed!?
Disappointed that Wunmi Mosaku missed out.
Same with the men from In Treatment.
Emily In Paris. 😮
Guest categories for comedy is also boring with all the Saturday Night Live nominations.
Love the five limited shows that got nominated.
Overall though I’m happy with the nominations and now really excited for the new season to begin with most of the shows returning back next season.
The best thing about this apocalyptic morning is that it was a one-off, and next year will be a return to normal. I thought Mohammad was the best of the Lasso Lot and he would’ve been my only TL supporting actor nominee. The pandemic played its part in these nominations today. Knew comedy would be eye-poppingly bad. Didn’t know HOW bad it would eventually wind up.
Emily in Paris for best comedy? The Boys for best drama? Jesus fucking Christ.
Tim Robinson’s show didn’t make it?
I never heard of Issa Rae’s show.
How the hell is Cobra Kai a comedy?
it’s genuinely funny.
You may have heard Master of None in its prior form, what with Aziz Ansari getting into major hot water over sexual harassment allegations that pretty much kept him out of TV work for 3 years before now. I think Academy voters still held that over the show’s head, since he is a creative behind the scenes.
I think very few people actually said he sexually harrassed anyone. The best defense his accusers could come up with for even continuing to keep him in the news was “well, it’s not about him, it’s a wider discussion”
Putting lipstick on a pig, and a blood-stained pig at that, is still a pig.
Amazon Prime had a massive attack of insanity. They put all their Emmy hope-eggs in the basket of The Boys and screwed over a show with 3 straight 100% seasons on Rotten Tomatoes. They told them, and its fans that The Expanse is crap. Shame, Amazon. They picked style over substance. And style won out again.
Genre fraud, thy names are The Flight Attendant and Cobra Kai. But comedy was such a California-sized dumpster fire last season they virtually, literally grabbed any show off the street and if the academy thought it was a comedy, they were IN.
Glad to see Cobra Kai getting some love. Maybe next season William Zabka can finally get his due.
It’s a drama. Genre fraud strikes again, which is worse than category fraud. Smart and Einbinder were co-leads of Hacks.
me too. Should have been nominated for season 1. Seaosn 2 wasn’t as good but Zabka is consistently outstanding. It sucks that he’s ignored.
So happy for Mj Rodriguez
So happy for Mj Rodriguez
Was she lead or was she supporting actress in your opinion. I had her as the latter.