2021 Emmy Awards

[Reza]

I just hope Olivia Colman wins for The Crown. And not Emma Corrin.

[dws1982]

The Emmys are so boring now. Everyone's prediction lists are mostly the same, and they'll mostly be right too.

Can't believe I'm longing for the chaos of the days when James Spader would win over James Gandolfini and Hugh Laurie, but here we are.

[anonymous1980]

Final Emmy predictions!

Limited or Anthology Series: The Queen's Gambit (Netflix)
Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie: Hugh Grant, The Undoing (HBO)
Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie: Anya Taylor-Joy, The Queen's Gambit (Netflix)
Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie: Daveed Diggs, Hamilton (Disney+)
Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie: Kathryn Hahn, WandaVision (Disney+)
Directing for a Limited Series or Movie: Scott Frank, The Queen's Gambit (Netflix)
Writing for a Limited Series or Movie: Michaela Cole, I May Destroy You (HBO)

Drama Series: The Crown (Netflix)
Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Josh O'Connor, The Crown (Netflix)
Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Emma Corrin, The Crown (Netflix)
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Michael K. Williams, Lovecraft Country (HBO)
Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Gillian Anderson, The Crown (Netflix)
Directing for a Drama Series: Steven Canals, Pose ("Series Finale") (FX)
Writing for a Drama Series: Peter Morgan, The Crown ("War") (Netflix)

Comedy Series: Ted Lasso (AppleTV+)
Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso (AppleTV+)
Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Jean Smart, Hacks (HBO Max)
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Kenan Thompson, Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso (AppleTV+)
Directing for a Comedy Series: Susannah Fogel, The Flight Attendant ("In Case of Emergency (Pilot)") (HBO Max)
Writing for a Comedy Series: Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt and Joe Kelly, Ted Lasso ("Pilot") (AppleTV+)

Variety Talk Series: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Variety Sketch Series: Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Competition Program: RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1)
Variety Special (Live): Celebrating America - An Inauguration Special (N/A)
Variety Special (Pre-Recorded): Hamilton (Disney+)
Writing for a Variety Series: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

[Reza]

P.S. Claire Foy winning for The Crown is a bullshit win. And I love The Crown.

I can't even remember Foy's guest appearance. Why did she return and what did she do to win her second Emmy?

Ok I just ran that episode on Netflix. A flashback to 1947 where Foy, as the Queen, speaks to her subjects on radio from Cape Town. She is seen speaking the opening words of the speech and then the camera moves onto her subjects all over the world. Yes, a bullshit win for appearing on screen for literally half a minute.

[anonymous1980]

Creative Arts Emmy winners.

The Queen's Gambit has 9 awards so far. The record for most wins is 13 (held by John Adams). If it at least 5 out of the 6 awards it's up for on the main show, it will break that record.

P.S. Claire Foy winning for The Crown is a bullshit win. And I love The Crown.

[anonymous1980]

The episode submissions.

DRAMA SERIES:

“Bridgerton” – “Diamond of the First Water,” “Shock and Delight,” “Art of the Swoon,” “An Affair of Honor,” “The Duke and I,” “Swish”

“The Boys” – “The Big Ride,” “Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men,” “We Gotta Go Now,” “The Bloody Doors Off,” “Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker,” “What I Know”

“The Crown” – “Balmoral Test,” “Fairytale,” “Favourites,” “Terra Nullius,” “The Hereditary Principle,” “War”

“The Handmaid’s Tale” – “The Crossing,” “Vows,” “Home,” “Testimony,” “Progress,” “The Wilderness”

“Lovecraft Country” – “Sundown,” “Holy Ghost,” “Meet Me in Daegu,” “I Am.,”Jig-a-Bobo,” “Rewind 1921”

“The Mandalorian” – “The Marshal,” “The Heiress,” “The Jedi,” “The Tragedy,” “The Believer,” “The Rescue”

“Pose” – “On the Run,” “The Trunk,” “Take Me to Church,” “Something Borrowed, Something Blue,” “Something Old, Something New,” “Series Finale”

“This Is Us” – “Forty: Part 1,” “Forty: Part 2,” “Birth Mother,” “In the Room,” “Brotherly Love,” “The Adirondacks”

DRAMA ACTRESS:
Uzo Aduba, “In Treatment” – “Brooke – Week 5”
Olivia Colman, “The Crown” – “48:1”
Emma Corrin, “The Crown” – “Fairytale”
Elisabeth Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale” – “Home”
Mj Rodriguez, “Pose” – “Series Finale”
Jurnee Smollett, “Lovecraft Country” – “Holy Ghost”

DRAMA ACTOR:
Sterling K. Brown, “This Is Us” – “Forty: Part 2”
Jonathan Majors, “Lovecraft County” – “Sundown”
Josh O’Connor, “The Crown” – “Terra Nullius”
Rege-Jean Page, “Bridgerton” – “Art of the Swoon”
Billy Porter, “Pose” – “Take Me to Church”
Matthew Rhys, “Perry Mason” – “Chapter Eight”

DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Gillian Anderson, “The Crown” – “Favourites”
Helena Bonham Carter, “The Crown” – “The Hereditary Principle”
Madeline Brewer, “The Handmaid’s Tale” – “Testimony”
Ann Dowd, “The Handmaid’s Tale” – “Progress”
Aunjanue Ellis, “Lovecraft Country” – “I Am.”
Emerald Fennell, “The Crown” – “Fairytale”
Yvonne Strahovski, “The Handmaid’s Tale” – “Home”
Samira Wiley, “The Handmaid’s Tale” – “Vows”

DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Giancarlo Esposito, “The Mandalorian” – “The Rescue”
O-T Fagbenle, “The Handmaid’s Tale” – “Home”
John Lithgow, “Perry Mason” – “Chapter Four”
Tobias Menzies, “The Crown” – “Gold Stick”
Max Minghella, “The Handmaid’s Tale” – “The Crossing”
Chris Sullivan, “This Is Us” – “In the Room”
Bradley Whitford, “The Handmaid’s Tale” – “Testimony”
Michael K. Williams, “Lovecraft Country” – “Rewind 1921”

DRAMA GUEST ACTRESS:
Alexis Bledel, “The Handmaid’s Tale” – “Testimony”
Claire Foy, “The Crown” – “48:1”
Mckenna Grace, “The Handmaid’s Tale” – “Pigs”
Sophie Okonedo, “Ratched” – “The Dance”
Phylicia Rashad, “This Is Us” – “I’ve Got This”

DRAMA GUEST ACTOR:
Don Cheadle, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” – “New World Order”
Charles Dance, “The Crown” – “Gold Stick”
Timothy Olyphant, “The Mandalorian” – “Chapter 9: The Marshal”
Courtney B. Vance, “Lovecraft Country” – “Whitey’s on the Moon”
Carl Weathers, “The Mandalorian” – “Chapter 12: The Siege”

COMEDY SERIES:

“black-ish” – “Hero Pizza,” “Age Against the Machine,” “Our Wedding Dre,” “What About Gary?,” “First Trap,” “Things Done Changed”

“Cobra Kai” – “Nature vs. Nurture,” “The Right Path,” “Miyagi-Do,” “King Cobra,” “Feel the Night,” “December 19”

“Emily in Paris” – “Emily in Paris,” “Masculin Feminin,” “Sexy or Sexist,” “Ringarde,” “Family Affair,” “Cancel Couture”

“The Flight Attendant” – “In Case of Emergency,” “Rabbits,” “Funeralia,” “Conspiracy Theories,” “Other People’s Houses,” “After Dark”

“Hacks” – “There Is No Line,” “Primm,” “Falling,” “New Eyes,” “1.69 Million,” “I Think She Will”

“The Kominsky Method” – “In all the old familiar places,” “You only give me your funny paper,” “And it’s getting more and more absurd,” “The round toes, of the high shoes,” “Near, far, wherever you are,” “The Fundamental Things Apply”

“PEN15” – “Wrestle,” “Vendy Wiccany,” “Three,” “Sleepover,” “Play,” “Opening Night”

“Ted Lasso” – “Pilot,” “Trent Crimm: The Independent,” “Tan Lines,” “Make Rebecca Great Again,” “All Apologies,” “The Hope That Kills You”

COMEDY ACTRESS:
Aidy Bryant, “Shrill” – “Ranchers”
Kaley Cuoco, “The Flight Attendant” – “In Case of Emergency”
Allison Janney, “Mom” – “My Kinda People and the Big To-Do”
Tracee Ellis Ross, “black-ish” – “Babe in Boyland”
Jean Smart, “Hacks” – “1.69 Million”

COMEDY ACTOR:
Anthony Anderson, “Black-ish” – “What About Gary”
Michael Douglas, “The Kominsky Method” – “The round toes, of the high shoes”
William H. Macy, “Shameless” – “Father Frank, Full of Grace”
Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso” – “Pilot”
Kenan Thompson, “Kenan” – “Flirting”

COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Aidy Bryant, “Saturday Night Live” – “Host: Rege-Jean Page”
Hannah Einbinder, “Hacks” – “I Think She Will”
Kate McKinnon, “Saturday Night Live” – “Host: Bill Burr”
Rosie Perez, “The Flight Attendant” – “Arrivals and Departures”
Cecily Strong, “Saturday Night Live” – “Host: Anya Taylor-Joy”
Juno Temple, “Ted Lasso” – “For the Children”
Hannah Waddingham, “Ted Lasso” – “All Apologies”

COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Carl Clemons-Hopkins, “Hacks” – “New Eyes”
Brett Goldstein, “Ted Lasso” – “All Apologies”
Brendan Hunt, “Ted Lasso” – “Two Aces”
Nick Mohammed, “Ted Lasso” – “Make Rebecca Great Again”
Paul Reiser, “The Kominsky Method” – “You only give me your funny paper”
Jeremy Swift, “Ted Lasso” – “Biscuits”
Kenan Thompson, “Saturday Night Live” – “Host: Dave Chappelle”
Bowen Yang, “Saturday Night Live” – “Host: Carey Mulligan”

COMEDY GUEST ACTRESS:
Jane Adams, “Hacks” – I Think She Will”
Yvette Nicole Brown, “A Black Lady Sketch Show” – “But the Tilapias Are Fine Though, Right?”
Bernadette Peters, “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” – “Zoey’s Extraordinary Girls’ Night Out”
Issa Rae, “A Black Lady Sketch Show” – “My Booty Looks Juicy, Don’t It?”
Maya Rudolph, “Saturday Night Live” – “Host: Maya Rudolph”
Kristen Wiig, “Saturday Night Live” – “Host: Kristen Wiig”

COMEDY GUEST ACTOR:
Alec Baldwin, “Saturday Night Live” – Host: Daniel Kaluuya”
Dave Chappelle, “Saturday Night Live” – Host: Dave Chappelle”
Morgan Freeman, “The Kominsky Method” – “The Round Toes, of the High Shoes”
Daniel Kaluuya, “Saturday Night Live” – Host: Daniel Kaluuya”
Dan Levy, “Saturday Night Live” – Host: Dan Levy”

LIMITED/MOVIE SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Renee Elise Goldsberry, “Hamilton” – Full Movie
Kathryn Hahn, “WandaVision” – “Breaking the Fourth Wall”
Moses Ingram, “The Queen’s Gambit” – “End Game”
Julianne Nicholson, “Mare of Easttown” – “Sacrament”
Jean Smart, “Mare of Easttown” – “Sacrament”
Phillipa Soo, “Hamilton” – Full Movie

LIMITED/MOVIE SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Thomas Brodie-Sangster, “The Queen’s Gambit” – “Adjournment”
Daveed Diggs, “Hamilton” – Full Movie
Paapa Essiedu, “I May Destroy You” – “That Was Fun”
Jonathan Groff, “Hamilton” – Full Movie
Evan Peters, “Mare of Easttown” – “Enter Number Two”
Anthony Ramos, “Hamilton” – Full Movie

COMPETITION PROGRAM:
“The Amazing Race” – “Give Me a Beard Bump: Kazakhstan”
“Nailed It” – “An Ungodly Mess”
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” – “Condragulations”
“Top Chef” – “First Impressions’
“The Voice” – “Season 20 Premiere”

REALITY HOST:
Nicole Byer, “Nailed It” – “An Ungodly Mess”
RuPaul Charles, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” – “Getting Lucky”
Queer Eye Hosts, “Queer Eye” – “Groomer Has It”
Shark Tank Hosts, “Shark Tank” – “Episode 1201”
Top Chef Hosts, “Top Chef” – “First Impressions”

VARIETY SKETCH SERIES:
“A Black Lady Sketch Show” – “Sister, May I Call You Oshun?”
“Saturday Night Live” – “Host: Dave Chappelle”

VARIETY TALK SERIES:
“Conan” – “Episode 1488 Gal Gadot”
“Daily Show with Trevor Noah” – “Trevor Examines Nationwide Protests Against Police Brutality and Systemic Racism”
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” – “1/20/21 John Oliver”
“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” – “#703 Trump and Election Results”
“Late Show with Stephen Colbert” – TBA

[Reza]

So many categories now. Found Julie Andrews, John Travolta and Sigourney Weaver on the list as well.

[Sabin]

Don Cheadle was nominated for Guest Actor appearing in Falcon and the Winter Soldier for a little over 90 seconds. Not quite Ellen Burstyn territory but as close as you can get.

[Okri]

anonymous1980 wrote
Marielle Heller, The Queen's Gambit (Netflix)

This casting did *NOT* work for me.

Interesting. I've basically abandonned the show because it was very meh, but I really liked Heller from what I saw.

[dws1982]

I'm not sure what the point of expanding the nominees in the categories is if the voters still only want to watch about four shows.

[mlrg]

This was not a good year for television. Pretty average set of nominees.

Kathleen Turner was snubbed for The Kominski Method.

The only real interesting race is Joy vs Winslet for limited series actress.

[anonymous1980]

Here's the complete list.

Some random thoughts:

- Girls5Eva was robbed!

- Small Axe is snubbed all around.

- Bo Burnham got SIX nominations. I *think* that's a record but I'm not sure. (EDIT: It's not. Louis CK still has the record with 8 nominations in one year)

- Netflix has more Emmy nominations than all 4 broadcast networks plus PBS *combined*.

[Sabin]

I knew they would go for Ted Lasso but I didn't think they'd nominate almost the entire cast.

Jason Sudekis for Actor and Juno Temple and Hannah Waddingham for Supporting Actress seemed like good bets, but they nominated Brett Goldstein (Roy Kent), Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard), Nick Mohammed (Nate the Kit Man/"Nate the Great"), and Jeremy Swift (Leslie Higgins). The only person they didn't nominate that they could've was Phil Dunster as the brash, up-and-comer Jamie Tartt. I has three nominations for Best Directing in (including Zach Braff for "Biscuits") and two nominations for Best Writing, including the Pilot, which I would imagine it would win for, although "Make Rebecca Great Again" was a season highpoint.

If I had to guess...

Outstanding Comedy Series: Ted Lasso
(unless they fall late-in-the-game for Hacks)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso
(hard to imagine him losing)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Jean Smart, Hacks
(Cuoco has a chance but the industry loves the late-arriving Hacks)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Paul Reiser, The Kominsky Method
(haven't seen this season, but I could see voters belatedly tossing one to Paul Reiser for his career. He never really managed to follow up Mad About You with anything meaningful but the show ran eight seasons, never winning anything while his his more industry-beloved co-star won four consecutive years. If not him, who?)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Hannah Waddington, Ted Lasso
(Although Juno Temple or Hannah Einbinder could win)

Outstanding Writing & Directing in a Comedy Series: Ted Lasso

[OscarGuy]

For the Emmys, it's all about performance. I assume they will submit themselves in the category they choose whenever they choose and the article does suggest that the rules were already in place to allow nonbinary to submit in whichever category they prefer.

[Big Magilla]

What I understood the article to say is that if a person who considers themselves non-binary is nominated for an acting Emmy and they win, they can have their Emmy inscribed as Best Performer rather than Best Supporting Actor or whatever the category it was that they were nominated in, if they so choose. It didn't say they could choose which category they should be nominated in, although that may be inferred.

Regarding nominations, though, if that is the case, can a non-binary person change which category they want to considered in from performance to performance or are they bound to chose one for all consideration in a given year. For example, can someone ask to be nominated for supporting actor for one performance and supporting actress for another? That would give them unfair advantage over their binary competition, wouldn't it?