OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Marisa Abela, Industry
Isa Briones, The Pitt
Taylor Dearden, The Pitt
Allison Janney, The Diplomat
Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt
Sepideh Moafi, The Pitt
Julianne Nicholson, Paradise
Last year, Katherine LaNasa pulled off an upset win in this category over four actresses from The White Lotus for her work as plucky head nurse Dana Evans on The Pitt—the first sign of the Emmy love for HBO Max’s emergency room drama. With no new season of White Lotus this year, expect a few more fan favorites from the reigning champion drama to fill those slots. Though The Pitt has several viable contenders, we think Taylor Dearden’s neurodivergent Dr. Mel King, Sepideh Moafi’s defiant newcomer Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi, and Isa Briones’s cocksure Dr. Trinity Santos are most likely to join LaNasa here as well. Outside of the hospital, Emmy darlings Julianne Nicholson and Allison Janney should score nominations for their work on Paradise and The Diplomat, respectively. That leaves one slot open, which could easily go to another Pitt actress, Pluribus love interest Karolina Wydra, or, gasp, Sydney Sweeney, who received strong reviews for her work on the final season of Euphoria. But we’re going with an actress who played another young wife in a crumbling marriage: Marisa Abelal, who delivers another devastating performance as the beautiful, broken Yasmin Kara Hanani on the fourth season of Industry. —Chris Murphy
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Patrick Ball, The Pitt
Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
Shawn Hatosy, The Pitt
Gerran Howell, The Pitt
Ken Leung, Industry
Jack Lowden, Slow Horses
Tom Pelphery, Task
When considering supporting actor slots, save at least two—but I’m officially predicting three—for the men in scrubs. We should expect Patrick Ball as ER heir apparent Dr. Frank Langdon, Shawn Hatosy as hotshot chief attending Dr. Jack Abbott, and Gerran Howell as first-year medical resident Dr. Dennis Whitaker all to make the cut as first-time nominees. With those hospital hallways cleared, expect voters to make room for 2021 category winner Billy Crudup and Jack Lowden, who is next set to play Netflix’s ginger-haired Mr. Darcy in Pride & Prejudice. Should The Pitt masters cancel each other out, Task standout Tom Pelphery, who stole scenes out from under leading man Mark Ruffalo on the HBO whodunnit, could walk away not only with a nom, but the trophy itself. Finally, my wild pick of the morning: a nomination for the always-great Ken Leung, whose morally-bankrupt financier Eric Tao gets an emotional sendoff during Industry’s buzzy fourth season. —Savannah Walsh
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
The Diplomat, “Schrodinger’s Wife”
Task, “Crossings”
The Pitt, “5:00 P.M.”
The Pitt, “9:00 P.M.”
Pluribus, “We Is Us”
Slow Horses, “Scars”
Stranger Things, “Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up”
