Experts slugfest: Breaking down the 2024 Emmy ballots
It’s June 13, 2024, and you know what that means: Emmy voting is underway. But more importantly, we’ve got ballots. Gold Derby editors and Experts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng are here to break down the surprising inclusions and omissions on the ballots.
The topline news is that we’re losing spots in a bunch of categories due to a decline in submissions. Last year, the comedy supporting categories went from eight slots to seven, and they’re losing another one this year to go down to six. Tough break for fringe contenders looking to get into two categories that will have most of the slots taken by performers from “The Bear,” “Abbott Elementary” and Hacks.” Meanwhile, the drama lead categories scraped by to retain six slots — all thanks to “Shōgun.” Because of its double lead actor submissions for Hiroyuki Sanada and Cosmo Jarvis, the category has 81 entries, the minimum for six slots (drama actress only had 67 submissions, but the gendered categories in the same genre category must achieve parity). No acting categories gained slots this year. Others that lost slots were drama supporting actor and actress (eight to seven), drama guest actor and actress (six to five), and limited/TV movie actor and actress (six to five).
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As usual, there were lots of actors who were not submitted that perhaps you expected them to be. Among absent names are Robert Townsend (“The Bear”), who heretofore was in eighth in the Best Comedy Guest Actor odds, Lindsay Duncan (“The Morning Show”), Olivia Williams (“The Crown”) and Alexander Skarsgard (“Mr. & Mrs. Smith”). Last year, “The Bear” star Liza Colón-Zayas was MIA, but don’t sweat it — she’s on the ballot this time.
Elsewhere, we discuss writing and directing over-submissions, ballot placement and more.
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Timestamps:
Intro and comedy categories (0:00)
Drama categories (10:07)
Limited categories (17:50)
Writing and directing (30:52)
Other submissions (37:26)
Listener questions (42:46)
