Netflix leads the way with 160 HBO nominations and 107 – including 26 for “Watchmen” – at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards.
It’s not the best time, it’s probably the worst of times … but award season is award season, so here we go.
Starting today at 8:30 am PST, the Television Academy will announce nominations for the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards. It has been a fierce phase of Campaign 1, with traditional FYC events canceled following widespread quarantine orders to stay home and the normal spate of promotional interviews moving entirely online. IndieWire will cover the announcement live, with repeated updates to the list of nominations below as they are announced.
It’s hard to determine how the last six months of closings, protests, and divisive policies will affect this year’s nominations; While staunch Emmy favorites like Amazon Prime Video’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” are still running, the discontinuation of productions in the spring of 2020 eliminated several contenders who otherwise would have debuted during the Emmy rating year. (Sorry “Barry!” See you next year, if we’re not all dead by then!)
The nominations were announced this morning by host Leslie Jones, assisted by Josh Gad, Tatiana Maslany and Laverne Cox.
And the nominated are:
Best Leading Actor in a Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson, “black-ish”
Don Cheadle, “Black Monday”
Ted Danson, “The Good Place”
Michael Douglas, “The Kominsky Method”
Eugene Levy, “Schitt’s Stream”
Ramy Youssef, “Ramy”
Best Leading Actress in a Comedy Series
Christina Applegate, “Dead to Me”
Rachel Brosnahan, “The Wonderful Mrs. Maisel”
Linda Cardellini, “Dead to Me”
Catherine O’Hara, “The Brook of Schitt”
Issa Rae, “insecure”
Tracee Ellis Ross, “Black-ish”
Outstanding Variety Talk Series
“The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” (Comedy Central)
“Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” (TBS)
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC)
“Last week tonight with John Oliver” (HBO)
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS)
Best Leading Actor in a Drama Series
Jason Bateman, “Ozark”
Brian Cox, “Succession”
Sterling K. Brown, “This is us”
Steve Carrell “The Morning Show”
Jeremy Strong, “Succession”
Billy Porter, “Pose”
Best Leading Actress in a Drama Series
Jennifer Aniston, “The Morning Show”
Olivia Colman, “The Crown”
Jodie Comer, “Killing Eve”
Laura Linney, “Ozark”
Sandra Oh, “Killing Eve”
Zendaya, “Euphoria”
Exceptional competition program
“The Masked Singer” (Fox)
“Right on the spot!” (Netflix)
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” (VH1)
“Top Chef” (Bravo)
“The Voice” (NBC)
Best Leading Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie
Jeremy Irons, “Watchers”
Hugh Jackman, “Bad Education”
Paul Mescal, “Normal People”
Jeremy Pope, “Hollywood”
Mark Ruffalo, “I know this is true”
Best Leading Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Cate Blanchett, “Mrs. America”
Shira Haas, “unorthodox”
Regina King, “Watchers”
Octavia Spencer, “Self Made”
Kerry Washington, “Little Fires Everywhere”
Exceptional limited series
“Watchmen” (HBO)
“Mrs. America” (FX on Hulu)
“Incredible” (Netflix)
“Unorthodox” (Netflix)
“Little fires everywhere” (Hulu)
Outstanding Comedy Series
“Reduce Your Enthusiasm” (HBO)
“The Good Place” (NBC)
“Dead to Me” (Netflix)
“Insecure” (HBO)
“The Kominsky Method” (Netflix)
“The wonderful Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon Prime Video)
“Schitt’s Creek” (Pop TV)
“What we do in the shadows” (FX)
Outstanding drama series
“Better Call Saul” (AMC)
“The Crown” (Netflix)
“The Tale of the Maid” (Hulu)
“Killing Eve” (BBC America)
“The Mandalorian” (Disney +)
“Ozark” (Netflix)
“Stranger Things” (Netflix)
“Succession” (HBO)
The full list of nominations can be found here.
Voting for the final round for the Emmys begins on August 21, 2020 and continues until 10 p.m. PST on August 31. The Creative Arts Emmys will take place in a virtual ceremony “over several nights” in September, according to the Television Academy; in previous years, they take place over two nights the weekend before the Primetime Emmy ceremony. Jimmy Kimmel will present the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards and will air on ABC on Sunday, September 20, 2020. The exact format of the Primetime Emmy Awards has yet to be announced.
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Reports by Libby Hill, Ben Travers, Steve Greene, Kristen Lopez, and Tyler Hersko.
