Severance and The Penguin lead this year’s Emmys nominations while the breakout drama Adolescence has also made an impressive showing.
Apple’s chilly workplace thriller has received 27 nominations for its second season, leading the drama categories while the tech giant’s new comedy The Studio has broken Ted Lasso’s record for most nominations received by a freshman comedy series. The Seth Rogen-led Hollywood satire picked up 23 nods.
Severance is up for best drama series and will face off against Andor, The Diplomat, The Last of Us, Slow Horses, The White Lotus and the first seasons of Paradise and the breakout hospital series The Pitt, which picked up 13 nominations.
The Severance star Adam Scott leads the drama actor nominees up against Paradise’s Sterling K Brown, Slow Horses’ Gary Oldman, The Last of Us’s Pedro Pascal and Noah Wyle from The Pitt. Scott’s co-star Britt Lower leads drama actress nominees with competition from The Diplomat’s Keri Russell, The Last of Us’s Bella Ramsey, Bad Sisters’ Sharon Horgan and Matlock’s Kathy Bates, who at the age of 77 has become the oldest ever actor in this category.
The third season of the HBO hit The White Lotus scored 23 nominations, including for actors Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Walton Goggins and Jason Isaacs.
The Studio is up for best comedy series and will face Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Hacks, Only Murders in the Building, Shrinking, What We Do in the Shadows and the first season of the Netflix hit Nobody Wants This.
The Studio star Seth Rogen leads the comedy actor nominees alongside Adam Brody for Nobody Wants This, Jeremy Allen White for The Bear, Jason Segel for Shrinking and Martin Short for Only Murders in the Building. The comedy actress contenders are Jean Smart for Hacks, Ayo Edebiri for The Bear, Quinta Brunson for Abbott Elementary, Kristen Bell for Nobody Wants This and Uzo Aduba for The Residence, a show recently cancelled by Netflix.
HBO’s Batman spin-off The Penguin scored 24 nominations and leads the best limited series category, up against Black Mirror, Dying for Sex, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and Netflix’s much-talked about phenomenon Adolescence, which scored 13 nominations.
Adolescence, which tells the story of the fallout after a schoolboy murders a classmate, recently became Netflix’s second most watched English language series of all time. There was recognition for its actors including nominations for Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty, Ashley Walters and newcomer Owen Cooper. The 15-year-old actor has made history as the youngest ever actor in the limited series supporting actor category.
Graham will face competition from The Penguin’s Colin Farrell, Presumed Innocent’s Jake Gyllenhaal, Dope Thief’s Brian Tyree Henry and Cooper Koch from Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
The category of lead actress from a limited series or TV movie includes Cate Blanchett for Disclaimer, Meghann Fahy for Sirens, Rashida Jones for Black Mirror, Michelle Williams for Dying for Sex and Cristin Milioti for The Penguin.
Other notable nominees include Beyoncé for her Netflix NFL half-time show Beyoncé Bowl, directors Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard for their acting in The Studio and Shrinking’s Harrison Ford who received his first ever Emmy nomination.
Earlier in the day, the categories of talk series and reality competition were announced and there were snubs for Late Night With Seth Meyers and The Voice, respectively.
Other notable snubs include Renee Zellweger for her role in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (which is classed as a TV movie as it went straight to streaming in the US), Keira Knightley for her role in the Netflix thriller Black Doves, The Four Seasons which scored only one nod for Colman Domingo and Your Friends and Neighbours which only found recognition in the main title theme music category.
In his introduction, Cris Abrego, the chair of the television academy, said that this year more members voted than ever before.
Last year saw big wins for Shōgun, Hacks, The Bear and Baby Reindeer.
This year’s Emmy awards will take place on 14 September with the comedian Nate Bargatze hosting.
