My Predictions for 2016 Emmys: Best Supporting Actress, TV Movie or Limited Series

Many of the candidates for this award will be taking up space from the series I've previously mentioned, and they more than deserve to. But trying to filter through the strong from the less deserving is going to be difficult, especially with all the high level movies. So bearing that in mind, here I go.

Olivia Colman, 'The Night Manager'

Colman was already unrecognized for her brilliant work on the small screen for 'Broadchurch' for her power as a detective whose life is thrown into upheaval by a murder in her hometown. But that was small potatoes to her work in this series as Angela Burr, a relentless, continuously undermined intelligence officer doing everything in her power to bring down Richard Roper. This is a performance that deserves to be recognized

Catherine Keener, 'Show Me A Hero'

She's always been one of the more undervalued actresses of this generation - or any other, for that matter. And watching her in a gray wig and glasses, spouting some of the more casual racism you wouldn't expect to hear from anyone is something of a shock. But as always the actresses frailness and unassuming nature makes her behavior all the more remarkable, and make you realize there's little she can't do.

Regina King, 'American Crime'

Last year, King deservedly won an Emmy for her brilliant work as the sister of an accused murder. Here she played the equally overprotective mother who defended her basketball playing son after he was involved in a crime. But when her character's picture perfect life came crashing down upon her, the moments of her emotional devastation were mesmerizing. I often object when actors repeat. This time, I wouldn't object at all.

Melissa Leo, All the Way

Leo's made a career of playing solid, career based women whose performances are so subtle the Academy has perpetually ignored them. But portraying Lady Bird Johnson, the subtle wife of a President who knows all the secrets her husband keeps, and is not afraid to argue against them, was one of her very best. She's already won one Emmy, but she deserves to be recognized here.

Sarah Paulson, 'American Horror Story: Hotel"

I'm not usually one of this series admirers. And its not like she's played particularly sympathetic characters on this series, or this season. But even I have to admit her work as a junkie trying to get her next fix while mixing with her desire to be loved was a more deserving performances than the overblown ones that surrounded her. If they have to nominate someone from this series, let it be her.

Jean Smart, 'Fargo'

She's already assembled a career of some of those magnificent female performances that don't fit the mold of TV women in any age. So perhaps its only fitting that she was cast to play a steely-eyed Midwestern mob boss named Floyd Gerhart. As her family and her empire dissolved because of forces from without and within, we reached a level that made her own demise one of the more tragic of the era. She's already won a Critic's Choice; another Emmy might not be that far away.

See you in two weeks with the results.