As we come closer to the end of the truncated
2023-2024 season, we now begin the critical third phase of our watch for this
years Emmy nominations that will be coming in the third week of July.
As I have mentioned in the previous article not only
are the Emmys in a year of transition but due to the labor stoppage that
blocked off nearly five months of 2024. Trying to figure out the major nominees
for this year’s awards will involve a lot of hit or miss. To that end, I am
continuing to expand the number of awards show I’m looking at for hints for
help. In this case, I have decided to look overseas.
BAFTA has done nominations for television for decades
but because so much of it favors British TV series and British actors it is
hard to find any correlation between their nominations and awards and the
American ones. However, given the likelihood that several British made
television series will be in contention this year, I believe I have to widen
the net. So with the nominations announced and the awards on the verge of being
given (the TV awards will be given on May 12th) I feel I should at
least try and see.
Indeed there is
a wrinkle already. While The Crown, the prohibitive frontrunner
for this year’s Best Drama prize, led all TV series with eight nominations, it
was NOT nominated for Best Drama. However Slow Horses, a series that is quickly rising as a contender
for Best Drama this year as well as several acting awards, was nominated for
Best Drama.
The International category mostly focuses on American
series and, with the exception of The Bear, all focus on series in 2023.
Most of the nominees were among the major awards getters from 2023: Beef,
The Last of Us and Succession. However, I give credit to the Brits
for also nominating Love & Death which not only the Emmys but far
too many American awards shows basically ignored.
Leading Actor doesn’t feature Gary Oldman for Slow
Horses. The most likely contender among 2024 nominees is Dominic West for The
Crown. Brian Cox was nominated for Succession.
Leading Actress features no one from The Crown, oddly
enough, but does show Bella Ramsey for The Last of Us. I should note the
presence of Sarah Lancashire from the groundbreaking mystery Happy Valley and
Sharon Horgan for Best Interests. She was here last year for Bad
Sisters; Horgan is clearly busy.
The major scripting comedy nominated is Dreaming
Whilst Black, which some of you may have seen on Showtime this past year.
Supporting Actor features Matthew MacFayden from Succession.
However Jack Lowden from Slow Horses and Salim Daw from The Crown
loom as possibilities for this year. Harriet Walker and Nico Parker are
present for Succession and The
Last of Us, respectively but the Supporting Actress contender is current
frontrunner Elizabeth Debicki who has already won nearly every major award in
sight for her performance as Diana in The Crown.
Moments voted on by the public for most memorable
feature Logan Roy’s death on Succession and ‘A Long, Long Time’ on The
Last of Us. No argument on either.
Slow Horses received
several technical as did The Last of Us. Black Mirror received several
technical nominations as did Sio, The Witcher and Queen Charlotte.
Good Omens was nomination for Best Comedy and Best Actor for David Tennant,
but it is highly unlikely the series will contend.
Today also marks the 2024 Peabody nominations. As I
have mentioned since I began covering them five years ago, while it is hard to
fathom the Emmys nominating some of these show, in most cases you really think
they should. Such is the case for their 2024 nominations for TV.
Focusing on last year we see several shows that have
received recognition from multiple award groups: Poker Face, The Last of Us and
Jury Duty. Some of their nominations are shows that should have been
contenders such as Somebody Somewhere and Amazon’s remake of Dead Ringers,
which many believed would earn Emmy nominations for Rachel Weisz. We also
see recognition of Reality, which I am still convinced deserved to win
Best TV Movie of 2023.
Likely contenders for this year include The Bear and
Fellow Travelers while yet again Reservation Dogs is present. The
former two are likely to be major contenders and considering the state of the
Emmys comedy awards, the latter is moving up quickly in contention. Possibilities
for Best Animated Series is Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai.
On the dark horse side of contention is Lupin a
show which has been nominated for Best International Drama multiple times and Mike
Flanagan’s The Fall of The House of Usher, which was critically
acclaimed and has received multiple nominations from critics groups at the end
of 2023.
I should also mention that the Irish Film and TV
awards have announced their nominations and while I think there is even less of
a chance for any of them to get nominated, I am grateful to see recognition for
the brilliant Showtime-BBC collaboration: The Woman In the Wall. I assume
that because the awards show is primarily for Irish Actors rather than British
ones is why Ruth Wilson has not been included but the rest of the cast,
including Daryl McCormack and Simon Delaney have been.
I will return to this group of awards later but my
next group will focus on the MTV Movie and TV awards (emphasis on the latter)
and the Dorian nominations for TV. I covered both last year and in multiple
cases they have been more prescient than some of the other groups.
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