2025 Emmy noms: lots of love for The White Lotus, The Penguin & Severance

Every year, I feel like I say the same thing: I still care a lot about the Oscar nominations, but the Emmy nominations have become an annual slog. It’s difficult to gauge how much people *actually* care about Emmy noms because there are barely any water-cooler shows anymore, and the few water-cooler shows that do exist tend to be over-represented at the Emmys. It’s like the old farts of the Television Academy are like “hey, I heard the youths watched The White Lotus, let’s just give that show a million nominations!” I watched TWL and I loved this past season, but you can’t tell me that TWL deserves all of the Emmy love at the expense of other shows. Which is my larger point – TV is so fragmented and with each passing year, it feels like the Emmys are just less relevant and less representative of the outstanding work being done. So now that I’ve bummed everyone out, here are the big categories for this year’s Emmy noms (you can see the full list of noms here):

Best Drama Series


Andor


The Diplomat


The Last of Us


Paradise


The Pitt


Severance


Slow Horses


The White Lotus

Best Comedy Series


Abbott Elementary


The Bear


Hacks


Nobody Wants This


Only Murders in the Building


Shrinking


The Studio


What We Do in the Shadows

Best Limited or Anthology Series


Adolescence


Black Mirror


Dying for Sex


Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story


The Penguin

Best Television Movie


Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy


The Gorge


Mountainhead


Nonnas


Rebel Ridge

Best Actor in a Drama Series


Sterling K. Brown, Paradise


Gary Oldman, Slow Horses


Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us


Adam Scott, Severance


Noah Wyle, The Pitt

Best Actress in a Drama Series


Kathy Bates, Matlock


Sharon Horgan, Bad Sisters


Britt Lower, Severance


Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us


Keri Russell, The Diplomat

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series


Zach Cherry, Severance


Walton Goggins, The White Lotus


Jason Isaacs, The White Lotus


James Marsden, Paradise


Sam Rockwell, The White Lotus


Tramell Tillman, Severance


John Turturro, Severance

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series


Patricia Arquette, Severance


Carrie Coon, The White Lotus


Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt


Julianne Nicholson, Paradise


Parker Posey, The White Lotus


Natasha Rothwell, The White Lotus


Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus

Best Actress in a Comedy Series


Uzo Aduba, The Residence


Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This


Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary


Ayo Edebiri, The Bear


Jean Smart, Hacks

Best Actor in a Comedy Series


Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This


Seth Rogen, The Studio


Jason Segel, Shrinking


Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building


Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series


Ike Barinholtz, The Studio


Colman Domingo, The Four Seasons


Harrison Ford, Shrinking


Jeff Hiller, Somebody Somewhere


Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear


Michael Urie, Shrinking


Bowen Yang, Saturday Night Live

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series


Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear


Hannah Einbinder, Hacks


Kathryn Hahn, The Studio


Janelle James, Abbott Elementary


Catherine O’Hara, The Studio


Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary


Jessica Williams, Shrinking

Yeah, the White Lotus noms are insane. They really nominated EVERYBODY. Well, everybody but Michelle Monaghan, Leslie Bibb, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola. Honestly, the only “snub” in that group is Nivola – he was outstanding, and he should have gotten nominated, probably in Walton Goggins’ place (or just move Goggins up to the lead category). There’s a similar energy with Severance – every actor does such an incredible job on Severance, I can see why they all get nominated. But yeah, the bulk of the drama acting nominations going to the last two water-cooler shows says something, I guess. Just breaking down the numbers – Severance got 27 nominations, The Penguin got 24 noms, and The Studio and The White Lotus got 23 noms each.

Some notable snubs: nothing for Elisabeth Moss for her final season of The Handmaid’s Tale; nothing for Eddie Redmaybe for The Day of the Jackal; nothing for Bridgerton (not a shock); nothing for Selena Gomez, Steve Martin or Meryl Streep for Only Murders; no lead acting noms for Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren in 1923; no acting noms for Landman; no Allison Janney for The Diplomat; no Black Doves. Eh.

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