Emmy Predictions 2024 - Who Will Likely Be Nominated for Lead Actor in a Drama Series?
Actors from "The Crown" and "Shogun" are frontrunners in the category.
From June 13 to 24, 2024, voting is taking place for The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards. As such, it's fun to look at which actors and shows have the best chances of actually being nominated this year. So, these are my predictions for which performers will be nominated for Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Performers most likely to be nominated:
Hiroyuki Sanada for FX's Shogun
Dominic West for Netflix's The Crown
Donald Glover for Amazon's Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Cosmo Jarvis for FX's Shogun
Nathan Fielder for Showtime's The Curse
Idris Elba for AppleTV+'s Hijack
Serious threats that could break through:
Walton Goggins for Amazon's Fallout
Morgan Spector for HBO's The Gilded Age
Colin Farrell for AppleTV+'s Sugar
Gary Oldman for AppleTV+'s Slow Horses
Tom Hiddleston for Disney+'s Loki
Ben Mendelsohn for AppleTV+'s The New Look
Timothy Olyphant for FX's Justified: City Primeval
Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe for Max's Tokyo Vice
Zahn McClarnon for AMC's Dark Winds
Ramón Rodríguez for ABC's Will Trent
Some considerable long-shots:
Joel Kinnaman for AppleTV+'s For All Mankind
Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis and Corey Stoll for Showtime's Billions
Kurt Russell for AppleTV+'s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Andrew Lincoln for AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
Adrien Brody, John C. Reilly and Quincy Isaiah for HBO's Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Giancarlo Esposito for AMC's Parish
LaKeith Stanfield for AppleTV+'s The Changeling
Freddie Highmore for ABC's The Good Doctor
Jesse L. Martin for NBC's The Irrational
Anson Mount for Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Colorful oddities that still have an outside chance:
Lee Pace for AppleTV+'s Foundation
Norman Reedus for AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
Gordon Cormier for Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo for Netflix's The Lincoln Lawyer
John Krasinski for Amazon's Jack Ryan
Alan Ritchson for Amazon's Reacher
George Rexstrew for Netflix's Dead Boy Detectives
Josh Brolin for Amazon's Outer Range
Titus Welliver for Freevee's Bosch: Legacy
David Ajala for Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery
The nominations for The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced on Wednesday, July 17.