Emmy Predictions 2024 - Who Will Likely Be Nominated for Lead Actress in a Drama Series?
Performers from "The Curse" and "The Morning Show" 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 Actress in a Drama Series.
Performers most likely to be nominated:
Imelda Staunton for Netflix's The Crown
Anna Sawai for FX's Shogun
Emma Stone for Showtime's The Curse
Maya Erskine for Amazon's Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Jennifer Aniston for AppleTV+'s The Morning Show
Reese Witherspoon for AppleTV+'s The Morning Show
Serious threats that could break through:
Carrie Coon for HBO's The Gilded Age
Carrie Preston for CBS' Elsbeth
Ella Purnell for Amazon's Fallout
Juliette Binoche for AppleTV+'s The New Look
Jess Hong for Netflix's 3 Body Problem
Aunjanue Ellie for FX's Justified: City Primeval
Rachel Keller for Max's Tokyo Vice
Rosario Dawson for Disney+'s Ahsoka
Some considerable long-shots:
Danai Gurira for AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
Anna Sawai for AppleTV+'s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Rebecca Ferguson for AppleTV+'s Silo
Ruth Wilson for Showtime's The Woman in the Wall
Zoe Saldaña for Paramount+'s Special Ops: Lioness
Kirby for AppleTV+'s Sugar
Wrenn Schmidt and Krys Marshall for AppleTV+'s For All Mankind
Shanola Hampton for NBC's Found
Lauren Cohan for AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City
Colorful oddities that still have an outside chance:
Rosamund Pike for Amazon's The Wheel of Time
Sonequa Martin-Green for Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery
Mia Isaac for Hulu's Black Cake
Hadley Robinson for HBO's Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Clark Backo for AppleTV+'s The Changeling
Melissa Benoist for Max's The Girls on the Bus
Lili Taylor for Amazon's Outer Range
Mimi Rogers and Madison Lintz for Freevee's Bosch: Legacy
Violett Beane for Hulu's Death and Other Details
The nominations for The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced on Wednesday, July 17.