Emmy Predictions 2024 - Who Will Likely Be Nominated for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series?
"Abbott Elementary" and "The Bear" could land multiple nominations in this 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 Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Performers most likely to be nominated:
Ebon Moss-Bachrach for FX's The Bear
Tyler James Williams for ABC's Abbott Elementary
Oliver Platt for FX's The Bear
Paul Rudd for Hulu's Only Murders in the Building
Lionel Boyce for FX's The Bear
Matty Matheson for FX's The Bear
Chris Perfetti for ABC's Abbott Elementary
Serious threats that could break through:
Paul W. Downs and Carl Clemons-Hopkins for Max's Hacks
Harvey Guillén and Mark Proksch for FX's What We Do In the Shadows
Bowen Yang, Kenan Thompson, Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Marcello Hernández, James Austin Johnson, Michael Longfellow, Devon Walker, Michael Che and Colin Jost for NBC's Saturday Night Live
Richard Lewis, JB Smoove and Jeff Garlin for HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm
William Stanford Davis for ABC's Abbott Elementary
Ricky Martin and Josh Lucas for AppleTV+'s Palm Royale
Michael Cyril Creighton and Jesse Williams for Hulu's Only Murders in the Building
Giancarlo Esposito, Daniel Ings, Vinnie Jones and Ray Winstone for Netflix's The Gentlemen
Lane Factor for FX's Reservation Dogs
Some considerable long-shots:
Walton Goggins and Mike Epps for Amazon's I'm a Virgo
Nat Faxon, Ron Funches and Joel Kim Booster for AppleTV+'s Loot
Walton Goggins, Adam Devine, Steve Zahn, Skyler Gisondo and Tim Baltz for HBO's The Righteous Gemstones
Jon Hamm for Amazon's Good Omens
Nicholas Lyndhurst, Jack Cutmore-Scott and Anders Keith for Paramount+'s Frasier
Chance Perdomo, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Derek Luh and Asa Grodman for Amazon's Gen V
Lance Barber, Montana Jordan and Craig T. Nelson for CBS' Young Sheldon
Asher Grodman, Brandon Scott Jones, Devan Chandler Long, Richie Moriarty and Román Zaragoza for CBS' Ghosts
John Cho, Ken Jeong, Zach Woods, Paul Walter Hauser and Jack Whitehall for AppleTV+'s The Afterparty
Colorful oddities that still have an outside chance:
Luke Macfarlane, Andrew Lopez and Tre Hale for AppleTV+'s Platonic
Thomas Haden Church for Peacock's Twisted Metal
Con O'Neill for Max's Our Flag Means Death
Michael Cera for Hulu's Life & Beth
Tom Bateman for Peacock's Based on a True Story
John Lutz for Netflix's Girls5Eva
David Wilmot and Chris Walley for Netflix's Bodkin
Omar J. Dorsey and Jorge Garcia for Max's Bookie
The nominations for The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced on Wednesday, July 17.