The biggest takeaway from the nominations-round ballots is that each acting category across drama, comedy and limited series/TV movie should have more than one POC nominated in their respective races.
Mj Rodriguez hopes to ride onto the lead drama actress ballot for the first time for her work in the final season of “Pose.” If she succeeds, she will be the first trans woman to be nominated in the category and just the third in the acting categories overall, following Laverne Cox .
Chris Rock is currently tied with Debbie Allen for the second-most recognized Black nominees in Emmys history: They both have 19 noms, behind only re-recording mixer Joe Earle, who has 25 to date.
RuPaul is in the mix once again with “RuPaul’s Drag Race” in competition program, along with his hosting submission and “Untucked” in unstructured reality.
Though a long shot for Netflix’s “Selena: The Series,” should Christian Serratos be nominated in the lead drama actress category, she would be only the second Latina to be recognized there, following Rita Moreno for “The Rockford Files” in 1979.
Neither has been nominated in that category before, though Yang has a variety writing nom from 2019 already under his belt.
Also beating “The West Wing’s” 2002 record of receiving the most acting nominations in a single year will be tougher — just think of the competition from Apple TV Plus’ “Ted Lasso” alone — but not necessarily impossible.
It also stands a good chance at some Creative Arts noms. All of this amounts to a possibility of breaking the 2009 record held by “30 Rock,” which pulled in 22 nominations, the most for a comedy series.
On the drama side, “Game of Thrones” holds the record for most single season noms with 32 for its final Emmy outing.
in lead actor; Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson and/or Jonathan Groff in supporting actor; and Renée Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo in supporting actress.
Dillon as the young and complicated Homer in Amazon Prime Video’s “The Underground Railroad” could find himself with an Emmy nomination at only age 9.