‘The Morning Show’ could earn 3 supporting actress Emmy nominations: Just how rare is that?
Since premiering in 2019, Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show” has been nominated for three of the four regular drama series acting Emmys, with its lone elusive category being the supporting female one. That gap should soon be closed, however, given that seven of its featured actresses are entered in the 2024 race and three of them are running in at least 10th place according to Gold Derby’s odds-based predictions. Achieving at least three concurrent bids would make the series the 12th to ever do so in this category.
The supporting actresses representing “The Morning Show” on this year’s performance ballot are Nicole Beharie, Hannah Leder, Greta Lee, Julianna Margulies, Tig Notaro, Karen Pittman, and Holland Taylor. Also submitted across three other drama categories are 10 more of their cast mates, including 2020 featured male winner Billy Crudup and co-lead actresses Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.
The first instance of triple drama supporting actress nominations occurred in 1984 when Alfre Woodard crashed what would have otherwise been “Hill Street Blues” actresses Barbara Bosson and Betty Thomas’s fourth of five consecutive one-on-one battles. Subsequent 20th century cases involved women from “L.A. Law” (1989), “NYPD Blue” (1994), “ER” (1997), and “The Practice” (1999), with the last group having included Taylor herself.
The remaining two shows that joined this club more than a decade ago are “The West Wing” (2002) and “Grey’s Anatomy” (2007). Then came “Game of Thrones” (2016) and “The Handmaid’s Tale” (2018), which respectively went on to score quadruple bids in 2019 (for returning nominees Lena Headey and Maisie Williams and first-timers Gwendoline Christie and Sophie Turner) and 2021 (Ann Dowd and Yvonne Strahovski; Madeline Brewer and Samira Wiley).
Rounding out this roster are “The Crown” (2021) and “The White Lotus” (2023), the latter of which is the only continuing series to ever produce five female supporting nominees in a single year (Jennifer Coolidge, Meghann Fahy, Sabrina Impacciatore, Aubrey Plaza, and Simona Tabasco). The six actresses who emerged victorious from these 13 instances of triple, quadruple, or quintuple nominations are Woodard, Taylor, Stockard Channing (“The West Wing”), Katherine Heigl (“Grey’s Anatomy”), Gillian Anderson (“The Crown”), and Coolidge.
There being fewer than 241 entrants on the current drama supporting actress ballot allows for just seven nomination slots rather than eight like there were from 2020 to 2023. “The Morning Show” is one of 30 series with at least three submissions on this particular ballot, with some of the others being “The Gilded Age,” “Shōgun,” and “Slow Horses.”
Our current drama supporting actress odds indicate that Lee is a safe bet in fourth place while Taylor, Beharie, Pittman, and Margulies respectively rank eighth, 10th, 11th, and 20th. Our predicted top seven further includes two pairs from “The Crown” (Elizabeth Debicki, first; Lesley Manville, second) and “The Gilded Age” (Christine Baranski, third; Cynthia Nixon, sixth) as well as Moeka Hoshi (“Shōgun,” fifth) and Kristin Scott Thomas (“Slow Horses,” seventh).
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