Emmy nominations 2025: Full list of nominees

It’s been a blockbuster year of television. Here is the full list of nominees for the Emmy Awards – the small screen’s version of the Oscars.

The 2025 Emmy Awards nominations are here!

Hollywood’s Aussie golden girl Cate Blanchett is our only actor among the six lead acting categories who scored an Emmy Award nomination for her role in the hit AppleTV+ drama series, Disclaimer.

She will fight for the award alongside Meghann Fahy (Sirens), Rashida Jones (Black Mirror), Cristin Milioti (The Penguin), and Michelle Williams (Dying For Sex).

However, more Australians behind the camera have been recognised for their work this year with Australian director Shannon Murphy up for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for an episode of Dying For Sex.

Cate Blanchett, left, and Sacha Baron Cohen in a scene from Disclaimer.

Australian directors Cian O’Clery and Dave May have also been nominated for Love on the Spectrum US, a reality show about people with autism finding love.

The popular US spin-off on Netflix, which is produced by Australian company Northern Pictures, secured five nominations including Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program, Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program, Outstanding Cinematography For A Reality Program, Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program and Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program.

In a statement, O’Clery and executive producer Karina Holden said they were “beyond excited” about being nominated.

“This series is a labour of love—for the incredible people who’ve shared their stories with us, and for the team who’ve worked with such care to bring those stories to life,” he said.

“A huge thank you to the Academy for recognising the passion that goes into making our show.”

Australian director Shannon Murphy. Picture: Richard Walker

Australian cinematographer Zoë White is also nominated for Outstanding Cinematography For A Nonfiction Program for her work on documentary Will & Harper (Netflix), which is the story of Will Ferrell and his friend Harper Steele who embark on a road trip after Harper came out as transgender.

Cast members gather on the final day of filming of iconic Australian TV show Neighbours after 40 years. Picture: Channel 10/Supplied

It comes after Australian cinematographers Tony Gardiner and Heath Kerr were recently nomiated for a Daytime Emmy in the technical direction, camerawork and video category for their work on the 40-year-old soap show Neighbours, which just wrapped its final production for Prime Video.

Overall, dark sci-fi office drama Severance leads the contenders for this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, TV’s version of the Oscars, with 27 nominations followed by The Penguin (24), The Studio (23), and The White Lotus (23).

Other highly recognised series include The Last of Us (16), Andor (14), Hacks (14), Adolescence (13), The Bear (13), and The Pitt (13).

Yvonne Strahovski and Elisabeth Moss were shockingly left off the list of nominees.

However it wasn’t all good news for the White Lotus crew with Patrick Schwarzenegger, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Nivola and Leslie Bibb failing to be nominated.

In another shock omission, neither The Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth Moss nor her Australian co-star Yvonne Strahovski got a nod.

Severance, in which employees of biotech company Lumon have their memories surgically separated between their “innie” work lives and their “outie” personal lives, is clearly the early favourite, with star Adam Scott a nominee for Best Actor.

He will compete against Noah Wyle, who leads nominations for The Pitt which got 13 nominations. The gritty HBO Max hospital series dubbed “ER on steroids” is popular with fans who first watched Wylie on ER as young doctor. Now in The Pitt, he runs a Pittsburgh emergency room team during one 15-hour shift, covered effectively in real time. It also stars young Aussie actor Shabana Azeez.

Pedro Pascal is nominated for best actor for his role in The Last of Us. Picture: AP

Those two shows will battle for Best Drama honours with Disney+’s Star Wars offshoot Andor, Netflix’s The Diplomat, HBO’s apocalyptic video game adaptation The Last of Us, Hulu political thriller Paradise, Apple’s spy drama Slow Horses, and HBO’s The White Lotus.

Scott and Wyle have stiff competition for the Best Actor gong: Oscar winner Gary Oldman in Slow Horses, Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us) and Sterling K. Brown (Paradise).

The Penguin is competing for Best Limited Series honours against Dying for Sex (FX) and three Netflix efforts: buzzy teen murder saga Adolescence, Black Mirror, and true-crime saga Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

In the comedy categories, HBO Max’s Hacks – starring Jean Smart as a stand-up comedian who locks horns with her dysfunctional millennial assistant – and The Bear, a dark satire set in the Chicago restaurant world, are the clear favourites.

Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez, right, and Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menendez in Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story. Picture: AP

Hacks won for best comedy and Best Actress in September last year, while The Bear took the top prize at the previous ceremony (held in January 2024 due to Hollywood strikes), and its star Jeremy Allen White has two trophies for best actor.

Other nominees for best comedy series are perennial ABC nominee Abbott Elementary, rom-com Nobody Wants This (Netflix), Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, Apple’s Shrinking and The Studio, and FX’s vampire laughfest What We Do in the Shadows.

Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short in a scene from Only Murders in the Building. Picture: AP

The announcement from the Television Academy was the official start of the race to the 77th Emmy Awards, set for September 14 in Los Angeles, which will be hosted by comedian Nate Bargatze.

BEST DRAMA

Andor

The Diplomat

The Last of Us

Paradise

The Pitt

Severance

Slow Horses

The White Lotus

Adam Scott, left, and Britt Lower in a scene from Severance which received a number of nods. Picture: AP

BEST COMEDY

Abbott Elementary

The Bear

Hacks

Nobody Wants This

Only Murders in the Building

Shrinking

The Studio

What We Do in the Shadows

The Netflix hit Nobody Wants This starring Kristen Bell, left, and Adam Brody was nominated. Picture: AP

BEST LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY

Adolescence

Black Mirror

Dying for Sex

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

The Penguin

BEST TV MOVIE

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

The Gorge

Mountainhead

Nonnas

Rebel Ridge

Hugh Grant and Renee Zellweger delighted fans when they reunited for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Picture: AP

BEST REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM

The Amazing Race

RuPaul’s Drag Race

Survivor

Top Chef

The Traitors

Best Talk Series

The Daily Show

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

BEST SCRIPTED VARIETY SERIES

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

Saturday Night Live

BEST ACTOR - DRAMA

Sterling K. Brown, Paradise

Gary Oldman, Slow Horses

Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us

Adam Scott, Severance

Noah Wyle, The Pitt

Gary Oldman is in the running for his performance in Slow Horses. Picture: AP

BEST ACTRESS - DRAMA

Kathy Bates, Matlock

Sharon Horgan, Bad Sisters

Britt Lower, Severance

Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us

Keri Russell, The Diplomat

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR -DRAMA

Zach Cherry, Severance

Walton Goggins, The White Lotus

Jason Isaacs, The White Lotus

James Marsden, Paradise

Sam Rockwell, The White Lotus

Tramell Tillman, Severance

John Turturro, Severance

John Turturro gave a masterful performance in Severance. Picture: AP

BEST ACTOR - LIMITED ANTHOLOGY OR MOVIE

Colin Farrell, The Penguin

Stephen Graham, Adolescence

Jake Gyllenhaal, Presumed Innocent

Brian Tyree Henry, Dope Thief

Cooper Koch, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - DRAMA

Patricia Arquette, Severance

Carrie Coon, The White Lotus

Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt

Julianne Nicholson, Paradise

Parker Posey, The White Lotus

Natasha Rothwell, The White Lotus

Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus

Aimee Lou Wood is nominated for The White Lotus. Picture: AP

BEST GUEST ACTOR - DRAMA

Giancarlo Esposito, The Boys

Scott Glenn, The White Lotus

Shawn Hatosy, The Pitt

Joe Pantoliano, The Last of Us

Forest Whitaker, Andor

Jeffrey Wright, The Last of Us

BEST GUEST ACTRESS - DRAMA

Jane Alexander, Severance

Gwendoline Christie, Severance

Kaitlyn Dever, The Last of Us

Cherry Jones, The Handmaid’s Tale

Catherine O’Hara, The Last of Us

Merritt Wever, Severance

BEST ACTRESS - COMEDY

Uzo Aduba, The Residence

Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This

Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary

Ayo Edebiri, The Bear

Jean Smart, Hacks

Jean Smart had viewers in stitches with her role in Hacks. Picture: AP

BEST ACTOR - COMEDY

Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This

Seth Rogen, The Studio

Jason Segel, Shrinking

Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building

Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - COMEDY

Ike Barinholtz, The Studio

Colman Domingo, The Four Seasons

Harrison Ford, Shrinking

Jeff Hiller, Somebody Somewhere

Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear

Michael Urie, Shrinking

Bowen Yang, Saturday Night Live

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - COMEDY

Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear

Hannah Einbinder, Hacks

Kathryn Hahn, The Studio

Janelle James, Abbott Elementary

Catherine O’Hara, The Studio

Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary

Jessica Williams, Shrinking

BEST GUEST ACTOR - COMEDY

Jon Bernthal, The Bear

Bryan Cranston, The Studio

Dave Franco, The Studio

Ron Howard, The Studio

Anthony Mackie, The Studio

Martin Scorsese, The Studio

BEST GUEST ACTRESS - COMEDY

Olivia Colman, The Bear

Jamie Lee Curtis, The Bear

Cynthia Erivo, Poker Face

Robby Hoffman, Hacks

Zoë Kravitz, The Studio

Julianne Nicholson, Hacks

Cate Blanchett is flying the flag for Aussie actors in Disclaimer.

BEST GUEST ACTRESS - LIMITED ANTHOLOGY OR MOVIE

Cate Blanchett, Disclaimer

Meghann Fahy, Sirens

Rashida Jones, Black Mirror

Cristin Milioti, The Penguin

Michelle Williams, Dying for Sex

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - LIMITED ANTHOLOGY OR MOVIE

Javier Bardem, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

Bill Camp, Presumed Innocent

Owen Cooper, Adolescence

Rob Delaney, Dying for Sex

Peter Sarsgaard, Presumed Innocent

Ashley Walters, Adolescence

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - LIMITED ANTHOLOGY OR MOVIE

Erin Doherty, Adolescence

Ruth Negga, Presumed Innocent

Deirdre O’Connell, The Penguin

Chloë Sevigny, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

Jenny Slate, Dying for Sex

Christine Tremarco, Adolescence

BEST WRITING - COMEDY

Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary

Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Jen Statsky, Hacks

Nathan Fielder, Carrie Kemper, Adam Locke-Norton, Eric Notarnicola, The Rehearsal

Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, Bridget Everett, Somebody Somewhere

Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, Frida Perez, The Studio

Sam Johnson, Sarah Naftalis, Paul Simms, What We Do in the Shadows

What We Do in the Shadows received a number of nods.

BEST WRITING - DRAMA

Dan Gilroy, Andor

Joe Sachs, The Pitt

R. Scott Gemmill, The Pitt

Dan Erickson, Severance

Will Smith, Slow Horses

Mike White, The White Lotus

BEST WRITING - LIMITED ANTHOLOGY OR MOVIE

Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham, Adolescence

Charlie Brooker, Bisha K. Ali, Black Mirror

Kim Rosenstock, Elizabeth Meriwether, Dying for Sex

Lauren LeFranc, The Penguin

Joshua Zetumer, Say Nothing

BEST DIRECTOR - COMEDY

Ayo Edebiri, The Bear

Lucia Aniello, Hacks

James Burrows, Mid-Century Modern

Nathan Fielder, The Rehearsal

Seth Rogen, The Studio

BEST DIRECTOR - DRAMA

Janus Metz, Andor

Amanda Marsalis, The Pitt

John Wells, The Pitt

Jessica Lee Gagné, Severance

Ben Stiller, Severance

Adam Randall, Slow Horses

Mike White, The White Lotus

BEST DIRECTOR - LIMITED ANTHOLOGY OR MOVIE

Philip Barantini, Adolescence

Shannon Murphy, Dying for Sex

Helen Shaver, The Penguin

Jennifer Getzinger, The Penguin

Nicole Kassell, Sirens

Lesli Linka Glatter, Zero Day

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