Emmy Nominations 2018
Television Academy

Emmy Nominations 2018: ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘SNL,’ ‘Westworld,’ ‘Gianni Versace’ Lead Totals

The Emmy nominations were announced this morning, honoring the best in television from the 2017-18 season. The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Samira Wiley and The Blacklist‘s Ryan Eggold revealed the nominations, announcing the major series categories in addition to lead acting. Saturday Night Live, Game of Thrones and The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story led the nominations in the respective comedy, drama and limited series/TV movie categories. The full list of this year’s nominees, including the supporting acting categories, is now available on Emmys.com. Here are the 2018 Primetime Emmy Award nominations in the non-technical categories:

COMEDY SERIES

Atlanta
Barry
black-ish
Curb Your Enthusiasm
GLOW
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Silicon Valley
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

COMEDY LEAD ACTRESS

Pamela Adlon – Better Things
Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Allison Janney – Mom
Issa Rae – Insecure
Tracee Ellis Ross – black-ish
Lily Tomlin – Grace and Frankie

COMEDY LEAD ACTOR

Anthony Anderson – black-ish
Ted Danson – The Good Place
Larry David – Curb Your Enthusiasm
Donald Glover – Atlanta
Bill Hader – Barry
William H. Macy – Shameless

COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Zazie Beetz – Atlanta
Alex Borstein – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Aidy Bryant – Saturday Night Live
Betty Gilpin – GLOW
Leslie Jones – Saturday Night Live
Kate McKinnon – Saturday Night Live
Laurie Metcalf – Roseanne
Megan Mullally – Will & Grace

COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTOR

Louie Anderson – Baskets
Alec Baldwin – Saturday Night Live
Tituss Burgess – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Brian Tyree Henry – Atlanta
Tony Shalhoub – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Kenan Thompson – Saturday Night Live
Henry Winkler – Barry

COMEDY DIRECTING

Atlanta (“FUBU”) – Donald Glover
Atlanta (“Teddy Perkins”) – Hiro Murai
Barry (“Chapter One: Make Your Mark”) – Bill Hader
The Big Bang Theory (“The Bow Tie Asymmetry”) – Mark Cendrowski
GLOW (“Pilot”) – Jesse Peretz
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (“Pilot”) – Amy Sherman-Palladino
Silicon Valley (“Initial Coin Offering”) – Mike Judge

COMEDY WRITING

Atlanta (“Alligator Man”) – Donald Glover
Atlanta (“Barbershop”) – Stefani Robinson
Barry (“Chapter One: Make Your Mark”) – Alec Berg and Bill Hader
Barry (“Chapter Seven: Loud, Fast and Keep Going”) – Liz Sarnoff
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (“Pilot”) – Amy Sherman-Palladino
Silicon Valley (“Fifty-One Percent”) – Alec Berg

COMEDY GUEST ACTRESS

Tina Fey – Saturday Night Live
Tiffany Haddish – Saturday Night Live
Jane Lynch – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Maya Rudolph – The Good Place
Molly Shannon – Will & Grace
Wanda Sykes – black-ish

COMEDY GUEST ACTOR

Sterling K. Brown – Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Bryan Cranston – Curb Your Enthusiasm
Donald Glover – Saturday Night Live
Bill Hader – Saturday Night Live
Lin-Manuel Miranda – Curb Your Enthusiasm
Katt Williams – Atlanta

DRAMA SERIES

The Americans
The Crown
Game of Thrones
The Handmaid’s Tale

Stranger Things
This Is Us
Westworld

DRAMA LEAD ACTRESS

Claire Foy – The Crown
Tatiana Maslany – Orphan Black
Elisabeth Moss – The Handmaid’s Tale
Sandra Oh – Killing Eve
Keri Russell – The Americans
Evan Rachel Wood – Westworld

DRAMA LEAD ACTOR

Jason Bateman – Ozark
Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us
Ed Harris – Westworld
Matthew Rhys – The Americans
Milo Ventimiglia – This Is Us
Jeffrey Wright – Westworld

DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Alexis Bledel – The Handmaid’s Tale
Millie Bobby Brown – Stranger Things
Ann Dowd – The Handmaid’s Tale
Lena Headey – Game of Thrones
Vanessa Kirby – The Crown
Thandie Newton – Westworld
Yvonne Strahovski – The Handmaid’s Tale

DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTOR

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau – Game of Thrones
Peter Dinklage – Game of Thrones
Joseph FiennesThe Handmaid’s Tale
David Harbour – Stranger Things
Mandy Patinkin – Homeland
Matt Smith – The Crown

DRAMA DIRECTING

The Crown (“Paterfamilias”) – Stephen Daldry
Game of Thrones (“Beyond the Wall”) – Alan Taylor
Game of Thrones (“The Dragon and the Wolf”) – Jeremy Podeswa
The Handmaid’s Tale (“After”) – Kari Skogland
Ozark (“The Toll”) – Jason Bateman
Ozark (“Tonight We Improvise”) – Daniel Sackheim
Stranger Things (“Chapter Nine: The Gate”) – The Duffer Brothers

DRAMA WRITING

The Americans (“START”) – Joel Fields & Joe Weisberg
The Crown (“Mystery Man”) – Peter Morgan
Game of Thrones (“The Dragon and the Wolf”) – David Benioff and D.B. Weiss
The Handmaid’s Tale (“June”) – Bruce Miller
Killing Eve (“Nice Face”) – Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Stranger Things (“Chapter Nine: The Gate”) – The Duffer Brothers

DRAMA GUEST ACTRESS

Viola Davis – Scandal
Kelly Jenrette – The Handmaid’s Tale
Cherry Jones – The Handmaid’s Tale
Diana Rigg – Game of Thrones
Cicely Tyson – How to Get Away with Murder
Samira Wiley – The Handmaid’s Tale

DRAMA GUEST ACTOR

F. Murray Abraham – Homeland
Cameron Britton – Mindhunter
Matthew Goode – The Crown
Ron Cephas Jones – This Is Us
Gerald McRaney – This Is Us
Jimmi Simpson – Westworld

LIMITED SERIES

The Alienist
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Genius: Picasso
Godless

Patrick Melrose

TELEVISION MOVIE

Black Mirror: “USS: Callister
Fahrenheit 451

Flint
Paterno
The Tale

LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE LEAD ACTRESS

Jessica Biel – The Sinner
Laura Dern – The Tale
Michelle Dockery – Godless
Edie Falco – Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders
Regina King – Seven Seconds
Sarah Paulson – American Horror Story: Cult

LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE LEAD ACTOR

Antonio Banderas – Genius: Picasso
Darren Criss – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Benedict Cumberbatch – Patrick Melrose
Jeff Daniels – The Looming Tower
John Legend – Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
Jesse Plemons – Black Mirror: “USS: Callister

LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Penélope Cruz – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Sara Bareilles – Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
Letitia Wright – Black Mirror: “Black Museum”
Judith Light – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Adina Porter – American Horror Story: Cult
Merritt Wever – Godless

LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE SUPPORTING ACTOR

Jeff Daniels – Godless
Brandon Victor Dixon – Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
John Leguizamo – Waco
Ricky Martin – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Edgar Ramírez – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Michael Stuhlbarg – The Looming Tower
Finn Wittrock – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE DIRECTING

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (“The Man Who Would Be Vogue”) – Ryan Murphy
Godless – Scott Frank
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert – David Leveaux and Alex Rudzinski
The Looming Tower (“9/11”) – Craig Zisk
Paterno – Barry Levinson
Patrick Melrose
 – Edward Berger
Twin Peaks – David Lynch

LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE WRITING

American Vandal (“Clean Up”) – Matthew McManus and Kevin McManus
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (“House by the Lake”) – Tom Rob Smith
Black Mirror: “USS Callister” – Charlie Brooker and William Bridges
Godless – Scott Frank
Patrick Melrose – David Nicholls
Twin Peaks – David Lynch and Mark Frost

VARIETY TALK SERIES

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Late Show with James Corden

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

VARIETY SKETCH SERIES

At Home with Amy Sedaris
Drunk History

I Love You, America
Portlandia
Saturday Night Live
Tracey Ullman’s Show

VARIETY SERIES DIRECTING

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (“Episode 2061”) – Andre Allen
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
 (“Episode 421”) – Paul Pennolino
The Late Late Show with James Corden (“Episode 0416”) – Tim Mancinelli
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (“Episode 438”) – Jim Hoskinson
Portlandia (“Riot Spray”) – Carrie Brownstein
Saturday Night Live (“Host: Donald Glover”) – Don Roy King

VARIETY SERIES WRITING

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Saturday Night Live

REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM

The Amazing Race
American Ninja Warrior
Project Runway
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Top Chef
The Voice

REALITY HOST

W. Kamau Bell – United Shades of America
RuPaul Charles – RuPaul’s Drag Race
Ellen DeGeneres – Ellen’s Game of Games
Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn – Project Runway
Jane Lynch – Hollywood Game Night