Emmy Predictions 2022 - Who Will Likely Be Nominated for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series?

From June 16-27, 2022, voting is taking place for The 74th 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 Actress in a Drama Series.

Performers most likely to be nominated:

1. Julia Garner for Netflix's Ozark
2. Jung Ho-yeon for Netflix's Squid Game
3. Sarah Snook for HBO's Succession
4. J. Smith-Cameron for HBO's Succession
5. Christina Ricci for Showtime's Yellowjackets
6. Patricia Arquette for AppleTV+'s Severance
7. Sydney Sweeney for HBO's Euphoria
8. Rhea Seehorn for AMC's Better Call Saul

Serious threats who could break through:

1. Fiona Shaw, Camille Cottin and Anjana Vasan for BBC America's Killing Eve
2. Kim Joo-ryoung for Netflix's Squid Game
3. Chrissy Metz and Susan Kelechi Watson for NBC's This Is Us
4. Maude Apatow, Hunter Schafer, Alexa Demie, Barbie Ferreira, Nika King and Alanna Ubach for HBO's Euphoria
5. Millie Bobby Brown, Sadie Sink, Maya Hawke, Natalia Dyer and Priah Ferguson for Netflix's Stranger Things
6. Sally Field, Gaby Hoffmann, Julianne Nicholson, Hadley Robinson, LisaGay Hamilton and Tamera Tomakili for HBO's Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
7. Julianna Margulies, Holland Taylor, Greta Lee, Karen Pittman, Janina Gavankar and Valeria Golino for AppleTV+'s The Morning Show
8. Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Denée Benton, Audra McDonald and Louisa Jacobson for HBO's The Gilded Age
9. Sophia Di Martino, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Wunmi Mosaku for Disney+'s Loki
10. Yuh-Jung Yuon, Inji Jeong, Minami Kaho and Anna Sawai for AppleTV+'s Pachinko
11. Glenn Close for AppleTV+'s Tehran
12. Phoebe Dynevor, Charithra Chandran, Nicola Coughlan, Golda Rosheuvel, Adjoa Andoh, Ruth Gemmell, Claudia Jessie, Shelley Conn, Polly Walker, Kathryn Drysdale and Bessie Carter for Netflix's Bridgerton
13. Phillipa Soo and Amy Brenneman for AppleTV+'s Shining Girls
14. Dichen Lachman and Jen Tullock for AppleTV+'s Severance

Some considerable long-shots:

1. Piper Perabo and Kelsey Asbille for Paramount Network's Yellowstone
2. Andrene Ward-Hammond for AMC's 61st Street
3. Veronica Falcón and Jessica Frances Duke for Netflix's Ozark
4. Jasmin Savoy Brown, Courtney Eaton, Samantha Hanratty, Liv Hewson, Sophie Nélisse, Ella Purnell and Sophie Thatcher for Showtime's Yellowjackets
5. Dianne Wiest and Emma Laird for Paramount+'s Mayor of Kingstown
6. Kate Mulgrew, Sonya Cassidy and Joana Ribeiro for Showtime's The Man Who Fell to Earth
7. Rinko Kikuchi for HBO Max's Tokyo Vice
8. Lili Taylor, Tamara Podemski and Deirdre O'Connell for Amazon's Outer Range
9. Melissa McCarthy, Regina Hall, Samara Weaving Tiffany Boone, Grace Van Patten and Asher Keddie for Hulu's Nine Perfect Strangers
10. Christine Lahti for Paramount+'s Evil
11. Audra McDonald, Sarah Steele and Charmaine Bingwa for Paramount+'s The Good Fight

Colorful oddities who still have an outside chance:

1. Ellen Burstyn for NBC's Law & Order: Organized Crime
2. Quvenzhané Wallis for AppleTV+'s Swagger
3. Jennifer Carpenter, Jamie Chung, Julia Jones and Johnny Sequoyah for Showtime's Dexter: New Blood
4. Neve Campbell, Becki Newton, LisaGay Hamilton and Jazz Raycole for Netflix's The Lincoln Lawyer
5. Mary McCormack, Kelli Berglund and Alison Luff for Starz's Heels
6. Jennifer Beals and Sophie Thatcher for Disney+'s The Book of Boba Fett
7. Kate Hudson, Tracie Thoms, Haneefah Wood, Merle Dandridge, Katherine LaNasa, Tami Roman and Alona Tal for AppleTV+'s Truth Be Told
8. Sarah Bolger, Carla Baratta and Justina Adorno for FX's Mayans M.C.
9. Camryn Manheim for NBC's Law & Order
10. Natascha McElhone and Jen Taylor for Paramount+'s Halo

The nominations for The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, July 12.