Performers most likely to be nominated:
- Paul Walter Hauser for AppleTV+'s Black Bird
- Richard Jenkins for Netflix's Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
- Ray Liotta for AppleTV+'s Black Bird
- Domhnall Gleeson for FX's The Patient
- Jesse Plemons for Max's Love & Death
- Liev Schreiber for National Geographic's A Small Light
Serious threats that could break through:
- Greg Kinnear for AppleTV+'s Black Bird
- Rodney Burford Jr., Michael Beach, Colby French and Shaun J. Brown for Netflix's Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
- Timothy Olyphant, Sebastian Chacon, Will Harrison, Josh Whitehouse and Tom Wright for Amazon's Daisy Jones & the Six
- Walton Goggins, Steve Zahn and David Wilson Barnes for Showtime's George & Tammy
- Justin Theroux, Domhnall Gleeson, Toby Huss, Liam James, Ike Barinholtz, Yul Vazquez, Kim Coates, Tony Plana, Nelson Ascencio and Alexis Valdés for HBO's White House Plumbers
- Murray Bartlett for Hulu's Welcome to Chippendales
- Tom Pelphrey and Patrick Fugit for Max's Love & Death
- Young Mazino and Joseph Lee for Netflix's Beef
- Ciarán Hinds, Stephen Rea, Rafe Spall, Tom Hughes and Gary Farmer for Amazon's The English
- Joe Mantello, Richard Kind, Terry Kinney, Christopher McDonald, Michael Nouri, Luke David Blumm and Henry Hunter Hall for Netflix's The Watcher
- David Alan Grier for FX's The Patient
- Damson Idris and Byron Bowers for Amazon's Swarm
- Quentin Plair for Hulu's Tiny Beautiful Things
- Bowen Yang, Matt Rogers, Conrad Ricamora, James Scully, Nick Adams, Tomás Matos and Torian Miller for Hulu's Fire Island
Some considerable long-shots:
- Hayden Christensen, Rupert Friend, Sung Kang and Kumail Nanjiani for Disney+'s Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Adam Brody for FX's Fleishman Is in Trouble
- Colin Hanks for Peacock's A Friend of the Family
- Guy Pearce for MGM+'s A Spy Among Friends
- Fred Armisen and Nicholas Braun for IFC's Documentary Now!
- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, David Morse and Augusto Aguilera for AppleTV+'s The Last Thing He Told Me
- Jake McDorman, Chris Diamantopoulos, Ben Chaplin, David Arquette, Andy McQueen and Tom Wlaschiha for Peacock's Mrs. Davis
- Denis O'Hare, Zachary Quinto, Charlie Carver and Isaac Powell for FX's American Horror Story: NYC
- Michael Chernus and Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine for Amazon's Dead Ringers
- Harvey Keitel, Russell Hornsby and B.J. Minor for Hulu's Mike
- Robert Pine, Michael Gaston and Cornelius Smith Jr. for AppleTV+'s Five Days at Memorial
- Murray Bartlett, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Rhys, Kit Harington, Judd Hirsch, Daveed Diggs, David Schwimmer, Tobey Maguire, Edward Norton, Michael Gandolfini, Ben Harper and Tahar Rahim for AppleTV+'s Extrapolations
- Glynn Turman, Martin Starr, Eric André, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Luke Roberts and Sebastian Roché for Netflix's Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
- Cedric Yarbrough, Joe Lo Truglio, Ian Roberts and Carlos Alazraqui for Comedy Central's Reno 911! It's a Wonderful Heist
Colorful oddities that still have an outside chance:
- Mohan Kapur, Matt Lintz, Rish Shah and Saagar Shaikh for Disney+'s Ms. Marvel
- Corey Stoll, Amit Rahav and Ralph Amoussou for Netflix's Transatlantic
- Morris Chestnut, Terrence Terrell and Eric Scott Ways for Peacock's The Best Man: The Final Chapters
- Toby Huss and Rainn Wilson for Roku's Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
- Wendell Pierce, Oakes Fegley and August Maturo for FOX's Accused
- Keith David for Netflix's From Scratch
- Ashley Thomas for FX's Great Expectations
- Anthony LaPaglida for Netflix's Florida Man
- Cheech Marin for Amazon's Shotgun Wedding
- Rufus Sewell, Jai Courtney and Peter Mark Kendall for Netflix's Kaleidoscope
- Daniel Sunjata, Jonathan Tucker and Michael O'Neill for Netflix's Echoes
- Lenny Henry for Netflix's The Witcher: Blood Origin
- Harry Hamlin and Paul Wesley for Lifetime's Flowers in the Attic: The Origin
The nominations for The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced on Wednesday, July 12.
