Performers most likely to be nominated:
- Hiroyuki Sanada for FX's Shogun
- Dominic West for Netflix's The Crown
- Donald Glover for Amazon's Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- Cosmo Jarvis for FX's Shogun
- Nathan Fielder for Showtime's The Curse
- Idris Elba for AppleTV+'s Hijack
Serious threats that could break through:
- Walton Goggins for Amazon's Fallout
- Morgan Spector for HBO's The Gilded Age
- Colin Farrell for AppleTV+'s Sugar
- Gary Oldman for AppleTV+'s Slow Horses
- Tom Hiddleston for Disney+'s Loki
- Ben Mendelsohn for AppleTV+'s The New Look
- Timothy Olyphant for FX's Justified: City Primeval
- Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe for Max's Tokyo Vice
- Zahn McClarnon for AMC's Dark Winds
- Ramón Rodríguez for ABC's Will Trent
Some considerable long-shots:
- Joel Kinnaman for AppleTV+'s For All Mankind
- Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis and Corey Stoll for Showtime's Billions
- Kurt Russell for AppleTV+'s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
- Andrew Lincoln for AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
- Adrien Brody, John C. Reilly and Quincy Isaiah for HBO's Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
- Giancarlo Esposito for AMC's Parish
- LaKeith Stanfield for AppleTV+'s The Changeling
- Freddie Highmore for ABC's The Good Doctor
- Jesse L. Martin for NBC's The Irrational
- Anson Mount for Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Colorful oddities that still have an outside chance:
- Lee Pace for AppleTV+'s Foundation
- Norman Reedus for AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
- Gordon Cormier for Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Manuel Garcia-Rulfo for Netflix's The Lincoln Lawyer
- John Krasinski for Amazon's Jack Ryan
- Alan Ritchson for Amazon's Reacher
- George Rexstrew for Netflix's Dead Boy Detectives
- Josh Brolin for Amazon's Outer Range
- Titus Welliver for Freevee's Bosch: Legacy
- David Ajala for Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery
The nominations for The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced on Wednesday, July 17.
