Emmy Predictions 2025 - Who Will Likely Be Nominated for Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie?

From June 12 to 23, 2025, voting is taking place for The 77th 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 Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

Performers most likely to be nominated:

1. Owen Cooper for Netflix's Adolescence
2. Javier Bardem for Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
3. Rhenzy Feliz for HBO's The Penguin
4. Ashley Walters for Netflix's Adolescence
5. Rob Delaney for FX's Dying for Sex
6. Wagner Moura for AppleTV+'s Dope Thief
7. Peter Sarsgaard for AppleTV+'s Presumed Innocent

Serious threats that could break through:

1. Nathan Lane and Dallas Roberts for Netflix's Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story
2. Jay Duplass for FX's Dying for Sex
3. Clancy Brown for HBO's The Penguin
4. Kodi Smit-McPhee, Sacha Baron Cohen and Louis Partridge for AppleTV+'s Disclaimer
5. Anthony Boyle and Josh Finan for FX's Say Nothing
6. Ving Rhames and Amir Arison for AppleTV+'s Dope Thief
7. Bill Camp, O-T Fagbenle and Tate Birchmore for AppleTV+'s Presumed Innocent
8. Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith and Ramy Youssef for HBO's Mountainhead

Some considerable long-shots:

1. Jimmi Simpson for Netflix's Black Mirror
2. Mark Duplass and Dulé Hill for Hulu's Good American Family
3. Hugh Grant, Colin Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor for Peacock's Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
4. Jesse Plemons, Matthew Modine and McKinley Belcher III for Netflix's Zero Day
5. Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Terrence Howard and Exie Booker for Peacock's Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
6. Corey Stoll, Matthew Modine, Michael J. Harney and Bobby Naderi for Prime Video's The Better Sister
7. Bill Camp, Glenn Howerton and Felix Solis for Netflix's Sirens
8. John Doman and Nicholas Pinnock for Peacock's Long Bright River

Colorful oddities that still have an outside chance:

1. Y'lan Noel, Byron Bowers and Josiah Cross for AppleTV+'s Lady in the Lake
2. Alex Jennings for Prime Video's A Very Royal Scandal
3. Diego Luna for Hulu's La Máquina
4. Norbert Leo Butz, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Ean Castellanos and Tony Yazbeck for FX's American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez
5. Shea Whigham, Dane DeHaan, Kim Coates, Tokala Black Elk and Derek Hinkey for Netflix's American Primeval
6. John Ortiz for Netflix's The Madness
7. Ed O'Neill for FX's Clipped
8. Blair Underwood, Jason Ralph and John Patrick Amedori for Starz's Three Women

The nominations for The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, July 15. The winners will be awarded in a ceremony airing on CBS and Paramount+ and hosted by stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze on Sunday, September 14.