Performers most likely to be nominated:
- Tom Pelphrey for HBO's Task
- Billy Crudup for Apple TV's The Morning Show
- Patrick Ball for HBO Max's The Pitt
- Shawn Hatosy for HBO Max's The Pitt
- Gerran Howell for HBO Max's The Pitt
- Carlos-Manuel Vesga for Apple TV's Pluribus
- Jack Lowden for Apple TV's Slow Horses
Serious threats that could break through:
- Jacob Elordi, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Homer Gere, Hemky Madera, Toby Wallace and Marshawn Lynch for HBO's Euphoria
- James Marsden, Cameron Britton and Thomas Doherty for Hulu's Paradise
- Kurt Russell, Matthew Fox, Patrick J. Adams, Ben Schnetzer and Kevin Zegers for Paramount+'s The Madison
- Sam Elliott, Andy Garcia, Mark Collie, Colm Feore, James Jordan and Jacob Lofland for Paramount+'s Landman
- Raúl Castillo, Fabien Frankel, Sam Keeley and Jamie McShane for HBO's Task
- Mark Duplass, Néster Carbonell, William Jackson Harper, Aaron Pierre and Boyd Holbrook for Apple TV's The Morning Show
- Dexter Sol Ansell, Henry Ashton, Finn Bennett, Bertie Carvel, Daniel Ings, Sam Spruell, Shaun Thomas, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Danny Webb for HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
- Jamie Campbell Bower, David Harbour, Noah Schnapp, Joe Keery, Gaten Matarazzo, Finn Wolfhard and Caleb McLaughlin for Netflix's Stranger Things
- Lucas Iverson and Charles Baker for HBO Max's The Pitt
- Tom Brooke and Christopher Chung for Apple TV's Slow Horses
- Ato Essandoh and Rory Kinnear for Netflix's The Diplomat
- Ken Leung, Kit Harington and Max Minghella for HBO's Industry
Some considerable long-shots:
- Zach Galifianakis, Simon Helberg, Rob Corddry and Paul Adelstein for AMC's The Audacity
- Denis O'Hare and Clarke Peters for Netflix's The Boroughs
- James Marsden and Corbin Bernsen for Apple TV's Your Friends & Neighbors
- Hugh Laurie and Diego Calva for Prime Video's The Night Manager
- Babou Ceesay, Timothy Olyphant and David Rysdahl for FX's Alien: Earth
- Peter Dinklage, Jack Alcott, David Zayas, James Remar, Dominic Fumusa and Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine for Showtime's Dexter: Resurrection
- Bill Skarsgård, Chris Chalk, James Remar and Stephen Rider for HBO's IT: Welcome to Derry
- Ben Ahlers, Harry Richardson and Blake Ritson for HBO's The Gilded Age
- Kyle MacLachlan, Justin Theroux, Moises Arias, Xelia Mendes-Jones and Johnny Pemberton for Prime Video's Fallout
- Lee Byung-hun, Yim Si-wan and Park Sung-hoon for Netflix's Squid Game
- Brad Alexander for Hulu's The Testaments
- Simon Baker, Bobby Cannavale, Jake Cannavale, Anson Mount and Hunter Parrish for Prime Video's Scarpetta
Colorful oddities that still have an outside chance:
- Jason Ritter, Beau Bridges and Sam Anderson for CBS' Matlock
- Scoot McNairy for Netflix's Man on Fire
- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and David Morse for Apple TV's The Last Thing He Told Me
- Kiowa Gordon for AMC's Dark Winds
- Logan Marshall-Green, Gil Birmingham, Tatanka Means, Mo Brings Plenty and Brecken Merrill for CBS' Marshals
- Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine for Apple TV's Smoke
- Ashton Kutcher, Jeremy Pope and Anthony Ramos for FX's The Beauty
- Jensen Ackles, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capone, Chace Crawford, Daveed Diggs, Nathan Mitchell and Jessie T. Usher for Prime Video's The Boys
- Anders Holm, Wyatt Russell, Joe Tippett and Ren Watabe for Apple TV's Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
- Murray Bartlett, Henry Golding and Mark Strong for Hulu's Nine Perfect Strangers
- Vincent D'Onofrio for Disney+'s Daredevil: Born Again
- John Slattery for USA's The Rainmaker
The nominations for The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, July 8. The winners will be awarded in a ceremony broadcast on NBC on Monday, September 14.
