The nominations for the 77th Emmy Awards arrived on Tuesday, July 15, at the Los Angeles Television Academy.
Harvey Guillén from What We Do in the Shadows and Brenda Song from Running Point hosted the event.
Severance, The Penguin, The White Lotus and The Studio earned the most nominations.
The four shows lead a competitive race across the major categories.
2025 nominations
Apple TV+ drama Severance leads the 2025 Emmy nominations with 27 nods.
The second season of the dystopian workplace drama earned a Best Drama Series nomination.
Britt Lower received a Best Actress nomination. Adam Scott earned a Best Actor nomination.
Patricia Arquette also received a Best Supporting Actress nomination.
Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman and John Turturro earned Best Supporting Actor nominations.
Severance will compete for Best Drama Series against Andor, The Diplomat, The Last of Us, Paradise, The Pitt, Slow Horses and The White Lotus.
The Penguin earns 24 nominations
HBO Max’s The Penguin collected 24 nominations.
The show earned recognition in the Best Limited or Anthology Series category.
Colin Farrell also received a Best Actor nomination.
Cristin Milioti earned a Best Actress nomination. Deirdre O’Connell received a Best Supporting Actress nomination.
The series also picked up nominations in several major creative categories.
The White Lotus earns 23 nominations
HBO Max’s The White Lotus received 23 nominations for its third season.
Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell and Aimee Lou Wood earned Best Supporting Actress nominations.
Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs and Sam Rockwell received Best Supporting Actor nominations.
The series also earned a Best Drama Series nomination.
Other notable nominations
Kathy Bates scored a nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the rebooted CBS series ‘Matlock’.
Bates, at 77, is the oldest actress to ever get a nomination in the category.
She contends with Sharon Horgan (‘Bad Sisters’), Brit Lower (‘Severance’), Bella Ramsey (‘The Last of Us’) and Keri Russell (‘The Diplomat’) for the award.
The 15-year-old British actor Owen Cooper made history by becoming the youngest ever to be nominated.
He features on the list for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his role in ‘Adolescence’.
The teenager will compete with his co-star Ashley Walters, while Christine Tremarco and Erin Doherty will compete for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
Harrison Ford landed his first Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance in ‘Shrinking’.
Noah Wyle was nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for his work in ‘The Pitt’ – his first nomination in 26 years.
Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard were nominated for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for the first time ever, for their guest appearances on ‘The Studio’.
Network ranking
HBO Max scored 142 Emmy nominations in total – the most of any network and the highest tally HBO Max has ever recorded.
This is thanks to ‘The Penguin’, ‘The White Lotus’, ‘The Last of Us’, ‘Hacks’ and ‘The Pitt’.
It’s a comeback from last year when the network fell to third place among all networks for the first time in decades.
Netflix remained in second place with 120 nominations but it still holds the record for the most nominations ever in a year for a platform – 160 in 2020.
It’s tied with CBS for most wins – 44 in 2021, the same number of wins CBS had in 1974.
Apple TV+ was in third with 81, its highest in total.
Apple TV+ remains the least watched, ranking below Paramount+, Peacock, HBO Max and free streamers like Pluto and Tubi.
The 77th Emmy Awards is set to air live on CBS from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on September 14, and will be hosted by Nate Bargatze.
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