After snagging the Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards earlier this year, you’d assume that Evan Peters is the frontrunner to take the Emmy Award for his role in Netflix’s blockbuster streaming hit “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” And the Television Academy has already demonstrated its love for the Ryan Murphy mainstay after he took the Supporting Actor trophy in this field for “Mare of Easttown” in 2021. But in a very wide open field, anything is possible.
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The only other presumed nominees in this category are “Black Bird’s” Taron Egerton, who joined Peters in the equivalent SAG Awards field, and Steven Yeun in Netflix’s breakout, “Beef.” Beyond that, the three other slots could be filled by “The Patient’s” Steve Carell, “Daisy Jones and the Six’s” Sam Clafin, Jesse Eisenberg, the Fleishman in “Fleishman is in Trouble,” “George and Tammy” star Michael Shannon, the Weird in “Weird: Al Yankovic Story,” Daniel Radcliffe, “White House Plumbers” star Woody Harrelson and Gotham Award winner Ben Whishaw for “This Is Going To Hurt.”
Anyone else? Do you mean deserving players such as “Welcome to Chippendales'” Kumail Nanjiani, “Love and Death’s” Jesse Plemons, or “A Small Light’s” Liev Schreiber? Good luck trying to crack one of those five nominee slots. Why this category still hasn’t expanded to six to seven nominees is a mystery. [Updated April 12]
Likely
Taron Egerton, “Black Bird”
Evan Peters, “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”
Steven Yeun, “Beef”
Almost There
Steve Carell, “The Patient”
Sam Clafin, “Daisy Jones and the Six”
Jesse Eisenberg, “Fleishman Is in Trouble”
Daniel Radcliffe, “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”
Michael Shannon, “George and Tammy”
Woody Harrelson, “White House Plumbers”
Ben Whishaw, “This Is Going To Hurt”
Longshots
Damian Lewis, “A Spy Among Friends”
Ewan McGregor, “Obi-Wan Kenobi”
Kumail Nanjiani, “Welcome to Chippendales”
Guy Pearce, “A Spy Among Friends”
Jesse Plemons, “Love and Death”
Liev Schreiber, “A Small Light”
