This Thursday, July 13 at 11:30am ET/8:30 am PT, the nominations for the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced ahead of the ceremony on September 17, broadcast on CBS and hosted by Stephen Colbert. Ahead of tomorrow's announcement, which you'll be able to follow here on SpoilerTV, I put it to our team to give their nominations for who they'd like to see shortlisted.
It's important to note that these are not predictions; many of these will likely not make the official list. These are the nominations that the team would make if they were a voting member of the Academy. As such, they had to adhere exactly to the Emmy ballots, which means that only those who submitted were up for debate, and performers and programs had to be listed in the category that they were on in the ballots.
A number of categories had ties that exceeded the usual number of nominees in that particular category. To ensure our list is as workable as possible, I followed rules 5a-5d under the Primetime Rules and Procedures' Nominations Procedures. As a result, some categories exceed the number you would expect, and some are slightly lower.
Have a read through the team's collective nominations and then hit the comments with who you'd nominate, were you an Academy voter.
Comedy Series
The Good Place
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Black-ish
The Big Bang Theory
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Dear White People
One Day at a Time
Drama Series
This Is Us
Westworld
Legion
Stranger Things
The Leftovers
The Crown
Limited Series
Big Little Lies
Fargo
FEUD: Bette and Joan
The Night Of
American Crime
Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson (Black-ish)
Ted Danson (The Good Place)
Andy Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory)
Neil Patrick Harris (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Aziz Ansari (Master of None)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Sterling K. Brown (This is Us)
Anthony Hopkins (Westworld)
Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us)
Dan Stevens (Legion)
Justin Theroux (The Leftovers)
Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel)
Matthew Rhys (The Americans)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series
Ewan McGregor (Fargo)
Benedict Cumerbatch (Sherlock)
Riz Ahmed (The Night Of)
John Turturro (The Night Of)
Jude Law (The Young Pope)
Vincent D'Onofrio (Emerald City)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Kristen Bell (The Good Place)
Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish)
Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
Justina Machado (One Day At A Time)
Constance Wu (Fresh off the Boat)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld)
Viola Davis (How to Get Away with Murder)
Carrie Coon (The Leftovers)
Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale)
Claire Foy (The Crown)
Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series
Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies)
Reese Witherspoon (Big Little Lies)
Jessica Lange (Feud: Bette and Joan)
Carrie Coon (Fargo)
Susan Sarandon (FEUD: Bette and Joan)
Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Andre Braugher (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
William Jackson Harper (The Good Place)
Jamie Camil (Jane the Virgin)
Max Greenfield (New Girl)
Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us)
Christopher Ecclestone (The Leftovers)
Ed Harris (Westworld)
Jeffrey Wright (Westworld)
David Harbour (Stranger Things)
John Lithgow (The Crown)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series
Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies)
Adam Scott (Big Little Lies)
David Thewlis (Fargo)
Michael Stuhlbarg (Fargo)
Martin Freeman (Sherlock)
Scott Patterson (Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
D'Arcy Carden (The Good Place)
Donna Lynne Champlin (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
Rita Moreno (One Day at a Time)
Chelsea Peretti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
Isabella Gomez (One Day at a Time)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Thandie Newton (Westworld)
Aubrey Plaza (Legion)
Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things)
Amy Brenneman (The Leftovers)
Emily Browning (American Gods)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series
Shailene Woodley (American Crime)
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Fargo)
Zoe Kravitz (Big Little Lies)
Kelly Bishop (Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life)
Laura Dern (Big Little Lies)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Black Mirror: San Junipero)
