'Game of Thrones,' 'Westworld,' & Netflix Lead the 2018 Emmy Nominations
The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards are scheduled to air on NBC September 17. Ahead of the broadcast, all of this year's nominations have been announced.
To little surprise, Game of Thrones leads with 22 nominations, followed by Westworld and Saturday Night Live, which each boast 21. Netflix has officially broken HBO's long-running 17-year streak of being the most nominated network, having amassed 112 nominations.
Joining Game of Thrones in the outstanding drama category are The Handmaid's Tale, The Americans, The Crown, Stranger Things, This Is Us, and Westworld.
Jason Bateman (Ozark), Sterling K. Brown and Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us), Ed Harris and Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), and Matthew Rhys (The Americans) are up for best actor in a drama series, while Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale), Claire Foy (The Crown), Keri Russell (The Americans), Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld), and Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) account for the nominees for lead actress in a drama.
It's also worthy of note that Donald Glover, who is up for lead actor in a comedy, landed 16 nominations for Atlanta, including outstanding comedy alongside Barry, Black-ish, Curb Your Enthusiasm, GLOW, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Silicon Valley, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
For the full list of this year's Emmy nominations, follow here.
Now, here are the best TV shows of 2018 so far.