(Los Angeles) Postponed by four months due to the strike of Hollywood actors and screenwriters, the Emmy Awards will finally take place on Monday. The last season of Successionbroadcast on HBO, the big favorite in the drama categories.
Here are five things to watch out for during this American television equivalent of the Oscars.
Domination of Succession
Series Succession follows the infighting within the wealthy Roy family, a dynasty at the helm of a powerful media empire. With 27 nominations, she is the ultra favorite, notably for the award for best drama series, which she has already won twice.
As in the script, its headliners will face off in a final battle at the Emmy Awards, with three members of the cast vying for the award for best actor in a drama series: Kieran Culkin, who plays cheeky heir to the family, is tipped to beat his partners Jeremy Strong and Brian Cox.
In the other categories, Sarah Snook should be elected best actress for her role as the only female heir to the dynasty. And Matthew Macfadyen, her on-screen husband, should confirm the outrageous domination of the series by being voted best supporting actor.
Prestigious competitors
The triumph announced for the swan song of Succession should feed the regrets of its competitors, far from lacking in quality this year.
The Last of Us has established itself as the best adaptation of a video game ever made for television.
This postapopolyptic story, set in a zombie-infested future, has already won eight technical categories, assigned in advance. But at the ceremony on Monday, he could well leave empty-handed, unless the duo of survivors formed by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey sign a coup.
For his part, The White Lotus, a piquant satire on the hypocrisy that governs wealthy circles, transformed the essay with a successful second season in Sicily. Jennifer Coolidge, the only star of the original season – set in Hawaii – to have returned, is the big favorite for the Emmy for best supporting actress in a drama series.
Resto Verso
On the comedy side, The Bear, which tells the eventful side of the kitchen of a Chicago restaurant, is a big favorite. But only for its first season, not for the second, which has already been a hit.
Because the Emmy Awards honor in an unusual way productions unveiled in 2022 on television. Blame it on the strike of Hollywood actors and screenwriters, which paralyzed the industry for six months last year and prevented them from being held in September as usual.
Like the other candidates, The Bear will thus see its second season compete in just a few months at the next Emmy Awards, scheduled for next fall, which traditionally marks the start of the new television schedules.
This time rift is likely to confuse many viewers on Monday. The best comedy category thus sees the final season of Ted Lassowhich follows the adventures of an American football coach parachuted into an English football team and ended last spring.
Miniseries
The world of miniseries, reserved for productions limited to one season, remains very competitive this year again.
Relentless And Dahmer-Monster: the story of Jeffrey Dahmer start favorites with 13 nominations each.
The first series, where Ali Wong plays a driver seeking revenge after a collision in a Los Angeles parking lot, could earn the actress an award. As for the second Netflix production, Evan Peters is undoubtedly too chilling as a serial killer from America in the 80s to leave empty-handed.
Who in front of the post?
It remains to be seen whether the Emmy Awards will manage to stem the inexorable decline in their audience, unlike the Oscars which were able to bounce back after the pandemic.
Last year, only 5.9 million spectators turned on their television sets to follow them. Which is even less than the 2020 edition of the “pandEmmys”, broadcast from an empty room, with stars who accepted their prizes delivered to their homes to respect anti-COVID-19 measures.
Their postponement until the middle of January really does not suit the organizers. In addition to the temporal headache promised to many viewers, the ceremony has less visibility, because it finds itself sandwiched between other major Hollywood events: Golden Globes, Grammy Awards, announcement of Oscar nominations, etc.