Yahoo News Emmys 2024: Supporting Actor in a Drama Series — Our Dream Nominees!
Two HBO dramas — Succession and The White Lotus — accounted for all (yes, all) of last year’s Emmy nominees for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
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With the former now concluded and the latter between seasons, the 2024 contest is about to get rocked by an injection of new blood. And we at Dream Emmy headquarters are welcoming the potentially unprecedented reset with open arms.
Scroll down to check out all of our Dream Nominees (remember, these aren’t predictions; they’re wish lists) and then tell us if our picks warrant a “Hell, yes!,” “Um, no” or “How could you leave off so-and-so?!”
For the record, 2024 Emmy nominations will be voted on from June 13-24, and unveiled on July 17. The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony is scheduled to air on Sunday, Sept. 15, on ABC.
Scroll down for links to our previous Dream Emmy categories:
Outstanding Drama Series — Our Dream Nominees
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series — Our Dream Nominees
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series — Our Dream Nominees
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series — Our Dream Nominees
Tadanobu Asano, Shōgun
WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: Asano grunted his way into our hearts as scruffy warlord Yabushige in FX’s samurai epic, always happy to backstab a trusted ally if it worked to his advantage. Yabushige’s pragmatic power moves and blunt manner of speaking provided much-needed comic relief throughout the saga, but Asano also showed us the warlord’s tender side as his schemes ultimately came back to bite him in the backside. We can’t say that we endorse all of Yabushige’s self-serving maneuvers, but we can say we enjoyed every minute Asano was on screen. — Dave Nemetz
Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: The Emmy winner outdid himself in Season 3. As Cory tap-danced his way around UBA’s many landmines, Crudup nailed the character’s grandiose monologues with his usual style. But we were struck hardest by how he tackled moments where the character was completely thrown. When Cory learned UBA was about to be dismantled, for instance, the confusion and panic on Crudup’s face — as well as his inability to string more than a few words together — told us volumes more than any bloviating would have. This was a character that was scared, and in Crudup’s hands, all the more watchable for it. — Kimberly Roots
Vondie Curtis-Hall, Justified: City Primeval
WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: Curtis-Hall’s Marcus “Sweety” Sweeton was colorful enough as just a former musician who used to roll with George Clinton and now, as owner of a Detroit watering hole, looks the other way whenever lowlife Clement Mansell darkens his doorstep. But in Episode 4, Sweety started to get big ideas about the murder weapon he’d found stashed in his bar, and Curtis-Hall added to his finely calibrated performance a cool, calculating pragmatism… that, alas, threatened to sour Sweety’s mild-mannered existence. — Matt Webb Mitovich
Babs Olusanmokun, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: Olusanmokun’s complex portrayal of Strange New Worlds‘ Dr. M’Benga was a highlight of the second season. It was refreshing to see the actor delve into the grittier parts of the Enterprise‘s normally affable and calm chief medic, losing some of that well-practiced control. We saw that most in “Under the Cloak of War,” as a haunted M’Benga grappled with traumatic memories, displaying a chilling stoicism in one moment and navigating harrowing panic attacks in the next. Olusanmokun brought new depth to the OG character and, in turn, became one of our favorite parts of the show. — Keisha Hatchett
Ke Huy Quan, Loki
WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: As Ouroboros, the TVA’s quirky head of Repairs and Advancement, Quan brought well-timed comedy and deeply felt emotion to Loki‘s second season — and it was often O.B.’s charming, engaging passion for quantum physics that kept Loki from collapsing under the weight of its own time-and-space jargon in Season 2. Both effortlessly funny and compellingly sincere, Quan’s performance was an instant standout, elevating even Loki‘s most head-spinning moments on the continuum. — Rebecca Iannucci
Tim Robbins, Silo
WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: When we first ventured into the Apple TV+ series’ titular underground community, Bernard Holland, the head of IT, frankly came off as just a d—k. Which would have been fine, because few can do officious like Robbins. But as the 10-episode season unfolded and characters’ secrets and agendas were slowly revealed, Robbins clearly relished peeling back Bernard’s deceptive layers. Robbins created a formidable, if entertainingly irritable, foil for Rebecca Ferguson’s crafty Juliette. — M.W.M.
Ray Stevenson, Ahsoka
WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: It was important that Baylan Skoll make an impact from the very first instant he was on screen, and then hold our attention as the former Jedi Knight’s agenda clashed with that of Ahsoka Tano. The late Stevenson, with his physical presence, the timbre of his line delivery, and the gravitas of his performance, made Skoll an instantly iconic Star Wars character. Stevenson served up just the right amount of menace, while his master/apprentice bond with Ivanna Sakhno’s Shin Hati was itself a story we’d love to learn more about. — M.W.M.
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