Selena Gomez gets her Emmy due; Tyler James Williams, Nikki Glaser, Eric André react to nominations

Gomez has previously been nominated, twice, for a group Emmy Award as an executive producer in the Outstanding Comedy Series category for Only Murders in the Building, a three-hander comedic mystery co-starring Steve Martin and Martin Short

She is now the most Emmy-nominated Latina producer. This is her first Emmy nomination for acting. “I’m honored and insanely grateful for this. Thank you for giving me Mabel” she said in an Instagram post. 

Jennifer Aniston (The Morning Show) and Reese Witherspoon (The Morning Show) are both up for lead actress. Jon Hamm (Fargo) joins 2020 winner Billy Crudup (The Morning Show) and previous nominee Mark Duplass (The Morning Show) in the supporting actor category. The Morning Show also dominates the supporting actress field with nominations for Nicole Beharie, Greta Lee, Karen Pittman and Holland Taylor.

Emma Stone, the best actress winner at this year's Oscars for Poor Things did not get nominated for her role in The Curse. Stone was mentioned in a number of predictions as a possible lead actress contender. The show itself was also overlooked in the drama series category.

Her fellow 2024 Oscar winner had better luck.

Robert Downey, Jr., who won the supporting actor Oscar for Oppenheimer, is nominated in the supporting actor category for The Sympathizer. He plays four characters in the spy drama.

Reactions from select nominees for the 2024 Emmy Awards, including some first-time nominees.

Tyler James Williams (Abbott Elementary)

“You want to do it with good people, and I’m happy that I get to be on this journey with good people and celebrate this with good people. So it’s not just a celebration of what happened, but who it happened with. "

Best supporting actor in a comedy series

Nikki Glaser (Someday You'll Die)

“I’m trying not to let my imposter syndrome sneak in and I’m just trying to embrace it and go, ‘Yeah, thank you, I deserve this.’ But there’s that creeping thing of like, ‘Is this a mistake?’ But I’m so excited because I worked really hard on this, and it feels good to get acknowledged in this way and it feels good to celebrate it with the team of people that made it with me, as well.”

Best pre-recorded variety special

Eric André (The Eric André Show)

“I was so overcome with emotions. I cried. I almost threw up — like a cathartic positive vomit. I was overcome with joy. Now, I feel like I just got out of a boxing match and the adrenaline has crashed. I’m on very little sleep, so I’m going to eat a bowl of spaghetti and take a nap and process this.”

First nomination for best performer in a short form comedy or drama series 

Carrie Coon (The Gilded Age)

“I was crying and my mom said, ‘You’re crying for your husband, but not for you.’ And I said, I don’t care about me. I’m excited about him.' So that was a real surprise for us. We did not have his and hers Emmy nominations on our bingo card for this morning.”

Nominated for best actress in a drama series. Coon's husband, Tracy Letts, was also nominated for best guest actor in a drama series (Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty)

Matt Bomer (Fellow Travelers)

"I feel profoundly grateful. It was an amazing surprise. Everyone in my life knows not to say anything to me as to when this day comes. And so I slept like a baby last night. I knew it was sometime in mid-July, but I’m working and so I was distracted, thankfully, and it was just such a nice surprise when my husband Simon came in and told me and, yeah, I’m just blown away. I’m really so grateful that the show’s been recognized. I’m so happy for Johnny (Jonathan Bailey) and Ron (Nyswaner, series creator and writer) for their incredible work and yeah, just the fact that two openly gay actors in a gay romance with a gay writer is recognized in this way is really profoundly moving to me.

“It’s just such a different industry than the one I came into 20, almost 25 years ago. And I’m just so grateful that that we’re at this place and time and just really happy for everyone involved. And I’m excited that all three of us can go and represent everyone who worked so, so hard to make this show a reality at the Emmys.” 

Nominated for best actor in a limited or anthology series

Lamorne Morris (Fargo)

“A lot of times, I’m being mentioned as an honorable mention or snubs lists. And that’s cool. At least people are recognizing my work that has been done on a particular project. I was shocked because I went into it excited for the show. But to also know I was personally nominated, that’s why I wasn’t really expecting it. I was confident in my performance for sure. It’s only a few slots, but I’m glad I was recognized.

“It’s not like I wasn’t expecting anything. I was excited to see ‘Fargo’ get nominated. I wanted to see that. I asked my team ‘Do I get to go?’ And they were like ‘Hell yeah, you get to go. You got nominated.’ I was like ’What? What are you talking about?’ I just couldn’t believe it. I’m still sitting here in shock.” 

First Emmy nomination in the best supporting actor in a limited or anthology series category

Mark Duplass (The Morning Show)

"It’s been a very special morning for a number of reasons. And complicated, but in a lovely way. I got to call my 16 year old daughter, who is in an acting program at NYU. We just made our first short film together and she’s just starting her career, and we got to share this thing with her dad, who is the biggest dork in the world and achieved this. It was lovely. I got to call my parents and share, you know, them helping pay for our first independent film at Sundance and where we’ve come and all those things. But I think the most rewarding has been talking with my fellow nominees this morning. Texting, mostly.

I’ve been nominated a couple of times and I think in the past it was more like, ‘This is so incredible. Aren’t you so excited? Aren’t you so excited? And almost to a person’. It’s been different this morning. It’s been, ’Congratulations. How are you doing?’ And there has been this acceptance of ‘This is lovely. This is a lovely little award.’ But also, everyone is really struggling right now. And there’s been a beautiful kind of centeredness to it. So I’ve been really appreciating that.”

Nominated for best supporting actor in a drama series

Kali Reis (True Detective: Night Country)

“Usually, I’m pretty good with words. But to see that, and to be amongst somebody (Lily Gladstone), who I admire, so talented and graceful, somebody who has already kicked the door open and leaving it open. We’re making history as the first two women nominated. It means the world to not just us individually, but us as a whole. We as ... Indigenous people. It means so much. There’s so many boxes we both check collectively and individually as Indigenous. It’s an amazing time in history. It’s about time, man. Once those doors get blown open, we are coming in deep!” 

Nominated for best supporting actress in a limited or anthology series

Reis and Gladstone made history as the first Indigenous women nominated for acting Emmys.

Nava Mau (Baby Reindeer)

"I am feeling so overwhelmed with joy and gratitude. I didn’t stop crying for, like, 45 minutes. It feels like a very transformative day in my life.

“I’m so humbled. I’m honored. I am sort of speechless. I know that I am by no means the first, the only or the last, you know? I remember being so inspired seeing Laverne Cox get nominated, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Rain Valdez. We as trans people, we’ve had to to fight collectively for our human rights and our ability to have access to housing, health care and employment and it’s beautiful to see that now, we’re also getting to build as artists and as storytellers within the fabric of society, so, I don’t take it lightly and I’m very honored to be a part of it.” 

First transgender acting nominee in the limited or anthology series categories, who was recognized nominated for best supporting actress