‘Only Murders in the Building’ Emmy odds for Selena Gomez, the Martins, and all those guest stars
To date, Emmy voters have showered Only Murders in the Building with 49 nominations and seven wins, though none of the main actors has prevailed. That could all change for the buzzed-about fourth season, which aired last summer and is now eligible at the 2025 Emmys.
According to our updated odds, Martin Short (Oliver Putnam) is out front to win his Best Comedy Actor category, just months after he shockingly scored at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. His costars, Steve Martin (Charles-Haden Savage) and Selena Gomez (Mabel Mora), are both in sixth place for nominations. The three leads play unlikely crime-solvers who podcast about murders that occur in and around their building, the fancy-schmancy Arconia in New York City.
Season 4 features a sprawling roster of special guests, including two actors — Meryl Streep (Loretta Durkin) and Paul Rudd (Glen Stubbins) — who received supporting nominations last year. Due to an already-controversial new Emmy rule, performers are ineligible to compete in guest if they were previously nominated for the same show in lead or supporting. Thus, both Streep and Rudd are competing in Best Comedy Supporting Actress/Actor again, where she places eighth and he places 12th.
In the Best Comedy Guest Actress/Actor contests, Melissa McCarthy (Doreen) has the strongest chance of reaping a bid, as she's in the sixth position. Da'Vine Joy Randolph (Donna Williams) rounds out the top 10, while Amy Ryan (Jan Bellows) and Griffin Dunne (Milton Dudenoff) are also in the running to hear their names called on nominations morning.
Other guest stars who appeared in more than 50 percent of the Season 4 episodes, and thus have to compete in supporting (per the Emmys rulebook), include the following: Molly Shannon (Bev Melon), Jane Lynch (Sazz Pataki), Eva Longoria (herself), Zach Galifianakis (himself), Richard Kind (Vince Fish), Eugene Levy (himself), and Kumail Nanjiani (Rudy Thurber).
Below are the current Emmy predictions in 20 top categories, updated June 5. You can see how the races have evolved over time by examining our previous Emmy snapshots on March 19, March 28, April 7, April 15, April 23, April 29, May 7, May 16, May 22, and May 30.
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By Marcus James Dixon
