It’s nearly showtime! The 2025 Emmy Awards might be introduced on Sunday, Sept. 14, in Los Angeles, the place the celebs of critically acclaimed reveals will vie for the coveted statuettes honoring TV’s greatest reveals and performances from the previous yr.

As all the time, there are many intriguing races and storylines. Will Apple TV’s Severance and The Studio dominate? Can HBO’s The White Lotus and The Penguin sustain? What about darkish horses resembling The Pitt and Adolescence? And breakout stars like Walton Goggins (The White Lotus) and Uzo Aduba (The Residence), or a beloved actor experiencing a profession resurgence, like The Pitt’s Noah Wyle, three a long time faraway from his rise to fame on ER?

Tv critics have weighed in with their predictions, however the Emmys aren’t nearly consensus favorites. Forward of Sunday night time’s ceremony, we’ve rounded up who consultants anticipate to win in each main class — and who Yahoo staffers assume ought to win.

See all of our picks beneath.

Restricted or Anthology Sequence

• Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

Who will win: Adolescence

Amongst critics, it’s just about unanimous: Adolescence is a lock for an Emmy on this class. Gold Derby offers the four-episode Netflix drama a 100% probability of profitable. And Glenn Whipp of the Los Angeles Instances stated Adolescence is “far and away the category of this yr’s restricted sequence contenders.”

Who ought to win: Adolescence

The Penguin has the film stars, the massive price range and the status community pedigree, however nothing on TV this previous yr pummeled me emotionally the way in which Adolescence did. Its prolonged single-shot episodes by no means felt like a gimmick — they felt like the one appropriate option to depict the heartbreaking, disturbing and general deeply human ripple results of an unimaginable crime.
— Mike Bebernes

Lead Actor in a Restricted or Anthology Sequence or Film

• Colin Farrell, The Penguin

• Stephen Graham, Adolescence

• Jake Gyllenhaal, Presumed Harmless

• Brian Tyree Henry, Dope Thief

• Cooper Koch, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

Who will win: Colin Farrell

Farrell’s riveting efficiency as Gotham Metropolis’s rising crime boss makes him the “apparent frontrunner,” Matt Roush of the Los Angeles Instances stated. “Farrell as ‘The Penguin’ ticks off all the awards-bait bins: bodily transformation, absolute dedication, scenery-chewing vary.”

Who ought to win: Farrell

His transformation was subsequent stage! I stored forgetting it was truly Colin Farrell beneath the prosthetics. He strikes, talks and instructions the display screen like he’s the Tony Soprano of the DC universe — tense, unpredictable, but utterly in management.
— Dana Turner

Lead Actress in a Restricted or Anthology Sequence or Film

• Cate Blanchett, Disclaimer

• Rashida Jones, Black Mirror

• Cristin Milioti, The Penguin

• Michelle Williams, Dying for Intercourse

Who will win: Cristin Milioti

Critics cherished Milioti’s gritty, electrifying efficiency in The Penguin. And whereas she could also be identified extra for her comedic expertise, Saloni Gajjar of the A.V. Membership stated Milioti “owned the antagonistic position as Sofia Falcone,” and “her appreciable vary” will in the end prevail on Sunday.

Who ought to win: Michelle Williams

Not sufficient individuals watched Dying for Intercourse! The mere premise of the present — a terminally unwell lady exploring her freak aspect — is complete status bait. Williams makes it gourmand, and I am consuming it up.
— Kelsey Weekman

Supporting Actor in a Restricted or Anthology Sequence or Film

• Javier Bardem, Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story

• Invoice Camp, Presumed Harmless

• Rob Delaney, Dying for Intercourse

• Peter Sarsgaard, Presumed Harmless

• Ashley Walters, Adolescence

Who will win: Owen Cooper

Gold Derby offers Cooper a 100% probability of profitable for his critically acclaimed position as Jamie Miller within the hit Netflix sequence Adolescence. So there is a greater than respectable probability the 15-year-old English actor will get the trophy in his Emmys debut.

Who ought to win: Cooper

Speak about a breakout efficiency! {The teenager} is masterfully pathetic and haunting in a present that solely works as a result of he is so nice. He ought to win and get forged in 1,000,000 issues afterward.
— Kelsey Weekman

Supporting Actress in a Restricted or Anthology Sequence or Film

• Erin Doherty, Adolescence

• Ruth Negga, Presumed Harmless

• Deirdre O’Connell, The Penguin

• Chloë Sevigny, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

• Jenny Slate, Dying for Intercourse

• Christine Tremarco, Adolescence

Who will win: Erin Doherty

Doherty is in only one episode of Adolescence, however Steve Pond of TheWrap stated her portrayal of a kid psychologist assessing a younger killer is “one in every of 2025’s most riveting hours of tv.”

Who ought to win: Jenny Slate

I am undecided I might have stored watching this present if not for Jenny and her devastating deliveries. Dying for Intercourse actually boils all the way down to a narrative about friendship, and she or he simply exuded love, humor, messiness, the boot.
— Erin Donnelly

Comedy Sequence

• Solely Murders within the Constructing

• What We Do within the Shadows

Who will win: The Studio

Hollywood loves making enjoyable of itself, and most critics say The Studio, which acquired a whopping 23 nominations in its first season, delivers irresistible pleasure for Emmy voters.

Who ought to win: The Studio

I believed it might be too Hollywood-insider for me, nevertheless it’s a hilarious, authentic laugh-out-loud present that makes enjoyable of the trade whereas additionally exhibiting among the behind-the-scenes dynamics. And there are superb cameos. I nonetheless speak about Martin Scorsese’s Kool-Help film pitch at any time when somebody brings the present up.
— Anthony Rivas

Lead Actor in a Comedy Sequence

• Adam Brody, No person Desires This

• Martin Quick, Solely Murders within the Constructing

• Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Who will win: Seth Rogen

Critics usually appear to favor Rogen over Quick, who gained his first-ever Display Actors Guild award for his Solely Murders work earlier this yr. Because the Los Angeles Instances put it, Rogen “performed cringe comedy to perfection.”

Who ought to win: Rogen

Rogen’s by no means not hilarious, however his position in The Studio is a contact extra restrained than we’re used to seeing. He’s balancing his final want to be likable (normally the simple half for Rogen characters) with a have to be good at a job that usually makes individuals hate him. And he performs it completely.
— Kaitlin Reilly

Lead Actress in a Comedy Sequence

• Kristen Bell, No person Desires This

• Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary

Who will win: Jean Good

Good gained Emmys for every of the primary three seasons of Hacks, and critics have little doubt she’ll take house one other — which might put her nearer to the document six Julia Louis-Dreyfus nabbed for Veep.

Who ought to win: Ayo Edebiri

Possibly The Bear is not actually a comedy, however when requested about that controversy, Edebiri stated the query was “above my pay grade.” I feel she ought to win for that reply alone.
— Kelsey Weekman

Supporting Actor in a Comedy Sequence

• Ike Barinholtz, The Studio

• Colman Domingo, The 4 Seasons

• Jeff Hiller, Any person Someplace

• Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear

• Bowen Yang, Saturday Night time Reside

Who will win: Harrison Ford

Amongst most critics, it appears to be a two-man race between Hollywood legend Harrison Ford, who acquired his first-ever Emmy nomination for his position as a curmudgeonly senior therapist who has Parkinson’s illness on Shrinking, and Ike Barinholtz, Rogen’s right-hand man on The Studio.

Who ought to win: Ike Barinholtz

Barinholtz is so unhinged, so hysterical — it’s like comedy gold in each scene. From his frantic gestures to perfectly-timed panic, he makes the chaos look easy. Each meltdown had me laughing (and cringing) tougher than the final.
— Dana Turner

Supporting Actress in a Comedy Sequence

• Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear

• Janelle James, Abbott Elementary

• Catherine O’Hara. The Studio

• Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary

• Jessica Williams, Shrinking

Who will win: Hannah Einbinder

Not like Good, Einbinder has but to win an Emmy for her work on Hacks, and most critics say it’s lengthy overdue. Einbinder “delivered her series-best work in season 4,” Saloni Gajjar of the A.V. Membership stated, as her character Ava “misplaced her thoughts.”

Who ought to win: Kathryn Hahn

I’ve cherished her in all the things I’ve ever seen her in, however actually thought this was her funniest position. She completely owned each scene she was in, from the insane Gen Z coded lingo and wardrobe (which I secretly need) to her potty-mouth-fueled arguments with costars. I might watch a complete spinoff together with her because the star.
— Dana Turner

Lead Actor in a Drama Sequence

• Sterling Ok. Brown, Paradise

• Pedro Pascal, The Final of Us

Who will win: Noah Wyle

Wyle was nominated for 5 Emmys on ER, however by no means gained, making his comeback on The Pitt 30 years later too arduous for Tv Academy voters to disclaim. “Hollywood loves a comeback,” Alicia Rancilio of the Related Press stated. “And it is time for Wyle to get his flowers.”

Who ought to win: Wyle

The Pitt is revolutionary, however the most effective factor about it is not simply the unconventional real-time format and inclusive storylines — it is the present’s potential to make us care a lot about individuals we barely know. Wyle does this greatest, exuding emotion and heat from somebody who may seem grumpy and mysteriously all-knowing if his strains have been delivered with much less empathy for the real-life well being care employees that he advocates for. He is the beating coronary heart of a brand new sequence that is making TV thrilling and revolutionary once more.
— Kelsey Weekman

Lead Actress in a Drama Sequence

• Sharon Horgan, Unhealthy Sisters

• Bella Ramsey, The Final of Us

• Keri Russell, The Diplomat

Who will win: Kathy Bates

The 77-year-old Oscar and two-time Emmy winner stated she thought-about retiring from appearing earlier than taking the title position within the critically acclaimed reboot of Matlock, and now she’s the favourite to win her first Emmy as a lead.

Who ought to win: Britt Decrease

Helly! She’s charming and fairly actually layered in Severance — such a singular character and efficiency.
— Dana Turner

Supporting Actor in a Drama Sequence

• Walton Goggins, The White Lotus

• Jason Isaacs, The White Lotus

• Sam Rockwell, The White Lotus

• Tramell Tillman, Severance

Who will win: Walton Goggins

Goggins was the breakout star of the third season of Mike White’s hit ensemble dramedy, and lots of critics predict it should end result within the veteran character actor’s first-ever Emmy.

Who ought to win: Sam Rockwell

Why: I spent extra time interested by Rockwell’s epic monologue about his intercourse dependancy than no matter drawn-out angst Walton was going by means of.
— Erin Donnelly

Supporting Actress in a Drama Sequence

• Patricia Arquette, Severance

• Carrie Coon, The White Lotus

• Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt

• Julianne Nicholson, Paradise

• Parker Posey, The White Lotus

• Natasha Rothwell, The White Lotus

• Aimee Lou Wooden, The White Lotus

Who will win: Carrie Coon

With 4 actresses from The White Lotus nominated in the identical class, chances are high one in every of them will win — until they break up the vote. And most critics say will probably be Coon.

Who ought to win: Parker Posey

Coon was nice, however I feel costar Posey deserves it extra for her good portrayal of Victoria Ratliff, the pill-popping, wine-swilling southern matriarch on Season 3 of The White Lotus. (She even obtained the accent proper!) She’s additionally the character I hope director Mike White decides to deliver again for Season 4.
— Dylan Stableford

Drama Sequence

Who will win: Severance or The Pitt

There appears to be a reasonably even break up amongst critics between the dystopian workplace thriller and breakout hit medical drama. The Related Press stated that Severance “felt like the height of the status TV yr,” and has been “destined for this award” since its second season started. However some TV consultants on the L.A. Instances assume The Pitt’s “uncooked emotional energy” offers it an edge.

Who ought to win: Severance

The second season was gripping and put viewers like me actually on the sting of my seat each single week. The pacing was impeccable, didn’t belabor plot factors and left us with such a satisfying cliff-hanger. Severance is the kind of present it is advisable to watch greater than as soon as as a result of each element issues. It’s the most effective present I’ve ever watched and deserves an Emmy!
— Nicole Darrah