While The White Lotus didn’t sweep the Supporting Actor/Actresses in a Drama Series category, as was at times predicted, the HBO powerhouse did match its Season 2 Emmy nomination tally with 23 this year, bringing its to-date total to 66 with 15 overall wins — with more potentially in store at the ceremony to be held Sept. 14.
Once again nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, performers Jason Isaacs, Scott Glenn and Aimee Lou Wood scored their first-ever Emmy nominations this year.
For Supporting Actress in a Drama, Carrie Coon, Parker Posey and Natasha Rothwell were also honored, with the latter seeing a repeat nomination for her role as Belinda, which she originated back in Season 1. They, along with Wood, face one performer each from Paradise (Julianne Nicholson, also nominated for her guest comedy role in Hacks), The Pitt (Katherine LaNasa, a first-time nominee) and Severance (Patricia Arquette).
In the Supporting Actor category, the noms were equally balanced between Severance and The White Lotus, with three apiece: In addition to Isaacs, Walton Goggins and Sam Rockwell were nominated. Glenn was honored in the Guest Actor in a Drama category. Though Rockwell is not in the main cast, he appears in 50% or more of the show, which explains both his and Glenn’s appearance in their respective categories.
Potential snubs include Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan and Patrick Schwarzenegger.
In 2022, the first year the anthology dramedy was nominated, it received 20 noms. Of those, three were in the Supporting Actor category, with Murray Bartlett, Jake Lacy and Steve Zahn competing against one another. Meanwhile, the Supporting Actress category boasted the inclusion of Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario, Sydney Sweeney and Rothwell — almost sweeping the category save for two nominations for Dopesick actors Kaitlyn Dever and Mare Winningham.
The following year, it topped itself by three nominations; in the Supporting Actor category it was Succession versus The White Lotus, with the latter series’ stars F. Murray Abraham, Michael Imperioli, Theo James and Will Sharpe scoring noms. The White Lotus repeated its five noms in the Supporting Actress category, with another placement for Coolidge (who won) and nominations for Aubrey Plaza, Meghann Fahy, Sabrina Impacciatore and Simona Tabasco.
Notably, the series was not nominated last year due to production delays as a result of the dual Hollywood strikes, which pushed back the premiere date for Season 3.
It’s worth noting that the Mike White-created satire moved from the Limited Series category to the Drama classification following its inaugural season. In Season 3, the ultra-rich — as exemplified by a trio of reuniting gal pals, a family and its trio of young adult siblings, and an age-gap couple — take to a premier wellness resort in Thailand to escape (for better and for worse) the fraught realities of their daily life.
The White Lotus was also not the program with the most noms this year, matching The Studio and coming in tied for third after The Penguin (24 nominations) and Severance (27).
