Nine actors who lost 2024 Oscars are now vying for Emmys
In September 2021, Olivia Colman bagged her first career Emmy for “The Crown” despite having failed on her Oscar bid for “The Father” five months earlier. This made her the 16th performer to triumph at the Emmys after going home empty-handed at the same year’s Oscars and the fourth to do so during the 21st century. The release of the 2024 Emmy nominations ballots confirmed that nine of the 16 actors who lost at the latest Oscars ceremony are capable of joining Colman on said list.
Gold Derby’s current Emmy odds indicate that the man and woman with the best hopes of following in Colman’s footsteps are Ryan Gosling and Jodie Foster, who just earned their respective third and fifth Academy Award notices for their supporting turns in “Barbie” and “Nyad.” They are now generally expected to share in the experience of being first-time acting Emmy nominees thanks to his guest appearance on “Saturday Night Live” and her lead performance on “True Detective: Night Country.”
In her quest for the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress prize, Foster could face a direct challenge from lead “Nyad” nominee Annette Bening, who is now seeking recognition for starring on “Apples Never Fall.” Included among Gosling’s potential Emmy competitors is Bradley Cooper, who appeared as himself in an episode of “Abbott Elementary” that aired right after the 96th Oscars, where he came up short on his Best Actor nomination for “Maestro.”
Supporting male Oscar also-rans Robert De Niro (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) and Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Things”) might soon face off again as featured cast members of the limited series “Nada” and “All the Light We Cannot See.” Ruffalo, who won the corresponding lead Emmy for “I Know This Much Is True” in 2020, previously earned TV and then film academy recognition for “The Normal Heart” and “Foxcatcher” in a span of six months (July 2014 – January 2015).
The only one of these nine performers who could appear in two 2024 Emmy lineups is De Niro’s lead “Killers of the Flower Moon” cast mate, Lily Gladstone. In addition to seeking a nomination for her new supporting role on the limited series “Under the Bridge,” she is looking to land a comedy guest bid for playing an preexisting character during the final season of “Reservation Dogs.”
Rounding out this group are Paul Giamatti and Sterling K. Brown, who respectively lost on their lead and supporting Oscar bids for “The Holdovers” and “American Fiction” and could now be nominated for “Billions” (drama actor) and “Invincible” (character voice-over). Brown, who won Best Narrator for “Lincoln: Divided We Stand” in 2021, would be the second person to clinch a voice acting Emmy directly after losing an Oscar, following Meryl Streep (2017 – lost Best Actress, “Florence Foster Jenkins”; won Best Narrator, “Five Came Back”).
Three of the four reigning acting Oscar champions are also in the hunt for Emmys this year, with the odd one out being Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”). Robert Downey Jr. (“Oppenheimer”) is heavily favored to win Best Movie/Limited Supporting Actor for “The Sympathizer” and thus follow George C. Scott (1971 – “Patton”; “The Price”) as the second man to collect an Oscar and then an Emmy in a single year. Then there are Emma Stone (“Poor Things”) and Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”), who could both compete for Best Comedy Guest Actress (“Saturday Night Live”; “Only Murders in the Building”) while separately vying for Best Drama Actress (“The Curse”) and Best Movie/Limited Supporting Actress (“The Idol”).
Bening, Foster, or Gladstone would be the 11th actress to win an Emmy right after losing an Oscar. Those who preceded Colman were Simone Signoret (1966 – Oscar nomination: “Ship of Fools”; Emmy win: “A Small Rebellion”), Geraldine Page (1967 – “You’re a Big Boy Now”; “A Christmas Memory”), Lee Grant (1971 – “The Landlord”; “The Neon Ceiling”), Glenda Jackson (1972 – “Sunday Bloody Sunday”; “Elizabeth R”), Eileen Brennan (1981 – “Private Benjamin”; “Private Benjamin”), Alfre Woodard (1984 – “Cross Creek”; “Hill Street Blues”), Piper Laurie (1987 – “Children of a Lesser God”; “Promise”), Laura Linney (2008 – “The Savages”; “John Adams”), and Nicole Kidman (2017 – “Lion”; “Big Little Lies”).
The corresponding male group consists of Peter Falk (1962 – “Pocketful of Miracles”; “The Dick Powell Show”), Laurence Olivier (1973 – “Sleuth”; “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”), Burgess Meredith (1977 – “Rocky”; “Tail Gunner Joe”), Judd Hirsch (1981 – “Ordinary People”; “Taxi”), James Woods (1987 – “Salvador”; “Promise”), and Tom Wilkinson (2008 – “Michael Clayton”; “John Adams”).
Exactly 50% of all actors who have earned same-calendar year Oscar and Emmy nominations have won at least one of the awards. Among those who recently lost at both ceremonies are Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”; “Good Night Oppy”), Andrew Garfield (“Tick Tick Boom”; “Under the Banner of Heaven”), and Leslie Odom Jr. (“One Night in Miami”; “Hamilton”).
At least one dual nominee has joined the club every year since 2016, so the chances of one or more of these nine performers carrying on the tradition are high. It also helps that Foster and Gosling already have the backing of our thousands of Emmy predictors, whereas the same applied to none of last year’s eight hopefuls.
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