2024 Emmys: How much screen time does each Best Drama Guest Actor nominee have?
With just over 40 minutes of screen time in his submitted “The Last of Us” episode, Nick Offerman gave a longer performance than any of his fellow 2023 Emmy winners for continuing series acting. What’s more, he and the other three Best Drama Guest Actor nominees from the same show appeared in larger portions of their chosen installments than 60% of the same year’s lead and supporting hopefuls. Conversely, every actor now looking to succeed Offerman is recognized for a performance at least three times shorter than his winning one.
The five current drama guest actor contenders submitted performances that last for an average of five minutes and 52 seconds, or 11.55% of their single episodes. This data was calculated using a simple definition of stand-alone screen time, which is any time a given performer can be seen on screen or heard off screen. Since the TV academy now counts them in this category, contiguous moments of silent and non-visible scene time are separately noted where applicable.
This category’s new lineup is only the second in 15 years (after 2021) to consist of just five nominees. Though the present hopefuls are all new to the category, a majority of them have previously earned Emmy recognition for acting, with John Turturro (“Mr. & Mrs. Smith”) standing out as a former guest winner for the comedy series “Monk” (2004).
As it happens, Turturro boasts quite a bit more screen time than any of his present challengers, clocking in at 12:01 (or 28.91%) in his show’s “Second Date” installment. In terms of actual time on screen, he is directly followed by Nestor Carbonell, who appears in six minutes and 57 seconds of the very first “Shōgun” episode, “Anjin.” However, his proportional time of 9.89% is nearly half a point lower than that of Paul Dano, who shows up for six minutes and 15 seconds in “A Breakup,” the first season finale of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.”
This lineup’s two remaining members (who are both recognized for preexisting roles) successfully tested the TV academy’s new stipulation that a guest nominee must physically or contiguously appear in at least 5% of their chosen episode. Whereas Tracy Letts (“Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”) comfortably qualifies by participating in two scenes that constitute 9.50% of his episode, Jonathan Pryce (“Slow Horses”) barely makes the cut with one scene amounting to 5.28%. In terms of actual screen time, their respective performances take up two minutes and 24 seconds (or 4.70%) of “The New World” and one minute and 41 seconds (or 3.86%) of “Footprints.”
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