2024 Emmys: How much screen time does each Best Comedy Supporting Actress nominee have?
Due to the fact that half of her competitors appeared in between 16 and 30 minutes of their submitted episodes, 2023 Best Comedy Supporting Actress Emmy winner Ayo Edebiri (“The Bear”) fell significantly below her lineup’s screen time average. As it happens, her nine-minute and 43-second performance in season one’s “Review” would put her comfortably above the same category’s 2024 mean, which has been established by a full slate of actresses who land under the 14-minute mark.
The six current comedy supporting actress contenders submitted performances that last for an average of eight minutes and 25 seconds, or 26.49% 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. Contiguous moments of silent and non-visible scene time were not counted.
The first of two contenders who exceed said averages is Hannah Einbinder, whose third career nomination comes for her 13 minutes and 53 seconds of work in the “Hacks” installment “Bulletproof,” amounting to a proportional screen time of 38.42%. Next is category first-timer Meryl Streep, who shows up for 11 minutes and 37 seconds (or 30.54%) in the “Grab Your Hankies” episode of “Only Murders in the Building,” which ends with her five-minute performance of the original song “Look for the Light.”
Behind Streep in terms of physical screen time but ahead of her proportionally is Sheryl Lee Ralph, whose second win for “Abbott Elementary” could come on the merit of her performance in “Librarian” (7:59; 37.10%). As was the case last year, she is directly followed by her castmate, Janelle James, whose turn in the third season premiere entitled “Career Day, Part 1” amounts to six minutes and 29 seconds (or 26.57%). The pair’s new performances are an average of 89 seconds and 8.55% shorter than the ones for which they were recognized last year.
The lowest positions on this lineup’s time and percentage-based lists are respectively held by Liza Colón-Zayas (“The Bear”) and Carol Burnett (“Palm Royale”), who appear in four minutes and 53 seconds (or 14.66%) of “Pop” and five minutes and 39 seconds (or 11.64%) of “Maxine Shakes the Tree.” Over 30% of Colón-Zayas’s time is spent performing a karaoke version of Freddy Fender’s “Before the Next Teardrop Falls,” while Burnett mumbles most of her embolism-afflicted character’s lines except during a brief flashback scene.
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