By Amanda Spears ​

​The 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards concluded last night with rewarding the three shows we expected them to reward all season long: "The Queen's Gambit," "Ted Lasso," and "The Crown." Below is a breakdown of the good and the bad from last night's awards ceremony.

By Matt Neglia 
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On a night that skewed almost close to a "normal" awards show presentation, the 73rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards handed out their awards, ending the awards season sweeps for "The Queen's Gambit," "Ted Lasso" and "The Crown" in spectacular fashion! We discuss the winners, the show's presentation, Cedric The Entertainer's hosting, the comedy bits, the spontaneous moments, speeches, and more in our instant recap, which we sat down to record right after the show finished airing. Here to join me in talking about everything that went down last night and capping off an unforgettable year of television I have Amanda Spears & Michael Schwartz. Enjoy!

Thank you so much for listening. The Next Best Picture Podcast is proud to be a part of the Evergreen Podcasts Network. You can subscribe to us on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, GooglePlay, Tunein, Player FM, Acast & Castbox or you can listen down below. Please take a moment to review us on Apple Podcasts here. And if you're feeling generous, you enjoy what you hear and want to hear more, please help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month and you'll receive some exclusive podcast content.

By Matt Neglia

​The winners for the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards were announced this evening in a live TV special on CBS. Along with the Creative Arts Emmys, "Ted Lasso" won 7 Emmys for its first season, while "The Crown" won 11 for its fourth season and "The Queen's Gambit" tied with 11 wins, giving Netflix their first wins in both categories.

Click below to see the full list of Primetime Emmy Award winners.

By Michael Schwartz 

A month ago, the team revealed their final predictions for the 2021 Emmy Awards on the Next Best Series Podcast. For those who have not already listened to the predictions and the reasoning behind the choices, we have a list of them down below for you to read. Also be sure to check out Amanda Spears' series of articles detailing her predictions here.

Please take a look, hold us accountable for our choices and enjoy the show this Sunday night!

By Amanda Spears ​

And here we go! The Creative Arts Emmys have been awarded, and now, it's time to predict the big ones: Outstanding Comedy, Drama and Limited Series winners. We'll look at the races most likely to have an upset and any last-minute changes.

In the race for most wins overall by a streaming service Netflix is heading into the Primetime Ceremony with a commanding lead of 34 Emmys—they should be able to finish the 2021 Emmys as the Streamer/Network with the most wins. In second place currently is a surprise—Disney+ with 13 wins. Not too far behind in third is HBO with ten wins. And in fourth place is AppleTV+ with seven wins. "The Crown" and "The Mandalorian" went into the Creative Arts Emmys with 24 nominations each. "The Mandalorian" equaled its haul from last year, winning another seven Emmys. Meanwhile, "The Crown" had a so-so outing, only picking up four trophies. Notably, for the first time in its awards season run, it did not pick up the prize for Best Period Costumes — this went to "The Queen's Gambit," which has gone on to win a commanding nine Emmys so far. "Ted Lasso," "WandaVision," and "Pose" each had a decent weekend picking up three prizes each.

​Who's going to win the major prizes this Sunday? Time to finish this up!

​By Amanda Spears ​

If you remember from last year's Emmys and my Golden Globe, SAG Awards, and Oscars predictions, I try my best to leave emotion out of making my predictions. I'm going to take you television fans through how to make your Emmy predictions and win your pool methodically. Next up in this series of articles is Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy, Drama, and Limited Series/TV Movie.​

By Matt Neglia 

Ahead of the Emmys this weekend, the Television Critics Association (TCA) announced their winners today for the 37th annual TCA Awards.
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​Click below to see the winners.

​By Amanda Spears ​

​If you remember from last year's Emmys and my Golden Globe, SAG Awards, and Oscars predictions, I try my best to leave emotion out of making my predictions. I'm going to take you television fans through how to make your Emmy predictions and win your pool methodically. Next up in this series of articles is Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy, Drama, and Limited Series/TV Movie.

By Amanda Spears ​

If you remember from last year's Emmys and my Golden Globe, SAG Awards, and Oscars predictions, I try my best to leave emotion out of making my predictions. I'm going to take you television fans through how to make your Emmy predictions and win your pool methodically. Next up in this series of articles is Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy, Drama, and Limited Series/TV Movie.​

By Amanda Spears ​

If you remember from last year's Emmys and my Golden Globe, SAG Awards, and Oscars predictions, I try my best to leave emotion out of making my predictions. I'm going to take you television fans through how to make your Emmy predictions and win your pool methodically. Next up in this series of articles is Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy, Drama, and Limited Series/TV Movie.

By Matt Neglia 

​​The 73rd Creative Arts Emmys have come and gone. It was a long and exciting weekend as the awards were handed out over the course of two nights and three ceremonies. There are a lot of awards to go through but for those interested in who won, check out the full list of winners below.

By Amanda Spears ​

The Creative Arts Emmys are being held this weekend and as I've been doing Outstanding Comedy, Drama, Limited Series/TV Movie Writing, and Directing & Casting, I'm going to take you television fans through how to make your Emmy predictions and win your pool. Next up is Outstanding Drama/Comedy Guest Actor and Actress. If you remember from last year in my Golden Globe, SAG Awards, and Oscars predictions, I try (my best) to leave emotion out of making my predictions. Six years ago, the Emmys moved to a plurality vote replacing the more-level playing field of 80-100 person panel's ranking the nominees. Since we spend more time watching television than a film, it's easier to let our personal preferences affect our predictions as we try to manifest a win for our favorites.

The acting categories are where stats can only take you so far – instinct and buzz also matter. If there are categories on the Drama and Comedy side where anything can happen this year, it's the Outstanding Drama/Comedy Guest Actor and Actress races. Hollywood A-listers and working actors make these difficult to predict. Let's take a look at how to predict the winners for Outstanding Drama/Comedy Guest Actor and Actress based on recent trends starting with the Drama categories.

By Amanda Spears ​

If you remember from last year's Emmys and my Golden Globe, SAG Awards, and Oscars predictions, I try my best to leave emotion out of making my predictions. As a result, I'm going to take you television fans through how to make your Emmy predictions and win your pool methodically. Next up in this series of articles is Outstanding Drama Series Writing and Directing.

By Amanda Spears ​

If you remember from last year's Emmys and my Golden Globe, SAG Awards, and Oscars predictions, I try my best to leave emotion out of making my predictions. I'm going to take you television fans through how to make your Emmy predictions and win your pool methodically. Next up in this series of articles is Outstanding Comedy Writing and Directing.​

By Matt Neglia 
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​The 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be held on September 19th. Amanda Spears and guest Joey Moser from Awards Daily & Mitchell Beaupre from Awards Radar joined me a few days ago (almost a month out from the awards ceremony) to deliver our final predictions on who we think will be taking home the gold. Tune in below for our in-depth and complete analysis (this episode is not Patreon exclusive) for categories such as Series, Acting, Writing and Directing on the Drama, Comedy, and Limited Series/TV movie side. Amanda will be writing articles on her thoughts about each category in the lead-up to the awards, and we'll have a full written recap of our predictions from the rest of the team posted the week before the show. We'll be back to discuss the show and the winners on our next episode! Enjoy!

Thank you so much for listening. The Next Best Picture Podcast is proud to be a part of the Evergreen Podcasts Network. You can subscribe to us on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, GooglePlay, Tunein, Player FM, Acast & Castbox or you can listen down below. Please take a moment to review us on Apple Podcasts here. And if you're feeling generous, you enjoy what you hear and want to hear more, please help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month and you'll receive some exclusive podcast content.

By Matt Neglia 

GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, have announced their winners for the 2021 Dorian Awards representing the best in television and LGBTQ representation on TV for 2021.
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Click below to see the winners.

By Matt Neglia 

The Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) have announced their winners for the inaugural HCA TV Awards representing the best in television for 2021.

Click below to see the winners.

By Amanda Spears ​

If you remember from last year's Emmys and my Golden Globe, SAG Awards, and Oscars predictions, I try my best to leave emotion out of making my predictions. I'm going to take you television fans through how to make your Emmy predictions and win your pool methodically. Next up in this series of articles is Outstanding Limited Series/TV Movie Writing and Directing.

​By Amanda Spears ​

​​Emmy winner voting officially begins today. There are a lot of categories to discuss and how they're mostly all linked to one another when making your predictions on who the Emmy voters will go for. As I've done in previous years, I'm going to take you television and Emmy fans through how to methodically make your Emmy predictions and win your awards pool, starting with what I think is the most critical category not on the main telecast: Casting.

By Amanda Spears ​

The Emmy Awards are exactly a month away, and Netflix's "The Crown" earned a whopping 24 nominations for its fourth and most acclaimed season. Each of the previous three seasons received 13 nominations, making this year almost double their usual nomination haul. Season four was its most highly anticipated with the debut of Princess Diana and the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher. After failing to get that first big win in the Drama Series category, "The Crown" has risen to the occasion and is now the frontrunner for the category. With COVID taking out most of its competition, a new question has emerged: Can "The Crown" sweep the top awards at the Emmys?

By Matt Neglia 
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The 2021 Emmy Nominations were announced yesterday morning and as always, there were surprises and snubs to be found! There were historic nominations and nominations which made us scratch our heads. Michael Schwartz & Amanda Spears joined me yesterday evening to discuss our reactions to the nominations. We will be back next month to deliver our final winner predictions podcast for all of our listeners before the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards on September 17th.

Thank you so much for listening. The Next Best Picture Podcast is proud to be a part of the Evergreen Podcasts Network. You can subscribe to us on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, GooglePlay, Tunein, Player FM, Acast & Castbox or you can listen down below. Please take a moment to review us on Apple Podcasts here. And if you're feeling generous, you enjoy what you hear and want to hear more, please help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month and you'll receive some exclusive podcast content.

By Amanda Spears ​

The 2021 Primetime Emmy nominations were announced yesterday morning, and one thing was made abundantly clear: the television academy hasn't watched that much tv this year. However, all of the shows they did watch received so many nominations (4 shows received over 20 nominations) that it will inevitably lead to an exciting race between these heavy-hitters. Leading the pack with the most nominations was Netflix's "The Crown" and Disney+'s "The Mandalorian," with 24 each.

By Matt Neglia 

​The nominations for the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards have been announced and as always, there were a ton of surprises and snubs. The Crown and The Mandalorian have tied for the top spot for program nominations with 24, followed by WandaVision (23), The Handmaid’s Tale (21), Saturday Night Live (21), Ted Lasso (20), Lovecraft Country (18), The Queen’s Gambit (18) and Mare of Easttown (16). HBO/HBO Max leads the nominations in totals by platform with 130. Netflix has the second-most nominations with 129, and rounding out the top four are Disney+ with 71 and NBC with 46.

Click below to see the nominations and be on the lookout for our podcast discussing the nominations and predicting the winners.

By Amanda Spears ​

While the Comedy Series side was almost completely decimated because of COVID and multiple series ending, the Drama side was less affected. Last year's winner, "Succession," along with fellow nominees, "Better Call Saul," "Killing Eve," "Ozark," and "Stranger Things," are all sitting the 2021 Emmys out due to COVID and various other reasons. Still eligible from last year's series nominees are the 2017 winner "The Handmaid's Tale," competing for its fourth season, surprise last year nominee "The Mandalorian," and the presumed front runner "The Crown."
 
Given that there are five open spots, it's safe to assume the trio of eligible series from last year's nominees are going to get in. Let's see which series will join them to round out this category.​

By Amanda Spears ​

Last year's Emmy winner for Outstanding Comedy Series, "Schitt's Creek," competed for its final season, making history as the first continuing series to sweep the top seven awards. Also competing for its final season last year was "The Good Place." Fellow nominees "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Dead to Me," "Insecure," "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," and "What We Do in the Shadows" haven't aired a new season during the eligibility period mainly due to COVID. This leaves only "The Kominsky Method" as still eligible for this year's nominations. Even with fewer laughers competing at the 2021 Emmys, there will still be eight nominees in the Outstanding Comedy Series category. What will they be?