How many Emmys can Game of Thrones actually win for its final season?
Technical categories: Filming, sound, production
This will be the longest breakdown, but there are a lot of awards, okay? Let’s get right into it.
Outstanding Sound Mixing and Editing
“The Long Night” is nominated in both of these categories, so let’s take them together. It seems like the real competition might be in Editing, with Gotham, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, and Star Trek: Discovery all vying for the award. However, “The Long Night” has a really good chance of winning the Mixing award thanks to its ability to mix silence and sound. (You might not have been able to see it, but you could hear it.) Overall, Game of Thrones tends to win Mixing, not Editing, so let’s give it that one of these two.
Outstanding Special Visual Effects
The Man in the High Castle, The Orville, The Umbrella Academy, and Star Trek: Discovery are the other nominees here. Granted, none of them have dragons, but all of them have good effects of their own (or they wouldn’t be nominated). There’s just one problem, though: Game of Thrones basically dominates this category every time that it’s eligible to win an Emmy. This seems like a slam dunk.
Outstanding Stunt Coordination
See above about Game of Thrones winning the category pretty much as often as it’s eligible. “The Long Night” alone has plenty of wild stunts (Arya’s fights through the hallways, the Dothraki charge, etc). Additionally, all of its competitors in this category are network TV. Not that network TV is bad, but network TV doesn’t win a lot of Emmys unless it’s Black-ish or This is Us or The Good Place.
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Outstanding Production Design
This particular award is given out to period dramas or fantasy series. Those two don’t seem like they really go together, but it means that Chernobyl is in the competition, vying against “The Bells” from Game of Thrones.
Not that “The Bells” doesn’t do some really good work in destroying a city, but Chernobyl evoked a specific time period in a specific real-world place with exacting detail. That seems like it might get rewarded even though Game of Thrones wins this award a lot. It’s a tossup.
Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series
Last year, Game of Thrones didn’t win this award, but the series that beat it out, The Crown, isn’t eligible this year. Pose and Killing Eve are, though, and we could see the Television Academy wanting to reward Pose‘s fantastic (and groundbreaking) casting or Killing Eve‘s smaller cast, every member of which was perfectly chosen. Game of Thrones has a stupendous cast, make no mistake, but there aren’t a lot of new characters to love this season. Get ready to let this one go.
Outstanding Cinematography
No, “The Long Night” is not nominated, but “The Iron Throne” is. “The Iron Throne” has some fantastic shots — Daenerys’ speech alone makes this worthy of the nomination — but The Handmaid’s Tale is coming in hot with two chances to win, and one of those is “The Word,” which was one of the prettiest-looking episodes of the previous season. Game of Thrones doesn’t win this award or even get nominated very often, but we could see this being a body-of-work win for the show. Again, it’s a tossup.
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing
Game of Thrones has literally half of the nominees here with “The Long Night,” “The Iron Throne,” and “Winterfell.” In other words, it’s probably going to win, but for what? Honestly, “Winterfell” might win it because it had a lot less action but still kept the story moving and made it easy to follow all the conversations, but the other two options are definitely more flashy.
