How many Emmys can Game of Thrones actually win for its final season?

Lead Actress and Actor

Lead Actress

Emilia Clarke infamously didn’t even get nominated last year despite HBO’s big push to move her into this category. However, she’s made it through this time.

There’s just one problem: This is a stacked category through and through.

You could make a case for any of the nominees winning, from Robin Wright to Laura Linney to Mandy Moore to Viola Davis. But Clarke’s biggest competition, we think, is going to come from Killing Eve‘s two lead actresses: Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh. Oh has the benefit of momentum following last year’s win at the Golden Globes, but Comer is just as much of a tour de force. There could be some vote splitting, though, for these two.

Wright also has a case as a body-of-work award since she’s never won, much like Lena Headey. Linney is a well-esteemed actress, and Moore could capture the network vote. It’s not an ideal situation for Clarke to win, basically, and we don’t think she gets it.

Lead Actor

She does, however, have a better chance than Kit Harington probably does. It’s not that he’s a bad actor, but Billy Porter and Bob Odenkirk can make even better cases than he can to win it, especially with the splash that Porter has made in general as Pray Tell in Pose. Meanwhile, Odenkirk has inhabited his role in Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad for a long time, but has never won an award. This could be his year. Sorry, Kit.