You’ve seen or heard our official 2025 Emmy predictions, so now it’s time to take things out on a limb. Leading up to Tuesday’s 77th Annual Primetime Emmy nominations, the staff of The Contending will be updating this post with their official No Guts, No Glory predictions. These are the limbs we’re not quite ready to go out on, but we’re secretly hoping we’re right. Generally, we’re making three wild stabs at predictions.
You should join in! Leave your No Guts, No Glory predictions in the comments below!
Clarence Moye
Leslie Bibb, Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for The White Lotus
Julianne Moore, Supporting Actress in a Limited Series for Sirens
Nathan Fielder, Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for The Rehearsal
Frank J. Avella
Jon Hamm, Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Your Friends & Neighbors
Ellen Pompeo, Lead Actress in a Limited Series for Good American Family
Sam Nivola, Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for The White Lotus
Joey Moser
Sharon Horgan, Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Bad Sisters
Judith Light, Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Out of My Mind
Amy Sherman-Palladino, Writing for a Comedy Series for Étoile
David Phillips
Pachinko, Best Series – Drama
Erin Doherty, Best Actress in a Drama Series for A Thousand Blows
Lola Petticrew, Best Actress in a Limited Series for Say Nothing
Stellen Skarsgard – Drama Supporting Actor for Andor
Rashida Jones – Limited Series Supporting Actress for Black Mirror
Kristen Bell, because everyone in KB Nation has seen this movie about 20x already. Bell slays in whatever show she joins, Emmy nom assured. THIS is the year, we say. And like Lucy and her football, the Academy pulls it out from her grasp. Every. Single. Time. She is the quintessential NGNG.
Picking Uzo Aduba or Bridget Everett instead of KB is a waste of a choice. A throwaway. Let her generation- long snub/drought end Tuesday at 11:30 am ET