The 2025 Emmy Awards nominations revealed significant snubs and surprises, leaving many fans and critics questioning the selections made by the Academy. This year’s omissions included several past winners and fan favorites, highlighting the unpredictable nature of the awards.
Emmys Nominations Snubs: Notable Absences in 2025
The 2025 Emmy Awards failed to recognize a number of longtime favorites with nominations, including past winners Squid Game, Elisabeth Moss, Jon Hamm, Ted Danson, and past nominees Yellowjackets and Selena Gomez.
Squid Game’s Surprising Omission
Squid Game, which won six Emmys including the top prize of best drama actor for Lee Jung-jae in its first season in 2022, saw its second season completely absent from this year’s nominations. The hit Netflix series’ third and final season will be eligible for next year’s awards.
The Handmaid’s Tale: A Diminished Presence
Similarly, The Handmaid’s Tale was once a favorite among Emmy voters, receiving multiple nominations in 2019 based on its previous episodes. The adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s bestselling novel, which won best drama series for its first season in 2017, only scored one nomination for Cherry Jones’ guest role, leaving out the rest of its acclaimed cast, including star Moss, who also could have been nominated for directing.
Yellowjackets and Other Notable Absences
Yellowjackets landed 10 nominations for its first two seasons but received none for its recently wrapped third season. Jon Hamm, a perennial nominee for Mad Men, did not return to the nominations for his first series starring role since Mad Men in Your Friends & Neighbors, which was only nominated for its theme song.
Also shut out this year were A Man on the Inside (including its star and past Emmy winner Ted Danson); Ellen Pompeo for her role in Good American Family; past Emmy nominee The Morning Show; and acclaimed series Running Point, St. Denis Medical, and Taylor Sheridan’s Landman.
Unexpected Omissions in Acting Categories
Surprising omissions from the acting categories included Andor star Diego Luna, who was not included among the show’s 14 nominations; Selena Gomez, who was not nominated for her role in Only Murders in the Building; and several actors from Mountainhead. Other notable exclusions included actors from White Lotus and The Studio, despite the show’s 23 nominations.
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Changes in Talk Series Nominations
The talk series category’s reduction to only three nomination slots left out hopefuls like Late Night With Seth Meyers, Hot Ones, and Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney. Additionally, Meyers and Jamie Foxx missed out on nods for their stand-up specials, Dad Man Walking and What Had Happened Was.
Surprising Nominations
Meghann Fahy was an unexpected inclusion in the best actress in a limited series category for her role in Sirens, which was left out of the series and other acting categories, as was Uzo Aduba’s nomination for her role in The Residence. Aduba’s performance was acclaimed, but the show’s cancellation after just one season makes her nomination somewhat surprising.
Meanwhile, Hulu’s Paradise may have landed more nominations in top categories than awards experts predicted, while Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s Étoile received two nominations despite Prime Video revealing before Emmy nominations voting began that it wouldn’t proceed with the previously ordered second season.
