12 Things I Learned Perusing All 886 Pages of the Emmy Ballots

From actors playing themselves to Ryan Gosling singing “I’m Just Ken,” here are things to watch for in this year’s Emmy nomination voting

Ryan Gosling performs "I'm Just Ken" at the 2024 Oscars (Getty Images)

The nominating ballots for the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards went up online last Thursday, the first day of voting. They were separated into 35 separate fields covering 106 of the Emmys’ 118 categories, with the other 12 categories not included on the ballots because they’re decided by juries or panels.

The ballots covered a total of 886 pages, with a high of 239 pages for the 17 performer categories and a low of two pages for the 26 contenders in Outstanding Emerging Media Program.

We’ve looked through the ballots, and here’s some of what we learned.

Fewer contenders

Fourteen categories, most notably Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, had more entries than they did the previous year.

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