2016 Emmy Predictions: Guest Acting Categories and Variety Special

Adele, Beyoncé, Kennedy Center Honors in Highly Competitive Variety Special Race; Saturday Night Live Could Clean Up Acting Cats

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With the Creative Arts Emmys coming up this weekend, I have the final predictions from the Emmy Experts in the Guest Acting categories as well as Variety Special, all of which will be announced on the second night of the Creative Arts awards, Sunday the 11th.

There is still no clear frontrunner in Guest Actor in a Drama Series although it seems to be down to returning winner Reg E. Cathey (House of Cards) and Max von Sydow (Game of Thrones). Same for Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Will it be Laurie Metcalf (Horace and Pete) or Ellen Burstyn (House of Cards)?

Guest Actor in a Comedy looks like a tight race between Tracy Morgan and Larry David (both for SNL episodes) but we are universal in our belief that Tina Fey & Amy Poehler will receive the first-ever dual win in this category and Poehler’s first win ever.

Variety Series is going to be a really interesting outcome; The Kennedy Center Honors do so well here but up against Adele and Beyoncé is going to be quite a challenge.

For reference, here is the lineup of categories for both nights and the presenters for each show.

Here are the final predictions for the Guest Acting categories and Variety Special:

Check out full predictions in two dozen Emmy categories here.

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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