Creative Arts Emmys Preview: Guest Actor and Guest Actress (Drama and Comedy), Reality Host Predictions

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As is usual, the Creative Arts Emmys are held the weekend before the Primetime Emmys. We’ll see a handful of technical awards handed out but also four important acting awards for the guest performances and also for Reality Host. Those winners will then present on Monday, August 25th at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Here are who our Emmy Experts  (yours truly included) think will be taking home Emmy gold tomorrow.

DRAMA GUEST ACTOR Erik Chris Federico Jonathan Nicol Peter TOTALS
Dylan Baker, The Good Wife – ”Tying the Knot” 0
Beau Bridges, Masters of Sex – ”Manhigh” * * 2
Reg. E. Cathey, House of Cards – ”Chapter 22″ * * 2
Paul Giamatti, Downton Abbey – ”Episode 8″ 0
Robert Morse, Mad Men –”Waterloo” * 1
Joe Morton, Scandal – ”Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” * 1

There isn’t a more locked race than Guest Actress in a Drama Series. All Emmy Experts peg Allison Janney to add yet another trophy to her case with a win here for her turn in Masters of Sex.

DRAMA GUEST ACTRESS Erik Chris Federico Jonathan Nicol Peter TOTALS
Kate Burton, Scandal – ”A Door Marked Exit” 0
Jane Fonda, The Newsroom –”Red Team III” 0
Allison Janney, Masters of Sex – ”Brave New World” * * * * * * 6
Kate Mara, House of Cards – ”Chapter 14″ 0
Margo Martindale, The Americans – ”Behind the Red Door” 0
Dame Diana Rigg, Game of Thrones – ”The Lion and the Rose” 0

Jimmy Fallon is the favorite here but watch out for last year’s winner Bob Newhart to possibly repeat.

COMEDY GUEST ACTOR Erik Chris Federico Jonathan Nicol Peter TOTALS
Steve Buscemi, Portlandia –”Celery” * 1
Louis C.K., Saturday Night Live – ”Host: Louis CK” 0
Gary Cole, Veep –”Crate” 0
Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live – ”Host: Jimmy Fallon” * * * * 4
Nathan Lane, Modern Family – ”The Wedding Part 2″ 0
Bob Newhart, The Big Bang Theory – ”The Proton Transmogrification” * 1

A tight race here between two Orange ladies, Laverne Cox and Uzo Aduba.

Last year’s winners Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn are the frontrunners here but Jane Lynch could spoil.

REALITY HOST Erik Chris Federico Jonathan Nicol Peter TOTALS
Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars 0
Anthony Burdain, The Taste * 1
Cat Deeley, So You Think You Can Dance 0
Heidi Klum & Tim Gunn, Project Runway * * * 3
Jane Lynch, Hollywood Game Night * * 2
Betty White, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers 0
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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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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