One year after “Everything Everywhere All at Once” became the third film to ever merit three acting Oscars, the recipients of those trophies all have their sights set on Emmy glory. As candidates in three separate 2024 races, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ke Huy Quan are headed for an exciting reunion that could very well lead to one or more of them winning the TV academy’s favor in September.
Curtis, whose Oscar victory caught more predictors by surprise than those of her two cast mates, is now the strongest Emmy contender of the three according to our racetrack odds. Indeed, her guest stint as alcoholic mother Donna Berzatto on the FX comedy series “The Bear” is widely expected to bring her her first Emmy win, even in the face of formidable opponents from the same show (like Olivia Colman and Sarah Paulson) and returning champion Maya Rudolph (“Saturday Night Live”).
Curtis’s sole Emmy notice to date came for her lead performance in the 1998 CBS telefilm “Nicholas’ Gift.” In that case, she was bested by Ellen Barkin (“Before Women Had Wings”), who also remains a one-time Emmy nominee. Both Yeoh and Quan’s possible 2024 bids would be their first.
Having just made history as the very first Asian lead female Oscar winner, Yeoh now has a chance to earn the same distinction in the Best Comedy Actress Emmy category. Following her recent performances on “The Witcher: Blood Origin” and “American Born Chinese,” her latest TV role is that of Taiwanese gangster’s wife Eileen Sun on Netflix’s “The Brothers Sun.” Throughout the show’s first season, she collaborated with several “Everything Everywhere All at Once” alumni, including stunt and character actors Andy and Brian Le.
When it comes to Quan’s desired category of Best Drama Supporting Actor, it’s possible for the entire 2024 lineup to be populated by Asian-born performers. Including the Oscar winner, who recently joined the cast Disney+’s “Loki” as skillful repairman Ouroboros, there are about a dozen such candidates for this honor, with the others currently holding better than 100/1 odds being Salim Daw (“The Crown”) and “Shōgun” cast mates Tadanobu Asano, Takehiro Hira, and Tokuma Nishioka.
Yeoh, Curtis, and Quan being included on the same Emmy ballot would be especially meaningful since neither of the Oscar-winning costar trios from “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1952) and “Network” (1977) ever managed to do so. Curtis would also be the first supporting female champ from one of these groups to win an Emmy, while Yeoh and Quan would respectively emulate Faye Dunaway (“Network”; “Columbo,” 1994) and Karl Malden (“A Streetcar Named Desire”; “Fatal Vision,” 1985).
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