Emmy Rule Changes Revealed by Television Academy: No Guest Star Double Dipping, and More Eligibility for Directors
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Perhaps we should call it the “Queen Elizabeth rule.” The Television Academy has unveiled a few new Emmy Awards rules tweaks, including one that should impact the guest performer categories.
Under the new rule, any performer who had previously been nominated or has won in a lead or supporting category can no longer shift to one of the guest performer races in the same role in future years.
That has become a more common occurrence in this prestige TV age, when actors often play a high-profile role for a few years before departing — with the promise of still making short guest appearances in subsequent seasons.
A good example is Claire Foy, who won the lead drama actress Emmy in 2018 for “The Crown.” She left that show after two seasons (as her role as Princess Elizabeth/Queen Elizabeth was transferred to Olivia Colman and then Imelda Staunton).
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