2024 Emmys: How much screen time does each Best Drama Supporting Actor nominee have?
In terms of physical time on screen, Matthew Macfadyen’s back-to-back Emmy-winning performances in the “All the Bells Say” and “Tailgate Party” episodes of “Succession” are separated by a margin of six minutes and 44 seconds. His lauded turns are respectively shorter and longer than the average one vying for the 2024 Best Drama Supporting Actor prize, with his first aligning more closely with the new lineup’s actual screen time mean.
The seven current drama supporting actor contenders submitted performances that last for an average of 10 minutes and 13 seconds, or 20.01% of their single episodes. This data was calculated using a simple definition of stand-alone screen time, which is any time a given performer can be seen on screen or heard off screen. Contiguous moments of silent and non-visible scene time were not counted.
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The first of three candidates who land above said averages is Jack Lowden, whose 17-minute and 36-second performance in the “Slow Horses” episode “Hard Lessons” (translating to 43.01%) is nearly eight minutes longer than that of lead nominee Gary Oldman in the same show’s third season finale. Supporting “Shōgun” contender Tadanobu Asano, who appears in 12 minutes and 49 seconds (or 18.23%) of the series premiere, “Anjin,” is involved in a similar situation with lead Hiroyuki Sanada, although the latter’s proportional screen time in his briefer episode is 1.55% higher.
Between Lowden and Asano is Billy Crudup, who is seeking his second win for “The Morning Show” on the merit of his performance in “Ghost in the Machine” (15:55; 31.87%). In the middle of the roster by physical time yet ahead of Asano proportionally is Jonathan Pryce, who clocks in at 9:56 (or 19.29%) in the “Willsmania” episode of “The Crown.” He is simultaneously nominated for his one-minute and 41-second guest appearance in said closing “Slow Horses” chapter.
Also recognized here for “The Morning Show” are cast newcomer Jon Hamm and veteran Mark Duplass, whose respective work in “The Green Light” and “The Overview Effect” amounts to 8:16 (15.69%) and 2:58 (5.21%). By any metric, Duplass’s is the shortest performance presently nominated in any regular category, with 90% of the year’s guest contenders also outpacing him. Rounding out this supporting lineup is Takehiro Hira, who falls between Hamm and Duplass with four minutes and three seconds of screen time constituting 6.79% of the “Shōgun” installment “Crimson Sky.”
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