32 Emmy acting nominations, zero female winners: Game of Thrones’ unfortunate Emmy skew

Game of Thrones was one of the biggest TV shows of the 21st century, and its slate of accolades and tributes is a testament to that. However, after its prequel House of the Dragon‘s recent disappointing run at the Emmys 2023, it has cast a shadow of doubt over the franchise.

Despite holding the record for the most number of Emmy wins, the franchise surprisingly has no female actors in its Emmy win tally.

No female actor from the franchise has won an Emmy Award yet

Considering the number of female characters in the Game of Thrones universe, it is surprising that none of them have won an Emmy Award yet. Emilia Clarke had 4 nominations, Lena Headey had 5, Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner both had one each, and many more, but not a single won could win an Emmy.

The only cast member to ever win was Peter Dinklage, who was responsible for eight out of the show’s 32 acting nominations, with four wins. In House of the Dragon’s case, the situation is even worse – not a single actor was nominated for this year’s Emmy Award.

Fans are furious over towards Game of Thrones actresses not winning any Emmys

House of the Dragon fans had a lot of expectations this year, that the franchise might finally break its curse. However, even with strong female characters like Emma D’Arcy’s Rhaenyra Targaryen, the wait continues. Some of the fans took to X and said:

meanwhile lena headey never got one for playing cersei and michelle fairley wasn’t even nominated for the red wedding https://t.co/ukzoAzHsqf pic.twitter.com/w7H2pbPEFx

— liv (@forcersei) January 16, 2024

U would think Michelle fairley would at least get nominated with the way the red wedding cultivated and changed tv forever and her performance in it but no.. pic.twitter.com/BFTKA5xm0L

— a 🇵🇸 (@taywh0restan2) January 16, 2024

the best actresses of got, they deserved at least one win

— sl*t꧂ (@ziadarcy) January 16, 2024

I stopped believing in the Emmys when the women who carried Game of Thrones never won a single award!!! pic.twitter.com/0fih04cBHX

— May H (@Mayham_H) July 12, 2023

so many women from game of thrones deserved emmys and none of them ever won i’m still fucking mad

— sarah ✡︎ slut! era 🪩 (@amidalasivy) September 20, 2021

if the women of Succession don't win an Emmys but the men do, just like what happened with Game of Thrones, I will become homicidal

— Sakshi 🍓 (@MOODFORSOMMAR) September 13, 2022

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