OUTSTANDING DRAMA
(Chicago Hope; ER; Law & Order; NYPD Blue; The
X-Files)
Who Will Win: ER
Who Should Win: The X-Files
Overlooked: The never-nominated Party of Five; the criminally neglected
Homicide: Life on the Street
OUTSTANDING COMEDY
(Frasier; The Larry Sanders Show; Mad About
You; Seinfeld; 3rd Rock From the Sun)
Will: Frasier (for a
record-breaking fourth year in a row)
Should: Sanders, which has
racked up 46 nominations over the years but just one win (Rip
Torn for supporting actor)
Overlooked: NewsRadio, for goodness'
sake
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS, DRAMA
(X-Files' Gillian Anderson; Touched
by an Angel's Roma Downey; Hope's Christine Lahti; ER's Julianna
Margulies and Sherry Stringfield)
Will: Lahti (snubbed last year)
Should: Anderson, who proved her acting chops with those cancer
episodes
Overlooked: Murder One's Mary McCormack (who deserves an
award just for putting up with Howard Stern in Private Parts)
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS, COMEDY
(Ellen's Ellen DeGeneres; The
Nanny's Fran Drescher; Mad's Helen Hunt; Home Improvement's
Patricia Richardson; Cybill's Cybill Shepherd)
Will: The safe
Hunt
Should: Out and improved Ellen
Overlooked: Moesha's natural,
never-nom'd Brandy Norwood
OUTSTANDING ACTOR, DRAMA
(X-Files' David Duchovny; ER's Anthony
Edwards; NYPD's Dennis Franz and Jimmy Smits; Law & Order's Sam
Waterston)
Will: Two-time winner Franz
Should: The quietly
excellent Waterston
Overlooked: Party of Five's Scott Wolf is
handicapped by a ''teen'' show
OUTSTANDING ACTOR, COMEDY
(Spin City's Michael J. Fox;
Frasier's Kelsey Grammer; 3rd Rock's John Lithgow; Mad's Paul
Reiser; Sanders' Garry Shandling)
Will: Industry fave Lithgow
Should: Four-time actor nominee Shandling, the best bastard on TV
Overlooked: Everybody Loves Raymond's menschy Ray Romano
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY
(Cybill's Christine Baranski; Larry
Sanders' Janeane Garofalo; 3rd Rock's Kristen Johnston; Friends'
Lisa Kudrow; Seinfeld's Julia Louis-Dreyfus)
Will: Last year's
champ Louis-Dreyfus
Should: Louis-Dreyfus, if only for her
dancing
Overlooked: Frasier's oft-overshadowed Peri Gilpin
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA
(NYPD's Kim Delaney; ER's Laura Innes,
CCH Pounder, and Gloria Reuben; Touched by an Angel's Della
Reese)
Will: First-time nominee Delaney
Should: Reuben, thanks to
her powerful AIDS story line
Overlooked: Michelle Forbes,
Homicide's edgy coroner
SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY
(Seinfeld's Jason Alexander and Michael
Richards; Frasier's David Hyde Pierce; Sanders' Jeffrey Tambor
and Rip Torn)
Will: Alexander
Should: Alexander. Amazingly, TV's
No. 1 whiner has never nabbed the prize.
Overlooked: NewsRadio's
splendidly out-there Andy Dick no doubt scared the judges
SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA
(Chicago Hope's Adam Arkin and Hector
Elizondo; ER's Eriq La Salle and Noah Wyle; NYPD's Nicholas
Turturro)
Will: La Salle
Should: La Salle — runner-up in TV's
best-bastard category
Overlooked: Homicide's Kyle Secor, whose
showier TV partner (Andre Braugher) inevitably gets the attention
