The actress, who picked up her second Oscar in March for Poor Things, is considered all but a lock to receive a Lead Actress in a Drama nomination for her performance in the Showtime series The Curse. Among the others in contention for a spot in that category are The Crown‘s Imelda Staunton, The Morning Show stars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, The Gilded Age star Carrie Coon, Elsbeth‘s Carrie Preston, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith star Maya Erskine.

Stone isn’t the only one who could be going for double-gold this year: Robert Downey Jr. is a supporting nominee contender for The Sympathizer (it is currently in limited series, but should HBO decide to give the Park Chan-wook co-created series a second-season renewal, it would move to drama series).

Emma Stone in ‘The Curse’; Robert Downey Jr. in ‘The Sympathizer’; Ayo Edebiri in ‘The Bear’.

Another race to keep an eye on is Lead Actress in a Comedy, where The Bear star Ayo Edebiri is now part of the mix for that show’s second season after switching from supporting, which she won for season 1. Will it pay off?

“Oftentimes, supporting can be the more competitive category, so it might actually be beneficial to guaranteeing a win to get into the lead category,” Entertainment Weekly editor-in-chief Patrick Gomez says on the latest episode of the Awardist podcast (below). “That role has continued to grow on the show…. I’m assuming her team is looking strategically at it and saying, this is the way to elevate her. And to be honest, sometimes it’s better in the eyes of some publicists I know that like to get a nomination but not a win in a lead category versus being ‘relegated’ to a supporting status because if you’re a lead that opens a lot of other doors for other projects for you. So, strategically, maybe they’re not going for a win — maybe they’re just going to elevate her status in terms of size of role.”

Elsewhere on the Awardist podcast, We Were the Lucky Ones star Joey King chats with EW about her 20 years in the industry (she started when she was just 4 years old!), why she considers Ramona and Beezus a turning point in her career, and how her latest series — the first project she’s been in about the Holocaust — presented an emotional challenge she hasn’t necessarily experienced before.

Joey King and Lior Ashkenazi in ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’.

“I’m a Jewish woman and I obviously have no lack of knowledge on the Holocaust… but this immersiveness, launching myself deeper into research and just putting yourself in the headspace of this very, very dark time in history — and this isn’t a fictional story — so when I’m doing these scenes, the idea that this really happened to this woman I’m playing was so overwhelming sometimes that the emotional well-ups that happened were random and they were frequent and it was unexpected,” King says. “I’m pretty good at keeping a lid on my own emotions when I need to, but it was really good that I was able to feel those things because it was a really hard shoot for that reason, but that’s why it was beautiful. The least we can do as actors is to feel the emotion of a story of people who actually went through it. We’re not going through it for real, we’re just pretending. So the least we can do is hold space in our hearts for the fact that this actually happened.”

You can hear more about her experience on the Hulu series, and whether she’s be open to reprising her Emmy-nominated role of Gypsy Rose Blanchard in a continuation of The Act, in the Awardist podcast, below.

Get the latest awards season analysis and hear from the actors, creators, and more who are contenders this season on EW’s The Awardist podcast, hosted by Gerrad Hall. Be sure to listen/subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts, or via your own voice-controlled smart speaker.