The 10 biggest snubs and surprises of this year's Emmys

Oh was nominated five years in a row for her supporting performance in "Grey's Anatomy" and lost every time. She was also nominated last year for her performance in "Killing Eve" and lost that, too.

This year finally looked like Oh's year and it would have been a historic win as she would have been the first Asian actress to win the Emmy for best actress in a leading role for a drama series.

Alas, her biggest competition heading in to this year's Emmys was her "Killing Eve" costar Jodie Comer, who ended up winning the prize.

Waller-Bridge's win for best comedy actress might be a bigger shock than "Fleabag's" comedy series win, considering she was up against reigning champ and projected winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus won the award for best actress in a comedy series for every season of "Veep" — until this year.

For the HBO show's final season, Louis-Dreyfus lost the award to Phoebe Waller-Bridge, dashing her chances of becoming the actor with the most Emmy wins in history.

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It's shocking that "Game of Thrones" didn't win for directing for a drama series. It was nominated three times in the category for the episodes "The Long Night," "The Last of the Starks," and the series finale, "The Iron Throne."

But maybe that worked to its disadvantage, as Jason Bateman took home the award for directing the "Ozark" season two premiere, "Reparations."

Henry Winkler finally won his Emmy last year for his supporting role in HBO's "Barry" and deservedly so.

But the other fantastic supporting actors in the show deserved some love, too, especially Sarah Goldberg, who delivered a riveting and Emmy-worthy monologue in season two, episode seven.

"Barry" stars Stephen Root and Anthony Carrigan were also nominated for best supporting actor in a comedy series and both lost to "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" star Tony Shalhoub. He's great, but has already won three times before for "Monk."

The other Patricia in this category, "Sharp Objects" star Patricia Clarkson, had the momentum in this race having won a Golden Globe for the role earlier this year.

But Patricia Arquette pulled ahead for her performance in Hulu's true-crime drama, "The Act."

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The standout episode from season two of "Barry," "ronny/lily," works so well because of Bill Hader's mesmerizing work behind the camera.

"Fleabag" won the Emmy for directing for a comedy series, but this trophy belonged to "Barry."

The limited series race this year was a tight one between two shows based on traumatic real-life events: HBO's "Chernobyl" and Netflix's "When They See Us."

"Chernobyl" won the prize for best limited series, but it's still surprising that "When They See Us" only won one award for best actor in a limited series (Jharrel Jerome). Ava DuVernay lost the awards for both writing and directing for a limited series to "Chernobyl."

When HBO's "Deadwood" was on the air, it was only nominated for best drama series once in its three seasons and didn't win.

It had one last chance to win big at the Emmys with the long-awaited "Deadwood: The Movie," but lost the award for best TV movie to Netflix's interactive "Black Mirror" movie, "Bandersnatch."

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