Tuesday, September 15, 2026
THE EMMYs 2026 - WINNERS AND NOMINEES
NBC & PEACOCK
SEPTEMBER 14, 2026
5:00 PM (CA - PT) / 8:00 PM (NY - ET)
HOSTED BY MARISKA HARGITAY
The 78th Emmy Awards were presented Monday, September 14, from the Peacock Theater at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, with Mariska Hargitay hosting the NBC/Peacock telecast. The main broadcast presented 19 competitive categories. The winners below are shown in BOLD ITALICS
The Pitt entered the season as the most-nominated program with 25 nominations, followed by Hacks with 24. The ceremony ultimately gave Outstanding Drama Series to The Pitt, Outstanding Comedy Series to Widow’s Bay, and Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series to DTF St. Louis. Stephen Colbert won for Variety.
Michael J Fox won the humanitarian award for his work supporting the search for a cure for Parkinson's Disease.
The Memoriam for those who passed away in the last year is described in the following article:
TRIBUTES
https://qporit.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-emmys-2026-in-memoriam.html
THE OTHER EMMY CATEGORIES
Most Emmy categories were presented during the Creative Arts ceremonies on September 5 and 6. The September 14 telecast concentrated on the 19 categories below.
EMMY NIGHT
WINNERS AND NOMINEES
SERIES
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY — ABC / Hulu
THE BEAR — FX / Hulu
HACKS — HBO Max
MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES — Apple TV
NOBODY WANTS THIS — Netflix
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING — Hulu
SHRINKING — Apple TV
WIDOW’S BAY — Apple TV
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
THE DIPLOMAT — Netflix
THE GILDED AGE — HBO Max
A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS — HBO Max
PARADISE — Hulu
THE PITT — HBO Max
PLURIBUS — Apple TV
SLOW HORSES — Apple TV
YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS — Apple TV
OUTSTANDING LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES
ALL HER FAULT — Peacock
THE BEAST IN ME — Netflix
BEEF — Netflix
DTF ST. LOUIS — HBO Max
LOVE STORY: JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. & CAROLYN BESSETTE — FX / Hulu
ACTING — COMEDY
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
YAHYA ABDUL-MATEEN II — Wonder Man — Disney+
STEVE CARELL — Rooster — HBO Max
MATTHEW RHYS — Widow’s Bay — Apple TV
JASON SEGEL — Shrinking — Apple TV
MARTIN SHORT — Only Murders in the Building — Hulu
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
QUINTA BRUNSON — Abbott Elementary — ABC / Hulu
AYO EDEBIRI — The Bear — FX / Hulu
ELLE FANNING — Margo’s Got Money Troubles — Apple TV
LISA KUDROW — The Comeback — HBO Max
JEAN SMART — Hacks — HBO Max
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
COLMAN DOMINGO — The Four Seasons — Netflix
PAUL W. DOWNS — Hacks — HBO Max
HARRISON FORD — Shrinking — Apple TV
NICK OFFERMAN — Margo’s Got Money Troubles — Apple TV
STEPHEN ROOT — Widow’s Bay — Apple TV
MICHAEL URIE — Shrinking — Apple TV
TYLER JAMES WILLIAMS — Abbott Elementary — ABC / Hulu
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
DALE DICKEY — Widow’s Bay — Apple TV
HANNAH EINBINDER — Hacks — HBO Max
JANELLE JAMES — Abbott Elementary — ABC / Hulu
KATE O’FLYNN — Widow’s Bay — Apple TV
MICHELLE PFEIFFER — Margo’s Got Money Troubles — Apple TV
MEGAN STALTER — Hacks — HBO Max
JESSICA WILLIAMS — Shrinking — Apple TV
ACTING — DRAMA
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
STERLING K. BROWN — Paradise — Hulu
GARY OLDMAN — Slow Horses — Apple TV
MARK RUFFALO — Task — HBO Max
RUFUS SEWELL — The Diplomat — Netflix
NOAH WYLE — The Pitt — HBO Max
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
CARRIE COON — The Gilded Age — HBO Max
CHASE INFINITI — The Testaments — Hulu
KERI RUSSELL — The Diplomat — Netflix
RHEA SEEHORN — Pluribus — Apple TV
ZENDAYA — Euphoria — HBO Max
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
PATRICK BALL — The Pitt — HBO Max
BILLY CRUDUP — The Morning Show — Apple TV
SHAWN HATOSY — The Pitt — HBO Max
GERRAN HOWELL — The Pitt — HBO Max
JACK LOWDEN — Slow Horses — Apple TV
TOM PELPHREY — Task — HBO Max
CARLOS-MANUEL VESGA — Pluribus — Apple TV
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
TAYLOR DEARDEN — The Pitt — HBO Max
FIONA DOURIF — The Pitt — HBO Max
ALLISON JANNEY — The Diplomat — Netflix
KATHERINE LANASA — The Pitt — HBO Max
SEPIDEH MOAFI — The Pitt — HBO Max
JULIANNE NICHOLSON — Paradise — Hulu
KAROLINA WYDRA — Pluribus — Apple TV
ACTING — LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR
RIZ AHMED — Bait — Prime Video
JASON BATEMAN — Black Rabbit — Netflix
CHARLIE HUNNAM — Monster: The Ed Gein Story — Netflix
OSCAR ISAAC — Beef — Netflix
MATTHEW RHYS — The Beast in Me — Netflix
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS
CLAIRE DANES — The Beast in Me — Netflix
SALLY FIELD — Remarkably Bright Creatures — Netflix
CAREY MULLIGAN — Beef — Netflix
SARAH PIDGEON — Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette — FX / Hulu
SARAH SNOOK — All Her Fault — Peacock
WRITING AND DIRECTING
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
RANDALL EINHORN — Abbott Elementary — ABC / Hulu — “Ballgame”
CHRISTOPHER STORER — The Bear — FX / Hulu — “Bears”
ANDREW DEYOUNG — The Chair Company — HBO Max — “Life Goes By Too F**king Fast, It Really Does.”
LUCIA ANIELLO — Hacks — HBO Max — “Hacks (Finale)”
MARY LOU BELLI — The Ms. Pat Show — BET+ — “Give It Arrest”
HIRO MURAI — Widow’s Bay — Apple TV — “Welcome to Widow’s Bay!”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
SALLI RICHARDSON-WHITFIELD — The Gilded Age — HBO Max — “My Mind Is Made Up”
HANELLE M. CULPEPPER — Paradise — Hulu — “Exodus”
NOAH WYLE — The Pitt — HBO Max — “12:00 P.M.”
VINCE GILLIGAN — Pluribus — Apple TV — “We Is Us”
SAUL METZSTEIN — Slow Horses — Apple TV — “Scars”
SALLI RICHARDSON-WHITFIELD — Task — HBO Max — “Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing, There Is a River.”
OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
QUINTA BRUNSON — Abbott Elementary — ABC / Hulu — “Team Building”
TIM ROBINSON & ZACH KANIN — The Chair Company — HBO Max — “Life Goes By Too F**king Fast, It Really Does.”
MICHAEL PATRICK KING & LISA KUDROW — The Comeback — HBO Max — “Valerie Does It All”
LUCIA ANIELLO, PAUL W. DOWNS & JEN STATSKY — Hacks — HBO Max — “Hacks (Finale)”
ANTHONY KING — Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat — Prime Video — “Mergers and Acquisitions”
KATIE DIPPOLD — Widow’s Bay — Apple TV — “Welcome to Widow’s Bay!”
OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
PETER ACKERMAN & DEBORA CAHN — The Diplomat — Netflix — “Amagansett”
KIRSTEN PIERRE-GEYFMAN & R. SCOTT GEMMILL — The Pitt — HBO Max — “1:00 P.M.”
VALERIE CHU — The Pitt — HBO Max — “12:00 P.M.”
VINCE GILLIGAN — Pluribus — Apple TV — “We Is Us”
WILL SMITH — Slow Horses — Apple TV — “Scars”
BRAD INGELSBY — Task — HBO Max — “A Still Small Voice”
VARIETY
OUTSTANDING VARIETY SERIES
THE DAILY SHOW — Comedy Central
JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! — ABC
LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER — HBO Max
THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT — CBS
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE — NBC
REALITY
OUTSTANDING REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM
DANCING WITH THE STARS — ABC / Disney+
RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE — MTV
SURVIVOR — CBS
TOP CHEF — Bravo
THE TRAITORS — Peacock
THE 78TH EMMY AWARDS
Monday, September 14, 2026
NBC / Peacock
Hosted by Mariska Hargitay
Sources:
Television Academy — 78th Emmy Awards Winners Announced
Television Academy — Official 78th Emmy Winners List
LINKS TO ALL THE NOMINATED SHOWS!
QPORIT — Emmy nominations post
Labels: 2026 EMMYS, Allison Janney, JEAN SMART, Matthew Rhys, NOAH WYLE, RHEA SEEHORN, Stephen Colbert, The Pitt, WIDOWS BAY
Monday, September 14, 2026
THE EMMYS 2026 — IN MEMORIAM
SPECIAL TRIBUTES &
ALL THE PEOPLE REMEMBERED
The 78th Emmy Awards devoted an unusually substantial portion of the September 14, 2026 telecast to people television lost during the past year. There were several individualized tributes as well as the traditional In Memoriam montage, accompanied by Noah Kahan performing “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”
SPECIAL TRIBUTES
DOLLY PARTON
Dolly Parton received a tribute of her own immediately before the main In Memoriam sequence. Sally Field, her Steel Magnolias co-star, spoke about Parton as both an artist and a humanitarian. Reba McEntire then performed Parton’s “Appalachian Memories.” Parton’s television legacy was substantial: she hosted her own variety programs, appeared widely on television, co-founded Sandollar Productions — whose television work included Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel — and won an Emmy in 2021 as an executive producer of Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square.
CATHERINE O’HARA
Catherine O’Hara was given the opening personal tribute inside the In Memoriam portion. Macaulay Culkin, Annie Murphy and Dan Levy — performers who had played her children in Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek — remembered her warmth, comic instinct, generosity and willingness to experiment. Their tribute flowed into Noah Kahan’s performance as the memorial montage began. O’Hara’s television career stretched from SCTV to her Emmy-winning Moira Rose on Schitt’s Creek and later work including The Studio.
JAMES BURROWS
James Burrows appeared at the end of the principal montage and was specifically acknowledged by Jamie Lee Curtis before she turned to the final tribute to Rob Reiner. Burrows was one of the defining directors of American television comedy, with a career spanning more than a thousand episodes and landmark series including Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends and Will & Grace.
ROB REINER — AND MICHELE SINGER REINER
Jamie Lee Curtis closed the memorial portion with an emotional tribute to Rob Reiner and also acknowledged his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. Curtis recalled Reiner as a friend, colleague and enduring television figure, and pointed to the posthumous Emmy he had won days earlier for his guest performance on The Bear. That award came 48 years after his previous acting Emmy, a record span between acting Emmy wins. Reiner’s television legacy began most famously with Michael “Meathead” Stivic on All in the Family, before a major directing and producing career in film and television.
THE SEPTEMBER 14 TELECAST
MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
ALL THE PEOPLE REMEMBERED
The following people were shown or verbally acknowledged in the Emmy telecast’s memorial material. It combines the individualized tributes with the names reported from the on-air In Memoriam montage.
- Dolly Parton — performer, songwriter, producer and Emmy winner
- Catherine O’Hara — actor and comedy legend
- James Van Der Beek — actor
- Anthony Geary — actor
- Isiah Whitlock Jr. — actor
- Demond Wilson — actor
- June Lockhart — actor
- Anthony Head — actor
- Diane Ladd — actor
- Sid Krofft — television producer and puppeteer
- Ted Turner — media entrepreneur and television executive
- Patricia Crowley — actor
- Eric Dane — actor
- Hayden Panettiere — actor and singer
- Louise Lasser — actor
- T.K. Carter — actor
- Robert Duvall — actor
- Robert Carradine — actor
- Vincent Pastore — actor
- Maria Riva — actor and author
- Randolph Mantooth — actor
- Jon Cypher — actor
- Gene Shalit — film and television critic
- Cleto Escobedo III — musician, longtime Jimmy Kimmel Live! bandleader
- Sam Neill — actor
- Hal Williams — actor
- Tim Curry — actor and performer
- Shelley Fabares — actor and singer
- Bob Mackie — costume and fashion designer
- James Burrows — television director and producer
- Rob Reiner — actor, director and producer
- Michele Singer Reiner — photographer and producer; acknowledged with her husband Rob Reiner
Note: The Television Academy also published a separate, much longer online In Memoriam video containing hundreds of television colleagues who died during the year. That expanded online memorial is not the same list as the names shown during the three-hour NBC/Peacock telecast.
Sources:
Television Academy — 78th Emmy Awards Winners Announced
Television Academy — 78th Emmys In Memoriam
People — Dolly Parton Emmy tribute
People — Catherine O’Hara Emmy tribute
People — Rob Reiner Emmy tribute
TV Insider via AOL — on-air In Memoriam names
Labels: Burrows, Catherine O'Hara, Dolly Parton, Jams, Memoriam 2026 EMMYS, Rob & Michele Reiner
Wednesday, September 02, 2026
VENICE IMMERSIVE 2026
The Venice Film Festival for many years has been one of the most exciting showplaces for displaying the current state of immersive theater and video. This year seems to be one of most fully developed showcases yet, in terms of its scope and the sophistication of the presentations.
There is a strong overlap between XR in a 3D headset and XR Live in immersive theater!
I have not been to Venice myself, and I am not going this year, so I asked Open AI ChatGPT to check what it can find out about this year's presentations from announcements, program listings and other sources. The report it came back with is interesting enough to share in its entirety. (AI does make mistakes, and I have no way to check everything it says.) In the following report Chat GPT refers to itself as "I"!
So this is an AI-Witness account of a Venice Immersive preview!
There are a few particularly interesting Venice Immersive items this year!
The timing is useful: September 1, was the press/industry preview, while the public Venice Immersive program begins September 2. So we are just at the point where actual eyewitness reports should start replacing promotional descriptions. Venice has 68 immersive projects from 26 countries, including 30 in competition; 22 of those are world premieres. (La Biennale di Venezia)
The projects I would watch most closely
|
Project |
Why it looks unusually interesting |
|
Bowie: Unseen | Unheard |
This is already producing actual news from today's
preview. It builds an immersive audiovisual environment from 800+
photographs of David Bowie, including unseen/rare images by his longtime
tour photographer Denis O'Regan, combined with Bowie audio, O'Regan's
recollections and a 60-speaker L-Acoustics L-ISA spatial-audio system.
ANSA reported from today's press presentation, so this is no longer just an
announcement. (Corriere
della Sera) |
|
Nevatars — Andy Serkis / Google |
Potentially one of the most technologically consequential
works. It's directed by Andy Serkis and Josh Nelson Youssef and
produced by Serkis's Imaginarium, Boona, Google's 100 Zeros, and 3Dar.
Rather than conventional headset cinema, it's a mixed-reality story in
which characters occupy the viewer's physical room. The cast includes
Daisy Ridley, Josh Gad, Kathleen Turner, Kelly Marie Tran and Serkis. It is
explicitly about human creativity in an era when image generation has become
easy—so there is an AI subtext as well as an XR one. (La Biennale di Venezia) |
|
Galapagos: The Last Eden |
Technically fascinating: Anthony Geffen says the Galápagos
were captured in 16K 3D. The viewer can interact with animals and
apparently converse with Charles Darwin inside the experience. Margot
Robbie narrates. This is worth watching partly as a test of how far
ultra-high-resolution stereoscopic capture plus interactive XR has
progressed. (La Biennale di
Venezia) |
|
Empire at Sea |
This one is especially relevant to the 4D/volumetric-video
questions we've discussed. It is a mixed-reality/holographic episodic
drama made with 4DV.ai, Flaherty Pictures and NightLight Labs,
commissioned by Lincoln Center. Characters appear holographically in a
solarpunk story about scientists building a sustainable city on an oil rig.
The creators explicitly describe it as using “breakthrough holographic
technology.” (La Biennale di Venezia) |
|
Out of the Ashes |
Nonny de la Peña—the pioneer of immersive journalism—and
Rory Mitchell reconstruct the 2025 Los Angeles fires spatially. Their
production pipeline includes 3D scanning, Gaussian splatting/3DGS and 4DGS,
turning real fire devastation and survivors' stories into an immersive
documentary. That combination of journalism + spatial capture + recent
historical reconstruction makes it one of the projects I'd particularly want
to see. (Venice
Production Bridge) |
|
Solwata |
An unusually sophisticated physical/virtual documentary.
It follows Solomon Islands communities facing relocation from sea-level rise.
Participants move between physical and virtual environments, reach into
real water and handle physical cultural objects while wearing the headset.
It's made by NowHere Media with Human Rights Watch and Agog and narrated by
Mark Ruffalo. (Human
Rights Watch) |
|
Smithsonian Starstruck |
A large-scale free-roaming VR astronomy experience
built from actual Smithsonian/NASA/ESA astronomical data. Instead of
merely presenting rendered space imagery, it turns scientific datasets into
navigable 3D space. There's also a dedicated September 6 technical/creative
presentation with the director, Smithsonian astrophysicist Randall Smith and
the development lead. (Smithsonian
Folklife Festival) |
|
Disneynature's Wolf |
Disney/Silverback are using immersive filmmaking to place
the viewer alongside filmmakers interacting with wild Arctic wolves on
Ellesmere Island. This matters because Disney appears to be testing immersive
documentary as a companion format to mainstream Disney+ nature programming
rather than treating XR as an isolated experimental medium. (La
Biennale di Venezia) |
Two politically/documentarily important projects also
deserve attention. Raj'in (We Shall Return) uses 360° cinematography
together with phone and handycam footage shot by Palestinians and activists to
document displacement of Palestinian communities in the West Bank; given the
political focus of this year's larger Venice festival, it could become one of
the most discussed works. (B'Tselem)
Finding Frida, meanwhile, creates a dreamlike VR environment from the
textile work of Norwegian artist Frida Hansen and is the first Norwegian VR
project selected for Venice's official immersive competition. (NFI)
But the conference/program presentations may be almost as
interesting as the experiences
For someone interested in where XR is actually going
technically and commercially, there are several unusually good sessions.
September 3–6: “The Smart Glasses Petting Zoo.” This
is not just a panel. Agog is assembling multiple current smart-glasses
models for hands-on comparison, with experts available to discuss them.
That could produce useful intelligence about whether XR storytelling is really
shifting from enclosed VR headsets toward lighter spatial glasses. (Agog)
September 3: “LBXR eXchange: Unlocking Interoperability.”
This sounds dry, but it addresses one of XR's biggest practical problems:
location-based experiences tend to be one-off systems. UNIVRSE/XRoam and Small
Creative/OnSite are discussing interoperability. If they are proposing a
genuine common deployment layer, that could be significant for distributing
immersive experiences to venues. (Venice Production Bridge)
September 4: 14 unfinished immersive projects pitch for
financing. Venice's Gap-Financing Market presents 14 selected XR
projects publicly before they enter meetings with producers and financiers.
This is often more revealing about where the field will be in 12–24 months than
the finished competition, because these are projects currently looking for
money. (Venice Production Bridge)
September 5: Virtual production + VFX + AI + immersive.
Sony, HAI and EDI are doing a session specifically on the convergence of virtual
production, VFX, AI, production design and immersive experiences. That is
probably the program session I would watch most carefully for AI/XR production
developments. (Venice Production Bridge)
September 6: Canon on spatial video. Canon's “Created
Different, an Immersive Future” presents case studies in VR and
spatial-video documentary production, including the actual creative and
technical production choices. Given Canon's camera/lens involvement in
stereoscopic VR capture, this could contain useful production information
rather than just theory. (Venice
Production Bridge)
September 6: Smithsonian Starstruck technical panel.
This one should get into how the project converts real astronomical data into a
commercially deployable free-roam VR experience. (Venice
Production Bridge)
And one business session may be surprisingly important: “Beyond
Technology: Immersive Experiences as a Global Cultural Market,” September 7.
Its argument is that immersive has become a market spanning VR, performance,
museums, food, festivals, hybrid venues, brands and AI—and that the European
model is becoming distinctly different from Silicon Valley's individual,
at-home headset model. That is very close to the underlying question of whether
XR can become a sustainable media/venue business rather than simply a
hardware category. (Venice
Production Bridge)
What I think is the real 2026 Venice Immersive story:
I'm seeing three trends in the program that are more
interesting than “here are some new VR movies.”
First, the headset is no longer the medium. Venice is
mixing VR headsets, XR glasses, smart glasses, mixed reality, free-roam spaces,
physical props, volumetric/holographic performers, spatial audio and live
experiences. Venice itself now explicitly defines the section as encompassing
immersive video, VR/MR, virtual worlds and installations. (La
Biennale di Venezia)
Second, captured reality is getting much richer: 16K
stereoscopic nature footage in Galapagos; spatial reconstruction and
Gaussian splatting in Out of the Ashes; volumetric/holographic actors in
Empire at Sea; real astronomical datasets in Starstruck. Those
are substantially different approaches to the same problem: how do we put
reality—not merely CGI—into navigable 3D space?
Third, large institutions are moving in: Google,
Disney, Smithsonian, Lincoln Center, Canon, Sony, Human Rights Watch and major
entertainment talent are all represented. That's a stronger industrial signal
than another collection of experimental Quest projects.
Labels: immersive theater, Venice Immersive, Venice International Film Festival, XR
Sunday, August 16, 2026
THE EMMYS 2026
2026 EMMY NOMINATIONS
NBC & PEACOCK
SEPTEMBER 14, 2026
5:00 PM (CA - PT) / 8:00 PM (NY - ET)
HOSTED BY MARISKA HARGITAY
EDITORIAL CARTOON by QPORIT & CHATGPT
The
78th Emmy Awards will air Monday, September 14, at 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM
PT on NBC (and streamed on Peacock). Emmy-winning Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit star Mariska Hargitay will host the three-hour ceremony
from the Peacock Theater at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles.
This
year’s nominations mix Emmy favorites with an unusually large collection of new
programs and first-time nominees. There are also 28 first-time performer
nominees this year.
The
Pitt leads all programs with 25 nominations, while Hacks has 24,
setting a new record for the most nominations received by a comedy in a single
year. Beef leads the Limited/Anthology field with 16 nominations; Saturday
Night Live leads Variety with 11; and RuPaul’s Drag Race leads
Nonfiction/Reality programs with nine.
Among
the performers competing are Noah Wyle, Gary Oldman, Sterling K. Brown, Jean
Smart, Harrison Ford, Zendaya, Keri Russell, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sally Field,
Lisa Kudrow, Steve Carell, Oscar Isaac, Sarah Snook, Ayo Edebiri, Quinta
Brunson, Martin Short and Rhea Seehorn.
THE OTHER EMMYS
The September 14
NBC/Peacock telecast will present 19 competitive categories. But most
of the Emmys are actually presented earlier during the Creative Arts Emmy
Awards on Saturday, September 5 and Sunday, September 6.
Several
categories viewers might expect to be part of the main broadcast, will instead be
part of the Creative Arts ceremonies, including Supporting Actor and
Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, Directing for a
Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series
or Movie, and Writing for a Variety Series.
The Creative Arts
ceremonies also encompass guest acting, animation, television movies,
cinematography, editing, casting, costumes, makeup, music, sound, visual
effects, stunts and many other production and craft awards.
THE 2026 EMMY
NOMINATIONS
(Where
available, we’ve included a link to a show’s home page!)
SERIES
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY — ABC
/ Hulu
THE BEAR — FX / Hulu
HACKS — HBO Max
MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES — Apple TV
NOBODY WANTS THIS — Netflix
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING — Hulu
SHRINKING — Apple TV
WIDOW’S BAY — Apple TV
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
THE DIPLOMAT — Netflix
THE GILDED AGE — HBO Max
A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS — HBO Max
PARADISE — Hulu
THE PITT — HBO Max
PLURIBUS — Apple TV
SLOW HORSES — Apple TV
YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS
— Apple TV
OUTSTANDING LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY
SERIES
ALL HER FAULT
— Peacock
THE BEAST IN ME — Netflix
BEEF — Netflix
DTF ST. LOUIS — HBO Max
LOVE STORY:
JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. & CAROLYN BESSETTE — FX / Hulu
ACTING — COMEDY
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A
COMEDY SERIES
YAHYA
ABDUL-MATEEN II — Wonder Man — Disney+
STEVE CARELL
— Rooster
— HBO Max
MATTHEW RHYS
— Widow’s
Bay
— Apple TV
JASON SEGEL
— Shrinking
— Apple TV
MARTIN SHORT
— Only
Murders in the Building
— Hulu
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A
COMEDY SERIES
QUINTA BRUNSON
— Abbott Elementary — ABC / Hulu
AYO EDEBIRI
— The Bear — FX / Hulu
ELLE FANNING
— Margo’s
Got Money Troubles
— Apple TV
LISA KUDROW
— The
Comeback
— HBO Max
JEAN SMART
— Hacks
— HBO Max
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A
COMEDY SERIES
COLMAN DOMINGO
— The Four Seasons — Netflix
PAUL W. DOWNS
— Hacks
— HBO Max
HARRISON FORD
— Shrinking
— Apple TV
NICK OFFERMAN
— Margo’s
Got Money Troubles
— Apple TV
STEPHEN ROOT
— Widow’s
Bay
— Apple TV
MICHAEL URIE
— Shrinking
— Apple TV
TYLER JAMES
WILLIAMS — Abbott Elementary — ABC / Hulu
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN
A COMEDY SERIES
DALE DICKEY
— Widow’s
Bay
— Apple TV
HANNAH
EINBINDER — Hacks
— HBO Max
JANELLE JAMES
— Abbott Elementary — ABC / Hulu
KATE O’FLYNN
— Widow’s
Bay
— Apple TV
MICHELLE
PFEIFFER — Margo’s
Got Money Troubles
— Apple TV
MEGAN STALTER
— Hacks
— HBO Max
JESSICA
WILLIAMS — Shrinking
— Apple TV
ACTING — DRAMA
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
SERIES
STERLING K.
BROWN — Paradise
— Hulu
GARY OLDMAN
— Slow
Horses
— Apple TV
MARK RUFFALO
— Task
— HBO Max
RUFUS SEWELL
— The
Diplomat
— Netflix
NOAH WYLE
— The
Pitt
— HBO Max
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A
DRAMA SERIES
CARRIE COON
— The
Gilded Age
— HBO Max
CHASE INFINITI
— The Testaments — Hulu
KERI RUSSELL
— The
Diplomat
— Netflix
RHEA SEEHORN
— Pluribus
— Apple TV
ZENDAYA — Euphoria
— HBO Max
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A
DRAMA SERIES
PATRICK BALL
— The
Pitt
— HBO Max
BILLY CRUDUP
— The
Morning Show
— Apple TV
SHAWN HATOSY
— The
Pitt
— HBO Max
GERRAN HOWELL
— The
Pitt
— HBO Max
JACK LOWDEN
— Slow
Horses
— Apple TV
TOM PELPHREY
— Task
— HBO Max
CARLOS-MANUEL
VESGA — Pluribus
— Apple TV
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN
A DRAMA SERIES
TAYLOR DEARDEN
— The
Pitt
— HBO Max
FIONA DOURIF
— The
Pitt
— HBO Max
ALLISON JANNEY
— The
Diplomat
— Netflix
KATHERINE
LANASA — The
Pitt
— HBO Max
SEPIDEH MOAFI
— The
Pitt
— HBO Max
JULIANNE
NICHOLSON — Paradise
— Hulu
KAROLINA WYDRA
— Pluribus
— Apple TV
ACTING — LIMITED OR
ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR
RIZ AHMED — Bait — Prime
Video
JASON BATEMAN — Black
Rabbit — Netflix
CHARLIE HUNNAM — Monster:
The Ed Gein Story — Netflix
OSCAR ISAAC — Beef —
Netflix
MATTHEW RHYS — The Beast in Me — Netflix
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS
CLAIRE DANES — The Beast in Me — Netflix
SALLY FIELD — Remarkably
Bright Creatures — Netflix
CAREY MULLIGAN — Beef —
Netflix
SARAH PIDGEON — Love
Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette — FX / Hulu
SARAH SNOOK — All Her
Fault — Peacock
WRITING AND DIRECTING
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A
COMEDY SERIES
RANDALL
EINHORN — Abbott Elementary — ABC / Hulu — “Ballgame”
CHRISTOPHER
STORER — The Bear — FX / Hulu — “Bears”
ANDREW DEYOUNG
— The Chair Company — HBO Max — “Life Goes By Too F**king Fast, It
Really Does.”
LUCIA ANIELLO — Hacks — HBO Max — “Hacks (Finale)”
MARY LOU BELLI
— The Ms. Pat Show — BET+ — “Give It Arrest”
HIRO MURAI
— Widow’s
Bay
— Apple TV — “Welcome to Widow’s Bay!”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA
SERIES
SALLI
RICHARDSON-WHITFIELD — The
Gilded Age
— HBO Max — “My Mind Is Made Up”
HANELLE M. CULPEPPER — Paradise — Hulu — “Exodus”
NOAH WYLE
— The
Pitt
— HBO Max — “12:00 P.M.”
VINCE GILLIGAN
— Pluribus
— Apple TV — “We Is Us”
SAUL METZSTEIN
— Slow
Horses
— Apple TV — “Scars”
SALLI
RICHARDSON-WHITFIELD — Task
— HBO Max — “Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing, There Is a
River.”
OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A COMEDY
SERIES
QUINTA BRUNSON
— Abbott Elementary — ABC / Hulu — “Team Building”
TIM ROBINSON
& ZACH KANIN — The Chair Company — HBO Max — “Life Goes By Too
F**king Fast, It Really Does.”
MICHAEL PATRICK
KING & LISA KUDROW — The
Comeback
— HBO Max — “Valerie Does It All”
LUCIA ANIELLO,
PAUL W. DOWNS & JEN STATSKY — Hacks
— HBO Max — “Hacks (Finale)”
ANTHONY KING
— Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat — Prime Video — “Mergers and
Acquisitions”
KATIE DIPPOLD
— Widow’s
Bay
— Apple TV — “Welcome to Widow’s Bay!”
OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A DRAMA
SERIES
PETER ACKERMAN
& DEBORA CAHN — The
Diplomat
— Netflix — “Amagansett”
KIRSTEN
PIERRE-GEYFMAN & R. SCOTT GEMMILL — The
Pitt
— HBO Max — “1:00 P.M.”
VALERIE CHU
— The
Pitt
— HBO Max — “12:00 P.M.”
VINCE GILLIGAN
— Pluribus
— Apple TV — “We Is Us”
WILL SMITH —
Slow
Horses
— Apple TV — “Scars”
BRAD INGELSBY
— Task
— HBO Max — “A Still Small Voice”
VARIETY
OUTSTANDING
VARIETY SERIES
THE DAILY SHOW — Comedy
Central
JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! — ABC
LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER — HBO
Max
THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT — CBS
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE — NBC
REALITY
OUTSTANDING REALITY COMPETITION
PROGRAM
DANCING WITH
THE STARS — ABC / Disney+
RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE — MTV
SURVIVOR — CBS
TOP CHEF — Bravo
THE TRAITORS — Peacock
THE 78TH EMMY
AWARDS
Monday, September 14, 2026
8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT
NBC / Peacock
Hosted by Mariska Hargitay
https://www.televisionacademy.com/
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