And that's a wrap
And with that, a long, awards-filled night – with a few surprises – comes to a close. Eugene and Dan Levy were warm, if mostly off-stage, hosts, buoying a ceremony that once again banked on nostalgic TV reunions – Happy Days, The West Wing – and celebrations of TV history, from TV villains to dads.
It was a big night for FX, which picked up four awards for Shōgun – the first non-English language show to win best drama, and the most awarded single season of all time – as well as five awards for the second season of The Bear. There seemed to be a slight rebuke of the high-octane restaurant show, however; after basically sweeping the comedy awards in January, the show – not really a comedy, as everyone including the Levys pointed out – lost best comedy and writing to Max’s true comedy, Hacks.
The other main victor of the night was Baby Reindeer, Netflix’s surprise hit based on Scottish comedian Richard Gadd’s real-life experience with stalking and sexual assault. Gadd delivered not one but three of the night’s sweet, appreciative and inspiring speeches, calling on the contracting TV industry to keep taking risks. Bob Iger, take note!
That’s it from us – hopefully we’ll all have a full year to recover before the next Emmys. Thanks for joining us for TV’s biggest night!
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And my colleague Benjamin Lee has a full summary of tonight’s events (and many, many awards):
For the fashion-minded, here’s the Emmys red carpet in photos:
Here’s the full list of tonight’s winners:
I’d be remiss not to mention the nostalgic cast reunions this evening: Ron Howard and Henry Winkler from Happy Days; Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Seth Meyers and Bowen Yang from Saturday Night Live; and five members of the West Wing – Martin Sheen, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney and Richard Schiff.
And there were also nods to prominent TV tropes: TV dads, wives, lawyers, cops and doctors (including … Mindy Kaling?).
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WINNER: Hacks – best comedy series
Well this is unexpected! Hacks unseats The Bear as the reigning best comedy series, to the surprise and emotional delight of creators/writers Jen Statsky, Lucia Aniello and Paul W Downs.
Downs noted that it was difficult to sell a show where one protagonist – the indefatigable Jean Smart – is over age 60. “About 20% of our population is over 60 plus, and they are only 3% of TV characters,” he said, calling for more because “while I am a great young supporting actor, I really want to be a great old lead.”
Co-writer (and wife) Aniello celebrated comedy’s ability to “bridge divides” and “speak truth to power”, then signed off quick because “we start shooting the new season in five days!”
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WINNER: Shōgun – best drama series
And one final award – for best drama series, the first ever to a non-English language show! – gives Shōgun 18 total Emmys this year (14 at the Creative Arts Emmys, 4 tonight), the most for any single season of TV in history.
Show co-creator Justin Marks thanks FX and Disney for believing in a mostly Japanese-language show whose climax is a poetry competition – not necessarily the most intuitive business choice. And Hiroyuki Sanada spoke in Japanese, expressing “deepest gratitude” (as translated by Marks) for the casts and crews of the greatest samurai dramas from the past until now.
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WINNER: Anna Sawai (Shōgun) – lead actress in a drama series
Yes!!!! Anna Sawai’s mesmerizing, inscrutable Lady Mariko is my TV character of the year, and she is rightly awarded the best drama actress Emmy, in tears before she even reaches the stage.
“I was crying before my name was announced, I’m a mess today,” the New Zealand-born Japanese actress said. She thanked FX for “the role of a lifetime”, the show’s cast and crew, co-star Hiroyuki Sanada for opening doors for Asian actors, and her mother: “You are the reason I’m here, you showed me stoicism and that’s how I was able to play Mariko.”
And she dedicated the award to “all the women who expect nothing and continue to be an example for everyone”.
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WINNER: Hiroyuki Sanada (Shōgun) – lead actor in a drama series
Not as a big of a night for Shōgun as expected, but still, a first and very deserved Emmy for Hiroyuki Sanada, a huge star in his native country Japan, for his starring role as the honorable and scheming Lord Toranaga.
“I’m beyond honored to be here with these amazing nominees,” he said, thanking the FX show’s global cast and crew. “It was an East meets West dream project with respect, and Shōgun taught me that when people work together, we can make miracles. We can create a better future together.”
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WINNER: Baby Reindeer – best limited or anthology series
No surprise here – Baby Reindeer is the big winner tonight for limited series, rushing Richard Gadd back to the stage. “This is unbelievable,” he said.
For his final speech of the night, Gadd called on producers, networks and streamers to keep taking risks, even in the current industry contraction. “No slump is ever broken without a willingness to take risks,” he said.
“The only constant across any success in television is good storytelling,” he concluded, urging producers to “dare to fail in order to achieve.”
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WINNER: Jodie Foster (True Detective: Night Country) – lead actress in a limited or anthology series
Jodie Foster is the somewhat expected best actress in a limited series for her captivating turn in True Detective’s return – “a magical experience, and it all comes from the top”, she said, praising showrunner Issa Lopez.
Foster also thanked the show’s Icelandic crew and costar Kali Reis, as well as the Indigenous Aleut and Inuit people of northern Alaska, who “just told us our stories, and they allowed us to listen, and that’s just a blessing”.
Such communication and respect was “deep and wonderful, and it’s older than this place and this time”, she added.
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WINNER: Richard Gadd (Baby Reindeer) – lead actor in a limited or anthology series
Another win for Baby Reindeer! And somewhat of a surprise, to Gadd as well. “You’re all crazy honestly,” he said. So he thanked all the omissions from his prior speech, including Jon Hamm: “I’m your biggest fgan, as I told you over and over last night.”
And more importantly, his parents “a glaring omission from the previous one as well … The thing I’m most grateful for is that they never, ever told me what to do with my life.”
And he parted with his parents’ advice: “Follow your heart and the rest will fall into place.”
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And as an addendum to the in memoriam segment, Jimmy Kimmel made a special mention of the late comedy icon and sitcom star Bob Newhart, who died at age 94 in July.
The former accountant turned pioneering stand-up, star of The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart (and, to younger audiences, the Christmas film Elf), was “one of our most loved and funniest people for over 60 years, and we will miss him for many years to come”, said Kimmel.
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Breakout country singer Jelly Roll, known for his emotional anthems on enduring hard times, is here for the in memoriam segment, to honor the “storytellers we lost this year”.
“If you are feeling lost and alone tonight, I just want you to know that it’s OK to not be OK,” he said before singing his track I Am Not Okay over a montage of those lost this year, including Bob Newhart, Donald Sutherland and Gena Rowlands. RIP.
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Joshua Jackson and Matt Bomer presented tonight’s Governors award – the Emmys lifetime achievement honor – to prolific TV producer Greg Berlanti, creator of Brothers and Sisters, Everwood, The Flash, Supergirl, The Flight Attendant, You, Riverdale and many other series.
Besides producing most of the CW, “he’s also one of the good guys,” said Bomer, noting that Berlanti introduced the first gay kiss in primetime, on Dawson’s Creek in 2000.
Berlanti, who started out on that beloved teen soap, remembered growing up as a television-obsessed, closeted gay kid, encouraged by his late mother. He shouted out “all the people, like my mom, whose shoulders I rode in on tonight” – teachers, friends, actors, crews and fellow writers.
“To have traveled that distance from that scared kid years ago to this stage with my husband in the audience and our two kids at home … it’s unimaginable to me,” he concluded in an emotional speech that got a standing ovation.
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WINNER: Frederick EO Toye (Shōgun) – directing for a drama series
The first win tonight for Shōgun! A worthy best directing win for Frederick EO Toye, who honored his heroes: “David Lean, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, Robert Wise … thanks for letting me steal from them every day.”
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John Leguizamo gets a lot of time to point out the many, many blindspots the Emmys have long-held, on top of TV’s slow acceptance of truly diverse characters. “I used to watch Star Trek and think Latinos weren’t going to be in the future!” he joked. “At least the food would suck.”
“Turns out not complaining doesn’t change anything,” he said. “So for the past few years, I’ve been complaining,” including a full-page ad in the New York Times calling on Emmy voters to recognize more non-white talent.
And it worked! Well, somewhat – he acknowledged tonight has among the most diverse list of nominees in Emmy history, before introducing the first Hispanic chair of the Television Academy, Cris Abrego.
“You can’t win Emmys for roles that do not exist,” said Abrego, providing the standard, if sincere, promise to support more diverse storytelling. “The Academy is committed to supporting an industry that represents the diversity of its audience.”
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In case you missed it, here’s the Levys’ full opening monologue, including that lighthearted (but true) jab about The Bear:
"Welcome everybody to the 76th Emmy Awards — also known as broadcast TV's biggest night for honoring movie stars on streaming services."
— ABC News (@ABC) September 16, 2024
Eugene and Dan Levy kicked off the #Emmys with a few jokes and by introducing some of the night's nominees. https://t.co/miI9p0ct2q pic.twitter.com/xAT8As4umb
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WINNER: Christopher Storer (The Bear) – directing for a comedy series
The second writing Emmy in a row for Christopher Storer, as The Bear continues to win most (but not all) of the comedy awards for it superior second season (we’re not talking about the third!).
Storer dedicated the award to the crew: “I think we’ve been able to do this for a few years now, and we all know how lucky we are to get to do this.”
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WINNER: Richard Gadd (Baby Reindeer) – writing for a limited or anthology series
The first Emmy win for the writer and star for Baby Reindeer, a tough series based on Gadd’s own experiences. “This is the stuff of dreams,” he said, before recounting how far he had come since he experienced what would become the material for Baby Reindeer: “Ten years ago, I was down and out, right?” he said. “I never, ever thought I’d get my life together … I never thought I would be able to rectify what had happened to me and get myself back on my feet again.”
Now with an Emmy, “I don’t mean that to sound arrogant. I say that as encouragement for anyone going through a tough time right now,” he said. “Now matter how bad it gets, it always gets better. If you’re struggling, keep going. Keep going, and I promise things will be OK.”
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WINNER: Will Smith (Slow Horses) – writing for a drama series
Another surprise, in what many expected to go to Shōgun – former Veep producer Will Smith wins for slow-rolling hit Slow Horses. “Relax,” he said, “despite my name, I come in peace.” And indeed, he thanks Gary Oldman and the rest of the cast for “making the writing the best it can be”.
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WINNER: Lamorne Morris (Fargo) – supporting actor in a limited or anthology series
Well, this is a surprise! And Lamorne Morris seemed joyously flustered to win for Fargo, scrambling to thank everyone, including Robert Downey Jr – “I’ve got a poster of you at my house! Please sign it.”
Ultimately, he concluded: “I’ll do another thing on my podcast and thank the rest of the people that I forgot to thank.”
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WINNER: The Daily Show – best talk series
One night a week of Jon Stewart and John Oliver’s new category is enough to get the Daily Show another Emmy, after a win in January for Trevor Noah’s final year.
“You’ve made an old man very happy,” Stewart said, accepting on behalf of a roster of correspondent co-hosts. He also took a moment to introduce the Emmys to Jennifer Flanz, the Daily Show’s executive producer for fifteen years, who started out as a production assistant in 1998 (!).
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WINNER: Lucia Aniello, Paul W Downs and Jen Statsky (Hacks) – writing for a comedy series
No Bear sweep here – the trio behind Hacks wins their second writing award for the show. “We make a show about comedy because as three weird lonely kids, it was the thing that connected us to other people,” said Downs. Or, as corrected by his co-writers: “It made one lonely weirdo and two semi-popular girls feel connected to other people.”
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The best presenter bit of the night so far goes to Seth Meyers, Bowen Yang, Kristen Wiig and especially to Maya Rudolph, for their riff on Lorne Michaels’ many Emmy losses:
#SNL stars Maya Rudolph, Seth Meyers, Kristen Wiig and Bowen Yang present at the 2024 #Emmys pic.twitter.com/dnQ7rWK1OX
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 16, 2024
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WINNER: Steven Zaillian (Ripley) – directing for a limited or anthology series
The first win tonight for Ripley, which did look splendid. “The work is its own reward,” said Zaillian – especially when the work is in Italy. “I still really appreciate this honor, though.”
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WINNER: Alex Edelman (Just For Us) – writing for a variety special
Comedian Alex Edelman gives a sweet speech for his first Emmy – “crying in front of Carol Burnett, great” – and acknowledging his late writing partner.
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WINNER: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – best scripted variety series
Different category (scripted variety versus best variety), same result: for the ninth consecutive year, Last Week Tonight wins an Emmy, and John Oliver uses the occasion to add a special shout to his late dog, who guided his family through the pandemic and two pregnancies.
“Perfect choice of music, we had to say goodbye to her,” he said, in the night’s quirkiest (but sweet) speech so far. “I feel like Sarah McLaughlin. She was an amazing dog. This isn’t just for her, this is for all dogs!”
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Here’s Liza Colón-Zayas’s full speech, urging Latinas to vote for their rights:
#TheBear star Liza Colón-Zayas, the first Latina #Emmy winner for best supporting actress in a comedy series, urges "all the Latinas who are looking at me: Keep believing, and vote. Vote for your rights." https://t.co/3itGkRBc7U pic.twitter.com/UpdiWXneMM
— Variety (@Variety) September 16, 2024
WINNER: Jessica Gunning (Baby Reindeer) – supporting actress in a limited series
No surprise here – Jessica Gunning wins her first Emmy for her deeply unnerving performance as a stalker in Netflix’s hit Baby Reindeer.
Many thanks, of course, the biggest of which goes to creator and star Richard Gadd. “I’ve tried so many times to put into words what Baby Reindeer means to me, so I’m going to sing,” she said. Just kidding – “but could you imagine?”
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WINNER: The Traitors – best reality or competition program
Host Alan Cumming accepts the award for best competition show, the first time in four years that RuPaul’s Drag Race didn’t win.
Cumming thanked his homeland of Scotland – “I owe it everything, and it’s such a beautiful co-star” – and, interestingly, Holland, where The Traitors and other reality shows were first made up. “They obviously have something in the water,” he said, “so let’s find it, let’s drink it, and all of America’s problems will be solved!”
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Reservation Dogs star D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai used his first Emmy nomination (a shame! It’s one of the best shows on TV!) to make a statement on the red carpet: a symbolic red painted hand on his face nodded to the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
#ReservationDogs' D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai hits the 76th #Emmys red carpet pic.twitter.com/gCzGeAsVp9
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 15, 2024
According to the organization Native Hope, the painted hand symbolizes “all the missing sisters whose voices are not heard” and “the silence of the media and law enforcement in the midst of this crisis”.
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WINNER: Jean Smart (Hacks) – lead actress in a comedy series
Woohoo, a deserved third win for Jean Smart for her role in actual comedy Hacks (she also won in 2021 and 2022). “I appreciate this because I just don’t get enough attention,” she joked.
To showrunner Lucia Aniello, Paul W Downs and Jen Statsky: “I will never be able to thank you enough for thinking of me for this incredible role,” she said, along with a bit about the HBO/HBO Max/Max naming debacle.
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WINNER: Elizabeth Debicki (The Crown) – supporting actress in a drama series
The Crown has been off the awards circuit for a bit, but the Academy still rewards Elizabeth Debicki for playing the one and only Princess Diana in her final years. “Playing this part based on this unparalleled, incredible human being has been my great privilege,” she said, near tears. “It has been a gift.”
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WINNER: Liza Colón-Zayas (The Bear) – supporting actress in a comedy series
More wins for The Bear! A first career win for Liza Colón-Zayas for fan favorite character Tina.
Clearly emotional, she thanks her husband for encouraging her to write a speech, even though she didn’t – “how could I have thought it would be possible to be in the presence of [fellow nominees] Meryl Streep and Carol Burnett and Sheryl Lee Ralph?”
And “to all the Latinas who are looking at me – keep believing and vote,” she urged. “Vote for your rights.”
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WINNER: Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) – lead actor in a comedy series
Here we go again – The Bear is 2 for 2 on the comedy awards so far, with another win for Jeremy Allen White and his beautifully tortured chef character, Carmy Berzatto.
White cheered his “beautiful cast” – “I love you forever, I love to work with you, and I want us to be in each other’s lives forever – and The Bear itself. “This show has changed my life,” he continued, “and instilled my faith that change is possible, that change is possible if you are able to reach out. You are never truly actually alone.”
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WINNER: Billy Crudup (The Morning Show) – supporting actor in a drama series
A slightly unexpected win for The Morning Show! Though Crudup has won this once before, in 2020, for his “chaos is the new cocaine” TV exec Cory Ellison. He sweetly shouts out “that piece of eye candy there” – his wife, Naomi Watts – “who also happens to be an immigrant” and thanks “the writers and the educators who allowed me to write beyond my level”.
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WINNER: Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear) – supporting actor in a comedy series
Cousin Ritchie! The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach deservedly wins again for best supporting actor in a comedy series – the Bear may not be a comedy, but Cousin Ritchie is the irascible, foul-mouthed, bittersweet heart of season two. “I’m so grateful for this show and to work with these beautiful people,” he said.
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And we're off!
It’s showtime! Father-son hosts Eugene and Dan Levy have taken the stage to kick off the 76th Emmy Awards, “also known as broadcast tv’s biggest night for honoring movie stars on streaming services”, they joked.
The former Schitt’s Creek stars admitted they were not really hosts, more like “actors acting like hosts, which is a huge gamble for us”, said Dan. “And if things go south, my name is pronounced Martin Short,” Eugene quipped.
The hosts took time to praise Shōgun, already the most awarded show for a single season in Emmy history, and took jabs at comedy juggernaut The Bear for, famously, not being a comedy.
“I love the show, and I know some of you might be expecting us to make a joke about whether The Bear is really a comedy,” said Eugene. “But in the true spirit of The Bear, we will not be making any jokes.”
The Levys also (jokingly) begged the winners to keep the speeches short, because as Dan said: “In what can only be described as a cruel joke, two Canadians have been put in charge of playing you off tonight.”
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Apple TV+’s The Morning Show is still a mess, but it does have arguably the most star-studded cast for a red carpet:
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Outside the red carpet, a group of pro-Palestinian protesters has gathered to bring attention to Israel’s ongoing killing in Gaza. Read one protester’s sign: “No justifying the murder of children.”
Fewer pins or other outward signs of Palestinian support as on past red carpets, though there are still a few – Reservation Dogs actor Dallas Goldtooth wore a red Artists4Ceasefire pin.
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The cast of The Bear is here – let it rip!
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Baby Reindeer, a deeply unsettling tale of stalking that is the favorite for best limited series tonight, has been a much-needed boon for Netflix, though not without controversy. Fiona Harvey, the woman who claims to be the inspiration for Jessica Gunning’s Martha, has filed a $170m lawsuit against Netflix, claiming defamation, negligence and emotional distress.
Though it never explicitly links her to Martha, Harvey claims that the show, which Netflix bills as a “true story”, exaggerates her relationship with writer-star Richard Gadd, and denies sending him 41,000 emails, hundreds of voice messages and 106 letters. Gadd, for his part, filed a court document detailing Harvey’s alleged “stalking, harassment, abuse and threats” between 2014 and 2017, which inspired his comedy show and later the series.
Not that the legal mess will make a difference tonight – Gunning is a favorite for supporting actress, while Gadd seems most likely to at least pick up a writing award.
It’s likely to be a big night for the Shõgun cast, who are making their way into the Peacock Theater.
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For the first time, we’re getting two Emmys ceremonies in one year, inarguable overkill but the unavoidable result of last year’s strikes which made a fall Emmys impossible. Here’s a refresher of what happened back in January:
Awards predictions are a fool’s errand, but nevertheless I persisted in attempting to guess who will win (and shouting out who should). TL;DR: it’s going to be a big night for Shōgun and likely another comedy sweep for The Bear.
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The show hasn’t even started, and already Shōgun is the big winner – it broke the record for most Emmys for a single season of TV last week with 14 wins at the Creative Arts Emmys, besting John Adams (13 in 2008) and Game of Thrones (12 in 2015, 2016 and 2019).
Suffice to say, FX’s adaptation of the James Clavell novel is the favorite for best drama, which would make it the first non-English language show to win the night’s biggest award (and the second ever nominated, after Squid Game in 2022). And its nominated stars Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai are the first Japanese nominees in their category; only Heroes’ Masi Oka, nominated for best supporting actor in 2007, has received a nod from the Television Academy.
Taking place just weeks before a rather important election, one might expect some speeches that may nod toward it but producers have confirmed that nothing in their control will be political tonight.
“We are celebrating television, and we are inundated every single day with everything going on around the election and the different opinions. We really want this to be a celebratory night,” executive producer Jeannae Rouzan-Clay said to Deadline. “We’re hoping that everyone will just do the right thing, but we don’t know what people are going to say in their speeches. This is a really important election year that could determine all of our futures. So I wouldn’t be surprised if it came up.”
More arrivals on the red carpet, with just less than an hour before showtime:
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Producers are promising more of the “energy of nostalgia” that we saw in January’s ceremony tonight with some big reunions and a host of cameos. Tonight we’ll see surviving cast members from Happy Days, The West Wing and Saturday Night Live, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary tonight.
For understandable reasons, a Friends reunion has been confirmed not to be part of the evening despite its 30th anniversary while there will also be groups of TV characters on stage such as iconic mums, lawyers, villains and cops.
Selena Gomez is here! The Only Murders in the Building star is riding high with her first solo acting nom for the show’s third season, fresh off a best actress award at Cannes (shared with co-stars Zoe Saldana and Karla Sofía Gascón) for Emilia Pérez.
Only Murders’ nominations tonight also make Gomez, an executive producer, the most-nominated Latina producer for a comedy in Emmy history.
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Is The Bear a comedy? According to the TV academy yes, yes it is. According to the Guardian’s Stuart Heritage (and most of Twitter) no, no it really isn’t:
Trust the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race to serve something interesting on the red carpet – Nymphia Wind sees Princess Poppy’s Green Goblin last year and raises it a cunty banana.
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John Oliver is set to win his gazillionth Emmy tonight for his late night show (deserved) and has been talking the other E-word on the red carpet:
John Oliver on the election: “It’s going to be very, very close. And if Trump loses, he’s not going to accept it, making the fact that it’s going to be that close even more ridiculous.” https://t.co/OwvzFOEqA5 pic.twitter.com/RvevZ0AcRb
— Variety (@Variety) September 15, 2024
As usual, the Emmys splits awards over two ceremonies (a real blessing for those of us tuning in) which means that last weekend at the Creative Arts Emmys, we started to get an idea of which shows the academy seems to be favouring this year.
It was a momentous night for Shōgun, taking home 14 awards, breaking the record for most wins at the pre-Emmys Emmys while there were also acting wins for stars such as Michaela Coel and Jamie Lee Curtis. Here are some of the highlights:
Outstanding guest actor in a comedy series: Jon Bernthal (The Bear)
Outstanding guest actress in a drama series: Michaela Coel (Mr & Mrs Smith)
Outstanding TV movie: Quiz Lady
Outstanding host for a reality or reality competition program: Alan Cumming (The Traitors)
Outstanding guest actress in a comedy series: Jamie Lee Curtis (The Bear)
Outstanding narrator: Angela Bassett (Queens)
Outstanding guest actor in a drama series: Néstor Carbonell (Shōgun)
Outstanding cinematography for a drama series (one hour): Shōgun
Outstanding visual effects in a season or movie: Shōgun
And the red carpet is underway! Here are some of the celeb arrivals so far:
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Tonight’s ceremony will be hosted by Eugene and Dan Levy, the father-son duo whose comedy Schitt’s Creek finally saw some TV academy love for its final season, when it won nine Emmys. Like that show, we can expect a fuzziness from the pair, who have said they will be going for nice over nasty.
In a Los Angeles Times profile, Eugene Levy said: “It’s always hit me in a funny way when jokes are done at the expense of people who are nominated – they’ve put in the work, and it’s their night, really, and you have to have enough respect for the awards show itself. Otherwise, why are we here?”
Dan Levy added: “People, from what I’ve been told, are kind of excited that we’re not hard-edged comics, that there will be a kind of warmth to the room.”
So look forward to three hours of this:
Welcome (back) to the Emmys
No, you’re not hallucinating – the Emmys are back! A mere nine months after the 2023 ceremony, which was held in January, the Emmys return to its usual September slot to celebrate the 2023-2024 season, with a (mostly) new slate of nominees.
The end of Emmys juggernaut Succession (RIP) opens the door for a new drama heavyweight – Shōgun, FX’s ambitious historical epic set in 1600s Japan, enters the night with 25 nominations, the most of any show. With 14 Creative Arts Emmys already, Shōgun competes with The Morning Show, Mr and Mrs Smith, Slow Horses, 3 Body Problem, The Gilded Age, Fallout and former Emmys favorite The Crown.
Another FX production, The Bear, nearly swept the comedy awards in January and leads the category with 23 nominations, despite its dubious record as a comedy. It faces stiff competition in fellow Emmys darling Abbott Elementary, Hacks, Only Murders in the Building, Palm Royale, Reservation Dogs, What We Do in the Shadows and the final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. On the limited series side, HBO’s True Detective: Night Country leads the way with 19 nominations, though buzz is in favor of Netflix’s breakout hit Baby Reindeer.
The night promises plenty of heartfelt speeches and another round of TV nostalgia – stick with us for all the highlights!
