{"id":838091,"date":"2026-09-06T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838091\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:58:10","slug":"octavia-spencer-wins-first-emmy-for-lost-women-of-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838091\/","title":{"rendered":"Octavia Spencer Wins First Emmy For ‘Lost Women Of Alaska’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNorman Lear remains the oldest Emmy winner after Octavia Spencer<\/a> scored a surprise win over Sir David Attenborough<\/a> at the Peacock Theater.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpencer scored her first Emmy in the Outstanding Narrator category for her work on Investigation Discovery<\/a>\u2019s true-crime series Lost Women of Alaska<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe win prevents 100-year-old Attenborough from becoming the oldest Emmy winner ever. Attenborough, who has been on television screens for over 70 years, had a 40% chance of winning the award given that he was nominated twice in the category for his work on Netflix\u2019s A Gorilla Story: Told By David Attenborough and Nat Geo\u2019s Ocean with David Attenborough.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpencer also beat out an A-list crowd including Jodie Foster, nominated for Netflix\u2019s Breakdown: 1975, and Werner Herzog for Nat Geo\u2019s Ghost Elephants.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is her first Emmy, having been previously nominated in 2024 for the same award and in 2020 for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Series or Movie for her role in Self Made: Inspired By The Life of Madam C.J. Walker.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking backstage after the win, Spencer said, \u201cBefore there was an implosion of true-crime networks, there were people like me who [were] interested. True-crime, these things actually happen. I was a consumer who watched for entertainment. There was something always greater to say if I ever had a platform, I would do something. Lost Women was the perfect vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpencer campaigned hard for the award, turning up to plenty of Emmy events. Last month, speaking at Deadline\u2019s Contenders: The Nominees Studio, Spencer said<\/a>, \u201cI think there are a lot of people who are very new to the true-crime genre. I\u2019m not, I\u2019ve been studying it. I read a horrible story, a true-crime story, when I was 11 and I think it made an indelible mark on me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tA Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough (Toby Strong \/ Silverback Films \/ Netflix)<\/p>\n

\n\tThe shock win means that Lear, who won the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) in 2020 as a producer for Live In Front Of A Studio Audience when he was 98, remains the oldest Emmy winner ever.<\/p>\n

\n\tAttenborough will have to be consoled that he is still the oldest nominee in Primetime Emmy history and the oldest person to win a Daytime Emmy for Secret Lives of Orangutans, which won the Outstanding Daytime Personality \u2013 Non-Daily award last year when he was 99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norman Lear remains the oldest Emmy winner after Octavia Spencer scored a surprise win over Sir David Attenborough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,67451,11643,10549,88,253658,354873,15048,276969],"class_list":["post-838091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-david-attenborough","tag-emmy-awards","tag-emmys","tag-entertainment","tag-investigation-discovery","tag-lost-women-of-alaska","tag-octavia-spencer","tag-sir-david-attenborough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}