Apple TV\u2019s Widow\u2019s Bay stormed the Emmys with six wins at the 78th Emmys, the most for a single program on the night, including Outstanding Comedy Series. HBO Max\u2019s The Pitt and another Apple TV series, Pluribus, were tied for second-most Emmys wins with two each, with the former winning Outstanding Drama Series.<\/p>\n
Peacock\u2019s The Traitors won its third consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Reality Competition Series. CBS\u2019s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert won its second consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series.<\/p>\n
See photos<\/a> and videos<\/a> from the 78th Emmy Awards.<\/p>\n Widow\u2019s Bay, the comedy-horror hybrid about a haunted New England island community, made history. It broke the record set last year by Apple TV\u2019s The Studio, which had 13 Emmys, by winning 14 \u2014 six tonight and eight at last Sunday, night two of this year’s three Emmy ceremonies. In addition to Outstanding Comedy Series, its wins included Matthew Rhys for lead actor, Kate O\u2019Flynn for supporting actress, Stephen Root for supporting actor, Katie Dippold for writing and Hiro Murai for directing.<\/p>\n The Pitt, season two of which followed a sweltering summer day in a Pittsburgh emergency room, saw repeat victories in two categories. It became the first series since AMC\u2019s Mad Men to win Outstanding Drama Series for its first two seasons. Noah Wyle became the first actor to win Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for its first two seasons since Bryan Cranston for AMC\u2019s Breaking Bad in 2009.<\/p>\n In addition to repeat victories, there were many first-time Emmy winners in multiple categories. They included O\u2019Flynn and Root for Widow\u2019s Bay, Rhea Seehorn for Pluribus, Tom Pelphrey for HBO Max\u2019s Task and Dippold for Widow\u2019s Bay. Vince Gilligan had his first individual writing Emmy win for Pluribus \u2014 all of his previous Emmy wins were achieved as a producer for Breaking Bad.<\/p>\n Rhys made Emmy history by becoming the first person to win two Emmys for leading performances in the same year, in the category of Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series (Widow\u2019s Bay) and Outstanding Actor in a Limited Series, Movie (Netflix\u2019s The Beast In Me). Combined with his win for FX\u2019s The Americans in 2018, he is now the first person to win Emmys for lead performances in the categories of Outstanding Leading Actor in a Drama Series, Comedy Series and Limited Series or Movie.<\/p>\n Two performers tied a historic Emmy record of eight acting Emmys, joining Cloris Leachman and Julia Louis-Dreyfus for most Emmy wins by a performer. They were Allison Janey, who won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama for her performance in Netflix\u2019s The Diplomat, and Jean Smart, who won a fifth Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama for her performance in HBO Max\u2019s Hacks. Smart also became the first performer to win an Emmy for every season of a series. It was also her third consecutive win in that category, which had not been seen since Louis-Dreyfus\u2019s dominant run in the early to mid 2010s for HBO Max\u2019s Veep.<\/p>\n Sally Field became the oldest winner in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, for Netflix\u2019s Remarkably Bright Creatures. Field, who will turn 80 in November, is a few months older than Jessica Tandy was when she won in 1988 for her performance in CBS\u2019s Firefox.<\/p>\n Root also became the oldest winner in the history of his category, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. The previous holder of that record was Henry Winkler, with whom he co-starred on HBO Max\u2019s Barry.<\/p>\n HBO Max\u2019s DTF St. Louis won its single Emmy of the night in the category of Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.<\/p>\n Murai became the first Asian director to win for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for his work on Widow\u2019s Bay.<\/p>\n In addition to the Emmys voted on by the Television Academy membership, a special award, the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, chosen by the Academy’s board of governors, was given to Michael J. Fox. Established in 2002, it is given to \u201can individual(s) in the media industry whose deeds and actions have a lasting impact on communities and whose philanthropic efforts exemplify Bob Hope\u2019s decades-long altruism and positive impact on society.\u201d<\/p>\n Fox received the award for his leadership in support of Parkinson\u2019s Disease research through The Michael J. Fox Foundation, whose advocacy and fundraising have contributed to scientific breakthroughs in the search for a cure for this disorder of the nervous system. Fox\u2019s former co-star on CBS\u2019s The Good Wife, Julianna Margulies, presented him with the honor.<\/p>\n Fox had previously won five Primetime Emmy awards (three of them consecutively for NBC\u2019s Family Ties) and has received 19 Primetime Emmy nominations \u2014 including one for this year as an Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series on Apple TV\u2019s Shrinking.<\/p>\n The ceremony also featured a moving tribute to the late, great Dolly Parton by Reba McEntire, who performed the song “Appalachian Memories,\u201d which was written by Parton.<\/p>\n The In Memoriam tribute featured a performance of Simon and Garfunkel\u2019s \u201cA Bridge over Troubled Water\u201d by Noah Kahan, culminating with a heartfelt remembrance of director James Burrows and writer-producer-director-performer Rob Reiner by Jamie Lee Curtis. Reiner received a posthumous Emmy last Sunday for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series for FX\u2019s The Bear.<\/p>\n The event was hosted by Mariska Hargitay, who was \u00a0the first female Emmy host in 15 years. Hargitay, a three-time Emmy winner, won her first in 2006 for NBC\u2019s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She won two more last Saturday as director and a producer of the HBO Max documentary My Mom Jayne.<\/p>\n The 78th Emmy Awards telecast was broadcast live on NBC and Peacock \u2014 and it took place at the Peacock Theater at LA Live in Downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n The Academy’s Primetime Awards Committee was led by chair Jacob Fenton and co-vice chairs Mary Lou Belli and Sean Presant.<\/p>\n The executive producers of the 78th Emmy Awards \u2014 returning for a fourth time \u2014 were Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay of Jesse Collins Entertainment.<\/p>\n Download the complete list of winners as a PDF<\/a> or Word document<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple TV\u2019s Widow\u2019s Bay stormed the Emmys with six wins at the 78th Emmys, the most for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-848601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848601","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=848601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}