Emmys 2026 Winners: Full list of Emmy Awards winners and live updates

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The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards are underway at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater, with HBO Max’s The Pitt and Hacks entering the night as the dominant contenders after leading the 2026 nominations. The Pitt enters with 25 nominations, the highest total of the year, after winning Outstanding Drama Series at the 2025 ceremony, while Noah Wyle is seeking a second consecutive Lead Actor Emmy and has three nominations this year across performance, directing and producing categories. Hacks follows with 24 nominations for its fifth and final season, setting a new record for a comedy in a single year after The Studio and The Bear had shared the previous record of 23. Jean Smart is the central figure in that campaign, with a fifth consecutive Lead Actress victory potentially making her the first performer to win an acting Emmy for every season of a series’ entire run.

The platform battle has tightened since last year. HBO Max leads the 2026 field with 122 nominations, followed by Netflix with 111 and Apple TV with a record 89. HBO Max led the 2025 nominations with 142 and finished that ceremony with 30 wins, while Netflix collected 120 nominations and six wins and Apple TV posted 81 nominations and 22 wins. Apple’s 2026 surge is driven by Widow’s Bay , which earned 19 nominations, and Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus , which collected 18, while the service also placed three comedies and three dramas in the top programme races. Last year, Apple’s The Studio won Outstanding Comedy Series and became the most-awarded comedy in Emmy history with 13 victories, while Severance led Apple’s nominations with 27.

The drama race is headed by The Pitt , although Apple’s Pluribus has emerged as its principal challenger. Rhea Seehorn is seeking her first Emmy for her lead performance in Pluribus , while Gary Oldman, Sterling K. Brown and Rufus Sewell bring established Emmy pedigree into the Lead Actor field. The comedy race has become considerably less predictable around Hacks , with Widow’s Bay gathering momentum after an unusually strong showing at the Creative Arts Emmys. Matthew Rhys has a particularly unusual night ahead, earning Lead Actor nominations in both comedy and limited series, while Harrison Ford could become the oldest winner ever in the Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category at 84 if he prevails for Shrinking .

The Limited or Anthology Series field is led by DTF St. Louis and Beef , with Netflix’s Beef carrying the advantage of having won eight Emmys for its first season. DTF St. Louis entered the final stretch with 13 nominations and had already built substantial momentum at the Creative Arts Emmys, where David Harbour and Linda Cardellini won supporting acting prizes and Steven Conrad took directing and writing honours. Beef remains a major acting contender, with Carey Mulligan widely regarded as the Lead Actress frontrunner and Oscar Isaac among the leading names in the corresponding actor race.