September 14 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT from the Peacock Theater at L.A. LIVE on NBC and streaming on Peacock
The 78th Emmy Awards are just around the corner, airing live coast-to-coast on Monday, September 14 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT from the Peacock Theater at L.A. LIVE on NBC and streaming on Peacock. Emmy Award winner Mariska Hargitay will host the ceremony. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards took place earlier this month on September 5 and 6.
This year’s slate of nominees spans everything from intimate character-driven comedies and satires to fantasy, thrillers, and costume dramas. Nominated performers include Steve Carell (Rooster), Jamie Lee Curtis (The Bear), Harrison Ford (Shrinking), Lisa Kudrow (The Comeback), Gary Oldman (Slow Horses) and Michelle Pfeiffer (Margo’s Got Money Troubles), alongside breakout new faces such as Taylor Dearden (The Pitt), Chase Infiniti (The Testaments), Sarah Pidgeon (Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette) and Connor Storrie (Saturday Night Live).
Hacks holds the record for the most nominations in a single year in the Comedy category with 24 (the previous record was jointly held in 2025 by The Studio and in 2024 by The Bear, each with 23), while The Pitt leads the Drama category with 25 nominations this year.
Twenty-eight first-time performer nominees appear across all performer categories this year, including Brittany Allen, Tal Anderson, Patrick Ball, Leslie Bibb, Taylor Dearden, Dale Dickey, Fiona Dourif, Ernest Harden Jr., Gerran Howell, Charlie Hunnam, Chase Infiniti, Tina Ivlev, Jeff Kober, Hamish Linklater, Charles Melton, Sepideh Moafi, Carey Mulligan, Kate O’Flynn, Sarah Pidgeon, Miriam Shor, Megan Stalter, Connor Storrie, Joy Sunday, Carlos-Manuel Vesga, Matt Vogel, Lauren Weedman, Karolina Wydra and Youn Yuh-Jung.
Several multi-hyphenate talents picked up multiple nominations this year for their work as performers, writers, directors, and producers. Jason Bateman leads with four nominations (performance and directing for Black Rabbit, performance and producing for DTF St. Louis). Three-nomination honorees include Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary), Paul W. Downs (Hacks), Matthew Rhys (Widow’s Bay and The Beast In Me), Jason Segel (Shrinking and Shrinking: In It Together), Martin Short (Only Murders In The Building and Match Game) and Noah Wyle (The Pitt).
Other performers with multiple nominations include Sterling K. Brown (Paradise), Claire Danes (The Beast In Me), Colman Domingo (The Four Seasons and Euphoria), Elle Fanning and Dakota Fanning (Margo’s Got Money Troubles), David Harbour (DTF St. Louis), Oscar Isaac and Charles Melton (Beef), Jimmy Kimmel (Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire), Lisa Kudrow (The Comeback), Laurie Metcalf (Monster: The Ed Gein Story and Hacks), Carey Mulligan (Beef), Nick Offerman (Margo’s Got Money Troubles and Death By Lightning), Michelle Pfeiffer (Margo’s Got Money Troubles), Keri Russell (The Diplomat) and Sarah Snook (All Her Fault).
All that’s left is the show itself. Tune in September 14 to see who takes home television’s biggest honor.
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Fashion Forecast: Red Carpet Trends to Watch
The 78th Emmy Awards red carpet arrives at a pivotal moment for celebrity dressing, as stylists navigate the intersection of archival reverence and forward-looking silhouette experimentation. After several seasons dominated by sheer overlays and structural tailoring, early indicator events suggest a pivot toward tactile luxury. Expect an emphasis on heavy silk duchess, hand-embroidered velvet, and sustainable material innovation from houses including Bottega Veneta, Loewe, and The Row. Custom color stories will likely replace safe neutrals, with deep oxblood, aged gold, and mineral greens emerging as dominant tones for evening formalwear.
New York-based stylists report increased collaboration with emerging artisans for one-of-a-kind accessories, particularly sculptural jewelry crafted from recycled precious metals and lab-grown diamonds. Menswear continues its quiet evolution: double-breasted peak lapels in tonal mohair blends, subtle jacquard textures, and the return of the silk evening scarf as an alternative to the traditional bow tie. For the growing contingent of gender-nonconforming nominees, expect boundary-pushing constructions that reject binary categorization entirely, favoring architectural draping and modular pieces that transform throughout the evening.
Behind the Scenes: The Creative Arts Ceremonies Decoded
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards, held September 5 and 6 at the Peacock Theater, distributed honors across more than ninety technical and artisan categories that form the invisible architecture of television excellence. This year’s ceremonies spotlighted a notable shift toward recognizing emerging production methodologies. The Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie category featured intense competition between practical-effects-driven period work and fully virtual production pipelines, reflecting the industry’s ongoing negotiation between craft tradition and LED-volume innovation.
Costume designers for fantasy and period nominees, including teams from The Testaments এবং Margo’s Got Money Troubles, earned recognition for integrating 3D-printed components with hand-finishing techniques, a hybrid approach that reduces waste while preserving atelier-level detail. In sound mixing, the Academy honored productions that pioneered immersive audio formats for streaming platforms, establishing new delivery standards. The governance awards recognized sustainability coordinators for the first time, formalizing a role that has become essential on major productions. These technical victories often forecast the creative direction of next season’s narrative slate.
New York's Stake: Production, Power, and the Nomination Map
While the ceremony unfolds in Los Angeles, the 78th Emmy nominations map reveals New York’s deepening footprint across the television ecosystem. Multiple nominated series, The Four Seasons, The Beast In Me, এবং Only Murders In The Building, maintain primary writers’ rooms and post-production facilities in Manhattan and Brooklyn, employing hundreds of local union craftspeople. The city’s tax credit program, restructured in 2023 to include episodic streaming series, has successfully retained high-budget drama infrastructure that previously migrated to Atlanta or London.
New York-based performers dominate the first-time nominee list, with Sarah Pidgeon, Connor Storrie, and Megan Stalter representing a generation of actors trained in the city’s theater conservatories and comedy incubators. Their nominations signal a pipeline where stage-honed versatility translates directly to streaming prestige formats. Meanwhile, the multiple nominations for Jason Bateman, Paul W. Downs, and Noah Wyle reflect the growing influence of actor-founded production companies headquartered in the tri-state area. These entities control intellectual property, hire locally, and shape the aesthetic vocabulary of contemporary prestige television from a distinctly metropolitan perspective.
