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78th Primetime Emmy Awards
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Date
Location
Presented byAcademy of Television Arts & Sciences
Hosted byMariska Hargitay
Most nominations
  • Major: The Pitt (12)
  • Total: The Pitt (25)
Television/radio coverage
Network
Produced byJesse Collins Entertainment
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The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards will honor the best in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2025, until May 31, 2026, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.[1] The awards ceremony will be held live on September 14, 2026, at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, and will be preceded by the 78th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 5 and 6. The ceremony will be produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment and broadcast in the United States by NBC and Peacock.[2][3][4][5] Mariska Hargitay will host the event.[6]

Key dates

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Upcoming dates leading up to the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards[1]
Date Event
July 22, 2026 Deadline for errors and omissions to the nominations
August 10–16, 2026 Final-round videos available for viewing
August 17, 2026 Final-round voting begins
August 26, 2026 Final-round voting ends
September 5–6, 2026 Creative Arts Awards and Governors Gala
September 14, 2026 NBC Telecast and Governors Gala

Winners and nominees

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Winners will be listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[a] For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards have been omitted.

Programs

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Acting

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Lead

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Supporting

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Directing

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Writing

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Multiple nominations and wins

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For the purposes of the lists below, "major" constitutes the categories listed above (program, acting, directing, and writing), while "total" includes the categories presented at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony. Programs and networks must have multiple wins or major nominations or at least five total nominations to be included.

By program

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Programs with multiple nominations
Nominations Program Network
Total Major
25 12 The Pitt HBO Max
24 7 Hacks
19 Widow's Bay Apple TV
18 6 Pluribus
16 3 Beef Netflix
13 1 DTF St. Louis HBO
11 Saturday Night Live NBC
0 Spider-Noir MGM+
9 The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny NBC
3 The Beast in Me Netflix
0 Fallout Amazon Prime Video
1 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms HBO
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert CBS
0 The Oscars ABC
1 RuPaul's Drag Race MTV
5 Shrinking Apple TV
Slow Horses
8 3 The Bear FX
The Gilded Age HBO
4 Margo's Got Money Troubles Apple TV
0 Palm Royale
7 6 Abbott Elementary ABC
2 All Her Fault Peacock
1 Black Rabbit Netflix
5 The Diplomat
1 Euphoria HBO
Monster: The Ed Gein Story Netflix
4 Paradise Hulu
0 Stranger Things Netflix
6 1 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ABC
2 Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette FX
0 Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! HBO
The Muppet Show Disney+
Ocean with David Attenborough National Geographic
4 Task HBO
1 The Traitors Peacock
0 Wednesday Netflix
Wicked: One Wonderful Night NBC
5 The Amazing Race CBS
The Boys Amazon Prime Video
1 Dancing with the Stars ABC
0 John Candy: I Like Me Amazon Prime Video
Love on the Spectrum Netflix
2 Only Murders in the Building Hulu
1 Survivor CBS
0 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour: The Final Show Disney+

By network

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Networks with multiple nominations
Nominations Network
Total Major
123 35 HBO / HBO Max
109 16 Netflix
85 29 Apple TV
45 7 Hulu
40 8 ABC
37 2 Prime Video
32 2 CBS
30 1 NBC
23 5 FX
18 3 Peacock
14 1 Disney+
12 0 National Geographic
11 MGM+
1 MTV
7 Comedy Central
6 0 YouTube
5 1 Bravo
0 PBS

Ceremony information

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Mariska Hargitay in 2025.
Mariska Hargitay will host the ceremony

The nominations for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on July 8, 2026, at the Television Academy's Wolf Theatre in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, hosted by actor Jeff Hiller and actress Liza Colón-Zayas, along with Television Academy chair Cris Abrego.[7][8][9] The category for Outstanding Variety Series was revived as the Outstanding Scripted Variety Series and Outstanding Talk Series categories were remerged.[10] The nominations for the category, along with Outstanding Reality Competition Program, were announced three hours before the rest of the categories.[11] On July 7, actress Mariska Hargitay was announced as the ceremony's host.[6] NBC and the Television Academy considered talent both within and outside of NBCUniversal for the role, but ultimately hired NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's lead actress in honor of the network's 100th anniversary. This will be the first Primetime Emmys ceremony that the host is not a comedian, comedy performer, reality host or television personality since Angela Lansbury in 1993, and the first time that the event will be hosted by a woman since Jane Lynch in 2011.[6]

To avoid conflicts with the network's broadcast of NBC Sunday Night Football, the event was scheduled to a Monday night, instead of a Sunday, which NBC had previously done when they aired the awards ceremony every four years since 2014.[2]

In January 2026, the Television Academy announced plans to present its first new major award in nearly twenty years with the creation of the Legacy Award, which will be presented annually to television programs that have made a "profound and lasting impact" on audiences, and remain relevant to culture, society and the industry.[12]

Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon, and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay of Jesse Collins Entertainment will serve as executive producers of the telecast.[13]

Notes

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  1. ↑ The outlets listed for each program are the U.S. broadcasters or streaming services identified in the nominations, which for some international productions are different than the broadcaster(s) that originally commissioned the program. Programs broadcast by HBO or HBO Max were listed under both services in the nominations list; only the original broadcaster is listed below.

References

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  1. 1 2 "78th Emmy Awards – 2025–2026 Rules and Procedures" (PDF). Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved March 3, 2026.
  2. 1 2 Petski, Denise (November 18, 2025). "2026 Emmys Gets Airdate on NBC". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved March 3, 2026.
  3. ↑ Phelan, Chris (November 18, 2025). "NBC Reveals the Air Date for the 78th Emmy Awards in 2026". NBC. Retrieved March 3, 2026.
  4. ↑ Schneider, Michael (December 12, 2025). "TV Academy Reveals Emmy Calendar for 2026 — Including Eligibility, Submission, Voting and Nomination Dates". Variety. Retrieved March 3, 2026.
  5. ↑ White, Peter (April 30, 2026). "Jesse Collins Entertainment to Produce Emmys, Again". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  6. 1 2 3 Andreeva, Nellie (July 7, 2026). "Mariska Hargitay to Host 2026 Emmy Awards on NBC". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 7, 2026.
  7. ↑ "Emmy Winners Liza Colón-Zayas and Jeff Hiller to Announce 78th Emmy Awards Nominations July 8". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. June 18, 2026. Retrieved June 18, 2026.
  8. ↑ Jeffries, Naomi (July 8, 2026). "2026 Emmy Nominations: Watch the Livestream". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 8, 2026.
  9. ↑ Gomez, Dessi; Hipes, Patrick; Pedersen, Erik (July 8, 2026). "Emmy Nominations 2026: The Complete List". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 8, 2026.
  10. ↑ "Emmys Rules Merge Variety Categories". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. January 28, 2026. Retrieved July 8, 2026.
  11. ↑ White, Peter (July 8, 2026). "Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Jon Stewart & 'SNL' to Battle It Out for Bumper Late-Night Emmy or Emmys". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 8, 2026.
  12. ↑ "Television Academy Announces Plans for First New Major Award in Nearly 20 Years" (Press release). Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. January 8, 2026. Retrieved March 3, 2026.
  13. ↑ "Mariska Hargitay to Host 78th Emmy Awards on NBC". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. July 7, 2026. Retrieved July 7, 2026.
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