Emmy Awards 2026: Date, Host and How to Watch

Across the two nights of September 5 and 6 at the Peacock Theater, the biggest winners were The Pitt, DTF St. Louis, Widow's Bay and Pluribus. David Harbour and Linda Cardellini took the supporting acting awards in the limited or anthology series and movie categories for DTF St. Louis, Ernest Harden Jr. won outstanding guest actor in a drama series for The Pitt, and Rob Reiner won for his role as Albert in The Bear. Sources: TVLine, Hollywood Reporter.

Yes, two, and before she even takes the stage as host. At the Creative Arts Emmys she won outstanding directing for a documentary or nonfiction program and outstanding documentary or nonfiction special for her HBO film My Mom Jayne, about her mother Jayne Mansfield. She hosts the primetime ceremony on September 14. Sources: NBC, Television Academy.

Yes, his first. The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show won seven Emmys at the Creative Arts ceremonies, including outstanding variety special (live). It is the most decorated halftime show in the award's history to date. Sources: NBC.

24, for its fifth and final season, which is a single-year record for a comedy series. Only The Pitt, with 25, has more nominations this year. Sources: TVLine, Television Academy.

Yes. They go into the same tally as the primetime telecast, which is why network, studio and platform win totals for the year are only final after the ceremony on September 14. The Creative Arts nights cover most craft, guest acting, documentary and variety categories, roughly three quarters of all Emmys handed out. Sources: Television Academy.

The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards are on Monday, September 14, 2026. The ceremony airs live from Los Angeles starting at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT and usually runs about three hours. Sources: Television Academy, NBC.

Mariska Hargitay, best known as Captain Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, hosts the 2026 ceremony. It is a first for her and a natural fit for NBC, the network she has worked with for more than 25 years. Sources: NBC, TVInsider.

The show airs live on NBC in the United States and streams live on Peacock, so a cable subscription is not required. Peacock also carries it on demand afterwards. Internationally the rights vary by country, with local broadcasters and streamers picking up the feed or a delayed broadcast. Sources: NBC, Television Academy.

At the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles, part of the L.A. Live complex next to Crypto.com Arena. It is the same venue that has hosted the ceremony in recent years, with a capacity of around 7,100. Sources: Television Academy, NBC.

Because of the network calendar. NBC has Sunday Night Football in September, and awards shows on the broadcast networks get slotted around live sport. The Emmys have moved between Sunday and Monday nights for years depending on which network holds the rights that cycle. Sources: NBC, Variety.

The Pitt, the HBO Max medical drama, leads the field with 25 nominations. The final season of Hacks follows with 24, a record for a comedy series, ahead of Apple TV's Widow's Bay with 19 and Pluribus with 18. Nominations were announced on July 8, 2026. Sources: Deadline, Variety, Television Academy.

Final-round voting by Television Academy members ran from August 17 to August 26, 2026. Results are sealed by an accounting firm until the envelopes are opened on the night, which is why nothing that circulates before September 14 is more than a prediction. Sources: Television Academy, Hollywood Reporter.

At the 77th ceremony in September 2025, The Pitt won outstanding drama series, The Studio won outstanding comedy series with a record haul for a comedy in one season, and Netflix's Adolescence took outstanding limited or anthology series with six wins overall. Sources: Deadline, ABC News.

They are the technical and craft awards, given over two nights before the main show: Saturday, September 5 and Sunday, September 6, 2026. Casting, editing, production design, guest acting, stunts, documentary and animation categories are all handed out there, and the totals often reshape the narrative going into the Primetime ceremony. Sources: Television Academy, Hollywood Reporter.

Members of the Television Academy, roughly 25,000 industry professionals, split into peer groups by discipline. Nominations are chosen within each peer group, actors nominate actors, editors nominate editors, and then the full active membership votes on the winners in the final round. The public does not vote. Source: Television Academy.

The Pitt goes in as the favorite, on nomination count and on last year's win in the same category. The main counter-argument is Severance, which awards forecasters keep flagging as a live threat in drama. Predictions are exactly that, and the drama category has produced late upsets before. Sources: Gold Derby, Variety.

Yes. Red carpet coverage typically starts a couple of hours before the telecast, on E! and on the Television Academy's own channels, with the arrivals stream running free online. Fashion coverage from the Emmys carpet now reliably outperforms most of the actual award categories in engagement. Sources: Television Academy, Variety.

On July 8, 2026. The Pitt came out on top with 25 nominations, ahead of the final season of Hacks with 24, a record for a comedy series, then Widow's Bay with 19 and Pluribus with 18. Sources: Television Academy, Deadline, Variety.

The Creative Arts ceremonies on September 5 and 6 are not part of the NBC telecast. They hand out the craft categories, guest acting, animation, documentary and reality awards over two nights, and an edited highlights special has traditionally aired separately in the days afterwards. The Television Academy confirms the broadcast arrangement each year. Sources: Television Academy.

Not on NBC or Peacock, both of which are geo-restricted to the US. Internationally the ceremony is picked up by local broadcasters and streaming services, and the arrangement changes country by country and year by year, so check your national listings rather than assuming last year's channel still has it. Clips and the full winners list go online within minutes of each announcement. Sources: Television Academy, NBC.

The televised ceremony runs about three hours, from 8 p.m. ET, with red carpet coverage starting a couple of hours before on E! and the Television Academy's own channels. The Creative Arts weekend on September 5 and 6 is separate and spread over two evenings. Sources: NBC, Television Academy.

A winged woman holding an atom. The wings stand for the muse of art, the atom for the electron of science, the two halves of what the Television Academy considers television to be. The design dates from 1948 and is credited to television engineer Louis McManus, who used his own wife as the model. Sources: Television Academy.