This week, the 78th Primetime Emmy Award nominations were announced, and both HBO Max and Apple TV had a lot to be proud of.Both streaming services set new records for nominations, thanks to their popular shows "The Pitt" and "Widow's Bay."
This year, HBO and Max, which were still separate until last July, together received 147 nominations.
That's more than the previous record of 137 that HBO had back in 2019."The Pitt," in its second season, got 25 nominations, with nine of them in acting categories.The hospital drama was a big winner last year, winning five awards, including Best Drama, Actor (for Noah Wyle), and Supporting Actress (Katherine LaNasa).
While other streaming services had more nominations overall, Apple is celebrating its highest number of nominations ever with 87 this year, up from 79 last year.
Netflix got 111 nominations, and Disney received 125.
Apple TV's horror-comedy series "Widow's Bay" was the top-nominated show with 19 nominations.
Matthew Rhys, who starred in the series, was nominated twice—once for Lead Actor in "Widow's Bay" and again for Lead Actor in Netflix's limited series "The Beast in Me." Rhys is the first actor to get two nominations since John Goodman in 1995.His co-stars, the legendary character actress Dale Dickey and Kate O’Flynn, also got their first nominations for their supporting roles in the show.
The 2026 Emmy award nominations list
- Best drama series
- The Diplomat
- The Gilded Age
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
- Paradise
- The Pitt
- Pluribus
- Slow Horses
- Your Friends & Neighbors
- Best comedy series
- Abbott Elementary
- The Bear
- Hacks
- Margo’s Got Money Troubles
- Nobody Wants This
- Only Murders in the Building
- Shrinking
- Widow’s Bay
- Best limited or anthology series
- All Her Fault
- The Beast in Me
- Beef
- DTF St Louis
- Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette
- Lead actor in a drama series
- Sterling K Brown – Paradise
- Gary Oldman – Slow Horses
- Mark Ruffalo – Task
- Rufus Sewell – The Diplomat
- Noah Wyle – The Pitt
- Lead actress in a drama series
- Carrie Coon – The Gilded Age
- Chase Infiniti – The Testaments
- Keri Russell – The Diplomat
- Rhea Seehorn – Pluribus
- Zendaya – Euphoria
- Lead actor in a comedy series
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II – Wonder Man
- Steve Carell – Rooster
- Matthew Rhys – Widow’s Bay
- Jason Segel – Shrinking
- Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building
- Lead actress in a comedy series
- Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
- Ayo Edebiri – The Bear
- Elle Fanning – Margo’s Got Money Troubles
- Lisa Kudrow – The Comeback
- Jean Smart – Hacks
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- Noah Wyle and Shawn Hatosy in The Pitt. Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy
- Lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie
- Riz Ahmed – Bait
- Jason Bateman – Black Rabbit
- Charlie Hunnam – Monster: The Ed Gein Story
- Oscar Isaac – Beef
- Matthew Rhys – The Beast in Me
- Lead actress in a limited or anthology series or movie
- Claire Danes – The Beast in Me
- Sally Field – Remarkably Bright Creatures
- Carey Mulligan – Beef
- Sarah Pidgeon – Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette
- Sarah Snook – All Her Fault
- Supporting actor in a drama series
- Patrick Ball – The Pitt
- Billy Crudup – The Morning Show
- Shawn Hatosy – The Pitt
- Gerran Howell – The Pitt
- Jack Lowden – Slow Horses
- Tom Pelphrey – Task
- Carlos-Manuel Vesga – Pluribus
- Supporting actress in a drama series
- Taylor Dearden – The Pitt
- Fiona Dourif – The Pitt
- Allison Janney – The Diplomat
- Katherine LaNasa – The Pitt
- Sepideh Moafi – The Pitt
- Julianne Nicholson – Paradise
- Karolina Wydra – Pluribus
- Supporting actor in a comedy series
- Colman Domingo – The Four Seasons
- Paul W Downs – Hacks
- Harrison Ford – Shrinking
- Nick Offerman – Margo’s Got Money Troubles
- Stephen Root – Widow’s Bay
- Michael Urie – Shrinking
- Tyler James Williams – Abbott Elementary
- Supporting actress in a comedy series
- Dale Dickey – Widow’s Bay
- Hannah Einbinder – Hacks
- Janelle James – Abbott Elementary
- Kate O’Flynn – Widow’s Bay
- Michelle Pfeiffer – Margo’s Got Money Troubles
- Megan Stalter – Hacks
- Jessica Williams – Shrinking
- Supporting actor in a limited or anthology series or movie
- Jason Bateman – DTF St Louis
- Richard Gadd – Half Man
- David Harbour – DTF St Louis
- Richard Jenkins – DTF St Louis
- Charles Melton – Beef
- Nick Offerman – Death by Lightning
- Supporting actress in a limited or anthology series or movie
- Linda Cardellini – DTF St Louis
- Dakota Fanning – All Her Fault
- Laurie Metcalf – Monster: The Ed Gein Story
- Joy Sunday – DTF St Louis
- Youn Yuh-jung – Beef
- Constance Zimmer – Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette
- Television movie
- Heads of State
- Miss You, Love You
- People We Meet on Vacation
- Remarkably Bright Creatures
- Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War
- Variety special (live)
- The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny
- 83rd Annual Golden Globes
- 68th Annual Grammy awards
- The Oscars
- 78th Annual Tony awards
- Variety special (pre-recorded)
- Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable…
- The Muppet Show
- Nikki Glaser: Good Girl
- Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show
- Wicked: One Wonderful Night
- Directing for a drama series
- The Gilded Age
- Paradise
- The Pitt
- Pluribus
- Slow Horses
- Task
- Directing for a comedy series
- Abbott Elementary
- The Bear
- The Chair Company
- Hacks
- The Ms Pat Show
- Widow’s Bay
- Directing for a limited or anthology series or movie
- Beef (season 2, episode 4)
- Beef (season 2, episode 8)
- Black Rabbit
- DTF St Louis
- Two women in airport
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- Rhea Seehorn and Karolina Wydra in Pluribus. Photograph: Apple TV+/PA
- Writing for a drama series
- The Diplomat
- The Pitt
- Pluribus
- Slow Horses
- Task
- Writing for a comedy series
- Abbott Elementary
- The Chair Company
- The Comeback
- Hacks
- Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat
- Widow’s Bay
- Writing for a limited or anthology series or movie
- All Her Fault
- The Beast in Me
- Beef
- Death by Lightning
- DTF St Louis
- Writing for a variety series
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
- Reality competition series
- Dancing with the Stars
- RuPaul’s Drag Race
- Survivor
- Top Chef
- The Traitors
- Variety series
- The Daily Show
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- Late Night With Stephen Colbert
- Saturday Night Live
