HBO shows The Pitt and Hacks lead Emmy nominations
Noah Wyle in The Pitt. Picture: HBO Max.
led all nominees with 25 while got a record-setting 24 to lead all comedies in its final season as Emmy nominations were announced on Wednesday.
The totals give HBO Max the top spot for both drama and comedy, with breaking the record for most nominations for a comedy series held jointly by last year and in 2024.
HBO Max led all outlets with 122 overall nominations and has three shows up for both best drama and best comedy series.
The nominees announced for 118 Primetime Emmy categories included the late Rob Reiner for his guest acting on Bad Bunny for his Super Bowl halftime show, and newlywed Taylor Swift for concert special.
Emmy voters love a departing show, and have loved since its first season. Star Jean Smart has won best actress in a comedy for all four previous seasons and it would be stunning if she did not claim a fifth.
Her sidekick throughout the series Hannah Einbinder, who last year broke through and won supporting actress in a comedy in her fourth nomination, got a fifth. Her castmate, the show’s co-creator Paul W Downs, got three nominations, for acting, writing and producing.
The day-in-the-life emergency room series was a rookie upstart last year with big wins, including best drama series, best actor for Noah Wyle and best supporting actress for Katherine LaNasa.
Wyle was nominated again for best actor – along with nods for his directing and producing – as was LaNasa. Taylor Dearden, Fiona Dourif and Sepideh Moafi also got nominations, with taking four of the seven supporting actress spots and three supporting actor slots.
Two new shows from Apple TV, the one-woman-against-the-hivemind drama and the horror comedy both scored big in their first seasons.
from and creator Vince Gilligan, got 18 nods. They included best actress in a drama for its only lead cast member Rhea Seahorn, considered the favourite to win.
got 19, including best actor for star Matthew Rhys, who was also nominated as a producer and for his acting in the limited series The Beast In Me.
Two other Apple TV shows are also up for best comedy, whose stars Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer got acting nominations, and Shrinking.
nominations included best supporting actor in a comedy for Harrison Ford. The force could be with Ford, with many saying this will be the year the Hollywood legend finally wins an EGOT-tier award. His castmate Jason Segel is up for lead actor.
Many close observers also think this will be the year the perennially nominated Martin Short wins best actor in a comedy for He was nominated for three trophies, including nods for his producing of the show and hosting T A Netflix documentary about him, Marty, also got two nominations.
Jason Bateman got four nominations, for his performing and producing on both and
ABCs remained a rare bright spot for the traditional broadcast networks that have been marginalised in top categories by cable and streaming shows. Creator, star and two-time Emmy winner Quinta Brunson was nominated for three more, and the show got seven.
Rob Reiner, who was killed along with his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, in December, has a chance at his third Emmy. He was nominated for guest actor for about 50 years after winning two for his acting on All In The Family.
Five-time Emmy winner Michael J Fox also got a nomination in the same category for playing a patient with Parkinson’s disease, which the actor was diagnosed with in the 1990s, on
The halftime show is nearly always nominated, but this year’s featuring Bad Bunny on NBC went above and beyond with nine nominations.
Swift’s Eras Tour concert special got five nominations days after her marriage to Travis Kelce, one of them for the singing superstar herself as producer. She has one previous Emmy, for interactive media in 2015, to go with her 14 Grammys.
And after a year of targeting from the Trump administration for late-night hosts and their shows, the now-off-the-air Late Show With Stephen Colbert got nine nominations and got six.
