The 2026 Emmys were announced today and HBO’s The Pitt and Hacks led the pack with 25 and 24 nominations each, followed by Widow’s Bay (19), Pluribus (18), Beef S2 (16), and DTF St Louis (13).
On the music side of things…
Bad Bunny got nominated for his Super Bowl LX Halftime Show in nine categories, which is a record for a Super Bowl halftime show: Outstanding Variety Special (Live), Production Design For A Variety Special, Choreography For Variety Or Reality Programming, Technical Direction And Camerawork For A Special, Directing For A Variety Special, Hairstyling For A Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Program, and Lighting Design/Lighting Direction For A Special.
Taylor Swift‘s The Eras Tour | The Final Show was nominated for five Emmys, including Outstanding Technical Direction and Camerawork For A Special, Outstanding Picture Editing For Variety Programming, Outstanding Directing For A Variety Special, Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Variety Series Or Special, and Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded).
Lady Gaga’s song “The Dead Dance” (co-written with Andrew Watt & Henry Walter Russell” was nominated for Outstanding Music and Lyrics alongside: The Boys, “Raise Him Up” (Christopher Lennertz & Daveed Diggs), Hacks, “Mis Figuritas” (Carlos Rafael Rivera & David Stal), The Pitt, “Need Someone” (Gavin Brivik & Andrew Bird), South Park, “Christian Woman” (Trey Parker), and Spider-Noir, “The Devil You Know” (Warren Oak Felder, Sebastian Kole & Daniel Pemberton).
More music:
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) nominees are: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (Dan Romer), Palm Royale (Jeff Toyne), Pluribus (Dave Porter), Slow Horses (Daniel Pemberton & Toydrum), Spider-Noir (Kris Bowers & Michael Dean Parsons), Widow’s Bay (David Fleming)
Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) nominees are: All Her Fault (Jeff Beal), The Beast in Me (Sean Callery & Sara Barone), Black Rabbit (Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans), In the Blink of an Eye (Thomas Newman), Washington Black (Cameron Moody)
Outstanding Main Title Theme Music nominees are: All Her Fault (Jeff Beal), The Beast in Me (Sean Callery), The ‘Burbs (Michael Abels), Murderbot (Amanda Jones), Pluribus (Dave Porter)
Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score) nominees are: High Horse: The Black Cowboy (Raphael Saadiq), John Candy: I Like Me (Tyler Strickland), Kingdom (Segun Akinola), Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! (Jeff Morrow), Ocean With David Attenborough (Steven Price), Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age (Kara Talve, Anže Rozman & Hans Zimmer)
Outstanding Music Supervision nominees are: The Boys (Michelle Johnson & Yvette Metoyer), Hacks (Matt Biffa), Nobody Wants This (Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe & Jonathan Leahy), Pluribus (Thomas Golubić), Stranger Things (Nora Felder), Widow’s Bay (Toko Nagata).
The 2026 Emmy Awards will be handed out Sunday, September 14 at 8 PM on NBC and streaming via Peacock and Law & Order SVU‘s Mariska Hargitay is this year’s host. Head below for all of the 2026 Emmy Nominees.
2026 EMMY NOMINATIONS
Best Drama
“The Diplomat” (Netflix)
“The Gilded Age” (HBO Max)
“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” (HBO Max)
“Paradise” (Hulu)
“The Pitt” (HBO Max)
“Pluribus” (Apple TV)
“Slow Horses” (Apple TV)
“Your Friends & Neighbors” (Apple TV)
Best Comedy
“Abbott Elementary” (ABC)
“The Bear” (FX)
“Hacks” (HBO Max)
“Margo’s Got Money Troubles” (Apple TV)
“Nobody Wants This” (Netflix)
“Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu)
“Shrinking” (Apple TV)
“Widow’s Bay” (Apple TV)
Best Limited Series
“All Her Fault” (Peacock)
“The Beast in Me” (Netflix)
“Beef” (Netflix)
“DTF St. Louis” (HBO Max)
“Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette” (FX)
Best Actress, Drama
Carrie Coon, “The Gilded Age”
Chase Infiniti, “The Testaments”
Keri Russell, “The Diplomat”
Rhea Seehorn, “Pluribus”
Zendaya, “Euphoria”
Best Actor, Drama
Sterling K. Brown, “Paradise”
Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”
Mark Ruffalo, “Task”
Rufus Sewell, “The Diplomat”
Noah Wyle, “The Pitt”
Supporting Actress, Drama
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, Drama
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”
Drama Guest Actress
Brittany Allen, “The Pitt”
Tal Anderson, “The Pitt”
Tina Ivlev, “The Pitt”
Miriam Shor, “Pluribus”
Merritt Wever, “The Gilded Age”
Shailene Woodley, “Paradise”
Drama Guest Actor
Colman Domingo, “Euphoria”
Ernest Harden Jr., “The Pitt”
Jeff Hiller, “Pluribus”
Jeff Kober, “The Pitt”
Jonathan Pryce, “Slow Horses”
Bradley Whitford, “The Diplomat”
Best Actor, Comedy
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, “Wonder Man”
Steve Carell, “Rooster”
Matthew Rhys, “Widow’s Bay”
Jason Segel, “Shrinking”
Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”
Best Actress, Comedy
Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”
Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”
Elle Fanning, “Margo’s Got Money Troubles”
Lisa Kudrow, “The Comeback”
Jean Smart, “Hacks”
Supporting Actress, Comedy
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, Comedy
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”
Comedy Guest Actress
Leslie Bibb, “Hacks”
Jamie Lee Curtis, “The Bear”
Betty Gilpin, “Widow’s Bay”
Cherry Jones, “Hacks”
Laurie Metcalf, “Hacks”
Kaitlin Olson, “Hacks”
Lauren Weedman, “Hacks”
Comedy Guest Actor
Michael J. Fox, “Shrinking”
Brett Goldstein, “Shrinking”
Hamish Linklater, “Widow’s Bay”
Christopher McDonald, “Hacks”
Rob Reiner, “The Bear”
Connor Storrie, “Saturday Night Live”
Best Actress, Limited Series or TV Movie
Claire Danes, “The Beast in Me”
Sally Field, “Remarkably Bright Creatures”
Carey Mulligan, “Beef”
Sarah Pidgeon, “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette”
Sarah Snook, “All Her Fault”
Best Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie
Riz Ahmed, “Bait”
Jason Bateman, “Black Rabbit”
Charlie Hunnam, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story”
Oscar Isaac, “Beef”
Matthew Rhys, “The Beast in Me”
Supporting Actress, Limited 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. and Carolyn Bessette”
Supporting Actor, Limited 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”
Variety Series
“The Daily Show” (Comedy Central)
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC)
“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” (HBO Max)
“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (CBS)
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
Documentary or Nonfiction Series
“The American Revolution” (PBS)
“Mr. Scorsese” (Apple TV)
“The Yogurt Shop Murders” (HBO Max)
“Rafa” (Netflix)
“Sean Combs: The Reckoning” (Netflix)
Best Reality Competition Program
“Dancing With the Stars” (ABC)
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” (MTV)
“Survivor” (CBS)
“Top Chef” (Bravo)
“The Traitors” (Peacock)
Best Structured Reality Program
“Antiques Roadshow” (PBS)
“Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” (Food Network)
“Love Is Blind” (Netflix)
“Queer Eye” (Netflix)
“Shark Tank” (ABC)
Best Unstructured Reality Program
“America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders” (Netflix)
“Love on the Spectrum” (Netflix)
“RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked” (MTV)
“Summer House” (Bravo)
“Welcome to Wrexham” (FX)
Host for a Reality/Competition Program
RuPaul Charles, “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
Alan Cumming, “The Traitors”
Kristen Kish, “Top Chef”
Ariana Madix, “Love Island USA”
Jeff Probst, “Survivor”
Animated Program
“Bob’s Burgers” (Fox)
“Rick and Morty” (Adult Swim)
“The Simpsons” (Fox)
“Smiling Friends” (Adult Swim)
“South Park” (Comedy Central)
“Star Wars: Visions” (Disney+)
TV Movie
“Heads of State” (Amazon Prime Video)
“Miss You, Love You” (HBO Max)
“People We Meet on Vacation” (Netflix)
“Remarkably Bright Creatures” (Netflix)
“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War” (Amazon Prime Video)
Variety Special (Pre-recorded)
“Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable” (Netflix)
“The Muppet Show” (Disney+)
“Nikki Glaser: Good Girl” (Hulu)
“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour — The Final Show” (Disney+)
“Wicked: One Wonderful Night” (NBC)
Variety Special (Live)
“The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny” (NBC)
“83rd Annual Golden Globes” (CBS)
“68th Annual Grammy Awards” (CBS)
“The Oscars” (ABC)
“78th Annual Tony Awards” (CBS)
Documentary or Nonfiction Special
“John Candy: I Like Me” (Amazon Prime Video)
“Marty, Life Is Short” (Netflix)
“Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!” (HBO Max)
“My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay” (HBO Max)
“Ocean With David Attenborough” (National Geographic)
Directing for a Drama Series
Salli Richardson Whitfield, “The Gilded Age” (“My Mind Is Made Up”)
Hanelle M. Culpepper, “Paradise” (“Exodus”)
Noah Wyle, “The Pitt” (“12:00 P.M.”)
Vince Gilligan, “Pluribus” (“We Is Us”)
Saul Metzstein, “Slow Horses” (“Scars”)
Salli Richardson Whitfield, “Task” (“Out Beyond Ideas Of Wrongdoing And Rightdoing, There Is A River.”)
Directing for a Comedy Series
Randall Einhorn, “Abbott Elementary” (“Ballgame”)
Christopher Storer, “The Bear” (“Bears”)
Andrew DeYoung, “The Chair Company” (“Life Goes By Too F**king Fast, It Really Does.”)
Lucia Aniello, “Hacks” (“Finale”)
Mary Lou Belli, “The Ms. Pat Show” (“Give It Arrest”)
Hiro Murai, “Widow’s Bay” (“Welcome to Widow’s Bay!”)
Directing for a Limited Series/TV Movie
Jake Schreier, “Beef” (“It Will Stay This Way And You Will Obey”)
Lee Sung Jin, “Beef” (“Oh, The Comfort, The Inexpressible Comfort”)
Jason Bateman, “Black Rabbit” (“The Black Rabbits”)
Steven Conrad, “DTF St. Louis”
Writing for a Drama Series
Peter Ackerman and Debora Cahn, “The Diplomat” (“Amagansett”)
Kirsten Pierre-Geyfman and R. Scott Gemmill, “The Pitt” (“1:00 P.M.”)
Valerie Chu, “The Pitt” (“12:00 P.M.”)
Vince Gilligan, “Pluribus” (“We Is Us”)
Will Smith, “Slow Horses” (“Scars”)
Brad Ingelsby, “Task” (“A Still Small Voice”)
Writing for a Comedy Series
Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary” (“Team Building”)
Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, “The Chair Company” (“Life Goes By Too F**king Fast, It Really Does.”)
Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow, “The Comeback” (“Valerie Does It All”)
Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky, “Hacks” (“Finale”)
Anthony King, “Jury Duty Presents Company Retreat” (“Mergers And Acquisitions”)
Katie Dippold, “Widow’s Bay” (“Welcome to Widow’s Bay!”)
Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or Drama Special
Megan Gallagher, “All Her Fault” (“Episode 8”)
Gabe Rotter and Daniel Pearle, “The Beast in Me” (“Sick Puppy”)
Lee Sung Jin, “Beef” (“All The Things We’re Never Going To Have”)
Mike Makowsky, “Death by Lightning”
Steven Conrad, “DTF St. Louis”
Writing for a Variety Special
Chris Fleming, “Chris Fleming: Live At The Palace”
Albertina Rizzo, Gabe Liedman, Nedaa Sweiss, Kelly Younger and Andrew Williams, “The Muppet Show”
Nikki Glaser, “Nikki Glaser: Good Girl”
Amberia Allen, Jose Arroyo, Josh Comers, Dan Cronin, Jessie Gaskell, Skyler Higley, Berkley Johnson, Ian Karmel, Brian Kiley, Laurie Kilmartin, Carol Leifer, Todd Levin, John Macks, Conan O’Brien, Matt O’Brien, Agathe Panaretos, Mike Sweeney, Levi MacDougall and Eric Roth, The Oscars
Wanda Sykes, “Wanda Sykes: Legacy”
Writing for a Variety Series
Molly McNearney, Danny Ricker, Gary Greenberg, Josh Halloway, Jamie Abrahams, Rory Albanese, Tony Barbieri, Jonathan Bines, Joelle Boucai, Bryan Cook, Devin Field, Eric Immerman, Jesse Joyce, Laurie Kilmartin, Jimmy Kimmel, Gregory Martin, Jesse McLaren, Keaton Patti, Louis Virtel and Troy Walker, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Daniel O’Brien, Owen Parsons, Charlie Redd, Joanna Rothkopf, Seena Vali, Johnathan Appel, Ali Barthwell, Tim Carvell, Liz Hynes, Ryan Ken, Sofía Manfred, John Oliver, Taylor Kay Phillips and Chrissy Shackelford, “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”
Ariel Dumas, Jay Katsir, Delmonte Bent, Michael Brumm, Aaron Cohen, Stephen T. Colbert, Paul Dinello, Gabe Gronli, Barry Julien, Michael Cruz Kayne, Eliana Kwartler, Matt Lappin, Caroline Lazar, Pratima Mani, Felipe Torres Medina, Opus Moreschi, Carley Moseley, Aaron Nemo, Asher Perlman, Tom Purcell, Kate Sidley, Brian Stack, John Thibodeaux and Steve Waltien, “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – In the Name of the Mother – Dan Romer
Palm Royale – Maxine Drinks Martinis Now – Jeff Toyne
Pluribus – We Is Us – Dave Porter
Slow Horses – Missiles – Daniel Pemberton & Toydrum
Spider-Noir – Step Into My Office – Kris Bowers & Michael Dean Parsons
Widow’s Bay – Our History – David Fleming
Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score)
All Her Fault – Episode 7 – Jeff Beal
The Beast in Me – The Beast and Me – Sean Callery & Sara Barone
Black Rabbit – Isle of Joy – Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans
In the Blink of an Eye – Thomas Newman
Washington Black – If You See My Mama, Whisper Her This… – Cameron Moody
Outstanding Main Title Theme Music
All Her Fault – Jeff Beal
The Beast in Me – Sean Callery
The ‘Burbs – Michael Abels
Murderbot – Amanda Jones
Pluribus – Dave Porter
Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score)
High Horse: The Black Cowboy – F*ck Westerns – Raphael Saadiq
John Candy: I Like Me – Tyler Strickland
Kingdom – Segun Akinola
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! – Jeff Morrow
Ocean With David Attenborough – Steven Price
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age – The Big Freeze – Kara Talve, Anže Rozman & Hans Zimmer
Outstanding Music and Lyrics
The Boys – The Frenchman, The Female, And The Man Called Mother’s Milk / Song Title: Raise Him Up – Christopher Lennertz (Music & Lyrics) & Daveed Diggs (Lyrics)
Hacks – EGOT / Song Title: Mis Figuritas – Carlos Rafael Rivera & David Stal (Music & Lyrics)
The Pitt – 12:00 P.M. / Song Title: Need Someone – Gavin Brivik (Music) & Andrew Bird (Music & Lyrics)
South Park – The Crap Out / Song Title: Christian Woman – Trey Parker (Music & Lyrics)
Spider-Noir – A Mistake I’ll Never Make Again / Song Title: The Devil You Know – Warren Oak Felder, Sebastian Kole & Daniel Pemberton (Music & Lyrics)
Wednesday – Woe Me The Money / Song Title: The Dead Dance – Lady Gaga, Andrew Watt & Henry Walter Russell (Music & Lyrics)
Outstanding Music Supervision
The Boys – Blood and Bone – Michelle Johnson & Yvette Metoyer
Hacks – Hacks (Finale) – Matt Biffa
Nobody Wants This – When Noah Met Joanne – Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe & Jonathan Leahy
Pluribus – We Is Us – Thomas Golubić
Stranger Things – Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up – Nora Felder
Widow’s Bay – Beach Reads – Toko Nagata