It’s that time of the year, the moment where the biggest stars and executives from Netflix, HBO, Apple, FX and sometimes Disney, team up to elect the best artists in 26 iconic categories, with this year being more diverse than previous. Starting with the most important one, the best programs, concerning the three most important sections, comedy, drama and limited series the gold have been taken respectively by, Apple’s comedy satirical The Studio (2025), HBO’s medical drama The Pitt (2025), and Netflix hit limited series Adolescence (2025).
Notably star Owen Cooper, who becomes the youngest man to win an Emmy for acting at only 15 years old
Each of these have been the dominant winner in their other categories, specially The Studio who, for it’s first season, took home no less than 4 Emmys, plus 9 if you add the creatives arts categories, which make them the series with the most Emmy wins by a comedy series in a single season. Including best actor for Seth Rogen, best writing and best directing. Talking of directing, Adolescence have, as expected, won the best directing for limited series as long as 5 other statuettes, the most awarded show of the night. Notably star Owen Cooper, who becomes the youngest man to win an Emmy for acting at only 15 years old. While on its side, The Pitt only won 2 Emmys beside best program for leading actor Noah Wyle and supporting actress Katherine LaNasa.
The actress category begins with Jean Smart for her fourth consecutive best actress in a comedy series for Hacks (2021), with Hannah Einbinder winning best supporting actress, delivering an important emotional speech about the political climate of the US. Surprisingly, The Penguin (2024) was the only awarded miniseries, with Cristin Milioti winning best actress in the limited series category. On the same note Severance (2022) also received less awards than expected with only best actress in the person of Britt Lower and supporting actor for Tramell Tillman. Several surprises were also spotted, the first one being Jeff Hiller for best supporting actor in a comedy series for somebody somewhere, which represents the first win ever of the series. Slow Horses (2022) got its second Emmy for best directing for a drama and Star Wars' Andor (2022) also got its first Emmy for best writing in a drama.
Outside of the series, television elected the Traitors for best competition program, SNL 50th anniversary for outstanding variety special and Last Week Tonight (2014) With John Oliver once again won best program and writing for a scripted variety series. But the biggest moment of the night happened when The Late Show (1993) with Stephan Colbert gave a historic speech about freedom of speech after winning outstanding talk series while the show is being cancelled next may because of a controversial deal with the mother company.