The Pitt leads the nominations for the 78th Emmy Awards with 25, ahead of the main ceremony early Tuesday Doha time at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Hacks ranks second with 24 nominations, the highest total ever recorded by a comedy series in a single season.
Ceremony schedule and voting process
Actress Mariska Hargitay will host the ceremony, which NBC and Peacock will broadcast live at 8 p.m. Eastern time and midnight Greenwich Mean Time. More than 27,000 members of the Television Academy will select the winners in drama, comedy, limited series, acting, directing and writing categories.
The series follows a long shift inside an emergency department in Pittsburgh, with its story unfolding in near real time. It is competing for outstanding drama series against Pluribus, The Diplomat, The Gilded Age, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Paradise, Slow Horses and Your Friends & Neighbors.
Wyle and LaNasa defend their awards
Wyle is also seeking to retain the award for outstanding lead actor in a drama, while LaNasa is again competing in the supporting actress category. In the race for outstanding lead actress in a drama, Rhea Seehorn of Pluribus faces Keri Russell, Carrie Coon, Chase Infiniti, Zendaya and Carolina Wiedra. Seehorn could win her first Emmy, while Zendaya is seeking her third for Euphoria.
Hacks is competing with its fifth and final season, but faces Widows Bay, which won eight awards during the two Creative Arts ceremonies. The nominees for outstanding comedy series also include Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Margot Has Money Troubles, Nobody Wants This, Only Murders in the Building and Shrinking.
Widows Bay could add six awards during the main ceremony. If it wins all of them, it will surpass the record for the largest haul by a comedy series in a single season, held by The Studio with 13 awards. Jean Smart is seeking her fifth award for outstanding lead actress in a comedy for her role as Deborah Vance in Hacks.
A win would make her the first actress to receive the award in every season in which she was eligible during a single series' run, and would place her alongside Candice Bergen, who won five times for Murphy Brown. At 84, Harrison Ford is competing for the first Emmy of his career for his role in Shrinking, in the outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series category.
Ford plays a therapist dealing with his Parkinson's disease and faces Coleman Domingo, Paul W. Downs, Nick Offerman, Stephen Root, Michael Urie and Tyler James Williams in the same category. In the limited series categories, the second season of Beef leads with 16 nominations and features Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac and Charles Melton.
It faces DTF St. Louis and Love Story, while Jason Bateman received four nominations across acting, directing and producing for his work on Black Rabbit and DTF St. Louis. The Television Academy distributed more than 100 technical and creative awards on September 5 and 6, covering cinematography, editing, sound, visual effects, costume design, reality programs and variety programs.
Widows Bay topped the second night's results with eight awards, while Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show received seven.
This season's changes included a new method for evaluating late-night variety programs, with each nominee assessed independently rather than selecting a single winner through direct comparison. Under the new system, more than one program can win if each receives approval from 90% of voters.
