The 2026 Emmy Awards ceremony is set to take place in Los Angeles, celebrating the finest in television with shows like The Pitt, Hacks, and Beef leading the competition for top honors.
While many of the creative categories were already awarded during the preceding Creative Arts Emmys, tonight’s ceremony will crown the winners in the most prominent categories of the year.
Below is the complete list of nominations for the main ceremony, updated live throughout the night as the winners are announced.
Drama series
Comedy series
Limited or anthology series
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
- WINNER: Rhea Seehorn – Pluribus
- Zendaya – Euphoria
Lead actor in a comedy series
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II – Wonder Man
- Steve Carell – Rooster
- WINNER: 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
- WINNER: Jean Smart – Hacks
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
- WINNER: Matthew Rhys – The Beast In Me
Lead actress in a limited or anthology series or movie
- Claire Danes – The Beast In Me
- WINNER: 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
- WINNER: Tom Pelphrey – Task
- Carlos-Manuel Vesga – Pluribus
Supporting actress in a drama series
- Taylor Dearden – The Pitt
- Fiona Dourif – The Pitt
- WINNER: 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
- WINNER: 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
- WINNER: Kate O’Flynn – Widow’s Bay
- Michelle Pfeiffer – Margo’s Got Money Troubles
- Megan Stalter – Hacks
- Jessica Williams – Shrinking
Reality competition programme
- Dancing With the Stars
- RuPaul’s Drag Race
- Survivor
- Top Chef
- WINNER: The Traitors
Variety series
Outstanding writing for a drama series
- Debora Cahn – The Diplomat
- Kirsten Pierre-Geyfman, R. Scott Gemmill – The Pitt
- Valerie Chu – The Pitt
- Vince Gilligan – Pluribus
- Will Smith – Slow Horses
- Brad Ingelsby – Task
Outstanding writing for a comedy series
- Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
- Tim Robinson – The Chair Company
- Michael Patrick King – The Comeback
- Lucia Aniello – Hacks
- Anthony King – Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat
- WINNER: Katie Dippold – Widow’s Bay
Outstanding directing for a drama series
- Salli Richardson Whitfield – The Gilded Age
- Hanelle M. Culpepper – Paradise
- Noah Wyle – The Pitt
- Vince Gilligan – Pluribus
- WINNER: Saul Metzstein – Slow Horses
- Salli Richardson Whitfield – Task
Outstanding directing for a comedy series
- Randall Einhorn – Abbott Elementary
- Christopher Storer – The Bear
- Andrew DeYoung – The Chair Company
- Lucia Aniello – Hacks
- Mary Lou Belli – The Ms. Pat Show
- WINNER: Hiro Murai – Widow’s Bay
