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| Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences | |||
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| Comedy Series | Hacks | |||
| Drama Series | Shōgun | |||
| Limited or Anthology Series | Baby Reindeer | |||
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| Network | ABC | |||
| Runtime | 3 hours, 8 minutes[1] | |||
| Viewership | 6.9 million | |||
| Produced by | Jesse Collins Entertainment | |||
| Directed by | Alex Rudzinski | |||
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The76th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in Americanprime time television programming from June 1, 2023, until May 31, 2024, as chosen by theAcademy of Television Arts & Sciences.[2] The awards ceremony was held live on September 15, 2024, at thePeacock Theater inDowntown Los Angeles, California, and was preceded by the76th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 7 and 8. During the ceremony,Emmy Awards were handed out in 25 different categories. The ceremony was produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment, directed by Alex Rudzinski, and broadcast in the United States byABC.Eugene Levy andDan Levy co-hosted the event.
At the main ceremony,Baby Reindeer,The Bear, andShōgun tied for the most wins at four apiece, includingOutstanding Limited or Anthology Series forBaby Reindeer andOutstanding Drama Series forShōgun. Other winning programs wereHacks with three wins, includingOutstanding Comedy Series, andAlex Edelman: Just for Us,The Crown,The Daily Show,Fargo,Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,The Morning Show,Ripley,Slow Horses,The Traitors, andTrue Detective: Night Country with one each. Including Creative Arts Emmys,Shōgun led all programs with 18 wins, a record for a show in one year;FX led all networks and platforms with 36 total wins.
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The nominations for the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on July 17, 2024, in a virtual broadcast originating from theEl Capitan Theatre inHollywood, Los Angeles, hosted by actorTony Hale, actressSheryl Lee Ralph and Television Academy chairCris Abrego.[3] Including nominations at the76th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards,Shōgun led all programs with 25 nominations.[4] It was also the second non-English language series to be nominated forOutstanding Drama Series afterSquid Game, which was nominatedtwo years earlier.[5]The Bear became the most-nominated comedy series for a single season in the awards' history with 23 nominations; the program surpassed the record held by theNBC comedy30 Rock, which received 22 nominations in2009.[6][7]Lily Gladstone of the seriesUnder the Bridge andKali Reis of the seriesTrue Detective: Night Country became the first indigenous American women to receiving acting nominations; along withD'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai of the seriesReservation Dogs, they were the first indigenous American actors to earn an acting nomination sinceAugust Schellenberg for his role in the television filmBury My Heart at Wounded Knee in2007.[8]Netflix led all networks and platforms with 107 nominations.FX came in second place with 93 nominations, surpassing its own record of 56 nominations in2016.[9]
The winners were announced on September 15, following the Creative Arts Emmys on September 7 and 8. With 36 total wins, FX led all networks and platforms for the first time.[10]Shōgun became the first non-English-language series to win Outstanding Drama Series and won a total of 18 awards, breaking the record of 13 set byJohn Adams in2008 to become the most awarded program for a single year in Emmy history.[11] It also passedGame of Thrones's 12 wins in2015, 2016, and2019 for most wins by a drama series in a single season.[12] With its 11 wins,The Bear surpassed its own record for most wins for a comedy series in a single year. For their work onShōgun,Hiroyuki Sanada andAnna Sawai were the first Japanese performers to winOutstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series andOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, respectively.[13][14] Sawai also became the first Asian to win her category, while Sanada became the second Asian to do so in his category afterLee Jung-jae for his role inSquid Game in 2022.[15]Liza Colón-Zayas was the first Latina winner forOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance onThe Bear.[16]
Winners are listed first, highlighted inboldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[17][18][a] For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards have been omitted.
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The Governors Award was presented to screenwriter, producer and director of film and televisionGreg Berlanti in recognition of his significant impact on television and culture by depicting the underrepresented in film.[20]
For the purposes of the lists below, "major" constitutes the categories listed above (program, acting, directing, and writing), while "total" includes the categories presented at theCreative Arts Emmy Awards. Programs and networks must have multiple wins or major nominations or at least five total nominations to be included.
| Wins | Program | Network | |
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| Total | Major | ||
| 18 | 4 | Shōgun | FX |
| 11 | 4 | The Bear | FX |
| 6 | 4 | Baby Reindeer | Netflix |
| 0 | Saturday Night Live | NBC | |
| 5 | 0 | Jim Henson Idea Man | Disney+ |
| 4 | 1 | Ripley | Netflix |
| 0 | Blue Eye Samurai | Netflix | |
| The Oscars | ABC | ||
| 3 | 3 | Hacks | Max |
| 1 | The Crown | Netflix | |
| The Morning Show | Apple TV+ | ||
| 0 | Billy Joel: The 100th — Live at Madison Square Garden | CBS | |
| Only Murders in the Building | Hulu | ||
| Welcome to Wrexham | Hulu | ||
| 2 | 1 | The Daily Show | Comedy Central |
| Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | HBO | ||
| The Traitors | Peacock | ||
| 0 | Girls State | Apple TV+ | |
| How I Met Your Father | Hulu | ||
| Love on the Spectrum | Netflix | ||
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Prime Video | ||
| Nominations | Network | |
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| Total | Major | |
| 107 | 27 | Netflix |
| 93 | 33 | FX |
| 91 | 23 | HBO /Max |
| 70 | 26 | Apple TV+ |
| 38 | 9 | ABC |
| 2 | CBS | |
| 37 | 8 | Prime Video |
| 33 | 4 | NBC |
| 26 | 7 | Hulu |
| 19 | 0 | Disney+ |
| 10 | 1 | MTV |
| 9 | 1 | Peacock |
| 6 | 1 | Bravo |
| 0 | Fox | |
| Paramount+ | ||
| 5 | 1 | Comedy Central |
| 0 | BBC America | |
| <5 | 3 | Showtime |
| Wins | Network | |
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| 36 | 9 | FX |
| 24 | 6 | Netflix |
| 14 | 6 | HBO /Max |
| 9 | 2 | Apple TV+ |
| 7 | 0 | ABC |
| Disney+ | ||
| Hulu | ||
| NBC | ||
| 5 | 0 | CBS |
| 4 | 0 | Prime Video |
| 3 | 1 | Peacock |
| 2 | 1 | Comedy Central |
| 0 | National Geographic | |
The following people presented awards or other segments:[23]
On February 10, 2024, theAcademy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS, also known as the Television Academy) announced that the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards would be held on September 15; the corresponding Creative Arts ceremonies were announced for September 7 and 8.[24][25] It was the second Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony held in 2024 due to the75th ceremony, originally slated to broadcast on September 18, 2023, taking place four months later on January 15, 2024, as a result of the2023 Hollywood labor disputes.[26]ABC broadcast the gala as part of a four-year rotation deal among the "Big Four" broadcast networks signed in 2018.[27] The broadcast was made available for streaming onHulu for the week following the ceremony.[28]
The ceremony was produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment (Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon, and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay) for the second consecutive year.[29] ActorEugene Levy and his sonDan were announced as co-hosts on August 16.[30] It was the first time a father-and-son duo co-hosted an Emmy ceremony.[31] According toDisney Entertainment chairpersonDana Walden, producers and network executives had asked comedianJimmy Kimmel – who emceed the previous three ABC telecasts – to host the ceremony. However, Kimmel declined the offer saying he wanted to take a break after hosting theprevious Academy Awards.[32] Alex Rudzinski andRickey Minor served as director and musical director for the ceremony, respectively.[33] Two days before the ceremony, ABC aired a special episode of20/20 entitledThe 76th Emmys: A Night of Firsts. Hosted byGood Morning America co-anchorRobin Roberts, the special featured interviews with Eugene and Dan Levy and several of the ceremony's nominees.[34] Roberts also co-hosted the network's red carpet arrivals special preceding the main telecast withABC News journalist Will Reeve.[35]
Building from the previous year, producers Collins, Harmon, and Rouzan-Clay announced during a press conference that several of the awards would be presented by actors grouped by "character archetypes", such as TV moms, dads, and villains.[36] Collins also revealed that the telecast would feature reunions in tribute to the 50th anniversaries ofNBC variety/sketch programSaturday Night Live and ABC comedy seriesHappy Days, and the 25th anniversary of NBC drama seriesThe West Wing.[37] In an interview with theLos Angeles Times, Eugene Levy echoed the producers' decision to focus on history and nostalgia, saying, "And [it's] also just paying tribute to television, certainly the nominees, but to the medium that gave us both our starts."[38]
Categories to be shown during the main broadcast were set in July 2024, withOutstanding Variety Special (Live) returning to the Creative Arts ceremony; as part of a rotation agreement with theWriters Guild of America,Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special also replacedOutstanding Writing for a Variety Series at the main ceremony.[39]
The broadcast generally received mixed to negative reviews from critics.[40] Allison Herman ofVariety compared the ceremony to the previous one noting, "the 76th Emmys were a far less dynamic and more stilted watch than the January show." She also criticized production elements such as the music director's choices for presenters' walk on music, recurring sound technical issues, and the grouping of presenters based on character archetypes.[41]Ben Travers ofIndieWire found Eugene and Dan Levy's performances as hosts underwhelming, which was not helped by their reminder to the audience that "they weren't stand up comedians, but actors acting like hosts." He reserved praise for several presenters such asCandice Bergen,Billy Crystal, and the cast ofOnly Murders in the Building, but he ultimately found the ceremony to be "another awards show resigned to its diminishing fate."[42] Lili Loofbourow, writing forThe Washington Post, found the hosts to be "pleasant but forgettable" and that the onslaught of repeat winners bogged down the ceremony.[43]
In a more positive review, Judy Berman ofTime complimented the Levys and said, "The emcees imbued what is always a long night—and was, this time around, full of predictable wins—with many moments of lighthearted fun, without trying too hard to roast their fellow actors or land headline-making zingers."[44] Daniel Fienberg ofThe Hollywood Reporter called the ceremony "an above-average show", noting that surprise winners kept "audiences on their toes" and that they often gave the best speeches. However, he criticized the reunion tributes noting that the presenters' dialogue felt bland and poor written in comparison to the prior ceremony's tributes. He also called the choice ofJelly Roll's performance of "I Am Not Okay" "tonally questionable" and wrote thatJimmy Kimmel's tribute to comedianBob Newhart "absolutely warped the mood in a room that wasn't sure if this was the time to laugh about how oftenJon Stewart wins Emmys."[45] Robert Lloyd wrote in theLos Angeles Times that the telecast was a "sweet, positive show that at the same time avoided the air of self-congratulation". He noted the Levys' "father-and-son dynamic", with Dan's role as "the hipper son" and Eugene as the "befuddled dad", was at the heart of their shared time together.[46]
Competing with aSunday Night Football game on NBC, the ceremony was viewed by 6.9 million people in the United States, making it the most-viewed Emmys inthree years, representing a 54% increase over the previous year's ceremony.[47][48] It also achieved a 1.03 rating among adults ages 18–49.[47]
The In Memoriam tribute, which featured singerJelly Roll performing his song "I Am Not Okay", paid tribute to the following individuals:[49][50]
At the end of the tribute, comedian and talk show hostJimmy Kimmel briefly eulogized Newhart.[51]
