77th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2024, until May 31, 2025, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards ceremony was held live on September 14, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, and was preceded by the 77th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 6 and 7. During the ceremony, Emmy Awards were presented in 26 categories. The ceremony was produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment, directed by Alex Rudzinski, and broadcast in the United States by CBS and Paramount+. Nate Bargatze hosted the event.
At the main ceremony, The Studio won four awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, and The Pitt won three awards, including Outstanding Drama Series. Adolescence led all shows with six wins, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. Other winning programs included Hacks, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and Severance with two wins each, and Andor, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Penguin, "Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special", Slow Horses, Somebody Somewhere, and The Traitors with one each. Including Creative Arts Emmys, The Studio led all shows with 13 wins, while HBO, alongside its partner HBO Max, and Netflix led all networks with 30 wins each.
Winners and nominees
The nominations for the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on July 15, 2025, at the Television Academy's Wolf Theatre in North Hollywood, Los Angeles hosted by actor Harvey Guillén and actress Brenda Song along with Television Academy chair Cris Abrego. The nominees for Outstanding Reality Competition Program and Outstanding Talk Series were revealed on CBS Mornings a few hours prior. Including nominations at the 77th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Severance led all programs with 27 nominations, followed by The Penguin with 24 nominations. The Studio became the most-nominated first-year comedy series in the awards' history with 23 nominations; the Apple TV+ comedy surpassed the record held by the sports comedy Ted Lasso, which received 20 nominations in 2021. The series also tied The Bears 23 nominations in the previous year for most nominations for a comedy series in a single season.Sterling K. Brown, nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role in Paradise, tied with Andre Braugher and Don Cheadle for most nominations by a Black male performer with 11 nominations each. At age 77, Kathy Bates became the oldest nominee for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in Matlock; she surpassed the record previously held by Angela Lansbury who was nominated at age 70 in 1996 for her role in Murder, She Wrote. At age 21, Bella Ramsey was the youngest two-time nominee for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for their performance in The Last of Us. Ramsey was also the first openly non-binary person to be nominated more than once for an acting Emmy. At age 83, for his role on Shrinking, Harrison Ford became the second oldest nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series behind Alan Arkin, who was nominated in that category at age 86 in 2020 for his work on The Kominsky Method. Ayo Edebiri, nominated for both Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for her work on The Bear, was the first Black woman nominated for both acting and directing in the same year. At age 29, Edebiri also became the youngest Black woman to receive three acting nominations in her career. For the first time in Emmys history, the nominees for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series had at least one woman included in each of the writing teams. HBO and its streaming service HBO Max led all networks and platforms with 142 nominations; Netflix came in second place with 120 nominations.
The winners were announced on September 14, following the Creative Arts Emmys on September 6 and 7. With 30 total wins each, HBO and its streaming service HBO Max tied with Netflix to lead all networks and platforms. Combined with its nine Creative Arts Emmys, The Studio was the most awarded comedy in a single year with thirteen wins, breaking The Bears record of eleven from the previous year. It also surpassed the record for most wins by a freshman comedy series which was previously set by The Bear with ten awards in 2023. Seth Rogen won four awards for the aforementioned program to tie Moira Demos, Amy Sherman-Palladino, and Dan Levy for the most wins for an individual in one year. The Pitt became the first medical procedural to win Outstanding Drama Series since ER in 1996. Tramell Tillman was the first Black performer to win Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work on Severance. At age 15, for his role in Adolescence, Owen Cooper became the youngest male acting winner in Emmy history, breaking a record previously held by Scott Jacoby who won Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama in 1973 at age 16 for That Certain Summer.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger. For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards, as well as nominated writers for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, have been omitted.
Programs
Acting
Lead
Supporting
Directing
Writing
Bob Hope Humanitarian Award
The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award was presented to married actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, in recognition of "a lifetime of extraordinary philanthropy, activism and unwavering commitment to global good". This marked the first time the award was presented to a couple.Nominations and wins by program
For the purposes of the lists below, "major" constitutes the categories listed above, while "total" includes the categories presented at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Programs and networks must have multiple wins or major nominations or at least five total nominations to be included.Nominations and wins by network
Presenters
The following people presented awards or other segments:| Name | Role |
| Presented the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | |
| Presented the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | |
Catherine Zeta-Jones | Presented the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series |
Jude Law | Presented the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series |
| Presented the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | |
Reba McEntire Kimberly Schlapman | Tribute to the 40th anniversary of The Golden Girls; Presented the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series |
| Presented the award for Outstanding Reality Competition Program | |
James Marsden Julianne Nicholson | Presented the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series |
Parker Posey | Presented the award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series |
| Presented the award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | |
| Presented the award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series | |
| Tribute to the 25th anniversary of Survivor; Presented the award for Outstanding Scripted Variety Series | |
Anna Sawai | Presented the award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series |
| Presented the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | |
Kathryn Hahn | Presented the award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie |
Lauren Graham | Tribute to the 25th anniversary of Gilmore Girls; Presented the award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series |
| Presented the award for Outstanding Variety Special | |
Alan Cumming | Presented the award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series |
Hunter Schafer | Presented the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie |
| Presented the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | |
| Introduced the chairman of the Television Academy, Cris Abrego | |
Michael Schur | Presented the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award to Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen |
| Presented the In Memoriam segment | |
Brittany Snow | Presented the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie |
| Presented the award for Outstanding Talk Series | |
Evan Peters | Presented the award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series |
Ray Romano | Presented the award for Outstanding Comedy Series |
| Presented the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | |
Ice-T Mariska Hargitay Christopher Meloni S. Epatha Merkerson | Tribute to the 35th anniversary of the Law & Order franchise; Presented the award for Outstanding Drama Series |
Ceremony information
On March 5, 2025, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, also known as the Television Academy, announced that the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards would be held on September 14. CBS broadcast the ceremony as part of a rotating deal among the "Big Four" networks signed in 2018. Additionally, it was announced that the ceremony would be available live and on-demand via Paramount Skydance's streaming service Paramount+. The ceremony was produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment for the third consecutive year. On April 16, comedian Nate Bargatze was announced as the ceremony's host.During a press conference held on September 11 promoting the show, producer Collins announced that the ceremony would feature reunions in tribute to the 25th anniversaries of The WB and CW comedy-drama series Gilmore Girls and CBS reality competition series Survivor, and the 35th anniversary of NBC's police procedural franchise Law & Order. Furthermore, the telecast would pay tribute to the 40th anniversary of the NBC sitcom The Golden Girls with country singer Reba McEntire and Little Big Town's Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman performing the series' theme song, "Thank You for Being a Friend". Eric Dane and Jesse Williams were initially scheduled as co-presenters to honor the 20th anniversary of ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy, but Dane was absent from the ceremony while Williams presented alone. According to Collins, he told reporters for Variety after the awards ceremony, "I just was told that he wasn't able to make it, and fortunately, Jesse was able to present by himself." The following month, Dane revealed during an interview with The Washington Post that he was recovering from a fall he suffered in his kitchen shortly before the ceremony. He had previously been diagnosed with ALS in April.
In an effort to shorten winners' acceptance speeches and have the telecast run on time, Bargatze announced that he would donate $100,000 to the Boys & Girls Club of America. However, for every second an award winner's speech went over the 45-second limit $1,000 would be deducted from the donation. Similarly, for every second under the limit another $1,000 would be added. At the end of the show, the sum of money slated be donated fell $60,000 below zero due to several winners' speech going over the time limit. As a result, Bargatze stated that CBS would donate the full $100,000 to the charity, and that he would add an additional $250,000.
Several other individuals were involved with the production of the telecast. Alex Rudzinski and Rickey Minor served as director and musical director for the ceremony, respectively. Entertainment Tonight co-anchors Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner hosted a red carpet pre-show preceding the telecast. Comedians Mikey Day, James Austin Johnson, and Bowen Yang participated in an opening comedy sketch with Bargatze parodying how Philo Farnsworth invented television similar to the "Washington's Dream" sketch featured on a 50th season episode of Saturday Night Live.