2026 Emmy Awards: The Complete Winners List
Every winner from the 2026 Emmy Awards, from The Pitt's Drama Series sweep and Widow's Bay's Comedy dominance to DTF St. Louis's Limited Series haul.
Television's biggest night of the year is over, and a few shows made it look easy. The Pitt walked away with Drama Series, the medical drama's biggest prize of the night. Widow's Bay turned in one of the more lopsided comedy showings in recent memory, and DTF St. Louis did much the same on the limited series side. Here's how the full night played out, category by category.
The Top Series
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Outstanding Drama Series
The Pitt
Drama
The staff of Pittsburgh's Trauma Medical Center work around the clock to save lives in an overcrowded and underfunded emergency department.
MaxThe Pitt repeated as Outstanding Drama Series after also winning in 2025.
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Outstanding Comedy Series
Widow's Bay
Comedy · Drama · Horror
A skeptical mayor leads the superstitious residents of a cursed New England island.
Apple TV PlusWidow's Bay made Emmy history with 14 wins this season.
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Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
DTF St. Louis
Comedy
A love triangle among three adults experiencing middle-age malaise leads to one of them ending up dead.
MaxDTF St. Louis won seven Emmys this year, including Limited Series, Directing, and Writing.
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Outstanding Movie
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Comedy · Drama
Through unlikely bonds formed during night shifts at a local aquarium, Tova, an elderly widow, learns of a life-changing discovery that may bring her joy and wonder once again.
NetflixRemarkably Bright Creatures also picked up Lead Actress honors for Sally Field.
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Outstanding Reality Competition Program
The Traitors
Game Show · Reality Tv
America's most cunning contestants play the ultimate murder mystery game, hosted by Alan Cumming at an ancient castle in Scotland.
PeacockThe Traitors also won Alan Cumming his first Emmy as a reality host.
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Outstanding Variety Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Comedy · Talk Show
Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to late night, talking with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in politics, entertainment, and more.
Paramount PlusThe Late Show also swept Directing and Writing for a Variety Series.
Widow's Bay didn't stop at the series prize either: the show also won Directing, Writing, Lead Actor, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress, a sweep that left little room for anyone else in the category. DTF St. Louis had a similarly dominant run in Limited or Anthology Series, winning Directing, Writing, and both Supporting Acting categories on top of the series award.
Lead Acting
Noah Wyle won Lead Actor in a Drama Series for The Pitt, continuing a run that started last year.
Rhea Seehorn took Lead Actress for her work in Pluribus, her first Emmy win.
Over in comedy, Matthew Rhys won Lead Actor for Widow's Bay.
Jean Smart picked up Lead Actress for Hacks again, a category she has now won four times, missing only in 2023.
Jean Smart has now won Lead Actress for Hacks four times, coming up short only in 2023.
The most interesting story of the night belongs to Rhys, though. He also won Lead Actor in the Limited or Anthology Series category for The Beast in Me, a completely different show in a completely different genre. Winning Lead Actor twice in one ceremony, across two categories, is rare enough that it's worth calling out on its own.
Sally Field rounded out the limited series acting wins, taking Lead Actress for Remarkably Bright Creatures.
Supporting Acting
Tom Pelphrey won Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Task, and Allison Janney took Supporting Actress for The Diplomat. In comedy, both supporting acting awards went to the Widow's Bay cast: Stephen Root won Supporting Actor and Kate O'Flynn won Supporting Actress, adding two more trophies to the show's pile.
DTF St. Louis matched that in the limited series category, with David Harbour winning Supporting Actor and Linda Cardellini winning Supporting Actress.
Directing and Writing
Directing and writing followed the same pattern as everything else. Slow Horses won Directing for a Drama Series, while Pluribus took the writing award in that category. Widow's Bay won both Directing and Writing for Comedy Series, and DTF St. Louis did the same in Limited or Anthology Series, taking both trophies there too.
Hosting and Variety
Alan Cumming won Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program for The Traitors, and Jimmy Kimmel won Host for a Game Show for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny picked up Outstanding Variety Special (Live), South Park won Outstanding Animated Program, and Mr. Scorsese took Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series.
What Stood Out
Three shows defined this ceremony. Widow's Bay and DTF St. Louis each swept their genre almost entirely, leaving very little for their competition to pick up. And Matthew Rhys did something genuinely uncommon: he won Lead Actor twice, in two different categories, for two different shows, in the same year.
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