The 78th Primetime Emmy nominations are out. The Pitt leads all programs with 25 nominations. Hacks earned 24, breaking the all-time comedy record. Apple TV+ had its best awards day ever. The ceremony airs September 14 on NBC and Peacock, hosted by Mariska Hargitay.
The Television Academy announced the full slate for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards on July 8, 2026. HBO Max dominated, its two biggest shows landing at the top of the nomination count before the coffee was cold. The Pitt, Noah Wyle's frantic real-time hospital drama, led all programs with 25 nominations. Hacks, in its fifth and final season, earned 24, breaking the previous single-year record for a comedy series, which had stood at 23 and was shared by The Bear and The Studio last year.
The Pitt was the clear story of the morning in drama. The HBO Max series drops viewers into a single brutal shift at a Pittsburgh trauma center and plays out almost in real time. It led the entire field with nominations across acting, writing, directing, and craft categories. Noah Wyle received a nod for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series; he won the same category last year.
Apple TV's freshman sci-fi drama Pluribus came in second among dramas with 18 nominations, a strong debut for a show that had been building momentum through awards season. Rhea Seehorn, who won the Golden Globe for her role in Pluribus, is up for lead actress in a drama series. Other outstanding drama contenders include The Diplomat, The Gilded Age, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Paradise, Slow Horses, and Your Friends and Neighbors.
The final season of Stranger Things earned several technical nominations but missed Outstanding Drama Series entirely, the first time the show has been shut out of the top drama race. No explanation was given, and Netflix did not comment publicly before publication.
Hacks earned 24 nominations in its farewell season. Jean Smart is in for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the fourth consecutive year. Paul W. Downs, who wrote, produced, and stars in the show, landed multiple nominations. The show faces real competition from The Bear, Abbott Elementary, Shrinking, Nobody Wants This, Only Murders in the Building, Margo's Got Money Troubles, and the newcomer Widow's Bay.
Widow's Bay, Apple TV's horror-comedy that saw late Emmy campaign momentum, earned 19 nominations, leading all new series. Apple TV had its best awards day ever, accounting for roughly 87 nominations across its slate. The platform has spent years trying to break through at the Emmys; this year, it clearly did.
Netflix's Beef returned for its second season and led the limited series field with 16 nominations, including acting recognition for Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Youn Yuh-jung, and Charles Melton. DTF St. Louis, the HBO dark comedy, earned 13 nominations and is the reason Jason Bateman is having an unusual awards morning: he picked up four total nominations across DTF St. Louis and the Netflix drama Black Rabbit, in which he both starred and directed.
A posthumous Emmy nomination went to director and actor Rob Reiner for his guest appearance on The Bear. Late Show With Stephen Colbert, in its final season, received nine nominations, its most across its 11-year run.
Heated Rivalry was ineligible due to foreign financing rules. Sydney Sweeney did not receive a nomination for Euphoria's third and final season after earning one previously. Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, both nominated last year for Nobody Wants This, were passed over for the show's second season. Jeremy Allen White and Paul Anthony Kelly, who played John F. Kennedy Jr. in FX's Love Story, were also left out.
The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards will air live on NBC and Peacock on Monday, September 14, 2026, at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles. Mariska Hargitay, the Law and Order: SVU executive producer and star, will host the show. She is the first woman to do so in 15 years. The Creative Arts Emmys will take place September 5 and 6.
HBO Max leads all platforms with approximately 122 nominations. Netflix follows with roughly 111. With The Pitt and Hacks setting the pace and Apple TV finally breaking through, the race into September should be genuinely competitive in a way the Emmys have not felt in a few years.
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