{"id":1048559,"date":"2026-09-07T09:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1048559\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:22:16","slug":"widows-bay-and-the-pitt-win-emmys-at-early-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1048559\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Widow’s Bay’ and ‘The Pitt’ win Emmys at early ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d ran away with eight early Emmys<\/a> for its debut season Sunday at a ceremony eight days before the main awards show and telecast, while \u201cThe Pitt\u201d<\/a> had a strong second-year showing with four of its own and Rob Reiner posthumously won an acting Emmy nearly nine months after his killing. <\/p>\n

\u201cDTF St. Louis\u201d won big with six awards in the limited series categories, with co-stars and veteran actors David Harbour and Linda Cardellini both becoming first-time Emmy winners. <\/p>\n

\u201cWidow\u2019s Bay,\u201d<\/a> the Apple TV horror comedy with Matthew Rhys as the mayor of a small New England town dealing with a centuries-old curse, won categories including cinematography, sound, music and production design. <\/p>\n

Betty Gilpin won best guest actress in a comedy for her role on the show, and read a rapid-fire comic poem as her acceptance speech. It included the lines \u201cour business is stupid, but actors are the bomb\u201d and \u201clet\u2019s all lean more toward Sam Shepard<\/a> and less toward Sam Altman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018The Pitt\u2019 has strong second-year showing <\/p>\n

HBO Max\u2019s day-in-the-life medical series \u201cThe Pitt\u201d \u2014 the year\u2019s top nominee with 25 and the reigning best drama winner for its first season \u2014 had wins Sunday in categories including prosthetic makeup and best guest actor in a drama for 73-year-old first-time nominee Ernest Harden Jr. <\/p>\n

Harden, who won for portraying the last days of Louie Cloverfield, the emergency room\u2019s constant presence and constantly struggling alcoholic on \u201cThe Pitt,\u201d wept when his name was called.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am just on cloud 25,\u201d he said backstage at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. \u201cI\u2019m not saying it\u2019s a complete surprise because \u2018The Pitt\u2019 is such a powerful show to come from, but just to get it in your hands is unreal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harden\u2019s first speaking role was in the 1975 Robert Redford-Faye Dunaway thriller \u201cThree Days of the Condor\u201d and he had a three-season role on the sitcom \u201cThe Jeffersons\u201d in the 1970s, but has acted for decades without awards recognition. <\/p>\n

Singer-songwriter Andrew Bird and Gavin Brivik won for original music and lyrics for a song they wrote about the character. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a music-heavy show,\u201d Bird said backstage. \u201cBut they gave us a beautiful moment with a character that we love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rebranding the Creative Arts Emmys and adding some star power<\/p>\n

The Television Academy hands out well over 100 primetime Emmys, and most of them are being presented this weekend in a pair of ceremonies. They were previously known as the Creative Arts Emmys<\/a> but have now been rebranded as simply the first two nights of the 78th Emmy Awards.<\/p>\n

The weekend\u2019s awards primarily go to behind-the-scenes crew members, but they include the guest-acting awards that tend to go to bigger names. And the shows\u2019 star power got a boost when five categories normally on the main telecast were bumped to the earlier weekend, among them best supporting actor in a limited series, won by Harbour in his third nomination, and best supporting actress in a limited series, won by Linda Cardellini in her fourth nomination in an elite TV career that included roles on \u201cFreaks and Geeks\u201d and \u201cMad Men.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to everybody who along the way through the years helped me get to this moment of a real dream come true,\u201d Cardellini said from the stage, through tears. <\/p>\n

Rob Reiner gets a somber ovation <\/p>\n

At a ceremony that otherwise moved at a blazing-fast clip with a breezy mood, a long, thoughtful ovation came when Reiner was announced as best guest actor in a comedy for his work on \u201cThe Bear.\u201d Reiner\u2019s friend and fellow \u201cBear\u201d guest star Jamie Lee Curtis was among those in the crowd paying him tribute. <\/p>\n

Reiner<\/a> was killed along with his wife Michele Singer Reiner<\/a> in December, and their son, who has pleaded not guilty, has been charged with stabbing them to death. His win came about 50 years after winning two Emmy Awards for his acting on \u201cAll in the Family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saturday and Sunday\u2019s ceremonies will be edited together to air Sept. 12 on FXX and stream on Hulu the following day. The primetime Sept. 14 ceremony, also at the Peacock Theater and hosted by Mariska Hargitay<\/a>, will air live on NBC and stream live on Peacock.<\/p>\n

Both \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d and \u201cThe Pitt\u201d can add up to six more Emmys to their totals on that final night. <\/p>\n

\u201cPluribus,\u201d another Apple TV Emmy rookie from \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d creator Vince Gilligan that could challenge \u201cThe Pitt\u201d in the top drama categories, won four trophies Sunday night including editing, production design and sound mixing. <\/p>\n

Shailene Woodley and a canceled \u2018Spider-Noir\u2019 are also winners <\/p>\n

Shailene Woodley won best guest actress in a drama for her role on \u201cParadise.\u201d It was her first Emmy. <\/p>\n

\u201cSpider-Noir,\u201d the Nicolas Cage series which was canceled after one season last week by Amazon Prime Video, won five Emmys including visual effects and stunts. <\/p>\n

Hargitay was among this weekend\u2019s winners, getting two Emmys for the documentary she directed about her mother, Jayne Mansfield, \u201cMy Mom Jayne,\u201d to go with the best actress in a drama Emmy she won in 2006 for \u201cLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Bad Bunny won his first career Emmy Award<\/a> for his Super Bowl halftime show<\/a>, which took seven trophies at the first of the weekend\u2019s ceremonies on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d ran away with eight early Emmys for its debut season Sunday at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1048560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[419912,2122,156871,276,185,435,165029,47491,171,253860,419914,57,15460,18586,349970,18585,85224,57119,206147,53,101797,35606,118515,419913,923,57127,78083,399,61,67,132,68,176432],"class_list":["post-1048559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-andrew-bird","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-betty-gilpin","tag-california","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-david-harbour","tag-emmy-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-ernest-harden-jr","tag-gavin-brivik","tag-general-news","tag-jamie-lee-curtis","tag-jayne-mansfield","tag-linda-cardellini","tag-mariska-hargitay","tag-matthew-rhys","tag-media-and-entertainment-industry","tag-michele-singer-reiner","tag-movies","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-pittsburgh-panthers","tag-rob-reiner","tag-robert-redford-faye-dunaway","tag-sam-altman","tag-sam-shepard","tag-shailene-woodley","tag-television","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-vince-gilligan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}