Owen Cooper, 15, accepts the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie award for Adolescence at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

The stars came out Sunday night for the 77th Emmy Awards, held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Television was fantastic this year — and the star-studded night and the tough competition proved that.

Apple TV+’s The Studio won four awards, including Best Comedy Series, making history as the most awarded comedy ever at the Emmys, after securing nine wins at last week’s Creative Arts Emmys.

HBO Max’s The Pitt took home three awards, including Best Drama Series, beating out top contenders such as The White Lotus and Severance. The Severance star Tramell Tillman became the first Black actor to win the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze hosted the show and, in a novel approach to keep the show from running too long, ran a fundraiser throughout the night. He earmarked $100,000 for the Boys & Girls Club of America, saying he would add $1,000 to the total for every second a speech was under the 45-second mark, and deduct $1,000 for every second that an acceptance speech went over 45 seconds.

In the end, that wasn’t enough to get the actors to keep their speeches short, so Bargatze stepped in himself, promising that he would donate $250,000 — with $100,000 from CBS — to the charity.


Mike Bebernes

‘The Studio’ sets a record for most Emmys for a comedy in a single year

The Studio, the inside-Hollywood comedy from Apple TV+, took home a total of 13 Emmys, breaking the record of 10 set by The Bear in 2023. Its cocreator and lead actor Seth Rogen also tied the record for most Emmys by an individual in a single year, with four wins altogether. The Studio collected nine awards at last week’s Creative Arts ceremony, with Bryan Cranston receiving the 11th Emmy in his career for his guest appearance on the show.

Seth Rogen accepts the Outstanding Comedy Series award for The Studio at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)



Andrew Romano

Bargatze bails out celebs who couldn’t keep their speeches short

By the end of the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, host Nate Bargatze was forced to admit defeat. His plan to keep speeches short — start with $100,000 for the Boys & Girls Club of America, then subtract or add $1,000 for every second a speaker went under or over their allotted time — had failed.

The last time the running tally of donations appeared onscreen, it was well into negative territory (around -$60,000). It never appeared again.

“The number — I’ll be honest with you: It was embarrassing,” Bargatze said in the show’s final moments. “It went way down. I can’t imagine ever doing this again.”

But then, Bargatze announced that he would be wiping the slate clean. CBS, he said, would be donating $100,000. He would personally be giving $250,000.

“It takes us to $350,000 for the Boys & Girls Club,” he said, as the stars in attendance smiled and clapped. “Thank you guys so much for being out here.”


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Colbert references ‘The Late Show’ cancellation and Trump in acceptance speech

Accepting his award for Outstanding Talk Series, the host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, an outspoken critic of President Trump, made reference to Paramount’s controversial decision earlier this year to cancel the long-running CBS program for reasons that many construed as political.

“I want to thank CBS for giving us the privilege to be part of the late-night tradition,” Colbert said, “which I hope continues long after we’re no longer doing this show.”

Stephen Colbert accepts the award for Outstanding Talk Series for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Colbert then told a story that obliquely — but unmistakably — touched on Trump.

“Ten years ago, in September of 2015, Spike Jonze stopped by my office and said, ‘Hey, what do you want this show to be about?’” Colbert recalled. “And I said, ‘Ah, Spike, I don’t know how you’d do it, but I’d kind of like to do a late-night comedy show that was about love.”

Colbert paused before continuing. “I don’t know if I ever figured that out, but at a certain point — and you can guess what that point was — I realized that we were, in some ways, doing a late-night comedy show about loss.”

“And that’s related to love,” Colbert went on, “because sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it.”

“Ten years later, in September of 2025, my friends, I have never loved my country more desperately,” he concluded. “God bless America. Stay strong, be brave — and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor.”

The audience responded with a standing ovation.


Mike Bebernes

‘The Pitt’ wins Outstanding Drama Series

The Pitt also took home two acting awards, with Noah Wyle winning for his lead performance and Katherine LaNasa winning for her supporting role

Andor

The Diplomat

The Last of Us

Paradise

The Pitt — winner

Severance

Slow Horses

The White Lotus

John Wells accepts the award for Outstanding Drama Series for The Pitt. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)


Mike Bebernes

Noah Wyle wins Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

This is the first Emmy win and seventh nomination for Noah Wiley. He was nominated five times for his supporting performance on ER.

Sterling K. Brown, Paradise

Gary Oldman, Slow Horses

Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us

Adam Scott, Severance

Noah Wyle, The Pitt — winner

Noah Wyle accepts the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for The Pitt. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)


Mike Bebernes

‘The Studio’ wins Outstanding Comedy Series

This is the fourth major award The Studio has won this evening. It was also honored for directing, writing and Seth Rogen’s lead performance.

Abbott Elementary

The Bear

Hacks

Nobody Wants This

Only Murders in the Building

Shrinking

The Studio — winner

What We Do in the Shadows

Seth Rogen accepts the Outstanding Comedy Series award for “The Studio” during the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)


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‘Adolescence’ wins Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series

The win gives cocreator Stephen Graham his third Emmy of the night. He had previously won for his lead performance and directing. Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty also collected Emmys for their performances on the show.

Adolescence — winner

Black Mirror

Dying for Sex

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

The Penguin

Stephen Graham accepts the Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series award for “Adolescence” onstage during the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)


Mike Bebernes

‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ wins Outstanding Talk Series

The Daily Show

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — winner

Stephen Colbert accepts the Outstanding Talk Series award for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (Valerie Macon/AFP)


Mike Bebernes

Stephen Graham wins Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

The actor also won an Emmy for writing earlier in the evening. He is the third performer in Adolescence with a win tonight, along with Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty.

Colin Farrell, The Penguin

Stephen Graham, Adolescence — winner

Jake Gyllenhaal, Presumed Innocent

Brian Tyree Henry, Dope Thief

Cooper Koch, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

Stephen Graham accepts the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie award for “Adolescence.” (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)


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Cristin Milioti shares excitement in heartfelt acceptance speech: ‘I love acting!’

Cristin Milioti at the 77th Emmy Awards. (Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty Images)

Accepting her Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, Cristin Milioti (The Penguin) delivered perhaps the most … colorful speech of the night so far.

“I’m so sorry,” Milioti began. “I wrote this on the back of notes I took in therapy the other day … so don’t look at the back.”

Admitting that “it’s very hard to make sense of being alive right now in this world,” she called her experience making The Penguin “a bright spot — despite it being very grisly.”

Suddenly, Milioti noticed her speech clock was approaching the 45-second limit.

“Are you kidding?” she said. “This really speeds.”

Trying to squeeze everything in, Milioti launched into a bunch of rapid-fire thank yous — including one to her family for “supporting your strange kid” and one to Penguin showrunner Lauren LeFranc, whose “brain” Milioti apparently wants to “freebase” — before leaving the audience with one last message.

“I love you!” Milioti shouted. “And I love acting!”

Then she threw her arms over her head and screamed.


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Gilmore Girls Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel reunite

Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham speak onstage during the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. (Monica Schipper/WireImage via Getty Images)

Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel of Gilmore Girls reunited on the iconic porch of their Stars Hollow house at tonight’s Emmys to present a writing award — 25 years after the show “premiered and apparently took the season of fall hostage,” Graham joked.

“Gilmore was actually a very small show,” Bledel said.

“Meaning we had no money,” Graham interjected, slipping seamlessly back into their signature ratatat rapport.

“Nothing.”

“If there was a birthday at the Drew Carey Show next door, they would send us their leftover sheet cake.”

“We looked hungry.”

“But the one thing we did have,” Graham said, “we had scripts.”


Mike Bebernes

Cristin Milioti wins Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Cate Blanchett, Disclaimer

Meghann Fahy, Sirens

Rashida Jones, Black Mirror

Cristin Milioti, The Penguin — winner

Michelle Williams, Dying for Sex

Cristin Milioti accepts the lead Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie award for The Penguin. (Valerie Macon/AFP)


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Erin Doherty wins Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

This is Doherty’s first Emmy win and nomination. Her scene partner in the show’s harrowing third episode, Owen Cooper, also won for his performance.

Erin Doherty, Adolescence — winner

Ruth Negga, Presumed Innocent

Deirdre O’Connell, The Penguin

Chloë Sevigny, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

Jenny Slate, Dying for Sex

Christine Tremarco, Adolescence

Erin Doherty accepts the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie award for “Adolescence.” (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)


Andrew Romano

Charity donation falls to $36,000 as acceptance speeches go long — then rises again

Host Nate Bargatze speaks onstage during the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Tonight’s Emmys started with $100,000 earmarked for the Boys & Girls Club of America. Host Nate Bargatze said he would deduct $1,000 for every second an acceptance speech went over the allotted 45 seconds — and add $1,000 back for every second a speech came in under.

At the halfway point — right after Adolescence won Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie — the pot had as low as $36,000.

“This is tough,” Bargatze said. “That was a show called Adolescence that did that to adolescents.”

But then Bargatze offered to cover Adolescence star Owen Cooper’s tab — he’s only 15, after all — and Seth Rogen continued his run of super-short speeches.

After a commercial break, Bargatze revealed that the pot was back up to $99,000.


Mike Bebernes

‘Last Week Tonight’ wins Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series

This is the show’s 8th consecutive win in this category.

The Daily Show

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver — winner

Saturday Night Live

John Oliver accepts the Outstanding Scripted Variety Series award for “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.” (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)


Mike Bebernes

‘SNL50: The Anniversary Special’ wins Outstanding Live Variety Special

The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show starring Kendrick Lamar

Beyoncé Bowl

The Oscars

SNL50: The Anniversary Special — winner

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

Lorne Michaels accepts the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) award for “Saturday Night Live.” (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)


Mike Bebernes

‘The Studio’ wins Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory and Frida Perez will share the award. Rogen was named Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy earlier in the show. He and Goldberg also won outstanding directing honors.

Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary

Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky, Hacks

Nathan Fielder, Carrie Kemper, Adam Locke-Norton and Eric Notarnicola, The Rehearsal

Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Bridget Everett, Somebody Somewhere

Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory and Frida Perez, The Studio — winner

Sam Johnson, Sarah Naftalis and Paul Simms, What We Do in the Shadows

Frida Perez, Peter Huyck, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg accept the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series award for “The Studio.” (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)


Andrew Romano

Owen Cooper: ‘I was nothing about three years ago. I’m here now.’

Owen Cooper accepts the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie award for “Adolescence.” (Monica Schipper/WireImage via Getty Images)

At 15, Owen Cooper just became the youngest male winner of any acting Emmy — ever.

And perhaps even more impressive is the fact that Cooper won for his first role ever, as teen murderer Jamie Miller on Netflix’s Adolescence.

“This is so surreal,” Cooper said as he gripped his statuette and stepped to the mic.

“When I started these drama classes a couple of years back, I didn’t expect to be in the United States — never mind here,” Cooper told the audience. “But I think tonight proves that if you listen and you focus and you step out of your comfort zone, you can achieve anything in life.”

“I was nothing about three years ago,” Cooper continued, his voice wavering with emotion. “I’m here now.”


Mike Bebernes

Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham win Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for ‘Adolescence’

This is the second award for Adolescence tonight. Owen Cooper won Outstanding Supporting Actor earlier in the ceremony.

Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham, Adolescence — winner

Charlie Brooker and Bisha K. Ali, Black Mirror

Kim Rosenstock and Elizabeth Meriwether, Dying for Sex

Lauren LeFranc, The Penguin

Joshua Zetumer, Say Nothing

British actor and writer Stephen Graham and British playwright Jack Thorne accept the Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Anthology Series or Movie for “Adolescence.” (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP)


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Owen Cooper wins Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Cooper, 15, wins an Emmy for his debut acting performance

Javier Bardem, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

Bill Camp, Presumed Innocent

Owen Cooper, Adolescence — winner

Rob Delaney, Dying for Sex

Peter Sarsgaard, Presumed Innocent

Ashley Walters, Adolescence

Owen Cooper, 15, accepts the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie award for his role in Adolescence. (Mike Blake/Reuters)