The 78th Emmy Awards began on September 5 at the Peacock Theater at L.A. The awards are being presented over three dates; September 5, September 6 and September 14. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles, with the first of three ceremonies recognising achievements across variety, reality and nonfiction programming, along with several technical categories.
Among the other notable individual winners on Night 1 were Jimmy Kimmel, who won Outstanding Host for a Game Show for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for the second consecutive year, and Alan Cumming, who won Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program for The Traitors, Desi Lydic also took home an Emmy for Outstanding Performer in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for The Daily Show: Desi Lydic Foxsplains. Hargitay, who will host the September 14 Emmy telecast, was among the notable stars to score multiple honours on the opening night. Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny won Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny, which emerged as the biggest winner of the night with seven awards. American singer-songwriter and actor Sabrina Carpenter won Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) for The Muppet Show, while Oscar-winning actor Octavia Spencer earned Outstanding Narrator for Lost Women of Alaska. Other individual winners included Ben Archard, Yvonne De Mare and Hamish Hamilton, who won for directing The Traitors, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny, respectively. The Muppet Show won four, while Love on the Spectrum collected three. Antiques Roadshow, Ocean with David Attenborough and My Mom Jayne were among the other programmes to pick up multiple awards, while Jeopardy! won Outstanding Game Show.
The night also saw Mariska Hargitay win two Emmys for her documentary My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay, including Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program and Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special. On the programme front, The Traitors was among the biggest winners with six awards, while The Late Show with Stephen Colbert picked up five in its final season.
