LIVE BLOG: 77th Emmy Awards: the winners, the surprises, and the reunions
The 77th Emmy Awards are here!
The stars have landed in Los Angeles at the Peacock Theater for this year's ceremony, hosted by comedian Nate Bargatze.
“Severance” leads drama nominees with 27 nominations, while “The Studio” racked up the most nominations for the comedy field with 23. Other nominees include
The 77th Emmy Awards, hosted by Nate Bargatze, will be live on CBS from the Peacock Theater in L.A. on Sunday, Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT. The show will be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
Stay here for all the excitement as the winners are announced, the speeches are delivered, and the unexpected moments abound!
11:05 pm And that's it! Big night for "Adolesence," "The Pitt," and "The Studio!"
11:02 pm Bargatze and Smoove take the stage with some of the kids representing The Boys and Girls Club of America. The host joked that because the number was so in the red, they're going to actually donate money, $100,000 from CBS and $250,000 from Bargatze.
11:01 pm "The Pitt" wins for Outstanding Drama Series! The EP dedicates the award to healthcare workers and first responders.
10:59 pm Ice-T, S. Epatha Merkerson, Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, and Tony Goldwyn unite to represent "Law & Order" as they introduce Outstanding Drama Series.
10:57 pm Noah Wyle wins Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for "The Pitt!" It's his first nomination and win in the lead category after being in the supporting category for years on "E.R." Wyle dedicated the award to "anyone going on shift or coming off shift tonight, this is for you!"
10:56 pm Colman Domingo presents Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
10:52 pm "The Studio" wins Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series! Rogen accepted on behalf of the team, and accidentally swears as he notes the Boys and Girls Club donation is majorly in the red.
10:48 pm We get an "Everybody Love Raymond" reunion with Ray Romano and Brad Garrett presenting Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series.
10:45 pm No surprise here, "Adolescence" won Outstanding Limited Or Anthology Series or Movie! It won a grand total of eight of its 13 nominations.
10:44 pm "American Horror Story" stars Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters present Outstanding Limited Or Anthology Series or Movie.
10:38 pm "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" wins for Outstanding Talk Show! The whole team comes to the stage to cheers of "Stephen! Stephen! Stephen!" Colbert thanks everyone, including his wife Evie, and concluded his speech with a quote from Prince's hit "Let's Go Crazy," saying, "And if the elevator tries to bring you down, Go crazy, punch a higher floor!"
10:38 pm Bryan Cranston presents the Outstanding Talk Show category.
10: 35 pm Stephen Graham wins Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie for "Adolescence." The sweep continues! Graham makes the usual thank yous, including a touching one to his "adorable" wife who he says "without you I would be dead."
10:34 pm "Hunting Wives" stars Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman present Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie.
10:33 pm Bargatze gave a donation update, and everybody has gone so long we're down to about $50,000!
10:20 pm Phylicia Rashad is introduced, beginning the In Memorium segment with a dedication to her "Cosby Show" co-star Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who died earlier this year in a drowning accident.
Rashad then introduced Vince Gill and Lainey Wilson, performing "Go Rest High on That Mountain."
10:17 pm Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen accept the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award together.
10:13 pm Kristen Bell and Michael Schur present the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award to Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen
10:09 pm "This is Us" star Justin Hartley introduced TV Academy Chairman Chris Abrego, speaking about the importance of television and expanding voices within the organization.
10:03 pm Cristin Milioti wins Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie for "The Penguin," her first nomination and win. Everyone is so happy for her, a lot of people stand up to clap for her. She's super emotional, joking she wrote her thank you list on the back of notes she took in therapy, and thanks her family and friends, getting completely choked up. She concluded her speech with a hearty, "I love acting so much, wooooo!"
10:02 pm Charlie Hunam presents Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie
10:00 pm Erin Doherty wins Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie for "Adolescence." We're almost to a full sweep! Doherty also accidentally cursed in her speech, saying "You're all f--king stunning!"
9:59 pm Hunter Schafer and Young Mazino present Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie.
9:52 pm "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" wins Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, their eighth consecutive win in the category.
9:50 pm Alan Cumming and Kathy Bates, reuniting from their 1999 TV movie version of "Annie." They're presenting Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.
9:48 pm "SNL 50: The Anniversary Special" wins Outstanding Live Variety Special! Lorne Michaels stepped up to accept the award on behalf of the team, and he mentioned he won the award 50 years ago for the first time!
9:45 pm Tina Fey presents Outstanding Live Variety Special.
9:40 pm "The Studio" wins Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series, for writers Seth Rogen, Even Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory & Frida Perez. The writers keep it short and addded "Pay up, Nate!"
9:39 pm "Gilmore Girls" stars Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel reunite on stage to acknowledge the show's 25th anniversary, joking about their show's tiny budget but big impact and their show's incredible scripts. All of that was a set up to introduce the nominees for Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series.
9:36 pm Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham win Outstanding Writing For A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie for "Adolescence." Graham joked about their height difference before thanking their cast and crew. "Adolescence" looks set to sweep the Limited Or Anthology Series or Movie category this year.
9:34 pm Ike Barinholtz and Kathryn Hahn present Outst anding Writing For A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie.
9:27 pm Owen Cooper wins Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie for "Adolescence." Cooper is just 15-years-old and received incredible reviews for his work. His speech is sweet too, as he reminds people to step out of their comfort zone, noting just a few years ago he was just taking classes and thanked the cast and crew.
9:26 pm Sydney Sweeney presents Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie.
9:23 pm Dan Gilroy wins Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series for "Andor," the "Star Wars" spinoff series on Disney+. It really was a family affair on the show, as Gilroy thanks his brothers, Tony and John, on the show.
9:22 pm "Shogun" stars Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai present Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series.
9:18 pm "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" wins and host John Oliver RACED through his acceptance speech, adding a jokey "f--k you" to Bargatze, adding he'll contribute to a proposed swear jar as well.
9:16 pm Jeff Probst introduces the Outstanding Scripted Variety Series category with a tribute to the 25th anniversary of "Survivor" in a sketch pitting two tribes, "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" and "Saturday Night LIve" against each other.
9:14 pm Adam Randall wins Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series for "Slow Horses."
9:13 pm Jesse Williams presents Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series
9:05 pm Philip Barantini wins Outstanding Directing For A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie for the Netlifx hit "Adolescence."
9:04 pm Elizabeth Banks presents Outstanding Directing For A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie.
9:02 pm Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg win Outstanding Director for a Comedy Series. They kept their speech short and sweet
9:01 pm "White Lotus" stars Walton Goggins and Parker Posey present Outstanding Director for a Comedy Series.
8:54 pm Jeff Hiller wins Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for "Somebody Somewhere!" Hiller's speech is sweet and genuine, he's so surprised and excited by his win.
8:52 pm "Paradise" stars Sterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson, and James Marsden for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
8:51 pm "The Traitors" wins for Outstanding Reality Series, going five for five on their nominations. Host Alan Cumming accepted the award on the whole show's behalf,.
8:49 pm Leanne Morgan comes out to present and is so funny, she calls out Pedro Pascal for being cute and compliments everyone on being beautiful. She's presenting Outstanding Reality Competition Series, and does a little bit of stand up about each nominated show.
8:48 pm Bargatze jokes that Einbinder cursed during her speech and he'll start a swear jar too.
8:41 pm Hannah Einbinder wins Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for "Hacks," her first win after four nominations! It's really sweet, Einbinder is tearing up during her speech, and acknowledges she's going over the 45 second count and quipped, "I'll pay the difference."
8:41 pm The ladies then presented for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
8:39 pm Reba McEntire and Little Big Town's Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman pay tribute to "The Golden Girls" 40th anniversary by singing the show's theme song, "Thank You for Being a Friend." And you better believe the whole audience was singing along!
8:37 pm Britt Lower wins Lead Actress in a Drama for "Severance!" It's the show's second acting win of the night, putting the show on track to be the top winner of the night (it's also the most nominated).
8:36 pm Angela Bassett presents Lead Actress in a Drama.
8:29 pm Tramell Tillman wins Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for "Severance!" Tillman's speech shares wise words from his "first acting coach" his mom, who was his date on the carpet and summed up his speech with "As my momma would say, 'Woo! Look at God!'"
8:28 pm Jude Law and Jason Bateman present the nominees for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
8:26 pm Comedian JB Smoove is introduced as the one keeping track of the donation (he's a Boys and Girls Club alum!) and brings out two kids representing the charity.
8:24 pm Katherine LaNasa wins Actress in a Drama Series for "The Pitt!" It's the show's first win of the ngiht, but they already picked up another acting award for Shawn Hatosy four OUtstanding Guest Actor in a drama series.
Unfortunately, LaNasa's speech went over the time allotment with her big wave at the end cut into the Boys and Girls Club donation (but is it fair if a winner isn't speaking when they go over?!)
8:23 pm "Wednesday" stars Jenna Ortega and Catherine Zeta-Jones present Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
8:17 pm Jean Smart wins Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in "Hacks!, her seventh Emmy win!
Smart thanked the cast and crew of the show, and encouraged everyone to "be good to each other."
8:14 pm Jennifer Coolidge steps out to present Lead Actress in a Comedy series, the category she won in previously.
8:10 pm Nate Bargatze comes on stage to officially do his monologue, an unexpected line up in the the usual show format. Bargatze instructs winners to keep their speeches at 45 seconds, but if they go over, for every second they go over, they will DEDUCT money from a $100,000 donation to the Boys and Girls Club of America. But if you go under, they'll add $1,000 for every second you're under. And this is apparently coming out of Bargatze's own pocket.
Rogen's speech was under 45 seconds by 6 seconds, so they added $6,000 to the total!
8:08 pm Seth Rogen wins Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in "The Sutdio." It's cute, and he seems genuinely overwhelmed with his win.
8:06 pm Stephen Colbert receives standing ovation as he walks out to present the first award of the night, Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. He made a joke asking if anyone was hiring because he has "200 qualified candidates" available in June, referring to his late night talk show's unexpected cancelation earlier this year.
Colbert also brought a copy of his resume and an old headshot, handing them off to Harrison Ford, hoping to get it to Steven Spielberg.
8:00 pm-We're live! Starting off with a sketch featuing "SNL" stars Bowen Yang, Mikey Day, and Austin T. Johnson and show host Nathan Bargatze, as Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television.
The sketch is similar to Bargatze's breakout sketch from "SNL" a couple seasons ago where he played George Washington.
