75th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2022, until May 31, 2023, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards ceremony was held on January 15, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, and was preceded by the 75th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards on January 6 and 7. The awards were postponed from their original September dates due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes. During the ceremony, Emmy Awards were handed out in 26 different categories. The ceremony was produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment, directed by Alex Rudzinski, and broadcast in the United States by Fox. Anthony Anderson hosted the event.
At the main ceremony, The Bear and Succession led all programs with six major wins each, including Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Drama Series, respectively. Other winning programs were Beef with five wins, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver with two awards, and Abbott Elementary, Black Bird, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium, RuPaul's Drag Race and The White Lotus with one each. Including Creative Arts Emmys, The Bear led all programs with ten wins, a record for a comedy series in one year; HBO and Max led all networks and platforms with 31 total wins.
Winners and nominees
The nominations for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on July 12, 2023, in a virtual broadcast originating from the Hollywood Athletic Club in Hollywood, Los Angeles, hosted by actress Yvette Nicole Brown and Television Academy chair Frank Scherma. Including nominations at the 75th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Succession led all programs with 27 nominations. The series received 14 acting nominations, tying its own record from the previous year. It also became the first series to receive three nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. The Last of Us became the first live-action video game adaptation to be nominated in major Emmy categories. At age 20, for her performance in Wednesday, Jenna Ortega became the second-youngest nominee for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series after Patty Duke for her role on her eponymous show. For his work on The Last of Us, Saturday Night Live, and Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World, Pedro Pascal's three nominations made him the most-nominated Latino in a single year. Paris Barclay's nomination for Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story made him the first Black director to be nominated in comedy, drama, and limited series categories. HBO and its streaming service Max led all networks and platforms with 127 nominations, and the two services became the first network with four Outstanding Drama Series nominees since NBC in 1992. Netflix came in second place with 103 nominations. Amazon Freevee and Tubi each earned their first nominations for Jury Duty and The Nevers, respectively.The winners were announced on January 15, following the Creative Arts Emmys on January 6 and 7. Succession became the fourth program to win Outstanding Drama Series for its final season. Combined with its four Creative Arts Emmys, The Bear was the most awarded comedy in a single year with ten wins, breaking Schitt's Creeks record of nine from 2020. With 53 nominations and zero wins throughout its run, Better Call Saul became the most nominated program without a single win in Emmy history. By virtue of his win for Outstanding Variety Special for Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium, Elton John became the 19th recipient of an EGOT. For her role on Abbott Elementary, Quinta Brunson became the first Black woman to win Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series since 1981 when Isabel Sanford won for The Jeffersons. Combined with Ayo Edebiri's win for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on The Bear, this marked the first time Black women won both comedy female acting categories in a single year. For her performance on Beef, Ali Wong became the first Asian woman to win an Emmy for a lead role category.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface', and indicated with a double dagger. For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards, as well as nominated writers for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, have been omitted.
Programs
Acting
Lead
Supporting
Directing
Writing
Governors Award
The Governors Award was presented to the media monitoring and advocacy organization GLAAD in recognition of its work "over nearly four decades to secure fair, accurate and diverse representation of the LGBTQ community in the media and entertainment industries and to advocate for LGBTQ equality." GLAAD's president and CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis, accepted the honor on the organization's behalf during the Primetime Emmy telecast.Nominations and wins by program
For the purposes of the lists below, "major" constitutes the categories listed above, while "total" includes the categories presented at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Programs and networks must have multiple wins or major nominations or at least five total nominations to be included.Nominations and wins by network
Presenters
The awards were presented by the following people:Ceremony information
In February 2023, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and broadcaster Fox announced the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards would be held on September 18, with the Creative Arts ceremonies on September 9 and 10. This marked the second straight year that the ceremony was scheduled for a Monday; while it was described as an "unusual" move, since only NBC typically aired the Emmys on Mondays since 2014, it would prevent the broadcast from interfering with potential overruns by Fox's Sunday afternoon football coverage. The ceremony was produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment, taking over for Done and Dusted and Hudlin Entertainment, with Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon, and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay serving as producers.Due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike that began on May 2, 2023, the Television Academy allowed companies to cancel scheduled For Your Consideration events without penalty. Members of the Writers Guild of America were also told to not attend promotional events while the strike was ongoing. The 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike then began on July 14. The Television Academy reportedly planned to postpone the ceremony should either strike continue into August. The last time the Primetime Emmys were delayed was in 2001 following the September 11 attacks. The Television Academy first told vendors in late July that the ceremony would be delayed, though no official announcement was made at the time. According to several reports, the Television Academy preferred a November makeup date, while Fox preferred a January date due to fall broadcast commitments.
On August 10, the ceremony was officially rescheduled for January 15, 2024, falling on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. The final round of voting still occurred in late August as scheduled. Anthony Anderson was announced as the host on December 13. Alex Rudzinski and Rick Kimbrel served as director and musical supervisor for the ceremony, respectively. Instead of utilizing play-off music, Anderson's mother, Doris Bowman, reminded award recipients when their time was up to end their acceptance speeches. Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker made an appearance during the telecast's opening segment playing Phil Collins's song "In the Air Tonight".
In honor of the Emmys' 75th anniversary, producers Collins, Harmon, and Rouzan-Clay announced that the ceremony would feature cast reunions or recreations of memorable moments from popular television series throughout history. In an interview with Variety, Rouzan-Clay elaborated on the segments saying, "I think they'll be talking about the ones that they may see on the screen. Those are going to be a big talking point, a big watercooler moment, if you will. It was a grand task to figure out how to celebrate 75 years of television. If we can bring some nostalgia to that stage, then I think that we've done a good deed." Among the television series that were honored were All in the Family, Ally McBeal, Cheers, Grey's Anatomy, and The Sopranos. The statuettes for these ceremonies also featured the number 75 etched in the base.