75Th Primetime Emmy Awards

The ceremony was broadcast on Fox on January 15, 2024, with the 75th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards on January 6 and 7 at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, following a delay from September 2023 due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes. A total of 26 Emmy Awards were presented. The ceremony was produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment and hosted by Anthony Anderson. The nominations were announced on July 12, 2023.

75th Primetime Emmy Awards
Promotional poster
Date	January 15, 2024 (Ceremony) January 6–7, 2024 (Creative Arts Emmys)
Location	Peacock Theater Los Angeles, California
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Hosted by	Anthony Anderson
Highlights
Most awards	Major: The Bear / Succession (6) All: The Bear (10)
Most nominations	Major: Succession (14) All: Succession (27)
Comedy Series	The Bear
Drama Series	Succession
Limited or Anthology Series	Beef
Television/radio coverage
Network	Fox
Runtime	3 hours
Viewership	4.46 million
Produced by	Jesse Collins Entertainment
Directed by	Alex Rudzinski
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The Bear and Succession led all programs with six major wins each, including Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Drama Series, respectively. The former also led all programs when including Creative Arts Emmy Awards, with ten; Beef won five awards, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. Other winning programs include 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The nominees for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on July 12, 2023, in a virtual broadcast hosted by actress Yvette Nicole Brown and Television Academy chair Frank Scherma. Succession led all programs with 27 nominations, including 14 acting nominations to tie 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. In individual achievements, 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.

Jenna Ortega became the second-youngest nominee for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series after Patty Duke; Pedro Pascal's three nominations made him the most-nominated Latino in a year; and Keivonn Montreal Woodard became the youngest male actor and second deaf actor to be nominated. HBO/Max led all networks with 127 nominations, and the two services became the first network with four Outstanding Drama Series nominees since NBC at the 1992 ceremony. Amazon Freevee and Tubi each earned their first nominations this year for Jury Duty and The Nevers, respectively.

The winners were announced on January 15, 2024, following the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on January 6 and 7. With his win for Outstanding Variety Special (Live), Elton John became the 19th recipient of an EGOT. With Quinta Brunson and Ayo Edebiri winning for Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, respectively, this marks the first time that two Black women have won these actress categories for a comedy series at the same ceremony. The former is also the first Black woman to win her category since 1981 when Isabel Sanford won for The Jeffersons. Ali Wong made history as 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 performances

Supporting performances

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 (program, acting, directing, and writing), 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

The awards were presented by the following people:

 

In February 2023, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (also known as the Television Academy) 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 year in a row that the ceremony would fall on a Monday; while it was described as an "unusual" move, since only NBC typically aired the Emmys on Mondays since 2014 (due to NBC Sunday Night Football), it would prevent the broadcast from interfering with potential overruns by Fox's Sunday afternoon football coverage. The ceremony will be produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment, taking over for Done and Dusted and Hudlin Entertainment. Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon, and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay will serve as producers. Anthony Anderson was announced as the host in December. In honor of the Emmys' 75th anniversary, the statuettes for these ceremonies featured the number 75 etched in the base. Instead of play-off music, Anderson's mother Doris Bowman reminded award recipients when their time was up.

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 (WGA) were also told to not attend promotional events while the strike is 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 (following the postponement of the 50th Daytime Emmy Awards, which was originally scheduled earlier for June 16). 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.

Competing with the 2023–24 NFL playoffs on ABC and ESPN and cable news coverage of the Iowa Republican caucuses, the ceremony averaged 4.46 million viewers, making it the least-viewed in Emmys history, representing about a 25% decrease over the previous ceremony in 2022. It also achieved a 0.87 rating among adults ages 18–49.

Category and rule changes

In June 2022, the Television Academy announced the elimination of the "hanging episode" rule for the 2023 ceremony. In previous years, episodes that aired after the May 31 eligibility deadline but before nominations voting began could be placed on a Television Academy platform for viewing. Following the rule change, all episodes must air for a national audience by May 31, or those episodes will be moved to the following ceremony; if the program does not air a new season in that following year, the episodes would be eligible for individual achievement awards only.

Following a realignment between the Primetime Emmy Awards and Daytime Emmy Awards for the 2022 ceremonies, the Television Academy and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced in August 2022 that game shows would move to the primetime ceremony. New categories include Outstanding Game Show and Outstanding Host for a Game Show. To accommodate the change, the eligibility window for game shows spanned from January 1, 2022, to May 31, 2023. Additionally, to avoid confusion over where programs qualify, Outstanding Competition Program was renamed to Outstanding Reality Competition Program. Game shows featuring children as contestants are eligible for the Children's and Family Emmy Awards only.

More rule changes were announced in December 2022. Most notably, the variety categories were rearranged, with Outstanding Variety Talk Series and Outstanding Variety Sketch Series becoming Outstanding Talk Series and Outstanding Scripted Variety Series. The first category covers programs focused on "unscripted interviews or panel discussions between a host/hosts and guest celebrities or personalities", while the second covers those that "consist of discrete scenes, musical numbers, monologues, comedy stand-ups, sketches, etc." The move was seen as an attempt to resolve the dwindling number of variety sketch series and to separate news-focused programs from more variety-focused talk shows; the existing categories were initially merged in late 2020 before being split again a few months later. Other changes included caps on nominations-round voting and changes to tracked categories.

Categories to be shown during the main broadcast were originally set in November 2023, with Outstanding Variety Special (Live) replacing Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series (which had rotated from year to year). Following pushback from the Writers Guild of America, the Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series category was added back to the broadcast.

The annual In Memoriam segment was introduced by Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers, which included a special tribute to All in the Family creator Norman Lear, and featured Charlie Puth and The War and Treaty performing a medley of "See You Again" and "I'll Be There for You".