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.
Among the big winners was the breakout Netflix hit Adolescence, with six awards. The show's star, 15-year-old Owen Cooper, made history as the youngest male winner ever in any acting category.
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.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHBO 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.'The Studio' sets a record for most Emmys for a comedy in a single yearThe 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)Bargatze bails out celebs who couldn't keep their speeches shortBy 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."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.'Th