July 8, 2026
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Apple scores report 89 Emmy Award nominations, with prime class nods for celebrated comedies Widow’s Bay, Shrinking, and Margo’s Bought Cash Troubles, and world hit dramas Pluribus, Gradual Horses, and Your Buddies & Neighbors
Apple leads with probably the most nominations for any community in main drama and comedy classes, as breakout comedy Widow’s Bay scores 19 nominations and drama Pluribus lands 18 nominations following extensively acclaimed first season
Award-winning nonfiction collection Mr. Scorsese and The Reluctant Traveler With Eugene Levy rating prime program nominations
Apple lands nominations throughout 15 originals, with extra nods for titles together with Basis, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, The Morning Present, Murderbot, Palm Royale, and Smoke
CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA Apple scores a historic 89 nominations throughout 15 packages for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, and leads because the community with probably the most nominations within the Excellent Drama and Excellent Comedy collection classes, respectively, incomes prime program nominations for comedies Widow’s Bay, Shrinking, and Margo’s Bought Cash Troubles, alongside dramas Pluribus, Gradual Horses, and Your Buddies & Neighbors. Apple’s breakout comedy sensation Widow’s Bay leads as considered one of this 12 months’s most-nominated packages with 19 nominations in whole, and Pluribus lands 18 nominations following its world hit freshman season, whereas celebrated Apple Authentic Shrinking lands 10 nominations, Gradual Horses is acknowledged with 9, and Margo’s Bought Cash Troubles scores eight in whole.
This 12 months’s record-breaking nominations comply with Apple TV’s sweeping final 12 months’s 77th Primetime Emmy Awards because the community led with The Studio turning into the most-winning freshman comedy in Emmy historical past, and Severance main because the 12 months’s most-winning drama. Nominations for the 78th Emmy Awards have been introduced as we speak by the Tv Academy, and the winners will probably be unveiled at a ceremony on September 14.
“Nice tales have the flexibility to entertain, shock, and convey folks collectively, and these unprecedented nominations acknowledge reveals which have achieved precisely that,” mentioned Matt Cherniss, Apple TV’s head of programming. “We’re in awe of the world-class storytellers now we have the chance to collaborate with every single day and are deeply grateful to the Tv Academy for celebrating them. Congratulations to all of this 12 months’s nominees whose good work has related with viewers in all places.”
On the heels of its broadly acclaimed first season, Widow’s Bay earns a nomination for Excellent Comedy Sequence, together with six appearing class nominations, together with Excellent Lead Actor for star and govt producer Matthew Rhys; Excellent Supporting Actor nominations for Kate O’Flynn, Dale Dickey, and Stephen Root; in addition to Excellent Visitor Actor nominations for Hamish Linklater and Betty Gilpin. The collection additionally scores nominations for Excellent Directing, Excellent Writing, and Excellent Modifying.
As considered one of this 12 months’s most-nominated packages, Pluribus is nominated for Excellent Drama Sequence, together with nominations for Excellent Writing and Excellent Directing for creator Vince Gilligan, and Excellent Lead Actress in a Drama Sequence for star Rhea Seehorn, in addition to Excellent Supporting Actor nominations for Karolina Wydra and Carlos-Manuel Vesga, and Excellent Visitor Actor nods for Jeff Hiller and Miriam Shor.
Excellent Comedy Sequence nominee Shrinking lands 10 nominations in whole, together with Excellent Lead Actor for Jason Segel, together with Excellent Supporting Actor nods for Harrison Ford and Michael Urie, an Excellent Supporting Actress nomination for Jessica Williams, and Excellent Visitor Actor nominations for Brett Goldstein and Michael J. Fox, who lands his first appearing nomination in over a decade.
Apple’s acclaimed comedy Margo’s Bought Cash Troubles makes its Emmy debut with eight nominations, together with Excellent Comedy Sequence, Excellent Lead Actress in a Comedy for star and govt producer Elle Fanning, Excellent Supporting Actress in a Comedy for star and govt producer Michelle Pfeiffer, and Excellent Supporting Actor for Nick Offerman.
Emmy Award-winning drama Gradual Horses scores its third consecutive nomination for Excellent Drama Sequence for its acclaimed fifth season, with 9 whole nominations, and Apple’s hit unique drama Your Buddies & Neighbors scores its first-ever nomination for Excellent Drama Sequence for its second season.
On the nonfiction aspect, Apple’s documentary occasion Mr. Scorsese scores prime nominations together with Excellent Documentary or Nonfiction Sequence, Excellent Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program, and Excellent Image Modifying for a Nonfiction Program. Plus, following its third season, The Reluctant Traveler With Eugene Levy lands its second nomination for Excellent Hosted Nonfiction Sequence or Particular, together with a nomination for Excellent Writing for a Nonfiction Program.
Apple Authentic Murderbot additionally makes its Emmy debut with three nominations in whole, and Palm Royale, The Morning Present, Basis, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Smoke are additionally acknowledged with nominations.
So far, Apple Authentic movies, documentaries, and collection have been honored with 850 wins and three,734 award nominations, together with multi-Emmy Award-winning and history-making comedies The Studio and Ted Lasso; world cultural phenomenon Severance; Apple’s most-viewed drama, Pluribus; Academy Award Finest Image winner CODA; and Academy Award winner F1, the highest-grossing sports activities function of all time.
In whole, Apple scored 89 Emmy Award nominations:
Widow’s Bay (19)
- Excellent Comedy Sequence
- Excellent Lead Actor in a Comedy Sequence: Matthew Rhys
- Excellent Supporting Actress in a Comedy Sequence: Kate O’Flynn
- Excellent Supporting Actress in a Comedy Sequence: Dale Dickey
- Excellent Supporting Actor in a Comedy Sequence: Stephen Root
- Excellent Visitor Actor in a Comedy Sequence: Hamish Linklater
- Excellent Visitor Actress in a Comedy Sequence: Betty Gilpin
- Excellent Writing for a Comedy Sequence: Katie Dippold
- Excellent Directing for a Comedy Sequence: Hiro Murai
- Excellent Manufacturing Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour)
- Excellent Casting for a Comedy Sequence
- Excellent Cinematography for a Sequence (Half-Hour)
- Excellent Image Modifying for a Single-Digital camera Comedy Sequence (3x)
- Excellent Music Composition for a Sequence (Authentic Dramatic Rating)
- Excellent Music Supervision
- Excellent Sound Modifying for a Comedy or Drama Sequence (Half-Hour) and Animation
- Excellent Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Sequence (Half-Hour) and Animation
Pluribus (18)
- Excellent Drama Sequence
- Excellent Lead Actress in a Drama Sequence: Rhea Seehorn
- Excellent Supporting Actor in a Drama Sequence: Carlos-Manuel Vesga
- Excellent Supporting Actress in a Drama Sequence: Karolina Wydra
- Excellent Visitor Actor in a Drama Sequence: Jeff Hiller
- Excellent Visitor Actress in a Drama Sequence: Miriam Shor
- Excellent Writing for a Drama Sequence: Vince Gilligan
- Excellent Directing for a Drama Sequence: Vince Gilligan
- Excellent Manufacturing Design for a Narrative Modern Program (One Hour or Extra)
- Excellent Casting for a Drama Sequence
- Excellent Cinematography for a Sequence (One Hour)
- Excellent Image Modifying for a Drama Sequence (3x)
- Excellent Music Composition for a Sequence (Authentic Dramatic Rating)
- Excellent Authentic Foremost Title Theme Music
- Excellent Music Supervision
- Excellent Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Sequence (One Hour)
Shrinking (10)
- Excellent Comedy Sequence
- Excellent Lead Actor in a Comedy Sequence: Jason Segel
- Excellent Supporting Actress in a Comedy Sequence: Jessica Williams
- Excellent Supporting Actor in a Comedy Sequence: Harrison Ford
- Excellent Supporting Actor in a Comedy Sequence: Michael Urie
- Excellent Visitor Actor in a Comedy Sequence: Michael J. Fox
- Excellent Visitor Actor in a Comedy Sequence: Brett Goldstein
- Excellent Casting for a Comedy Sequence
- Excellent Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Sequence (Half-Hour) and Animation
- Excellent Quick Type Nonfiction or Actuality Sequence: Shrinking: In It Collectively
Gradual Horses (9)
- Excellent Drama Sequence
- Excellent Lead Actor in a Drama Sequence: Gary Oldman
- Excellent Supporting Actor in a Drama Sequence: Jack Lowden
- Excellent Visitor Actor in a Drama Sequence: Jonathan Pryce
- Excellent Writing for a Drama Sequence: Will Smith
- Excellent Directing for a Drama Sequence: Saul Metzstein
- Excellent Manufacturing Design for a Narrative Modern Program (One Hour or Extra)
- Excellent Casting for a Drama Sequence
- Excellent Music Composition for a Sequence (Authentic Dramatic Rating)
Margo’s Bought Cash Troubles (8)
- Excellent Comedy Sequence
- Excellent Lead Actress in a Comedy Sequence: Elle Fanning
- Excellent Supporting Actress in a Comedy Sequence: Michelle Pfeiffer
- Excellent Supporting Actor in a Comedy Sequence: Nick Offerman
- Excellent Cinematography for a Sequence (One Hour)
- Excellent Modern Costumes for a Sequence
- Excellent Modern Hairstyling
- Excellent Modern Make-up (Non-Prosthetic)
Palm Royale (8)
- Excellent Manufacturing Design for a Narrative Interval or Fantasy Program (One Hour or Extra)
- Excellent Choreography for Scripted Programming
- Excellent Interval Costumes
- Excellent Interval or Fantasy/Sci-Fi Hairstyling
- Excellent Interval or Fantasy/Sci-Fi Make-up (Non-Prosthetic)
- Excellent Music Composition for a Sequence (Authentic Dramatic Rating)
- Excellent Stunt Coordination for Comedy Programming
- Excellent Stunt Efficiency
Murderbot (3)
- Excellent Sound Modifying for a Comedy or Drama Sequence (Half-Hour) and Animation
- Excellent Title Design
- Excellent Authentic Foremost Title Theme Music
Mr. Scorsese (3)
- Excellent Documentary or Nonfiction Sequence
- Excellent Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program
- Excellent Image Modifying for a Nonfiction Program
The Reluctant Traveler With Eugene Levy (2)
- Excellent Hosted Nonfiction Sequence or Particular
- Excellent Writing for a Nonfiction Program
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age (2)
- Excellent Music Composition for a Documentary/Nonfiction or Actuality Program (Authentic Dramatic Rating)
- Excellent Particular Visible Results in a Season or Film
Your Buddies & Neighbors (1)
The Morning Present (1)
- Excellent Supporting Actor in a Drama: Billy Crudup
Basis (1)
- Excellent Particular Visible Results in a Season or Film
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (1)
- Excellent Particular Visible Results in a Season or Film
Smoke (1)
Nominees for Excellent Business (2)
- “A Critter Carol”
- “I’m Not Exceptional”
Pluribus
Hailing from creator Vince Gilligan, Pluribus is a genre-bending unique through which probably the most depressing particular person on Earth should save the world from happiness.
Gradual Horses
This darkly humorous espionage drama follows a staff of British intelligence brokers who serve in a dumping floor division of MI5 on account of their career-ending errors. Led by their good however irascible chief, the infamous Jackson Lamb (Academy Award winner Sir Gary Oldman), they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
Your Buddies & Neighbors
After being fired in shame, a hedge fund supervisor nonetheless grappling along with his current divorce resorts to stealing from his neighbors’ houses within the exceedingly prosperous Westmont Village, solely to find that the secrets and techniques and affairs hidden behind these rich facades is perhaps extra harmful than he ever imagined.
The Morning Present
Season 4 of The Morning Present opens in spring 2024, nearly two years after the occasions of Season Three. With the UBA-NBN merger full, the newsroom should grapple with newfound duty, hidden motives, and the elusive nature of fact in a polarized America. In a world rife with deepfakes, conspiracy theories, and company cover-ups — who are you able to belief? And how will you know what’s really actual? Together with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, the star-studded Season 4 ensemble solid consists of Billy Crudup, Karen Pittman, Nicole Beharie, Nestor Carbonell, Mark Duplass, Greta Lee, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Boyd Holbrook, and returning fan favourite Jon Hamm.
Widow’s Bay
Widow’s Bay is a quaint island city 40 miles off the coast of New England. However one thing lurks beneath the floor. Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) is determined to revive his struggling neighborhood. There’s no Wi-Fi, spotty mobile reception, and he should deal with superstitious locals who imagine their island is cursed. He desires these folks to respect him. They don’t. They suppose he’s tender and cowardly. And he’s. However Loftis is decided to construct a greater future for his teenage son and switch the island right into a vacationer vacation spot. Miraculously, he succeeds: Vacationers are lastly coming. Sadly, the locals have been proper. After a long time of calm, the outdated tales that appeared too ludicrous to be true begin occurring once more. Widow’s Bay blends real horror with character-driven comedy.
Shrinking
Shrinking follows a grieving therapist who begins to interrupt the principles and inform his purchasers precisely what he thinks. Ignoring his coaching and ethics, he finds himself making large, tumultuous modifications to folks’s lives… together with his personal.
Margo’s Bought Cash Troubles
Margo’s Bought Cash Troubles is a daring, heartwarming, and comedic household drama following current school dropout and aspiring author Margo (Elle Fanning), the daughter of an ex-Hooters waitress (Michelle Pfeiffer) and ex-pro wrestler (Nick Offerman), as she’s pressured to make her approach with a brand new child, a mounting pile of payments, and a dwindling quantity of the way to pay them.
Palm Royale
Palm Royale is a real underdog story that follows Maxine Simmons (Kristen Wiig) as she endeavors to interrupt into Palm Seaside excessive society. As Maxine makes an attempt to cross that impermeable line between the haves and the have-nots, Palm Royale asks the identical query that also baffles us as we speak: “How a lot of your self are you keen to sacrifice to get what another person has?” Set in the course of the powder keg 12 months of 1969, Palm Royale is a testomony to each outsider combating for his or her probability to actually belong.
Murderbot
Based mostly on Martha Wells’s bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award-winning ebook collection, Murderbot is a sci-fi thriller/comedy a couple of self-hacking safety assemble who’s horrified by human emotion but drawn to its weak purchasers. Murderbot should disguise its free will and full a harmful task when all it actually desires is to be left alone to observe futuristic cleaning soap operas and determine its place within the universe.
Basis
Based mostly on the award-winning novels by Isaac Asimov, Basis chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to avoid wasting humanity and rebuild civilization amid the autumn of the Galactic Empire.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Season One among Monarch: Legacy of Monsters tracks two siblings trying to uncover their household’s connection to the secretive group generally known as Monarch. Clues lead them into the world of monsters and finally down the rabbit gap to Military officer Lee Shaw (performed by Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell), happening within the Nineteen Fifties and half a century later, the place Monarch is threatened by what Shaw is aware of.
Season Two will choose up with the destiny of Monarch — and the world — hanging within the stability. The dramatic saga reveals buried secrets and techniques that reunite our heroes (and villains) on Kong’s Cranium Island, and a brand new, mysterious village the place a legendary Titan rises from the ocean. The ripple results of the previous make waves within the current day, blurring the bonds between household, pal, and foe — all with the specter of a titan occasion on the horizon.
Smoke
Impressed by true occasions, Smoke follows a troubled detective and an enigmatic arson investigator as they pursue the paths of two serial arsonists.
Mr. Scorsese
Mr. Scorsese is a movie portrait of a person by the lens of his work, exploring the various sides of a visionary who redefined filmmaking, together with his extraordinary profession and distinctive private historical past. With unique, unrestricted entry to Martin Scorsese’s non-public archives, the documentary collection is anchored by intensive conversations with the filmmaker himself and never-before-seen interviews with associates, household, and inventive collaborators together with Robert De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone, Jodie Foster, Paul Schrader, Margot Robbie, Cate Blanchett, Jay Cocks, and Rodrigo Prieto, alongside along with his youngsters, spouse Helen Morris, and shut childhood associates. From acclaimed director Rebecca Miller, Mr. Scorsese examines how his personal colourful life experiences knowledgeable his creative imaginative and prescient as every movie he made shocked the world with originality. Beginning along with his New York College scholar movies and persevering with to the current day, this documentary explores the themes which have fascinated Scorsese and knowledgeable his work, together with the place of fine and evil within the elementary nature of humankind.
The Reluctant Traveler With Eugene Levy
After confronting his fears and stepping outdoors his consolation zone within the first two seasons, Levy is inching nearer to turning into an avid traveler. However earlier than he can declare that title, he’s discovering what the “final journey bucket record” is all about, and he will get a little bit assist from a really particular visitor, the Prince of Wales. This season, Levy can also be joined by a couple of famously acquainted faces — together with multiplatinum celebrity and five-time Grammy Award winner Michael Bublé; Levy’s daughter, Schitt’s Creek and SurrealEstate star Sarah Levy; NOWZ, one of many latest Okay-pop boy bands; and Rahul Dravid, former Indian cricketer generally known as one of many best batsmen within the historical past of cricket. This season takes him to Austria, Canada, England, India, Eire, Mexico, South Korea, and the US, every cease bringing a brand new alternative to broaden his perspective — and take a look at his resolve. Further company and native guides this season embrace Eric Nam, a Korean American singer, songwriter, and actor in South Korea, and Jofra Archer, a quick bowler who performs for the England cricket staff, amongst many others who be part of Levy at completely different stops on his journey.
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age is a sweeping new installment of the award-winning pure historical past collection from govt producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton, produced by BBC Studios Pure Historical past Unit (Planet Earth), and narrated by Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner Tom Hiddleston (Earthsounds), with an unique rating by Hans Zimmer, Anže Rozman, and Kara Talve from Bleeding Fingers Music. The five-part docuseries invitations viewers right into a dramatic new period of prehistoric life, hundreds of thousands of years after the extinction of the dinosaurs — an period formed by ice, the extreme struggle to outlive, and the rise of a brand new solid of giants: the enduring megafauna.
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