The 2026 Emmy winners are officially in, and streaming series took all three of the night’s biggest scripted prizes.
HBO Max’s The Pitt won Outstanding Drama Series, Apple TV+’s Widow’s Bay took Outstanding Comedy Series, and HBO Max’s DTF St. Louis won Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.
Those wins capped an Emmy season that unfolded across three nights this year. The Creative Arts Emmys were held on September 5 and 6, followed by the main ceremony on September 14 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Mariska Hargitay hosted the final ceremony, which aired on NBC and streamed on Peacock.
And once all three nights were counted, one show stood comfortably above the rest: Widow’s Bay finished the 78th Emmy Awards with 14 wins.
Widow’s Bay was the biggest winner of the 2026 Emmys
Apple TV+’s Widow’s Bay came into the Emmys with 19 nominations, behind The Pitt with 25 and Hacks with 24. It left with more trophies than either of them.
The comedy collected 14 Emmys across the three nights, including Outstanding Comedy Series. Matthew Rhys won Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Kate O’Flynn won Supporting Actress and Stephen Root won Supporting Actor. Katie Dippold took the writing Emmy for “Welcome to Widow’s Bay!,” while Hiro Murai won directing for the same episode.
The show had already accumulated a long list of Creative Arts wins before the September 14 ceremony, including casting, production design, cinematography, music supervision, score, sound editing and sound mixing.
That made Widow’s Bay the clear numerical winner of this year’s Emmys.
The Pitt wins Outstanding Drama Series and Noah Wyle takes Lead Actor
The Pitt entered the awards as the most nominated program of the year with 25 nominations.
It ultimately finished with six Emmys, including two of the night’s biggest awards. The Pitt won Outstanding Drama Series, while Noah Wyle won Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his performance as Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch.
The series had already picked up Creative Arts recognition before the main ceremony, including Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series and prosthetic makeup. It also won Original Music and Lyrics for “Need Someone.”
Pluribus wins big, even without Outstanding Drama Series
Apple TV+’s Pluribus didn’t take Outstanding Drama Series, but it hardly went home empty-handed.
Rhea Seehorn won Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Carol Sturka, while Vince Gilligan won Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for “We Is Us.”
The series also won several Creative Arts categories, including picture editing, sound mixing and original main title theme music.
Its final count was six Emmys from 18 nominations, tying The Pitt in total wins.
Apple TV+ also claimed Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, although that award went to another of its shows: Saul Metzstein won for the Slow Horses episode “Scars.”
Netflix takes several major acting wins
Netflix didn’t win any of the three main scripted series categories, but it had a particularly strong night in acting.
Matthew Rhys won Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for The Beast in Me. Sally Field won Lead Actress in the same field for Remarkably Bright Creatures.
Allison Janney also won Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance as President Grace Penn in The Diplomat.
Remarkably Bright Creatures had already won Outstanding Television Movie during the Creative Arts Emmys, while The Beast in Me won for its original dramatic score.
Netflix’s other Creative Arts winners included Beef, Bridgerton, Stranger Things, Leanne, Love on the Spectrum and Sean Combs: The Reckoning. Julie Andrews won Character Voice-Over Performance for Lady Whistledown in Bridgerton, while Love on the Spectrum won Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program.
DTF St. Louis turns 13 nominations into seven wins
DTF St. Louis was another of the year’s strongest performers.
The HBO Max series won Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series on September 14 after already collecting a series of awards during the Creative Arts ceremony. David Harbour won Supporting Actor, Linda Cardellini won Supporting Actress, and Steven Conrad won both directing and writing.
It also won for picture editing and cinematography, helping bring its final total to seven wins from 13 nominations.
That puts DTF St. Louis behind only Widow’s Bay among scripted programs in total Emmy wins this year.
The Traitors has another huge Emmy year
Peacock also had one of the ceremony’s biggest winners.
The Traitors won Outstanding Reality Competition Program on September 14.
That followed a dominant Creative Arts showing in which Alan Cumming won Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program, Ben Archard won directing, and the series collected additional awards including cinematography and editing.
Across all three nights, The Traitors finished with seven Emmys.
All 19 winners from the September 14 Emmy ceremony
Here are the awards presented during the main September 14 telecast:
- Outstanding Drama Series: The Pitt (HBO Max)
- Outstanding Comedy Series: Widow’s Bay (Apple TV+)
- Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series: DTF St. Louis (HBO Max)
- Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Noah Wyle, The Pitt (HBO Max)
- Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus (Apple TV+)
- Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Tom Pelphrey, Task (HBO Max)
- Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Allison Janney, The Diplomat (Netflix)
- Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Matthew Rhys, Widow’s Bay (Apple TV+)
- Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Jean Smart, Hacks (HBO Max)
- Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Stephen Root, Widow’s Bay (Apple TV+)
- Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Kate O’Flynn, Widow’s Bay (Apple TV+)
- Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie: Matthew Rhys, The Beast in Me (Netflix)
- Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie: Sally Field, Remarkably Bright Creatures (Netflix)
- Outstanding Reality Competition Program: The Traitors (Peacock)
- Outstanding Variety Series: The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (CBS)
- Writing for a Comedy Series: Katie Dippold, Widow’s Bay
- Writing for a Drama Series: Vince Gilligan, Pluribus
- Directing for a Comedy Series: Hiro Murai, Widow’s Bay
- Directing for a Drama Series: Saul Metzstein, Slow Horses
The acting winners and the first group of awards are confirmed in the Television Academy’s telecast results, with the writing, directing and three series awards completing the 19 categories presented that night.
The Creative Arts Emmys added dozens more streaming wins
The September 14 ceremony was only the final part of this year’s Emmys. Nights one and two took place on September 5 and 6, with the first ceremony concentrating heavily on variety, reality and nonfiction and the second covering categories across drama, comedy, anthology and animation.
For streaming, some of the biggest Creative Arts results included:
- Apple TV+: Widow’s Bay, Pluribus, Palm Royale, Margo’s Got Money Troubles and Mr. Scorsese
- HBO Max: The Pitt, DTF St. Louis, Hacks, and My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay
- Netflix: Beef, The Beast in Me, Bridgerton, Stranger Things, Leanne, Love on the Spectrum, Remarkably Bright Creatures and Sean Combs: The Reckoning
- Prime Video/MGM+: Spider-Noir, Fallout, The Mighty Nein and John Candy: I Like Me
- Peacock: The Traitors
- Disney+: The Muppet Show and Star Wars: Visions
- Hulu/FX: Paradise, The Bear and Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette
Among the notable individual Creative Arts wins were Shailene Woodley for Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Hulu’s Paradise, Julie Andrews for Bridgerton, David Harbour and Linda Cardellini for DTF St. Louis, Betty Gilpin for Widow’s Bay and Rob Reiner for The Bear.
Who actually won and lost after the nominations?
This is where the final results get interesting.
When the nominations were announced in July, HBO Max had the two most nominated shows of the year. The Pitt led with 25, followed by Hacks with 24. Apple TV+’s Widow’s Bay had 19, Pluribus had 18, Netflix’s Beef had 16 and HBO Max’s DTF St. Louis had 13.
The final totals look very different:
| Series | Nominations | Emmy Wins | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widow’s Bay | 19 | 14 | 73.7% |
| DTF St. Louis | 13 | 7 | 53.8% |
| The Pitt | 25 | 6 | 24.0% |
| Pluribus | 18 | 6 | 33.3% |
| Beef | 16 | 3 | 18.8% |
| Hacks | 24 | 2 | 8.3% |
| Streaming Platform | Nominations | Emmy Wins | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple TV+ | 89 | 28 | 31.5% |
| HBO Max | 122 | 21 | 17.2% |
| Netflix | 111 | 16 | 14.4% |
| Prime Video | 18 | 10 | 55.6% |
| Peacock | 28 | 7 | 25.0% |
The numbers make Widow’s Bay the clearest winner compared with where things stood on nomination morning. It converted 14 of its 19 nominations into wins, a 73.7% success rate. DTF St. Louis wasn’t far behind in efficiency, winning seven of its 13 categories, or 53.8%.
The Pitt had a different kind of Emmy run. Six wins from 25 nominations gives it a 24% win rate, but two of those wins were Outstanding Drama Series and Lead Actor for Noah Wyle. Its final total doesn’t tell the whole story when the awards it did win included two of the night’s biggest.
Pluribus converted a third of its 18 nominations into six wins, including Lead Actress for Rhea Seehorn and Drama Writing for Vince Gilligan. Beef finished with three wins from 16 nominations, an 18.8% rate.
The biggest gap belonged to Hacks. It started with 24 nominations, the second-highest total of any program, but won only two, giving it an 8.3% win rate. Jean Smart’s Lead Actress victory was one of them.
The platform numbers tell an even more surprising story. Apple TV+ won the most Emmys among the five streaming services we tracked, with 28, despite entering the awards with fewer nominations than both HBO Max and Netflix. Its 31.5% win rate was nearly double HBO Max’s 17.2% and more than double Netflix’s 14.4%.
But Prime Video was the most efficient streamer of the five. Its 10 wins came from only 18 nominations, giving it a 55.6% win rate. Spider-Noir accounted for five of those wins, while Fallout won two. The Television Academy’s combined program totals confirm both results.
Peacock also made good use of a much smaller nomination total. Seven wins from 28 nominations gave it a 25% conversion rate, with all seven coming from The Traitors.
HBO Max still had plenty to celebrate. It won Outstanding Drama Series with The Pitt and Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series with DTF St. Louis, but its 122 nominations translated into 21 wins overall. Netflix went from 111 nominations to 16 wins and, despite several major acting victories, missed out on all three top scripted series prizes.
So there are really two answers to who won the streaming battle at the 2026 Emmys. Apple TV+ took home the most Emmys, while Prime Video had the best win rate. And at the individual show level, nobody came close to Widow’s Bay.
