Awards season is now getting into full swing as TIFF has not only concluded, with the widely acclaimed Hamnet winning the coveted People’s Choice Award, but the Emmy Awards also took place last night, with Canadian super-duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg winning big, amongst an impressively array of fellow winners.
The Studio – which was co-created by Rogen and Goldberg, who also serve as writers, producers, and the sole directors of the show – set a record for the most nominations for a new show at the Primetime Emmy Awards, with a staggering 23 nominations, which also tied the record for the most nominations for a single comedy season. If all that wasn’t enough, its eventual 13 wins set a record for the most Emmy wins for a single comedy season.
Given the stunning technical breadth of The Studio, which most notably makes extensive use of long takes, the show won 9 awards at the initial Creative Arts segment of the Emmy Awards on September 6th. It was a practical lock for Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour), which series cinematographer Adam Newport-Berra won for the show’s second episode “The Oner”, a fitting meta-title given that the episode is about capturing a long take on a film set, all the while the episode itself is shot in one long take, the only episode in the show to do so. Another standout winner at the Creative Arts event was none other than Bryan Cranston, who deservingly won Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series against some stiff competition for his scene-stealing, side-splitting performance as the owner of the titular studio Seth Rogen’s character, Matt Remick, is running.
Speaking of which, for his performance in that role, Rogen went on to win Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, while he and Goldberg earned another 3 awards for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and the top prize of Outstanding Comedy Series, beating out Emmy darlings The Bear, Abbott Elementary, and Hacks, amongst others.
The other big winner of the night was the acclaimed medical drama The Pitt, which also came away with 4 awards, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for E.R. alum Noah Wyle, and arguably the most revered award of the entire ceremony, Outstanding Drama Series. However, neither The Studio nor The Pitt totally dominated other categories, as there were awards secured by immensely talented actors from other shows, including Britt Lower, Trammell Tillman, and Merritt Weaver of Severance, in addition to Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, and Julianne Nicholson nabbing trophies for Hacks.
One show that did dominate its categories, though, is the British crime drama Adolescence, which won every Limited or Anthology award except for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series, a category that didn’t include anyone from Adolescence but went to a very deserving Cristin Miloti for her stellar performance in The Penguin.
Undoubtedly the most notable win of the night, though, is Adolescence’s Owen Cooper nabbing Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series award, who, at the tender age of 15, made history as the youngest ever winner of a Primetime Emmy Award.